US2295798A

US2295798A - Phonograph record cleaner

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Publication number: US2295798A
Application number: US411295A
Authority: US
Inventors: Mckinley William
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1941-09-18
Filing date: 1941-09-18
Publication date: 1942-09-15
Anticipated expiration: 1959-09-15

Description

Sept. 15, 1942. w. McKl 2,295,798

PHONOGRAPH RECORD CLEANER Filed Sept. 18, 1941 1 v W ML "'M "1''" MW] Fig.5. 2! Wmmmmnmnnwmmnnnmmmm-mm v INVENTOR. William 016211229 Patented Sept. 15, 1942 umTEp s'r-Aras PATENT o FicaY mmsiiiiimm' William McKinley, Brooklyn, N. Y. Application September 18, 1941, serial No. 411,295 2 Claims. (o 15-246) This invention relates to new and useful improvements in phonograph record cleaners.

The invention proposes a cleaner of particularly simple construction'adapted to be readily mounted on the tone arm of a honograph to clean the record during the operation thereof.

The invention further contemplates a novel method of packaging the phonograph cleaner so that it is protected and so that a certain tape used in the packaging may be used to properly support the cleaner on the tone arm.

Still further the invention contemplates characterizing the record cleaner by a brush or pad having a back provided with a stamped out lug directed upwards and forward in relation to the forward motion of a phonograph record. and a tape engaging the lug by which the brush or pad may be supported on the tone arm of the phonograph.

insofar as the cleaner package is concerned it is proposed to encircle the brush or pad with a protective strip wound around it, and to provide a tape ior holding said strip in position, which tape may be removed and" then used to support the pad or brush upon the tone arm of the phonograph.

For further comprehension of the invention, and oi the objects and advantages thereof, refer ence will he had to the following description and accompanying dra, and to the appended claims in which the various novel features of the invention are more particularly set forth.

In the accompa. drawing forming a material part of this disclosure- Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a phonograph with a record cleaner constructed in accordance with this invention.

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary elevational view oi a portion of Fig. 1 showing a portion of the phonograph and the record cleaner.

Fig. 3 is an end elevational view of Fig. 2 looking from the left hand side.

Fig. d is a perspective view of the record cleaner per se.

Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the protective strip used in packaging the record cleaner.

m. 6 is a perspective view of the adhesive tape strip.

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Fig. '8 is a perspective view of the packaged 5o record cleaner.

Fig. 8 1s a plan view of a record cleaner constructed in accordance with a modified form of this invention.

his. 9 is an elevational view similar to Fig. 2

but illustrating the record cleaner shown in Fig.

8,inuse.

The phonograph cleaner, in accordance with.

opening it is feed in the back it through which the haching element M ofthe brush or pad is exposed;

The brush or pad 69. in accordance with this invention, is mounted in a certain way on a phonograph. This may be understood by an inspection of Figs. lie 3 in which a radio phonograph i6 is illustrated and includes the usual turn table it upon which the record It is placed. The usual tone arm as is adapted to extend across one side of the record. The tone am it? has the needle is which engages the record. A strip of tape M is engaged beneath the stamped out lug i2 and has its ends adhesively connected with the sides of the tone arm by which the record-cleaner is supported in operative position.

The tape it may be mounted a little upwards .or a little downwards, as desired, so that the,

record cleaner it rests by its own weight on the record id. The record cleaner id is so positioned upon the tape 2!! that the lug i2 is directed upwards in relation to the iorward rotation of the phonograph record it. With this arrangement the rotations oi the phonograph record it has a tendency to force the record cleaner forwards and so insure the proper engagement of the lug it with the tapciii.

A novel method and means is proposed for packaging the record cleaner. This means includes a strip at cardboard 22 or other flexible material adapted to he wound around the sides of the package or pad forming the record cleaner, in such a way that its ends 22 overlap, see Fig. 1. The strip 22 is of a sufficient width so as to prop-, erly protect the top and bottom faces of the record cleaner. A tape 2| of adhesive material is wound around the strip 22 for holding the same in its wound condition upon the record cleaner. The tape 2 l may be wound one or more times around the strip 22 so that when itis removed there is a sufllcient amount of unused tape which may he used to mount the record cleaner on the tone arm of the phonograph, as shown in Figs. 1 to- 3.

Itis proposed that the record cleaner and the packaging strips 22 and tape 23 be colored to match the finish of the phonograph. For example, it the phonograph is finished in red it is proposed that the record cleaner and packaging strips be similarly colored.

In Figs. 8 and 9 a modified form of the invention has been disclosed which is very similar to the prior form, distinguishing merely in. the fact that the record cleaner has a small ing i2 stamped from the lug i2 and directed in the opposite direction to that of the lug it. This smaller lug It." extends upwards and may be utilized in supporting the record cleaner on the tone am it, as clearly shown in Fig. 9. The advantage of having the two lugs 82 and it resides in the fact that then there is a selection of lugs under which the supporting tape 25 may be engaged so as to eiiectively support the record cleaner on the tone arm so that it properly engages the record during its operation. In other respects this form of the invention is identical to the previous form and like parts are indicated by like reference numerals.

coming within the scope of the invention as de in the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by United States Letters Patent is:

1. A phonograph record cleaner, comprising a wiping member having a back provided with a stamped out lug directed upwards and forwards in relation to the forward rotation. of a phonograph record, and a tape slipped under said lug and adapted to be attached at its ends on the tone arm of a phonograph.

2. A phonograph record cleaner, comprising a wiping member having a back provided with a stamped out lug directed upwards and forwards in relation to the forward rotation of a phonograph record, and a tape slipped under said lug and adapted to be attached at its ends on the tone arm of a phonograph, said tape being adhe-- sive tape.

WILLIAM McKINLEY.