An Improved Folding Bow for Violins and other Instruments.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Mar., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 15th Dec., 1890-Accepted. 24th Jan., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Folding Bow for Violins and other Instruments.
I GEORGE ADOLPHUS CHANOT Violin Violoncello & Bow Maker and Restorer of
48 Great Ducie Street Manchester do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:
A folding joint made of brass, silver steel or any similar metal, bending on a steel
plate as shewn at A in Fig. 2 of accompanying drawing.
B Fig. 2 is a metal tube fitted tightly on the bow stick C. D is another metal tube
which slides over the tube B. E are two little pins to stop tube. D from sliding up
or down the bow stick.
Fig. 3 is a side view of the joint shewing the 2 steel pins passing right through the
stick on which the center steel plate A Fig. 2 works.
Fig. 4 shews the bow folded."
Fig. 1 shews the bow straight.
The usefullness of this invention is to have the bow the same length as the violin,
thus avoiding the heavy & cumbersome case now used.
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GEORGE ADOLPHUS CHANOT
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Folding Bow for Violins and other Instruments.
I, GEORGE ADOLPHUS CHANOT, of 48, Great Ducie Street, Manchester, in the County
of Lancaster, Violin Maker, 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 relates to the manufacture of folding bows for violins & other similar
instruments.
The object of the said invention is to fold a bow to the length of a violin, so that
the violin case now in general use will be much shorter, consequently much lighter &
more portable.
The drawing (sent with Provisional Specification) illusterates by way of example,
the application of my invention to a violin bow, & it will be evident, that the same
principal of a folding joint is equally applicable to any ordinary violin (or other
similar) bow.
Fig. 1. in the drawing shows a violin bow (one quarter the actual size) with the
folding joint applied ready for use.
Fig. 2. is a top view (actual size) of the folding joint as applied to a violin bow.
A Fig. 2. is a steel (or other suitable metal) plate. B. B. are two brass (or other
suitable metal) tubes which are fitted on to the bow stick C. C. on either side of the
joint. D Fig. 2 is an outer tube of German silver (or other suitable metal) sliding
over the tube B. B. holding the joint quite tight and straight. E is a small screw pin
to prevent the tube D from sliding up the bow stick.
Fig. 3. is a side view of Fig. 2. actual size of the bow showing by the dotted lines
the size and shape of the metal plate A Fig. 2. with the two steel pins on which the
joint works.
Fig. 4. is a side view of a bow folded, one quarter the actual size.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
ion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is,
To make a bow (for violins or similar instruments) the stick of which is jointed so

page_text: that it may be folded, without unscrewing the nut of the bow or taking the bow to
peices in any way, and I also claim that the bow by the application of my folding
joint, does not in any way loose its strength or elasticity, and that the balance and
rigidity of the bow is equally as good to play with, as an ordinary bow without the
folding joint applied, with the advantage of having the violin case now in general use,
from 6 to 8 inches shorter.
Dated this 13th day of December 1890.
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