US1220430A

US1220430A - Tuning-pin for harps and the like.

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Publication number: US1220430A
Application number: US80309813A
Authority: US
Inventors: Walter I Kirk
Original assignee: Lyon & Healy
Current assignee: Lyon & Healy
Priority date: 1913-11-26
Filing date: 1913-11-26
Publication date: 1917-03-27
Anticipated expiration: 1934-03-27

Description

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TUNING PIN FOR HAR'PS AND THE LIKE. APPLICATION FILED NOV. 2s. 1.913.

1,220,430., Patented Mar. 27, 1917.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WALTER I. KIRK, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR T0 LYON & HEALY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

TUNING-PIN FOR HARPS AND THE LIKE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 27, 1917.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, I/VALTER I. KIRK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Tuning-Pins for Harps and the like, of which the following is a full, clear, concise, and exact descrip tion, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification.

My invention relates to tuning pins for harps or similar devices.

Prominent objects of the invention are to provide a tuning pin or device of the class specified which shall not cut or injure the string attached to it, and which at the same time shall be effective in holding the string in proper position.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a harp provided with tuning pins embodying my invention;

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of one of the pins;

Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section on an enlarged scale of an end portion of said pins;

Fig. 1 is a cross section taken on line 4-4 in Fig. 3.

In Fig. 1 I show a harp 1 provided with tuning pins 2 which are constructed preferably with a reduced end portion 3 desirably ribbed or corrugated at 5. A cap or cover 6 is slipped over the end' portion 3 so as to fit tightly thereupon, the ri bed portion 5 forming a tight engagement between said cap 6 and the end 3. An aperture 7 is formed through the end 3 and cap 6 for the reception of a string 8. The pin 2 being preferably of metal and the cap 6 preferably of celluloid or some other suitable relatively soft material, the strength of the pin is retained while at the same time the portion which is engaged by the string, namely the ends of the aperture or passage 7, is of soft material. Thus the strings are satisfactorily engaged and supported by the pins 2 and at the same time are not cut or torn by said pins. The end covering device or cap 6 could be of any suitable arrangement or construction, and of course differ in the same from the specific arrangement or construction herein shown.

What I claim as my invention is:

1. A pin for a musical instrument string having an end portion provided with a cap, means preventing relative movement of the pin and cap, said cap and end portion being provided with registering apertures near their outer ends, said apertures forming a continuous passage for one of the strings through the cap and end portion and said cap being made of relatively soft material.

2. A metal pin for musical instrument strings having an end portion provided with a roughened surface, in combination with a celluloid cap fitting over the end portion of said pin and covering said roughened surface, said cap being provided with means for engaging a musical instrument string.

3. A tuning pin having a reduced end provided with a cap of relatively soft material and having registering apertures formed through said cap and said pin near the outer end of both the cap and the pin and means preventing relative movement of the cap and pin.

4. In a pin for a musical instrument string in combination, a tubular member of relatively soft material positioned upon an end of said pin, said pin being provided with a roughened portion adapted to engage said relatively soft member, registerin apertures provided in said pin and said member, and means for engaging said member with said pin, said means including said roughened portion.

5. In a pin for a musical instrument string in combination, a music string, a tubular member of relatively soft material positioned upon an end of said pin, said pin having a roughened portion adapted to engage said relatively soft member, registering apertures provided in said pin and said member, and means for binding said member to said pin, said means including said roughened portion and said string.

In witness whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name this 25th day of October, A. D. 1913.

WALTER I. KIRK.

Witnesses:

A. L. JoNEs, HAZEL ANN J onus.

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