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Screw-threaded hub

Patent drawing of a cylinder phonograph mechanism with a screw-threaded shaft, spring, cam, and latch assembly, shown both as isolated hardware and mounted inside the hollow body of a crow figure on a pedestal.

PHONOGRAPH.Francis M. Criswell · March 8, 1892

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