US1147589A - Music-stand. - Google Patents

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P. E. ALLEN.

Music STAND. APPLICATION FILED MAY 21, |9113.

1,147,589'. Patented July 2o, 1915.

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APPLICATIONl FILED MAY2l.1913.

Patented July 20, 1915.

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Muslc STAND.

APPLICATION FILED MAYZI. I9I3.

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FRANK E. ALLEN, OF PORT HURON, MICHIGAN.

MUSIC-STAND.

Specication of Letters Patent.

Patented Juiy 2o, 1915.

Application filed May 21, 1913. Serial No. 769,()13.

10 all lwhom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK E. ALLEN. a citizen of the United States, residing at Port Huron, in the county of St. Clair and State of Michigan, have invented new and useful Improvements in MusicStands, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to music and has for an object to provide a stand for accommodating sheets of music in reading position for the player.

The invention embodies, among other features, a music stand which is particularly adaptable for accommodating sheets of music known as professional copies and which have notes on both sides'thereof so that when the player has finished with one side of the sheet it is ordinarily necessary that he manually turn the page or. sheet over in order to read the notes on the other side thereof, thus causing him to desist from playing while he performs the operation o turning the sheet over in order to see the notes on the other side, particularly when the instrument played upon is one requiring the use of both hands. My device aims, therefore, to produce a music stand including a revoluble sheet-supporting member and wherein, when the notes on one side of the sheet have been played, the entire member can be readily revolved upon a base or stand proper to bring the other side of the sheet of music in position to enable the' player to read the notes thereon so that the time taken by the player in exposing the opposite side of the sheet to reading position will'be very short compared with the time it ordinarily takes the player to turn the sheet of music around on the stand or sheet-supporting member.

A still further embodiment of the invention resides in a sheet-supporting member which rigidly grips the sheet of music so 'that the same cannot be blown 0H of the sheet supporting member when the player is out of doors, and where a current of wind would ordinarily cause a sheet of music supported on the ordinary stand' to be biown ltherefrom or necessitate a reattachment of the sheet to the stand after the player has manually turned the sheet over to expose the In the further disclosure of the invention reference is to behad to the accompanying 'supporting barspartly folded. Fig. 4 is a view of one of the supporting bars showing the sheet supporting fingers folded therein and the manner of mounting the spring clamps. Fig. 5 is a vertical. sectional view through the turning element. Fig. 6 is a horizontal sectional view through the same. Fig. 7 is an enlarged sectional view through the spring clamps carried by the .supporting bars. .Fig 8 is a detail sectional View of the vcentral upright. Fig. 9 is a transverse sectional vieiv of the turning member.

Referring more particularly to the views, I pnvide the usual base 10 including an extensible member 11 fslidable on the base and adapted to be secured in an adjusted position thereon by means of a suitable clamp 12 arranged in any convenient manner on the base tol grip the extensible member 11 and secure thp same rigid with respect to the base. The upper end of the extensible member 11 is bent to provide anroii'set bearing 13, and carried on the extensible member immediately beneath and adjacent to the bearing is a plate 14 carryinga locking member 15 in the shape of a pin.

A turning member 16 includes an ele# ment 17 provided with a plurality of oppositely arranged notches 18, 18"L adapted to receive the locking member 15 therein to lock the turning member 16 in rigid position with respect to the extensible member 11, it being readily apparent that when the locking member 15 extends through the notch 18, the turning member will be in normal position, whereas when the ,turning member has been rotated on the plate 14 so that the locking member 15 extends into vthe notch 18, tne turning member will be in a reverse position. The turning member 16 is substantially U-sha-ped, and integrally lconnected with the parallel walls thereof are alined webs 16 terminating centrally of said member in semi-cylindrical portions 17- ferming a socket loosely embracing the upare spx'ngs hmbS why the stop are m A' l J lim ,t is arranged w .im mzwvu me up i 9 and the Supporting ur wl'h 'he Y 7 l o. music in pim?,

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In the same manner that the sheet of n1u sic 30 isv supported between and upon the upright 19 and supporting vbar 24, a second sheet of music 38 can be arranged upon the turning element `to be supported thereby upon the upright 19 and the supporting bar 24, with the same clips on the upright which secured the first sheet adapted to secure the second sheet thereto, while the clips 29@l of 'the upright 19 and supporting bars 24 and 24a respectively the turning member can be used to accommodate the ordinary sheets of music in book form wherein the pages are turned in the same manner as the pages of a book, it being simply necessary to clamp or grip the covers of the lbook of music by means of the Clips 29 and 29avcarried on the supporting bars 24, 24a.

As shown inA the drawings the turning vmember can be folded into a compact form by first swinging the supporting bars 24 and `24a downwardly to lie in the plane of the channel- like plates 22 and 22a respectively, and then sliding the respectiveslide lmembers 23, 23a inwardly on the channellikel plates 22, 22El so that the supporting bars 24, 24a will lie substantially within the channel-like plates, after which the channeL like plates are swung upwardly to lie against and inclose the upright 19, lit being understood that the sheet-supporting fingers 20 have been previously folded upon the upright and that the sheet-supporting fingers 25 and 25a have been previously folded upon the respective supporting bars 24 `and 24a.

, 'Although I have shown a particular forni of my invention it will be understood that I do not limit myself to the precise construction disclosed in the drawings and that various ydepartures may be made from the disclosures without departing from the spirit of the invention and which primarily provides a turning element adapted to support sheet music and which is revoluble upon a base to expose opposite sides of the sheet of music.

Having,r thus' described my invention, I claim:

A, music stand comprising a bar having an annular flange adjacent the upper end'thereof, lugs risingy from said flange at diametrically opposite points, a turning member comprising a U-shaped element-rotatably mounted on said flange, the cross piece of said element having a central opening for the reception of the upper end of the bar, and a plurality of notches for the reception of said lugs, alined webs integrally connested with the parallel walls of said ele ment and terminating in semicvlindrioal port-ions forming a socket centrally disposed Within ,the element and loosely embracing the upper end of the bar for supporting said turning' member at the proper inclination, channel shaped sheet music supportingr arms pivotally connected to the said parallel walls of said element, and a bar integrally con/ nested with said webs'and rising therefrom.

Lr. ROY PnAusoN, E. J. CARAHER.

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