US855674A - Talking-machine. - Google Patents

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No. 855,674. TATENTED JUNE. 7;, 19C? H. SHEBLE.

TALKING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR 14, 1907.

WITNESSES:

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HORACE SHEBLE, F PHILADE'LPHLA, PENNSYLVANIA, AssioNon T0 HAWTHORNE & SHEBLE MANUFAOTURIN COMPANY, O PHILADEI, PHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATION OF PENNSYLVANIA.-

@ TALKING-MACHINE.

' No. 855.674. Specification of Letters Patent. Patented June 4, 1907.

Application filed larch 14, 1907. Serial lie, 362,297. v l

To all whom it may concern: ing material. The cradle is pivotally 7 Be it known that I, HORACE ,SHEBLE, a' mounted upon the end of arm 4, this being 5 citizen of the United States, residing at preferably done by roviding a vertical open- Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia. mg through the en of arm 4and a pin 12 on 5 and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a the cradle 5 which is received inthis Opening.- certain new and useful Improvement in This pin may beformed integral with the Talking-Machines, of which thefollowingis a. cradle or it may be secured in an opening specification. I formed there n; The-latter construction-is hisinvention relates to talking-machines referred, the pin beingcxtended u ward to and has reference more particularly to the Beyond the upper surface of the crad e and devices for supporting the soundeconveying utilized to secure the horn upon the cradle. horns of such machines. l The upwardly extending portion of the pin is The object of the invention is to effect cerindicated at 13, Fig. 3, and extends through Q-tain improvements in the construction, of an opening in the bottom of the horn 6. I 5 talking-machines with res t particularly This'end 13 of the pin is threaded and'a hand to the horn-supporting dev ces, to, the end nut 14 is screwed thereon to hold the horn 6 that an-aplparatus is provided in which the uplon the cradlei5, awasher l5 being prefer- 7o the horn is he d securely against dis lacement y inserted be'tween nut 14 and the wall of and in which the horn-supporting evices are horn. g 2 of comparatively small sizef so as not to de-- It will be seen that the arms 9, 9 and-10,

tract from the appearance 0 the machine. 10,'of,-;'the cradleare comparatively short and The preferred embodiment of the invention extend aroundbut a very small portion of isillustrated in the accompanying drawings, "the horn Movement of the horn upon .the in which j cradle or its displacement therefrom -18, how- 25 Figure l is an elevation of a 'talkingnaever, efl'ectuaily prevented, as theend 13 of I chine constructed in accordancewith my inthe pin and the nut 14 serve to hold the horn vention; Fig; 2 is a plan view of the ho securely upon the arms of the cradle. Any sup rting cradle; and Fig. 3 is a section on foreign noises, duev to jarr ng of the hornthelihe 33 of Fig. 1. upon its support, are revented by the rub- 3 Referr' to these drawings, 1 indicates ber sleeves 11. F urt ermore, this form of the motor fiox, having therein asuitable mocradle can be produced at. very low manutor'arran ed to drive a vertical shaft which facturing cost. extends tfirough thetop of the box and carries 7 Having now described m invention, what a rotatable turntable 2. The sound-record I claim as new therein an desire to secure 35 3, in this case a disk having a laterally unduby Letters Patent 1s as i'ollows:

lating groove of substantially uniform depth 1. In a talking-machine, the combination I cutinone face thereof, is adapted to be rested of a motor-box, an arm secured to and exupon and rotated by the turn-table 2. Setcndin" outwardly frol the box, a cradle cured to the box 1 and extending outwardly pivotally mounted upon the outer end of the 4 therefrom, is an arm 4, ,on the outer end of arm, said cradle having a plurality of outwhich is pivotally mounted a cradle 5, which wardl '-extending supporting arms, a tapercarrics theta ering sound-conve ing horn 6. ing horndn'ectly overlying saldcradlc and Secured to tie small end of this horn. is a resting upon the arms thereof said arms exsound-box 7 having a stylus 8, the end of t he tending but a short distance to either side of 45 stylus tracking in the record-groove in the a vertical plane through tlieaxis of the horn,

sound-record 3. and means for securing the horn to the era- The cradle. 5 consists of a casting having a dlc, substantially as sctjorth. luralit of outwardly extending arms. 2; In a ta]king-nmclnnc, the combination referah lythe cradle has our sucharms, the of a lIHllOP-llOX, a-rotulabliturn-table mount- 5 two arms 9,9, atone end thereof being someed thereon, an arm secured to and extending what shorter than the two arms 10, 10, at the outwardly. from the box, a cradle pivotally opposite end. On' the end of each of these mounted upon the outer end of the arm havarms is a sleeve 11 of rubber or othencushioning a plum 0y of integral outwardly-extendcradle extends, and means received in said opening, and an arms, a tapering horn di tending pin rectly overlying the cradle and resting upon upwardly-extending pin, a tapering the arms thereof, said arms extending-but a ;,haviiig an opening therein through which short distance to either side of a vertical :said upwardly-extendiug pin extends, and a plane through the axis of the horn, a sound nut upon said upwardly-extending' pin sebox secured to the smaller end of the horn, :curing the horn upon the cradle, substanits stylus adapted to track inth'e groove of tially as set forth. a sound-record supported on said turn-table, 5. In a talking-machine, the combination andmeans for securing-said horn upon said of a motor-box, an arm secured to and exeradle, substantially as set forth. tending outwardly from the box, said arm 3'. In a talking-machine, the combination having an opening through the outer end of a motor-box,- an arm secured to and exthereof, a eradle'having a pair of outwardlytending outwardly from the box, a cradle extending arms at one end thereof and a pair pivotally mounted upon the outer end of the of longer, outwanally-extending arms at the arm, said cradle having a plurality of outother 'end thereof, a pin extending through wardly-extending supporting arms and an the cradle adjacent to said longer arms, the upwardly-extending pin, a tapering horn lower end of the-pin 'being received in said opening, ,amaperinghorn having an opening resting upon said armsand having an openmg therein through which said pin onthe therein through wh ch the upper'end ot said pin extends and a nut on said upper end so coaeting With said pin to secure the'horn upon' the cradle, subcuring the horn upon the arms of the cradle,

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stantially as set forth.

A. In a talking-machine, the'combination This specification signed and this 8th day oi" March, 1907 of a motor-box, an arm secured to and ex- HORACE SIIEBLE.

ing supporting witnessed tending outwardly from the box, said arm having an opening throughthe outer end Witnesses: thereof, a eradle having a plurality of out- A. C. VVRIGn'r,

Wardly-extending arms, a dewnwardly-ex- F. A. DE Limo.

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