The Talking Machine Patent Archive

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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, 1886Patent drawing of a hand-cranked toy phonograph mechanism showing a round sound head with funnel, a diaphragm reproducer riding on a threaded shell, a fly-wheel, and a crank handle, with a separate detail view of the spring-loaded tripping lever.PHONOGRAPH.Charles Batchelor · April 2, 1889Patent drawing of an early gramophone reproducer showing a large conical horn mounted on a pivoted arm with a counterweight rod, connected to a diaphragm and stylus resting on a flat rotating record disk driven by a hand crank.GRAMOPHONE.Werner Suess · May 6, 1890Patent drawing of a graphophone showing a horizontal record cylinder beneath a hinged diaphragm-frame carrying a recording style, with a separate speaking-tube support and a swinging reproducer arm mounted on a sliding carriage along guide rods.GRAPHOPHONEJohn H. White · July 15, 1890Patent drawing of a cylinder phonograph showing the main frame with grooved record cylinder, a diaphragm and pivoted style assembly on a sliding carriage, a large curved amplifying horn rising above, and several detail cross-sections of the reproducer mechanism below.PHONOGRAPH.John H. White · November 11, 1890Patent drawing of an Edison cylinder phonograph showing the mandrel, cylinder-shaft with feed-screw, rocking holding-arm with combined recorder and reproducer, hand crank, and separate detailed views of a flared mouth-tube and an ear-tube attachment.PHONOGRAPH.Thomas A. Edison · December 29, 1891Patent drawing showing an Edison phonograph mechanism with a cloth-wrapped speaking horn, a coiled wire leading to a circuit controller plug, a cylindrical mandrel labeled 1, a rocking holding arm numbered 2, an electro-magnet and tilting bar assembly with armature 17, and a separate diagram of the recorder/reproducer plate with cam and pivot mechanisms labeled 20 through 30.PHONOGRAPHThomas A. Edison · April 25, 1893A 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, 1895Patent drawing of an upright piano with a separate adjacent cabinet housing the pneumatic tracker-board and paper roll mechanism, with detailed cross-section views of the internal pneumatic bellows and key-lever linkages.AUTOMATIC PLAYING ATTACHMENT FOR MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS.Theodore P. Brown · March 31, 1903A patent drawing showing a twelve-pointed star-shaped gramophone needle with a central hole, an enlarged view of three of its tapering points ending in rounded elliptical tips, and a cross-section of one point seated in a record's sound groove.GRAMOPHONE NEEDLE OR STYLUSMinard A. Possons · July 14, 1914Patent drawing of a gramophone sound box showing two angled diaphragm rings connected by pivoting arms to a needle-carrying lever, with detail views of the pivot studs, elastic pads, and needle clamp.GRAMOPHONE.Marcelo Vignali · September 19, 1916