US303987A

US303987A - James f

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Publication number: US303987A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1884-08-26
Anticipated expiration: 1901-08-26

Description

(ModeL) J. F. CONOVER.

LAMP BRACKET FOR MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS.

Patented Aug. 26, 1884.

y////////////// M H I T y S im; E F W INVENTOR ATTORNEYS the city, county,

Darren I STATES PATENT tries.

JAMES rfconovnn, on NEW YORK, N. Y.

LAMP-BRACKET FQR MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS.

ZJ'PECIFICATIQN forming part of Letters Patent No. 303,987, dated August 26, 1884.

I 7 Application filed March 14. 1853. (Model.)

f0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J AMES F. Couovnn, of and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved LampBracket for Musical Instruments, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of my invention is to provide a new and improved bracket or arm for supporting alamp on an upright piano or organ,which bracket, when not in use, is contained within the instrument and concealed.

The invention consists in a bar held to slide into a piano-casing at the end of the'front of the same, which bar is guided by suitable blocks, and is provided at its outer end with a plate, upon which a lamp can be placed when the bar is withdrawn from the casing, and given a quarter-turn to bring the said plate into a horizontal position.

The invention also consists in certain parts, details, and combinations of the same, as will be fully described and set forth hereinafter.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure l is a front elevation of the upper corner of the casing of an upright piano, provided with my improved lainp-bracket, with the bracket within the casing. Fig. 2 is asectional plan view of the same on the line w .90, Fig. 1, showing the bracket within the casing. Fig. 8 is a like sectional elevation showing the bracket withdrawn from the casing. Fig. 4 is a cross-sectional elevation of the same on the line y y, Fig. 3.

The casing of an upright piano or organ is provided at the end of its front with a vertical molding, B, which generally has a rosette, G, or a bracket attached to its upper end. A rosette, O, is arranged on the molding B a short distance below the rosette C, which distance is equal to the desired width of the lampsupporting platefor instance, from two and one-half to four inches. The part B of the molding B, between the rosettes O C, is at tached to the outer end of abar, D, which has the outer and inner ends squared, and is pro vided with a rounded part, E, between the squared ends The bar D slides parallel with of molding B fitting the end F of the piano-casing in a rabbet formed in theblock G, attached to the inner surface of the end of the piano-casing,-or to the surface of the front A of the casing, the upper surface of the rabbet of which block is flush with the upper edge of the rosette O. Aplate,

H, is attached edgewise to the uppersurface of the bar D at the inner edge of the saine' and is also attached to the back of the piece of molding B, as shown in Fig. 2, which strip H is of the same height as the piece of molding B", and is preferably made square. The front of the piano-casing must be provided with a slot, (1, through which the said strip can pass into the casing. A guide-block, J, is secured to the inner surface of the side F of the pianocasing at the outer edge of the same, and against the rear of the front A of the casing, directly above the upper edge of the bar D, so that the bar D slides between the rabbeted block G and theguide-block J, as shown in Fi s. 3 and 4, which block J is of such width thzt when the bar D is pushed into the pianocasing the inner or lower surface of the plate H will rest against the outer :surface of the block J, as shown in Fig. 2. A standard, K, of the piano-casing is provided with an aperture or recess, L, for receiving the inner squared end of the bar D,whieh inner squared end is provided with a cross-piece or button, M, which strikes against the inner end of the blocks J and G when the bar is withdrawn, and prevents the bar from being withdrawn entirely from the casin g. The central rounded part, E, of the bar D permits the said bar being turned to change the bracket-plate H on its free end from a vertical to ahorizontal position, or vice versa, and its inner square end prevents it from turning after the said plate has been adjusted to a horizontal position for holding a lamp.

The device is used in the following manner: When not in nse,the bar D is contained within the piano-casing, as in Figs. 1 and 2, the piece the space between the rosettes O and O, as shown. If the lampbracket is to be used to support a lamp, the same is withdrawn from the casing until the rounded part E is between the blocks J and G, and when in this position the barD is turned on its longitudinal axis outward, so that the top of the plate H will project toward the end of the casing, and will be in a longitudinal position, and then the bar is withdrawn until the squared part is held between the grooved block G and the block J, and the bar projects A from the casing, as shown in Fig. Alam can then be placed on the plate H. If the bracket is to be pushed back again,it is pushed inward until the rounded part E is between the blocks GJ. The plate H is then turned upward and the bracket is pushed back into the casing. The blocks J G hold the bracket firmly when the same is withdrawn.

The bracket does not mar the appearance of the casing, and is entirely concealed from view when not in use.

Having thus described inyinvention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. The combination, with a piano-casing provided with a recess and guideways, of a bracket provided with a bar fitted to said ways, the said ways, bar, and bracket being constructed substantially as described,whereby the bracket may be made to occupy said recess when not in use, and withdrawn and turned into a horizontal position when re quired, as and for the purpose specified.

2. The combination, with a piano-casing, of the bar D, having squared ends, and round ed central portions between them, a plate attached to the outer end of the bar, and a piece of molding attached to the outer end of the bar and the outer edge of the above-mew tioned plate, substantially as herein shown and described, and for the purpose set forth.

3. The combination, with apiano-casing, of the bar D, having squared ends, and rounded central part, E, between the ends, the plate H, attached to the outer end of the said bar, the rabbeted block G, in which the bar slides, the block J above the bar I), and the stand ard K, provided with an opening, L, for receiving the inner end of the bar, substantially as herein shown and described, and for the purpose set forth.

JAMES F. OONOVER.

\Vitnesses:

Osonn F. GUNZ, U. SEDGWICK.