US1277813A - Electric orchestrion. - Google Patents

Description

L. ZUEHLKE,

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APPLICATION FILED IMLS. |9l4. 19; ,T7981 3, Patentedep. 3, i918.

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ELECTRIC ORCHESTRION.

APPLICATION FILED IAN. 3. 1914.

PtentedSept. 3, 1918.

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llli/ElIORrII ZUEHLKE, 0F HORTONVILLE, WISCONSIN.

'ELECTRIC ORCHESTRION.

specification.

My invention relates to musical instruments, and more particularly to musical instruments for playing automaticallya conibination of instruments, which are operated with electric striking or tapping devices,

such as used in playing xylophones, harp imitations, etc. It also comprehends windproduced tones, such as violin imitations,

cornet imitations, and all, pipe -tones which are operated through the aid of electric operating devices or air automatic devices connected in either case to small wind-operated bellows, wherebyany selected notes of any selected instruments, or imitation of instruments, can be played independently of each other, and by which the various instruments may be layed in concert or independent'l The o ject of the device is to provi e simple and eiiective mechanism for carrying out the above described result, which will be easy of control, durable, economically manufactured, and the parts thereof may be easily repaired or replaced with little difficulty.

In the` drawings forming a part of this specification, and in which like symbols of reference represent corresponding parts in the several views Figure 1 is a front view, partly in section, of the device, with note sheet, pneumatics, and player mechanism;

Fig. 2 is aside view ofthe tracker bar, and attendant mechanism;

Fig. 3 a sectional detail View of one of the pipes; U

Fig. 4 a similar sectional View of a pipe and air chamber;

Fig. 5 a modiication o the device without electrical connections; l l

Fig. 6 a transverse section of the modified form; and,

Fig. 7 a view of a pipe and air chamber of the modification.

In the drawings the numeralv 1 represents the perforated note sheet, cut especially lfor an instrument of this character; and being divided into sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7, and operating in conjunction with a tracker bar Patented Sept. 3, 1918.

application mec January 3, 1914. serial No. 810,107.

8. These sections control di'erent instruments, for instance 2 the Xylophone; 3 the cello; 4 the violin; 5 the cornet; 6, a series of different toned bells; and 7 anyl other instrument, or tone quality, as desired.

9 is the feed roll; 10 the take-up; 11 exhaust chamber; 12 tubes leading from the tracker bar to vacuum chest; and 13 the bellows, forming part of a pneumato-electric device, which closes when a tube 12 is exposed through a perforation in the paper roll. 14 are tubes leading to the exhaust chamber; and 15 a connection extending to the battery 16. 17 represent the switches to control the electrical current. The wire or metal connection is extended from 16 to 18, the instrument or tone qualities to be played.

`When the bellows 13 of the pneumatoelectric device closes a connection is made with 19 and 20; the connection 19 extending to the batteries 16'." A connection extends from each individual tone at the different instruments, to 21 on the bellows, which when closed form a circuit. 22 represent the supply chambers of the various instruments; and 28 the pipes operated by an air pump, or the like. f

In the modification shown in Fig. 5, I have illustrated another way in which the instruments may be operated without electrical connections. In this case the tones are controlled from the small bellows by a wire or similar connection 24 with the valves 25, which when the -bellows close will operate the individual note. i

Of course any type of foot power pump or electrically operatedpump, or any type used in player pianos may be employed to ,what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters-Patent, is

An electric orchestrion comprising a note sheet, a tracker bar, an exhaust chamber, tubes connecting the exhaust chamber with the tracker bar, a lurality of bellows connected to the chain er, the movable portion of each bellows extended to form a finger, a source of electricity, branch Circuits leading therefrom, switches in the circuits, each come In testimony whereof aliX iny signeture prising a reslllent contact part respectively in presence of two witnesses. operated to close the circuit by the bellows- LENORE ZUEHLKE. fingers, magnets 1n the branch circuits con- 5 trolling the sounding bodies, and other Witnesses:

switches, one to control each instrument as a. JACOB KUEHN, whole. A M. A. SCHUH.

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