Patent Model - Improvement in Music-Leaf Turners
Maker and role
Cyril Brown (b.1844, d.1917), Patentee
Cyril Brown (b.1844, d.1917), Assignor
Whiting Press (b.1848, d.1918), Assignee
Production date
May 30 1876
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Object detail
Media/Materials
Paper, paperboard
Measurements
9 1/2 x 7 1/2" (24.1 x 19.1cm)
Description
Brown's invention has for its object "to provide an attachment to the leaves of music-books, whereby the same may be turned consecutively by means of any suitable machinery; and to that end it consists in the combination, with the leaves of the book, of a ribbon of cloth, paper, or other suitable material, attached at its ends to the top or bottom of each page, forming a loop adapted to receive the operating-arm of the device employed to turn the leaves..." (Patent Number 178,107)
Collection
Object number
2015.14.2192a,b
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