US1350818A - Automatic organ - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES CYRILL KRALIGEK, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

AUTOMATIC ORGAN Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 24, 1920.

Application filed October 22, 1919. Serial No. 332,417.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CYRILL KRALIEEK, a cltizen of Czechoslovakia, residing at Chicago, county of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Automatic Organs, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has as its object to provide an orchestrion 'gramophone, the same being comprised of a lurality of cylindrical records upon whic are recorded independently the sounds from different musical instruments, such as are used in an orchestra, all of the several records being timed and operated to produce collectivel the result of a complete orchestra, each 0 the records having its independent sound box and tone arm by which the volume and timbre of the music is directed outwardly.

A further object is to provide anu'nstrument in which string musical instruments of the violin, viola, and contrabass types are actuated in connection with those of the wood-wind type as the flute, oboe, bassoon and clarinet, and further combined with brass instruments, as the horn, trumpet and trombone, together with the percussive instruments as cymbals, triangle, tympani, and drum type, each sounding in accordance with proper orchestra effects in a novel manner.

A still further object is to provide an instrument in which groups or series of records may be placed so that any of the groups may be brought into registration with the sound reproducingmeans and then operated automatically as may be required.

These and other like objects are attained by the novel construction and combination of parts hereinafter described and shown in the accompanying drawings, forming a material part of this disclosure, and in which- Figure 1 is a front elevational view showing an instrument made in accordance with the invention.

7 Fig. 2 is 'aside elevational view of the same.

Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view taken in another plane and indicating the application of electric power.

Fig. is an enlarged fragmentary rear sectional view.

Fig. 5 is a partial vertical sectional view showing the front of the instrument, the cover piate being removed and,

Fig. 6 is a still further enlarged fragmental side elevational view of the sound box, parts being broken away in order to show the construction.

Referring to the drawings in detail, the numeral 10 indicates an u right rectangular casing, resembling in orm part of an organ and provided with an extension 11 at the front ornamented in any desired manner, the open top being surrounded by an ornamental molding 12, as usual in casings of this type of construction.

Revolubly mounted in the lower base portion of the casing is a shaft 15 having attached to one .of its extending ends a crank handle 16, the same being provided with the detents 17 adapted to engage any of the openings 18 formed centrally in disks 19 at the end of the casing.

Mounted within the casing, on the shaft 15 are a pair of spider-like heads 20 formed .with disks 21 arranged in equally spaced relation around the heads and centered in the disks are spindles 22 having secured upon them gears 23 by which they may each be independently actuated.

These gears are moved individually into mesh with a gear 24 fixed upon a spindle 25 which also carries a driving pulley 26, over which is trained a belt 27, driven by a pulley 28 fixed upon the motor shaft 29 of the motor 30, the same resting upon the bottom of the casing and adapted to be operated by lead wires 31 and 32 from a battery-33, or

other source of'electrical power. when the push button 34. is depressed encirculting the motor with the battery.

A gear 36 is also in mesh with the gear 24 so as to be actuated by it when the motor is operating, the gear 36 communicating motion to a worm 37 journaled in bearings 38 extending inward from the walls of the casing, the length of the Worm being relative to the length of the individual record cylinders 4C0, engaged upon the spindles 22 which are rotated by the gears 23.

Engageable with the worm 37 is a toothed block 42 carried on the extreme upper end of a rod 43 passing upward through the coiled compression spring 44: fixed in the turned, outwardly extending arm 46 passing through a slot 47 at the side of the casing and provided with an actuati 48 by which the block 42 may be removed from engagement with the worm and moved longitudinally so as to renga e with either end thereof'when desired. fihe casing 45 rests upon the support 49 and pivotally secured to the casing 45 is a lever'53 in such manner as the knob is pulled in one direction' as to convey a correspondingbut opposite movement of the bar 50.

Pins 51 set in the bar 50 are operatively engaged in the lower, smaller downturned end of a plurality of curved conical tone arms 55 arran ed in the upper portion of the casing. aving'their open upper ends arranged in'a horizontal plane and extended rotatably through a plurality of openings 56 at the upper portion of the casing, the arms being of difierent diameter and magnitude according to the-instrument represented by the record, the sound of which is communicated outwardly.

The extreme lower ends of the sound arms 55, below the pins 51, are provided with curved seats 57 against which the rear upturned ends 58 of the sound box arms 59 make contact, the same being engaged by hollow plugs 60 entering the arms 55 and held therein by lugs through which .pass pivot pins 62.

The front end of the sound arms 59 have secured in them diaphragms 63, in contact with which are the needles 64 their projecting endsbeing adapted to engage with the grooves of the record cylinders as best shown in Fig. 3.

The levers rest upon the upper surface of the cylinders by gravity alone and obviously, as the records are rotated, the sound reproduced by the contact of the needles with the diaphragms is conveyed outwardl through the horns 55, the needles and head: being moved by the operation of the worm 34a in unison with the rotation of the recor s.

In operation, each of the several records 40 has nscribed upon it the sound produced by a musical instrument,'such as one of the instruments used in an orchestra, the same being so timed and alined with successive records, that when played as to produce an unbroken whole, giving a timbre and volume of sound not possible to attain by records into'which has b en played a complete orchestra.

The playing is under controlof the push button 35 which causes the motor to be energear in also for the series of records at that time rotating in an uppermost position so that disposed the sounds recorded upon them are given forth.

In order to change from one series or groups to another the extending knob 48 is depressed, disengaging the block 42 from rea ers the worm, the blockbeing then drawn outwardly so as to engage with the end of the worm; the detent 17 is then retracted, pers mitting the crank- 16 to be rotated so as to bring another of the series of records into playlng position, locked by engaging the detents with any of the several-openings-l8, thus allowing any of the records to be replayed as desired.

From the foregoing it will be seen that a novel device for playing a plurality of independent but harmonically related or orchestrionated records has been disclosed whereby effects of an unusual nature may be attained. Having thus described my inventionwhat I claim as new and desire to secure by Let ters Patent, is

l. in an orchestrion gramophone, the combination with a casing, a plurality of horns pivotally engaged in said casing, said horns opening outward, sound boxes pivotally engaged at the lower ends of said horns, a cylindrical record on which each of said sound boxes is adapted to rest, each of saidrecords carrying the sound from a separate instrument of music, means for rotating said records and means for actuating said sound boxes coincidentally therewith.

In an orchestrion gramophone, the

combination'with ,an upright casing, a plurality of horns ,.pivotally an aged at their outer ends in said casing an opening outward therefrom, sound boxes pivotally engaged at the lower ends of each of said horns, a shaft mounted longitudinally in the base of said casing, a pair ofheads actuated by said shaft, spindles rotatable in said heads, a plurality of records disposed on said spindle side by side, each of said records being inscribed by a single instrument distinct from another and adapted when assembled to' produce the tone volume and sound of the I combined instruments, and

means for rotating said shaft whereby any of the several series of records may be brought into engagement with said sound boxes. 1 v 3. In an orchestrion gramophone, the combination with an upright hollow casing, a shaft centered therein, heads carried by said shaft, spindles arranged in spaced parallel relation in said heads, a plurality of records engageableon said spindles in series representing a complete piece of music, each 0 single musical instrument, means for rotating said shaft whereby any of said series may be brought intooperation, a motor in said casing, means for actuatlng said motor,

a worm driven by said motor, a threaded head'engageable with said worm, means for driving each of said spindles from said motor, a plurality of curved horns rotatably engaged at their outer ends in said casing, adapted to deliver volume of sound outsaidrecords presenting the sound from a inc ward, connections between said horns and said worm whereby they are moved 111- um- -son with the record, tone arms pivotally engaged at the lower ends of said horn, and sound boxes combined with said tone arms, said sound boxes being adapted to rest by gravity upon the surface of said records,

from said casing.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature.

CYRILL KRALICEK.

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