US1106941A - Combined portfolio and sheet-music turner. - Google Patents

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J. A. HENEBERGH. COMBINED PORTFOLIO AND SHEET MUSIC TURNER.

APPLIOATIQN FILED JAN-11, 1911.

Patented Aug. 11, 1914.

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J. A. HENEBERGH. COMBINED PORTFOLIO AND SHEET MUSIC TURNER.

APPLICATION FILED JAN.11, 1911.

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' Patented Aug. 11, 1914.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN A. HENEBERGH, OF KANSAS CITY, KANSAS.

COMBINED PORTFOLIO AND SHEET-MUSIC TURNER.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN A. HENEBERGH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Kansas City, in the county of Wyandotte and State of Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combined Portfolios and Sheet-Music Turners, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to combined portfolios and sheet music turners and my 0 ject is to produce a device of this character which can be utilized for the convenient reception and storage of sheet music and when open placed upon the rack of a piano to hold and turn the music to be rendered.

A further object is to produce a device of the character outlined which operates efiiciently and reliably and which is of ornamental and compact construction.

WVith these general objects in view theinvent-ion consists in certain novel and peculiar features of construction and organization as hereinafter described and claimed; and in order that it may be fully understood reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1, is a view of the combined portfolio and sheet music turner in opened position and arranged for turning a sheet or sheets of music. Fig. 2, is an enlarged view of a portion of the lower end of the same. Fig. 3, is a vertical section on the line III'III of Fig. 2. Fig. 4, is a vertical section on the line IVIV of Fig. 2. Fig. 5, is a section on the line VV of Fig. 1, with the sheet music in operative position.

In the said drawings where like reference characters indicate corresponding parts in all the figures, 1 indicates a portfolio equipped with loop handles 2 for convenience of carriage and susceptible of closing like a book along its vertical center.

Secured to the inner side of one member of the cover at one side of the bend or hinge portion thereof is a metal plate 3 bent outward slightly at its lower end to form a keeper 4 for engagement with a bar 5 pivoted to a screw 6, secured to the other member of the cover, a clamping nut 7 engaging the screw to secure the bar 5 against accidental pivotal movement. When the book is opened, the bar 5 is swung upon pivot 6, until it bridges the hinge portion of the portfolio and is engaged with the keeper 4 so that the latter shall prevent the bar from opening and thus cooperate with the same in Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed January 11, 1911.

Patented Aug. 11, 1914.

Serial No. 602,088.

holding the portfolio open, the position which it must occupy when holding sheet music in operative position upon a piano rack or other music rack or support.

8 1s a bar parallel with the cover members and secured to the central portion of the hinge portion of the portfolio and provided near the ends of the latter with upwardly pro ecting arms 9 forming journals and supports for a screw rod 10 engaged at its threaded end by a nut 11.

One or more sheet carrying frames are each constructed as follows :-l2 is a tube fitting telescopically on a rod 13. To prevent accidental slippage the rod is provided with a leather washer or friction disk 14, engaging the interior of the tube. At the lower end of the tube and upper end of the rod are hinge flanges 15 pivotally engaging pivot rod 10, and projecting outward from the flanged ends of said tube and rod are parallel arms 16, the upper arm having a rod 17 and the lower arm a tube 18 fitting telescopically together, it being noted by reference to Figs. 1 and 3, that the flanges 15 of one sheet-carrying frame fit against the inner sides of the corresponding parts of the other sheet carrying frame. The lower arms 16 of said frames are provided with upwardly opening clips 19, and the upper arms are provided with pivoted clamps 20, of U-shape as shown, it being noted by reference, to Fig. 2 that the clip 19 of the rearmost sheetcarrying frame is at the outer side of the latter and that the clamp 20 of said frame is pivoted to the underside and its free or clamping end overlaps its upper side. The reverse is true of the other sheet-carrying frame, that is the clip 19 is at the underside of the same when occupying the position shown in Fig. 2, and the clamp 20 ispivoted to the upper side and its free end is arranged at the opposite side. To hold said frames in the position shown in Figs. 1 and 2, a bracket 21 is secured to the right hand member of the cover and carries a horizontal bolt 22 engaged by a nut 23. Pivoted on the bolt at the right hand side of the upwardly projecting arm of the bracket is a dog 24 having a depressible handle 25, a spring 26 mounted on the bolt and secured at its opposite ends to the standard and said handle tending to move the dog in the direction indicated by the arrow, Fig. 4, the dog below its pivot having an extension 27 to bear against the foot of thebracket to limit the movement imparted to the dog by said spring. Projecting laterally from saic dog is a pin 28 in advance of a similar dog 29 having a handle 29, pivoted on the bolt at the opposite side of the standard, the catch end of the dog projecting to a higher plane than the corresponding end of the first-named dog for engagement with the upper sheetcarrying frame, whereas the first-named dog is adapted for engagement with the lower sheet-carrying frame as shown clearly in Fig. 4, and to hold the dog 29 in operative position, that is, pressed in the direction indicated by the arrow, a spring 30 is secured on the bolt and at one end engages said dog and at the other the standard 21, the spring holding the second dog pressed upwardly against pin 28, as shown clearly in the last-named figure. By this arrangement it will be seen that when the frames are successively swung to the position shown in Fig. 2, the undermost frame engages dog 29 and represses the same and the other dog and as it clears the latter the two dogs spring forward to permit dog 24 to engage and hold the frame in the position described. The other frame is then swung to the position shown in Fig. 2, and engages and represses dog 29, said dog snapping back over said frame and holding it in the position shown in Fig. 2.

31 is a coiled spring mounted on hinge rod 10 between the lower arm. of bar 8 and the washer 32 fitting on said red, one end of the spring being secured to the uppermost or foremost frame and the other end to the arm 9. A. similar spring 33 is mounted on the hinge rod between washer 32 and a second washer 34; and the ends of said spring are secured to the undermost frame and the adjacent arm 9. The arrangement is such that the operation of dog 29 withdraws the same from the path of movement of the foremost or uppermost frame to permit the spring 31 to swing said frame from the position shown in l ig. 1, full lines, to the position shown in said figure in dotted lines without affecting the companion or underlying frame. On operating the other dog the rearmost frame is caused by its spring 33 to perform a similar movement.

The preferred way of arranging the music, assuming that it consists of two double sheets, is to place the cover sheet 35 upon the members of the portfolio as shown in Fig. 5, the inner sheet 36 is then fitted on the hinge red as shown in the same figure so that one leaf shall underlie the foremost or topmost frame and the other sheet shall overlie the undermost or rearmost frame, the said inner sheet being arranged with the lower edges of its leaves fitting in hooks 19, and the upper edges of its leaves clamped against their respective frames by the clamps 20. By this arrangement it will be seen that the operation of the frames as described will effect tne automatic turning of the leaves. The hinge frames are telescopic as described to adapt them for use with sheets of different sizes.

If it is desired to hold a single sheet spread open upon the cover, it can be ar ranged thereon as indicated at 35, Fig. 5, and rest at its lower edges in hooks 37 secured to the cover members and be overlapped at its upper end by the pivoted clamps 38 pivoted to said cover-members, and for conveniently carrying a number of sheets without danger of loss, the same may be secured in the portfolio in the manner last described, that is by means of the hooks 37 and clamps 38.

From the above description it will be ap parent that I have produced a combined portfolio and music sheet turner possessing the features of advantage enumerated as desirable and I wish it to be understood that I reserve the right to make all changes properly falling within the spirit and scope of the appended claim.

I claim:

In a leaf-turning device, a supporting frame, spring-actuated leaf-turners mounted thereon, a pivot bolt carried by said frame, springactuated dogs of varying lengths mounted on said bolt, the shortest of said dogs being provided with step meanscontacting with the frame for limiting its pivotal movement under the action of its spring and also with stop means for lim-- iting the pivotal movement of the next longer, dog of the series under the action of its spring, said dogs being adapted to retain and successively release said leaf-turners from their initial position.

In testimony whereof I atlix my signature, in the presence of two witnesses.

HELEN C. RODGERS, G. Y. Tnoern.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G.

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