US16995A - Improvement in strings for musical instruments - Google Patents
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- myinvention consists in providing for each string one or more springs to prevent the strings from breaking when exposed to the dampness of the atmosphere or other causes which will contract the strings and cause them to break, which is often the case with the ordinary mode of construction.
- a a a are spiral springs secured to the tail-piece or hitch-block.
- c c c c are eyes or loops by which the strings cl (Z (Z (Z are secured to the springs of the violin.
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W. RANDLE.
Patented Apr. 7, 1857.
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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.
IVILLIAH RANDLE, OF FLORIDA, NEIV YORK.
IMPROVEMENT IN STRINGS FOR MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS.
Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 16,995, dated April '7, 1857.
To to whom it may concern.-
Be it known that I, WILLIAM RANDLE, of Florida, in the town of IVarwick, in the county of Orange and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Mode of Preventing the Strings of Musical Instruments from Breaking; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof.
The nature of myinvention consists in providing for each string one or more springs to prevent the strings from breaking when exposed to the dampness of the atmosphere or other causes which will contract the strings and cause them to break, which is often the case with the ordinary mode of construction.
To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe its construction and operation.
I construct my instruments in the ordinary way and apply to each string one or more springs, so that the springs will yield to the strings when the strings are contracted by the dampness or other causes which will have the same effect, and thereby prevent the strings from breaking, as shown in the drawing.
In the accompanying drawing the figure represents my improvement as applied to a violin.
a a a a are spiral springs secured to the tail-piece or hitch-block.
c c c c are eyes or loops by which the strings cl (Z (Z (Z are secured to the springs of the violin.
I do not wish to confine my claim to violins alone, but to all string instruments, except those that have all metallic strings.
That I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is
The application of oneor more springs applied to each string, as described, or its equivalent, and for the purpose set forth.
W'ILLIAM HANDLE. lVitnesses:
THOMAS J. RANDEL, WM. L. VAIL.
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| US20070214935A1 (en) * | 2006-03-15 | 2007-09-20 | Cosmos Lyles | Stringed musical instrument using spring tension |
| US7855330B2 (en) | 2008-01-17 | 2010-12-21 | Intune Technologies Llc | Modular bridge for stringed musical instrument |
| US20130220099A1 (en) * | 2012-01-19 | 2013-08-29 | Cosmos Lyles | Stringed musical instrument using spring tension |
| US8779258B2 (en) * | 2012-01-19 | 2014-07-15 | Intune Technologies, Llc | Stringed musical instrument using spring tension |
| US9012753B2 (en) * | 2013-03-15 | 2015-04-21 | LaSaundra J Booth | Music instruction apparatus |
| US20150059550A1 (en) * | 2013-09-03 | 2015-03-05 | Intune Technologies, Llc | Constant tension device |
| US9318081B2 (en) * | 2013-09-03 | 2016-04-19 | Intune Technologies, Llc | Constant tension device |
| JP2016534405A (en) * | 2013-09-03 | 2016-11-04 | インチューン テクノロジーズ, リミテッド ライアビリティー カンパニーIntune Technologies, LLC | Constant tension device |
| US9613600B2 (en) | 2013-09-03 | 2017-04-04 | Cosmos Lyles | Constant tension device |
| US9792886B2 (en) | 2015-01-22 | 2017-10-17 | Intune Technologies, Llc | String tensioner for stringed instrument |
| US20180040312A1 (en) * | 2015-01-22 | 2018-02-08 | Cosmos Lyles | String tensioner for stringed instrument |
| US10224009B2 (en) * | 2015-01-22 | 2019-03-05 | Cosmos Lyles | String tensioner for stringed instrument |
| US9484007B1 (en) | 2015-11-18 | 2016-11-01 | Geoffrey Lee McCabe | Tremolo stop tuner and tremolo stabilizer |
| US9847076B1 (en) | 2016-10-18 | 2017-12-19 | Geoffrey Lee McCabe | Tremolo spring and stabilizer tuner |
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