US479565A

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Publication number: US479565A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1892-07-26
Anticipated expiration: 1909-07-26

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(No Model.) J. H. LANE.

REED ORGAN.

No. 479,565. Patented July 26, 1892.

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JOHN H. LANE, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO FRANKLIN L. RAYMOND, OF SAME PLACE.

REED-ORGAN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 479,565, dated July 26, 1892. Application filed November 1'7 1891. Serial No. 412,218- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN H. LANE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Cleveland, county of Ouyahoga, and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Reed-Organs, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to organ-couplers; and it consists in additional improvements on Patent No. 329,796, dated November 3, 1885, to Orison O. lVhitney for an organ-coupler. In the above-mentionedpatentthe double coupler is dependent on the single coupler for its action.

The purpose of this improvement is to carry out and perfect the double coupler to the full extent of the reed-board and render the same independently operative. To this end I construct the right-hand twelve rollers B with middle arms f 2 and add twelve half-levers F which actuate the said arms f and thereby provide the means for extending the doubleoctave movement to the end of reed-board.

This improvement is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a plan View of a double-octave attachment having my improvement embodied. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of a key and a portion of the mechanism for operating the said octave-coupler. Fig. 3 is a detached view of one of the double octave rollers.

The following is a description of the mechanism comprising the hereinbefore-mentioned patent, incorporated in this specification to show the old in conjunction to my improvement.

A represents the valve-stems, operated in the usual manner by depressing the keys. These valve-stems are provided with collars a. In front of the valve-stems is the singleoctave attachment. In rear of the valvestems is located the double-octave attachment. The rollers B are journaled in suit able boxes b and 0, attached to the table 0, and have arms 6 on the right hand, that engage the collars a, and on the left hand arms f, that extend under the ends of the levers F and are actuated thereby. These levers are pivoted at G, as shown in Fig. 2. The keys H, one of which is shown in Fig. 2, are provided with the pins I and J, the former operating the arms K of the single-octave attachment and the latter operating the levers F, that in turn actuate the arms f of the rollers B. The pins J, engaging the levers F, are in such position relative to the fulcrum that an equal motion is given to the arm f of the double-octave attachment and the arms K of the single-octave attachment. The tables 0 and D, to which the respective attachments are secured, are hinged on the respective sides nearest to the valve-stems, and when raised by the action of the pedals, stops, or knee-1ever, to which they are respectively attachedfor instance, by the connecting-rods M and instrument, will be actuated by a key two octaves farther down the keyboard, and consequently for the key above there will be no corresponding rollers.

Here ends the description of said Patent No. 329,796. to the single-octave attachment. To avoid such means for a continuation of the results, I have devised a means for continuing the double tones in manner as follows: To the twelve right-hand rollers 13, I have added a 85 middle arm f and have also twelve halflength levers F Now by continuous playing on the keyboard the last twelve rollers are used for purpose of producing the double tones the same as those below the said 0 twelve rollers are made to serve the double purpose, for as the arms fand f being beneath their respective levers F F the depression of either the half-length levers or the full-length levers actuates the rollers sin- 9 5 gly and independently of each other. This Either or both the 70 A resort is thenceforth made makes a Very simple and easy method of conment, of the half-levers F and. rollers B, protinuing the double tones to the extreme right Vided With the middle arm f substantially of the keyboard and dispenses with the sinas and forthe purpose set forth.

gle-octzwe attachment. JOHN H. LANE. 5 Having described my invention, I claim W'itnesses:

In a reed-organ or other instrument, the GEO. W. TIBBITTS,

combination, with a double-octave attach- M. V. BEACOM.