The Talking Machine Patent Archive

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Mechanical organ

Patent drawing showing a mechanical reed organ with a treadle-driven fly-wheel shaft, bellows and wind-chest, and a perforated paper music-sheet passing over an action board between a music-roller and take-up roller, with detailed side and sectional views of the internal gearing and pawl mechanism.Mechanical Musical Instrument.Elias P. Needham · November 4, 1879Patent drawing of a mechanical organ showing a cabinet with bellows, a hinged reed-block with air chambers, and feed rollers guiding a perforated paper strip.Mechanical Musical Instrument.Oliver H. Arno · June 14, 1881Patent drawing of a cased mechanical reed organ showing an inclined reed-board, wind-chest, bellows arrangement, and paper music-roll transport mechanism with take-up roller and hand cranks, alongside detail views of the cover slats and roller construction.MECHANICAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENTAndrew H. Hammond · March 7, 1882Patent drawing showing two long perforated paper music sheets with numbered rows of rectangular holes labeled 1 through 14 and a section view of a reed-board with a row of U-shaped reed chambers and reeds labeled c, d, f, and g.MECHANICAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENT.William A. Webber · July 18, 1882Patent drawing of a mechanical reed organ showing a vertical cross-section with bellows, reed-board, and paper-feed rollers, plus plan views of the perforated raceway and reed cells.MECHANICAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENT.Oliver H. Arno · December 26, 1882