US589748A

US589748A - Music-pulpit

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Publication number: US589748A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1897-09-07
Anticipated expiration: 1914-09-07

Description

(No Model.)

T. J. PALMER.

MUSIC PULPIT.

Patented Sept. 7, 1897.

UNITED STATES THEODORE J. PALMER, OF HACKENSACK, NEXV JERSEY.

MUSiC-PULPIT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 589,748, dated September '7, 1897.

Application filed May 27, 1896. Serial No. 593,270. on model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THEODORE J. PALMER,Of llackensack,in the county of Bergen and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Music-Pulpits, of which the followingis a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide a music-pulpit of light, simple, and firm construotion.

I will first describe in detail, with reference to the accompanying drawings, a music-pulpit embodying my invention and afterward point out its novelty in the claim.

Figure 1 represents a side view of the up per part of the pillar or support and of the desk and adjustable stem or post to which the desk is attached. Fig. 2 is a back view corresponding with Fig. 1, but showing the desk and stem or post in a different position with respect to the pillar. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the two-armed bracket, which constitutes an important element of my invention. Fig. at represents a sectional elevation, on a larger scale than Fig. 1, illustrating the adjustment of the desk-board to the stem or adjustable post. Fig. 5 represents an inner face view of a cap-piece through which the desk-board is attached. to the post.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures.

A designates the upperportion of the standard, which supports the desk and which may be of any ordinary form-as, for instance, a pillar having a tripod pedestal. The upper part of the said standard or pillar is bored out to receive the adjustable stem or post B, to which the desk-board D is attached. This stem or post, which will be hereinafter termed the stem, is secured, when adjusted to its proper height, by means of a set-screw a in the head of the standard or pillar A. The said stem maybe of metalfor example, a metaltube. Its upper end is beveled or sloped with a flat surface on that side at which the desk-board is attached, as shown at b in Fig. 4:. At a suitable distance below the beveled or sloped end there is attached to the said stem a two-armed metal bracket 0 for the attachment of the said stem to the lower part of the said board. This bracket is made with a socket c to lit and receive the stem and is so secured to the stem byany suitable means, as by a binding-screw cl, that its projection from the stem is on the same side of the latter as the slope I). The said bracket is spread laterally at the ends to form two arms 6, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3. The faces 9 of these arms, which are toward the board, are flat and sloped to conform to the slope b at the top of the stem, as shown in Fig. 4:. The board D is fastened to the top of the stem by asorew h, passing through the stem and screwing into the board, and the said board is fastened to the arms 0 e of the bracket by screws f f, screwing through the said arms. To further secure the desk-b0ard to the top of the stem, I employ a metal cap-piece E, which is hollowed out in front, as shown at 1'- in Figs. 4 and 5, to fit the back of the stem and which is sloped above and at the sides of said cavity, as shown atj in Figs. 1 and 4, to conform to the slope of the bracket-ar1ns and deskboard. This cap is screwed to the desk at 7; 7c at the sides of the stem.

The bracket G, besides serving to connect the desk-board with the stem, serves, by coming down upon the pillar A, as shown in Fig. 1, the additional purpose of a stop to stop the desk in the lowest position to which it is desired that itshall come.

In describing my invention 1 have termed it a music-pulpit, as that is the term by which devices of the kind are most commonly known but a device embodying my invention is obviously useful as a desk for lecturers, readers, and others, and therefore I wish to be protected in its use for all purposes to which it may be applicable.

\Vhat I claim as my invention is- In a music-pulpit, the combination with the supporting-pillar, the stem adjustable upward and downward in said pillar, of the deskboard and the two-armed bracket connecting the lower part of the desk-board with the said stem and serving as a stop to control. the lowest position of the said stem and board, substantially as herein described.

THEODORE J. PALMER.

"Witnesses FEEDK. Iinvnns, M. E. FLETCHER.