US1106448A - Phonograph. - Google Patents

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N. H; HOLLAND.

PHONOGRAPH. APPLICATION FILED 1130.2, 1011.

1,106,448. Patented Au .11,1914.

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To all whom it may] concern:

Be it known that I, NEWMAN H. HoLLANo, a subject ofthe King of Great Britain, and a resident of West Orange, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in .Phonographs, of which thewhich instructions may readily be indicated for any desired part of the record. In conformity with this object, I provide a memo-' ra'ndum holder and a straight edge extending-ac'ross the face of the holder, these parts being so connected to the fixed parts of the phonograph and the sound box support as to move relatively to each other at a speed corresponding with that of the recorder or reproducer across the record surface. I also provide a resilient pencil ormarker support adapted to hold the pencil in convenient po' sition for marking upon a memorandum carriedby the memorandum holder or of being depremed, ifnecessary, so as to permit the placin of the cover upon the phonograph. Inny preferred construction, I provide retaining means adapted toengage the resilient dpencil support to hold the same indepresse position.

Other objects of my invention will appear more fully in the following specification and appended claims. j

In ordei that my invention may be more clearly understood, attention is hereby directed to the'accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification and in which-.

Figure 1 represents a side elevation of a phonograph embodying one form of my invention; Fig. 2 represents a front elevation thereof; Fig. 3 represents a plan view of my improved memorandumholder with amemorandum sheet therein; Fig. 4 represents a cross section taken on the line 3; and Fig. 5 represents a perspective view of the bracket for connecting the memorandum holder to the sound box support or car rier arm of the phonograph.

In all of the views, like parts are designated by the same reference characters.

Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed December 2, 1911.

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Patented Aug Illl, 391 i. Serial No. 663,558.

ward end of the carriage 4 is a frame 5 supporting a recorder 6 and a reproducer 7, the pivotal movement of this frame permitting either the recorder or the reproducer to be brought into operative position. As shown 1n Figs. 1 and 2, theframe 5 is in position for recording. The mandrel the, main shaft 9 whichis adapted to be driven from the pulley 1 0 when-operatively connected thereto by the clutch 11, rotation being imparted to the pulley 10 by the phonograph motor (not shown).

' The numeral 12 represents a feed screw which is adapted to be engaged by a nut 13 supported from the traveling carriage 4 by a spring 14 to feed the said carriage along the rod at the desired speed.

My improved memorandum attachment comprises a platen 15 provided along the forward edge thereof with an inwardly directed flange l6 and along the lateral edges with inwardly directed flanges 17 and 18, these flanges serving, as shown in Fig. 3, to retain a memorandum sheet A in position on the platen. The platen 15 is secured to the traveling carriage of the phonograph by means of a bracket 19, the platen being preferably provided adjacent one end thereof with downwardly directed flanges 20 and 21 adapted to'be secured to the ends of an arm 22 extending across one end of the bracket. The latter, as shown at 23, is r0- vided with a web-like portion extending longitudinally of the platen 15. Intermediatetheends thereof, the bracket is formed with an arm 24 extending transverse to the web 23 and adaptedto support the bottom of the said laten intermediate the ends thereof. At the end of the bracket op osite that having the arm 22 are two spaced ver tical projections 25. The portion of the bracket betweenthese projections is formed with a screw threaded recess 26 adapted to receive a screw 2?, which panics throu h and bears u on the bottom of the cup-Ii e portion 28 o the platen 15 to assist in holdmg the latter in position on the bracket. At the end thereof adjacent the arm 22, the bracket, is provided with a fork-like portion nating engage the and I preferably 29 adapted to straddle the carrier arm 4 as shown in Fig. l, a screw 30 passing through one of the arms of this portion of the bracket serving to secure the same to the said arm. Substantially midway of the length thereof, the bracket is provided with the rearwardly' directed arm 31 adapted to tubular extension 32 of the carrier arm. The .-.rm 31 is preferably provided with a recess 31 to enable the same to fit closely over the extension 32 and is secured to the said extension, as by one or more set screws 33.

A straight edge 34 preferably formed of a strip of resilient sheet metal looped about the guide rod 3, as shown at 35,,and clamped thereto as by a set screw 36, extends across the face of the platen 15. the said arm extending across the platen is preferably twisted to a vertical position, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

My improved pencil support preferably comprises a spiral spring 37 forming a resilient rod or arm threaded into a threaded aperture 37 in the bracket 19 so as to extend vertically upward on the phonograph. This arm carries at its upper end a chain 38 carrying a socket 39 or any other suitable means for holding a pencil 40 in convenient position with respect to the platen. As shown in the drawings, the pencil is main tained by the arm 37 in a position adjacent the upper end of the platen, from which position it may readily be drawn across the straight edge 34 to'mark placed 'upon the platen. When released after this operation, it will be moved by the arm 37 to its normal position. A support such as the spring 37 may be easily depressed when it is desired to place the cover of the phonograph in position upon the machine; secure to the bracket 19 a curved finger or hook 41 adapted to retain the spring rod 37 in depressed position, as shown ih dotted lines in Fig. 1.

Numerous ty es of memorandum fo ms may obviously e used with my invention, but for convenience of illustration, I have disclosed a form invented by Nelson C. Durand, and described and claimed by him in an application, Serial No. 663,566, filed on even date herewith. This form is provided with a representation 42 of the scale commonly employed upon commercial phonographs, under whic scale are a number of spaces extending parallel to" the scale and provided with printed stock phrases desigthe instructions to be noted. At one end of this form are a number of spaces for designating the record and any other desired information. In using my invention, the memorandum sheet is fed past the straight edge 34 at a rate equalto the movement of the recorder or reproducer across the record surface. If, therefore, the dictator draws -sheet will vividly indicate in advance The portion of a memorandum I the pencil 40 across the straight edge 34 and marks the memorandum in the proper longitudinal space, for example, that marked Corrections, while the recorder is at the part of the record for which the instructions are to be given, these instructions and the part or parts of the record to which they refer will be clearly, indicated to the transcriber by the mar ed memorandu.n sheet. The phonograph of the transcriber should preferably also be provided with a memorandum attachment similar to that described above for receiving the marked memorandum sheet, so that the approach of the straight edge and the mark or marks on the the part of the record to which reference is made by the memorandum. If for example, as

stated above, the sheet is provided with a mark indicating that corrections are to be made in a particular part of the record, the transcriber, by the approach of the straight edge and the said mark. will be advised to listen for corrections to be made.

My invention is obviously capable of considerable-modification and I wish it, therefore, to be understoodithat I to the exact details shown and described.

am not limited f What I claim as new and desire to protect by Letters Patent of the United States is as follows:

1. In a device of the class described, the combination with. a phonograph having a retatable record support, a carrier arm or sound box support, and means for uniformly progressing said sound box supportmcross said record support, of a memorandum holder, a bracket for detachably securing said holder to said carrier arm, the said bracket having a yoke-shaped portion straddling and secured to the said arm, and a stationary straight edge detachably secured tosaid phonograph in proximity to the upper face of said holder, substantially as described.

2. In a device of the class. described, the combinationwith a phonograph having a rotatable record support, a back rod, a guide rod, a sound box carrier arm slidably mounted on said guide rod and having an Ill extension mounted on said back rod, and

means for uniformly progressing said sound box support across said 'record'support, of a memorandum holder, :1 bracket for detachably securingsa'id holder to said carrier arm, and a straight edge detachably secured to said guide rod, in proximity to the upper face of said holder, the said bracket having a yoke-shaped portion straddling and secured to said arm, and a second portion resting upon the extension of the carrier arm, substantiallyas described.

3. In a device of the class described, the combination with a phonograph having a rotatable record support, a carrierarm or r o i 1,10o,44s e ound box support and means for uniformly progressing said sound box support across said record support, of a memorandum holder. a bracket for detachably securing said holder to said carrier arm, and a stationary straight edge secured to said phonograph in proximity to the upper face of said holder, and extending over substantially the full width of the same, substantially as describe 4. In a device of the class described, the t'fllllblntltlflll'\Vltll a phonograph having a rotatable reeord support, a sound box support. and means for producing a relative feeding movement between said supports, of a holder carrying a memorandum sheet having in-diraiting spaces extending longitudinally thereof, and a straight edge located in proximity to said holder and extending over substantially the full width of the indieating spaces of said memorandum sheet, the said holder and straight edge being connected with said phonograph for relative movement proportionately to the relative movement between said record and sound b x supports, substantially as described.

5. In a device of the class described, the combination with a phonograph having a rotatable record support, a carrier arm or sound box support, and means for uniformly progressing said sound box support across said record support, of a holder secured to said sound box support and carrying a memorandum sheet having indicating spaces extending longitudinally thereof, and a st tending over substantially the full width of the indicating spaces of said memorandum sheet, substantially as described.

(5. In a device of the class described, the combination with a phonogiaph having a rotatable record support, a sound box support, and means for producing a relative feeding movement between said supports, of a holder carrying a memorandum sheet and provided with inwardly directed flanges for retaining the memorandum sheet thereon, said memorandum sheet having indicating spaces extending longitudinally thereof. and a straight edge located in proximity to said holder and extending over substantially the full width of the indicating spaces of the memorandum sheet, the said holder and straight edge being connected with said phonograph for relative movement proportionately to the relative movement between said record and sound box supports, substantially as described.

This specification signed and witnessed this 25) day of November 191].

N EW MAN H. HOLLAND.

\Vitnesses Fnnonmox BACHMANN, ANNA R. KLEHM.

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