US991090A - Attachment for phonographs. - Google Patents

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G. A. RUMBLE. ATTACHMENT FOR PHONOGRAPHS.

. APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 11, 1906.

Patented May 2, 1911.

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G. A. RUMBLE.

ATTACHMENT FOR PHONOGRAPHS.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 11, 1905.

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q Vi m mom barren snares arena ianncn CHARLES A. RUMBLE, F LOWVIILE, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO AMERICAN GRAPI IO- PHONE COMPANY, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION OF WEST VIRGINIA.

ATTAGHMENE FOR PHONOGRAPHS.

Specifiohtion of Letters Patent. Application filed September 11, 1906. I r

Patented May 2, 1911. Serial No' 334,173.

To all whom it may concern:

V bracket arm has a curved shell C integral Be it known that I, CHARLES A .'RUMBLE, therewith, to the upper end of which a horn a citizen of the United States, residing at D is adapted to be fastened in such a manner Lowville, in the county of Lewis and State that the horn will overhang thetop of the of New York, have invented certain new case. The reproducer E has connected G0 and useful Improvements in Attachments thereto a flexible pipe F, in the other end for Phonographs, &c.; and I do declare of which a tube G is fitted, being held in the following to be a full,clear, and exact place by friction intermediatethe two condescription of the invention, such as will tact surfaces, and the opposite end'of said enable others skilled in the art to which tube G has a free. movement in h p g it appertains to make andu'se the same, ref- 6nd 0f th e tone-arm H, the large end of erence being'had to the accompanying drawwhich is inserted in the lower end of the ings, and to the letters and figures of when Shell C. ence marked thereon, which form a part of C designates a pivot pin projecting from this specification. the inner surface of the shell C adjacent to This invention relates to new and useful one of the openings therein, and the toneimprovements in attachments to ph noarm H has a perforation H adjacentto its graphs and graphophon s, and e pecially enlarged end which enters the shell, which in the provision of a means for connecting perforation is adapted to receive said pin the reproducer to the horn, and utilized, C upon which it is adapted to have a uniespecially upon cylinder machines, and the e s l piv tal n O e ent. v object of the invention is to prod ace a sim- In Fig. 4 of the drawings, I have shown ple and etlicient connection between the reanother form of my invention, in which producer and horn holder and so arranged the tube G is dispensed W d e 81111111 that the connection may have a free movend of h l -t m H i fitted Within h ment corresponding to the movement of the flexible pipe F and held from movement reproducer. therein by frictional contact between the My invention comprises Various details of two ends,iwhile the enlarged end ofthe toneconstruction and arrangements of arts arnr'Henters the lower opening in the shell which Will be hereinafter fully described andhasafree movement therein, thus givand then specifically defined in the appended ing the tone-arm a universal movement in-' claims. V cident'to the movement of the reproducer inventive id may be embodied in a and dispensing with thepivotal connection, variety of mechanical structures, some of before described, which, for the purpose of illustrating the From the foregoing, it will be seen that invention, are shown inthe accompanying a simple andeflicient connection isail'orded drawings, in whichbetween the reproducer and the horn-sup- Figure 1 is a perspective View showing the porting bracket in a machine employing a manner of attachment of my invention to a cylindrical record, the connection being such talking machine. Fig. 2 is a vertical secthat the tone-arm may be turned in any ditional view through the horn supporter and rcctiou, while its end nearest the reproducer connection between the same and the repro-. affords the free movement necessary to comducer. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the pcnsatc for the variation in distance .from horn support, the flexible tube for connecthe reproducer stylus to the point where the tion with the rcproducer, and the tapering toiieamn is connected to the horn. Morctone-arm which connects the horn support over, by this construction the horn is supwith the flexible tube, and Fig. 4 is a secported in a position where it will not intertional view showing another form of my infore with the handling of the record to vention. place it on and oil the mandrel, nor with Reference now being had to the details the general manipulation of the machine. of the drawings by letter, A designates the What I claim is: casingof an ordinary talking machine of 1. in a talking machine. a bracket-arm the cylinder type, and B is a bracket arm secured to the casing of the machine and which is fastened to the casing in any suit able man er. The upper portion of said I horn,

provided with a hollow shell to receive a a hollow tone- -.u;m connected to sald hollow shellby a pin or lug formed on one of said members and entering a hole or opening in the other, a reproducer and telescopic connections between said reproducer and said tone-arm. 2. In a talking machine, a bracket-arm secured to the casing of the machine and provided with a hollow shell to receive the horn, a lug projecting from the inner Wall of the shell adjacent to its lower end, a tapering tone-arm having an aperture in its wall ad acent to one end and adapted to receive said lug, an open-ended tube adapted to telescope with the contracted end of said tapering tone-arm, a reproducel' and a flexible pipe connecting the same to said tube.

3. In a talking machine, a bracket-arm secured to the casing of the machine and provided with a hollow shell to receive a horn, a lug projecting from the inner wall of the shell adjacent to its lower end, a tone-arm having an aperture inits wall adjacent to its enlarged end and adapted to receive said lug, -thereby affording a universal joint between said tone-arm and said shell, an openended tube adapted to be removably held within the contracted end of the tone-arm, a reproducer and flexible connections between the same and said tone-arm.

4:; A talking machine comprising a frame,

a mandrel on said frame, a record on said mandrel, a reproducercarriage mounted to move in a right-line parallel with the axis of said mandrel, a reproducer supported by said carriage with its stylus in contact with said record, a tubular extension projecting from said reproducer," a fixed support, an

amplifying horn mounted at its small end uponsald support, and a hollow tone arm engagement with said tubular extension projecting from said reproducer.

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES A. RUMBLE; Witnesses CHARLES S. MERENESS, Crmnnns S. MERENESS, Jr.

(topics-of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressin g, the "Commissioner of Patents, Washington,- D. C.

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