Famous Patents
In 1608, Dutch eyeglass maker Hans Lipperhey filed the first patent for a working telescope. The patent was denied.
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7402738 | Wind musical instrument equipped with slide and supporting system for assisting player in performance A player changes the pitch of tones produced through a trombone by controlling the breath and a slide, and the control of slide is not easy for children, handicapped persons and old players; a supporting system is combined with the trombone, and includes a manipulat... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7161077 | Gradually progressive bore BB-flat, CC, E-flat, F, or B-flat valved musical wind instrument and valved B-flat/F inverted double musical wind instrument The present invention is for valved musical wind instruments in the musical keys of BB-flat, CC, E-flat, and F with progressive cylindrical mid-section bore or gradual conical mid-section bore expansion or a combination, not to exceed 0.85 inch bore within the first... | 01/09/2007 |
| 6765138 | Register system for contrabassoon A contrabassoon has a body, a tuning slide, a bocal pipe and a novel register system. The body, tuning slide and bocal pipe form a tube having a continuous bore. The register system comprises 5 vent holes formed in the tube. Key mechanisms for selectively opening an... | 07/20/2004 |
| 6255571 | Trombone stable in tone color and pitch and compact valve used therein A trombone has a rotary valve unit inserted between two parts of a main tube and further connected to a bypass tube, and a player manipulates the rotary valve unit for changing the length of vibrating air column, wherein the rotary valve unit has a cylind... | 07/03/2001 |
| 6008443 | Enhancements introduced into brass instruments and method for the manufacturing of parts for such instruments A brass instrument having a mouthpiece connected by a pipe to a valved body which is in turn connected to an output bending and a bell thereby defining an air duct. The bell and the output bending are formed of separate and detachable parts. The brass ins... | 12/28/1999 |
| 5834666 | Wind instrument having a compact slide configuration A brass wind instrument which changes pitch by varying the tube lengths thereof which includes a slide portion which is substantially half the physical length of a conventional slide. The slide assembly comprises two substantially U-shaped tubes which sli... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5435222 | Single trigger minor third attachment short reach slide trombone A slide trombone is provided which has an activatable attachment which lengthens the basic windpath of the instrument. The attachment is activated to lower the basic pitch of the instrument by a minor third. The instrument further has a reach (i.e., the d... | 07/25/1995 |
| 5365823 | In-line double attachment slide trombone A slide trombone is provided having a complete chromatic range extending from the tenor range to the pedal notes of the basic B.music-flat. windpath. The trombone of the present invention includes two trigger activated attachments which are "in... | 11/22/1994 |
| 4885971 | Musical wind instrument A musical instrument which may be used to play a complete major scale without coordinated mouth and finger operations is formed as two or three horns having a single, shared mouthpiece, and pitched one or two half tones apart. One or both the of the horns... | 12/12/1989 |
| 4516464 | Valveless trumpet instrument Each of seven modified trumpet tubes is connected by a series of tubular "Y" connections to a single, conventional mouthpiece. Each modified tube is similar to a conventional trumpet except that its three manually-operated finger valves and associated val... | 05/14/1985 |
| 4512233 | Pitch adjuster A pitch adjuster for a valved brass instrument having a tuning slide crook for selectively operating the tuning slide crook between a normal position, a preselected inward position, and a preselected outward position, to raise or lower the note played. Th... | 04/23/1985 |
| 4213371 | Axial flow valve A rotary valve for selectively inserting and removing a slide loop from the sound path of a musical instrument is disclosed. The valve includes a rotor having two sound passages extending therethrough, one of the passages being straight and the other bein... | 07/22/1980 |
