Phonozoic

U. S. Phonograph Patents Issued in 1917


Jan. 2, 1917

1,210,665  Talking-Moving-Picture Apparatus.  Frederick Webster Matthews, of Los Angeles, California.  Executed Aug. 14, 1914.  Filed Aug. 20, 1914, Serial No. 857,651.  Means of synchronizing moving pictures and phonograph.  Classification 352/36.

1,211,066  Speed-Controller for Graphophones.  Joseph H. Bragdon, of New York, N. Y.  No execution date.  Filed Apr. 2, 1913, Serial No. 758,350.  Refiled Jan. 14, 1915, Serial No. 2,157. Classification 188/187.

1,211,110  Stop Mechanism for Talking-Machines.  Raymond Duncan, of New York, N. Y.  Executed Dec. 29, 1915.  Filed Feb. 3, 1916, Serial No. 75,895.  Classification 369/237; 200/DIG.34.

1,211,121  Flash-Lamp.  Henry L. Everett, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  No execution date.  Filed May 4, 1916, Serial No. 95,455.  Proposed “to adapt the device for use in illuminating the needle of a talking machine when it is lowered to the record.”  Classification 362/197.

D50,126  Design for a Talking-Machine Casing.  John C. English, of Camden, New Jersey, Assignor to Victor Talking Machine Company, a Corporation of New Jersey.  No execution date.  Filed Jan. 28, 1911, Serial No. 605,335.  Classification D14/203.

D50,139  Design for a Talking-Machine Cabinet.  Archie E. Parnall, of Chicago, Illinois.  No execution date.  Filed Sept. 18, 1916, Serial No. 120,908.  Classification D14/184.


Jan. 9, 1917

1,211,532  Phonograph-Needle Cutter.  Burr B. Blood, of Chicago, Illinois, Assignor to Carlyle MacHarg, of Chicago, Illinois.  Executed Feb. 7, 1914.  Filed Feb. 14, 1914, Serial No. 818,622.  Classification 30/131; 30/229.

1,211,559  Stylus for Talking-Machines.  William P. Dun Lany, of Chicago, Illinois, Assignor to Sears, Roebuck and Company, of Chicago, Illinois, a Corporation of New York.  No execution date.  Filed Apr. 26, 1916, Serial No. 93,610.  Classification 369/173; 76/DIG.11; D14/264.

1,211,573  Phonograph.  Edgar J. Griswold, of New York, N. Y.  Executed July 11, 1916.  Filed July 12, 1916, Serial No. 108,778.  Classification 369/158; 369/160.

1,211,874  Phonograph-Reproducer.  Alexander N. Pierman, of Newark, New Jersey, Assignor, by Mesne Assignments, to New Jersey Patent Company, of West Orange, New Jersey, a Corporation of New Jersey.  Executed July 17, 1913.  Filed July 19, 1913, Serial No. 779,917.  Classification 369/156; 369/169.


Jan. 16, 1917

1,212,292  Needle-Cutter.  Samuel O. Wade, of Chicago, Illinois.  No execution date.  Filed June 24, 1915, Serial No. 36,051.  “My invention relates to needle cutters for sharpening the so called ‘fiber’ needles of phonographs and talking machines.”  Classification 30/131.

1,212,309  Means for Securing a Sound-Box to the Tone-Arm of Talking-Machines.  Harry Woodward Archer, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, Assignor to American Graphophone Company, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, a Corporation of West Virginia.  No execution date.  Filed May 19, 1915, Serial No. 29,161.  Classification 369/157.

1,212,692  Speed-Regulator for Phonographs.  Albert Ruckgaber, of Brooklyn, New York.  No execution date.  Filed Mar. 6, 1914, Serial No. 822,933.  Classification 369/240; 310/103; 310/105; 310/93.

1,212,693  Speed-Regulator for Phonographs.   Albert Ruckgaber, of Brooklyn, New York.  No execution date.  Filed Aug. 7, 1914, Serial No. 855,618.  Classification 369/240; 310/268; 310/93.

1,212,872  Automatic Brake Mechanism for Phonographs.  Frank H. Adams, of Cleveland, Ohio.  No execution date.  Filed Jan. 22, 1915, Serial No. 3,673.  Renewed Dec. 1, 1916, Serial No. 134,500.  Classification 369/236; 116/319.

1,213,051  Method of Making Diaphragms.  Clarence S. Wickes, of Merchantville Borough, New Jersey, Assignor to Victor Talking Machine Company, a Corporation of New Jersey.  Executed Sept. 18, 1912.  Filed Sept. 20, 1912, Serial No. 721,415.  Classification 264/137; 264/320.

D50,210  Design for a Phonograph-Cabinet.  Horace Sheble, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Assignor to Domestic Talking Machine Corporation, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a Corporation of Pennsylvania.  Filed Apr. 1, 1916, Serial No. 88,399.  Classification D14/200.


Jan. 23, 1917

1,213,150  Method of Producing Magnetic Sound-Records for Talking-Motion-Picture Films.  Henry C. Bullis, of Redwood Falls, Minnesota.  No execution date.  Filed Dec. 15, 1915, Serial No. 67,068.  Classification 360/15; 235/450; 315/289; 315/76; 355/98; 369/118; 369/284; 427/130; 427/132; 430/140.

1,213,176  Apparatus for Phonograph-Kinetoscopes.  Reginald A. Fessenden, of Brookline, Massachusetts.  No execution date.  Filed June 27, 1916, Serial No. 106,247.  Classification 381/152; 359/444.

1,213,197  Phonograph.  Newman H. Holland, of West Orange, New Jersey, Assignor to New Jersey Patent Company, of West Orange, New Jersey, a Corporation of New Jersey.  Executed Sept. 26, 1913.  Filed Sept. 29, 1913, Serial No. 792,253.  Classification 369/260.

1,213,413  Phonograph.  Clinton B. Repp, of New York, N. Y.  Executed Jan. 8, 1912.  Filed Jan. 19, 1912, Serial No. 672,067.  Classification 369/213; 369/266; 74/393.

1,213,443  Talking-Machine.  Clinton E. Woods, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, Assignor to American Graphophone Company, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, a Corporation of West Virginia.  No execution date.  Filed Sept. 25, 1913, Serial No. 791,821.  Classification 369/42.01; 369/53.39.

1,213,468  Sound-Record.  Victor H. Emerson, of New York, N. Y., Assignor to Emerson Phonograph Company, Inc., a Corporation of New York.   Executed Dec. 8, 1915.  Filed Dec. 16, 1915, Serial No. 67,165.  Classification 369/277.

1,213,613  Record of Light, Sound, and Analogous Phenomena and Process and Apparatus for Producing the Same.  Charles Edgar Fritts, Deceased, late of Oneonta, New York, by Josephine H. Fritts, Administratrix, of Oneonta, New York, Assignor, by Mesne Assignments, to John D. Myers, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  Filed Oct. 22, 1880, Serial No. 19,313.  Divided: No execution date.  Filed June 22, 1912, Serial No. 705,346.  Classification 369/84; 235/91R.

1,213,614  Record of Pulsations of Sound and Analogous Phenomena and Process and Apparatus for Producing the Same.  Charles Edgar Fritts, Deceased, late of Oneonta, New York, by Josephine H. Fritts, Administratrix, of Oneonta, New York, Assignor, by Mesne Assignments, to John D. Myers, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  Filed Oct. 22, 1880, Serial No. 19,313.  Divided: No execution date.  Filed June 22, 1912, Serial No. 705,347.  Classification 369/84; 235/91R; 359/227.

1,213,615  Apparatus for Making Sound-Records.  Charles Edgar Fritts, Deceased, late of Oneonta, New York, by Josephine H. Fritts, Administratrix, of Oneonta, New York, Assignor, by Mesne Assignments, to John D. Myers, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  Filed Oct. 22, 1880, Serial No. 19,313.  Divided: No execution date.  Filed June 22, 1912, Serial No. 705,349.  Classification 369/117; 250/230.

1,213,616  Means for Producing, Controlling, and Utilizing Electric Currents.  Charles Edgar Fritts, Deceased, late of Oneonta, New York, by Josephine H. Fritts, Administratrix, of Oneonta, New York, Assignor, by Mesne Assignments, to John D. Myers, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  Filed Oct. 22, 1880, Serial No. 19,313.  Divided: No execution date.  Filed June 22, 1912, Serial No. 705,351.  Classification 369/105; 250/566.


Jan. 30, 1917

1,213,883  Synchronous Phonograph and Kinetograph.  Isidor Kitsee, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Assignor to the Cort-Kitsee Co., a Corporation of New York.  No execution date.  Filed July 1, 1912, Serial No. 706,887.  Classification 352/16; 318/686.

1,213,990  Multiple-Disk Record for Phonographs.  Neil B. Wolcott, of Washington, District of Columbia.  No execution date.  Filed Jan. 31, 1916, Serial No. 75,359.  “The object of my invention is to produce a disk record comprising a plurality of disk units upon each of which is recorded a part of a phonographic record, the units of which comprise a multiple of a complete record arranged in sequence upon the unitary disks, which collectively comprise a continuous and sequent production.”  Classification 369/274; 369/201.

1,214,050  Tone-Purifier for Talking-Machines.  Charles P. Marshall, of Watertown, New York.  No execution date.  Filed Apr. 24, 1916, Serial No. 93,038.  Classification 369/163; 369/170.

1,214,106  Talking-Machine.  Clinton E. Woods, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, Assignor to American Graphophone Company, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, a Corporation of West Virginia.  No execution date.  Filed Jan. 24, 1914, Serial No. 814,174.  Classification 369/223; 369/241; 369/260; 369/53.41.

1,214,181  Brake for Phonographs.  Frederick Kraft, of Highwood Park, New Jersey.  No execution date.  Filed Aug. 16, 1916, Serial No. 115,125.  Classification 369/236; 369/235.

1,214,191  Phonograph Turn-Table.   John P. Leach, of Chicago, Illinois.  No execution date.  Filed Sept. 20, 1916, Serial No. 121,100.   Classification 369/271.1.

1,214,304  Talking-Machine.  Harry W. Hess, of New York, N. Y. No execution date.  Filed Aug. 7, 1914, Serial No. 855,654.  Classification 369/80.

1,214,352  Repeater Attachment for Phonographs.  George L. Minns, of Cleveland, Ohio.  No execution date.  Filed Aug. 19, 1916, Serial No. 115,896.  Classification 369/226; 369/231.


Feb. 6, 1917

1,214,806  Stopping Mechanism for Phonographs.  William A. Lucker, of St. Paul, Minnesota.  No execution date.  Filed July 22, 1915, Serial No. 41,401.  Classification 369/236; 369/53.45.

1,214,920   Electric Switch.  Newman H. Holland, of West Orange, New Jersey, Assignor to New Jersey Patent Company, of West Orange, New Jersey, a Corporation of New Jersey.  Executed Feb. 13, 1914.  Filed Feb. 16, 1914, Serial No. 818,894.  “When an electric switch is used in connection with such a phonograph, it may be necessary, for convenience of operation, to place the same in close proximity to desks and tables, which are generally strewn with papers and other inflammable materials.”  This invention is to avoid risk of a spark.  Classification 200/470; 200/DIG.27.

RE14,257  See 1,076,385.


Feb. 13, 1917

1,215,328  Needle Attachment.  Porter H. Adams, of Brookline, Massachusetts.  No execution date.  Filed Jan. 27, 1915, Serial No. 4,716.  Classification 369/171; 279/44; 369/161.

1,215,410  Phonograph.  Clinton B. Repp, of Plainfield, New Jersey.  Executed Oct. 22, 1912.  Filed Oct. 29, 1912, Serial No. 728,435.  Classification 369/162; 369/168.

1,215,446  Stop for Talking-Machines.  William S. Ward, of Charlottesville, Virginia.  No execution date.  Filed Apr. 14, 1916, Serial No. 91,081.  Classification 369/236.

1,215,500  Method of Mounting Diaphragms in Sound-Boxes.  Parker Dodge, of Washington, District of Columbia.  No execution date.  Filed May 18, 1915, Serial No. 28,910.  Classification 181/171; 381/162.

1,215,744  Vibration-Governing Device for Sound-Reproducing Machines.  William J. Tanner, of Bridgeport, Connecticut.  No execution date.  Filed Jan. 9, 1914, Serial No. 811,205.  "The invention consists of a device or attachment applicable to sound reproducing machines of various types but it is particularly useful with machines employing disk records."  Classification 369/163; 369/170; 369/251.

1,216,222  Speed-Regulating Device for Talking-Machines.  Jorgen F. H. Fechtenburg, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  No execution date.  Filed Aug. 3, 1916, Serial No. 112,982.  Classification 188/187; 369/239.

1,216,232  Annotator for Commercial Phonographs.  Martha L. Hunter and Albert B. Church, of San Francisco, California.  No execution date.  Filed Sept. 15, 1915, Serial No. 50,780.    Classification 369/27.01.


Feb. 20, 1917

1,216,500  Multiple-Horn Phonograph.  Julius Roever, of New York, N. Y., Assignor to Roever Patent Company, of New York, N. Y., a Corporation of New York.  No execution date.  Filed July 12, 1915, Serial No. 39,245.  Renewed July 14, 1916, Serial No. 109,404.  Classification 369/82.

1,216.501  Divided-Horn Phonograph.   Julius Roever, of New York, N. Y., Assignor to Roever Patent Company, of New York, N. Y., a Corporation of New York.  No execution date.  Filed July 12, 1915, Serial No. 39,246.  Renewed July 14, 1916, Serial No. 109,403.  Classification 369/82.

1,216,614  Tone-Arm Support for Talking-Machines.  Louis K. Scotford, of Chicago, Illinois.  No execution date.  Filed July 15, 1916, Serial No. 109,489.  Classification 369/158.

1,216,656  Talking-Machine.  Frank L. Capps, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, Assignor to American Graphophone Company, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, a Corporation of West Virginia.  No execution date.  Filed June 17, 1915, Serial No. 34,721.  Classification 181/180; 181/200.

1,216,691  Talking-Machine Attachment.  William M. Hilliard, of Haverhill, Massachusetts.  No execution date.  Filed Sept. 29, 1916, Serial No. 122,791.  Classification 369/157; 369/165.

1,216,839  Convertible Sound-Box.  Richard James Prettie, of Jamaica, New York, Assignor to the Aeolian Company, a Corporation of Connecticut.  Executed May 3, 1915.  Filed May 4, 1915, Serial No. 25,741.  Classification 369/161; 369/164.

1,216,946  Acoustic Multiplier.  Edward E. Clement, of Washington, District of Columbia.  No execution date.  Filed Mar. 16, 1912, Serial No. 684,365.  Among purposes is “improving the reproduction of phonographic records.”  Classification 381/179; 181/128; 367/174; 369/163; 369/246; 381/186.

D50,363  Design for a Phonograph-Cabinet.  Horace Sheble, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Assignor to Domestic Talking Machine Corporation of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a Corporation of Pennsylvania.  No execution date.  Filed Apr. 3, 1916, Serial No. 88,728.  Classification D14/200.

D50,364  Design for a Phonograph-Cabinet.  Horace Sheble, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Assignor to Domestic Talking Machine Corporation of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a Corporation of Pennsylvania.  No execution date.  Filed Apr. 4, 1916, Serial No. 88,949.  Classification D14/200.


Feb. 27, 1917

1,217,294  Diaphragm for Sound-Reproducers.  Bernhard Fritzsch, of Cincinnati, Ohio.  No execution date.  Filed May 15, 1916, Serial No. 97,492.  Classification 181/162.

1,217,723  Phonograph.  Roy A. Dunbar, of Evans City, Pennsylvania.  No execution date.  Filed Mar. 31, 1916, Serial No. 87,917.  Classification 369/162.

1,217,746  Safety Spring-Winding Mechanism.  Emil Graf, of New York, N. Y., Assignor, by Mesne Assignments, to James Manoil Company, Inc., of New York, N. Y., a Corporation of New York.  No execution date.  Filed July 26, 1916, Serial No. 111,371.  “One of the objects of the invention is to provide a device of this kind particularly adapted for use in winding phonographs.”  Classification 464/44.

1,217,794  Phonographic Attachment.  Eugene F. McDonald, Jr., of Chicago, Illinois.  No execution date.  Filed June 26, 1916, Serial No. 105,991.  Classification 369/245.

1,217,843  Automatic Electric Winder for Spring-Motors.  William Gentry Shelton, of New York, N. Y.  No execution date.  Filed Nov. 23, 1916, Serial No. 133,062.  “The invention is peculiarly useful in connection with an automatic winder for the spring motor of a talking machine.”  Classification 185/40M; 185/40R; 185/43.

1,217,869  Talking-Machine.   Eldridge R. Johnson, of Merion, and John C. English, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Assignors to Victor Talking Machine Company, a Corporation of New Jersey.  Executed Apr. 13 and 21, 1915.  Filed Apr. 23, 1915, Serial No. 23,299.  Classification 369/82; 312/7.1; 312/8.11; 312/8.16.

D50,388  Design for a Casing for Winding Attachments for Talking-Machines.  Joseph W. Jones, of Pelham, New York, Assignor to Jones Motrola, Inc., of New York, N. Y., a Corporation of New York.  No execution date.  Filed Mar. 4, 1916, Serial No. 82,257.  Classification D14/261.


Mar. 6, 1917

1,218,324  Sound-Producing Device.  Melvin L. Severy, of Arlington Heights, Massachusetts.  Continuation of Serial No. 357,978, filed Feb. 18, 1907.  Executed Dec. 17, 1912.  Filed Mar. 22, 1913, Serial No. 756,169.  “The object of the present invention is the construction of an improved musical instrument in which the sonorous vibrations are produced electromagnetically by the movement of phonograms of magnetic material past electromagnetic sound producing mechanism.”  Classification 369/273; 29/DIG.28; 340/384.1; 360/125; 369/162.

1,218,408  Repeating Attachment for Sound-Reproducing Instruments.  Eskil H. Josephson, of Chicago, Illinois.  Filed June 10, 1916, Serial No. 102,965.  Classification 369/226; 369/231.

1,218,560  Stop Device for Phonograph-Disks.  Artie F. Ireton, of Richmond, Indiana, Assignor to the Starr Piano Company of Richmond, Indiana, a Corporation of Indiana.  No execution date.  Filed Mar. 7, 1916, Serial No. 82,584.  Classification 369/238.

D50,419  Design for a Combined Jardinière and Grafanola [sic] Stand.  Fred Hoyt, of Seattle, Washington, Assignor to Universal High Power Telephone Co., of King County, Washington.  No execution date.  Filed Sept. 13, 1916, Serial No. 119,984. Classification D14/168; D11/144; D14/176.


Mar. 13, 1917

1,218,625  Sound Recording and Reproducing Machine.  Horace H. Brown, of New York, N. Y., Assignor of One-Half to Gottfried Peil, of New York, N. Y.  Executed July 8, 1912.  Filed July 12, 1912, Serial No. 708,952.  Renewed Jan. 29, 1917, Serial No. 145,311.  Classification 369/161; 369/163; 369/169.

1,218,799  Phonograph Recorder and Reproducer.  Herman G. Pape, of New York, N. Y.  Executed Mar. 2, 1915.  Filed Mar. 8, 1915, Serial No. 12,770.  Classification 369/146.

1,218,918  Recorder-Reproducer Device.  Clinton E. Woods, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, Assignor to American Graphophone Company, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, a Corporation of West Virginia.  No execution date.  Filed Mar. 18, 1915, Serial No. 15,206.  Classification 369/171; 369/161.

1,219,099  Mechanical Toy.  John Wiley Hart, of Iola, Kansas, Assignor of One-Half to James Waring Wilgus, of Iola, Kansas, and One-Fourth to Edward G. Cresse, of Iola, Kansas.  No execution date.  Filed June 23, 1916, Serial No. 105,475.  One object is for use as a “phonograph attachment.”  Classification 446/83; 446/357.

1,219,112  Speed-Indicator for Talking-Machines.  Henry Kocourek, of Chicago, Illinois, Assignor to Stewart-Warner Speedometer Corporation, of Chicago, Illinois, a Corporation of Virginia.  Executed Dec. 24, 1914.  Filed Jan. 2, 1915, Serial No. 211.  Classification 384/415; 73/519.01.

1,219,144  Repeater for Talking-Machines.  John Para, of Elizabeth, New Jersey.  No execution date.  Filed June 21, 1916, Serial No. 104,973.  Classification 369/227; 369/228; 369/268.

1,219,164  Phonograph.  Mark Jay Samuels, of New York, N. Y.  No execution date.  Filed Apr. 17, 1915, Serial No. 21,983.  Classification 369/80; 188/187.

1,219,275  Talking-Machine.  John C. English, of Camden, New Jersey, Assignor to Victor Talking Machine Company, a Corporation of New Jersey.  Executed Mar. 17, 1911.  Filed Mar. 24, 1911, Serial No. 616,666.  Classification 369/81.

1,219,379  Automatic Brake for talking-Machines.  Wilburn N. Dennison, of Merchantville Borough, New Jersey, Assignor to Victor Talking Machine Company, a Corporation of New Jersey.  Executed Sept. 6, 1910.  Filed Sept. 8,1910, Serial No. 581,022.  Classification 192/143; 369/236.

1,219,380  Brake for Talking-Machines.  Wilburn N. Dennison, of Merchantville Borough, New Jersey, Assignor to Victor Talking Machine Company, a Corporation of New Jersey.  Filed Sept. 8, 1910, Serial No. 581,022.  Divided: Executed July 27, 1911.  Filed July 29, 1911, Serial No. 641,274.  Classification 192/139; 369/234; 369/236; 369/238.

D50,449  Design for a Phonograph-Cabinet.  Walter C. Pitts, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Assignor, by Mesne Assignments, to Solophone Company, of Jersey City, New Jersey, a Corporation of New Jersey.  No execution date.  Filed Dec. 26, 1916, Serial No. 139,059.  Classification D14/176.

D50,450  Design for a Phonograph-Cabinet.  Walter C. Pitts, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Assignor, by Mesne Assignments, to Solophone Company, of Jersey City, New Jersey, a Corporation of New Jersey.  No execution date.  Filed Dec. 26, 1916, Serial No. 139,060.  Classification D14/184.


Mar. 20, 1917

1,219,682  Recording Correlated Light and Sound Effects.  William Baldwin Vansize, of Brooklyn, New York.  Filed June 29, 1915, Serial No. 36,938.  Divided: No execution date.  Filed Sept. 24, 1915, Serial No. 52,353.  Classification 352/3; 360/80; 455/100.

1,219,752  Graphophone.  Phillip Majorana, of Louisville, Kentucky.  No execution date.  Filed Mar. 30, 1916, Serial No. 87,712.  Classification 369/258.1.

1,219,753  Talking-Machine.  Joseph B. Marshall, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, Assignor to Rex Talking Machine Corporation, of Wilmington, Delaware, a Corporation of Virginia.  Executed Jan. 27, 1916.  Filed Feb. 8, 1916, Serial No. 76,928.  Classification 369/158; 369/163.

1,219,934  Attachment for Phonographic Reproducers.  Edmund Gollmer, of New Ulm, Texas.  No execution date.  Filed June 30, 1915, Serial No. 37,301.  Classification 369/163.

1,219,975  Phonographic-Disk-Record Cabinet.  Cecilia D. McVay, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  No execution date.  Filed Dec. 31, 1915, Serial No. 69,529.  Designed to prevent warpage of disc records left standing vertically.  Classification 312/9.11.

D50,478  Design for a Phonograph-Cabinet.   Horace C. Moyer, of Oak Park, Illinois, Assignor to the Windsor Furniture Company, of Chicago, Illinois, a Corporation of Illinois.  No execution date.  Filed Jan. 2, 1917, Serial No. 140,321.  Classification D14/184.

D50,479  Design for a Phonograph-Cabinet.   Horace C. Moyer, of Oak Park, Illinois, Assignor to the Windsor Furniture Company, of Chicago, Illinois, a Corporation of Illinois.  No execution date.  Filed Jan. 2, 1917, Serial No. 140,322.  Classification D14/178.

D50,480  Design for a Phonograph-Cabinet.   Horace C. Moyer, of Oak Park, Illinois, Assignor to the Windsor Furniture Company, of Chicago, Illinois, a Corporation of Illinois.  No execution date.  Filed Jan. 2, 1917, Serial No. 140,323.  Classification D14/184.

D50,481  Design for a Phonograph-Cabinet.   Horace C. Moyer, of Oak Park, Illinois, Assignor to the Windsor Furniture Company, of Chicago, Illinois, a Corporation of Illinois.  No execution date.  Filed Jan. 2, 1917, Serial No. 140,324.  Classification D14/184.

D50,482  Design for a Phonograph-Cabinet.   Horace C. Moyer, of Oak Park, Illinois, Assignor to the Windsor Furniture Company, of Chicago, Illinois, a Corporation of Illinois.  No execution date.  Filed Jan. 2, 1917, Serial No. 140,325.  Classification D14/184.

D50,483  Design for a Phonograph-Cabinet.   Horace C. Moyer, of Oak Park, Illinois, Assignor to the Windsor Furniture Company, of Chicago, Illinois, a Corporation of Illinois.  No execution date.  Filed Jan. 2, 1917, Serial No. 140,326.  Classification D14/184.

D50,484  Design for a Phonograph-Cabinet.   Horace C. Moyer, of Oak Park, Illinois, Assignor to the Windsor Furniture Company, of Chicago, Illinois, a Corporation of Illinois.  No execution date.  Filed Jan. 2, 1917, Serial No. 140,327.  Classification D14/184.


Mar. 27, 1917

1,220,480  Phonograph.  Peter Weber, of Orange, New Jersey, Assignor to New Jersey Patent Company, of West Orange, New Jersey, a Corporation of New Jersey.  Executed Aug. 2, 1910.  Filed Aug. 6, 1910, Serial No. 575,861.  Classification 369/214; 369/254.

1,220,638  Sound-Box. Alva D. Jones, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Assignor of One-Fifth to E. Hayward Fairbanks, of Merchantville, New Jersey.   No execution date.  Filed Feb. 24, 1914, Serial No. 820,643.  Classification 369/160; 181/162; 181/167; 181/171.

1,220,967  Phonograph-Table.  Albart Epri, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  No execution date.  Filed June 5, 1916, Serial No. 101,847.  Classification 312/8.11; 312/290; 312/8.13.

1,221,003  Sound-Reproducing Machine.  Robert G. Brown, of Cincinnati, Ohio, Assignor to John E. Strietelmeier, of Cincinnati, Ohio.  No execution date.  Filed Jan. 18, 1915, Serial No. 2,834.  Classification 369/226.

D50,544  Design for a Phonograph-Cabinet.  Clara A. White, of Brooklyn, New York.  Filed Dec. 5, 1916, Serial No. 135,280.  Classification D14/184.


Apr. 3, 1917

1,221,072   Spring-Motor.  Harry B. McNulty, of New York, N. Y., Assignor to Wonder Talking Machine Company Inc., of New York, N. Y., a Corporation of New York.  Executed Jan. 5, 1916.  Filed Jan. 28, 1916, Serial No. 74,785.  “For rotating a sound record support or any other object”  Classification 185/10; 185/40M; 185/45.

1,221,074  Driving and Speed-Regulating Mechanism for Phonographs.  Stanley R. MacLane, of Boston, Massachusetts.  No execution date.  Filed Sept. 2, 1915, Serial No. 48,727.  Classification 369/53.43; 188/187; 369/232; 369/235; 369/236; 369/240; 369/243; 369/267.

1,221,075  Driving and Speed-Regulating Mechanism for Phonographs.  Stanley R. MacLane, of Boston, Massachusetts.  No execution date.  Filed July 7, 1916, Serial No. 108,064.  Classification 369/234; 369/181.

1,221,285  Brake for Talking-Machines.  Guadalupe Buelna and Arthur E. Burson, of Santa Barbara, California, Assignors to American Graphophone Company, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, a Corporation of West Virginia.  No execution date.  Filed Jan. 30, 1911, Serial No. 606,965.  Classification 369/234.

1,221,348  Sound-Reproducing Stylus.  John C. Mercer, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  No execution date.  Filed Dec. 6, 1915, Serial No. 65,282.  Classification 369/173.

1,221,407  Apparatus for Producing Companion Auditory and Visual Records for Simultaneous Reproduction.  Edward H. Amet, of Redondo Beach, California.  Filed Dec. 22, 1912, Serial No. 738,809.  Divided: Filed Apr. 21, 1913, Serial No. 762,553.  Classification 352/35; 464/92.

1,221,408  Means for Reproducing Vibrations.  Edward H. Amet, of Redondo Beach, California.  Executed May 22, 1914.  Filed May 27, 1914, Serial No. 841,397.  Classification 381/179; 369/131.

1,221,495  Pneumatic Hand Control for Talking-Machines.  Clinton E. Woods, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, Assignor to American Graphophone Company, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, a Corporation of Virginia.  No execution date.  Filed Sept. 11, 1914, Serial No. 861,192.  Classification 74/2; 169/19.

1,221,527  Elevator-Signal.  Robert H. Gaylord, of Pasadena, California, Assignor to R. H. Gaylord Company, of Los Angeles, California, a Corporation of California.  Executed Oct. 19, 1915.  Filed Oct. 26, 1915, Serial No. 57,918.  Prerecorded phonographic announcements.  Classification 187/396; 379/76.


Apr. 10, 1917

1,222,034  Controlling Device.  Charles Schiffl, of West Orange, New Jersey, Assignor to New Jersey Patent Company, of West Orange, New Jersey, a Corporation of New Jersey.  Executed July 14, 1910.  Filed July 20, 1910, Serial No. 572,796.  “My invention relates to devices for controlling the starting and stopping of mechanism, particularly phonographs.”  Classification 92/135; 417/903; 74/470; 92/129; 92/13.7.

1,222,139  Phonographic Stylus.  Fred Ries, of Chicago, Illinois.  Executed Apr. 6, 1916.  Filed Apr. 10, 1916, Serial No. 90,102.  Classification 369/173.

1,222,348  Electric Telephone Talking-Machine.  Edward H. Amet, of Redondo Beach, California.  Executed July 12, 1916.  Filed July 17, 1916, Serial No. 109,816.  Classification 369/152.

1,222,371  Talking-Machine.  John C. English, of Camden, New Jersey, Assignor to Victor Talking Machine Company, a Corporation of New Jersey.  Executed Sept. 3, 1907.  Filed Sept. 4, 1907, Serial No. 391,399.  Renewed Feb. 5, 1912, Serial No. 675,646.  Classification 369/82; 181/182; 381/342.

1,222,372  Talking-Machine.  John C. English, of Camden, New Jersey, Assignor to Victor Talking Machine Company, a Corporation of New Jersey.  Executed Mar. 17, 1911.  Filed Mar. 24, 1911, Serial No. 616,663.  Classification 369/80; 181/182.

1,222,381  Talking-Machine Record.  Edward T. Frankel, of New York, N. Y.  No execution date.  Filed Mar. 22, 1916, Serial No. 85,923.  Classification 369/277.

1,222,408  Automatic Stop for Sound-Reproducing Machines.  Oscar H. Karch, of Rochester, New York.  No execution date.  Filed July 24, 1912, Serial No. 711,303.  Renewed Sept. 19, 1916, Serial No. 121,066.  Classification 369/236.


Apr. 17, 1917

1,222,607  Stylus-Holder for Talking-Machines.  Omar C. De Selms, of Attica, Indiana.  Executed July 26, 1916.  Filed Aug. 7, 1916, Serial No. 113,679.  Classification 369/170.

1,222,626  Apparatus for Producing Audible Moving Pictures.  Henry Hess, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  No execution date.  Filed June 20, 1913, Serial No. 774,795.  Classification 352/13.

1,222,790  Telephone-Transmitter.  James G. Nolan, of New York, and Robert L. McElroy, of Whitestown, New York, Assignors to Magnetic Phonograph Company, of New York, N. Y., a Corporation of New York.  No execution date.  Filed May 4, 1914, Serial No. 836,186.  “The improved telephone transmitter above described is readily applicable for the production of cut phonograph records, the diaphragm of the instrument being actuated mechanically from a master record, instead of by direct voice waves.”  Classification 381/179; 381/340; 381/417.

1,222,895  Automatic Phonographic Responding and Receiving Device.  Franz Seelau, of Berlin-Wilmersdorf, Germany, Assignor of one-Half to Alexander M. Newman, of Berlin-Wannsee, Germany.  No execution date.  Filed Dec. 29, 1914, Serial No. 879,427.  Classification 379/70.

1,222,974  Automatic Stop Mechanism for Phonographs.  Aage Nielsen, of New York, N. Y., Assignor to William A. Condon, of Summit, New Jersey.  Executed Nov. 15, 1913.  Filed Nov. 27, 1913, Serial No. 802,199.  Classification 192/139; 369/238.

1,223,041  Automatic Stop Mechanism For Sound-Reproducing Machines.  Raymond Braden De Vere, of Seattle, Washington.  No execution date.  Filed Aug. 7, 1916, Serial No. 113,579.  Classification 369/243.

1,223,080  Talking-Machine.  William D. La Rue, of Camden, New Jersey, Assignor to Victor Talking Machine Company, a Corporation of New Jersey.   Executed May 12, 1914.  Filed May 15, 1914, Serial No. 838,638.  Classification 369/75.11.

1,223,149  Repeating Device for Phonographs.  Willard E. Cleveland, of Fall River, Massachusetts, Assignor, by Mesne Assignments, to George Clay Cox, of Rochester, New York.  No execution date.  Filed Apr. 22, 1916, Serial No. 92,997.  Classification 369/226.

1,223,338  Sound-Amplifier.  Bernhard Fritzsch, of Cincinnati, Ohio.  No execution date.  Filed June 5, 1916, Serial No. 101,669.  “My invention relates to an improved tone chamber or sound amplifying compartment for a phonograph, having superior properties in relation to either the recording or reproducing of sound.”  Classification 181/183.

D50,608  Design for a Talking-Machine Cabinet.  William K. Cowan, of Chicago, Illinois.  No execution date.  Filed Mar. 6, 1917, Serial No. 152,930.  Classification D14/184.

D50,609  Design for a Talking-Machine Cabinet.  William K. Cowan, of Chicago, Illinois.  No execution date.  Filed Mar. 6, 1917, Serial No. 152,931.  Classification D14/176.

D50,610  Design for a Talking-Machine Cabinet.  William K. Cowan, of Chicago, Illinois.  No execution date.  Filed Mar. 6, 1917, Serial No. 152,932.  Classification D14/176.

D50,611  Design for a Talking-Machine Cabinet.  William K. Cowan, of Chicago, Illinois.  No execution date.  Filed Mar. 6, 1917, Serial No. 152,933.  Classification D14/176.

D50,612  Design for a Talking-Machine Cabinet.  William K. Cowan, of Chicago, Illinois.  No execution date.  Filed Mar. 6, 1917, Serial No. 152,934.  Classification D14/176.

D50,613  Design for a Talking-Machine Cabinet.  William K. Cowan, of Chicago, Illinois.  No execution date.  Filed Mar. 6, 1917, Serial No. 152,935.  Classification D14/176.

D50,639  Design for a Stylus for Phonographs.  Joseph Wolff, of New York, N. Y., Assignor to Sonora Phonograph Corporation, a Corporation of New York.  Executed Nov. 20, 1914.  Filed Nov. 27, 1914, Serial No. 874,342.  Classification D14/264.

D50,640  Design for a Stylus for Phonographs.  Joseph Wolff, of New York, N. Y., Assignor to Sonora Phonograph Corporation, a Corporation of New York.  Executed Nov. 20, 1914.  Filed Nov. 27, 1914, Serial No. 874,342.  Classification D14/264.

D50,641  Design for a Cabinet for Phonographs.  Walter J. Baker, of Chicago, Illinois.  Filed Mar. 6, 1917, Serial No. 152,941.  Classification D14/176.


Apr. 24, 1917

1,223,387  Lid-Lifting Device.  Edward G. Hayne, of Ottawa, Illinois.  No execution date.  Filed Mar. 28, 1916, Serial No. 87,360.  “My invention relates to new and useful improvements in lid lifting devices and more particularly to that class employed for lifting the lid or cover of a phonograph cabinet, and my object is to provide a pivoted beam, one end of which is attached to the lid or cover of the cabinet and the opposite end provided with a counter balance weight.”  Classification 217/60E; 312/319.4; 49/345.

1,223,889  Talking-Machine.  Thomas Kraemer, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  Executed Feb. 27, 1915.  Filed Mar. 3, 1915, Serial No. 11,662.  Classification 369/164.

1,223,896  Speed-Indicator.  Martin Nystrom, of Chicago, Illinois, Assignor to the Brunswitck-Balke-Collender Company, of Chicago, Illinois, a Corporation of Delaware.  No execution date.  Filed Nov. 16, 1916, Serial No. 131,622.  “This invention relates to a speed indicator for talking machine record tables.”  Classification 73/493; 73/529; 73/550.

1,223,927  Universal Tone-Arm.  Peter Becker, of New York, N. Y.  No execution date.  Filed Jan. 23, 1917, Serial No. 143,939.  Classification 369/158.

1,223,970  Graphophone-Tone-Arm.  John R. Hare, of New Windsor, Maryland.  No execution date.  Filed Nov. 13, 1916, Serial No. 131,107.  Classification 369/245.

1,224,091  Centrifugal Brake for Reproducing Mechanisms.  Hubert A. Myers, of Toledo, Ohio.  No execution date.  Filed Mar. 11, 1915, Serial No. 13,611.  Classification 188/187; 188/174.

1,224,092  Record-Controlling Mechanism.  Hubert A. Myers, of Toledo, Ohio.  No execution date.  Filed July 30, 1915, Serial No. 42,699.  Classification 369/241.

1,224,102  Acoustic Diaphragm.  William W. Young, of Agawam, Massachusetts, Assignor to L. A. Young, of Agawam, Massachusetts.  No execution date.  Filed June 1, 1916, Serial No. 101,182.  “My invention relates to improvements in diaphragms for use in telephones, talking-machines, and the like.”  Classification 181/164.


May 1, 1917

1,224,185  Telephone Signal and Recorder.  Francis J. McGowen and Karl W. Thalhammer, of Los Angeles, California, Assignors of Five-Twelfths to said McGowen, One-Fourth to said Thalhammer, and One-Third to Ida R. Forbes, of Los Angeles, California.  Executed Apr. 14, 1915.  Filed Apr. 22, 1915, Serial No. 23,000.  Classification 379/81; 379/73.

1,224,215  Flash-Light.  Oscar L. Scalbom, of Glenview, Illinois.  Exectued Sept. 6, 1916.  Filed Sept. 8, 1916, Serial No. 118,960.  “With the present invention, the light can be secured within the inclosure, such for instance as the cover of a phonograph cabinet.”  Classification 362/197; 369/75.11; 84/464R.

1,224,301  Motor-Controlling Mechanism for Talking-Machines.  Albert A. Huseby, of Chicago, Illinois.  No execution date.  Filed July 26, 1915, Serial No. 41,821.  Classification 369/236; 369/241.

1,224,352  Disk-Record Cabinet.  Nicklas A. Apostolopoulos, of Providence, Rhode Island.  No execution date.  Filed Feb. 11, 1916, Serial No. 77,586.  Classification 312/9.15.

1,224,369  Portable Cabinet-Gramophone.  Alex Fischer, of Kensington, London, England.  No execution date.  Filed July 31, 1914, Serial No. 854,309.  Classification 369/81; 181/205; 312/8.16.

1,224,547  Motor-Controlling Mechanism for Talking-Machines.  Albert A. Huseby, of Chicago, Illinois.  No execution date.  Filed July 31, 1916, Serial No. 112,254.  Classification 369/236; 185/40M; 369/241; 369/267.

D50,704  Design for a Phonograph-Cabinet.  Eugene A. Widmann, of Brooklyn, New York, Assignor to Pathé Frères Phonograph Company, of New York, N. Y., a Corporation of Delaware.  Filed Feb. 24, 1917, Serial No. 150,820.  Classification D14/184.

D50,705  Design for a Phonograph-Cabinet.  Eugene A. Widmann, of Brooklyn, New York, Assignor to Pathé Frères Phonograph Company, of New York, N. Y., a Corporation of Delaware.  Filed Feb. 24, 1917, Serial No. 150,821.  Classification D14/184.

D50,706  Design for a Phonograph-Cabinet.  Eugene A. Widmann, of Brooklyn, New York, Assignor to Pathé Frères Phonograph Company, of New York, N. Y., a Corporation of Delaware.  Filed Feb. 24, 1917, Serial No. 150,822.  Classification D14/184.


May 8, 1917

1,224,979  Automatically-Operated Talking-Machine.  Louis P. Valiquet, of New York, N. Y., Assignor to Victor Talking Machine Company, a Corporation of New Jersey.  Executed Oct. 25, 1904.  Filed Oct. 27, 1904, Serial No. 230,202.  Classification 369/36.01; 369/192.1.

1,224,995  Repeating Attachment for Phonographs.  Louis Angello, of Kansas City, Missouri.  No execution date.  Filed Mar. 23, 1916, Serial No. 86,122.  Classification 369/225.

1,225,203  Means for Utilizing Electrically-Transmitted Impulses.  Edward H. Amet, of Redondo Beach, California.  Executed Feb. 28, 1916.  Filed Mar. 4, 1916, Serial No. 82,265.  “This invention relates to the art of mechanically reproducing impulses and is particularly applicable to telephone receivers in general, and more particularly to a telephone receiver adapted to operate sound-recording devices, step-up devices and relays.”  Classification 381/338; 369/148; 381/411.

1,225,217  Stop Mechanism for Phonographs.  William R. Boyer, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  No execution date.  Filed May 18, 1916, Serial No. 98,242.  Classification 369/236.

1,225,463  Mouthpiece for Telephones and the Like.  Jerome T. McGonigal, of Pottersdale, Pennsylvania, Assignor of One-Half to M. T. Bowman, of Clearfield, Pennsylvania.  No execution date.  Filed Apr. 5, 1916, Serial No. 89,102.  “This invention relates to mouth pieces of telephones, phonographs, speaking tubes, etc., and more especially to an improved sanitary mouth guard for mouth pieces of such devices.”  Classification 181/242; 379/452.

1,225,505  Sound-Box.  Louis K. Scotford, of Chicago, Illinois.  No execution date.  Filed May 9, 1916, Serial No. 96,343.  Classification 369/162.

1,225,538  Attachment for Graphophone-Machines.  Edward C. Walter, of New York, N. Y.  No execution date.  Filed June 5, 1913, Serial No. 771,978.  Classification 192/139; 369/236; 369/238.

1,225,560  Attachment for Phonographs.  Frank Lee Barrows, of Moscow, Idaho.  No execution date.  Filed July 13, 1916, Serial No. 109,047.  Classification 369/226; 369/201.

1,225,561  Attachment for Phonographs.  Frank L. Barrows, of Moscow, Idaho.  No execution date.  Filed Nov. 16, 1916, Serial No. 131,689.  Classification 369/201.

1,225,579  Stop for Phonographs.  Willard E. Cleveland, of Fall River, Massachusetts, Assignor to Cote Piano Mfg. Co., of Fall River, Massachusetts, a Corporation of Massachusetts.  No execution date.  Filed Apr. 22, 1916, Serial No. 92,996.  Classification 369/236. 


May 15, 1917

1,225,847  Phonograph-Record Cleaner and Lubricator.  Charles Palmer, of Buffalo, New York.  No execution date.  Filed May 6, 1916, Serial No. 95,899.   Classification 369/74; 29/DIG.97.

1,226,262  Sound-Box for Sound-Reproducing Machines.  Paul Rudert, of Tarentum, Pennsylvania.  Continuation of Serial No. 26,020, filed May 5, 1915.  No execution date.  Filed Jan. 31, 1917, Serial No. 125,624.  Classification 369/163.

1,226,301  Record-Cabinet.  Alexander Max Brexendorf, of Carlisle, Pennsylvania.  No execution date.  Filed Mar. 14, 1916, Serial No. 84,086.  Classification 312/9.46; 312/275; 312/305.

1,226,607  Phonograph-Lamp.  Paul Gillen, of Lynbrook, New York, Assignor to Hudson Brass Works in the City of New York, of Brooklyn, New York, a Corporation of New York.  No execution date.  Filed Feb. 19, 1917, Serial No. 149,508.  Classification 362/87; 362/197.

D50,775  Design for a Talking-Machine Cabinet.  Howard D. Darlington, of Dayton, Ohio.  No execution date.  Filed Feb. 23, 1915, Serial No. 150,588.  Classification D14/178.


May 22, 1917

1,226,674  Centering-Director for Record-Disks.  Joseph Moses Ward Kitchen, of East Orange, New Jersey.  No execution date.  Filed Mar. 6, 1916, Serial No. 82,335.  Classification 369/53.1; 369/270.1; 369/282.

1,226,749  Automatic Stopping Device for Graphophones.  Clarence Cate, of Chicago, Illinois, Assignor to Frank F. Akerly, of Chicago, Illinois.  No execution date.  Filed Apr. 5, 1915, Serial No. 19,121.  Classification 369/234.

1,226,839  Sound-Conveyer and Tone-Modulator.  Clinton E. Woods, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, Assignor to American Graphophone Company, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, a Corporation of West Virginia.  Filed July 17, 1915, Serial No. 40,491.  "The object of the invention is to improve the quality of audible reproductions obtained from graphophones or other talking-machines; and while the invention is primarily intended for use with the so-called 'concealed horn' type of machine, in which the sound-conveyer or horn is inclosed within a cabinet, yet the invention is applicable to other forms."  Classification 181/186.

1,226,883  Combined Phonograph and Moving-Picture Apparatus.  Daniel Higham, of New York, N. Y.  Executed May 15, 1912.  Filed May 17, 1912, Serial No. 697,839.  Classification 352/33.

1,226,979  Repeater for Talking-Machines.  Wallace Lucius Lightfoot, of Brooklyn, New York.  No execution date.  Filed Apr. 15, 1916, Serial No. 91,322.  Classification 369/226.

1,227,023  Phonograph.  George H. Underhill, of Boston, Massachusetts.  Filed Nov. 14, 1910, Serial No. 592,179.  Classification 369/179; 369/231; 369/254; 369/260; 369/272.1; 369/280.

1,227,334  Automatic Stop for Phonographs.  James Edward Soons, of New York, N. Y., Assignor of Sixty One-Hundredths to Edward Caterson, of New York, N. Y.  No execution date.  Filed Oct. 16, 1916, Serial No. 125,823.  Classification 369/170; 369/232; 369/237; 369/74.

1,227,523  Phonographic Time-Announcer.  John G. Blessing, of Chicago, Illinois, Assignor to Automatic Electric Company, of Chicago, Illinois, a Corporation of Illinois.  Executed June 28, 1913.  Filed July 7, 1913, Serial No. 777,677.  “My invention relates to improvements in phonographic time announcers and one of the features of my invention is the application of this time announcer to an automatic telephone system whereby a subscriber, by operating his calling dial, may ascertain the time of day or obtain other information contained on the phonograph record.”  Classification 379/71.

1,227,536  Phonograph-Cabinet.  Stephen L. Hartman, of Fillmore, California.  No execution date.  Filed Feb. 24, 1916, Serial No. 80,183.  Classification 312/9.44; 108/38; 112/260; 144/285; 312/314; 312/317.2; 312/323.

RE14,305  See 1,076,385.


May 29, 1917

1,227,579  Combined Piano and Phonograph.  Charles S. Burton, of Oak Park, Illinois, Assignor to Melville Clark Piano Company, of Chicago, Illinois, a Corporation of Illinois.  Executed Nov. 6, 1916.  Filed Nov. 13, 1916, Serial No. 131,035.  Classification 84/4; 369/69.

1,227,748  Shaving-Machine for Sound-Record Tablets.  Frank L. Capps and John J. Scully, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, Assignors to American Graphophone Company, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, a Corporation of West Virginia.  No execution date.  Filed Oct. 14, 1915, Serial No. 55,913.  Classification 82/1.12; 29/DIG.64; 29/DIG.79; 369/154.

1,227,799  Cabinet.   Arthur D. Kaub, of Mongo, Indiana.  No execution date.  Filed Sept. 20, 1915, Serial No. 51,509.  “My invention relates to improvements in cabinets, and the object thereof is the production of a cabinet for holding medical supplies, books, phonograph music records, or the like, wherein pivoted shelves are used to gain easy access and a maximum of shelf space.”  Classification 312/300; 312/310; 312/325.

1,228,014  Driving Device for Talking-Machines.  John Frier, of St. Louis, Missouri.  No execution date.  Filed May 18, 1916, Serial No. 98,330.  Classification 476/67; 310/78; 369/266; 74/397.

1,228,064  Tone-Arm Support.  Herman Segal, of New York, N. Y.  No execution date.  Filed Sept. 5, 1916, Serial No. 118,290.  Classification 369/75.11.

1,228,115  Sound-Box Mounting for Talking-Machines.  Albert A. Huseby, of Chicago, Illinois.  No execution date.  Filed Nov. 27, 1916, Serial No. 133,568.  Classification 369/157; 369/169.

1,228,116  Sound-Box for Talking-Machines.  Albert A. Huseby, of Chicago, Illinois.  No execution date.  Filed Dec. 22, 1916, Serial No. 138,356.  Classification 369/164.

D50,849  Design for a Casing for Sound-Reproducing Machines.  Henry T. Schiff, of Chicago, Illinois.  No execution date.  Filed Jan. 18, 1917, Serial No. 143,183.  Classification D14/176.

D50,859  Design for a Record-Cabinet.  Joseph Wolff, of Brooklyn, New York, Assignor to Sonora Phonograph Corporation, a Corporation of New York.  Executed Feb. 26, 1917.  Filed Mar. 10, 1917, Serial No. 154,043.  Classification D6/407; D6/448.


June 5, 1917

1,228,406  Cushion-Support for Pivot-Joints.  Forest Cheney, of Chicago, Illinois, Assignor, by Mesne Assignments, to Cheney Talking Machine Company, of Chicago, Illinois, a Corporation of Illinois.  No execution date.  Filed Sept. 22, 1913, Serial No. 791,239.  “The principal object of my invention is to provide a new and improved pivotal support for the needle or stylus of a gramophone reproducer.”  Classification 369/162.

1,228,446  Talking-Machine Cabinet.   Alva D. Jones, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  No execution date.  Filed Feb. 1, 1917, Serial No. 145,990.  Classification 369/80; 312/7.1; 5/280.

1,228,564  Automatic Stop for Talking-Machines.  André Junod, of New York, N. Y.  No execution date.  Filed May 23, 1916, Serial No. 99,274.  Classification 369/234; 369/232.

1,228,639  Sound-Producing Device.  Erik Christian Bayer, of Jordløse, Svebølle Station, Denmark.  Executed Mar. 16, 1914.  Filed Mar. 27, 1914, Serial No. 827,652.  “Besides for the here mentioned use as a telephone relay, the apparatus is very suitable for the reproduction of sounds, such as speech, music, song, etc.  When used for such purpose, the apparatus excels by its ability to omit (‘strain out’) all impure secondary sounds, for instance when gramophone plates are used, the scratching of the pin on the plate and the foreign sounds produced by the diaphragm, so that the voice, the music, the song, etc., will appear with their original timbre and harmony.”   Classification 381/338; 381/341.

1,228,673  Clutch Mechanism.  Joe Hribar, of Waukegan, Illinois.  No execution date.  Filed Mar. 18, 1916, Serial No. 83,896.  “The invention is applicable to many uses where such one-way rotation is desirable, and is particularly useful in connection with spring motors such as are used in piano players, victrolas, or other sound-reproducing machines, and the like.”   Classification 188/82.84; 192/45; 310/77.

1,228,901  Process for Recording Sound.  Robert L. Gibson, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  No execution date.  Filed Dec. 29, 1913, Serial No. 809,187.  Classification 369/99; 369/16.

1,228,902  Apparatus for Recording Sound.  Robert L. Gibson, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  No execution date.  Filed Dec. 29, 1913, Serial No. 809,188.  Classification 369/99; 369/16.

1,229,142  Educational Appliance.  Oscar Saenger, of New York, N. Y.  No execution date.  Filed Aug. 25, 1913, Serial No. 786,491.  “This invention consists in improvements in educational appliances, being more particularly intended to assist in vocal teaching through the aid of the phonograph, and to obtain thereby certain results which have heretofore been unattainable by the methods of voice culture commonly in vogue.”  Classification 434/185; 434/319; 84/470R.

1,229,197  Sound-Box for Phonographs.  Joseph C. Kulp, of Linwood, New Jersey.  No execution date.  Filed June 30, 1916, Serial No. 106,762.  Classification 369/157.


June 12, 1917

1,229,330  Gramophone-Record Holder.  William Jemson Sharples, of Gisbourne, New Zealand.  No execution date.  Filed Dec. 11, 1916, Serial No. 136,213.  Classification 312/9.53.

1,229,346  Phonograph.  Reinhold Thomas, of Brooklyn, New York.  No execution date.  Filed Nov. 30, 1915, Serial No. 64,214.  Classification 369/158.

1,229,466  Tone-Arm.  Frank W. Hutchings, of New Haven, Connecticut.  No execution date.  Filed Jan. 12, 1916, Serial No. 71,670.  Classification 369/157; 369/165.

1,229,469  Cutter for Sound-Reproducing Styli.  Eldridge R. Johnson, of Merion, Pennsylvania, Assignor to Victor Talking Machine Company, a Corporation of New Jersey.  Executed Nov. 15, 1912.  Filed Nov. 18, 1912, Serial No. 731,955.  Classification 30/131.

1,229,518  Graphophone.  William C. Potts, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.  No execution date.  Filed Nov. 15, 1916, Serial No. 131,485.  Classification 369/192.1.

1,229,619  Device for Transmitting or Transforming Micromovements.  Jonas Albert Johnsen, of Christiania, Norway.  No execution date.  Filed Dec. 31, 1915, Serial No. 69,541.  “This applies more particularly to devices such as microphones, telephones, gramophones, automatic recording devices, etc.”  Classification 381/162; 381/180.

1,229,642  Stop Mechanism for Talking-Machines.  Henry H. Murray, of Riverton, New Jersey, Assignor to Victor Talking Machine Company, a Corporation of New Jersey.  Executed May 12, 1914.  Filed May 13, 1914, Serial No. 838,241.  Classification 192/142R; 192/139; 369/235; 369/238.

1,229,749  Phonograph.  Newman H. Holland, of West Orange, New Jersey, Assignor to New Jersey Patent Company, of West Orange, New Jersey, a Corporation of New Jersey.  Executed Sept. 14, 1914.  Filed Sept. 17, 1914, Serial No. 862,138.  Classification 369/140; 369/171.

1,229,775  Phonograph.   Frank S. Moore, of Brooklyn, New York.  No execution date.  Filed Mar. 29, 1916, Serial No. 87,397.  Classification 369/80.

1,229,780  Sound-Box for Talking-Machines.  Walter Opel, of Leipzig, Germany.  Executed Feb. 11, 1915.  Filed Mar. 5, 1915, Serial No. 12,237.  Classification 369/163.


June 19, 1917

1,230,247  Burglar-Alarm.  Louis Weitzman, of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.  No execution date.  Filed July 1, 1916, Serial No. 107,115.  Includes phonographic and photographic elements.  Classification 396/503; 109/3; 340/545.6.

1,230,324  Combination Piano and Sound-Reproducing Instrument.  Elzear Plante, of Fall River, Massachusetts, Assignor to Edmond Coté, of Fall River, Massachusetts.  No execution date.  Filed June 13, 1916, Serial No. 103,556.  Classification 84/4; 369/75.11.

1,230,485  Annotator for Commercial Phonographs.  Martha L. Hunter and Albert B. Church, of San Francisco, California.  No execution date.  Filed Sept. 15, 1915, Serial No. 50,780.  Divided: Filed Jan. 25, 1917, Serial No. 144,564.  Classification 369/53.4; 369/27.01.

1,230,505  Stop for Sound-Reproduction Machines.  Francis A. Nolan, of St. Paul, Minnesota.  No execution date.  Filed Jan. 22, 1915, Serial No. 3,763.  Classification 369/236; 369/53.45.

1,230,506  Stop.  Francis A. Nolan, of St. Paul, Minnesota.  No execution date.  Filed June 25, 1915, Serial No. 36,221.  “An object of my invention is to stop the playing of a record of a sound reproducing machine immediately when a predetermined point near the end of the sound groove is reached by the stylus or sound box.”  Classification 369/236; 369/53.45.

1,230,509  Gramophone and the Like.  Noel Pemberton-Billing, of County of Hertford, England.  No execution date.  Filed Jan. 4, 1917, Serial No. 140,639.  Classification 369/228.

1,230,564  Telephone-Exchange System.  Henry P. Clausen, of Mount Vernon, New York, Assignor, by Mesne Assignments, to Western Electric Company, Incorporated, a Corporation of New York.  Executed Dec. 10, 1914.  Filed Dec. 12, 1914, Serial No. 876,795.  “The fact that the calling subscriber maintains control of his line at all times through the means herein described, makes it feasible to employ the use of a graphophone as a busy signal if desired.  In event the graphophone was used in giving a busy signal and had been connected to a subscriber’s line, if it proved displeasing to the subscriber, he may rid himself of the annoyance by merely working his switch hook.”  Classification 379/257; 379/260; 379/319.

1,230,614  Portable Talking-Machine.  Arthur Stechbart, of Chicago, Illinois.  Executed Sept. 15, 1916.  Filed Sept. 18, 1916, Serial No. 120,596.  Reissued: R16,993, June 12, 1928.  Classification 312/8.8; 312/8.15; D14/201.

1,230,633  Cinematograph and Gramophone Machine.  Ferdinand von Madaler, of New York, N. Y., Assignor to the Rotary Photographic Co., Ltd., of West Drayton, England, a Corporation of Great Britain.  No execution date.  Filed June 22, 1915, Serial No. 35,637.  Classification 352/34.

1,230,763  Phonograph-Stop.  Francis A. Nolan, of St. Paul, Minnesota.  No execution date.  Filed Aug. 6, 1915, Serial No. 44,028.  Classification 369/236; 369/53.45.

1,230,764  Phonograph-Stop.  Francis A. Nolan, of St. Paul, Minnesota.  No execution date.  Filed Sept. 11, 1915, Serial No. 50,125.  Classification 369/236; 369/53.45.

1,230,765  Phonograph-Stop.  Francis A. Nolan, of St. Paul, Minnesota.  No execution date.  Filed Sept. 11, 1915, Serial No. 50,124.  Classification 369/236; 369/53.45.

1,230,816  Method of Making Phonograph-Records.  Jonas W. Aylsworth, of East Orange, New Jersey, Assignor, by Mesne Assignments, to New Jersey Patent Company, of West Orange, New Jersey, a Corporation of New Jersey.  Executed Mar. 4, 1911.  Filed Mar. 8, 1911, Serial No. 613,114.  Classification 264/107; 264/135.


June 26, 1917

1,231,061  Phonograph.  Alexander N. Pierman, of Newark, New Jersey, Assignor to New Jersey Patent Company, of West Orange, New Jersey, a Corporation of New Jersey.  Executed Feb. 15, 1911.  Filed Feb. 17, 1911, Serial No. 609,085.  Classification 369/53.4; 226/196.1; 242/615; 369/258.1.

1,231,277  Tone-Purifier.  Charles P. Marshall, of Watertown, New York.  No execution date.  Filed Nov. 23, 1916, Serial No. 133,074.  “This invention relates to tone purifiers designed for phonographs, talking machines and the like.”  Classification 369/163.

1,231,326  Filing-Cabinet for Disk Records.  Andrew Charles Bolton, of Brooklyn, New York.  No execution date.  Filed Feb. 11, 1916, Serial No. 77,622.  Classification 312/9.41.

1,231,329  Phonograph-Reproducer.  Forest Cheney, of Chicago, Illinois, Assignor, by Mesne Assignments, to Cheney Talking Machine Company, of Chicago, Illinois, a Corporation of Illinois.  No execution date.  Filed Oct. 6, 1913, Serial No. 793,746.  Classification 369/162; 369/163; 369/173.

1,231,370  Tone-Modulating Device for Talking-Machines.  Eldridge R. Johnson, of Marion, Pennsylvania, Assignor to Victor Talking Machine Company, a Corporation of New Jersey.  Executed Dec. 9, 1914.  Filed Dec. 14, 1914, Serial No. 877,049.  Classification 369/80; 181/186.

1,231,431  Driving Mechanism for Talking-Machines.  Hellmuth Rosenbaum, of Brooklyn, New York.  No execution date.  Filed Oct. 21, 1916, Serial No. 126,986.  Classification 185/27; 185/40M.

1,231,435  Sound-Reproducing Machine.  Henry T. Schiff, of Chicago, Illinois.  Executed Jan. 16, 1917.  Filed Jan. 18, 1917, Serial No. 142,986.  Classification 369/157.

D50,966  Design for a Music-Cabinet.  William A. French, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, Assignor, by Mesne Assignments, to New Jersey Patent Company, of West Orange, New Jersey, a Corporation of New Jersey.  No execution date.  Filed Jan. 29, 1917, Serial No. 145,327.  From design and assignee, appears to be phonographic.  Classification D14/184.

D50,967  Design for a Music-Cabinet.  William A. French, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, Assignor, by Mesne Assignments, to New Jersey Patent Company, of West Orange, New Jersey, a Corporation of New Jersey.  No execution date.  Filed Jan. 29, 1917, Serial No. 145,328.  From design and assignee, appears to be phonographic.  Classification D14/183.

D50,968  Design for a Music-Cabinet.  William A. French, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, Assignor, by Mesne Assignments, to New Jersey Patent Company, of West Orange, New Jersey, a Corporation of New Jersey.  No execution date.  Filed Jan. 29, 1917, Serial No. 145,329.  From design and assignee, appears to be phonographic.  Classification D14/176.

D50,969  Design for a Music-Cabinet.  William A. French, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, Assignor, by Mesne Assignments, to New Jersey Patent Company, of West Orange, New Jersey, a Corporation of New Jersey.  No execution date.  Filed Jan. 29, 1917, Serial No. 145,330.  From design and assignee, appears to be phonographic.  Classification D14/183.

D50,970  Design for a Music-Cabinet.  William A. French, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, Assignor, by Mesne Assignments, to New Jersey Patent Company, of West Orange, New Jersey, a Corporation of New Jersey.  No execution date.  Filed Jan. 29, 1917, Serial No. 145,331.  From design and assignee, appears to be phonographic.  Classification D14/184.

D50,971  Design for a Music-Cabinet.  William A. French, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, Assignor, by Mesne Assignments, to New Jersey Patent Company, of West Orange, New Jersey, a Corporation of New Jersey.  No execution date.  Filed Jan. 29, 1917, Serial No. 145,332  From design and assignee, appears to be phonographic.  Classification D14/176.

 

   

July 3, 1917

1,231,643  Worm and Screw Construction.  Archie E. Parnall, of Chicago, Illinois, Assignor to Frank W. Williams, of Chicago, Illinois.  No execution date. Filed Sept. 18, 1916, Serial No. 120,817.  “This method of construction of a worm or screw shaft permits this type of mechanism to be easily and cheaply manufactured in many different sizes and forms, and is, of course, particularly adapted for use in small mechanisms where only light loads are carried, as for instance, on governor shafts of spring motors and other devices similar to those used in talking machines and other like mechanisms.”  Classification 74/458; 24/29; 411/411.

1,231,826  Brake for Talking-Machines.  John A. Weser, of New York, N. Y.  Executed June 23, 1916.  Filed June 27, 1916, Serial No. 106,099.  Classification 369/237; 369/230; 369/238; 369/266.

1,232,094  Tone-Modulating Shutter for Phonograph-Cabinets.  Herbert A. Sage, of Detroit, Michigan.  No execution date.  Filed Mar. 6, 1916, Serial No. 82,279.  Classification 217/60D; 312/315.

D51,001  Design for a Tone-Arm for Talking-Machines.  Herman Segal, of New York, N. Y.  No execution date.  Filed Apr. 18, 1917, Serial No. 163,086.  Classification D14/262.

D51,007  Design for a Phonograph-Cabinet.  Joseph Wolff, of Brooklyn, New York, Assignor to Sonora Phonograph Corporation, a Corporation of New York.  Executed Apr. 23, 1917.  Filed Apr. 25, 1917, Serial No. 164,573.  Classification D14/183.


July 10, 1917

1,232,807  Tone-Arm.  Jacob Jonasson, of Des Moines, Iowa.  Executed Dec. 26, 1916.  Filed Jan. 6, 1917, Serial No. 140,962.  Classification 369/157.

1,232,848  Speed-Regulating Device.  Hellmuth Rosenbaum, of Brooklyn, New York, Assignor to Emily H. Allen, of Brooklyn, New York.  No execution date.  Filed Feb. 9, 1917, Serial No. 147,597.  Described as “for regulating the speed of the driving mechanism of talking machines.”  Classification 188/187.

1,232,924  Sound-Reproducing Machine.  Louis P. Jackson, of Schenectady, New York.  Executed July 2, 1912.  Filed July 5, 1912, Serial No. 707,889.  Classification 369/260; 181/159; 181/179.


July 17, 1917

1,233,578  Record-Holder.  Frank Huidzil, of Detroit, Michigan.  No execution date.  Filed Jan. 28, 1916, Serial No. 74,915.  Classification 312/9.22.

1,234,008  Graphophone-Stop.  Christian S. Gerlach and Charles F. Herman, of Brandon, Wisconsin.  No execution date.  Filed June 27, 1916, Serial No. 106,237.  Classification 369/236; 369/53.45.


July 24, 1917

1,234,127  Automatically-Synchronized Entertainment Device.  William H. Bristol, of Waterbury, Connecticut, a Corporation of Connecticut.  Executed May 20, 1915.  Filed May 21, 1915, Serial No. 29,520.  "The invention relates to improvements in automatically synchronized apparatus, more particularly to its adaptation in the simultaneous operation of a plurality of entertainment mechanisms such as motion picture machines, sound reproducing machines, piano-players, musical instruments and the like."  Classification 352/12; 318/47; 318/692; 318/85; 336/120; 73/507.

1,234,134   Loud-Speaking Telephone System.  John J. Comer, of Chicago, Illinois, Assignor to Automatic Enunciator Company, of Chicago, Illinois, a Corporation of Illinois.  Executed July 18, 1913.  Filed July 21, 1913,  Serial No. 780,118.  “A further object is to provide means whereby the receivers can be energized either from voice transmitters or from transmitters energized from a sound record.”  Classification 379/68; 379/322; 381/182; 381/365.

1,234,197  Talking-Machine.  Hubert A. Myers, of Toledo, Ohio, Assignor to Harvey F. Banta, of Goshen, Indiana.  No execution date.  Filed July 16, 1915, Serial No. 40,195.  Classification 369/95; 369/157; 369/272.1.

1,234,198  Sound-Box.  Hubert A. Myers, of Toledo, Ohio, Assignor to Harvey F. Banta, of Goshen, Indiana.  No execution date.  Filed July 22, 1915, Serial No. 41,241.  “This invention has utility when incorporated in tone producing and reproducing devices, as talking machines.”  Classification 369/163.

1,234,375  Talking-Machine-Stylus Holder.  William T. Moore, of Louisville, Kentucky.  No execution date.  Filed Apr. 16, 1917, Serial No. 162,287.  Classification 369/171; 369/161.

1,234,450  Celluloid Record-Blank.  Thomas A. Edison, of Llewellyn Park, West Orange, New Jersey, Assignor to New Jersey Patent Company, of West Orange, New Jersey, a Corporation of New Jersey.  Filed Sept. 16, 1912, Serial No. 720,472.  Classification 8/497; 264/162; 264/78; 369/272.1; 8/519; 8/607; 8/649.

1,234,451  Mold or Transfer Plate.  Thomas A. Edison, of Llewellyn Park, West Orange, New Jersey, Assignor to New Jersey Patent Company, of West Orange, New Jersey, a Corporation of New Jersey.  Executed Oct. 25, 1912.  Filed Oct. 26, 1912, Serial No. 727,830.  “My invention relates to apparatus for molding sound records, the apparatus of the present invention being an improvement on that disclosed in my copending application, Serial No. 694,658, filed May 2, 1912.  More particularly, my invention is designed for use in connection with the molding process set forth and claimed in an application of Jonas W. Aylsworth, Serial No. 674,289, filed January 30, 1912.”  Classification 249/135; 249/160; 369/272.1.

1,234,555  Cabinet Talking-Machine.  Henry C. Miller, of Waterford, New York, Assignor to Victor Talking Machine Company, a Corporation of New Jersey.  No execution date.  Filed Oct. 29, 1908, Serial No. 460,066.  Renewed Dec. 21, 1916, Serial No. 138,285.  Classification 369/80.

1,234,621  Mechanical Replayer.  Robert G. Brown and John E. Strietelmeier, of Elyria, Ohio; said Brown Assignor to said Strietelmeier.  No execution date.  Filed Aug. 10, 1916, Serial No. 114,103. “This invention deals with phonographs and it proposes an improved re-playing mechanism embodying constructions broadly disclosed and claimed in the co-pending applications of Robert G. Brown, No. 2834, filed January 18, 1915, and the division thereof No. 120,305, filed September 15, 1916.”  Classification 369/227; 369/268.

D51,056  Design for a Cabinet for Talking-Machines.  Robert H. Cone, Jr., of St. Louis, Missouri.  No execution date.  Filed May 5, 1917, Serial No. 166,757.  Classification D14/183.

D51,058  Design for a Tone-Arm.  Pincus Farb, of Newark, New Jersey, Assignor to Sonora Phonograph Corporation, a Corporation of New York.   Executed Apr. 16, 1917.  Filed Apr. 25, 1917, Serial No. 164,564.  Classification D14/262.

D51,059  Design for a Tone-Arm.  Pincus Farb, of Newark, New Jersey, Assignor to Sonora Phonograph Corporation, a Corporation of New York.   Executed Apr. 16, 1917.  Filed Apr. 25, 1917, Serial No. 164,565.  Classification D14/262.

D51,060  Design for a Tone-Arm.  Pincus Farb, of Newark, New Jersey, Assignor to Sonora Phonograph Corporation, a Corporation of New York.   Executed Apr. 16, 1917.  Filed Apr. 25, 1917, Serial No. 164,566.  Classification D14/262.


July 31, 1917

1,234,811  Talking-Machine Motor.  William Gentry Shelton, of New York, N. Y.  No execution date.  Filed Sept. 23, 1915, Serial No. 52,255.  Classification 476/64; 248/362; 369/233; 369/241.

1,235,041  Counterbalance.  Charles P. Marshall, of Watertown, New York.  No execution date.  Filed Dec. 11, 1916, Serial No. 136,168.  “This invention relates to counter-weights of weight compensators designed for attachment to phonographs or talking machines, to relieve the extra pressure of the needle on the record and to give poise and balance to the sound-box or reproducer under certain conditions when in operation.”  Classification 369/253.

1,235,154  Stylus.  James W. Owen, of Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, and Albertis Hewitt, of Camden, New Jersey, Assignors to Victor Talking Machine Company, a Corporation of New Jersey.  Executed July 19, 1912.  Filed July 22, 1912, Serial No. 710,741.  Classification 369/170; 369/173.

1,235,362  Phonographic-Disk-Record Holder.  Melville Grant Nelles, of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.  No execution date.  Filed Feb. 21, 1916, Serial No. 79,626.  Classification 312/9.56; 312/274.

1,235,380  Record-Cabinet.  Joseph L. Reese, of Hazleton, Pennsylvania.  No execution date.  Filed June 8, 1916, Serial No. 102,527.  Classification 312/9.18.


Aug. 7, 1917

1,235,591  Stylus-Adapter.  Ellis S. Oliver, of Newark, New Jersey.  Executed Apr. 13, 1916.  Filed Apr. 15, 1916, Serial No. 91,313.  Classification 369/171; 369/161; 369/163.

1,235,695  Talking-Machine.  Eldridge R. Johnson, of Merion, Pennsylvania, Assignor to Victor Talking Machine Company, a Corporation of New Jersey.  Executed Dec. 12, 1912.  Filed Dec. 13, 1912, Serial No. 736,475.  Classification 369/80.

1,235,720  Phonograph-Brake.  Aage A. J. M. Nielsen, of New York, N. Y., Assignor to William A. Condon, of Summit, New Jersey.  Executed May 3, 1915.  Filed May 13, 1915, Serial No. 27,809.  Classification 192/139; 369/238.

1,236,176  Winder for Phonographs.  Richard S. Irvine, of San Francisco, California, Assignor to Eilers Music Company, of San Francisco, California, a Corporation.  No execution date.  Filed Oct. 23, 1916, Serial No. 127,242.  Classification 74/141; 185/39; 185/40M.

1,236,248  Phonograph Attachment.  Wilfred A. Atkinson, of Phillipsburg, New Jersey.  No execution date.  Filed May 19, 1916, Serial No. 98,617.  Classification 200/61.79; 200/530; 362/87.

1,236,333  Book.  Ralph Mayhew, of New York, N. Y.  No execution date.  Filed June 10, 1916, Serial No. 103,029.  “My invention has for its object to provide a book having a theme or story set forth in text, cuts or music, and having a sound reproducing record or records so that when or before a part or all of said text or cuts or music has been read, the sound reproducing record or records may be placed on the sound reproducing machine and operated.  By this means, the story or song which is printed and illustrated in the book may be heard at the time the text is read, and while the book is open at the cut illustrating the story or song.  The theme is in this way brought to one’s attention in various ways at the same time.”  Classification 211/40; 206/311; 283/56; 369/273; 434/317; 434/318. 


Aug. 14, 1917

1,236,449  Governor for Spring-Motors.  Thomas W. Kirkman, of New York, N. Y.  Executed Apr. 30, 1917.  Filed May 8, 1917, Serial No. 167,300.  Classification 188/187; 384/244; 73/530; 73/546.

1,236,476  Phonograph-Diaphragm.  Harold D. Penney, of Pelham, New York, Assignor to Robert L. McElroy, of New York, N. Y.  No execution date.  Filed June 28, 1916, Serial No. 106,303.  Classification 181/171.

1,236,542  Brake Mechanism for Automatic Instruments.  Forest Cheney, of Jamestown, New York, Assignor, by Mesne Assignments, to Cheney Talking Machine Company, of Chicago, Illinois, a Corporation of Illinois.  No execution date.  Filed Jan. 12, 1912, Serial No. 670,933.   Renewed May 5, 1915, Serial No. 26,137.  “The invention relates to controlling devices for automatic instruments; and the object of the improvement is to provide simple and accurate metronomic mechanism for controlling and regulating the tempo and pitch of musical records played by automatic musical instruments.”  From description, plain that phonograph is meant.  Classification 188/187; 126/247; 369/233.

1,236,644  Tone-Arm for Phonographs.  Willard G. Adams, of Weedsport, New York.  Executed Aug. 21, 1915.  Filed Aug. 30, 1915, Serial No. 47,995.  Classification 369/158; 369/164.

1,236,649  Dead-Beat Balanced Electrical Transmitter.  Edward H. Amet, of Redondo Beach, California.  Executed Feb. 28, 1916.  Filed Mar. 4, 1916, Serial No. 82,266.  “An object of this invention is to produce an electrical transmitter for combination with talking machine reproducing devices for transmitting talking machine records for electrical reproduction.”  Classification 381/179; 369/152.

1,236,893  Start and Stop Device for Talking-Machines.  Clinton E. Woods, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, Assignor to American Graphophone Company, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, a Corporation of West Virginia.  No execution date.  Filed Sept. 9, 1913, Serial No. 788,827.  Classification 369/235; 369/243.

1,236,920  Automatic Disk Repeating Phonograph.  Lucien M. Flagg, of Yonkers, New York.  Executed May 29, 1916.  Filed May 31, 1916, Serial No. 100,844.  Classification 369/197; 369/265.

1,236,942  Reproducer for Talking-Machines.  Albert A. Huseby, of Chicago, Illinois.  No execution date.  Filed Apr. 6, 1917, Serial No. 160,149.  Classification 369/157; 369/162.

1,236,969  Method of Sound Production.  Floyd S. Muckey, of New York, N. Y., Assignor to Muckey Patents Corporation, a Corporation of New York.  No execution date.  Filed May 5, 1914, Serial No. 836,445.  Renewed Nov. 11, 1916, Serial No. 130,916.  “My invention relates to improvements in a method of recording, producing and reproducing sounds, and more particularly the recording, the production and reproduction of musical tones.  After a long and very careful study of many of the voices of singers and of the tones of musical instruments, by photographic analyses, I have found that pleasing tones are obtained where there is a strong fundamental tone and where the overtones are diminished in intensity.”  Classification 181/142; 369/169.

1,236,970  Sound-Box.  Floyd S. Muckey, of New York, N. Y., Assignor to Muckey Patents Corporation, a Corporation of New York.  No execution date.  Filed July 14, 1914, Serial No. 851,000.  Renewed Nov. 11, 1916, Serial No. 130,917.  Much wording identical to previous patent.  Classification 181/162.

1,237,010  Rack.  George Adams, of Brooklyn, New York.  No execution date.  Filed Feb. 27, 1917, Serial No. 151,224.  No textual reference to phonograph, but illustration clearly shows the rack holding gramophone discs.  Classification 211/40; 211/181.1.

1,237,179  Musical Instrument.   Joseph Hunter Dickinson, of Cranford, New Jersey, Assignor to the Aeolian Company, a Corporation of Connecticut.  Executed Jan. 27, 1915.  Filed Jan. 29, 1915, Serial No. 5,046.  Classification 181/186.

1,237,230  Stylus for Sound-Reproducing Machines.  Willis R. Whitney, of Schenectady, New York, Assignor to General Electric Company, a Corporation of New York.  Executed Mar. 18, 1915.  Filed Mar. 19, 1915, Serial No. 15,541.  Classification 228/215; 219/137R; 228/219; 228/246; 29/896.24; 369/173.


Aug. 21, 1917

1,237,496  Telegraphone.  Charles K. Fankhauser, of Marietta, Ohio, and Arthur M. McCrillis, of Providence, Rhode Island.  No execution date.  Filed June 8, 1911, Serial No. 631,887.  Classification 360/73.14; 242/324.3; 360/110.

1,237,813  Sound-Modulating Device.  Joseph Ulderic Poirier, of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.  Executed Dec. 13, 1916.  Filed Jan. 19, 1917, Serial No. 143,306.  “The invention relates to improvements in sound modulating devices for phonographs.”  Classification 181/186.

1,238,056  Sound-Box.  Louis P. Valiquet, of Boston, Massachusetts.  No execution date.  Filed Mar. 7, 1914, Serial No. 823,260.  Renewed June 18, 1917, Serial No. 175,502.  “My invention comprises generally certain improvements designed to simplify and cheapen the construction of sound boxes, and is more particularly adapted to those for use on talking machines using flat disk record tablets.”  Classification 369/162; 181/162; 369/170; 369/247.1.


Aug. 28, 1917

1,238,112  Talking-Machine-Record Cabinet.  Philip A. Deterling, of Muncie, Indiana.  No execution date.  Filed June 30, 1916, Serial No. 106,834.  Classification 312/9.53.

1,238,168  Phonograph.  Harry B. McNulty, of New York, N. Y.  No execution date.  Filed Sept. 14, 1916, Serial No. 120,048.  Classification 74/405; 369/233.

1,238,240  Phonograph-Brake.  Josef Wittek, of Chicago, Illinois, Assignor to the Empire Talking Machine Company, of Chicago, Illinois, a Corporation of Illinois.  No execution date.  Filed Nov. 18, 1915, Serial No. 62,222.  Classification 369/236.

1,238,454  Motor for Talking-Machines.  John K. Stewart, Deceased, by Julia B. Stewart, Executrix, of Northport, New York.  Executed Aug. 15, 1916.  Filed Aug. 18, 1916, Serial No. 115,711.  Classification 74/606R; 185/40M.

1,238,566  Sound-Producer.  Fred J. Porter, of Columbus, Ohio.  No execution date.  Filed Sept. 1, 1916, Serial No. 118,127.  “In the moving picture art it is often necessary to produce sound in synchronism with the projection of pictures upon the screen.”  Includes among other gadgets “a talking machine constructed to have the reproducer manually thrown into engagement with the record.”  Classification 472/64; 340/392.1; 84/1; 84/2.

1,238,654  Motor-Winding Crank.  Archibald M. Ewart, of Barberton, Ohio.  No execution date.  Filed Apr. 19, 1917, Serial No. 163,130.  “My invention has reference to improvements in winding cranks for talking machines.”  Classification 464/44; 123/185.12.

D51,219  Design for a Phonograph-Cabinet.  Joseph Wolff, of Brooklyn, New York, Assignor to Sonora Phonograph Corporation, a Corporation of New York.  Executed Jan. 3, 1917.  Filed Feb. 1, 1917, Serial No. 146,039.  Classification D14/199.

D51,220  Design for a Phonograph-Cabinet.  Joseph Wolff, of Brooklyn, New York, Assignor to Sonora Phonograph Corporation, a Corporation of New York.  Executed Jan. 3, 1917.  Filed Feb. 1, 1917, Serial No. 146,040.  Classification D14/183.


Sept. 4, 1917

1,238,735  Holder for Phonograph-Records.  John B. Barlow, of Walker Township, Kent County, Michigan.  No execution date.  Filed Mar. 28, 1917, Serial No. 157,867.  Classification 206/311.

1,238,918  Device for Controlling the Speed of Disk Records.  Richard T. Hosking, of Saginaw, Michigan.  No execution date.  Filed June 1, 1915, Serial No. 31,477.  Classification 188/180; 188/187; 369/231.

1,239,044  Reproducer or Sound-Box for Talking-Machines.  Arthur H. Ryder, of Brooklyn, New York.  Executed June 2, 1916.  Filed June 20, 1916, Serial No. 104,660.  Classification 369/162; 369/163.

1,239,063  Talking-Machine.  Henry H. Tompkins, Jr., of Jersey City, New Jersey.  No execution date.  Filed May 2, 1916, Serial No. 94,923.  Classification 369/81; 211/40; 312/8.8.

1,239,305  Talking-Machine.  Wilfred Sampson Samuel, of London, England.  No execution date.  Filed Feb. 3, 1915, Serial No. 5,907.  Classification 369/81.

1,239,335  Automatic Stop for Talking-Machines.  Le Roy Armitage, of East Orange, New Jersey.  No execution date.  Filed Dec. 14, 1916, Serial No. 136,937.  Classification 369/243; 369/266; 74/46.


Sept. 11, 1917

1,239,693  Sound-Box Mounting.  Albert A. Huseby, of Chicago, Illinois.  No execution date.  Filed July 19, 1916, Serial No. 110,042.  Classification 369/157.

1,239,774  Cabinet for Talking-Machines.  Fred A. Dennett, of Port Washington, Wisconsin, Assignor to Wisconsin Chair Company, of Port Washington, Wisconsin.  No execution date.  Filed Dec. 1, 1915, Serial No. 64,401.  Classification 312/8.11; 312/8.15; 369/80.

1,239,800  Combined Talking and Picture-Projecting Machine.  Achille Luciano, of Silver Lake, New Jersey.  Executed Dec. 29, 1914.  Filed Dec. 31, 1914, Serial No. 879,911.  Classification 352/36.

1,240,038  Talking-Machine.  Frederick J. Empson, of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Assignor to the Aeolian Company.  No execution date.  Filed Dec. 31, 1912, Serial No. 739,521.  Classification 181/186.

1,240,050  Sound-Clarifier for Sound Producing or Reproducing Instruments.  Correl Welton Johnson, of New York, N. Y.  No execution date.  Filed Mar. 14, 1914, Serial No. 824,703.  Renewed Feb. 27, 1917, Serial No. 151,377.  Classification 181/186.


Sept. 18, 1917

1,240,267  Universal Sound Reproducer and Arm.  Louis Taxon, of Rockford, Illinois, Assignor, by Mesne Assignments, to the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company, of Chicago, Illinois, a Corporation of Delaware.  Executed Nov. 2, 1916.  Filed Feb. 7, 1917, Serial No. 147,254.  Classification 369/158; 369/161.

1,240,342  Sound-Conveyer Arm.  Edward G. Hayne, of Ottawa, Illinois.  No execution date.  Filed Sept. 15, 1916, Serial No. 120,342.  Classification 369/158; 369/161; 369/53.38.

1,240,401  Automatic Stop for Phonograph-Records.  Sherman G. Alexander, of St. Louis, Missouri.  No execution date.  Filed Jan. 15, 1917, Serial No. 142,446.  Classification 369/238.

1,240,402  Cabinet.  Charles W. Almon, of Youngstown, Ohio.  No execution date.  Filed Apr. 17, 1916, Serial No. 91,578.  “This invention relates to means for storing sound records and other disks, and its object is to provide means for projecting groups of these records forwardly beyond the others so that they can be easily grasped and removed.”  Classification 312/9.38; 312/35.

1,240,455  Motor-Controlling Mechanism for Talking-Machines.  Albert A. Huseby, of Chicago, Illinois.  No execution date.  Filed Apr. 6, 1917, Serial No. 160,150.  Classification 369/236.

1,240,497  Talking-Machine.  Horace Sheble and Thomas Kraemer, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Assignors to Domestic Talking Machine Corporation, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a Corporation of Pennsylvania.  No execution date.  Filed Apr. 9, 1917, Serial No. 160,759.  Classification 188/187.

1,240,504  Phonographic Reproducer.  Edward G. Smith, of Syracuse, New York.  Executed Aug. 21, 1915.  Filed Aug. 30, 1915, Serial No. 47,990.  Classification 369/163.

1,240,711  Talking-Machine.  Chester I. Hall, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, Assignor to General Electric Company, a Corporation of New York.  Filed May 15, 1915, Serial No. 28,319.  Executed May 12, 1915.  Classification 369/69; 307/155; 318/767; 362/87; 369/266.

1,240,730  Winding-Signal for a Talking-Machine.  Thomas Keepfer, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  No execution date.  Filed Nov. 27, 1916, Serial No. 133,652.  Classification 185/44.


Sept. 25, 1917

1,240,943  Phonograph-Tone-Arm Joint.  Melville Clark, of Chicago, Illinois, Assignor to Melville Clark Piano Company, of chicago, Illinois, a Corporation of Illinois.  Executed Apr. 2, 1917.  Filed Apr. 5, 1917, Serial No. 159,891.  Classification 369/158.

1,241,117  Constant-Speed Driving Device.  Luther S. Hopkins, of Dubuque, Iowa.  No execution date.  Filed Jan. 5, 1916, Serial No. 70,361.  “It is...an object of this invention to construct a constant speed adjustable friction driving device, for phonographs and similar machines, simple and inexpensive in construction adapted to be mounted upon the driving shaft of an electric motor to drive the driven shaft of a machine by friction.”  Classification 464/41; 369/239; 464/45.

1,241,119  Counterbalance for Phonograph-Horns.  Albert A. Huseby, of Chicago, Illinois.  No execution date.  Filed Apr. 18, 1917, Serial No. 162,876.  Classification 181/177.

1,241,416  Stop Mechanism.  Walter H. Miller, of Orange, New Jersey.  Executed June 24, 1916.  Filed July 6, 1916, Serial No. 107,724.  "My invention relates to stop mechanisms designed particularly for automatically stopping the rotation of the turntable of a phonograph or talking machine when the reproducer stylus of such a machine has reached a predetermined position with respect to the phonograph or sound record carried by the turntable, but the invention is not limited to this use."  Classification 369/236; 369/168.


Oct. 2, 1917

1,241,673  Reproducer for Phonographs.  Peter S. Sorensen, of North Milwaukee, Wisconsin.  No execution date.  Filed July 1, 1916, Serial No. 107,011.  Classification 369/164.

1,241,736  Universal Reproducer for Talking-Machines.  Albert A. Huseby, of Chicago, Illinois.  No execution date.  Filed May 2, 1917, Serial No. 165,971.  Classification 369/157.

1,241,887  Speed-Regulator for Phonographs.  Albert Ruckgaber, of Brooklyn, New York.  No execution date.  Filed Aug. 31, 1915, Serial No. 48,146.  Classification 310/93.

1,241,956  Sound-Producing Apparatus.  Christian S. Gerlach, of Brandon, Wisconsin.  No execution date.  Filed July 5, 1916, Serial No. 107,636.  “This invention relates to a sound producing apparatus and has for its primary object to generate a plurality of sound waves of different characteristics such as would be necessary in the moving picture art.  An object of the invention is to provide suitable mechanism by means of which sound waves of different characteristics may be taken from a sound record.”  Classification 369/40.01; 369/160; 369/272.1; 369/95.


Oct. 9, 1917

1,242,155  Phonograph and the Like.  Joseph Hunter Dickinson, of Cranford, New Jersey, Assignor to the Aeolian Company, a Corporation of Connecticut.  Executed Feb. 9, 1916.  Filed Feb. 10, 1916, Serial No. 77,444.  Classification 362/133; 362/155; 362/87.

1,242,222  Diaphragm-Mounting.  Harry M. Marble, of Newark, New Jersey, Assignor to Magnetic Phonograph Company, of New York, N. Y., a Corporation of New York.  No execution date.  Filed Sept. 11, 1914, Serial No. 861,305.  “My invention relates to mountings for the diaphragms of phonographs, telephones, etc.”  Classification 181/171.

1,242,227  Sound-Post Mounting for Phonographs.  James G. Nolen, of New York, N. Y.  No execution date.  Filed June 28, 1916, Serial No. 106,293.  Classification 369/162.

1,242,228  Diaphragm-Tensioning Means.  James G. Nolen, of New York, N. Y.  No execution date.  Filed Mar. 19, 1917, Serial No. 155,687.  “This invention relates to sound transmitters in general, and more especially to transmitters for talking machines.” Classification 369/160; 369/170.

1,242,372  Phonic Apparatus.  Stephen C. Porter, of Brooklyn, New York.  No execution date.  Filed Nov. 13, 1914, Serial No. 871,914.  “My invention relates to improvements in phonic apparatus primarily for use in transmitting the sound waves of phonographic records electrically for use in the production of talking moving pictures.”  Classification 369/158.

1,242,550  Graphophone and Other Disk Record Holder.  John Heitman, of Nome, Territory of Alaska, Assignor of One-Half to Ralph Lomen, of Nome, Territory of Alaska.  Executed June 12, 1915.  Filed July 3, 1915, Serial No. 37,911.  Classification 312/9.22.

1,242,563  Herbert G. La Sor, of Los Angeles, California.  Phonograph-Record Cabinet.  No execution date.  Filed May 2, 1916, Serial No. 94,911.  Classification 312/9.25.

1,242,655  Telephone-Exchange System.  Henry P. Clausen, of Mount Vernon, New York, Assignor to Western Electric Company, Incorporated, of New York, N. Y., a Corporation of New York.  Executed Feb. 28, 1916.  Filed Feb. 29, 1916, Serial No. 81,201.  “The principal object of this invention is to provide an automatic speaking means, as a telegraphone or a phonograph adapted to meet a calling subscriber at the proper moment with a query ‘number please’ or an equivalent phrase, also for speaking other ph[r]ases ordinarily required to be spoken by an operator in the course of the regular work at a telephone switchboard.”  Classification 379/84.

1,242,736  Cover-Supporting Device.  Henry S. Sturtevant and Edward K. Biddy, of Hartford, Connecticut.  No execution date.  Filed Feb. 8, 1917, Serial No. 147,286.  “This invention relates to a device for holding up the cover of a talking machine, trunk, or other device.”  Classification 217/60D.

1,242,751  Record-Cleaning Attachment for Phonographs.  James Worthington and William Worthington, of Pleasant City, Ohio.  No execution date.  Filed June 1, 1917, Serial No. 172,287 [?].  Classification 369/74; 29/DIG.97.

1,242,790  Combined Piano and Graphophone.  Jacob J. Froess, of Erie, Pennsylvania.  No execution date.  Filed Oct. 13, 1916, Serial No. 125,373.  “The principal object of my invention, is to so combine a piano and graphophone, that the piano may be used to accompany vocal selections or the like on the graphophone, as a matter of entertainment, and also as a matter of instruction for those who desire to practice an accompaniment to the vocal or instrumental music produced by the mechanism of the talking machine.”  Classification 84/170; 84/4.

1,242,858  Phonograph.  Irwin D. Pike, of West Orange, New Jersey, Assignor, by Mesne Assignments, to New Jersey Patent Company, of West Orange, New Jersey, a Corporation of New Jersey.  Executed May 8, 1913.  Filed May 10, 1913, Serial No. 766,697.  Classification 369/74; 29/DIG.97; 369/160.

D51,334  Design for a Talking-Machine Cabinet.  Cicero Hine, of Chicago, Illinois, Assignor to the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company, of Chicago, Illinois, a Corporation of Delaware.  No execution date.  Filed Aug. 24, 1917, Serial No. 188,069.  Classification D14/184.

D51,335  Design for a Talking-Machine Cabinet.  Cicero Hine, of Chicago, Illinois, Assignor to the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company, of Chicago, Illinois, a Corporation of Delaware.  No execution date.  Filed Aug. 24, 1917, Serial No. 188,070.  Classification D14/184.

D51,336  Design for a Talking-Machine Cabinet.  Cicero Hine, of Chicago, Illinois, Assignor to the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company, of Chicago, Illinois, a Corporation of Delaware.  No execution date.  Filed Aug. 24, 1917, Serial No. 188,071.  Classification D14/184.

D51,337 Design for a Talking-Machine Cabinet.  Cicero Hine, of Chicago, Illinois, Assignor to the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company, of Chicago, Illinois, a Corporation of Delaware.  No execution date.  Filed Aug. 24, 1917, Serial No. 188,072.  Classification D14/184.

D51,338  Design for a Talking-Machine Cabinet.  Cicero Hine, of Chicago, Illinois, Assignor to the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company, of Chicago, Illinois, a Corporation of Delaware.  No execution date.  Filed Aug. 24, 1917, Serial No. 188,073.  Classification D14/184.

D51,339  Design for a Talking-Machine Cabinet.  Cicero Hine, of Chicago, Illinois, Assignor to the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company, of Chicago, Illinois, a Corporation of Delaware.  No execution date.  Filed Aug. 24, 1917, Serial No. 188,074.  Classification D14/178.

D51,340  Design for a Talking-Machine Cabinet.  Cicero Hine, of Chicago, Illinois, Assignor to the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company, of Chicago, Illinois, a Corporation of Delaware.  No execution date.  Filed Aug. 24, 1917, Serial No. 188,075.  Classification D14/177.

D51,341  Design for a Talking-Machine Cabinet.  Cicero Hine, of Chicago, Illinois, Assignor to the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company, of Chicago, Illinois, a Corporation of Delaware.  No execution date.  Filed Aug. 24, 1917, Serial No. 188,076.  Classification D14/176.


Oct. 16, 1917

1,242,920  Tablet-Support for Talking-Machines.  Pliny Catucci, of Newark, New Jersey, Assignor, by Mesne Assignments, to Otto Heineman Phonograph Supply Co., Inc., of New York, N. Y., a Corporation of New York.  No execution date.  Filed Mar. 13, 1917, Serial No. 154,527.  Classification 369/269; 369/271.1.

1,243,037  Combination Envelop and Music-Sheet.  Angus Leo Campbell, of North Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada.  No execution date.  Filed Aug. 7, 1916, Serial No. 113,646.  “This invention relates to improvements in combination envelops and music sheets particularly adapted to be utilized with gramophone disk records, and the objects of the invention are to permit of the player readily recognizing the song or piece of music being played by a gramophone, to render the music sheet capable of being utilized as the envelop flap and generally to adapt the envelop to better perform the functions required of it.”  Classification 206/312; 434/318.

1,243,174  Automatic Stopping Device for Talking-Machines.  James Hines, of Glasgow, Scotland.  No execution date.  Filed Aug. 1, 1916, Serial No. 112,556.  Classification 369/238.

1,243,285  Motor Mechanism and Speed-Regulating Means Therefor.  William F. Grupe, of Jersey City, New Jersey, Assignor, by Mesne Assignments, to Van-o-Phone Company, of New York, N. Y., a Corporation of New York.  No execution date.  Filed Feb. 20, 1915, Serial No. 9,613.  Shown applied to phonograph.  Classification 188/187.

1,243,385  Multiple-Disk Talking Machine.  Emil Milton Clasen, of Chicago, Illinois.  No execution date.  Filed Dec. 10, 1913, Serial No. 805,672.  Classification 369/192.1.


Oct. 23, 1917

1,243,853  Phonograph-Tone-Arm Connection.  Julius Matson, of Glenwood, Illinois, Assignor to Steger & Sons Piano Manufacturing Company, of Steger, Illinois, a Corporation of Illinois.  Executed Oct. 7, 1916.  Filed Oct. 14, 1916, Serial No. 125,554.  Classification 369/158.

1,243,854  Phonograph-Tone-Arm Connection.  Julius Matson, of Glenwood, Illinois, Assignor to Steger & Sons Piano Manufacturing Company, of Steger, Illinois, a Corporation of Illinois.  Filed Oct. 14, 1916, Serial No. 125,554.  Divided: Executed Apr. 19, 1917.  Filed Apr. 23, 1917, Serial No. 163,787.  Classification 369/158.

1,243,980  Phonograph.  Edward Rogers, of Rosedale, New York, Assignor of One-Half to William A. Courtland, of Brooklyn, New York.  No execution date.  Filed May 19, 1915, Serial No. 29,109.  Classification 720/601; 369/229.

1,243,987  Phonograph-Record.  Otto Carl Schroeder, of Detroit, Michigan.  No execution date.  Filed Aug. 23, 1917, Serial No. 187,862.  Classification 369/286; 369/280.

1,244,170  Graphophone Attachment.  James I. Buffa, of San Francisco, California.  No execution date.  Filed May 7, 1917, Serial No. 166,844.  “The object of the invention is to provide means, automatically operating with the movement of the reproducer, to remove the dust from the record in front of the reproducer.”  Classification 369/74; 29/DIG.97.


Oct. 30, 1917

1,244,550  Automatic Stop for Talking-Machines.  Milo B. Selter, of Coloma, Michigan, Assigner to Playerphone Talking Machine Company, a Corporation of Illinois.  No execution date.  Filed Oct. 9, 1916, Serial No. 124,704.  Classification 369/236; 369/234.

1,244,551  Automatic Stop Mechanism for Phonograph-Machines.  Milo B. Selter, of Coloma, Michigan, Assigner to Playerphone Talking Machine Company, a Corporation of Illinois.  No execution date.  Filed Oct. 9, 1916, Serial No. 124,705.  Classification 369/235; 369/243.

1,244,571  Telephone-Exchange System.  Joseph L. Wright, of Washington, District of Columbia, Assignor, by Mesne Assignments, to James R. Garfield, Trustee, of Cleveland, Ohio.  No execution date.  Filed Feb. 27,1912.  Serial No. 680,015.  “[M]eans are shown whereby the operator simply pressing the listening button connects a phonograph in place of her ordinary transmitter.”  Classification 379/187.

1,244,588  Phonograph.  Lewis Cole, of Chicago, Illinois, Assignor to Talk-Sing Company, of Chicago, Illinois, a Corporation of Illinois.  Executed Aug. 25, 1916.  Filed Sept. 1, 1916, Serial No. 118,025.  Classification 369/67; 369/239.

1,244,944  Cabinet for Talking-Machines.  Clement Beecroft, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  No execution date.  Filed May 27, 1915, Serial No. 30,731.  Classification 312/8.13; 312/107; 369/75.11.

1,245,112  Governor.  William D. La Rue, of Camden, New Jersey, Assignor to Victor Talking Machine Company, a Corporation of New Jersey.   Executed Oct. 1, 1915.  Filed Oct. 2, 1915, Serial No. 53,734.  “My improvements relate to governors of the class suitable for use in connection with light, high speed motors, such as are frequently employed as actuating mechanism for talking machines and the like, and in which the greatest possible uniformity of speed is required.”  Classification 73/526; 188/187; 73/546.

1,245,125  Governor.  Belford G. Royal, of Camden, New Jersey, Assignor to the Victor Talking Machine Company, a Corporation of New Jersey.   Executed June 30, 1915.  Filed July 6, 1915, Serial No. 38,096. Renewed Feb. 24, 1916, Serial No. 80,308.  Classification 73/546; 188/187; 280/89.


Nov. 6, 1917

1,245,217  Ear-Tube.  Felix Gottschalk, of Hilton, New Jersey.  No execution date.  Filed Mar. 3, 1916, Serial No. 81,898.  “This improvement in ear-tubes is applicable to many devices, including all kinds of stethoscopes, deaf phones, phonographs or devices for testing for ‘knocks’ and all such uses and modifications I claim as part of my invention.”  Classification 181/131; 381/380.

1,245,568  Toy Phonograph.  Lee A. Collins, of Louisville, Kentucky.  No execution date.  Filed Nov. 21, 1916, Serial No. 132,671.  Classification 369/266.

1,245,834  Synchronization of Machines for Recording and Reproducing Sounds and Movements.  Claude Hamilton Verity, of Leeds, England.  No execution date.  Filed May 23, 1917, Serial No. 170,531.  Classification 352/23.


Nov. 13, 1917

1,246,053  Drive Mechanism for Combined Phonographs and Player-Pianos.  Melville Clark, of Chicago, Illinois, Assignor to Melville Clark Piano Company, a Corporation of Illinois.  Executed Feb. 3, 1916.  Filed Feb. 21, 1916, Serial No. 79,526.  Classification 84/4; 369/239; 369/266; 369/69.

1,246,055  Musical Instrument.  Ralph Colling, of Benton County, Oregon.  No execution date.  Filed Dec. 27, 1916, Serial No. 139,069.  “My invention relates to that class of devices wherein tones are mechanically produced from or in connection with tone records and a vibrating diaphragm.  The object of my invention is to provide a device by means of which melodies may be produced from the record of a single standard tone of the human voice, or of an instrument, and which melodies shall be of artistic tone quality and greater precision as a whole than when produced in the ordinary may as a melody; also to produce a pure legato or glide between different pitches of tones recorded from instruments whose nature does not permit such glide to be produced from them.”  Classification 84/601.

1,246,072  Filing-Cabinet.  John P. Eisenhauer, of Port Huron, Michigan.  No execution date.  Filed Sept. 23, 1916, Serial No. 121,770.  “This invention relates to a filing cabinet for retaining phonograph or talking machine records or analogous articles.”  Classification 312/9.55; 217/7.

1,246,382  Spring-Fastener for Phonographs.  Helmer Benson, of Bloomfield, New Jersey, Assignor to De Camp and Sloan, Inc., a Corporation of New Jersey.  No execution date.  Filed May 21, 1917, Serial No. 169,998.  Classification 185/45; 29/896.24.

1,246,401  Motor for Phonographs.  James H. Dooley, of East Orange, New Jersey, Assignor to De Camp and Sloan, Inc., a Corporation of New Jersey.  No execution date.  Filed Jan. 3, 1917, Serial No. 140,382.  Classification 185/37; 185/40M.

1,246,402  Silent Pawl for Phonographs.  James H. Dooley, of East Orange, New Jersey, Assignor to De Camp and Sloan, Inc., a Corporation of New Jersey.   No execution date.  Filed May 21, 1917, Serial No. 169,864.  Classification 74/576; 185/40M.

1,246,474  Sound-Reproducing Machine.  Henry T. Schiff, of Chicago, Illinois.  Executed Jan. 16, 1917.  Filed Jan. 19, 1917, Serial No. 143,203.  Classification 369/157.

1,246,506  Sound-Box Adapter.   Anthony Vasselli, of Newark, New Jersey, Assignor, by Mesne Assignments, to Otto Heineman Phonograph Supply Co., Inc., of New York, N. Y., a Corporation of New York.  Filed Apr. 5, 1917, Serial No. 159,874.  Classification 369/157.

1,246,552  Acoustic Diaphragm.  Clarence F. Cookson, of Brooklyn, New York, Assignor to Robert L. McElroy, of New York, N. Y.  No execution date.  Filed Mar. 19, 1917, Serial No. 155,639.  “This invention relates to improvements in diaphragms and the method of making the same, and more particularly to such a diaphragm for a phonograph constructed of a laminated fabric.”  Classification 428/65.9; 156/324; 428/214; 428/498.

1,246,616  Reproducer.  William Troupe Lakin, of Cumberland, Maryland.  No execution date.  Filed Apr. 3, 1917, Serial No. 159,587.  Classification 369/162; 369/163.

1,246,651  Record for Talking-Machines.  Ademor N. Petit, of Orange, New Jersey; Albert O. Petit, Administrator of said Ademor N. Petit, Deceased, Assignor to John L. Lotsch, Trustee, of Brooklyn, New York.  Executed Feb. 11, 1914.  Filed Feb. 12, 1914, Serial No. 818,349.  Renewed Apr. 14, 1917, Serial No. 162,144.  Classification 369/277.

1,246,652  Cutting-Tool for Sound-Recording Machines.  Ademor N. Petit, of Orange, New Jersey; Albert O. Petit, Administrator of said Ademor N. Petit, Deceased, Assignor to John L. Lotsch, Trustee, of Brooklyn, New York.  Executed Feb. 11, 1914.  Filed Feb. 12, 1914, Serial No. 818,350.  Renewed Apr. 14, 1917, Serial No. 162,143.  Classification 82/1.12; 407/120.

1,246,694  Phonograph-Needle.  Frederick L. Wood, of Meriden, Connecticut, Assignor to the Aeolian Company, a Corporation of Connecticut.   Executed June 29, 1915.  Filed June 30, 1915, Serial No. 37,228. Classification 369/173; 228/131; 29/520; 76/101.1.

1,246,763  Talking-Machine.  Louis Lumiere, of Lyon, France, Assignor to Victor Talking Machine Company, of Camden, New Jersey, a Corporation of New Jersey.  Executed Nov. 15, 1913.  Filed Nov. 29, 1913, Serial No. 803,697.  Classification 369/80; 369/155.


Nov. 20, 1917

1,246,895  Phonograph-Transmitter.  Henry C. Egerton, of Passaic, New Jersey, Assignor, by Mesne Assignments, to Western Electric Company, Incorporated, a Corporation of New York.   Executed Nov. 23, 1914.  Filed Nov. 25, 1914, Serial No. 873,861.  Classification 369/152.

1,247,163  Circle-Line-Wave Double Disk Record for Sound-Producing Machines.  John A. Sowell, of Sacramento, California, Assignor of One-Half to E. E. Sowell, of Sacramento, California.  No execution date.  Filed Mar. 8, 1916, Serial No. 82,928.  Classification 369/280.

1,247,219  Phonograph-Sound-Box Connection.  Charles S. Burton, of Oak Park, Illinois.  Executed Nov. 10, 1916.  Filed Nov. 13, 1916, Serial No. 130,947.  Classification 369/157; 369/164.

1,247,220  Phonograph-Sound-Box Connection.  Charles S. Burton, of Oak Park, Illinois. Executed Jan. 16, 1917.  Filed Jan. 17, 1917, Serial No. 142,943.  Classification 369/157; 369/164.

1,247,232  Lubricating and Polishing Pad for Talking-Machine Records.  Patrick B. Delany, of South Orange, New Jersey.  No execution date.  Filed Mar. 1, 1913, Serial No. 751,405.  Classification 401/200; 29/DIG.62.

1,247,441  Attachment for Talking-Machines.  Lester Moroney, of Manhattan Beach, Oregon.  No execution date.  Filed Feb. 6, 1917, Serial No. 146,908.  Classification 369/79; 369/158; 369/230; 369/231; 369/80.

1,247,587  Phonograph.  Cyrus C. Shigley, of Grand Rapids, Michigan.  No execution date.  Filed Nov. 10, 1916, Serial No. 130,626.  Classification 369/37.01.

D51,501  Design for a Casing for Sound-Producing Instruments.  Lachlan MacLachlan, of Grand Rapids, Michigan.  No execution date.  Filed Oct. 5, 1917, Serial No. 194,996.  Classification D14/184.

D51,502  Design for a Casing for Sound-Producing Instruments.  Lachlan MacLachlan, of Grand Rapids, Michigan.  No execution date.  Filed Oct. 5, 1917, Serial No. 194,997.  Classification D14/184.

D51,503  Design for a Casing for Sound-Producing Instruments.  Lachlan MacLachlan, of Grand Rapids, Michigan.  No execution date.  Filed Oct. 5, 1917, Serial No. 194,998.  Classification D14/184.

D51,507  Design for a Phonograph-Cabinet.  Archie E. Parnall, of Chicago, Illinois, Assignor to Frank W. Williams, of Chicago, Illinois.  No execution date.  Filed Aug. 21, 1917, Serial No. 187,427.  Classification D14/184.


Nov. 27, 1917

1,247,843  Graphophone-Needle Box.  Kenichi Kawaguchi, of Kekaha, Territory of Hawaii.  No execution date.  Filed Dec. 27, 1916, Serial No. 139,146.  Classification 221/102; 221/262; 221/263.

1,247,861  Sound-Reproducing Apparatus.  Samuel D. Mott, of Passaic, New Jersey, Assignor of One-Half to Arthur B. Sullivan, of Allendale, New Jersey.  Executed Feb. 1, 1916.  Filed Feb. 7, 1916, Serial No. 76,642.  Classification 369/213.

1,248,041  Repeating Device for Talking-Machines.  George F. Voith, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  No execution date.  Filed Mar. 27, 1917, Serial No. 157,823.  Classification 369/229.

1,248,062  Sound-Box.  Herman L. Berger and Francis C. Knochel, of New York, N. Y.  No execution date.  Filed Aug. 13, 1917, Serial No. 185,874.  Classification 369/162.

1,248,063  Record-Cleaner for Sound-Reproducing Machines.  Joseph Newcomb Blackman, of New York, N. Y.  No execution date.  Filed June 15, 1917, Serial No. 174,838 [?].  Classification 369/74; 29/DIG.97.

1,248,064  Record-Cleaner for Sound-Reproducing Machines.  Joseph Newcomb Blackman, of New York, N. Y.  No execution date.  Filed June 15, 1917, Serial No. 174,839.  Classification 369/74; 29/DIG.97.

1,248,098  Attachment for Sound-Boxes.  Henry Faust, Jr., of St. Louis, Missouri.  No execution date.  Filed Apr. 14, 1917, Serial No. 162,112.  Classification 369/157; 369/169.


Dec. 4, 1917

1,248,468  Celluloid Record-Blank.  Thomas A. Edison, of Llewellyn Park, West Orange, New Jersey, Assignor to New Jersey Patent Company, of West Orange, New Jersey, a Corporation of New Jersey.  Filed Oct. 16, 1912, Serial No. 720,472.  Divided: Executed June 1, 1917.  Filed June 7, 1917, Serial No. 173,359.  Classification 106/169.31; 106/169.29; 264/162; 264/78; 369/272.1.

1,248,533  Automatic Stopping and releasing Mechanism for Phonographs.  William S. O’Brien, of Bridgeport, Connecticut.  No execution date.  Filed Apr. 17, 1917, Serial No. 162,740.  Classification 369/160; 369/230; 369/232; 369/234; 369/236; 369/280; 369/53.39.

1,248,541  Molding Phonograph-Records.  Brian F. Philpot, of Orange, New Jersey, Assignor, by Mesne Assignments, to New Jersey Patent Company, of West Orange, New Jersey, a Corporation of New Jersey.  Executed Jan. 2, 1913.  Filed Jan. 3, 1913, Serial No. 739,975.  Classification 425/522; 425/182; 425/385; 425/387.1; 425/392; 425/810.

1,248,554  Cutter Device.  Oscar L. Scalbom, of Glenview, Illinois.  No execution date.  Filed Dec. 17, 1909, Serial No. 533,663.  “My present invention relates to cutter devices generally and contemplates more especially the provision of a conveniently operable portable device for pointing and repointing the bamboo ‘reproducer needles’ used in connection with sound reproducing machines, and for cutting fibrous and other hard resistant materials having a tendency to splinter or fray at the edges when submitted to ordinary cutting operations.”  Classification 144/146; 369/173.

1,248,757  Phonograph and the Like.  Henry Barnes Tremaine, of Westfield, and Edwin Scott Votey, of Summit, New Jersey, Assignors to the Aeolian Company, a Corporation of Connecticut.  Executed Jan. 22, 1915.  Filed Jan. 23, 1915, Serial No. 3,954.  Classification 369/158; 369/161.

1,248,922  Album for Holding Phonograph-Records.  George Rottman, of New York, N. Y.  Executed June 26, 1916.  Filed July 8, 1916, Serial No. 108,243.  Classification 206/311; 402/75.

1,249,251  Phonograph.   Magnus W. Turnquist, of Chicago, Illinois.  No execution date.  Filed Feb. 26, 1917, Serial No. 150,879.  Classification 369/226.

1,249,288  Lighting Attachment for Sound-Reproducing Machines.  George E. Bernecker, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Assignor to Record-Lite Company, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a Corporation of Wisconsin.  No execution date.  Filed Aug. 4, 1916, Serial No. 113,180.  Classification 362/87; 362/396.

D51,540  Design for a Talking-Machine Cabinet.  Robert L. Poe, of Chicago, Illinois.  Filed Oct. 20, 1917, Serial No. 197,736.  Classification D14/184.


Dec. 11, 1917

1,249,374  Phonograph Illuminating Appliance.  Melvin H. Gaba, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  No execution date.  Filed Mar. 3, 1917, Serial No. 152,196.  Classification 362/87; 362/802.

1,249,398  Sound-Reproducing Machines.  William F. Hitchcock and Joseph F. Hitchcock, of Rochester, New York; Joseph F. Hitchcock Assignor to Said William F. Hitchcock.  No execution date.  Filed Nov. 27, 1914, Serial No. 874,225.  Classification 310/66; 248/559; 310/169; 310/51; 310/75R; 310/83; 369/263.1.

1,249,409  Sound-Transmitting Apparatus.  Alva D. Jones, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Assignor of Forty One-Hundredths to Frank Lyster, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  No execution date.  Filed Mar. 2, 1914, Serial No. 821,877.  “My invention consists of an apparatus adapted to be attached to and connected with a talking machine for transmitting sounds reproduced from a record by a sound-box in such machine to a distant receiver or sound-reproducing device.”  Classification 369/134; 369/152; 369/158.

1,249,414  Process of Making Talking-Machine Records.  John Kaiser, of New York, N. Y.  Executed May 28, 1917.  Filed May 31, 1917, Serial No. 171,875.  Classification 369/17.

1,249,526  Electric Switch.  William Gentry Shelton, of New York, N. Y.  No execution date.  Filed Sept. 11, 1916, Serial No. 119,430.  “This invention is peculiarly adapted for use in connection with small motors for driving light loads, but which must, from the very nature of the work performed, be started from a state of rest and almost instantly acquire the proper normal running speed.  This is particularly true in connection with the rotation of talking machine records and the electric motor for driving the same.”  Classification 318/277; 310/157; 310/173; 310/68E; 310/91; 318/251; 318/461.

1,249,646  Cabinet for Phonographs or Talking-Machines.  Carl J. Lundstrom, of Little Falls, New York.  No execution date.  Filed July 17, 1916, Serial No. 109,656.  Classification 312/8.11; 312/8.15; 369/75.11; 5/308.

1,249,720  Phonograph-Record Cleaner and Protector.  Edward Loomis Christian, of Douglas, Arizona.  No execution date.  Filed May 22, 1917, Serial No. 170,257.  Classification 369/74; 29/DIG.97.

1,249,775  Rapid Winder for Victrolas, &c.  Benjamin G. Kramer, of Anderson, Indiana.  Executed Apr. 19, 1916.  Filed Apr. 22, 1916, Serial No. 92,834.  Classification 74/141; 15/343; 185/39; 185/40M; 74/6.

1,249,791  Phonograph.  Leslie McArthur, of Kenilworth, Illinois, Assignor to Stewart Phonograph Corporation, of Chicago, Illinois, a Corporation of Illinois. Executed Nov. 22, 1916.  Filed Nov. 24, 1916, Serial No. 133,139.  Classification 369/158.

D51,543  Design for a Phonograph-Cabinet.  John C. Andresen, of Brooklyn, New York.  Executed Aug. 27, 1917.  Filed Aug. 29, 1917, Serial No. 188,874.  Classification D14/184.


Dec. 18, 1917

1,250,637  Sound-Reproducing Machine.  Percival James Packman, of Highbury, London, England, Assignor, by Mesne Assignments, to the Aeolian Company, of Meriden, Connecticut, a Corporation of Connecticut.  No execution date.  Filed Oct. 14, 1910, Serial No. 586,985.  Classification 369/165.

1,250,751  Resetting Device for Sound-Reproducing Machines.  Thomas Ahearn, of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.  No execution date.  Filed Jan. 16, 1917, Serial No. 142,694.  Classification 369/226.

1,250,795  Record-Removing Device for Talking-Machines.  Stefan Canda, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  No execution date.  Filed Feb. 24, 1917, Serial No. 150,733.  Classification 369/262.

1,250,802  Method for Producing Hollow Metal Bodies.  Edward G. Cook, of Long Island City, New York, Assignor, by Mesne Assignments, to Copper Products Company, a Corporation of Maine.  No execution date.  Filed Sept. 8, 1916, Serial No. 118,974.  Illustrated in Fig. 6 with “a phonograph-horn elbow.”  Classification 205/73; 164/132; 164/77; 29/527.3.

1,250,803  Casting or Molding Device.  Edward G. Cook, of Long Island City, New York, Assignor, by Mesne Assignments, to Copper Products Company, a Corporation of Maine.  No execution date.  Filed Sept. 8, 1916,Serial No. 118,975.  Able to “mold phonograph-horn elbows efficiently, quickly, and cheaply.”  Classification 164/151.3; 164/77.

1,250,887  Record-Filing Case.  Henry Jerum, of Liberty, New York.  No execution date.  Filed July 5, 1916, Serial No. 107,570.  “The object of the invention is to provide a new and improved record filing case for phonographic disk records and arranged to allow storing a larger number of records in a comparatively small space and to permit of conveniently removing any one of the records or replacing the same whenever it is desired to do so.”  Classification 312/9.56.

1,250,914  Power Apparatus.  Leslie R. McDonald, of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Assignor to Marguerite V. O’Leary, of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.  No execution date.  Filed Mar. 3, 1917, Serial No. 152,200.  “For example, in operating a phonograph of the type employing a disk record the driving torque necessary to rotate the disk at a given velocity is greater when the stylus engages the disk near its outer periphery than when it has moved inwardly nearer the center of the disk, inasmuch as the radial arm of the resisting force decreases as the stylus moves inwardly.”  Designed to overcome this.  Classification 74/149.

D51,596  Design for a Bell-Shaped Base for a Phonograph.  Arthur E. Jacobs, of Cleveland, Ohio.  No execution date.  Filed June 29, 1916, Serial No. 106,737.  Classification D14/199.

D51,603  Design for a Phonograph Turn-Table.  Joseph O. Merriam, of Meriden, Connecticut.  No execution date.  Filed Sept. 14, 1917, Serial No. 191,479.  Classification D14/261.

D51,604  Design for a Phonograph Turn-Table.  Joseph O. Merriam, of Meriden, Connecticut.  No execution date.  Filed Sept. 14, 1917, Serial No. 191,480.  Classification D14/261.

D51,609  Design for a Sound-Box.  John J. Scully, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, Assignor to American Graphophone Company, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, a Corporation of West Virginia.  No execution date.  Filed Oct. 21, 1916, Serial No. 127,026.  Classification D14/263.


Dec. 25, 1917

1,251,100  Automatic Starter for Talking-Machines.  Frank Puschnerus, of New York, N. Y.  No execution date.  Filed Feb. 26, 1917, Serial No. 150,941.  Classification 369/19; 192/116.5; 368/274.

1,251,287  Synchronizing Mechanism for Motion-Picture and Sound-Reproducing Means.  Harrison W. Rogers, of Wheeling, West Virginia, Assignor, by Mesne Assignments, to R. & E. Singing Picture Co., of Wheeling, West Virginia.  No execution date.  Filed Feb. 7, 1913, Serial No. 746,890.  Classification 352/19; 74/395.

1,251,340  Tone-Arm for Talking-Machines.  Pliny Catucci, of Newark, New Jersey, Assignor, by Mesne Assignments, to Otto Heineman Phonograph Supply Co., Inc., of New York, N. Y., a Corporation of New York.  Executed Nov. 6, 1915.  Filed Nov. 9, 1915, Serial No. 60,479.  Classification 369/158.

1,251,355  Sound-Box.  Parker Dodge, of Washington, District of Columbia.  No execution date.  Filed May 18, 1915, Serial No. 28,911.  “This invention relates to sound boxes for gramophones, graphophones and the like and the principal features of novelty reside in the mounting of the diaphragm.”  Classification 181/167; 181/171.


 
 

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