US1242155A - Phonograph and the like. - Google Patents

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1. H: DICKINSON PHONOGRAPH AND THE LIKE. APPLICATION FILED FE B. 10. Hi6.

Patented Oct. 9, 1917.

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PHONOGRAPH AND THE LIKE.

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Be it known that l, Josrirrr' l'llonrnn Dron- INsoN, a citizen of the United States, residing at (.lranford, in the county of Union and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Phonorra-phs and the like, of which the following is aspecilication.

lvly present invention relates to improvements in phonographs and the like and more particularly relates to means for automati-- cally controlling the lighting of the record playing compartment of the cabinet from the opening and closing of the lid. The ad vantages of this and other improvements forming the subject of my present invention Will he apparent to those chilled in the art from on understanding of the following de scription in connection With the drawings.

In the drawings, Fig-are lie a regimen tcry plan View oi the recordplaying coinpartment of a phonograph cabinet embody inp; my improvements, the lid not being shown.

hinged; Whereas the front ol the cabinet is hrolren away.) Fig. 2 is a front to hack vertical section through the left hand portion of the cabinet of Fig". 1. looking toward the left. The lid of the cabinet is shown in this View propped up in its open position. Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail of a portion of Fig. 2; Fig. t is a vertical section on the line in Fig. 3 looking in the direction of the arrows; and Fig. 0 is an enlarged rertical sectional. View of the lamp, light shield and reflector shown also at the right in Fig. l, rmrtly in horizontal section end plan.

Describing not the specific embodiment of my invention shown in the drawings 1 is the body portion of the phonograph rohinet, 2 its lid hinged to the body at 3.

(Fig. 4 is the board ordeck forming the bottom of the record playing compartment wherein are located the recordsupporting turntahleh, the tone-arin- 6 and sordid-box 7. At the left (see ll'ig. 1) this board has on opening through it covered by a slotted plate 8 (compare El) through. which Worlrs the Ilidtop ll. The plate 8 has side portion 8 (compare F 4;} hent downwardly therefrom to which two parts specification of hetters Patent.

(In Fig. l the top of the figure is, the baclr of the cabinet to which thelid is the lid.

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10 and 11 are screwed or riveted, these parts being preferably made of Wood, fiber, hard ruhher of other noise-deadening material when. operated. against or struck loy the lower end of the prop l) as will hereafter appear.

The upper end of the prop 9 is pivoted at 12 to a bracket 13 secured to the inside of the hollow lid 52,-see Fig. 9. The parts 10 and 11 are spaced apart and so shaped as to pro vide. an irregularly shaped passage 14 between them,--see Figs. 2 and 3. The lower end of the prop 9 (Figs. 2 and 4) has a transverse pin 15 therein which passes through said. passage ll in the operation. of the prop. Thus as the lid2y is raised, the prop 9 of course lifts with it and its pin lli follows up the inclined side ll' qof the part 11 which guidesitintothe mouth-or fronte1'1d(l*igs. 2 and Elle-f the passagel. Continued liftil of thei lli d andprop, carries the pin 15 up into the passage lfuntil it strikes against the depending; projection. 16 (Fig. 3) on the part 10. This notifies the. operator that the lid has been tullyraised. Upon relcosing the lid, it drops slightly carrying the pin down into the notch or fork .17 (Fig. 3) of the part 11 which thereupon supports the prop cud lid in raised position. To lower and close the lid, the operator first lifts it slightly and then lowers it into shut position. The first or lifting step. carries the pin 15 upwardly out of the fork and rear- Wardly until it strikes against the projection 1-8 (Fig. 3); andthc second or lower 111g step earrles the pin downwardly out of the rear or delivery-end of the passage 14 and thence downwardly Within the cabinet to the full extent to permit the shutting of Unreopening the lid, the pin 15 till follows through. the same cycle justde--' scribed, first following up the incline 11 and so on. The purpose of the inclined tailpiece ll is to compel the pin to traverse the passage 14: described instead of in the reverse direction.

This completes the description of the lidprop illustrated hut it will he understood that this specific form of "the prop is not essential to my invention. Proceeding now with the description of my invention :---19 is on elect-ricdight bulb in a socket 20 mounted on the dech". t (compare Fig. 5) et the rie ht This socket is side l.

wired to the source of current supply (not underlying one end of the prop-pin 15 when "supporting the lid in elevated position by resting in the fork 17 (Fig. 3} as in Fig. 2'. The opposite end 23 (Fig. 2} .of the strip 23 is twisted into a horizontal plane and provided with a hole through which the plunger 22 projects. The plunger is there screw-threaded and a pair of hemispherical nets 25-25 engage these threads on opposite sides of the end 23* of the lever and form a pivotal (yet adjustable) operating connection between said lever and the plunger of the switch. lhe arrangement is such that when the lid is in its propped-open position of Fig. 2, said prop not only sup ports the lid but also bears down on the ever 2-3 and pulls out the plunger of the switch which then connects the lampl9 with. he current-scarce. Thus raising the lid nto propped-position automatically lights he lamp. On the other hand the act of releasing the prop to lower the lid, automatically extinguishes the light long before the lid is closed, so that the operator has the satisfaction of knowing that the'light is out and is not indefinitely consuming current while the lid is closed. Thus 26 is a spiral spring connected under tension to the lever 23 so as to force the switch-plungerfifi in the direction of cutting oh the current the moment the prop-pin 15 is lifted ed the lug 23 4i and Fig. described.

Finally it will be noted that a combined eye-protector and reflector 27 is provided in connection with the electric lamp 19 shown as consisting of a preferably metal its upper end closed so that the light cannot shine up directly into the eyes of the operator leaning over the record-playing COIH- partment of the instrument. A horizontally elongated portion is removed from the side of the'tube suilicient to throw the light simultaneously on the sound-box in its record-playing positions as well as on the needle-tray or receptacles 28. This directs the light first where it'is wanted-either to get a new needle, or to apply it to the sound box, or to adjust the latter to the beginning of the record-groove, or to the end thereof as'apreliininary to the setting of an automatic stopf Further the reflector 1s preferably rotor "light-means to and from the current,

2) of the lever 23 as tube with bri at rellectin interior havin'e interior deck and a neonate permit the desired lateral adjustment of the beam of light.

What I claim is 1. In combination, a phonograph cabinet having an interior deck and niovably connected lid, a prep for said lid connected to the same to move therewith, electric light means for lighting the interior of 'SEllCl cabinet, and means located below said deck and operated by the movement of said prop into lid-supporting position to automatically switch on the light-means.

2. In combination, a phonograph cabinet having an interior deck and a movably connected lid, a prop for said. lid connected to the same to move therewith, electric light means for lighting the interior of said cabinet, and means located below said deck and. operated by the movement of said prop into lid-supporting position to automatically switch on the light-means and otherwise to switch it oil'.

3. In combination, a phonograph cabinet having an interior deck and a inovably connected lid, a prep for said lid connected to the same to move therewith, electric light means for lighting the interior of said cabinet, and a switch located. beneath said deck for connecting and disconnecting the said switch being normally in disconnecting" condition, and being shifted into connecting condition by the movement of the prop into lid-supporting position.

4-. In combination, a phonograph cabinet having an interior deck and aniovably corn nccted lid, a prop for said lid connected to the same to move therewith, electric light means for lighting the interior of said cabinet, a switch located beneath said deck for connecting and disconnecting thelightmeans to and from the current, and nieans connected with said switch and caused to be pressed in one direction to operate the switch, by the movement of said prop into lid-snpporting position.

In combination, a phonograph cabinet having an interior deck and a movably con nected lid, a prop for said lid connected to the same to move therewith, electric light means for lighting the interior of said cabinet, a switch located beneath said deck for connecting and disconnecting the lightmeans to and from. the current, means connected with said switch and caused to be ,pressed in one direction to operate the switch, bythe movement of said prop into lid-supporting position, and means which when not opposed by the crop operates the switch reversely.

6: In combination, a phonograph having an movably' connected lid; a member connected to the lid to move there Corrections in Letters Patent No. 1,242,155.

It is hereby certified that in LeLLers Patent. No. 1,242,155, granted October 9, 1917, upon the application of Joseph Hunter Dickinson, of Cranford, New Jersey, for an improvement in "Phrmngraphs and the Like," errors appear in the printed specification requiring correction as follows: Page 1, line 5!], for the compound word lid-twp" read lid-prop; page 2, line 124, duim for the word "orop" reed prop; and that. the said Letters Patent, should be read with these corrections therein that the same may conform to the record of the case in the Patent Oflice.

Signed and sealed this 29th day of January, A. D., 19154v mu. 1:. F. \\III'1I-.HEAI),

Acting Commissioner of Patmta.

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