US439199A

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Publication number: US439199A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1890-10-28
Anticipated expiration: 1907-10-28

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W. SGHUSTBR. CHIN BEST FOR VIOLINS.

No. 439,199. Patented Oot.28, 1890.

2 t e e h S t e e h S 2 R E m S U H G S n d 0 M 0 W CHIN BEST FOR VIOLINS.

No. 439,199. Patented O0t.28, 1890.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

IVOLDEMAR SCHUSTER, OF MARKNEUKIROHEN, GERMANY.

CHIN-REST FOR VIOLINS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 439,199, dated October 28, 1890.

Application filed October 3, 889. Serial No. 325,836. (No model.) Patented in Germany January 22, 1889, No. 48,299.

To all whom, iv 'ntay concern.-

Be it known that I, WOLDEMAR SoHUsTER, of Markneukirchen, in the Kingdom of Sanony, Germany, have invented an Improved Chin Rest for Violins and Similar Instruments, (for which Ihave obtained a patent in Germany, No. 48,299, dated January 22,1889,) of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a chin-rest for violins, Violas, and similar stringed musical instruments, which may be readily adjusted Without detaching it from the instrument.

The invention consists in the various features of improvement more fully pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a face View of my improved chin-rest. Fig. 2 is a section on line Z Z, Fig. 1; Fig. 3, a top View thereof; Fig. 4, a section on line V V, Fig. 1; Fig. 5, a face view of a modification; Fig. 6, a top view thereof; Fig. 7, a face view of a further modification; Fig. 8, a section on line IV V, Fig. 7; Fig. 9, a face view thereof, with the plate D inclined; Fig. 10, a face view of the construction shown in Fig. 1, with the plate D inclined. Figs. 11 and 12 are face views of further modifications.

\Vith particular reference to Figs. 1 to 4, the letter A represents the fixed jaw of the chin-rest, from which project upwardly three screw-rods b a I). These screw-rods are embraced by the nuts fdf, in which enter the upper screw-rods b a b. By turning the nuts these upper screw-rods are either raised or lowered. To the central rod a there is secured the movable jaw 13, between which and the jawA the violin is clamped. The upper ends of the rods 1) are bent and enter laterally-extending slots or sockets in the chinplate D. These openings are preferably undercut for the reception of nuts on on the ends of rods 1). To the jaw 13 there may be secured laterally-extending spring-arms e, that bear against the nuts f and prevent the rest from being pulled backward by the chin.

In use the chin-rest is first clamped to the violin, and then the nuts f are turned until the rest is placed into the desired position. By turning one nut farther than the other the plate D may be inclined, as shown in Fig. 10.

In Figs. 5 and G the screw-rods I) b are supplanted by a tube It, secured to jaw 13, and by a rack g, secured to jaw A and entering said tube. To the tube 7L there is secured a springpawl 2 that engages the teeth of rack 9. Thus the arms g It may be distended to any desired degree.

In Figs. 7 to 9 the rod 1) is supplanted by a socket 11 that receives a screw-rod f, secured to the nut To the upper part of this nut there is secured a socket f that embraces the upper 10d 1). By revolving the nutf the chin-rest is adjusted in like manner as in Fig. 1. If one nut is turned farther than the other, any desirable inclination may be given to the plate D, as shown in Fig. 9.

In Fig. 11 the rod 1) is supplanted by aperforated tube b that receives a perforated bar Z), the latter taking the place of rod 1). A pin b passing through the perforations of the parts b 1)", serves to lock them at any desired position.

In Fig. 12 the rod a can be slid to the right or left on jaw A. In this way the chin-rest may be shifted so as to project laterally over either side of the musical instrument.

In Figs. 10, 11, and 12 the laterally-extending sockets in plate D are replaced by the inwardly-bent upper ends of the rods that engage said plate. Thus as one rod is raised farther than the other, the bent ends will turn in their seats, and in this way permit the plate D to be placed in an inclined direction.

I claim as my invention- 1. The combination of a fixed jaw with three upwardly-projecting extensible rods and with a movable jaw and a chin-plate, the central rod being connected to the movable jaw and the end rods being received by slots in the chin-plate, so that the latter is free to be placed in an inclined position, substan tially as specified.

2. The combination of jaw A with three upwardly-projecting extensible rods, a chinplate D connected to the end rods, and a movable jaw B, connected to the central rod and having laterall y-pro j ectin g spring-arms c, that bear against the end rods, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

IVOLDEMAR SCI'IUSTER.

Witnesses:

LUDwIe Znrzsenn, IIERM. BECKER.