Mount for tremolo arm
OwnerDavid Young, Robert Scott Fisherinventors
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Abstract
A mount for the improved engagement of a tremolo arm with a pivoting bridge of a stringed instrument is provided. The mount features a body having a first side adapted for an engagement with a surface of the bridge. The arm is engageable to conventional bridges or may be employed with an arm mount having a centered attachment point and can include a biasing washer to maintain a position of the tremolo arm relative to the mount. A tremolo arm mount is provided at a central portion of the body relative to the width of a pathway followed by the strings projecting from the bridge toward the neck of the stringed instrument.
Claims10
A tremolo arm mount engageable with a pivoting bridge of a stringed instrument having a having a plurality of string mounts located thereon said tremolo arm mount comprising:
- a body, said body having a first end and a second end and having a first side, configured for an engagement with a bridge plate of said bridge which is engaged to said plurality of string mounts;
- a pair of slots descending into said first side of said body at respective opposing ends of said body;
- each of said slots sized to slide over a projection rising from said bridge plate of said bridge;
- a pair of apertures communicating through said body with said slots, said apertures configured for operative engagement of a member engaged therethrough to a contact with said prosection, to maintain said body in an as-used position, actuatable to pivot said bridge plate, and having a central portion of said body extending between said first end and said second end, elevated above said string mounts;
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- said central portion having an attachment point thereon, said attachment point configured for operative engagement with one end of a tremolo arm, whereby a force communicated from a said tremolo arm engaged with said attachment point, to induce a pivoting of said bridge plate, is communicated to said bridge plate from said attachment point.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.