US2152378A - Piano bench music cabinet - Google Patents

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mar 'zs, 1939. w. H. G-EQ U H 235 37 PIANO BENCH MUSIC CABINET Filed Aug. 19. 1937 William H. Qelbadgh F I. v4 v4 is Mom;-

Patented Mar. 28, 1939 UNITED-STATES PATENT OFFlCE PIANO- BENCH MUSIC CABINET William H. Gelbaugh, Tacoma, Wash.

Application August 19,

2 Claims.

This invention relates to cabinets for holding music and has for its objects, first, to provide such a cabinet within the space under a piano-bench;

second, in which the music may be sorted as to size of the sheets, the type of music, or in any other way desirable, and in which such sorted music is contained in separate compartments; third, in which the music holder is hidden when the piano-bench is in use; fourth, in which the music holder is tilted to bring the musicin position for convenient handling when the bench lid is raised; fifth, in which a suitable stop on the music holder engages the bench frame to prevent the holder from being tilted beyond the dead center; and sixth, which is simple and cheap to make, efficient in use, and easy to operate.

I attain these and other objects by the devices, mechanisms, and arrangements illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which- Fig. 1 is a front elevation of my improved piano-bench music cabinet, showing the lid raised and illustrating the accessibility of the music in the several music compartments therein; Fig. 2 is a cross-section on the line 22 in Fig. 3, the lid thereof being closed; Fig. 3 is a cross-section of one end thereof; and Fig. 4 is a view simi-. lar to Fig. 2, with the bench lid raised and'all the music compartments in position for the receipt of music. Similar numerals of reference refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

The keeping of sheet music in a convenient place and in an orderly manner is generally recognized by musicians to be highly desirable andmy improved music cabinet accomplishes both of these objects by placing the music in suitable compartments under the piano-bench, and by swinging the several compartments, when the bench lid is raised, into a suitably tilted or inclined position with all the compartments readily accessible so that any desired sheet of music may be withdrawn therefrom, and so that all the music sheets may each be placed and kept in its proper compartment.

Referring now to the drawing, it will be seen that the piano-bench comprises a four-sided frame composed of a rear panel I, two end or side panels 2, and a front panel 3, all suitably secured together and supported. on four legs 4, and 50 this frame is provided with a lid 5 suitably secured to the rear panel I of the frame by means of hinges 6. The under side of the lid 5 is provided with two music compartments 1 formed by a sheet 8 supported by side and center strips 9 and a bottom strip It, This structure there- 1937, Serial No. 159,888

fore provides two pockets adapted to receive and hold sheet music, or music books.

The frame has no bottom closure but a music holder H is swung therein as illustrated in the drawing. This holder II comprises a structure having a base sheet I2 of slightly smaller dimensions than the inside of the said frame, and on which the holder II is erected, two side and two intermediate strips l3 and a bottom strip l4, all said parts l3 and I4 being mounted on the base sheet l2 and separating the three sheets l5 into three tiers of compartments I6 each adapted to receive sheet music. The holder H thus formed, therefore, is provided with a series of nine open compartments, each adapted to receive a plurality of pieces of sheet music, thus providing, in conjunction with the above-described compartments l on the under side of the lid 5, a total, as illustrated of eleven compartments and thus providing ample means to segregate the several kinds or types of music or opportunity to arrange the music sheets according to title, if so desired.

It will be observed that the end or side panels 2 of the frame are each provided with an additional inside strip ll, forming a shoulder I8 on its lower edge and provided with a suitably positioned trunnion bearing or hole l9. It will also be observed that the two ends of the swinging music holder II are each provided with a suitably positioned plate 20 rigidly secured thereto and that each of these plates is provided with a trunnion or pivot 2| extending laterally therefrom and entering said holes 19 in the frame. These trunnions 2| are in coaxial alinement. Also, it will be seen that the said plates 20 are provided with outward extending stop lugs 22 which are so positioned as to engage the under side of the said shoulder l8 on the frame before the holder is swung to its most elevated position,

as hereinafter described. It will also be observed from the drawing that the position of the axis of the pivot holes IS in the frame, is approximately central in the frame but is slightly nearer the rearward or hinged side thereof; and that the same axis lies close to the top sheet l5 of the music holder and in a correspondingly close position relative to the rearward or open end thereof, thus throwing the music holder l off balance on its pivots and causing it to tend to assume its inclined or open position (Fig. 4).

The base sheet plate l2 of the holder II is provided at each of its two rear corners with brackets 23 extending upward therefrom, to which a pair of connecting bars or links 24 are pivotally attached. The other ends of these links the bracket 23and the link 24 is below the dead center of the mechanism, as shown (Fig. 4), and

so that the lid 5 is opened or raised beyond its dead center; thus the apparatus automatically stays open for the handling of the'music' in the several compartments, without the need of any latch or prop and under the combined gravitational forces acting on the lid 5 and on therunbalanced music holder ll, both of which tend to resist the closing of the said lid. Thus it will be seenthat the lid ismovedthrough more than a right-angle while/the music-holder is moved thereby through a'much smaller angle.

It isto be understood that variations in the. details of" construction of my improved piano bench music cabinetmay' be'made without departing'from the: spirit 'ofmy invention as outlined in theappended claims, and that the words and terms used 'in the above specification and in the claims are chosen for'convenience and are intended to "hav'eas generic a meaningas the state of the art willpermit.

Having, therefore, described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. In a music cabinet, the combination of a supporting frame; a lid hingedly secured to said frame; a music holder pivotally mounted in said frame the longitudinal axis of said pivots being positioned adjacent the top edge of said music holder whereby, the said music holder, while substantially-filling the lower portionv of the space contained: by said -frame, is unbalancedotherein and tends to swing on its pivots from its horizontal position to its inclined position; and a long link connecting the upper portion of said lid to the rearward end of said music holder whereby, when :the lidflis'closed the music holder is in a horizontal'position in the frame with its open rearwardi -end flying:adjacent the hinge of said lid and when the lid is raised the music holder is tipped into a rearwardly inclined position in said frame;-

2.: A :musicccabinet iasrset forthifiin :claimi1, to-' gether: with: a-:stopironi* saidz music holder' adapted to engagefthe -frame'-'and: to .prevent the music.

holderfrom: rotating to- -its dead:- center, and wherein saidalink iiisofflsucha length andzposition as to causeatheahd to xopenbeyond its. dead center when said stop is :in such. frame '-'engaging position', wherebyrthrough': the: cooperation of the uh

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