Compound drum beater

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1985-12-30

1987-02-24

Gellner, Michael L.

Music

Instruments

Drum and cymbal beaters

G01D 1302

Patent

active

046448420

ABSTRACT:
A drum beater assembly for striking a base drum or the like comprising a support base for supporting various beater assembly components, a rotatable shaft journalled to the support base for providing oscillatory rotational movement in a first rotational direction and a second rotational direction, a rotatable shaft bias means for biasing the rotatable shaft in the second rotational direction, a foot pedal pivotally mounted on the support base and operably linked to the rotatable shaft for rotating the rotatable shaft in the first direction in response to downward pressure on the foot pedal, a first beater means operably associated with the rotatable shaft for striking an adjacently positioned drum head a first strike in response to initial downward movement of the foot pedal, a second beater operably associated with the rotatable shaft means for striking the adjacently positioned drum head a second strike closely spaced in time with the first strike in response to continued downward movement of the foot pedal.

REFERENCES:
patent: 1782247 (1930-11-01), Verrecchia
patent: 2484302 (1949-10-01), Laverents
patent: 2658421 (1953-11-01), Clayton
patent: 4188853 (1980-02-01), Bills

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