The Talking Machine Patent Archive

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Take-up roller

Patent drawing showing a mechanical reed organ with a treadle-driven fly-wheel shaft, bellows and wind-chest, and a perforated paper music-sheet passing over an action board between a music-roller and take-up roller, with detailed side and sectional views of the internal gearing and pawl mechanism.Mechanical Musical Instrument.Elias P. Needham · November 4, 1879Patent drawing showing a plan view and cross-section of a mechanical reed organ with a perforated paper music-sheet running over rollers, a dome-shaped reed-board chamber, and bellows connected by cranks and pitmen.Mechanical Musical InstrumentMason J. Matthews · February 22, 1881Patent drawing of a reed-organ attachment showing a side-sectioned organ case with an internal wind chest, bellows, and treadle, alongside a compact perforated-paper-roll mechanism with music roller, take-up roller, and gear-driven roller assembly mounted atop the keyboard.MECHANICAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENT.Elias P. Needham and Charles A. Needham · July 26, 1881Patent drawing of a cased mechanical reed organ showing an inclined reed-board, wind-chest, bellows arrangement, and paper music-roll transport mechanism with take-up roller and hand cranks, alongside detail views of the cover slats and roller construction.MECHANICAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENTAndrew H. Hammond · March 7, 1882Patent drawing of a cabinet-style mechanical reed organ showing internal rollers, a driving shaft with crank, bellows, and a wind-chest with valve mechanisms in cross-section and plan views.MECHANICAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENT.Andrew H. Hammond · March 7, 1882Patent drawing showing a cutaway mechanical musical instrument with a bellows, wind-chest, perforated music sheet feeding between rollers, and rows of organ pipes mounted above a movable sound-board.MECHANICAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENTHenry S. Taylor · June 6, 1882Patent drawing of a cabinet-style mechanical organ showing internal bellows, reed board, driving shaft with cranks, and paper music-sheet rollers, with a hinged cover above.MECHANICAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENT.J. Herbert Chase · May 24, 1887Patent drawing of a mechanical musical instrument showing a boxed frame with a perforated music-sheet stretched between two rollers, side gear wheels, a hand crank, and pivoted levers used to lift the take-up roller and stop the sheet's motion.MECHANICAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENT.James E. Treat · September 6, 1887Patent drawing showing a piano attachment with a battery, electric motor, rotating friction drums, a bank of electromagnets with striker rods, a perforated paper music roll and take-up spool, and a sliding drawer contact mechanism, with the inventor's cursive signature at bottom.ELECTROMECHANICAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENT.George Howlett Davis · June 28, 1898