Solenoid mounting assembly for musical keyboard
AssigneeTeledyne, Inc.
InventorThomas Jewel Wilkes
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Abstract
This is disclosed a mounting assembly for mounting a large number of solenoids in a keyboard actuated musical instrument. An extruded mounting plate or rack has locking slots formed in a surface thereof and cooperating grooves formed in a protrusion or rib. Each solenoid has a frame assembly with oppositely extending flanges, one flange being received in a groove in the projection or rib and the other flange having an off-set screw engaged with a threaded element or fastener in the slots of the rack or bar.
Claims7
In a keyboard musical instrument, a solenoid mounting member for a plurality of solenoid operated key actuating assemblies, each key actuating assembly having a mounting bracket which includes a back plate, said solenoid mounting member being constituted by an extruded plate member,
- said extruded plate member having at least one elongated channel in a surface thereof, said at least one elongated channel having side walls and means in said side walls for threadably receiving a threaded fastener member passing through an end of said back plate, and
- an elongated rib on said plate member and projecting from said plate, said rib having a groove formed in said rib projection and opening in a direction transverse to the direction of said channel, said groove adapted to receive a flange projecting from an end of said back plate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.