Patent · US Expired

Keyboard for a carillon

US4570528A · kind A · utility

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Assignee

Koninklijke Eijsbouts Klokkengieterij En Fabriek Van Torenuurwerken B.V. · NL

Inventor

Peter Bakker · Munich, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jun 15, 1983
Grant date	Feb 18, 1986
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jun 15, 2003

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG10K1/30
WIPO fieldOther consumer goods
WIPO sectorOther fields

Abstract

In a carillon or chimes keyboard, which may be a manual or a pedal set, the eys (sticks or pedals) and the frame for taking them up pivotally are provided with cooperating surfaces, one surface on the key hitting the other surface on the frame at the end of the upward release movement of the key after it has been depressed for operating a bell. For dampening the clattering noise caused by this hitting, the invention provides for such cooperating surfaces on the keys and the frame, which are inclined, preferably at about 30.degree., to the upward direction of movement of the keys just before they hit on the frame during this release movement.

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