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US 4,082,294 AGranted
Cleaning and static-removing device for gramophone records
AssigneeMetrosound Audio Products Ltd.
InventorsMark Stanley Myers, Richard George Bowler
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Abstract
A device for cleaning and for removing static from revolving gramophone records is mounted on a deck radially beyond the turn-table and has a horizontal guide which can be swung laterally over the record, a slider carrying a cleaning element and/or a static removing element being movable along the guide as a result of engagement with the grooving of the record.
Claims3
A device, for cleaning and removal of static electricity from a gramophone record when the record is on a record playing apparatus having a turntable rotatable with respect to a deck, comprising, in combination:
- (i) a mounting post for standing or securing on the deck in a position radially beyond the edge of the turntable, said mounting post including a substantially vertical elongated stem having a longitudinal axis,
- (ii) a carrier having an aperture receiving said stem, the carrier being slidable along the stem,
- (iii) a pair of substantially horizontal guide rods carried by and projecting from the carrier in parallel spaced relationship normal to the axis of the stem,
- (iv) a slider having a body portion which includes two upward extensions which are apertured to receive a rod on either end of which slider bearings are mounted,
- (v) a cleaning element for the record grooves and an element for removal of static electricity from the record both, carried on said slider.
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