US311754A

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Publication number: US311754A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1885-02-03
Anticipated expiration: 1902-02-03

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(No Model!) B. B. HAYNES.

PEDAL ATTACHMENT FOR PIANOS.

N0.\311,754. Patented Feb. 3, 1885.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWVARD BURTON HAYNES, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, ASSIGNOR TO AROHIBALD O. HAYNES, OF SAME PLACE.

PEDAL ATTACHMENT FOR PlANOS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 311,754, dated February 3, 1885.

Application filed March 31, 1884. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, E. BURTON HAYNES, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of Baltimore, State of Maryland, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Pedal Attachments to Pianos, &0., which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a side elevation of a pedal attachment to a piano embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical section thereofin line 00 as, Fig. 3. Fig. 3 is a top or plan view thereof.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

My invention consists of an attachment to the pedal of a piano or similar musical instrument, whereby the pedal may be conveniently operated by children or persons of diminutive size.

Referring to the drawings, A represents a clamp consisting of thcjaws a I), the jaw a being pivoted to the jaw 1), whereby it may be opened to receive between the jaws the pedal of the piano or similar musical instrument.

B represents a screw which is fitted to the jaws a 1), whereby when the clamp is applied to the pedal and the screw properly rotated the latter may tighten the jaws on the pedal and securely connect the clamp therewith. The jaw b is continued upwardly, forming an arm, 0, the upper end thereof having a foot rest, D, and connected with said arm is an upwardly-extending arm, E, the upper end whereof has a foot-rest, F, the connection of the two arms 0 E being by means of a bolt, G, whereby the angle of the arm E, and con sequently the position of the foot-rest F, may be adjusted and said arm E removed when desired.

It will be seen that the device may be readily attached to the pedal, and each pedal of the instrument will be provided with such device. The pedals may be operated by short persons applying their feet to the rests D, and by children by the use of the rests F. In either case the attachments and pedals each operate as one, and the pedals are easily reached by those who find it difficult to reach the pedals proper, the attachments forming upward elongations or extensions of the pedals, convenient and serviceable for the purpose intended.

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

1. An auxiliary pedal consisting of the arm O, clamp A. and a foot-rest, D, the lowerjaw, Z), of the said clamp being an extension of the arm 0, and integral therewith, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. A slotted arm having a foot-rest connected with an arm provided with a foot-rest, and having an extension serving as the fixed jaw of a clamp which has its movable jaw connected thereto, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

3. Olamp A,with screw B, arm G,with footrest D, arm E, with foot-rest F, and the bolt G, combined and operating substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

EDWARD BURTON HAYNES.

Witnesses:

J OHN \VILLIAMS, THOMAS EASTBURN.