The Talking Machine Patent Archive

Patents you could hear

Clock-spring drive

Patent drawing of a McTammany automatic reed organ showing the internal gearing, bellows treadles, winding rolls, and a perforated music-sheet feeding over a reed-board inside a wooden case.MECHANICAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENT.John McTammany · July 7, 1885Patent drawing of a chiming mechanism showing a large pinned cylinder barrel, hammer shanks striking tubular bells, gearing, a fan regulator, and a start/stop control panel with numbered tune-selection holes.CHIMING MECHANISM.Allan E. Olney · November 10, 1896