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Motor driven fretting belt device

US4615253A · kind A · utility

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6Claims
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Key dates

Filing dateNov 4, 1982
Grant dateOct 7, 1986
Priority date
Expiry dateNov 4, 2002

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG10D3/08
  • WIPO fieldOther consumer goods
  • WIPO sectorOther fields

Abstract

This invented device is a fingerboard key operated motor driven chording belt with a plurality of cams attached to it that are selectively lifted by electromagnet as the belt is driven and caused to ride between an elevated surface and cam wheel-push rod-rocker arm assemblies, and displace the rocker arms, to thus fret the adjacent strings and form any one of thirteen possible chromatic chords for use in playing a musical number on a guitar.

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