proved Fittings connected with Violins.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Oct., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 20th June, 1894-Accepted, 21st July. 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Improved Fittings connected with Violins.
I, JOHN PATERSON, of the Royal Bank, Maryhill, Glasgow, Lanarkshire,
Agent, do hereby declare the nature of my invention to be as follows:-
This invention has reference to and comprises the fitting of a cushion or breast
rest on the under tail end of violins, and an improved chin rest on their upper
surface; and which will enable the player to hold the violin between his chin and
breast at the proper angle for playing, and leave the hand free for manipulating
the strings.
In carrying the improvements into practice I would form this under pad of soft
or elastic material such as india rubber, of semi-circular or curved shape on the
lower face which rests on the breast, and secure same to a gripping sole or piate
preferably of wood or metal which would rest on the back stiff edge of the violin,
or extend under the tail block and button and preferably be secured by one or two
of the ordinary right and left handed screw coupling links to the chin rest on the
upper rear end of violin. By one improved arrangement the chin rest may be arched
over the end of the tail piece and so have a rest on both sides of this, and be fixed
by one screw on each side of tail piece, both screws likewise preferably securing
the cushion or pad on under surface of violin; and the cushion or pad may be
fitted into a hollow stem or ferrule screwed into or over a socket secured to the
gripping plate so as to shorten or lengthen the pad to rest on the breast, and set
the violin to any desired angle; and strips of cork or other equivalent may be
cemented to the edge of the plate of pad, and chin rest where they grip the rear
stiff part of violin, and so prevent any shifting of the under pad or chin rest,
or interference with the vibration of the back or belly of violin. The chin rest
would preferably have a roughened surface over the lower curved part near the tail
piece of violin.
Dated the 17th October 1893.
W. R. M. THOMSON & Co.,
96, Buchanan Street, Glasgow, Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Fittings connected with Violins.
I JOHN PATERSON, of the Royal Bank, Maryhill, Glasgow, Scotland, Agent,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement :-
This invention has for its object an improved method and mechanism for attaching
a chin rest and a breast pad to a violin.
Fig. 1. shews my invention holding a chin rest and a breast pad on to a violin.
Fig. 2. is a view looking down upon a chin rest and my invention attached to a
violin.
Fig. 3. is a view of the underside shewing the underplate and breast pad in
position.
A. is the arched piece added to a chin rest by my invention.
B. is a breast pad.
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page_text: D. are dotted lines mancating the position of the Call DIA AUCTION
-violin.
E. is the tail button at the end of the violin.
S¹ S² are screw coupling links or cramps.
T is a tail piece of a violin.
U. is the underplate.
V. are parts of the violin.
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In carrying out this invention I add to a chin rest an arched addition A which
reaches over the tail piece T, and on the underside of the violin I place a gripping
plate U, and I connect these with two screw coupling links or cramps S₁ and S³,
which both take their grip of the violin over the tail block D.
The novelty of the invention is the extending of the chin rest over the tail piece
so that it gets a grip of the violin on both sides of the button and both sides of the
tail piece where the violin is strong and solid in consequence of the tail block within
the violin.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The arched or extended addition to the chin rest whereby it extends over the
tail piece and the tail block.
2. The double grip obtained one on each side of the tail piece.
3. The strength obtained by both the screw coupling links or cramps being upon
the solid over the tail block.
4. The general arrangement and combination of parts constituting the arched
-addition to the chin rest, the screw coupling links or cramps and the underplate.
Dated this 19th day of June 1894.
JOHN PATERSON.