Hope-Jones Inventions that he patented
Hope-Jones Inventions that he patented
Introduction
Robert Hope-Jones being a telephone engineer used that knowledge to make many inventions relating to pipe organs. One of his main achievments being major improvement to the electrical action used to control the organ. He was the first to invent the use of detached and mobile console's for playing the organ. A famous early photograph being of him playing the St Johns Birkenhead organ from a mobile console outside the main west door of the Church.
He made many changes to the design of organ pipes and also invented many new types of pipes. One very powerful pipes design being the Diaphone which in 1897 was repatented as the Fog Horn and was used on Lighthouses all over the world.
His many inventions paved the way for his invention of the Theatre Organ and the major exponent being the Wurlitzer Company.
Below is a list of his patents with a general note to show what the invention was, however there were many additional ideas included in the patents that led to other major inventions.
1. 1890. --No. 6,172..........UK..............Increasing the amplitudes, sonorous, or other vibrations
2. 1890. --No. 15,245........UK..............Apparatus for reproducing sonorous vibrations
3. 1890. --No. 15,461........UK..............Ten inventions involving manuals, contacts, valve seats, tremulant, swell shutters etc.
4. 1890. --No. 18.803........UK..............Second touch, transposing device, Sforzando switch, swell shutters etc.
5. 1891. --No. 18,073........UK..............Reduction of current, contacts, couplers, embryo of unification, wind pressure etc.
6. 1893. --No. 14,466........UK..............Contacts, current saving, roller board couplers, Pizzato touch, flap valves etc.
7. 1894. --No. 5,782..........UK..............Pipe designs, diaphragms in organ cases, form of reed pipe.
8. 1894. --No. 16,849........UK..............“Organs.” (As per Patent Register list only.)
9. 1894. --No. 22,414........UK..............Diaphone, Reed tongue, bellows springs, compound composition keys, etc.
10. 1894. -No. 24,067.......UK...............High pressure solid air chamber.
11. 1895. -No. 21,558.......UK...............Modifications to Diaphones.
12. 1896. -No. 14,473.......UK...............Operations for prompt starting of Diaphones.
13. 1896. -No. 24,352.......UK...............Springs on single ribbed wind reservoirs.
14. 1897. -No. 21,389.......UK...............Valvular reed.
15. 1897. -No. 28,157.......UK...............Assistance in operation of drawstops or tabs, and Swell pedal.
16. 1899. -No. 449............UK...............Double touch on composition or combination pedal or piston.
17. 1901. -No. 26,737.......UK...............Seven forms of apparatus for producing sonorous vibrational sounds.
18. 1901. -No. 26, 738......UK...............Diaphone, worked by rapid vibration of a perforated piston inside.
19. 1902. -No. 702,557....(USA)............Same as British Patent 26,738, above, assigned to Fog Signal Company.
20. 1903. -No. 4,531.........UK...............Modified form of Diaphone.
21. 1903. -No. 9,159.........UK...............Suitable Bass, Push-button couplers, moving stop tabs, coupler cut-outs.
22. 1905. -No. 787,984....(USA)...........Piston type of Diaphone.
23. 1913. -No. 8,192.........UK...............Stabilising tuning wires in reed pipes.
24. 1914. -No. 1,119,080.(USA)*.........Automatically operating electrical mechanism for Revolving Doors.
25. 1916. -No. 1,203,621.(USA)+.........Second touch giving initial inertia finger pressure.
26. 1917. -No. 1,230,165.(USA)*.........Improved sound-trap joint in swell shutters.
27. 1918. -No. 1,283,774.(USA)*.........Xylophone with hollow wood resonators.
28. 1919. -No. 1,292,321.(USA)*+.......Expressive electro-pneumatic action for player pianos.
NOTES:- " + " Assigned to the Wurlitzer Company. " * " Temporary Administrator:- Cecil Hope-Jones (Robert's Widow).
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