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M. GALLY MECHANICAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENT.

N0. 309,616. Patented Dec. 23, 1884.

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' M. GALLY.

MECHANICAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENT.

No. 309,616. Patented Dec. 23, 1884.

' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MERIIITT GALIJY, Oil! N V YORK, N. Y.

MECHANICAL MUSICALINSTRUMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 809,616, dated December 23, 1884.

Application filed October- 30, 1882.

To aZZ 1.0710112, may concern:

Be it known that I, Mnnnrr'r Gannv, a citizen of the United States, residing; in the city of New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Reed-Organs, of which the following is a specification.

In the accoi'npanying drawings, Figure 1 is a sectional view of the tube-board, valves, stops, &c., showing the several operating parts of the invention. Fig. 2 is a sectional plan of the compound stop, and Fig. 8 is a section plan of the valves and the operating pneumatics.

In a previous application iiled October 9, 1882, I described and claimed a tube-board having, in. addition to the reed-tubes, secondary tubes between the reed-tubes proper and the air-chest. The same was shown as operated by means of a mechanical music-sheet passing over the openings of the reed-tubes. In Fig. 1 of the present application I show modification of this construction with valves in the air-chest, which is an exhaust-chest adapted for manual or pneumatic mechanical action. In a former patent ll described and claimed alternate pneumatics in two lines op crating a single line of valves. l n the present case I show two lines of pneumaties operating two lines of valves, each line of valves be ing apart ofthe same scale. l n ordinary organ construction the line of reed-tubes oi the tubeboard corresponds with the line of manual keys, so that each valve stands opposite each corresponding key, the valves throughout the entire scale for any set oi reeds being in line. l 11 order to double the room for each val ve and its operating pneumatic, I use two tube-boards instead of one, with a part of the reeds oi' the scale in each board, leaving every alternate letter blank. The two tubeboards shown in Fig. 1 are therefore one compound board for one complete scale. One part of this compound tube-board is shown with upright tubes and the other with horizontal tubes for the purpose of eeonomizing space and securing easy access to all the reeds of the entire range. However, all thetubes may be either upright or horizontal, if desired. In order to allow the vent-tube S, leading from the line oi. pneumatics 13' to the manual keys II, to pass be- (No model.)

tween the tubes of the tube-board nearest the manual keys, I alternate the pneumatics ot' the two lines, as shown in plan, Fig. 3, the

reed-valves being spaced for the passage of the tubes between them. Thisisavery simple and cheap construction, as all the leader-tubes from the manual can bemade by grooving the valveboard as shown; To secure simple and cheap construction, I also make the air-chamber of the pncnmatics by cutting recesses i into the valve-board. I then cover each line or a number of the recesses with a single piece 0t flexible material, 71, glued firmly to the face of the valve-board. To this single piece of flexible material a number of followers, .3, are attached and hinged at one end tothc valve board. Through the followers B, I make an opening, which I cover with a thin piece of material, in which is a very small perforation, r/, Fi 1. From the chamber of the pneumatic I lead the vent-tube S to the manual key or to the tracker 1* for mechanical music-sheet f, either or both, as the instrument may be arranged l'or operation. The valves (1 (1 are operated by means of the pneumatics, asshown.

By the construction of the tube-boards as described, the pneumaties are not only accommodated, but the arrangement of reedpipes 11 E is facilitated, as each reed maythus be accommodated with a distinct pipe.

I have described the pipes in the application hereinbel'ore referred to, the present drawings showing only a modification of the compound reflector (1. Two sets of reeds are shown in the tube-boards, and for variety 0! tone one set is tarnished wiih pipes and the other without. In order that either set of reeds may he stopped oil, I show a novel stop device which allows not only the set without pipes but also the set with pipes to be stopped oif at will. For this purpose I use a thin sheet of flexible materiahn a,which I cause to slide between the pipes proper, E, and the tubeboard. In Fig. 2 I show a portion of this ilexible stop in plan, having three lines of openings therein, 71. i hen the stop a is in position shown, both sets of reed-tubes are open. \Vhen the line oi" openings '1'. in the stop is brought over either one of the sets of reeds, the other set is stopped oil. The flexible stop sheet a is attached to vibrating stop-bars J J, which act together and move the stop to its different positions. Motion is given to the bars J J by any of the ordinary means for the action of steps. For thehorizontal reed-board, Fig. 1, in which only one of the sets of reeds is to be affected by the stop, the flexible stopslide a is without perforations.

To avoid too much solid material in the tube-board to affect the tone, all the ordinary tubes may be cut, if desired, and only a part of the number he used for reeds or supplied with valves.

What I claim as my invention 1's- 1. The combination, with a series of reeds, spaced as described, of a series of leader-tubes passing between the spaced reeds, substantially as described.

2. In combination, a plurality of reedboards, one having spaced reeds, and a series of leader-tubes, thetubes passing between the s )aced reedopenings of one board to operate the reeds in another board, substantially as described.

3. In a musical instrument of the character described, the pneumatics, vent-tubes from said pneumatics passing to the operating-keys or sheet-tracker between the valves operated by another line of pneumatics, all combined substantially as stated.

4;. In a musical instrument, the rcedwalve board having inclosed grooves leading toward the operating-keys or tracker, said grooves forming the operating-tubes.

5. The combination, with the reed-valves and valve-operating mechanism, of the flexible and movable stop for the mouths of the reedtubes, substantially as described.

6. The combination, with the reed-pipes or modifying tubes, reed-valves, and passages leading to said valves, of the flexible stop for closing said passages, substantially as described.

7. The combination, with reed-valves and a double line of passages leading thereto, of a flexible stop having three sets of openings arranged relatively to said passages, substantially as described.

8. A recessed reed-valve board, a flexible diaphragm-cover for said recess, and a follower in the exhaust-chest to bear against said diaphragm on the side away from the recess, the combination being and operating substantially as described.

9. The reed -board having a recess therein which is deepest at one side, a flexible diaphragm-cover to said recess, and a hinged follower in the eXhaust-chest bearing on said diaphragm, the hinge being on the side of the recess having least depression, all combined as stated.

10. The reed-valve board having a leadertube, a diaphragm attached to the face of the reed-valve board so as to surround the mouth of said leader-tube, and a follower in the exhaust-chest on the side of the diaphragm op posite the leader-tube, all combined substalr tially as and for the purpose set forth.

11. The reed-valve board having a leadertube, a diaphragm attached to the face of said valve-boardto surround themouth of said tube,

a follower in the exhaust-chest on the side of the diaphragm opposite the leader-tube, and a spring to bear against said follower, all combined substantially as stated.

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