Modular speaker construction
AssigneeGibson Guitar Corp.
InventorMark H. Powell
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Abstract
A housing for a loudspeaker is presented, and which includes a plurality of corner units, each of the corner units having a first end and a second end and also has a first inner spline extending therefrom and a second inner spline extending therefrom; and a first outer spline extending therefrom and running generally parallel to the first inner spline and a second outer spline extending therefrom and running generally parallel to the second inner spline, wherein the first inner spline and the first outer spline cooperate to form a first slot sized to receive a top panel or a bottom panel and the second inner spline and the second outer spline cooperate to form a second slot sized to receive a side panel.
Claims23
A housing for a loudspeaker comprising two side panels, a top panel, a bottom panel, a front panel and a back panel, and which comprises a plurality of corner units, each of the corner units having a first end and a second end and comprising:
- a. a first inner spline extending therefrom and a second inner spline extending therefrom, the first and second inner splines defining planes offset from each other by an angle of from about 75° and about 105°;
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- b. a first outer spline extending therefrom and running generally parallel to the first inner spline and a second outer spline extending therefrom and running generally parallel to the second inner spline,
- wherein the first inner spline and the first outer spline cooperate to form a first slot sized to receive a top panel or a bottom panel and the second inner spline and the second outer spline cooperate to form a second slot sized to receive a side panel.
A housing for a loudspeaker comprising two side panels, a top panel, a bottom panel, a front panel and a back panel, and at least four corner units arrayed as two top corner units and two bottom corner units, each of the corner units having a first end and a second end and comprising:
- a. a first inner spline extending therefrom and a second inner spline extending therefrom, the first and second inner splines defining planes offset from each other by an angle of from about 75 and about 105°;
- b. a cross support extending between the first inner spline of a first bottom corner unit and the first inner spline of a first top corner unit;
- c. a cross support extending between the first inner spline of a second bottom corner unit and the first inner spline of a second top corner unit;
- d. a cross support extending from the second inner spline of a first top corner unit and the second inner spline of the second top corner unit;
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- e. a cross support extending from the second inner spline of a first bottom corner unit and the second inner spline of the second bottom corner unit, wherein the corner units and cross supports combine to form a housing skeleton.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.