IMPROVEMENTS IN METAL MUSICAL WIND INSTRUMENTS
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry John Distin, of No. 9, Great Newport Street,
Leicester Square, in the County of Middlesex, Musical Instrument
Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN METAL MUSICAL
WIND INSTRUMENTS."
Sealed the 8th April 1862, and dated the 14th October 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry John Distin at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
14th October 1861.
I, HENRY JOHN DISTIN, of No. 9, Great Newport Street, Leicester Square,
in the County of Middlesex, Musical Instrument Manufacturer, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN METAL MUSICAL
WIND INSTRUMENTS," to be as follows:-
My improvements consist in applying an additional length of metal tube to
the ordinary bugle, extending from the aperture for the mouthpiece of and
parallel or nearly so with the tube of the bugle round the coil, until such addi-
tional tube reaches the tube of the bugle below such mouthpiece aperture, and
it is then inserted into or connected with the bugle tube; and I also attach a
plug or stop to the ordinary mouthpiece of the bugle in such a way that when
the mouthpiece is sufficiently inserted in the aperture of the bugle, it will shut
off the communication from the additional tube to the bugle tube, and when
the mouthpiece is inserted in the aperture of the additional tube, and the plug
or stop into the mouthpiece aperture of the bugle tube, the communication
from the additional tube to the bugle tube will be open; therefore when the

page_text: mouthpiece is inserted in the aperture of the bugle tube, so as to close the
communication from the other tube, the instrument will give out, when blown,
sounds of the bugle, and when the mouthpiece is inserted in the aperture of
the additional tube and the stop in the aperture of the bugle tube, the instru-
ment will give out, when blown, the sounds of the trumpet.
My improvements thus form a bugle and trumpet in one instrument. The
plug and ordinary mouthpiece may be separate, but I prefer to have them
united for convenience.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Henry John Distin in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 14th April 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
JOHN DISTIN, of No. 9, Great Newport Street, Leicester Square, in the County
of Middlesex, Musical Instrument Manufacturer, send greeting..
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fourteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fifth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Henry John Distin, Her special licence that I, the said Henry John Distin,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Henry
John Distin, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN METAL MUSICAL WIND INSTRUMENTS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Henry John Distin, my executors or adminis-
trators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their
hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of
the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed,
and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henry John Distin, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the fol-

page_text: lowing statement, reference being had to the Sheet of Drawings accompanying
this my Specification and forming part thereof, and to the figures and letters
marked thereon; the letters represent the same parts in all the Figures:―
My improvements consist in applying an additional length of metal tube
T, T, Fig. 1, to the ordinary bugle, extending from the aperture for the mouth-
piece of M, Fig. 1, and parallel or nearly so with the tube of the bugle B, B,
Fig. 1, round the coil, until such additional tube reaches the tube of the bugle
below such mouthpiece aperture at O, Fig. 1, and it is then inserted into or
connected with the bugle tube, and I also attach a plug or stop P to the ordi-
nary mouthpiece M, P, of the bugle, in such a way that when the mouthpiece
is sufficiently inserted in the aperture of the bugle, and the plug into the aper-
ture of the additional tube, the communication from the additional tube to the
bugle tube will be cut off, and when the mouthpiece M, P, is inserted in the
aperture of the additional tube, and the plug or stop into the mouthpiece
aperture of the bugle tube, as shewn in Fig. 1, in dotted lines, the communi-
cation from the additional tube to the bugle tube will be open; therefore, when
the mouthpiece M, P, is inserted in the aperture of the bugle tube so as to close
the communication from the other tube, the instrument will give out, when
blown, sounds of the bugle, and when the mouthpiece is inserted in the aper-
ture of the additional tube and the stop in the aperture of the bugle tube, the
instrument will give out, when blown, the sounds of the trumpet.
My improvements thus form a bugle and trumpet in one instrument. The
plug and ordinary mouthpiece may be separate or united. Fig. 1, B, B, the
tube of the ordinary bugle; T, T, the tube of the trumpet; Fig. 2 is the
mouthpiece united; Fig. 3, the ordinary mouthpiece; Fig. 4, the plug, sepa-
rate therefrom.
Having described the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the
same is or may be performed, I wish it to be understood that I do not claim
the mouthpiece or plug taken separately, but that what I claim as my Inven-
tion is, the arrangement and combination of parts for forming a bugle and
trumpet in one instrument, as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry John Distin, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of April, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
HENRY JOHN DISTIN. (L.S.)