US819076A - Whistle. - Google Patents

Description

PATENTED MAY 1, 1906.

P. A. MORTENSEN.

WHISTLE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 16,1906.

Attorneys UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 1, 1906.

Application filed June 16,1905. Serial No. 265,543,

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, PETER A. MoRTENsEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Sanford, in the county of Conejos and State of Colorado, have invented a new and useful \Yhistle, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to musical instruments, and has for its principal object to provide a simple form of wind instrument in the nature of a whistle which may be held in the mouth and is adapted for the playing of different tunes or for the sounding of a call or alarm.

A further object of the invention is to provide a musical instrument of simple construction which may be formed of a single piece of die-shaped sheet metal and of such construction that slight variations in tone may be made by reversing the position of the instrument in the mouth.

With these and other objects in view, as will more fully hereinafter appear, the inven tion consists in certain novel features of construction and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and particularly pointed out in the appended claims, it being understood that various changes in the form, proportions, size, and minor details of the structure may be made without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the ad vantages of the invention.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical section of a musical instrument constructed in accordance with the invention. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the same. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the instrument. Fig. 4 is a front elevation of the same.

Similarnumerals of reference are employed to indicate corresponding parts throughout the several figures of the drawings.

The musical instrument forming the subject of the present invention is preferably formed of a single piece of die-formed sheet metal that is centrally bent to form upper and lower plates 10 and 11, the point of juncture of the two plates being slightly rounded and the plates gradually diverging toward the outer end to form a small trumpet 12. That portion of the two plates which is received within the mouth is provided with rounded ends 13, so arranged that the widest portion of the two plates is of greater width than the width of the short curved wall 14 that connects them, thus leaving air-inlet orifices at the opposite ends of the mouthpiece. The metal beyond the mouthpiece is bent to form a trumpet, the opposite edges being turned or flanged and secured to each other by solder or brazing.

In the upper and lower plates 10 and 11 are formed air-orifices 16 and 17, that are of approximately equal area, but are disposed in different vertical planes, the orifice 16 being nearer to the rear wall 14 than the orifice 17, and the instrument when in use is so arranged that the orifice 16 is uppermost. The air-orifices are under the control of the tongue of the operator, and an air-current may be forced to either or both of said orifices, as well as through the space between the opposite ends of the widened portions of the plates, air being compelled to pass through the trumpet, owing to the fact that the lips are held in such manner as to prevent the passage of air except through the trumpet.

\Vith a device constructed in accordance with this invention it is possible to play any tune or air, and the volume of sound is completely under the control of the operator, so that the device may be used as a musical instrument or for the purpose of sounding a call or alarm.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is 1. A musical instrument comprising a mouthpiece, and a trumpet of less width than the mouthpiece, said mouthpiece being formed of upper and lower members each provided with an air-inlet opening.

2. A musical instrument comprising a mouthpiece, and a trumpet, the latter being of less width than the mouthpiece, said mouthpiece being formed of a pair of flanged plates united at their rear edges and arranged on slightly divergent lines, each plate being provided with an air-inlet opening.

8. A musical instrument comprising a sheet of metal bent to form a mouthpiece, and a trumpet, the sides of the mouthpiece being open, and the sides of the trumpet being closed.

4. A musical instrument comprising a mouthpiece closed at its rear end and open at its opposite sides, and a trumpet extending from the mouthpiece and of less width than said mouthpiece.

5. A musical instrument comprising upper and lower divergent plates connected at their rear ends, and the sides of the front portions of the plates being connected to form a trum et, the plates having non-registering air-in et openings.

6. A musical instrument comprising a flat Whistle having spaced top and bottom members connected to each other at one end and provided with sound-holes, and a trumpet substantially rectangular in cross-section extending integrally'from the outer end of the top and bottom members of the Whistle, the

trumpet increasing gradually in height from the Whistle outward.

7. A musical instrument comprising a flat Whistle open at. the sides and front and provided in its top and bottom members with sound-holes, and a trumpet extending integrally from the outer ends of the top and bottom members of the Whistle.

8. A musical instrument comprising a fiat Whistle having spaced top and bottom members connected to each other at one end, and provided with sound-holes, and a trumpet substantially rectangular in cross-section eX- tending integrally from the outer ends of the top and bottom members of the Whistle.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I- have hereto afiiXed my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

PETER A. MORTENSEN.

Witnesses I J. H. JooHUM, Jr, W. J. DILLON.

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