US969239A - Talking-machine. - Google Patents

Description

M. 0. ARNOLD.

TALKING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED Nov. 4, 1909.

969,239. y Patente@ sept. 6, 1910.

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MAX OSCAR ARNOLD, OF NEUSTADT, NEAR. COBURG, GERMANY.

TALKING-MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 6, i910 pplicaton filed November 4, 1.9053. Serial No. 526,319.

record, and my invention more particularly has for its object certain nnprovenients in this type otl machine, which render it readily adaptable to be arranged within relatively small space, as for instance within the body The construction is simple, of small dimensions, light of weight, yet strong and not liable to become disordered or broken. The reproducer is limited in its lateral displacements, so that onesided overbalancing of the containing body is obviated, which in theconstructions now in use is apt to cause toppling over ot' the doll, upon'the recorder reaching one of its end positions. And last-ly, I provide means whereby the main spring Acannot wholly run down or be over-wound, so that the reproducer travels with' a constant velocity, thereb v assuring correct and even reproduction of the phonograum In order to make the invention morel readily understood, I `will now describe it with reference to the accompanying sheetof drawings, in which- Figure l represents a rear view ont'- a machine embodying the essential parts of my invention; Fig. 2 shows a side` elevatiom'and Fig. 3 a horizontal section, just above the driving spindle.

The reproducer-box (Z travels horizontally above and longitudinally along the cylinder record 1), which is rotated in well known manner by a clock work, not specially shown in the drawing. The reproducer pivoted to the angle piece or carrier a., a, which by means ot the threaded sleeve Z on its lower extremity is traveled along the correspondingly threaded spindle m. This latter, at the time, used for winding up the main'spring of the clock work. The reproducer is pivoted :it ai to the arm a3 or" the angle and its up and down movement is limited by a pin d1 coperating with a guide yoke el depending from the arm a3. On the placeable and influenced by a dra-w spring L (Fig. l) the slide ordinarily with its upper curved-out end e4 depressing the shorter lever arm o5 of the reproducer and supporting it in the position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2, slightly above the record. 'Y

On the bottom plate n there is piveted at f1 a bell `crank lever If" which ordinarily is retained in the dotted-line position (Fig. 3) by means of a spring k. A recess c'i slide c upon the work havin run down. ln this ,posit-ion the arm f o' the bell crank lever lies sidewise of a pin g secured to the horizontally disposed regulator o. II now the clock Work is wound up by turning the screw spindle m, which causes the'i'eproducer d with its carrier c, and slide e to travel from the right-hand toward the lefthand end position, the tooth 'e3 of slide c swings the lever f inwardly, bringing its arm f4 in the plane of rotation of the regu- -lat'or stop pin g, with the effect of arresting the regulator and' consequently the Whole clock work during the winding-up opervation. Upon the reproducer and slide e arriving at the left side, a pin Z2 of the slide extends just vabove a double-armed, spring influenced starting lever f2, f3.

'If now, for starting the mechanism, the lever end f2 vis depressed, its inner end f will lift the piniP, raising accordingly the slide c above the bell crank lever f (F ig. 2). The reproducer is let down onto the record,

tion (Fig. 3) by spring lc, its arm ft freeing the regulator, andthe slide crests with its tooth e3 upon the lever f. The Work running down," the tooth c3 slides along the leverl until, upon the reprodncer having reached its end position, it drops into the cut-out portion et by the action of the draw' spring 71., lifting thereby the reproducenoil` are so profiled, that the slide c slips o only at the end oi' the reproduction.

'With the exception of part of the spindle m and the free end of the starting lever, all parts in this construction are so crowded and their weight distribution is such, that the apparatus is especially adapted to be inserted into dolls, imitation animals, and the like. The frame plates limiting th'e lateral displacement of the threaded sleeve serves to receive the beveled tooth c of the therecord. rThe recess e4 and the tooth e3,

arm o the slotted slide c is vertically disi lever f is swung into the dotted line posining down of the main spring is effectively prevented.

lfVhat I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is In a talking machine with cylindrical' record, a. bell crank lever, a, clock work, a regulator thereon, a stop pin on said regulator, periodically coperating with said bell `crank lever7 an angular carrier, a reproducer pivoted thereto, a spring influenced: slide on said carrier, coperating bove with said reprodueer and below with said bell crank lever, the latter serving to alternately hold said slide in therais'e'd and lowered position respectively, means vfor'r "1aising said slide, and means for/traveling said carrier from lone end position into the other with raised l reproducer and back again with the reprodueer in Contact with the record, substantially as and forv the purpose set forth.

In testimonywvhereof I :rilix my signature in presence off two witnesses.

MAX OSCAR ARNOLD. lVitnesses:

O. FLINZE, C. WAGNER.

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