Music – Instruments – Automatic
Patent
1993-10-29
1995-06-06
Gellner, M. L.
Music
Instruments
Automatic
40411, 40455, 446404, 446482, G10F 106
Patent
active
054224292
ABSTRACT:
A musical article of furniture, here jewelry chest (10) which includes at least one slidable drawer (12) for storage of articles and for activating and deactivating a musical movement (19). Mechanical spring wound musical movement (19) is attached to a supporting surface (14) of the housing (11) of chest (10) and has a rotating shaft, also serving as the winding shaft (21), protruding through an outside surface of chest housing (11). An ornament (34) is affixed to the shaft and the shaft is decoratively finished. Musical movement (19) is provided with a stop-and-start mechanism which includes a control arm (22) being positioned and configured to interfere with the back (13) of upper drawer (12) such that the mechanism will be activated when the drawer is opened and will shut off when the drawer is closed.
REFERENCES:
patent: 5119932 (1992-06-01), Semanoff
patent: 5157217 (1992-10-01), Feng
patent: 5226845 (1993-07-01), Wu
patent: 5255461 (1993-10-01), Chiou
Shih Barry
Shih Bohr-Winn
Dykas Frank J.
Gellner M. L.
Stanzione Patrick J.
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