US1799901A - Drum and cymbal beater - Google Patents

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April 7, 1931. H. A. HIERS ET AL DRUM AND CYMBAL BEATER Filed Feb. 18, 1930 INVENTORS' Wk I l B L/(LL A ORNEY 1 Q WAM Patented Apr. 7, 1931 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE HERBERT A. HIERS AND RALPH H. HIERS, OF GRANVILLE, MASSACHUSETTS, .AS-

SIGNOBS T0 NOBLE AND COOLEY COMPANY,

CORPORATION OF MASSACHUSETTS OF GRANVILLE, MASSACHUSETTS, A

DRUM AND GYMBAL BEATER Application filed February 18, 1930. Serial No. 429,266.

This invention relates to drum and cymbal strikers, and more particularly to the pedal actuated type of such beaters.

One of the objects of the invention is to provide a pedal for operating a cymbal striker simultaneously with a drum beater, and means for swinging the cymbal striker out of its striking position to an ineffective position.

Another object of the invention is to provide means for maintaining the said cymbal striker in adjusted position.

Another object is to produce a device of the character described in which the maximum simplicity of construction and operation is secured.

Other objects and advantages will appear as the nature of the improvements is better understood, the invention consisting substantially in the novel arrangement and co-relation of parts herein fully described, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein similar reference characters are used to describe corresponding parts throughout the several views, and then finally pointed out and specifically defined and indicated in the appended claims.

The disclosure made the basis of exemplifying the present inventive concept suggests a practical embodiment thereof, but the invention is not to be restricted to the exact details of this disclosure, and the latter therefore, is to be understood from an illustrative, rather than a restrictive standpoint.

The inventive idea involved is capable of receiving a variety of mechanical expressions, one of which, for the purpose of illustration,

is shown in the accompanying drawings, in

which I Figure 1 is a front view of a drum and cymbal arrangement showing our invention as applied thereto.

Figure 2 is a top plan view of our pedal and strikers.

Figure 3 is a side view thereof and Figure 4 is an end view looking from the left of Figure 3.

Referring now to the drawings in detail 5 indicates adrum to which there is suitably secured a cymbal 6. Suitably spaced from the drum there is placed a pedal 7 which preferably comprises a support 8 having a wire frame 9 hingedly supported thereon at 10. The frame 9 is preferably made of a single strand of heavy wire and provided at one end thereof with a horizontal cross bar 11 extending acrossthe lower triangular portion 12 of a drum striker 13 pivoted at 14 on the support 8. A spring 15 is anchored at one end to the pedal frame 9 and at its opposite end to the said striker 13, to maintain the said parts in operative relation.

The striker 13 is provided with an oflset arm 16 which at the top thereof is formed into a loop 17, through which is passed a screw or stud 18 upon which there is rotatably mounted a cymbal striker 19 frictionally maintained against the said loop 17 by means of a spring 20 exerting a tension against the said striker 19 and a washer 21 on the stud 18. The lower portion of the cymbal striker 19 is provided with a detent arm 22 in engagement with the. arm 16 and provides means for maintaining the said striker 19 in either striking or non-striking position.

If desired the cymbal striker may be made integral with the arm 16 by properly extending same or it may be entirely omitted the device then acting as a single beater or striker.

From the foregoing it will be seen that we have provided a simple and eflicient drum and cymbal striker with means thereon for bringing one of said strikers into effective or ineffective position and for maintaining the said striker in said positions.

Having described our invention what we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. In a device of the character described, a pivotally mounted pedal frame, a pivotally mounted striker, an extension on the pedal frame bent up therefrom and in direct engagement with the striker and a spring secured at one end to the striker and at its opposite end to the pedal frame.

2. In a device of the character described, a pivotally mounted pedal frame, a pivotally mounted striker, an extension on the pedal frame bent up therefrom and in engagement with the striker, an arm extending from the striker and integral therewith, a second striker on the said striker arm and a spring secured at one end to the first mentioned striker and at its opposite end to the pedal frame. 7

3. In a device of the character described, a pivotally mounted pedal frame, a pivotally mounted striker, an extension on the pedal frame in engagement with the striker and a spring secured at one end to the striker and at its opposite end to the pedal frame, an arm extending from the said striker, a second striker pivotally mounted'for adjustment on the said arm, and spring means for maintaining the second striker in frictional con tact with the arm.

4:. In a device of the nature described, a base, a pedal frame pivoted near one end thereof, a drum striker pivotally mounted near the opposite end of the base, an extension on the pedal frame in contact with thedrum striker, an arm extending from and g integral with the drum striker, a loop on the said arm, a bearing post in the said loop, a cymbal striker rotatably mounted on the said post, a detent arm on the cymbal striker, a spring to maintain the cymbal striker detent 39 in frictional engagement with the drum striker extension, and a spring in operative engagement with the pedal frame and drum striker. 5. In a device of the character described, a. striker frame, a lower bent up pivot forming section thereon, a pivotally mounted pedal frame, an extension bent from the said pedal frame in direct engagement with the pivot forming section on the striker frame, and a 40 spring'secured at one end to the pedal frame and at its opposite end to the striker frame. In testimony whereof we hereunto affix our signatures.

- 1 HERBERT A. HIERS. RALPH H. I IIERS.

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