US820752A - Templet for placing expression-lines. - Google Patents

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PATENTE) MAY 15, 1906.'

P. L. YOUNG. TEMPLET POR PLACING EXPRESSION LINES.

APPLIGATION FILED MARS, 1905,

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NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANCIS L. YOUNG, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSlGNOR TO yAEOLIAN- COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N Y., A CORPORATION OE CONNECTICUT.

TEMPLET FCR PLAOING EXPRESSION-LINES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Appiicason sied mmh 3.1905; semi No. 248,217.

1'0 a/Z ttf/tow, it may concern.-

i Be it known that I, FRANCIS L. YOUNG, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, (post-ofiice address care of the Aeolian Company, Aeolian Hall, 362 Fifth avenue, New York,) have invented a certain`new and useful lmprovement in Templets for Placing Expression-Lines on Perforated Music-Rolls, ofwhich the following is a specification.

. My Patent No. 692,968, -of February 11',

1902, shows and describes perforated sheetmusic having a line thereon which indicates effects to be produced in playing, which line is adapted to cooperate in the hands of the person playing the instrument with a tempoever or other controller having a pointer. My Patent No. 692.969, of the same date, shows and describes the'means for moving a perforated music-sheet over a tracker-board and for marking a tempo-line thereon during the acutal playing of the music, so as to record the actual movements of the controller during the playing, this patent also describing and claiming means for drawing such a line whether during playing or in copying an already existing piece of music with a line on it. Such a'method of copying is expensive. Another method which ,has been employed and which is also expensive is by the use of a transparent stencil 'having a series of holes through which the ink forms upon the` paper a broken line or series of dots. Such stencils have usually been made' of celluloid or other transparent material and are troublesome and expensive both in construction and in their use.

The object of the present invention is to produce a very simple and economical means for reproducing the lines on successive musicrolls of the same composition. This result is accomplished by taking -a sheet of music with the usual note-actuating perforations and with the tempo-line or other line of expression tobe reproduced and dividing said sheet lengthwise along the said line, so as to give two templets having proi'iled edges corresponding withthe line to bereproduced.. The wider and consequently stron er of these two templets is preferably utilize the other being discarded, though this is of course not` necessary. The perforations in such templet form indicia for exactly registering the templet with the note-actuating perforations in the music-sheet to which the line is to be applied by unskilled labor, and by the use of a stylographic pen or other marking device the unskilled employee. ismable to rapidly run the pen or other marker along the edge of the templet as a guide and to thereby accurately reproduce upon the underlying music-sheet the tempo or other line in exact registration' relatively to the perfjvorations in such musicsheet. In the accompanying drawing a portion a of such templet is shown, and in dotted ,lines the other part of that portionv of the original perforated music-sheet from which such templet was cut is shown. It will be Yseen that by placing the edge of the music-- sheet against a strip of wood or other straight edge the templet may be readily placed in proper position by sliding its .edge e along such straight edge while it is superposed on the music-sheet until its perforations exactly register with the note-actuating perforations of the music-sheet, after which it is easy to run a pen along the proiiled edge tofthe templet, thus marking exactly upon the musicsheet a line-corresponding with the proiile t.

B'y the term note-actuating7 as used herein I of course intend the usual perforations in the perforated music-sheet by which air is admitted to pass through the ducts in the tracker, whereby the note-actuating or sound-producing pneumatics arev controlled.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is the following:

l. As a new means for'marking lines upon `music-sheets, a templet having' indicia to register with corresponding indicia on the music-sheet, and a profiled edge corresponding with the line to be produced.

2. A templet for .music-sheets having perforations for registration with corresponding perforations of the music-sheet and having a profiled edge.

3. A templet for making a waved line upon vthe perforated music-sheets said ytemplet Patenten may 15,1906.

having a straight edge corresponding with one straight redge of the music-sheet, and .perforations corresponding with the note-actuating perforations of the music-sheet and a profiled edge corresponding with a line that is to be produced upon such music-sheet.

4. A tem let for marking continuous lines or other in iciaon music-sheets and corre- IOO sponding with a portion of such musc-sheets in said sheet for accurate registration with xo in respect to perlforzitions and one edge, and the illusie-sheet. l provided with :L profiled edge for correctly lu testimony whereof I have signed this loceting said continuous lines or other indicia specification in the presence-of two subsoribL on the music'sheet. inzgr Witnesses.

5. Atempletforlnarking perforatedmusie- FRANCIS L. YOUNG.

sheets, having one irregular edge 'for locating W'itnesses: the markings and one straight edge and per- D. C. HEINS,

forations Corresponding with the perlol'ations EfC. TlloMPsoN.

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