US863164A - Needle-cabinet for talking-machines. - Google Patents

Description

L. W. FIGKETT.

NEEDLE CABINET FOR TALKING MACHINES.

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\ LOUIS W. FIGKETT, OF PORTLAND, MAINE.

NEEDLE-CABINET FOR TALKING-MACHINES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 13, 1907.

Application filed July 20,1906. Serial No. 327,088.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LOUIS W. Froxn'rr, a citizen of the United States of America and a resident of Portland Maine, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Needle-Cabinets for Talking-Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has for its object to provide a cabinet for the used and unused needles employed in certain kinds of talking machines. In such machines the needle or stylus which is a short steel shaft pointed at one end, runs in the grooves of the record and after being used once it is thrown away. It is important that these needles after they are used once should not again be used in the machine because their use has an injurious effect on the record. Thus it becomes important. to keep the discarded needles where they will not be liable to be picked up by mistake and used over again and especially so since it is impossible to distinguish by the naked eye a used from an unused needle. It often happens that when the used needles are cast aside they become mixed up more or less with the new needles and are accidentally used again.

The purpose of my invention is to provide a cabinet which will contain open topped receptacles from which the various grades of needles employed may be readily picked out and which shall also provide a storage box or reservoir into which the used needles may be thrown and where they will not be in danger of being again picked up and used.

With this end in view my invention consists generally of a box or reservoir for the unused needles with a hopper shaped or other opening adapted to receive the old needles and having secured thereto preferably at the top, a series of open topped receptacles from which the new needles may be readily picked when wanted. Such a cabinet enables the user of the machine to have his supply of needles always at hand and a convenient receptacle always ready to receive the used needles.

I illustrate my invention by means of the accompany ing drawing in which'.

Figure 1 is a central vertical section through my cabinet and Fi 2 is a plan or top view of the same.

The cabinet is made up of storage box or reservoir of any suitable shape as A, with a top B and a bottom a. As here shown, I provide short legs or rests a and in the bottom is a discharge opening a with a swinging or pivoted plate or closure a closing said opening. The opening a is at the bottom of a hopper shaped recess formed in the bottom of the box to facilitate the removal of the needles when the same are to be discharged. The used needles are introduced into the box through a suitable opening here shown as a hopper D on the upper end of a tube E which extends vertically through the top of the box and has on the lower end thereof a nut e impinging on the underside of the box cover. The nut e holds the hopper and enables the latter to be used as a handle for lifting the cabinet.

Open topped receptacles are attached to the box for containing the unused needles. As here shown, I secure to the top of the box, preferably grouped around the hopper tube E in the form of a circle, a plurality of cup-shaped receptacles O secured to the top of the box by screws passing through them into the box. The hopper rests on the inner edges of the receptacles O and is forced downward against these edges by the nut e. In these are deposited the new needles according to their size and from them they may be readily picked out. Having been used, the needles are thrown into the hopper E and pass thence down into the box where they are allowed to accumulate until the box is full when they may be dumped out through the discharge opening a Such a cabinet is convenient to use and keeps the new needles where they can be readily picked up and disposes of the old needles so that there is no danger of picking them up by mistake.

It will be seen that in the form of the cabinet here shown the hopper for receiving the used needles is above the other receptacles and is somewhat larger in size and it also partially covers them so that there is no liability of putting the unused needles in the wrong place.

For the ordinary user I would provide but two receptacles for the new needles and I would form the box oblong instead of round and the cabinet as here shown with four receptacles is adapted for demonstration purposes where all varieties of records are shown.

I claim:

1. The herein described needle cabinet for talking machines consisting of a storage box for used needles, a plu rality of open topped receptacles for unused needles secured to the top of said box, a delivery tube extending vertically through the top of said box having a nut on its lower end and a hopper on the upper end of said tube above the level of the otherreceptacle.

2. The herein described needle cabinet for talking machines consisting of a storage box for used needles, :1 plurality of open topped receptacles for unused needles secured in a circle on the top of said box, a tube extending vertically through to the top of said box in the center of said circle and having a nut on its lower end and a hopper on the upper end of said tube resting on the edges of said receptacles.

3. The herein described needle cabinet for talking ma chines consisting of a storage box for unused needles having a hopper shaped bottom, a discharge opening in said bottom, a closure for said opening, a hopper on the top of said box for receiving said needles and one or more open topped receptacles for the unused needles.

4. The herein described needle cabinet for talking machines consisting of a storage box for used needles, a plurality of open topped receptacles for unused needles secured to the top of said box, a hopper for receiving the used needles located above the level or said receptacles and a tube connecting said hopper with said storage box.

LOUIS IV. FICKETT.

Witnesses S. W. Barns, Many A. DONALDSON.

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