The Talking Machine Patent Archive

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Music box mechanism

Patent drawing showing a circular fan-folded music sheet made of overlapping sectors mounted in a mechanical instrument box, with detail views of the roller feed mechanism, connecting tappets, and sliding sector joints.MUSIC-SHEET FOR MECHANICAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS.Friedrich Ernst Paul Ehrlich · April 15, 1890Patent drawing of a mechanical music player showing a paper roll feeding over a star wheel with plungers, geared to a spring-driven blade cylinder that plucks a comb.AUTOMATIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT.William H. Hoschke · December 18, 1894Patent drawing of a mechanical musical instrument showing a comb-and-pin-wheel mechanism, a rotary disk carrying a perforated music sheet with concentric slot tracks, a cam and spring-loaded sliding block for shifting the sheet's center, and a spur wheel and shaft assembly for rotating the sheet.MECHANICAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENT.Max Hauschild · January 1, 1895Technical patent drawing showing four side-elevation views (Figs. 1-4) of a small pivoted hammer mechanism with labeled parts a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h interacting with a perforated note sheet and a steel tongue above a hatched base plate, plus a fifth isolated detail view of the hammer (Fig. 5).DEVICE FOR VIBRATING TONGUES OF MUSIC-BOXESAdolf Richter · January 15, 1895Patent 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, 1896Patent drawing showing a spring-metal damper arm pressing against a toothed star-wheel that vibrates a metal music-tongue, with several detail views of the forked damper blank and its bent damping-finger.DAMPING DEVICE FOR MECHANICAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS.Friedrich Adolf Richter · April 20, 1897Patent drawing showing four side-view diagrams of a toothed tripping wheel mounted on an eccentric pivoted disk beneath a perforated music sheet, with a fifth detail figure of the frame's circular support opening.DEVICE FOR TRIPPING VIBRATING TONGUES OF MECHANICAL MUSIC-BOXESAndré Junod · July 18, 1899