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US 4,669,352 AGranted
Tying device for the mouth piece of a wind instrument
OwnerSerge Bichoninventor
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Abstract
A tying device is provided for the mouth-piece of a wind instrument, formed by a strip of leather with a U shaped profile in which the upper end of the two legs cooperate with clamping screws. On the inner face of the bottom of the U is riveted a metal plate coated with a rubber layer grooved in the direction of the fibers of the reed with which it is intended to cooperate.
Claims4
A tying device for fixing a reed to the mouth-piece of a wind instrument, which comprises:
- a flexible strip with a U-shaped profile, presenting a cradle shaped bottom of which the inner face cooperates with the reed to be held in position and two wings applied to the mouth-piece of the instrument against which they are pressed by clamping screws,
- a coating of flexible material on the inner face of the bottom of the flexible trip, said coating being grooved in the direction of the fibers of the reed, and
- a metal plate disposed between the bottom of the flexible strip and the flexible material coating.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.