US352280A

US352280A - Hermann toaspebn

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Publication number: US352280A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1886-11-09
Anticipated expiration: 1903-11-09

Description

(No Model.)

H. TOASPERN.

UPRIGHT PIANO CASE.

I No. 352,280. Patented Nov. 9, 1886.

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UNITED STATES HERMANN TOASPERN, OF BROOKLYN, NEYV YORK.

PATENT OFFICE;

UPRIGHT-PIANO CASE.

EPECEFICATION forming part of Letters Patent 110,352,280, dated November 9, 1886.

Application filed April 8, 1886. Serial No. 198,204. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HERMANN TOASPERN, of the city of Brooklyn, in the county of Kingsand State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Upright Pianos, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention consists of the combination, with an upright piano, of a music-holder arranged below the key-board and adapted to be swung outward for convenience inputting away and removing sheets of music.

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

Figure 1 is a perspective view of an upright piano havinga music-holder applied thereto in accordance with my invention; and Fig. 2 is an end view of the same,showing the musicholder open in full lines and closed in dotted lines.

The frame or case A of the piano is of the ordinary construction. B represents the musicholder. This is in the form of a falling panel arranged below the key-board and above the pedals and hinged by the hinges a a to the bottom 0 of the pianocase. Upon the inner surface of the panel are formed several boxes or receptacles, D D, of a size appropriate to receive sheets of music, These boxes or receptacles are formed by the inner board, 1), two end boards,-c 0, partitions d, and a bottom board, 0. (Shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2.) A spring latch or lock, f, is fitted at the center of the panel for holding orlocking the music-holder in closed position, and to prevent the holder from being opened out too far I attach the cord, wire, or tape 1 to the casing of the piano and to the holder, which limits the outward movement of the holder, as shown clearly in the drawings.

By placing the music-holder, as described, to close into the casing, it occupies what has hitherto been waste space in the piano-ease, and it preserves the music from dust and injury and is very convenient.

1 am aware that musioholders have been formed in the front at the ends each side of the pedals oforgan-cases, as in the patent to G. Nettleton, J uly 11, 1882, wherein the case is especially constructed with chambers to contain the music-holder; and I am aware also that music-holders have been formed upon the front panel of the cases of musical instruments, as in the patent to WV. W. Hyde, F eb ruary 22, 1851, and do not therefore claim the same. By my construction I avoid all change in the outward appearance of the instrument-case and avoid expense, as the panel B is the ordinary front panel of the case, sim

ply hinged to the base 0, and provided upon its inner surface with the receptacles for the music.

Having thus described my invention, Iclaim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patcut- The music-holder B, forming the ordinary front panel of the case of the piano, located between the pedals and the key-board and hinged to the base 0, between the end uprights of the ease, and provided upon its inner surface with partitions for forming the music-receptacles D, substantially as described.

. HERMANN TOASPERN.

lVitnesses:

G. W. RUDOLPH, H. TOASPERN, Jr.