Music – Instruments – Stringed
Patent
1976-10-15
1979-01-23
Franklin, Lawrence R.
Music
Instruments
Stringed
84322, 206817, 312 71, G10D 300
Patent
active
041354311
ABSTRACT:
A stringed musical pick or plectrum dispenser for receiving, retaining, and dispensing a pick, the dispenser being mounted in fixed relation to an instrument sound board adjacent the instrument strings. Each pick is wafer thin and generally triangular in shape. The dispenser may be mounted on a pick guard which has a first edge alignable with the instrument string that is last plucked to guard against, and prevent, continued downward travel of the pick thus protecting the finish on the instrument sound board. A dispenser housing has a perimetral wall with upper and lower edges. The housing defines in cross-section the general configuration of a pick. A bottom side is affixed to the lower wall edge and a top side is affixed to the upper wall edge. A pick receiving and dispensative opening is formed in the top side. The opening receives a pick and provides an inner surface for engaging and retaining the pick in the dispenser while exposing a pick surface through the opening. Resilient means are mounted in the housing for exerting a uniform resilient force against the pick urging it towards the retaining surface. The housing is mounted to the pick guard adjacent a second guard edge opposite the first edge with the dispensative opening being more distant from the first edge than the retaining surface so that the dispensative direction of the pick is away from the first edge.
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patent: 191336 (1877-05-01), Guild
patent: 1432498 (1922-10-01), Szepe
patent: 3181410 (1965-05-01), Phillips
patent: 3248156 (1966-04-01), Repko
Wexler Catalog #66, 1965-1966, p. 137.
Franklin Lawrence R.
Jeffers Albert L.
Seeger Richard T.
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