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Worm gear regulator

Patent drawing of a cylinder music-box mechanism showing the pin-barrel, comb, mainspring casing, and a set of small pivoted plates with projecting points used to shift the barrel for different tunes.

MUSIC-BOXLouis Campiche · December 6, 1887

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