USD31129S - Design for a body for musical instruments - Google Patents

Description

DESIGN.

Paton-ted My 4, i899.

P. E. WlRT.

BODY FOB MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS.

(Application filed In Q7, 1899- UNITED S'IATES PATENT OFFICE.

PAUL E. 'WIRT, OF BLOOMSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

DESIGN FOR A BODY FOR MUSICAL lNSTRUMENTS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Design No. 31,129, dated July 4, 1899. Application filed May 2'1, 1899. deriai No. 718,588. Term of patent 14 years;

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Be it known that 1, PAUL E. VVIRT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bloomsburg, in the county of Columbia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented and produced a new and original Design for the Body of a Musical Instrument, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a new and original design for the body of a musical instrument, and has for its object to provide a design of this character which shali be both useful and ornamental.

The leading feature of the design resides in an approximately heart-shaped body provided at one end with a narrowed approximately ovoidal arm extension and at the opposite end with a contracted throat extension.

A minor feature of the design is the approximately heart-shaped body provided with a flat bottom, a concavo-convex top, and a compoundly or sigmoidally curved rim.

An additional minor feature of the design is the ovoidal-shaped arm extension being of less width than the mainheart-shaped portion of the body and tapering in an inward direction and merging into the narrowed neck at the contiguous contracted end of said main body portion.

Another minor feature of the design resides in the ovoidal-shaped arm extension having a slightly-convexed outer side and provided at its inner side with a longitudinal concavity terminating at one end in an abrupt curved shoulder adjoining the flat bottom of the main portion of the body.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of the body of a musical instrument embodying the herein-described design. Fig. 2 is a side view thereof. Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, the numeral 1 designates a hollow body of an approximately heart shape and provided with a flat bottom board 2, a concave-convex top 3, and a compoundly or sigmoidally curved rim 4, registering with and fitting the cone spondingly-curved edges of the bottom and top boards. The said approximately heartshaped body 1 is provided at the tail end thereof with an approximately ovoidal arm extension 5, which tapers in an inward direction and merges into a narrowed neck 6, located at the inner contracted end of the main body portion 5, and the said narrowed neck has the 5 5 side portions thereof merged into the sigmoidally-curved rim 4 of the body. The outer side of the ovoidal-shaped arm extension 5 is slightly convexed, and at the inner side said arm extension is provided with a longitudinal 6o concavity 7,terminatingat one end in a curved abrupt shoulder 8, adjoining the flat bottom board 2 of the main portion of the body. At its end opposite the ovoidal-shaped arm extension 5 the approximately heart-shaped body 1 is further provided with a cross-sectionaliy rectangular throat extension 9, flush with the top surface of the body and provided with a coneaved inner side end 1().

The neck 11 of the instrument adjoins the throat extension 9 of the body, and the latter is further provided in the top thereof, adjacent to one end, with a pair of oppositely-arranged sound-ven ts 12,leading into said throat extension. 7 5

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is-- The design for the body of a musical instrument herein shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

PAUL E. VVIR'I,

Witnesses:

JOHN II. SIGGERS, HAROLD H. SiMMs.

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