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- G10—MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACOUSTICS
- G10D—STRINGED MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; WIND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACCORDIONS OR CONCERTINAS; PERCUSSION MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; AEOLIAN HARPS; SINGING-FLAME MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
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- Figure 1 is a view in longitudinal section of the first or short joint of a clarinet made in conformity with my invention.
- Fig. 2 is anend view of the second or long joint of said instrument.
- Fig. 3 is a view of said second or long joint in longitudinal section on line m 00 of Fig. 2.
- My invention relates to musical wind-instruments made of wood, and more especially to clarinets; and it consists of awooden tubular portion and a vulcanized rubber covering for the same, cemented together and provided with the usual keys, as hereinafter particularly specified.
- A represents the wooden portion or tube of the clarinet
- B the substituted from the outside to form circular tenons, as shown in Fig. 3.
- the bores or interior surfaces of the two joints are continuous, as also their exterior cylindrical surfaces.
- the several joints of combined wood and rubber thus formed are turned and finished in a lathe in the usual manner.
- the rubber casing 13 should be of sufficient thickness so that the counter sinking of the keyholes may not reach through to the wood, but be formed entirely in the rubher portion.
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G. F. PRUEFER.
GLARINET. No. 545,610. Patented Sept. 3,1895.w
Witnesses, Inventor.
UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
GUSTAV FRANZ PRUEFER, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.
CLARINET.
SPECIFICATION forming partgfjletters Patent No. 545,610, dated September 3, 1895. Application filed March 9, 893. Serial No. 465,308. (No model.)
To aZZ whom it may concern.-
Be it known that LGUs'rAv FRANZ PRUE- FER, a subject of the Emperor of Germany, residing in Providence, in the county of Providence, in the State of Rhode Island, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Clarinets; and I declare the following to be a specification thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings; v
Figure 1 is a view in longitudinal section of the first or short joint of a clarinet made in conformity with my invention. Fig. 2 is anend view of the second or long joint of said instrument. Fig. 3 is a view of said second or long joint in longitudinal section on line m 00 of Fig. 2.
Like letters indicate like parts.
My invention relates to musical wind-instruments made of wood, and more especially to clarinets; and it consists of awooden tubular portion and a vulcanized rubber covering for the same, cemented together and provided with the usual keys, as hereinafter particularly specified.
Musical instruments made of wood are liable to swell and crack on account of the condensation upon their interior surface of the warm breath blown into them when in use by the musician. The moisture so produced soaks into the pores or grain of the wood and tends to swell the wood, and the repeated alternate soaking and drying of the Wood results after a while in cracking the instrument and so impairing the quality of the vibrant sound.
It is the purpose of myinvention to prevent this, and I accomplish this desirable result by covering a Wooden clarinet with a vulcanized rubber tube cemented thereto.
In the drawings, A represents the wooden portion or tube of the clarinet, and B the duced from the outside to form circular tenons, as shown in Fig. 3. When one of said tenoned ends of the joint is fitted and secured within the circular socket of the joint shown in Fig. 1, the bores or interior surfaces of the two joints are continuous, as also their exterior cylindrical surfaces. The several joints of combined wood and rubber thus formed are turned and finished in a lathe in the usual manner. The rubber casing 13 should be of sufficient thickness so that the counter sinking of the keyholes may not reach through to the wood, but be formed entirely in the rubher portion. By this construction I secure a continuous wood connection between the joints and preserve all the rich and soft qual-' ity of tone from the vibrations of the wood. All possibility of the swelling or cracking of the wood is wholly prevented.
I claim as a novel and useful invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent The improved clarinet herein described, whose joints are made of wood and covered with a hard rubber casing cemented thereto, substantially as described.
' GUSTAV FRANZ PRUEFER.
Witnesses:
JOHN F. MURRAY, CHARLES L. SPENCER.
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Cited By (2)
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US2596260A (en) * | 1948-11-22 | 1952-05-13 | Linton Roy Jackson | Woodwind musical instrument |
US3191481A (en) * | 1963-05-20 | 1965-06-29 | Miller Mel | Reed wind instrument |
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US2596260A (en) * | 1948-11-22 | 1952-05-13 | Linton Roy Jackson | Woodwind musical instrument |
US3191481A (en) * | 1963-05-20 | 1965-06-29 | Miller Mel | Reed wind instrument |
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