US1421510A - Violin bow - Google Patents

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G. M. LOTH.

VIOLIN BOW. APPLICATION FILED ocr. 24, 1921.

1,421,51 O. Patented July 4, 1922.

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UNI-TED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GUSTAVE M. LOTH, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

VIOLIN. BOW.

To @Zlio/icm t may concern.'

Be it known that l, Gus'riivn M. Lo'rr-r, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented new and useful Improvements in Violin Bows, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to bowing devices for violins, and its object is to provide a device of this kind which permits the bow to be operated without being held by the hand, both hands of the player being thus left free for fingering the strings of the violin. The player can therefore use the fingers of one hand to stop the strings, and the lingers of the other hand for picking the strings to produce an accompaniment to the melody being played, the method beinggof course, limited to relatively simple melodies which can be produced on one string so as to leave thev other strings free for the pizzicato ac companiment.

nWith the object stated in view, the invention consists in a novel combination and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter described and claimed, and in order that the same may be better understood, reference is had to the accompanying drawing, wherein:

Figure 1 is a plan view of the device, a fragment only of the violin bow being shown; Fig. 2 is an edge view of the device; Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1 and Fig. e is a perspective view illustrating the manner in which the device is used.

Referring specifically to the drawing, 5 denotes the stick of a violin bow to which is applied a holder having a pair of bracket arms 6 and 7 which are spaced some distance apart so that when the stick is fastened to said arms, the points of attachment of the latter are spaced in the direction of the length of the stick a distance to obtain a firm hold. The arms 6 and 7 are integrally or otherwise connected at their inner ends, and here pivoted, as shown at 8 to a mouthpiece 9. A third bow holding arm 10 eX- tends laterally from arm 6 in the opposite direction -in which arm 7 extends.

The outer end of the bracket arm 7 has an enlargement 7El carrying a hook-bolt 11 which engages the stick 5, and is provided with a wing nut 11a, which latter, when it is tightened up, clamps the stick against the part 7 a. The outer end of the part 7a has a rearwardly projecting pin 12 to which is pivoted, as shown at 12, a fork 13, which Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July l4, 1922.

Application filedv October 24, 1921. Serial No. 510,020.

straddles the frog of the bow to keep the bow from twisting.

- The outer end of arm 6 carries a weight 111, and supports the bow stick 5 by a looped cord 15, which is slack to permit a limited amount of lateral play as shown dotted in Fig. 2. The outer end of arm 10 is attached to the bow stick by a cord 16 similar to the cord 15.

A cord 17 is connected at .its ends to the stick 5 adjacent Ato the ends of the latter, and is adapted to be placed over the players head to seat intermediate its ends againstthe back of the neck, as shown in Fig. 4.

Beneath the mouthpiece 9 is a chin-rest 18 which is connected to the former by side bars 19 which rigidly connect and hold said mouthpiece and chin-rest in vertically spaced relation. -To the outer end of bracket arm 10 is secured one end of a rearwardly extending brace bar 2O which is connected at its other end, as shown at 21 to the forward end of the chin-rest 18. The connection 21 is a pivotal one and is in vertical alinement with the pivotal connection 8 between the mouthpiece 9 and the arm 6.

In use, the player takes hold of the part 9 with his teeth, the part 18 being placed to come under the players chin to relieve his mouth of the weight of the part 9. The bow can now be drawn across the strings of the violin to sound the same by the player swinging` his head from one side to the other, and also by using the mouth, this motion being transmitted to the bow through the hereinbefore connections of the part 9 with the bow stick 5. The arm 10 acts as a lateral brace to keep the bow from buckling from the pull of the looped cord 17, and the weight 14 operates to cause the bow to bear down on the strings of the violin with a sufficient downward pressure to sound the same. The operation just described is illustrated in Fig. l of the drawing. It will be evident that the bow operated as described leaves both hands of the player free to finger the strings of the violin.

l claim:

1. A bowing device for violins comprising a mouthpiece adapted to be grasped by the players teeth, and provided with a chin-rest, and bow-supporting means connected to the outer end of the mouthpiece.

2. A bowing device for violins comprising a mouthpiece adapted to be grasped by the players teeth, and bow-supporting means connected to the outer end of the mouthpiece. A

3. A bowing device tol' violins comprising 11 mouthpiece adapted to be grasped hy the -phiyeifs teeth, und weighted bow-supporting means connected to the outei` end ot' the mouthpiece.

1. A bowing device for violins comprising zt mouthpiece, bow-supporting arms connected to the outer end ot the mouthpiece, and means for attaching the bow to Said arms,

In testimony whereof I :L'Hix my signatuie. 20

GU STVE M. LOTH.

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