US427274A - Sonnette - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

G. W. SHERMAN.

SONNETTE.

No. 427,274. Patented May 6, 1890.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE WV. SHERMAN, OF PEARSALLS, NEW YORK.

SONNETTE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 427,274, dated May 6, 1890. Application filed January 11, 1890. Serial No. 336,673. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. SHERMAN, of Pearsalls, in the county of Queens and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Sonnettes, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to sonnettes or clappers such as are used in musical accompaniments; and it consists in a sonnette composed of a stick and two spring-tongues and attached hammers, one of said tongues and hammers being attached to one side and the other of said tongues and hammers to the opposite side of the stick.

The invention also consists in means of securing the two spring-tongues to the stick.

Figure 1 in the accompanying drawings is a face view of one of my improved sonnettes. Fig. 2 is a side view of the same. Fig. 3 represents a transverse section taken in the line 0c 00 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is an edge View of one of the clasps by which the spring-tongues are secured to the stick.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures.

A is the stick of the sonnette, of ordinary flat form.

B B are the two spring-tongues, arranged on opposite faces of the stick and each secured at one end to its respective face.

0 O are the hammers, secured to the free ends of the spring-tongues.

The spring-tongues are represented as composed of flattened steel wire or narrow strips of sheet-steel, and the hammers are represented as consisting of lumps of metal secured on the free ends of the tongues. These hammers may be secured upon the tongues in any suitable manner, as by casting them thereon.

The spring-tongues B are represented as both secured to the stick by a single clasp D, which is made of a piece of tin-plate or other sheet metal. This clasp before it is applied has a rectangular trough-like form, (shown in Fig. 4,) the width between the sides a a being equal to or slightly greaterv than the width of the spring-tongues. The side portions a are adapted to be inserted through two slits in the stick just large enough for their passage. The two spring-tongues being placed opposite each other, one on one side and the other on the other side of the stick, between the slits provided therein, the clasp is inserted through the said slits and the edges a a turned inward, as shown in Fig. 3, and the clasp is then pinched upon the tongues B B by any suitable tool tightly enough to secure the said tongues to the stick.

The sonnette thus constructed with a springtongue and hammer on each side of the stick Will give a more lively repetition of hammerstrokes than sonnettes having a sprin -tongue and attached hammer on one side only of the stick.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination, with the stick, of two spring-tongues, each having a hammer secured to its free end, the said spring-tongues being arranged one on one face and the other on the other face of the stick, substantially as herein described.

2. The combination, with the stick, of the two spring-tongues carrying hammers at their free ends, one tongue and one hammer on one face and the other tongue and hammer on the opposite face of the stick, and a clasp passing through the stick and embracing both of the spring-tongues and securing both of said tongues to the stick, substantially as herein described.

GEORGE W. SHERMAN.

Witnesses:

FREDK. HAYNES, GEORGE BARRY.

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