US836470A

US836470A - Phonograph.

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Publication number: US836470A
Application number: US31386306A
Authority: US
Inventors: Eugene C Smith
Original assignee: HAWTHORNE AND SHEBLE Manufacturing Co
Current assignee: HAWTHORNE AND SHEBLE Manufacturing Co
Priority date: 1906-04-26
Filing date: 1906-04-26
Publication date: 1906-11-20
Anticipated expiration: 1923-11-20

Description

PATENTED NOV. 20, 1906.

E. G. SMITH. PHONOGR APH.

APPLIGATION FILED APILZG, 1906.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 1.

PATENTBD NUVw 20, 1906.

E. 0. SMITH.

PHONUGRAPH.

APPLICATION FILED APR.26.1906

2 SHEET3SHBET 2 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EUGENE 0. SMITH, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSlHNOlt TO HAWTHORNE AND SHEBLE MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF PHILAIHGLPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATION OF PENNSYLVANIA.

PHQNOGRAPH.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed April 26, 1906. Serial No. 313.863.

Patented Nov. 20, 1906.

' To all whom it may concern.-

. verse section of the phonographic cylinder and feathered spindle on which it is carried; and Figs. 4 to 8, inclusive, are views, partly in side elevation and partly in section, illustrating other embodiments of my invention.

My invention relates to phono raphic devices, and more particularly to a. evice to be carried in the hand which when whirled about will reproduce in sounds the phonograms impressed upon a phonographic record.

The object of the invention is to provide such a device of simple and cheap construction, easily manufactured, portable, and adapted to answer the purposes of a toy; and the invention consists, broadly, in the use, with a handle, of a phonographic record and a transmitter connected to a stylus arm or lever, the transmitter or' record having rotary motion, whereby the stylus is caused to pass over the phonogram and the transmitter is actuated.

Preferably my invention consists in mounting the record non-rotatively on the handle and yoking the transmitter freely to the handle, so that on whirling the device about the transmitter will have a movement of rotation concentrically about the axis of the record.

In that form of my invention embodied in Figs. 1, 2, and 3 of the drawings, A desig': nates the handle of the device, which may be made of any suitable form, and A a s indle fixed thereon and projecting to any esired distance.

B is a phono raphic record, in this instance shown as of t e ordinary cylindrical form.

I The record is held fast on the spindle A by means of the feather a or in any other wellknown way. The spindle projects both above and below the record to afford a bearing for a yoke or clevis C. This is made of wire or other suitable material and has the eyes 0 at its ends, the eyes looselysurrounding the spindle A.

D is a rocking arm or stylus-lever supported by the bar 0 of the clevis between the elevis and the face of the record. The manner of this support is non-essential; but it must be such that the lever has a pivoted or rocking bearing on the clevis and to be free to move parallel to the face of the record. As shown, this is accomplished by recessing the lever, as at d, so that the cl "is-bar a may fit in said recess, the lever being then free to rock slightly on said clevis and to move on a line parallel to the record-face. The styluslever is of a Width at the recess d sufficient to nearlylfill the space between the clevis and the face of the record. By this means the lever is prevented from falling out of position.

D is the reproducing-stylus, which may be of any material or shape desired. I have shown it as a pin inserted through the end of the lever. At the other end of the lever is a ring D, and to said ring is attached by any suitable connection E the transmitter F,-

which, as shown, is the ordinary transmitter used for toy telephones and comprising a cylinder f, of wood, metal, or other suitable material, having a tightly-stretched diaphragm at one end.

The connection E may be a direct connection comprised of cord, catgut, wire, or other suitable material. I have illustrated it, however, as made of a wire or rod having a hook e at one end for engagement with the ring D and a hook or loop 6 at its outer end, which hooks over a ring f fast to the center of diaphragm f.

In order that the stylus may track properly and that the lever D may be moved parallel to the face of the record as the transmitter is rotated, I provide the record B with a spiral thread or groove b, in the bottom of which the line of honogram b is impressed or incised. The epth of this groove 6 when the device is being used prevents the stylus from escaping from the phonogram-track, and as the groove is spiral it moves the styluslever D positively across the face of the record as the transmitter is revolved. This groove may be of any suitable cross-section; but I have shown it as concave. In practice the stylus-pin D would be so adjusted that that end of the lever would bear slightly in said groove. It will be seen that by pushin in the free end of the lever D the stylus wil be raised out of groove b and the lever be free to be adjusted to any position along the cross-bar c of the clevis. 1

In operation the stylus-lever is placed at its lowermost position on the clevis, assuming that the phonograms start from that end of the spiral groove. The device is then gras ed by the handle and the transmitter F whir ed about the spindle A and record B as a center. The centrifugal force of such whirling motion pulls on the connection E, and that pulling on the free end of lever D forces the stylus a ainst thephonogram of the record, while t e rotary motion of the transmitter draws the stylus along and over the phonogram, the vibrations of which are transmitted to the lever D, the connection E, and the diaphragm of the transmitter F, whereby the vibrations are translated into sound-vibrations in the manner understood by those conversant with the phono raphic art.

I intend my device as a toy or or the purpose of reproducing certain popular cries, calls, or campaign-phrases and to be operated after the manner of the well-known buzzers or watchmens rattles.

While I have shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3 a convenient form of my invention, I do not wish to be limited thereto or to any particular form of record, clevis, stylus-lever, connection, or transmitter or to the relative arrangement of these shown, as all of these elements may be modified without departing from the spirit of my invention.

As instances of some other embodiments of my invention I may refer to Fi s. 4 to 7.

In the device shown in Fig. 4-t e styluslever D is mounted upon the yoke C, so that it can have no longitudinal movement thereon, and the yoke can have no longitudinal movement on the spindle A. Hence as it is carried around the record the engagement of the end of the lever With the spiral groove 6 of the record will cause the latter to travel longitudinally along said spindle A, upon which it is mounted to have no rotary movement.

Figs. 5, 6, and 7 illustrate some of the applications of my invention to devices for using disk records B in place of the cylinder record B.

In the device shown in Fig. 5 the disk record B is secured against rotation upon the top of the handle A, and the yoke C has one end axially journaled in the end of the handle and the other end secured to a ring C free to turn on the handle, a weight C being secured to the outer portion of the yoke to facilitate the rotation of'the same and steady its movement. The stylus is carried by a bar D which is longitudinally guided on the yoke, but has a certain amount of freedom in a direction transverse to the yoke. This bar is connected to the diaphragm f, which is preferably mounted in a transmitter F, havyoke and consequent vibration of the diaphragm.

1 Fig. 6 illustrates the a same idea to a device in w lication of the oh the disk record B rotates, the same being furnished with :a weight B- for' the same purpose as the Weight'C employed in connection with the yoke in the device last described.

The spindle A is bent at a right angle to form a guide A for the bar D In Fig. 7- I have shown a device in which a positive movement derived from a feedscrew is imparted to the stylus-levertp cause the stylus to follow the oove of the record.

The rotatable yoke C as a hub turning on the spindle A and carrying one'of the journals of a screw-stem J, whose other journal is in the outer member of the yoke. This screw-stem hasa wheel or disk J, which as the yoke C is rotated is driven by frictional contact with theface of the record and rotates the screw-stem.

A slide J guided on the yoke C has a projection engaging the screw-stem, and hence is caused to move longitudinally on the yoke,

and to this slide is pivoted the stylus-lever D which has connection E with the diaphragm f of the transmitter F.

The pitch of the screw-stem J bears such relation to the pitch of the spiral groove of the record that the stylus is caused to properly follow the latter.

The feed-screw idea may also be adopted in devices of the character shown in Fig. 4. For instance, the axial pin or spindle A may be threaded, as at as in Fig. 8, for engagement with a nuts on the yoke or clevis C, so as to cause the same to travel longitudinally along the spindle as it is'rotated about the same, any ordinary form of slip-nut or its equivalent being employed, if desired, in order to permit a quick return of the yoke to its starting position.

1. Phonogra hic device having, in combination, a ban e, aphonographic record, a stylus and a transmitter, the record .and the transmitter adapted to rotate one relatively to the other and being so arranged that a Whirlin motion given to the handle Will draw the sai stylus over and against the phonograms of the record, substantially as described.

2. A phonographic device having, in comand transmitter adapted to rotate one relatively to the other and being so arranged that a whirlng motion given to the handle will cause said rotation and draw the stylus over and a ainst the phonograms of the record.

A phonographic device having, in combination, a handle, a record fixedly mounted on said handle, and a stylus and transmitter connected to said handle to rotate about said record when the handle is given a whirling motion, substantially as described.

4. A phonogra hic device having, in combination, a han e, a phonographicrecord and stylus mounted'to rotate one in respect 6. A phonographic device having, in combination, a handle, a phonographic record fixedly mounted thereon, a yoke or clevis mounted on the handle and free to turn about the said record, a rocking lever mounted on said yoke, a stylus on one end of said lever adapted to bear against .the phonograins of the record, a transmitter free to be.

rotated about the record and having a diaphragm, and a connection between said diaphragm and the free end of said lever, substantially as described.

7. A phonographic device having, in combination, a handle, a phonographic record fixedly mounted thereon, a yoke or clevis mounted on the handle and free to turn about said record, a stylus mounted on said yoke to move over the face of the record as said yoke rotates, a transmitter free to be rotated about the-record, and a connection between said transmitter andsaid stylus, sub

stantially as described.

8. A phonographic device having, in combination, a handle, 'a phonographic record fixedly mounted thereon, a yoke or clevis mounted on the handle and free to turn about said record, a rocking lever mounted on said yoke to move across the face of the record, a stylus carried by one end of said lever, a transmitter free to rotate about the record and a connection between said trans mitter' and the other end of said lever, substantially as described. 7

9. A phonographic device having, in combination, a handle, a cylindrical record mounted thereon and having phonograms arranged spirally on the face thereof, a yoke mounted to turn on the handle and about the record, a rocking lever mounted to move freel up and down on the bar of said yoke and caring a stylus at one end, a transmitter free to be rotated about said record and a connection between said transmitter and the lever, whereby, when the transmitter is rotated, the stylus will be forced against and carried over the said spiral line of phonograr'ns, substantially as described.

' 10.. A phonographic device-having, in combination, a handle; a phonographic record fixedly mounted thereon, a transmitter free to be rotated about saidrecord, a stylus con- .nected to said transmitter, a yoke adapted to hold the stylus to the record While allowing it to rotate aboutthe same, the said record being spirally grooved for the reception of the stylus and having phonograms formed on the bottom of said groove, substantially as described.

11. A phonographic device having, in combination, a handle, a honographic record and transmitter so corn ined that movement of one in respect to the other ,will be caused by whirling movement of the handle, and astylus interposed between the record and transmitter, substantially as described.

, 12. A phonographic device having, in combination, a handle, a phonograp'hic record and transmitter rotatable one in respect to the other, and so mounted that the transmiter is caused to-rotate about the axis by whirling-movement imparted to the handle,

-and a stylus interposed between the record and transmitter, substantially as described.

13. A phonographic device having, in combination, a handle, a phonographic record and transmitter rotatable one in respect to the other and so mounted that the transmitter is caused to rotate about the axis by whirling movement imparted to the handle, and a stylus interposed between the record and transmitter, the centrifugal force exerted by said transmittertending to maintain the stylus in engagement with the record, substantially as described.

14. A phonographic device having, in combination, a handle, a phonographic rel-0rd and diaphragm so mounted that whirling movement of the handle will cause movement of one of said'parts about its axis, a stylus interposed between the record and diaphragm, and means independent of the groove of the record for causing the stylus to follow the convolutions of said groove, substantially as described.

Signed at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, this 13th day of April, A. D. 1906.

EUGENE 0. SMITH.

Witnesses:

KATE A. BEADLE,

Jos. H. KLEIN.