IMPROVEMENTS IN WIND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS ARRANGED WITH PISTONS OR VALVES
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Garrett Tongue, of the Firm of Tongue
& Birkbeck, Patent Agents and Engineers, of 34, Southampton
Buildings, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, for the In-
vention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN WIND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS ARRANGED
WITH PISTONS OR VALVES."—A communication from abroad by Madame
Resson.nee Florentine Ridoux, of Paris, France.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Garrett Tongue
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 8th August 1874.
I, JOHN GARRETT TONGUE, of the Firm of Tongue & Birkbeck,
Patent Agents and Engineers, of 31, Southampton Buildings, Chancery
Lane, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN WIND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS ARRANGED
WITH PISTONS OF VALVES," (communicated to mo from abroad by Madame
Besson neé Florentine Ridoux, of Paris, France, to be as follows :-
This Invention relates to improvements in wind musical instruments
arranged with pistons or valves.

page_text: whereas up
to the present time it has been placed between the mouth-
piece B and the slide of the third piston or valve C, Figure 5. This
new arrangement will admit of the said second slide A, Figures 1, 2,
and 3 to be withdrawn and replaced with case, whereas as it was
formerly placed or arranged, it was almost. impossible to make use of it
for the reason that it was placed between the two parts.C, B, Figure 5.
Another improvement relates to the arrangement and construction of
the body of the cornet, as shown in the four side views Figures 1, 2, 3,
and 4, which admits of making at will without any alteration to it an
instrument known as the "French model," that is to say, the bell
between the pistons and the mouth piece, as shown by the Drawings,
or an instrument known as the "English model;" that is to say, tho
bell on the side, as shown by dotted lines Figure 4.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
'
filed by the said John Garrett Tongue in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 8th February 1875:
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
GARRETT TONGUE, of the Firm of Tongue & Birkbeck, Patent Agents
and Engineers, of 34, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, in the
County of Middlesex; send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her:
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eighth day of August, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-
eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said John Garrett Tongue, Her special license
that I, the said John Garrett Tongue, my exccutors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said John Garrett Tongue, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with,
and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during
the term therein expressed,, should.and. lawfully miglit make,_use,
exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN WIND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS ARRANGED WITH PISTONS OR
-VALVES," a communication_to_me-from-abroad-by-Madame-Besson

page_text: née Florentino Ridoux, of Paris, France, upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said John Garrett Tongue, my executors or admini-
strators, by an instrument. in writing under my, or their, or one of
their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of tho said Invention, and in what manner the same was
to be performed, and cause the samo to be filed in the Great Scal
Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after
the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Garrett Tongue, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same 1
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement thereof, that is to say:
This Invention relates to improvements in wind musical instruments
arranged with pistons.
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:
The first part of the improvements relates to a new arrangement of 1
passages and valves for the inlet and outlet of air in the system of
pistons or valves employed, which arrangement renders instruments of
this improved construction more sonorous, and thereby casier and softer
to play upon.
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The accompanying Drawings represent a cornet, which is only given 2
as an illustration of the method of carrying out the Invention, the
cornet or instrument having 3 pistons or valves; but this new com-.
bination, which is named "new star," may be applied to any kind of
Instruments, and whatever may be the number of pistons employed.
These improvements will be readily understood by reference to the 2
Drawing hereunto annexed, the red line in which shows the course
of the air when the pistons are not in use, as seen at D, D, Figures 1 and 2,
in comparison with the red lines D, D, shewn in Figures 5, 6, 7, 8,
and 9. These last Figures are mentioned in order to shew the successive
improvements to the system of pistons having threo inlets or openings 30
known as " Perinet” (Figure 5).
Figure 6 shows the system of picrcing to the right, known as
"Besson's " model.
Figure 7 shows a more modern arrangement of nieuning also l

page_text: model.
Lastly, Figure 9 shows the arrangement of the previous improvements
in such instruments known as 26 'star."
The hidden parts are marked and dotted in order to show with more
accuracy. the inlet and outlet of the air D, D.
It will be clearly seen that the new arrangement shown at Figures 1
and 2 does not resemble in the least the piercing as previously practised,
it being the method of piercing to tho right, as in Figure 6, with the
method or arrangement of piercing on the slant, as shown at Figure 9,
a combination which has not previously existed, and which is an
important feature of this Invention.
According to the improved arrangement, combination, and application
of the second tuning slide A, Figures 1 and 2, it is placed alone,
whereas up to the present time it has been placed between the mouth-
piece B and the slide of the third piston or valve C, Figure 5. This
new arrangement will admit of the said second slide A, Figures 1, 2,
and 3, to be withdrawn and replaced with ease, whereas as it was
formerly placed or arranged it was almost impossible to make use of it
for the reason that it was placed between the two parts O, B, Figure 5.
Another improvement relates to the arrangement and construction of
the body of the cornet, as shown in the four side views Figures 1, 2, 3,
and 4, which admits of making at will without any alteration to it an
instrument known as the "French model," that is to say, the bell
between the pistons and the mouth-piece, as shown by the Drawings,
or an instrument known as the "English model," that is to say, the
bell on the side, as shown by dotted lines Figure 4.
Having thus described the nature of this Invention and the manner
of carrying the same into practice, what I claim on behalf of the said
Madamo Besson née Florentine Ridoux is,-
First. The improved method or system of piercing or forming of the
-inlot or outlet air passages, known as "star," substantially in the manner
herein shown and described in reference to Figures 1 and 2 of the
annexed Drawings, and its application to all kinds of brass wind
musical instruments-arranged-with-pistons-or-valves.

page_text: Secondly. The improved arrangement and application of the tuning
slide, substantially as hercin shown and described with reference to
Figures 1 and 2 of the Drawings annexed.
Thirdly. The improved arrangement and construction of the body of
the cornet, substantially as herein shown and described in reference to
Figures 1, 2, 3, and 4, which readily admits of the conversion at will
without alteration an instrument known as "French model" into an
instrument known as "English model.”
In witness whereof, I, the said John Garrett Tongue, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Eighth day of February, in 1
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
five.