The Talking Machine Patent Archive

Patents you could hear

Mouth-piece

Patent drawing showing a rotating wax-coated disk mounted on a base with an upright frame, a crank-driven flywheel turning the disk through gears, a cutting-style recorder mechanism above the disk connected by tubing to a nose-fitting mouth-piece, and several detail insets of the stylus, reproducer, and friction-clamp components.RECORDING AND REPRODUCING SPEECH AND OTHER SOUNDS.Chichester A. Bell and Sumner Tainter · May 4, 1886A perspective mechanical drawing of an early disc gramophone recorder showing a flat horizontal disc mounted on an upright shaft, a hand crank and flywheel driving the mechanism via gears and a screw-threaded shaft, a diaphragm and stylus assembly on an arm above the disc, and a flexible tube leading to a flaring alcohol reservoir and a curved sound-conveying tube ending in a bell-shaped mouth-piece.GRAMOPHONE.Emile Berliner · February 19, 1895