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Pin cylinder

Patent drawing showing side and top views of a music-box damping mechanism with a pivoted damper plate, pin cylinder, vibrating tongue, and adjustable support plate, labeled with reference letters a through z.

DAMPING MECHANISM FOR MUSIC-BOXES.Ami Constant Jaccard · April 2, 1895

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