Music – Instruments – Drum and cymbal beaters
Patent
1977-12-08
1980-02-19
Hix, L. T.
Music
Instruments
Drum and cymbal beaters
G10D 1302
Patent
active
041888537
ABSTRACT:
A double acting drum beater device is provided having a beater adapted to strike an adjacent drumhead once for each downward movement of a foot operated pedal, and then a second time during the subsequent upward movement of the pedal. My drum beater device comprises a beater arm arranged to swing in an arc about a rotatable axis defined by a shaft supported by mounting means, which shaft is arranged to undertake oscillatory type movements. A foot pedal having up and down operative movements is mounted adjacent the mounting means and linkage means connects a toe portion of the foot pedal to an arm secured to the shaft in an offset relation. In this way, up and down movements of the toe portion of the pedal cause the connecting linkage and the arm to move responsively and thus cause the shaft to oscillate, with the shaft rotating in a first direction and then in the opposite direction about its longitudinal axis during downward movement of the pedal. Advantageously, the relationship between pedal, linkage, and beater are such that the beater is caused by such shaft oscillations to strike an adjacent drumhead twice for each up-down cycle of the pedal. This basic teaching readily lends itself to incorporation into a double beater arrangement in which a pair of beaters strike an associated drumhead in offset relation.
REFERENCES:
patent: 1508390 (1924-09-01), Gladstone
patent: 2484302 (1949-10-01), Laverents
patent: 2658421 (1953-11-01), Clayton
patent: 3618441 (1971-11-01), Fearns
patent: 3968718 (1976-07-01), Carver
Hix L. T,.
Renfro Julian C.
Schreyer S. D.
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