Patent ID: 7598445

Claim:
A bass drum actuator apparatus comprising: a foot pedal device including a stanchion, a shaft journal across the top of the stanchion, and a rotary shaft rotatable within the journal from a first to a striking position; a compact trigger box mounted to the stanchion adjacent the shaft and including a transducer interacting with a vertically facing impact surface; a mounting bracket clamped to the rotary shaft for rotating from a retracted position to an impact position when the shaft is rotated from the first to the striking position; a compact spring wire lever arm projecting cantileverly from the bracket end and terminating in a free end, the lever arm comprising two or more coils medially along the arm and the free end displaced angularly at 90 degrees or more with respect to the bracket; a mallet carried on the angularly displaced free end and including a low friction tip constructed to, when the shaft is in the striking position, hit the impact surface.