U. S. Phonograph Patents Issued in 1913

Jan. 7, 1913

1,049,348  Tone-Arm for Talking-Machines. 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. 616,667.  Classification 369/163.

1,049,915  Prepayment Attachment for Instruments.  John L. Post, of Canon City, Colorado.  No execution date.  Filed Apr. 28, 1912, Serial No. 693,498.  “In the present instance, my invention is designed especially for use with telephones.  It is to be understood, however, that the invention in its useful application is not limited to this particular purpose, as the same may be applied to various instruments which require a prepayment attachment, such as automatic pianos, graphophones and the like.”  Classification 200/61.64.

1,049,923  Multiple Phonograph.  Julius Roever, of New York, N. Y.  No execution date.  Filed May 11, 1910, Serial No. 560,569.  Rotating disc with records around periphery.  Classification 369/179; 15/246; 29/DIG.98.

Jan. 14, 1913

1,050,238  Phonographic Recorder.  Hugo H. Schneider, of Seattle, Washington.  No execution date.  Filed Dec. 12, 1911, Serial No. 665,285.  System for recording sound photographically on moving picture film, amplitude represented by width of band.  Classification 369/117; 178/90; 369/118.

1,050,355  Phonograph.  Thomas A. Edison, of Llewellyn Park, West Orange, New Jersey, Assignor to Thomas A. Edison, Incorporated, of West Orange, New Jersey, a Corporation of New Jersey.  Executed Aug. 7, 1909.  Filed Aug. 12, 1909, Serial No. 512,578.  Machine with enclosed but unbent horn.  Classification 369/80.

1,050,743  Sound-Box.  Henry C. Miller, of Waterford, New York.  No execution date.  Filed Jan. 28, 1907, Serial No. 254,542.  Classification: 369/42.01; 181/162; 369/163.

1,050,777  Phonographic Wireless Telephone.  Archie Frederick Collins of Newark, New Jersey.  No execution date.  Filed Mar. 18, 1909, Serial No. 484,320.  “It will...be seen that I have provided a novel form of amusement since by my invention one may hear without the use of wires, between the phonograph-telephone transmitter and the receiving instrument held by the user, a song or a speech reproduced at some distance off.”  Classification 381/79; 369/24.01.

Jan. 21, 1913

1,050,815  Cutter for Reproducing-Styli.  Wilburn N. Dennison, of Merchantville, New Jersey, Assignor to Victor Talking Machine Company, a Corporation of New Jersey.  Executed June 14, 1911.  Filed June 16, 1911, Serial No. 633,513.  Classification 144/146; 369/71.

1,050,932  Disk Record and the Production Thereof.  Victor H. Emerson, of New York, N. Y., Assignor to American Graphophone Company, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, a Corporation of West Virginia.  No execution date.  Filed Apr. 15, 1905, Serial No. 255,803.  Laminated pressing.  Classification 369/286; 264/107; 264/338; 369/288; 428/498.

Jan. 28, 1913

1,051,408  Supporting Device.  Newman H. Holland, of West Orange, New Jersey, Assignor to Thomas A. Edison, Incorporated, of West Orange, New Jersey, a Corporation of New Jersey.  Executed Aug. 16, 1912.  Filed Aug. 17, 1912, Serial No. 715,544.  Phonograph horn support with easy directional adjustment.  Classification 248/278.1.

1,051,489  Sound-Box for Gramophones. Ernest de la Rue, of London, England.  No execution date.  Filed July 25, 1912, Serial No. 711,405.  Means of mounting diaphragms.  Classification 181/171.

1,051,513  Sound-Recording Apparatus.  Furdoonjee Dorabjee Pudumjee, of Bombay Presidency, India.  No execution date.  Filed May 20, 1911, Serial No. 628,399.  System for using a beam of light to record master discs for photoengraving and playback on ordinary gramophones.  Classification 369/111; 369/119; 369/269.

1,051,569  Automatic Stop Mechanism.  John L. Fiedler, of New York, N. Y.  No execution date.  Filed Apr. 4, 1912, Serial No. 688,394.  A second arm extends out over the center of the disc; when the reproducer reaches the end of the disc, it hits this arm, which triggers the automatic stop mechanism.  Classification 369/238; 369/233.

Feb. 11, 1913

1,052,656  Phonograph-Reproducer.  Thomas A. Edison, of Llewellyn Park, West Orange, New Jersey, Assignor to Thomas A. Edison, Incorporated, of West Orange, New Jersey, a Corporation of New Jersey.  Executed Oct. 26, 1909.  Filed Oct. 28, 1909, Serial No. 525,063.  Enhanced freedom of movement for stylus.  Classification 369/168.

1,052,836  Mainspring-Winding Arbor.  Cornelius Loudon, of Phelps, New York, Assignor of One-Half to Edward B. Partridge, of Phelps, New York.   No execution date.  Filed Aug. 23, 1912, Serial No. 716,753.  Phonograph mainsprings listed among its applications.  Classification 185/45.

Feb. 18, 1913

1,053,524  Alarm Device.  Philip Jacob Meahl, of Summit, New Jersey, Assignor of One-Half to George B. Kelly, of Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.  Executed Apr. 15, 1912.  Filed June 12, 1912, Serial No. 703,165.  Fig. 4 shows a “phonographic” type wheel (“with projections 16 produced in the manner of projections in a phonograph or talking machine record”); alarm also uses a regularly toothed wheel in the same fashion.  Classification 116/144; 340/390.1.

1,053,946  Synchronizing Device. Léon Gaumont, of Paris, France, Assignor to Société des Etablissements Gaumont, of Paris, France.  Filed Dec. 2, 1907, Serial No. 404,712.  Divided: No execution date. Filed Feb. 17, 1909, Serial No. 478,453.  The parent patent was in turn a division of Serial No. 350,857, filed Jan. 4, 1907.  Synchronization of phonograph and kinematograph.  Classification 352/15; 318/695.

Feb. 25, 1913

1,053,998  Telephone-Exchange System.  Morton L. Johnson, of Chicago, Illinois, Assignor to Corwin Telephone Manufacturing Company, of Chicago, Illinois, a Corporation of Illinois.  Executed Aug. 3, 1912.  Filed Aug. 19, 1912, Serial No. 716,423.  Pay telephones: “The phonograph may be arranged to give the calling subscriber some suitable notice such as ‘Drop a nickel please’ or ‘Register your connection’”; also “What is your number please.”  Classification 379/149.

1,054,096  Talking-Machine.  Frank L. Dyer of Montclair, New Jersey, Assignor, by Mesne Assignments, to Thomas A. Edison, Incorporated, of West Orange, New Jersey, a Corporation of New Jersey.  Executed Oct. 12, 1910.  Filed Oct. 20, 1910, Serial No. 583,069.  Cover folds back to become amplifying horn.  Classification 369/81.

1,054,203  Combination Phonograph and Moving-Picture Apparatus.  Daniel Higham, of New York, N. Y.  Executed Nov. 9, 1908.  Filed Nov. 10, 1908, Serial No. 461,869.  Synchronization by means of a pulley system.  Classification 352/13; 101/248; 318/69; 318/695; 340/319; 369/69; 74/1R; 74/395.

1,054,359  Graphophone.  Thomas H. Macdonald, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, Assignor to American Graphophone Company, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, a Corporation of West Virginia.  No execution date.  Filed Dec. 27, 1906, Serial No. 349,696.  Reproducer mounted at rear of cylinder phonogram.  Classification 369/167; 369/224; D14/199.

1,054,395  Sound-Reproducing Machine. Alfred R. Cunnius, of Brooklyn, New York, Assignor of One-Half to Lipman Kaiser, of East Orange, New Jersey.   No execution date.  Filed Mar. 20, 1911, Serial No. 615,650.  Gramophone with a long internal double horn abutting on two openings with doors that may be opened or closed to modify volume.  Classification 369/82.

Mar. 11, 1913

1,055,525  Art of and Apparatus For Recording and Reproducing Sound.  Victor H. Emerson, of New York, N. Y., and George A. Manwaring, of Bayonne, New Jersey, Assignors to American Graphophone Company, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, a Corporation of West Virginia.  No execution date.  Filed Apr. 17, 1908, Serial No. 427,691.  Method of producing “stencil”-type phonogram from an ordinary hill-and-valley disc phonogram for playback by optical selenium cell method.  Classification 369/85.

1,055,621  Reproducer.  Thomas A. Edison, of West Orange, New Jersey, Assignor to Thomas A. Edison, Incorporated, of West Orange, New Jersey, a Corporation of New Jersey.  Executed May 16, 1911.  Filed May 18, 1911, Serial No. 627,952.  Classification 369/168; 181/162; 181/170; 181/173; 367/174.

Mar. 18, 1913

1,056,475  Diaphragm for Talking-Machines.  Peter Weber, of Orange, New Jersey, Assignor, by Mesne Assignments, to Thomas A. Edison, Incorporated, of West Orange, New Jersey, a Corporation of New Jersey.  Executed Feb. 26, 1907.  Filed Feb. 28, 1907, Serial No. 359,891.  Classification 181/168; 181/174; 340/388.1.

1,056,517  Means for Reproducing Sound.  Thomas A. Edison, of Llewellyn Park, West Orange, New Jersey, Assignor to Thomas A. Edison, Incorporated of West Orange, New Jersey, a Corporation of New Jersey.  Filed Dec. 8, 1909, Serial No. 532,075.  Hill-and-valley disc tracked by having extra styli follow adjacent grooves without “playing” them. Classification 369/218; 369/219.1.

D43,722  Design for a Cabinet for Talking-Machines.  Eugene T. Kieffer, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Assignor to Victor Talking Machine Company, a Corporation of New Jersey.  No execution date.  Filed Dec. 31, 1912, Serial No. 739,577.  Classification D14/184.

Mar. 25, 1913

1,056,835  Multicompartment Cabinet.  George Robbins, of Minneapolis, Minnesota.  No execution date.  Filed Jan. 25, 1912, Serial No. 673,440.  Described and depicted as “especially designed to contain phonographic records of the disk type contained in heavy filing envelops.”  Classification 312/9.53.

1,057,279  Apparatus for Use in the Treatment of Deafness.  Augustus Rosenberg, of London, England.  No execution date.  Filed July 30, 1909, Serial No. 510,463.  Uses cylinder phonograph.  Classification 601/78.

1,057,332  Means for Regulating the Relative Speed of Operation of Reproducing-Machines.  James W. Crooks, of Mount Vernon, New York, Assignor to Aeolian Company, a Corporation of Connecticut.  No execution date.  Filed June 14, 1910, Serial No. 566,308.  Synchronization of phonograph or gramophone and player piano.  Classification 84/4.

1,057,344  Driving Means for Gramophones.  Frederick G. Hayward, of New York, N. Y.  No execution date.  Filed June 5, 1911, Serial No. 631,228.  Renewed Dec. 23, 1912, Serial No. 738,363.  Classification 476/48; 188/187; 310/78; 369/267; 476/57.

Apr. 1, 1913

1,057,458  Attachment for Coupling Automatic Pianos or Organs and Phonographs Together.  José Sampere, of New York, N. Y.; Marie Sampere, Administratrix of said José Sampere, Deceased, Assignor, by Mesne Assignments, to Aeolian Company, of New York, N. Y., a Corporation of Connecticut.  No execution date.  Filed Dec. 30, 1908, Serial No. 470,090. “My invention relates to attachments for coupling together automatic pianos organs, or other pneumatically operated musical instruments and phonographs so as to secure a simultaneous and harmonious operation thereof for the purposes, for instance of producing a vocal selection on the phonograph with an accompaniment on the piano or organ, etc., and has for its object to provide a simple and effective attachment of this character, which will automatically regulate the operation of the two instruments so as to secure a perfect cooperation between the two.”  Classification 84/4.

Apr. 8, 1913

1,058,098  Filing-Cabinet.  Winfield B. Phillips, of Fenton, Michigan.  No execution date.  Filed Apr. 9, 1912, Serial No. 689,556.  “While the cabinet embodying my invention is adapted for various uses I will describe the invention as embodied in a filing cabinet for the disk-shaped music records for phonographs.”  Classification 312/9.28.

1,058,284  Phonograph.   Peter Weber, of Orange, New Jersey, Assignor, by Mesne Assignments, to Thomas A. Edison, Incorporated, of West Orange, New Jersey, a Corporation of New Jersey.  Granted Oct. 12, 1907.  Filed Oct. 14, 1907, Serial No. 397,283.  Means of supporting horn above phonograph rather than having it extend out in front.  Classification 181/179; 285/235; 369/157; D14/199.

Apr. 15, 1913

1,058,754  Talking-Machine Needle.  Richard H. Jones, of Chicago, Illinois.  Executed Apr. 15, 1909.  Filed Apr. 26,1909, Serial No. 492,205.  Cactus needle.  Classification 369/173.

1,058,911  Phonograph.  Adolph Schwer, of Buffalo, New York.  No execution date.  Filed Oct. 2, 1912, Serial No. 723,499.  Combination disc and cylinder machine.  Classification 369/258.1; 369/260; 369/264; 369/266.

Apr. 22, 1913

1,059,345  Phonograph Sound-Box.  Pliny Catucci, of Newark, New Jersey, Assignor to A. F. Meisselbach & Brother, a Corporation of New Jersey.   No execution date.  Filed Mar. 11, 1911, Serial No. 613,814.  Allows stylus to follow cylinder groove if not a perfect helix.  Classification 369/168; 369/170.

1,059,346  Gramophone Sound-Box.  Pliny Catucci, of Newark, New Jersey, Assignor to A. F. Meisselbach & Brother, a Corporation of New Jersey.  No execution date.  Filed Nov. 26, 1912, Serial No. 733,585.  Classification 369/169.

1,059,418  Sound-Record for Talking-Machines.  Clarence S. Wickes, of Merchantville, New Jersey, Assignor to Victor Talking Machine Company, a Corporation of New Jersey.  Executed Sept. 2, 1910.  Filed Sept. 6, 1910, Serial No. 580,670.  Ribbing on reverse of single-faced discs.  Classification 369/280.

1,059,474  Phonograph Attachment for Clocks.  Roy C. Laird and Charles E. Miller, of Tabor, Iowa.  No execution date.  Filed Apr. 7, 1910, Serial No. 554,079.  Classification 368/63; 368/274; 968/225.

1,059,939  Sound-Controller for Talking-Machines. Charlie Emery Kenyon, of Newark, New Jersey.  Executed May 22, 1911.  Filed May 31, 1911, Serial No. 630,526.  Volume control for gramophones; device fitted into horn.  Classification 181/186; 369/158.

D43,896  Design for a Cabinet.  Joseph Rubino, of Orange, New Jersey, Assignor to Thomas A. Edison, Incorporated, of West Orange, New Jersey, a Corporation of New Jersey.  Filed Jan. 22, 1913, Serial No. 743,668.  Phonographic, judging from design and assignee.  Classification D14/199.

Apr. 29, 1913

1,060,209  Attachment for Sound-Reproducing Machines.  Henry W. Quade, of Hancock, Missouri.  No execution date.  Filed May 1, 1912, Serial No. 694,343.  Means of using a non-metallic stylus to yield higher volume.  Classification 369/160; 369/170.

1,060,235  Talking-Machine.  Wilburn N. Dennison, of Merchantville, New Jersey, Assignor to Victor Talking Machine Company, a Corporation of New Jersey.  Executed Mar. 7, 1906.  Filed Mar. 8, 1906.  Serial No. 304,836.  Pneumatic gramophone.  Classification 369/156; 369/159.

1,060,504  Mechanism for Counting and Recording the Use of Sound-Reproduction Records.  Iwan Schmurkin, of Moscow, Russia.  No execution date.  Filed May 6, 1912, Serial No. 695,559.  Means of connecting a “counter” to hired-out gramophones and discs to keep track of how many times they’re used for purposes of payment.  Classification 346/95; 235/119; 235/98R.

1,060,541  Talking-Machine.  John H. Elfering, of Camden, New Jersey, Assignor to Victor Talking Machine Company, a Corporation of New Jersey.   Executed Aug. 20, 1902.  Filed Sept. 6, 1902, Serial No. 122,303.  Classification 369/157.

1,060,550  Talking-Machine.  Eldridge R. Johnson, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Assignor to Victor Talking Machine Company, a Corporation of New Jersey.  Executed Mar. 30, 1903.  Filed Apr. 7, 1903, Serial No. 151,454.  Elaborate all-around gramophone patent.  Classification: 369/157; 369/162; 369/163.

1,060,551  Automatic Needle-Feeder for Phonographs.  Elmer C. Jordan, of Sacramento, California.  No execution date.  Filed May 14, 1912, Serial No. 697,177.  Classification 369/172.

1,060,559  Phonograph-Record-Disk File.  James D. Rockwell, of New York, N. Y.  Executed Nov. 30, 1912.  Filed Dec. 3, 1912, Serial No. 734,661.  Separate tabs for keeping track of “front” and “back” of double-faced discs.  Classification 206/312.

May 6, 1913

1,060,577  Process of Making Duplicate Phonograph-Records.  Jonas W. Aylsworth, of East Orange, New Jersey, Assignor, by Mesne Assignments, to Thomas A. Edison, Incorporated, of West Orange, New Jersey, a Corporation of New Jersey.  Executed Sept. 14, 1909.  Filed Sept. 17, 1909, Serial No. 518,272.  Process for making cylinder records with metal playing surfaces.  Classification 205/68; 264/106; 264/221; 425/810.

1,060,672  Sound-Box for Talking-Machines.  Wilburn N. Dennison, of Merchantville, New Jersey, Assignor to Victor Talking Machine Company, a Corporation of New Jersey.  Executed Jan. 22, 1907.  Filed Jan. 24, 1907, Serial No. 353,774.  Classification 369/156.

1,060,955  Sound-Reproducing Instrument.  Ben R. Smith, of Chicago, Illinois, Assignor to Smith Repeatostop Company, of Chicago, Illinois, a Corporation.  Executed June 1, 1911.  Filed June 5, 1911, Serial No. 631,347.  Device for repeating or stopping at the end of a gramophone disc.  Classification 369/226.

1,061,070  Needle or Stylus.  Albert Hayes, of Salt Lake City, Utah.  Executed Mar. 8, 1913.  Filed Mar. 8, 1913, Serial No. 752,884.  “My invention relates to improvements in needles or styli for use in connection with sound boxes of graphophones or gramophones.”  Classification 369/173.

1,061,071  Sound Box.  Albert Hayes, of Salt Lake City, Utah.  Filed Mar. 8, 1913, Serial No. 752,886.  “My invention relates to sound boxes for gramophone and graphophone reproducers.”  Classification 369/163.

1,061,072  Method of Mounting a Vibrating Diaphragm.  Albert Hayes, of Salt Lake City, Utah.  Executed Mar. 13, 1913.  Filed Mar. 13, 1913, Serial No. 754,063.  “My invention relates to methods of construction and arranging the diaphragm of sound reproducing devices such as the sound boxes of gramophones, graphophones and other devices in which sound is reproduced by the vibration of a diaphragm, and the invention has for its object to increase the sensitiveness of such diaphragms and to thus secure improved results in the reproduction of sounds.”  Classification 181/171.

1,061,124  Sound-Reproducing Machine.  Carl Ramus, of Port Townsend, Washington.  No execution date.  Filed June 17, 1912, Serial No. 704,134.  Cylinder-playing attachment for disc gramophones.  Classification 369/260; 369/159; 369/164; 369/264.

1,061,211  Acoustic Diaphragm.  William W. Young, of Agawam, Massachusetts, Assignor, by Mesne Assignments, to Lucy A. Young, of Agawam, Massachusetts.  No execution date.  Filed Aug. 1, 1911, Serial No. 641,753.  “My invention relates to improvements in diaphragms having acoustic properties which are designed especially for the sound-boxes of talking machines.”  Classification 181/170.

D43,961  Design for a Cabinet for Sound-Reproducing Machines.  Morris Keen, of Atlantic City, New Jersey, Assignor to Keen-o-Phone Company, a Corporation of Delaware.  No execution date.  Filed Jan. 22, 1913, Serial No. 743,662.  Classification D14/184.

D43,962  Design for a Cabinet for Sound-Reproducing Machines.  Morris Keen, of Atlantic City, New Jersey, Assignor to Keen-o-Phone Company, a Corporation of Delaware.  No execution date.  Filed Jan. 22, 1913, Serial No. 743,663.  Classification D14/184.

D43,963  Design for a Cabinet for Sound-Reproducing Machines.  Morris Keen, of Atlantic City, New Jersey, Assignor to Keen-o-Phone Company, a Corporation of Delaware.  No execution date.  Filed Jan. 22, 1913, Serial No. 743,664.  Classification D14/184.

D43,964  Design for a Cabinet for Sound-Reproducing Machines.  Morris Keen, of Atlantic City, New Jersey, Assignor to Keen-o-Phone Company, a Corporation of Delaware.  No execution date.  Filed Jan. 22, 1913, Serial No. 743,665.  Classification D14/184.

May 13, 1913

1,061,258  Process of Making Sound-Record Molds.  Jonas W. Aylsworth, of East Orange, and Edward L. Aiken, of Orange, New Jersey, Assignors, by Mesne Assignments, to Thomas A. Edison, Incorporated, of West Orange, New Jersey, a Corporation of New Jersey.  Executed Nov. 15, 1910.  Filed Nov. 17, 1910, Serial No. 592,764.  Molds for disc records.  Classification 164/112; 29/896.24; 76/107.1; 76/DIG.6.

1,061,282  Phonograph Brake and Stop.  Baptiste J. Genesy, of Reno, Nevada.  No execution date.  Filed June 17, 1912, Serial No. 704,116.  Classification 192/139; 369/233; 369/238.

1,061,408  Needle for Talking-Machines.  Percy B. Ruggles, of Wyoming, Ohio.  No execution date.  Filed Feb. 8, 1913, Serial No. 747,029.  Shafts of bird feathers.  Classification 369/173.

1,061,729  Sound-Box.  Pliny Catucci of Newark, New Jersey, Assignor to A. F. Meisselbach & Brother, a Corporation of New Jersey.  No execution date.  Filed Apr. 26, 1912, Serial No. 693,353.  “The particular embodiment of my present invention...is designed more particularly for use in connection with the phonograph described and illustrated in my co-pending application, Ser. No. 693,352 filed on the 26th day of April, 1912, and has for its purpose the simplification of structures of this kind, and at the same time a material reduction in the cost of manufacture.”  Classification 369/169; 369/170.

1,061,766  Diaphragm of Telephonic Receivers and Like Instruments.  Alexander Marr, of Manchester, England.  No execution date.  Filed Sept. 12, 1912, Serial No. 719,962.  “This invention relates to improvements in the method of and means for mounting the diaphragms of telephonic receivers, transmitters, talking machines, and the like or other diaphragm instruments [in] which diaphragms are supported at and around their peripheries only.”  Classification 381/398; 381/431.

May 20, 1913

1,062,224  Tone-Modifying Device.  William H. Cook, of Webster City, Iowa.  Executed Jan. 12, 1912.  Filed May 28, 1912, Serial No. 700,498.  “The object of my invention is to provide a stylus supporting lever to be arranged as to prevent or modify the harsh grating metallic sounds ordinarily produced in phonographs on account of the use of wholly metallic material between the stylus and the diaphragm.”  Classification 369/163; 279/86; 369/170.

1,062,324  Motion-Picture and Voice-Reproducing Machine.  Henry Theodore Crapo, of New York, N. Y., Assignor to George Regester Webb, of Baltimore, Maryland.  No execution date.  Filed Jan. 10, 1912, Serial No. 670, 496.  Uses gramophone disc.  Classification 352/21; 369/266.

1,062,369  Sound-Reproducing Instrument.  Ben R. Smith, of Chicago, Illinois, Assignor to Smith Repeatostop Company, of Chicago, Illinois, a Corporation.  Executed June 1, 1912.  Filed June 3, 1912, Serial No. 701,195.  Device for repeating or stopping at the end of a gramophone disc.  Classification 369/226.

May 27, 1913

1,062,579  Talking-Machine.  Jonas W. Aylsworth, of East Orange, New Jersey, Assignor, by Mense Assignments, to Thomas A. Edison, Incorporated, of West Orange, New Jersey, a Corporation of New Jersey.  Executed Feb. 2, 1910.  Filed Feb. 3, 1910, Serial No. 541,763.  Table or support for exceedingly thin disc records, allowing them to be played on standard gramophones.  Also alludes to a Serial No. 541,764, describing the “exceedingly thin records.”  Classification 369/271.1; 101/126; 101/474; 248/363; 269/21; 292/DIG.16; 294/64.1.

1,063,085  Means for Recording and Reproducing Lengthy Speeches, Compositions, and the Like.  Franz Ewald Thormeyer, of Hamburg, Germany.  No execution date.  Filed Oct. 22, 1906, Serial No. 340,067.  Uses two discs and automatically switches from one to the other.  Classification 369/258.1; 192/139; 352/22; 369/260.

D44,105  Design for a Cabinet for Talking-Machines.  Eldridge R. Johnson, of Merion, Pennsylvania, Assignor to Victor Talking Machine Company, a Corporation of New Jersey.  No execution date.  Filed Dec. 27, 1912, Serial No. 738,958.  Classification D14/184.

June 3, 1913

1,063,262  Combined Phonograph and Graphophone and Operative Mechanism Therefor.  John Hosler, of Llewellyn, Pennsylvania, Assignor to William O. Hosler, of Llewellyn, Pennsylvania.  No execution date.  Filed Feb. 29, 1912, Serial No. 680,716.  Both discs and cylinders.  Classification 369/158; 369/164.

1,063,601  Antiseptic Mouthpiece for Telephones and Similar Instruments.  Max Rosenwald, of New York, N. Y., and John C. Doran, of Danbury, Connecticut, assignors to Frank A. Weeks Mfg. Co.  No execution date.  Filed Oct. 21, 1911, Serial No. 655,959.  One design “may be secured to a hose of a phonograph or similar instrument which is used for taking dictation.”  Classification 181/177; 381/189; 381/344.

1,063,821  Cabinet for Talking-Machines.  Oscar E. Mertz, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Assignor, by Direct and Mesne Assignments, of One-Half to American Graphophone Company, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, a Corporation of West Virginia, and One-Half to Thomas A. Edison, Incorporated, of West Orange, New Jersey, a Corporation of New Jersey.  No execution date.  Filed Apr. 8, 1910, Serial No. 554,110.  Turntable swings out so lid doesn’t have to be taken off for changing  a record.  Classification 369/80; 312/8.16; 312/8.3.

1,063,823  Sound-Box.  Henry C. Miller, of Waterford, New York.  No execution date.  Filed June 2, 1906, Serial No. 319,934.  Renewed Oct. 4, 1912, Serial No. 723,998.  “This invention relates to improvements in sound boxes of the type shown and described in my pending application for patent Serial No. 314,654, filed May 1, 1906.  The object of the invention is to provide a sound box having a diaphragm whose shape may be altered, or in other words dished for raising the pitch, in combination with means operating on said diaphragm with or without stopping the machine, or the necessity of being in close proximity to the machine.  The diaphragm on the sound box is normally in what might be stated zero position, and its shape is susceptible of being altered to change the pitch by a pneumatic arrangement, the pitch being entirely under control of the operator during operation of the machine to bring out the salient features of a particular record being reproduced.”  Classification 369/42.01; 369/163.

June 10, 1913

1,064,062  Sound-Box for Talking Machines.  John C. English, of Camden, New Jersey, Assignor to Victor Talking Machine Company, a Corporation of New Jersey.  Executed Oct. 27,1910.  Filed Oct. 31, 1910, Serial No. 589,589,845.  Classification 181/172; 369/157; 369/169.

June 17, 1913

1,064,771  Apparatus for the Reception and Reproduction of Sound-Waves.  Oswald Reinhart, of Dessau, Germany.  No execution date.  Filed Aug. 22, 1911, Serial No. 645,373.  For “electrical and mechanical telephones, phonographs, gramaphones [sic], receiving and transmitting apparatus and other acoustic and optico-acoustic devices of all kinds.”  Classification 181/163; 181/164.

1,064,931  Talking-Machine.  James Aloysius Rabbitt, of Yokohama, Japan.  Executed Dec. 22, 1909.  Filed Feb. 8, 1910, Serial No. 542,709.  General gramophone improvements.  Classification 369/158; 369/264.

1,065,212  Phonograph-Reproducer.  Abraham L. Burke, of Chicago, Illinois, Assignor to Walter A. Scott, Trustee.  No execution date.  Filed Apr. 4, 1913, Serial No. 758,827.  Classification 369/169.

June 24, 1913

1,065,576  Combination Apparatus for Synchronizing Motion and Sound Reproductions.  Edward H. Amet, of Redondo Beach, California.  Executed Aug. 30, 1911.  Filed Sept. 5, 1911, Serial No. 647,769.  Uses cylinder phonograph.  Classification 352/19; 200/46; 369/69; 84/477R.

1,065,578  Automatic Graphophone-Stop.  Max H. Baetzner, of Chicago, Illinois.  No execution date.  Filed Sept. 22, 1911, Serial No. 650,974.  Classification 369/234; 369/233.

1,065,694  Stop Mechanism for Talking-Machines.  Carl Lindström, of Berlin, Germany.  No execution date.  Filed May 4, 1911, Serial No. 624,917.  Classification 192/18R.

1,065,888  Sound-Modifying Device.  William G. Sabine, of Youngstown, Ohio, Assignor to Annie Perry Sabine, of Youngstown, Ohio.  No execution date.  Filed Nov. 20, 1912, Serial No. 732,572.  Attachment to gramophone sound box “to modify and soften the sound of the instrument and do away with the whizzing or grating sound.”  Classification 181/166; 369/163.

July 1, 1913

1,066,059  Holder for Flexible Dictating-Tubes of Phonographs.  Elgin Stoddard, of Oakland, California.  No execution date.  Filed July 8, 1912, Serial No. 708,309.  Classification 248/278.1.

1,066,138  Holder for Disk Records.  Aaron S. Nichols, of New York, N. Y.  No execution date.  Filed Apr. 13, 1912, Serial No. 690,562.  Renewed Dec. 4, 1912, Serial No. 734,987.  Case.  Classification 312/9.18.

1,066,237  Winding Mechanism.  Hilary F. Whalton and James R. Stowers, of Key West, Florida.  No execution date.  Filed Apr. 4, 1912, Serial No. 698,491.  “This invention relates to winding mechanism specially intended for use in connection with talking machines inclosed in cabinets provided with hinged lids.”  Classification 185/39; 185/40M.

1,066,246  Gramophone-Brake.  John Bingham, of Revelstoke, British Columbia, Canada.  No execution date.  Filed Nov. 24, 1911, Serial No. 662,106.  Classification 369/234; 369/233.

July 15, 1913

1,067,405  Phonograph.  Pliny Catucci, of Newark, New Jersey, Assignor to A. F. Meisselbach & Brother, a Corporation of New Jersey.  Filed May 15, 1912, Serial No. 697,426.  Divided: Executed Feb. 14, 1913.   Filed Feb. 17, 1913, Serial No. 748,767.  Uses interior of gramophone case as amplifier without an actual internal horn.  Classification 369/80.

1,067,530  Talking-Machine.  Carl Lindström, of Berlin, Germany.  No execution date.  Filed Mar. 11, 1910, Serial No. 548,570.  “My invention relates to talking machines and has for its object to provide an improved arrangement of mechanism for changing the positions of the recording and reproducing points or needles especially suitable for use in connection with the single sound box of dictating machines and whereby the recording and reproduction of the sound are improved.”  For cylinder phonograph.  Classification 369/161.

1,067,569  Sound Recording and Reproducing Machine.  William W. Zackey, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Assignor of Forty-Nine One Hundredths to Charles B. Hewitt, of Burlington, New Jersey.  No execution date.  Filed Jan. 4, 1912, Serial No. 669,500.  Improved sound box.  Classification 369/169.

July 22, 1913

1,067,905  Sound-Amplifying Device.  John C. English, of Camden, New Jersey, Assignor to Victor Talking Machine Company, a Corporation of New Jersey.  Executed June 27, 1907.  Filed June 29, 1907, Serial No. 381,408.  “[A]n improved sound amplifier particularly adapted for use in a talking machine which will obviate hollow and other objectionable effects, such as are produced by megaphones and some other amplifying devices, and which will act to increase the sonority, brilliancy, and other good qualities in sounds.”  Classification 181/187; 369/82.

1,067,933  Graphophone Attachment.  Thomas H. Macdonald, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, Assignor to American Graphophone Company, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, a Corporation of West Virginia.  No execution date.  Filed Sept. 23, 1911, Serial No. 650,939.  Means of disconnecting the recording device on a dictation machine at will to avoid accidentally recording instead of reproducing when transcribing dictation.  Classification 369/161.

1,068,231  Stylus-Adjusting Device.  George E. Emerson, of Newark, New Jersey, Assignor to Henry Waterson, Trustee, of Richmond Hill, New York.    Executed Dec. 5, 1911.  Filed Dec. 11, 1911, Serial No. 685,073.  “This invention relates to a stylus adjusting device for a sound reproducing apparatus, to obtain sounds of various amplitudes.”  Classification 369/163.

D44,361  Design for a Sound-Amplifier for Phonographs.  Will F. P. Davis, of Mattapan, Massachusetts, Assignor of One-Fourth to George McIntosh, of Newark, New Jersey, and One-Fourth to Wilbur F. Stewart and One-Fourth to Paul Hunt, both of Brookline, Massachusetts.  No execution date.  Filed Mar. 7, 1913, Serial No. 752,772.  Classification D14/208.

July 29, 1913

1,068,441  Sound-Box.  Walter H. Miller, of Orange, New Jersey, Assignor to Thomas A. Edison, Incorporated, of West Orange, New Jersey, a Corporation of New Jersey.  Executed Apr. 18, 1911.  Filed Apr. 20, 1911, Serial No. 622,397.  For vertical cut disc records.  Classification 369/163.

1,068,569  Means for the Study of Musical Compositions.  Percy F. Cowing, of New York, N. Y.  Executed Apr. 9, 1906.  Filed Apr. 10, 1906, Serial No. 311,005.  “The invention includes improvements in perforated rolls, such as are employed in player-pianos, etc., disks and cylinders, such as employed in phonographs, etc., or any other means for mechanically controlling the reproduction of musical tones when employed in a self-playing or mechanical musical instrument.”  Mainly involves breaking compositions up into single parts for analysis: “it would be impracticable to have the index numbers printed on the record for a phonograph in which case the index number would probably be spoken &c.”  Classification 84/164.

1,068,591  Talking-Machine.  Eldridge R. Johnson, of Merion, Pennsylvania, Assignor to Victor Talking Machine Company, a Corporation of New Jersey.  Executed Jan. 13, 1911.  Filed Jan. 28, 1911, Serial No. 605,150.  All-around gramophone design.  Classification 181/177; 369/80.

1,068,877  Talking-Machine and the Like.  August Filss, of Erfurt, Germany.  No execution date.  Filed Apr. 25, 1912, Serial No. 693,171.  Deals with mounting of gramophone tonearm.  Classification 369/158; 285/264.

Aug. 5, 1913

1,069,294  Cabinet.  Samuel B. Rose, of New York, N. Y.  No execution date.  Filed June 10, 1912, Serial No. 702,766.  “My invention relates particularly to that class of cabinets designed to accommodate phonographic disk records or the like.”  Classification 312/9.48; 211/40; 211/49.1.

1,069,464  Talking-Machine.  Minard Arthur Possons, of Cleveland, Ohio.  No execution date.  Filed Oct. 7, 1909, Serial No. 521,586.  Raising and lowering of cover winds gramophone.  Classification 369/75.11; 185/40M; 74/134.

1,069,578  Cabinet for Talking-Machines.  Rezsö Preszter, of Budapest, Austria-Hungary.  No execution date.  Filed Mar. 8, 1913, Serial No. 752,080.  Internal horn machine with one horn in lid and one horn in box.  Classification 369/82.

1,069,642  Phonographic Horn.  Frederick William Houlston, of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.  No execution date.  Filed Apr. 2, 1913, Serial No. 758,429.  In sections.  Classification 181/178; 193/25E.

Aug. 12, 1913

1,069,784  Sound-Reproducing Machine.  William J. Hodges, of Atlanta, Georgia.  No execution date.  Filed Sept. 12, 1912, Serial No. 720,038.  Reproducer is enclosed within the box of a gramophone and plays disc record from underneath.  Classification 369/80.

Aug. 19, 1913

1,070,959  Talking-Machine.  Charles L. Hibbard, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  No execution date.  Filed May 3, 1913, Serial No. 765,221.  Gramophone with box and internal horn mounted behind the turntable rather than underneath.  Classification 369/82.

D44,553  Design for a Cabinet for Talking Machines.  Clinton E. Woods, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, Assignor to American Graphophone Company, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, a Corporation of West Virginia.  Filed Aug. 10, 1912, Serial No. 714,475.  Classification D14/178.

Aug. 26, 1913

1,071,033  Talking-Machine.  John C. English, of Camden, New Jersey, Assignor to Victor Talking Machine Company, a Corporation of New Jersey.  Executed Feb. 3, 1911.  Filed Feb. 20, 1911, Serial No. 690,589.  General gramophone design.  Classification 369/82.

1,071,055  Sound-Conveying Tube for Talking-Machines.  Eldridge R. Johnson, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Assignor to Victor Talking Machine Company, a Corporation of New Jersey.  Executed Dec. 21, 1903.  Filed Dec. 24, 1903, Serial No. 186,481.  Classification 369/158; 369/164

1,071,067  Cabineted Graphophone.  Thomas H. Macdonald, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, Assignor to American Graphophone Company, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, a Corporation of West Virginia.  No execution date.  Filed Aug. 25, 1910, Serial No. 578,916.  Disc machine.  Classification 369/81; 312/7.1; 312/8.3.

1,071,089  Sound-Box for Talking-Machines.  Bentley L. Rinehart, of Camden, New Jersey, Assignor to Victor Talking Machine Company, a Corporation of New Jersey.  Executed Dec. 19, 1905.  Filed Dec. 22, 1905, Serial No. 292,919.  Classification 369/169.

1,071,436  Sound-Reproducing Instrument.  Francis S. Kinney, of Butler, New Jersey; the Farmers Loan and Trust Company, of New York, N. Y., Executor of said Kinney, Deceased.  No execution date.  Filed Apr. 9, 1904, Serial No. 202,320.  “This invention relates to certain improvements in recorders for machines for reproducing sound, such as phonographs and graphophones.”  Classification 369/166; 369/170.

1,071,610  Sound-Amplifier.  John C. English, of Camden, New Jersey, Assignor to Victor Talking Machine Company, a Corporation of New Jersey.   Filed Feb. 20, 1909, Serial No. 479,015.  Divided: Executed May 27, 1909.  Filed May 29, 1909, Serial No. 499,079.  For use with “sound reproducing machines”; emphasizes preservation of timber.  Classification 181/187.

1,071,667  Sound-Box.  Albert Hayes, of Salt Lake City, Utah, Assignor to Vocatone M’f’g Co. Inc., a Corporation of New York.  Executed July 10, 1913.  Filed July 10, 1913, Serial No. 778,244.  Classification 369/169.

1,071,668  Method for Controlling the Vibration of Diaphragms.  Albert Hayes, of Salt Lake City, Utah, Assignor to Vocatone M’f’g Co. Inc., a Corporation of New York.  Executed July 10, 1913.  Filed July 10, 1913, Serial No. 778,245.  Classification 181/171; 369/163; 369/169.

Sept. 2, 1913

1,071,685  Apparatus for Producing Duplicate Sound-Records.  Jonas W. Aylsworth, of East Orange, New Jersey, Assignor to New Jersey Patent Company, of West Orange, New Jersey, a Corporation of New Jersey.  Filed Apr. 28, 1909, Serial No. 493,052.  Divided: Executed Jan. 18, 1911.  Filed Jan. 20, 1911, Serial No. 603,677.  Disc. Classification 425/434; 425/435; 425/449; 425/810. 

1,071,744  Antivibration Device for Centrifugal Governors.  Newman H. Holland, of West Orange, New Jersey, Assignor to Thomas A. Edison, Incorporated, of West Orange, New Jersey, a Corporation of New Jersey.  Executed Aug. 16, 1912.  Filed Aug. 17, 1912, Serial No. 715,546.  For application to Edison business phonograph.  Classification 73/526; 73/546.

1,072,066  Brake for Talking-Machines.  Günther Philip Wild, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  No execution date.  Filed Feb. 1, 1912, Serial No. 674,764.  Classification 369/237; 192/139; 369/233; 369/236; 369/238.

1,072,346  Gramophone.  Gustave Meling, of Chicago, Illinois.  No execution date.  Filed Jan. 18, 1912, Serial No. 671,838.  Repeating mechanism.  Classification 369/225.

D44,624  Design for a Cabinet for Sound Recording and Reproducing Machines and the Like.  Jacob M. Wintrob, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  No execution date.  Filed June 28, 1913, Serial No. 776,445.  Classification D14/184.

Sept. 9, 1913

1,072,477  Acoustical Instrument. Louis Lumiere, of Lyon, France, Assignor to Victor Talking Machine Company, of Camden, New Jersey, a Corporation of New Jersey.  Filed May 18, 1910, Serial No. 561,928.  Sound box for “acoustical instruments such as telephones, microphones, stethoscopes, talking machines, musical instruments, and in general any instrument used for the reception or transmission of sounds.”  Classification 181/160; 369/169.

1,072,529  Talking-Machine.  Gustav Thiel, of Berlin, Germany.  No execution date.  Filed Jan. 5, 1911, Serial No. 600,865.  “This invention has particular reference to the connection of the sound box to the sound arm by eccentrically connecting the box to the sound arm.”  Classification 369/157.

1,072,854  Talking-Machine.  Eldridge R. Johnson, of Merion Station, Pennsylvania, and John C. English, of Camden, New Jersey, Assignors to Victor Talking Machine Company, a Corporation of New Jersey.  Executed Mar. 17, 1911.  Filed Mar. 24, 1911, Serial No. 616,678.  Classification 369/80.

1,072,873  Multiple Phonograph.  Julius Roever, of New York, N. Y.  No execution date.  Filed Apr. 1, 1912, Serial No. 687,849.  “My invention relates to improvements in multiple phonographs such as employ a rotatable wheel or plate carrying a plurality of renewable phonograph records, and in which the rotation of the wheel brings the records successively or selectively as desired, into engagement with the reproducing mechanism.”  Classification 369/179; 15/246; 29/DIG.98.

Sept. 16, 1913

1,073,408  Sound-Box.  Albert C. Diehl, of Camden, New Jersey, Assignor to Victor Talking Macchine Company, a Corporation of New Jersey.   Executed Aug. 29, 1910.  Filed Aug. 31, 1910, Serial No. 579,836.  Classification 181/162; 181/171; 369/157; 369/169.

Sept. 23, 1913

1,073,961  Sound-Box.  Alfred C. J. Constabel, of Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii.  No execution date.  Filed Aug. 8, 1912, Serial No. 714,043.  Classification 369/163.

1,074,080  Talking-Machine.  Henry Blake Babson, of Chicago, Illinois, and Andrew Haug, of Caldwell, New Jersey, Assignors to Universal Talking Machine Manufacturing Company, a Corporation of New York.  Filed Mar. 7, 1905, Serial No. 248,872.  Divided: No execution date.  Filed July 17, 1909, Serial No. 508,115.  Classification 369/158.

Sept. 30, 1913

1,074,424  Magnetic Material.  Reginald A. Fessenden, of Brant Rock, Massachusetts, Assignor, by Mesne Assignments, to Samuel M. Kintner, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Halsey M. Barrett, of Bloomfield, New Jersey, Receivers.  No execution date.  Filed Mar. 14, 1908, Serial No. 421,218.  “My invention relates particularly to structures of magnetic material such as the wire used in instruments like the Poulsen telegraphone.”  Classification 360/131; 29/DIG.28.

Oct. 7, 1913

1,074,873  Phonographic Record.  Isidor Kitsee, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Assignor to the Cort-Kitsee Co., a Corporation of New York.  No execution date.  Filed Sept. 2, 1911, Serial No. 647,380.  Classification 369/16. 

1,074,943  Automatic Clutch Running Kinematographs and Phonographs Synchronously. Léon Gaumont, of Paris, France, Assignor to Societe des Establisements Gaumont, of Paris, France.  No execution date.  Filed Mar. 14, 1911, Serial No. 6,144.  Classification 352/22.

1,075,258  Telephony.  Morton L. Johnson, of Chicago, Illinois, Assignor to Corwin Telephone Manufacturing Company, of Chicago, Illinois, a Corporation of Illinois.  Executed Nov. 27, 1912.  Filed Dec. 4, 1912, Serial No. 734,865.  A "talking device may be in the nature of a phonograph and the record of the phonograph may be suited to the purpose of the system. For example, the phonograph may speak 'What is your number?--Register please', sufficient time intervening between the reproductions of these phrases within which the called subscriber may give his number and the calling subscriber may deposit his coin."  Classification 379/36; 379/111; 379/199.

1,075,288  Talking-Machine. Eldridge R. Johnson, of Merion, Pennsylvania, and John C. English, of Camden, New Jersey, Assignors to Victor Talking Machine Company, a Corporation of New Jersey  Executed Oct. 6, 1910.  Filed Oct. 8, 1910, Serial No. 585,975.  Classification 369/158.

Oct. 14, 1913

1,075,443  Annunciating Means for Cash-Registers.  Gustav F. W. Schultze, of Oakland, California.  No execution date.  Filed May 9, 1912, Serial No. 696,122.  Designed “to provide an attachment that is capable of audibly announcing the amount or amounts of each purchase registered as the same are rung up in the register; that a record of the amounts may be directly transmitted to the bookkeeper for auditing or that each purchaser may be assured that the proper amount of his purchase was rung up in the register by the sales clerk.”  Classification 235/7R; 235/11.

1,075,708  Talking-Machine.  Reinhold Fromholz, of Boxhagen, Germany.  No execution date.  Filed Oct. 12, 1910, Serial No. 586,812.  Classification 369/157; 369/169.

1,075,771  Phonograph.  Frank L. Dyer, of Montclair, New Jersey, Assignor to New Jersey Patent Company, of West Orange, New Jersey, a Corporation of New Jersey.  Executed June 17, 1909.  Filed June 19, 1909, Serial No. 503,237.  Classification 369/81.

1,075,807  Method of Molding Phonograph-Records.  Jonas W. Aylsworth, of East Orange, New Jersey, Assignor to New Jersey Patent Company, of West Orange, New Jersey, a Corporation of New Jersey.  Filed Apr. 29, 1909, Serial No. 493,053.  Divided: Executed Jan. 18, 1911.  Filed Jan. 20, 1911, Serial No. 603,678.  Classification 264/106; 264/263; 264/311.

Oct. 21, 1913

1,076,338  Recording Device.  Edwin S. Votey, of Summit, New Jersey, Assignor to Aeolian Company, of New York, N. Y., a Corporation of Connecticut.  Executed Jan. 17, 1912.  Filed Mar. 14, 1912, Serial No. 683,692.  “This invention relates to new and useful improvements in recording devices and the object of my invention is to provide a new and improved device of this kind for automatically recording, in the form of perforations and slots cut in a strip of paper, correct representations of the sound produced in playing a piano while accompanying a musical production produced on a phonograph or talking machine or otherwise, in exact accordance with the time, that is, the duration of and the intervals between the notes, so that the record thus produced can be used in a properly adjusted piano player for accompanying a phonograph or a talking machine.”  Classification 83/575; 234/49; 84/461.

1,076,385  Automatic Stopping Device for Sound-Reproducing Machines.  Henry C. Miller, of Waterford, New York.  No execution date.  Filed June 9, 1906, Serial No. 321,014.  Granted Oct. 21, 1913.  Reissued: RE14,257.  No execution date.  Filed Oct. 20, 1915, Serial No. 57,003.  Granted Feb. 6, 1917.  Reissued again: RE14,305.  No execution date.  Filed Oct. 20, 1915, Serial No. 57,004.  Granted May 22, 1917.   Classification 369/158; 192/116.5; 369/268.

1,076,621  Talking-Machine. Henry Blake Babson, of Chicago, Illinois, and Andrew Haug, of Caldwell, New Jersey, Assignors, by Mesne Assignments, to Victor Talking Machine Company, a Corporation of New Jersey.  Filed Mar. 7, 1905, Serial No. 248,872.  Renewed Jan. 25, 1911, Serial No. 604,656.  Divided: No execution date.  Filed July 17, 1908, Serial No. 508,116.  Classification 369/253.

1,076,643  Disk Talking-Machine.  Rezsö Preszter, of Budapest, Austria-Hungary.  Filed July 9, 1907, Serial No. 382,969.  Divided: Filed Sept. 29, 1908, Serial No. 455,350.  Granted Oct. 21,1913.  “The object of this invention is to obviate the necessity of employing a trumpet with disk talking machines.”  Classification 369/80.

Oct. 28, 1913

1,076,741  Vibrating-Record Phonograph.  Donald M. Bliss, of Orange, New Jersey.  No execution date.  Filed Feb. 26, 1912, Serial No. 680,037.  “My invention relates to phonographs by which sound is reproduced from the vibration of a sound record tablet, as contrasted to the sound reproduction in the well known commercial types of phonograph which reproduce sound by means of a diaphragm and a sound box.”  Classification 369/155; 369/271.1.

1,076,993  Record-Filing Case.  Earl Pooler, of Seattle, Washington, Assignor of One-Half to James S. Emerson, of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.  Executed Feb. 13, 1913.  Filed Feb. 20, 1913, Serial No. 749,590.  Classification 312/9.27; 312/9.56.

1,077,096  Apparatus for Use in the Treatment of Deafness.  Augustus Rosenberg, of London, England.  Filed July 30, 1909, Serial No. 510,463.  Divided: No execution date.  Filed July 27, 1911, Serial No. 640,897.  “My present invention is a division of my application filed July 30, 1909, and serially numbered 510,463, and which was patented March 25, 1913, No. 1,057,279, and has for its object a device for the treatment of deafness and other disorders of the auditory organs by agitating the sound-conducting and sound-perceiving portions of the ear by means of mechanical vibrations having a continuous undulatory character corresponding to that of the sounds (speech, music, and the like) to which it is required to train the ear to respond.”  Sounds generated by phonograph.  Classification 601/78.

1,077,152  Controlling Mechanism.  Henry C. Miller, of Waterford, New York.  No execution date.  Filed Feb. 6, 1908, Serial No. 414,552.  “The prime object of the invention is to provide a governor for a talking machine which may be set previous to the starting of the machine, to uniformly produce the selection to be rendered.”  Classification 192/139; 188/184; 369/236; 369/241; 369/267.

Nov. 4, 1913

1,077,361  Electrograph.  Richard S. M. Mitchell, of Syracuse, New York, Assignor, by Direct and Mesne Assignments, to the Talking Moving Picture Co., Inc., of Syracuse, New York, a Corporation of New York.  No execution date.  Filed Mar. 13, 1912, Serial No. 683,593.  “This invention relates to improvements in electrographs, and has for its object to provide a mechanical device which may be operated by any suitable power, the said device arranged to rotatably support a detachable record cylinder adapted for recording impressions effected by a vibrating needle or stylus.”  Classification 369/260; 369/173.

1,077,536  Acoustical Instrument.  Louis Lumière, of Lyon, France, Assignor to Victor Talking Machine Company, of Camden, New Jersey, a Corporation of New Jersey.  Filed May 18, 1910, Serial No. 561,928.  Divided: Executed Mar. 27, 1911.  Filed Apr. 20, 1911, Serial No. 622,213.  Sound box for “acoustical instruments such as telephones, microphones, stethoscopes, talking machines, musical instruments, and in general any instrument used for the reception or transmission of sounds.”  Classification 181/160; 369/169.

1,077,593  Sound-Modifying Reproducer for Phonographs.  Carl G. Carlson, of Hawthorne, Illinois.  No execution date.  Filed Apr. 3, 1912, Serial No. 688,146.  Change of volume.  Classification 181/162; 369/163; 369/170.

1,077,638  Filing-Cabinet.  August C. Petsche, of Yonkers, New York.  No execution date.  Filed Apr. 11, 1912, Serial No. 690,022.  Illustrated as used “for the filing of phonograph records,” i.e., discs.  Classification 312/9.53.

D44,866  Design for a Talking-Machine Frame.  Clinton E. Woods, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, Assignor to American Graphophone Company, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, a Corporation of West Virginia.  No execution date.  Filed Aug. 30, 1913, Serial No. 787,553.  Classification D14/261.

Nov. 11, 1913

1,077,973  Phonograph.  Pliny Catucci, of Newark, New Jersey, Assignor to A. F. Meisselbach & Brother, of Newark, New Jersey, a Corporation of New Jersey.  Executed Nov. 16, 1910.  Filed Nov. 17, 1910, Serial No. 592,818.  Classification 369/214; 188/187; 369/233; 369/260.

1,078,264  Phonographic Recording or Reproducing Apparatus.  Thomas A. Edison, of Llewellyn Park, Orange, New Jersey, Assignor to New Jersey Patent Company, of West Orange, New Jersey, a Corporation of New Jersey.  Executed Feb. 25, 1907.  Filed Mar. 16, 1907, Serial No. 362,597.  Classification 369/168.

1,078,265  Process of Making Phonograph-Records.  Thomas A. Edison, of Llewellyn Park, Orange, New Jersey, Assignor to New Jersey Patent Company, of West Orange, New Jersey, a Corporation of New Jersey.  Executed Oct. 10, 1908.  Filed Oct. 14, 1908, Serial No. 457,593.  Cylinders.  Classification 427/346; 369/288.

1,078,266  Sound-Box.  Thomas A. Edison, of Llewellyn Park, Orange, New Jersey, Assignor to New Jersey Patent Company, of West Orange, New Jersey, a Corporation of New Jersey.  Executed Apr. 3, 1911.  Filed Apr. 5, 1911, Serial No. 619,012.  Classification 181/167; 181/166; 369/165.

1,078,460  Automatic Stop Mechanism for Gramophones.  Minard Arthur Possons, of Cleveland, Ohio.  No execution date.  Filed Oct. 22, 1909, Serial No. 524,021.  Classification 369/232; 369/272.1; 369/280.

Nov. 18, 1913

1,079,123  Telegraphone.  John H. J. Haines, of New York, N. Y.  No execution date.  Filed Feb. 3, 1910, Serial No. 541,773.  “This invention relates to telegraphones and has special reference to the construction of the recording and reproducing magnet and the record surface coöperating therewith.”  Classification 360/22.

Nov. 25, 1913

1,079,324  Automatic Motor-Stopping Device.  John L. Blockburger, of Chicago, Illinois.  Filed Sept. 12, 1912, Serial No. 719,932.  “My invention relates to improvements in automatic motor-stopping devices and more particularly to a device for automatically stopping the motion of talking machines, upon completion of a record.”  Classification 369/236; 192/139; 369/233; 369/237.

1,079,419  Automatic Announcement-Graphophone.  Thomas H. Macdonald, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, Assignor to American Graphophone Company, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, a Corporation of West Virginia.  No execution date.  Filed Dec. 9, 1908, Serial No. 466,680.  “My invention relates to automatically operating talking-machines for uttering a number of different announcements, the periods of announcements alternating with intervals of silence.”  Classification 369/225; 368/274.

1,079,651  Platform-Indicator.  Charles J. Kintner, of New York, N. Y.  No execution date.  Filed Feb. 14, 1913, Serial No. 748,354.  “My invention has an especial utility in connection with platforms or stations adjacent to curves on lines of railways where it is impossible to entirely close the space between the platform and the cars, owing to the curvature of said platform.  Under these conditions, where the curves are relatively short, no provision has yet been made to prevent accidents due to the space between the doors of the cars and the platform.  My invention consists in means for attracting the attention of the passengers to this space and enabling them, therefore, to avoid the danger.”  Uses a cylinder phonograph: “This repeated record may be the words ‘Watch your step[,]’ a well known expression which train-men use in connection with trains when they enter stations, when the distance from the platform to the car is such that there is danger of passengers misstepping and injuring themselves.”  Classification 246/1C; 104/30; 246/1R; 369/21; 369/22.

1,079,672   Cleaning Device.  John H. Simpson, of Providence, Rhode Island.  No execution date.  Filed Nov. 7, 1911, Serial No. 659,029.  “This invention relates to a cleaning device for graphophone records, shoes, hats, etc., and may also serve as a receptacle for holding such articles as may be desired.”  Classification 15/209.1.

1,079,760  Answering and Recording Telephone.  Carl J. Gustafson, of Aberdeen, South Dakota.  Executed Mar. 11, 1913.  Filed Mar. 22, 1913, Serial No. 756,173.  With cylinder phonograph.  Classification 379/70.

Dec. 2, 1913

1,080,231  Talking-Machine.  Walter Hansen Rawles, of London, England.  No execution date.  Filed May 15, 1913, Serial No. 767,830.  “In particular it is well adapted for use in the machine described in United States Patent No. 1027350.”  Classification 369/53.38; 369/157.

1,080,265  Means for Synchronizing Talking-Machines and Moving-Picture Machines.  Henry T. Crapo, of New York, N. Y., Assignor, by Mesne Assignments, to the Webb Talking Picture Company, a Corporation of Delaware.  No execution date.  Filed Jan. 11, 1911, Serial No. 602,069.  Classification 352/16; 352/23; 369/69.

1,080,328  Double-Pointed Reproducing-Stylus for Talking-Machines, and Holder Therefor. Edward T. Condon, Jr., of New York, N. Y.  Executed Sept. 28, 1912.  Filed Sept. 30, 1912, Serial No. 723,012.  Classification 369/171.

1,080,386  Stop Mechanism for Phonographs.  George H. Taggart, of Buffalo, New York.  Executed Aug. 18, 1911.  Filed Aug. 21, 1911, Serial No. 645,040.  Reissued: RE13,809: Executed July 2, 1914.  Filed July 17, 1914, Serial No. 851,643.  Granted Oct. 13, 1914.  Classification 369/236; 192/139.

D44,993  Design for a Cabinet for Talking-Machines.  Stephen M. Wirts, of Detroit, Michigan, and Edward L. Duckwall, of Salem, Indiana, Assignors to American Graphophone Company, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, a Corporation of West Virginia.  No execution date.  Filed Oct. 9, 1912, Serial No. 724,852.  Classification D14/184.

Dec. 9, 1913

1,080,839  Phonograph-Reproducer.  Achille Luciano, of Bloomfield, New Jersey, Assignor to Nightingale Reproducer Co., of Newark, New Jersey.   Executed Sept. 14, 1912.  Filed Sept. 18, 1912, Serial No. 720,950.  Classification 369/169; 369/170.

1,080,924  Stylus for Sound-Reproducing Machines.  James W. Owen, of Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, Assignor to Victor Talking Machine Company, a Corporation of New Jersey.  Executed June 4, 1913.  Filed June 7, 1913, Serial No. 772,225.  Classification 369/173.

1,080,953  Diaphragm for Sound-Boxes.  Pliny Catucci, of Newark, New Jersey, Assignor to A. F. Meisselbach & Brother, a Corporation of New Jersey.  No execution date.  Filed Mar. 22, 1911, Serial No. 616,171.  Classification 181/164; 181/173; D14/212.

1,080,954  Sound-Box.  Pliny Catucci, of Newark, New Jersey, Assignor to A. F. Meisselbach & Brother, a Corporation of New Jersey.  Executed June 14, 1912.  Filed June 15, 1912, Serial No. 703,802.  Classification 369/169.

Dec. 16, 1913

1,081,352  Phonograph.  Peter Weber, of Orange, New Jersey, Assignor to the New Jersey Patent Company, of West Orange, New Jersey, a Corporation of New Jersey.  Executed July 21, 1909.  Filed July 22, 19109, Serial No. 509,061.  Classification 369/81; 181/194.

1,081,374  Phonograph.  Frank L. Dyer, of Montclair, New Jersey, Assignor to New Jersey Patent Company, of West Orange, New Jersey, a Corporation of New Jersey.  Executed July 9, 1909.  Filed July 22, 1909, Serial No. 509,039.  Classification 369/214.

1,081,719  Tone-Clarifying Attachment for Sound Reproducing or Transmitting Instruments.  Cora Stetson Butler, of Cleveland, Ohio.  No execution date.  Filed Aug. 8, 1913, Serial No. 783,482.  “This invention relates generally to tone clarifying devices for use with sound producing instruments or machines, and has particular reference to a device of this character which is adapted to be employed within the sound reproducers of prevailing types of gramophones, telephones, and other such machines or instruments and is capable of being applied thereto as an attachment without the necessity of making any change or modification in the sound reproducer.”  Classification 181/141; 181/157; 369/163; 381/354.

D45,043  Design for a Cabinet.  Karl F. G. Goetting, of Orange, New Jersey, Assignor to New Jersey Patent Company, of West Orange, New Jersey, a Corporation of New Jersey.  No execution date.  Filed Sept. 29, 1913, Serial No. 792,522.  Phonographic, judging from design and assignee.  Classification D14/199.

Dec. 23, 1913

1,082,018  Disk-Record Holder.  John C. Frank, of Akron, Ohio.  No execution date.  Filed Jan. 31, 1913, Serial No. 745,442.  Classification 206/309; 211/40; 312/9.56.

1,082,218  Means for Operating Musical Instruments.  Edwin S. Votey, of Summit, New Jersey, Assignor to the Aeolian Company, of New York, N. Y., a Corporation of Connecticut.  No execution date.  Filed May 13, 1910, Serial No. 561,162.  Described as “applied particularly to two musical instruments such for instance as a player piano and a phonograph or graphophone, driven by means supplied with power from a common source, and comprises means associated with each motor for controlling the speed of the motor, and hence the musical time of the corresponding musical instrument as well as the pitch of one of the instruments.”  Classification 84/4.

1,082,361  Cabinet for Disk Records.  Philip J. Robinson, of Leominster, Massachusetts.  No execution date.  Filed Aug. 12, 1912, Serial No. 714,713.  Classification 312/9.21.

Dec. 30, 1913

1,082,705  Holder for Talking-Machine Records.  Philip J. Robinson, of Leominster, Massachusetts.  No execution date.  Filed Nov. 21, 1912, Serial No. 732,753.  For cylinders.  Classification 312/9.1; 312/291; 312/304; 312/305.

1,082,709  Blank for Talking-Machine Records.  John Schumacher, of Chicago, Illinois, Assignor to Joseph Sanders.  No execution date.  Filed Apr. 11, 1903, Serial No. 152,191.  Classification 428/65.9; 369/286; 369/288.

1,083,045  Sound-Box Arm for Talking-Machines.  William W. Zackey, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Assignor of Forty-Nine One-Hundredths to Charles B. Hewitt, of Burlington, New Jersey.  No execution date.  Filed Oct. 12, 1912, Serial No. 725,447.  Classification 369/158.

1,083,264  Sound-Record.  Leo H. Baekeland, of Yonkers, New York, Assignor to General Bakelite Company, of New York, N. Y., a Corporation of New York.  No execution date.  Filed June 11, 1910, Serial No. 566,434.  Classification 528/165; 106/37; 369/288.