Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Dec., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 11th Dec., 1894-Accepted, 16th Mar., 1895
JOHN THOMAS BROWNE retired Major late XX Hussars living at Blatchmoredean
West Grinstead Sussex do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This is an invention for the purpose of turning over the leaves of music quickly
and keeping the leaves in their right places, & the music firm.
It consists of a pivot X which is screwed or otherwise fixed underneath the
music platform of the music rest.
It consists of a perpendicular downwards for about an inch a horizontal towards
the player for about an inch and turning at right angles upwards forms a
perpendicular which is here called the pivot X. On the top of this is screwed a
little knob which is moveable. On this pivot work as many arms like A B BC
(three others are shown in the sketch) as may be wished for pages of music. These
arms project from the pivot (on which they work by a hole at their ends), just
beyond the music opened, and turning upwards form perpendiculars of various
lengths and when necessary turn again horizontally towards the music. At the end of
each is fixed a small clip D for the purpose of grasping the sheets of the music.
The last pages arm is put on the pivot first and so on to the first pages arm which
is put on last and the screw knob then put on to prevent them flying off. Each
arm on its lower horizontal part has a hook, knob, ring, or any other shape fixed to
it projecting toward the player. The first hook or other chosen projection is
fastened on the smallest arm & farthest from the pivot as at U & the others in
proportion till the projection fastened on the largest arm is nearest the pivot as
at R. On a player wishing to turn a page he touches the first hook (or other
projection) which he touches with the right hand with a slight motion from right
to left & this turns the first page & so on.
There can be no fixed proportions or sizes as they will be made to fit different
sized music rests and the material may be either wood or metal. To prevent the
falling too far back small pegs at Q Q are screwed into the music rest from under-
neath. The arms may or not rest on one another in the latter case the butt
end which encircles the pivot would be made slightly thicker than the rest.
Sigued this 1st day of December 1894.
JNO. T. BROWNE,
Major.
I JOHN THOMAS BROWNE retired Major late XX Hussars living at
Blatchmoredean West Grinstead Sussex do hereby declare the nature of this
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and acertained in and by the following statement :-
This is an invention of a machine to be fixed to the music rests of all musical
instruments either permanently or temporally for the purpose of turning the leaves
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page_text: of music over quickly and keeping the leaves in their proper places. It can be
made in any metal or wood or both combined in any size or strength to suit various
sized rests and the proportions of one part to another are not necessarily constant.
A plan or sketch is attached to this Specification & only the continuous lines show
the machine. The dotted lines are simply used to denote the position of the music
rest. The machine drawn may be taken as an average one made in metal. For
the purpose of description the different parts are named viz. :-
The pivot (X) The arms (L MN, GHK, DEF ABC). Six of these arms
are drawn in the sketch but only four lettered as more are unnecessary for
description.
DESCRIPTION OF PARTS.
The pivot (X).--There may be many shaped pivots used to suit different rests.
Three are shown in the drawing. The plain (X") pivot consists of a circular piece
of metal 1 inches long and inch in diameter with a screw attached to one end
and a thin circular projecting plate about 2 inch thick and projecting inch
beyond the pivot, at the other end. This pivot may be divided into as many parts
as there are arms required by projecting flat rings as shown in sketch (✗b) the
rings projecting inch. It may be useful to use a hanging pivot as (X) if so in
this instance the plate at bottom will not be required but a knob will be required
to screw on at the top to prevent the arms flying off. The pivot is screwed into
the centre of, and underneath the platform of the music rest and as far back as
possible so long as the butt ends or rings of the arms at L. G D. A. can turn round
on the pivot without touching any part of the music rest.
The arms.-
-Six arms are shown in the sketch but only four are lettered, the
number can be increased or diminished but four will answer for most pieces of
music. Both the longitudinals and perpendiculars of the arms are made of inch
wide and inch thick (they can be made round or ornamental if desired) as the
ends both of the longitudinals and perpendiculars approach within about inch of
the elbows at M, H, E, B, they increase slightly both in width & thickness so as to
give greater strength to support a hinge. The butt ends of the arms at L. G. D. A.
are rings large enough to go on the pivot X and work freely round it. They are
here made inch thick and they are rounded off on the outside so as to bring 20
little bearing upon one another as possible. The length of L M here is shown
10 inches, the other arms follow the above dimensions &c. except that each
longitudinal projects inch beyond the upper one at the elbow. The
perpendicular MN is here made 2 inches long and the other perpendiculars of
the arms are each made 1 inch taller than the inner one next to it. It will be
noticed however that the 2nd perpendicular K H. is made in an indented form
so as to give more room to the clip on M N.
The hands are the small horizontal parts joining the perpendiculars to the clips
so that all the clips can be exactly over one another, it will therefore follow that
the shortest perpendicular will not require a hand.
The elbows M, H, E, B, are stiff hinges of any suitable pattern (in this instance
a rule hinge is used) but they must be of such a description that the arms can
bend from the elbow towards the music of farther off so as to grip the different
sized music leaves.
The handles on the longitudinal parts of the arms are placed about where shown
in the sketch. The handles project inch towards the player. They are of
various lengths. The longest being nearest the elbow and on the shortest
longitudinal. The shortest handle will be on the longest longitudinal and nearest
the pivot. The shortest handle (No. 1) is made inch long. The longest handle

page_text: (No. 6) is made sufficiently long to cover all the arms so that with an action of the
layers hand from right to left, it must be touched before any of the other handles
and so on with any of the intermediate ones. These handles may be padded on
the outside to prevent concussion on the piano when the arms are turned over on
to Z on the music rest. In this sketch the shape chosen for the handles is that of
a hook but they can be made any shape as desired.
The clips can be made any shape ornamental or otherwise so long as they bear
with an even pressure on the paper of the music. The bottom clip grasps the
1st page of the music and so on. "Any kind of clip can be used but for the purpose
of instructing the competent workman, I here take the common spiral wire spring
clip. When the hand of the perpendicular bas entered between the levers (i.e. the
part of the clip pressed to open it) of the clip it will be reduced in size (thickness
and width) by about and bending downwards until it is below the hinge of the
clip, it will then turn perpendicularly upwards, and form the pivot of the hinge of
the clip. Emerging from the top of the clip it will then be cut off and bent over
so as to keep it fast. At N however the perpendicular itself enters at once the
hinge of the clip is fastened off as in the other cases but requires a small pin to
keep the clip from slipping down. The attachment of the clips is simply furnished
as instructions to the workman but any of the usual forms of attachments can
be used.
A small peg (S) about 3 inches long & ✓ in diameter is inserted into the
music rest to keep the music steady for the action of the machine, but an ordinary
music case with a string or elastic down the middle to hold the music is better.
WORKING OF THE MACHINE.
Attach each page to a clip, the smallest perpendicular to 1st page & so on.
When playing a slight action of the hand from right to left turns over a page
instantaneously by touching the 1st handle and the leaves cannot fly back again.
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
The combination, arrangement, and application, of the various parts, used in, and
forming this machine for the purpose of turning over the leaves of music, thus
forming a machine not invented before. The pivots, handles, clips, hinges, are
described individually to help the competent workman but are of course not
claimed as novelties.
Dated this 10th dot of December 1894
JNO. T. BROWNE,
Major.