GB2288270A - String retaining means for a guitar - Google Patents

String retaining means for a guitar Download PDF

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GB2288270A
GB2288270A GB9406160A GB9406160A GB2288270A GB 2288270 A GB2288270 A GB 2288270A GB 9406160 A GB9406160 A GB 9406160A GB 9406160 A GB9406160 A GB 9406160A GB 2288270 A GB2288270 A GB 2288270A
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    • G10MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACOUSTICS
    • G10DSTRINGED MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; WIND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACCORDIONS OR CONCERTINAS; PERCUSSION MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; AEOLIAN HARPS; SINGING-FLAME MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • G10D1/00General design of stringed musical instruments
    • G10D1/04Plucked or strummed string instruments, e.g. harps or lyres
    • G10D1/05Plucked or strummed string instruments, e.g. harps or lyres with fret boards or fingerboards
    • G10D1/08Guitars
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    • G10MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACOUSTICS
    • G10DSTRINGED MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; WIND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACCORDIONS OR CONCERTINAS; PERCUSSION MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; AEOLIAN HARPS; SINGING-FLAME MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • G10D3/00Details of, or accessories for, stringed musical instruments, e.g. slide-bars
    • G10D3/12Anchoring devices for strings, e.g. tail pieces or hitchpins

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A base plate 1, adapted to be attached to a guitar, for example under a tremolo device, has a plurality of posts 14 on which are rotatably supported respective spools 19, each within a rotatable housing 27. Each spool has a bore 26 for receiving the end of a string 30 and a recessed channel 23 in which the string may be wound. The housing 27 has an axial slot 28 through which the string may pass. Also mounted on the base plate is a string retaining bar 11 having string receiving slots 32 and clamp screw bores 33. The channel 23 may accommodate wire equivalent to several string lengths so that in the event of string breakage a further length may be pulled out for attachment to a tuning peg. <IMAGE>

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DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERED EMBODIMENTS.
A base plate 1 being formed of a desired sha@e correponding to the shape of a shaped body of a guitar, and can have one or moreangled portions if desired, is fixed into a hollowed out portion of the back of the body of a guitar, having a front edge portion 2 of the base plate 1, being directly above, and in alignment with the edge of holes formed through the tremalo arm case, in a hollow of a guitar body the base plate 1 and its parts can be partly or wholly inside 2 hollowed out portion of the guitar body, depending on the thickness of the guitar body.In the drawrings shown, a base plate 1, being of a certain shape, is partly or wholly disposed in a hollowed out portion of a guitar body, the base plate 1 having a number of small, diameter besed 3 formed therethrough, for cooperation with threaded screws 4, fixing the base plate 1 to the guitar body, the small diameter bores 3 can be in different places on the surface area of a shaped, base plate 1. where ever there is free soace and would give the base plate 1 the strongest hold to the guitar body, FIG 1 ) shows a base plate 1, extending from tne rear end 5 to two, annular small, diameter bores 3.
Deing formed therethrough the base plate 1, and being in alignment to each other, along the width cf the base plate 1, formed therethrough, for cooperation with the base plate 1 fixing, screws 4, the base Plate 1 extending from the two bores 3 to three, annular large, diameter bores 6, formed therethrough, being in alignment to each other along the width of the base plate 1 and the base plate i being formed to have raised annular tapered sides 7 around each one of the three large, diameter bores 6, the base plate 1 extending from the three large bores 6, to a second set of two, annular small, diameter bores 3, being formed therethrough the base plate 1, and being in alihnment to each other, along the width of the : base plate 1 being formed for mcooperation with base plate 1 fixing screws 4, the base plate 1, extending from the second set of two small, diameter bores 3, to a turned portion 8, being turned to a 90 degree, vertical angle, and extending a small distance no ending with the base plate 1 being reversed turned to : 90 degree, horizontal angle, and extending to . set of four, annular small, diameter, threaded bores 9, formed through the base plate 1 being in alignment to each other, along the width of the base plate 1, being formed for cooperation with screws 10, fixing a wire retainer bar 11 or guitar string retainer bar, to the base plate 1, the base plate 1, extending from the set of four, small, diameter bores 9, to a third set of two, annular small, diameter bores 3 being formed therethrough the be plate 1, and being in alignment to each other, along the width of the base plate 1, being formed for cooperation with base plate 1 fixing screws 4q the base plate 1 extending from the third set of two, small, diameter bores 3, to a front end 12, of which, having a rounded front edge 2, and having a rearwardly stepped front edge 3, along the width of the base plate 1, accordingly, when the base plate 1, having been fixed in a hollowed out portion of the guitar, the rounded front edge 2, of a portion of the width, of the base plate 1, being in a fixed position, directly above, and being in alignment to and with, the edge of the holes, formed for the guitar wires or strings, in a trembalo arm case, being in a hollow portion of the guitar body, and that face outwardly through the back of the guitar body, or the holes, formed for holding the guitar strings in place, in the body of a guitar, separately formed cylinders 14, having a long thin body 15, being tapered 16 at the bottom end, of which tapered end 16, being thicker than the thin body 15, each cylinder 14, being placed, partly therethrough an annular large, diameter bore 6, and having parts, being in a close fitting relationship, within its respective large, diameter bore 6 and reised annular tapered sides 7, of which are around each of the large, diameter bores 6, and with the long thin body 15, of the cylinder 14, projecting outwardly, through the base plate 1, before the base plate 1, having been fixed to the hollowed out portion of the guitar, by the base plate 1 fixing screws 4, the bottom face 17 of a cylinder 14, being in parallel alignment, to and with the bottom face is of the base plate 1, the outwardly tapered 16 bottom end of a cylinder 14, being formed to hold the cylinder 14 to the base plate 1, a cylinder 14, can, if so desired, have a hollow body, aposed to being solid, for the weight difference, three moulded cylinders 19 are formed, each having a hollow body 20 therethrough each cylinder 19, having a top end 21 and a bottom end 22, being flat annular faces, the outer body of each cylinder 19, having an annular transverse channel 23 formed partly into the body of the moulded cylinder 19, therepy, forming a top shoulder 24 being annular, and a bottom shoulder 25 being annular, a small, diameter annular bore 26 being formed therethrough a portion of the annular body of each of the moulded cylinders 19, and into the hollow body 20 of each of the moulded cylinders 19, a separatly formed, moulded sleeve 27, having a long, thin slit 28 being formed therethrough and along a portion of the annular body of the annular sleeve 27, the sleeve 27 having a small, annular, inwardly facing lip or rim, at each end 29 and 29, a long length of guitar wire 30 or guitar string, having an end, being threaded through the small, diameter bore 26 formed therethrough a portion of the annular body, of each of the moulded cylinders 19, the guitar wire 30 being bent, or having a kin@ form,ed near the end protruding into the hollow body 20 of a moulded zylinder 19, the guitar wire 30, being wrapped around a portion of the outer body of a moulded cylinder 19, being inside the annular transverse channel 23 formed partly into the body of a moulded cylinder 19, the moulded cylinder 19 being placed wholly inside the moulded sleeve 27, parts of the annular body of both moulded cylinder 19 and moulded sleeve 27, being in contiguous side-by-side relationship thereto, being free to rotate against each other, a moulded cylinder 19, being held inside a moulded sleeve 27, by the top rim 29 arid bottom rim 29 of the moulded sleeve 27, slightly overlaping the top end 21 and bottom end 22 of a moulded cylinder 19, the guitar wire 7 being threaded through the long thin slit 28, in the moulded sleeve 27, each single moulded cylinder 19 housing a single long length of guitar wire 30, and a moulded sleeve 27, can be, and its placed over the long, thin body 15 of a single cylinder 14, that projects through the base plate 1, both, moulded cylinder 19 and moulded sleeve 27, being free to rotate around a cylinder 14 projecting through the base plate 1, a separatly formed, wire retained bar 11, having four annular, small diameter, threade bores 31 formed therethrough the top side face, being spaced out along the length of the wire retainer bar 11, and being In alignment to each other, along the length of the sire retained bar 11, and each bore 31, being in alignment to each single bore of the set of four aligned bores formed therethrough the base plate 1, beIng formed for cooperating with fixing screws 10, fixing the wire retained bar 11 to the base plate 1, the wire retainer bar 11, also having three annular, small diameter bores formed therethrough, of which, each one, being spaced out between each one of the set of four annular, small diameter, threaded bores 31, formed therethrough from the top side face of the wire retained bar 11, the three annular, small diameter bores 2, being set at a angle, through the sides of the wire retainer ba 11, no acing towards the front rounded edge 2 of the base plate 1, each ore of the three angled bores 32, having a single length of guitar wire 30, threaded through it, from a single cylinder 19, of the three moulded cylinders 19, of which, each housing a long length of guitar wire 30, the wire retainer bar 11 also having a second set of three threaded bores 33, being formed partly through the wire retained bar from the top side, each ore of the three bores being in alignment with, and over the top of, -and formed into, a side of each one of the angled bores 32 in the wire retainer bar 11, and being larger, in diameter, than any one of the angled bores 32 in the wire retainer bar 11, and each one, being formed for cooperation with a threaded screw 34, of which can be partly screwed into one of the bores 33 formed partly through the wire retainer bar 11, from the top side, and into one of the angled bores 32, formed therethrough the sides of the wire retainer bar 11, and can come into contact with the guitar wire 30, being threaded through an angled bore 32.
and can be in a tight fix with the guitar wire 30, thereby, holding the guitar wire 30, in a fixed position, in an angled bore 32, in the wire retainer bar 11, an assembly cover 35, being of a desired shape, according to the shape of the guitar body, and depending on how far, the base plate 1, and its respective parts, being partly or wholly disposed inside a guitar body, (FIG. 1 ) shows a flat assembl cover 35, being larger, in area, than the base plate 1, and having three large, diameter bores 36, formed therethrough, of which, being soaced out, and in alignment to each other, along the width of the assembly cover 35, the assembly cover 35 also having a number of bores 37, being formed therethrough, of which, being evenly spaced out, around the assembly cover 35, being formed for assembly cover 35 fixing screws 38, accordingly, the assembly cover 35 is fixed to the back of a guitar body, thereby concealing the base plate 1, and respective parts from view, and being positioned, so that each one, of the three large, diameter bores 36 formed therethrough the assembly cover 35, being in direct, overhead alignment to, and having a larger diameter than. each one of the set of three large, diameter bores 33, formed through the top side, of the wire retainer bar 11, and the heads of the screws 34 than can hold the guitar wire 30 inside the wire retainer bar 11, the moulded cylinders 19 are hald in place, on their respective cylinders 14 of the which projecting out of the base plate 1.
The formentioned invention, being an improvement in a guitar, by wherein, in a conventional guitar, being electric, and having a number of bores formed therethrough the guitar body, from the back, each bore having the capability to hold and house a portion of a single, wire string 30, or there being a tremalo arm casing having bores formed therethrough the tremalo arm case inside the body of a guitar, each formed for holding and housing a wire guitar string 30 the wire guitar strings 30 of the moulded cylinder 19, of the improvement, being threaded there from, and through angled bores 32 and over the rounded front edge 2 of the base plate 1, and through the bores in a guitar body, or tremalo arm casing, out of the front of the guitar, up to and threaded, through the machine heads to be tuned, the screws 34 that fix the wire, 30 in the angled bores 32 are thghtened in the angled bores 32, before being tuned, when the wire, guitar string 30 breaks in two pieces the old piece is taken out the machine head, and the other piece, stretching from a moulded cylinder 19, being loosened by the retaining screw 34 being loosened through a bore 36 in the assembly cover 35, by a screw driver or the like, another length of the wire guitar string 30, on a moulded cylinder 1@, being fed through the same parts, before being festened onto a machine head, and also, in the wire reteiner bar 11, a moulded cylinder can hold, the equivalent of several conventional, single wire guitar strings.
in an assembly cover by a screw driver or the like, when a guitar wire being snapped in two pieces between said retainer bar and machine heads on a guitar, one of said pieces being taken off a machine head while the other end of said same guitar wire being freed in its respective angled bore by said screw holding said guitar wire in a tight fixed position being loosened by a screw driver or the lie being placed through one of said large bores in said assembly cove and enough wire being unwound from a moulded cylinder to reach ad be fastened to a machine head arid to be tightened to the side of a same angled bore by said same screw before being tuned b said same machine ead, this opperation can be carried out several times with a length of guitar string being of such a long length, this construction could also be formed into the front of a body of a guitar and car also have more of the same parts and lengths of guitar wire if so desired by the manufacturer. END.
DESCRIPTION OF WHAT THE DRAWINGS REPRESENT 1. FIG. 1 IS A SECTIONAL SIDE ELEVATION VIEW OF THE BASE PLATE. RELATIVE PARTS. AND ASSEMBLY COVER.
2. FIG. 2 IS A PLAN OF THE BASE PLATE. AND RESPECTIVE PARTS OF THE IMPROVEMENT.

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  1. HAVING THUS DESCRIBED THE IMPROVEMENT, WHAT I CLAIM AS
    NEW. AND DESIRE TO HAVE SECURED BY LETTERS PATENT IS: claim 1. A way concealing a length of guitar wire.
    partly or wholly in a body of a guitar and mean formed to trap said length of guitar wire in a fixed position to be tuned arid there being a base plate having differently sized bores therethrough arid being raised around some said bores of which being larder than others of sal bores and having cylinders having tapered end portions and projecting therethrough sad larger bores arid having moulded cylinders placed over said cylinders each having a separate length of guitar wire wraped around each of said cylinders with each guitar string having one end threaded through a bore in said mouldes cylinders and havirip a kink in said end being in a hollow bore thererm beirig partly unwound from said moulded cyclinders there- through a ionu slit on moulded sleeves of which being placed i a rotatale position over said moulded cyclinders with said moulded sleeve being free to rotate against said moulded cylinders and said moulded cylinders being free to rotate against said cylinders with scald seperate lengths of guitar wires being threaded through angled bores i a seperatly formed wire retainer bar of which being permanently fixed to said base plate by screws in other bores @ formed in said wire retainer bar and said wire retainer bar also having other bores formed conecting with said angled bores in said wire reatainer bar having screws i said bores conecting with said angled bores for holding a portion of said guitar wire in an angled bore i said wire retainer bar and said guitar wire being placed over a rounded front edge of said base plate having said rounded front edge being in direct alignment with and being above holes being formed through said body of a guitar or holes formed in a tremalo arm casing being inside a hollow portion said body of a guitar with said guitar wire being threaded through said bores from the back of said body of said guitar and being threaded through machine heads set on said guitar before being tightened in a fixed position in and from said angled bores and said machine heads before being ' tuned by said machine heads;; said base plate arid respective parts having an assembly cover being larger in area tan said base plate and accordingly, when saib base plate being fixed in a hollowed out portion of said body of a guitar and said moulded cylinders having been placed over other of said cylinders with said guitar wire being threaded through said respective parts and an assembly cover being fixed ove said base plate arid respective parts to the back OT said body of a guitar by screws in bores on said assembly cover and said assembly cover having other bores formed therethrough being In alignement to ad directly above said screws in said bores conecting to angled bores in said wire retainer bar arid being iarger than said screws with said same screws @ being tightened and loosened therethrough said larger bores
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US4377963A (en) * 1981-07-27 1983-03-29 Siminoff Roger H Self-contained musical string cassette
US4852447A (en) * 1988-05-16 1989-08-01 St Denis Carroll R String arrangement for a musical instrument

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US4377963A (en) * 1981-07-27 1983-03-29 Siminoff Roger H Self-contained musical string cassette
US4852447A (en) * 1988-05-16 1989-08-01 St Denis Carroll R String arrangement for a musical instrument

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