US361441A

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Publication number: US361441A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1887-04-19
Anticipated expiration: 1904-04-19

Description

, I 2 Sheets-Sheet 1. D. N-ETTEKOVEN.

BOW FOR MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS.

(No Model.)

Patented Apr. 19, 1887.

I ATTORNEYS.

(No Model.) 2 Sheets--Sheet 2.

D. NETTEKOVEN.

BOW FOR MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. N0 .'361,441. PatentedApr. 19, 1887.

I'YWITNESISESQ I QINVENTORI ATTORNEYS.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIC DANIEL NETTEKOVEN, OF FORT SHATV, MONTANA TERRITORY.

BOW FOR MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent'No. 361,441, dated April 19, 1887.

(No model.)

To. a whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, DANIEL N ETTEKOVEN, of Fort Shaw, in the county of Lewis and Clarke and Territory of Montana, have invented a new and Improved Bow 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 bow for musical instruments, in which the hair can be quickly removed and replaced and is not liable to become loose in its fastenings.

The invention consists of various parts and details and combinations of the same, as will be fully described hereinafter, and then pointed out in the claims. I

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

Figure 1 is a front elevation of my improve- Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a sectional elevation of one of the fastenings. Fig. 4 isa sectional plan view of the same. Fig. 5 represents the wedge used in connection with the fastening. Fig. 6 is a front elevation of a modified form of the fastening. Fig. 7 is a sectional side elevation of the same. Fig 8 is a sectional plan view of the same. Fig. 9 is a front elevation of a modified form of the fastening. Fig. 10 is a sectional plan view of the same. Fig. 11 is aside elevation of a modified form of my improvement. Fig. 12 is a front view of the same, and Fig. 13 is a sectional elevation of the pocket.

The bow A consists, principally,-of the hair B, held at each end in a fastening, G, secured, respectively, to the head and hand-piece of the staff D, of the usual construction. Each fasttening 0 consists ofa back plate, E, provided in front with a wedge-shaped pocket, F, into which are passed the ends of the hair, which are soldered together by rosin, and additionally held in the pocket F by a wedge, G, fitting into the said pocket, as shown in detail in Figs. 3, 4, and 5. The ends of the hair project slightly at the inner end of the pocket F, and are singed so as to make them thicker, and are thereby prevented from being pulled through the pocket F.

The back plate, E, of the fastening O is provided on its outer end with one or more elonis held on a hook or hooks, H, secured to the v head and the hand-piece, respectively, of the staff D. This may also be reversed, and the back-plate, E, provided with the hook, and a corresponding aperture formed in the staff by which the fastening is held to the same. Each fastening C may also be secured to the staff by means of screws. 7

Theinnerend, Loftheback plate, E, projects slightly beyond the pocket F, and is corrugated or curved so as to raise the hair B from the head or hand-piece of the staff, thus preventing the hair from coming in contact with the staff. Instead of forming the pocket F wedge-shaped, I may also make the same as shown in the modification represented by Figs.

6, 7, and 8, or as shown in the modification represented by Figs. 9 and-10.

In the former modification the front ends of the pocket F overlap and are pressed inward upon the hair, which is thus held in position without the use of the wedge G. In the modification shown in Figs. 9 and 10 the pocket F is formed solid and the front pressed inward upon the hair.

It will be seen that by providing the hair B with the fastening G at its ends the said'hair' can be easily and quickly attached to the staff, thus avoiding painful delays for musicians in case the hair should break while executing music.

Instead of arranging the fastening C as shown and described, I may also place the same as shownin Figs. 11 and 12, in which I the pocket F is turned inward and rests with the curved end I in a notch formed on the head and hand-piece of the staff A, thus holding the said fastening securely in place. The inside walls of the pockets F may be lined, as

shown in Fig. 18.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. In a bow for musical instruments, the combination, with the hair, of afastening pro vided with a tapering pocket in which are placed the ends of the said hair and a wedge fitting into the said pocket, substantially as shown and described.

2. In abow for musical instruments, the staff having the usual head and hand-pieoes, in

[ a pocket, F, and the curved end I, in combinacombination with the hair and the fastenings, tion with the staff D, provided with the head each provided with apocket in which the ends of the said hair are held, and also provided 5 with a curved end resting on the said head and hand-piece of the stafi', so as to prevent the hair from coming in contact with the staff, substantially as shown and described.

3. In a bow for musical instruments, the

10 hair B, the fastenings 0, each provided with and hand-piece, in which the said fastenings O are secured, substantially as shown and described.

DANIEL NETTEKOVEN.

XVitnesses:

1 1G120. HELDT, JOHN H. SHEPHERD.