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There were many patents issued pertaining to mechanical music. This list is intended to include those patents which are specifically related to organettes and their music, excluding those patents which primarily apply to cylinder or disc music boxes, player pianos, full-sized organs, etc. Most organette patents were issued from the late 1870s though 1890s. (Reissued patents follow the original in sequence.)

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Number	Description	Inventor	Filed	Issued	Assignee	Instrument/ Comment
6006	Mode of Making and Playing Tunes to Produce Music	Adoniram F. Hunt and James S. Bradish		Jan 9, 1849		dulcimer
113994	Improvement in Melodeons	Peter Engers		Apr 25, 1871		notes manually pressed in sequence
D12269	Design for A Mechanical Musical Instrument	G. Walter Turner And Oliver H. Arno	Jul 16, 1880	May 17, 1881		Organina
D13603	Design for a Musical-Instrument Case	George W. Turner	Dec 4, 1882	Feb 6, 1883
D14900	Design for a Case for Musical Instruments	Merritt Gally	Jan 26, 1884	Mar 25, 1884
16009	Automatic Musical Instrument	Hiram Groves		Nov 4, 1856
23118	Automatic Bell-Ringer	Emilius N. Scherr		Mar 1, 1859		adjustable pins in barrel
D29822	Design for a Casing for Musical Instruments	Charles J. Reed	Sep 29, 1888	Dec 20, 1898	Charles J. Reed, Gaius W. Perkins, T.S. White and Thomas Friant
33143	Metallic Reed for Musical Instruments	Andrew H. Hammond		Aug 27, 1861
53375	Improvement in Musical Instruments	Lorenzo Marques		Mar 20, 1866	J.J. Ribon and J.M. Munoz
72129	Improvement in Musical Instruments	George W. Van Dusen		Dec 1, 1867		see also: RE8835
RE8835	Improvement in Mechanical Musical Instruments	George W. Van Dusen	Apr 25, 1878	Aug 5, 1879	Elias P Needham	Musical Cabinet, see also: 72129
168561	Improvement in Organs, etc.	Bernhard Dufner	Aug 26, 1875	Oct 11, 1875
184600	Improvement in Automatic Musical Instruments	Paul Ehrlich	Oct 3, 1876	Nov 21, 1876
191460	Automatic Wind Instrument	Elias P. Needham	Feb 5, 1877	May 29, 1877		Musical Cabinet, Melodia
196529	Improvement In Automatic Musical Instruments	Henry B. Horton	Apr 3, 1877	Oct 30, 1877		Autophone, see also: RE9830
RE9830	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Henry B. Horton	Nov 2, 1880	Aug 9, 1881		Autophone, see also: 196529
197048	Improvement in Automatic Musical Instruments	Elias P. Needham	Jul 13, 1877	Nov 13, 1877		Musical Cabinet, Mechanical Orguinette, see also: RE8451, RE8976, RE9877
RE8451	Improvement in Automatic Musical Instruments	Elias P. Needham	Jul 9, 1878	Oct 15, 1878		Musical Cabinet, Mechanical Orguinette, see also: 197048, RE8976, RE9877
RE8976	Improvement in Mechanical Musical Instruments	Elias P. Needham	Jul 8, 1879	Nov 18, 1879		see also: 197048, RE8451, RE9877
RE9877	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Elias P. Needham	Aug 4, 1880	Sep 18, 1881	Mason J. Matthews, John Nichol and James Morgan	Melodia, Gately, see also: 197048, RE8451, RE8976
198866	Improvement in Mechanical Musical Instruments	Oliver H. Arno	Nov 16, 1877	Jan 1, 1878		Melodette
203257	Improvement in Mechanical Musical Instruments	Merritt Gally	Jan 16, 1878	May 7, 1878		Clariona, see also: RE8856
RE8856	Improvement in Mechanical Musical Instruments	Merritt Gally	May 7, 1879	Aug 19, 1879		Clariona, see also: 203257
204352	Improvement in Mechanical Musical Instruments	Mason J. Matthews	Dec 11, 1877	May 28, 1878		Mechanical Orguinette¹⁾, see also: RE9914
RE9914	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Mason J. Matthews	Sep 1, 1880	Oct 25, 1881	The Mechanical Orguinette Company	see also: 204352
204356	Improvement in Music-Boxes	Wilhelm Meissner	Apr 18. 1876	May 28, 1878		xylophone
204949	Improvement in Mechanical Musical Instruments	J. Herbert Chase	Dec 19, 1877	Jun 18, 1878
210249	Improvement in Mechanical Musical Instruments	Merritt Gally	Jun 14, 1878	Nov 26, 1878		Dulciphone
210424	Improvement In Mechanical Musical Instruments	Henry B. Horton	Mar 15, 1878	Dec 3, 1878		Autophone, see also: 252844
211635	Improvement in Mechanical Musical Instruments	Mason J. Matthews	Oct 2, 1878	Jan 28, 1879		see also: RE9831, RE9876
RE9831	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Mason J. Matthews	Aug 5, 1880	Aug 9, 1881	two-thirds to James Morgan and John Nichol	see also: 211635, RE9876
RE9876	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Mason J. Matthews	Aug 5, 1880	Sep 13, 1881	two-thirds to James Morgan and John Nichol	see also: 211635, RE9831
211636	Improvement in Mechanical Musical Instruments	Mason J. Matthews	Aug 19, 1878	Jan 28, 1879		The “Phuniphone”, spun around a hand-held shaft.
213160	Improvement in Mechanical Musical Instruments	Oliver H. Arno	Sep 7, 1878	Mar 11, 1879
213442	Improvement in Mechanical Musical Instruments	Orwell H. Needham	Jan 9, 1879	Mar 18, 1879		Musical Cabinet
213443	Improvement in Mechanical Musical Instruments	Elias P. Needham	Jan 14, 1879	Mar 18, 1879		Musical Cabinet
213604	Improvement in Mechanical Musical Instruments	O. H. Arno	Jan 20, 1879	Mar 25, 1879
214121	Improvement in Mechanical Musical Instruments	Merritt Gally	Dec 27, 1878	Apr 8, 1879
215284	Improvement in Mechanical Musical Instruments	Orwell H. Needham and Charles A. Needham	Feb 20, 1879	May 13, 1879		Musical Cabinet, Tournaphone, Aurephone
215831	Improvement in Mechanical Musical Instruments	Elias P. Needham	Feb 24, 1879	May 27, 1879		Musical Cabinet, Tournaphone, Aurephone
216622	Improvement in Mechanical Musical Instruments	Mason J. Matthews	Aug 19, 1878	Jun 17, 1879
217798	Improvement in Mechanical Musical Instruments	George B. Kelly	Jan 10, 1879	Jul 22, 1879		see also: RE9532
RE9532	Mechanical Musical Instrument	George B. Kelly and Mason J. Matthews	Aug 4, 1880	Jan 11, 1881	Mason J. Matthews, James Morgan and John Nichol	see also: 211798
218308	Improvement in Mechanical Musical Instruments	Robert W. Pain	Sep 20, 1878	Aug 5, 1879	E.P. Needham & Son	Musical Cabinet
219297	Improvement in Music-Sheets for Mechanical Musical Instruments	Elias P. Needham	Apr 28, 1879	Sep 2, 1879		Melodia, Gately
222030	Improvement in Mechanical Musical Instruments	Merritt Gally	May 21, 1879	Nov 25, 1879
220369	Improvement in Mechanical Musical Instruments	Merritt Gally	Apr 24, 1879	Oct 7, 1879
220737	Improvement in Pneumatic Actions for Organs	James E. Treat	Feb 8, 1879	Oct 21, 1879
221343	Improvement in Mechanical Musical Instruments	Elias P. Needham	Jul 31, 1879	Nov 4, 1879
221695	Improvement in Mechanical Musical Instruments	Charles A. Needham	Mar 15, 1879	Nov 18, 1879		Tournaphone, Aurephone
221696	Improvement in Mechanical Musical Instruments	Charles A. Needham	Aug 26, 1879	Nov 18, 1879		Tournaphone, Aurephone
223091	Improvement in Mechanical Musical Instruments	Oliver H. Arno	Sep 9, 1879	Dec 30, 1879	James Morgan
224716	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Elias P. Needham	Jul 11, 1879	Feb 17, 1880
226279	Mechanical Musical Instrument	George H. Chinnock and William W. Bennett	Jan 26, 1880	Apr 6, 1880
226341	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Charles A. Needham	Feb 24, 1879	Apr 6, 1880	himself and Elias P Needham
226714	Mechanical Musical Instrument	John A. Carter	Dec 10, 1879	Apr 20, 1880
227042	Pneumatic Action for Organs	Orwell H. Needham	Oct 3, 1879	Apr 27, 1880	E.P. Needham & Son
227714	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Oliver H. Arno	Feb 27, 1880	May 18, 1880
229218²⁾	Musical Top or Gyrophone	Marshall A. Wier	Oct 13, 1870	Jun 22, 1880
230540	Apparatus for Marking Note-Cylinders for Musical Instruments	Carl Fogelberg and George W. Graves	Mar 24, 1880	Jul 27, 1880	Geo. Woods & Co.
231323	Mechanical Musical Instrument	George H. Ireland	Apr 2, 1880	Aug 17, 1880
231786	Pneumatic Action for Musical Instruments	Azro Fowler	Mar 31, 1880	Aug 31, 1880
231978	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Oliver H. Arno	Mar 12, 1880	Sep 7, 1880	American Automatic Organ Company
232165	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Oliver H. Arno	Jan 24, 1880	Sep 14, 1880	James Morgan
233147	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Isaiah M. Furbish	May 27, 1880	Oct 12, 1880	William H. Johnson	Mechanical Orguinette
233721	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Oliver H. Arno	Jun 18, 1880	Oct 26, 1880	American Automatic Organ Company
236275	Valve for Organ-Bellows	Frank Stone	Sep 28, 1880	Jan 4, 1881		Dulciphone, Clariona
238102	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Azro Fowler	Jun 10, 1880	Feb 22, 1881		Aurephone
238138	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Mason J. Matthews	Apr 22, 1880	Feb 22, 1881
238139	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Mason J. Matthews and George B. Kelly	Apr 21, 1880	Feb 22, 1881
238145	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Elias P. Needham and Azro Fowler	Jul 3, 1880	Feb 22, 1881
238146	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Elias P. Needham	Jun 4, 1880	Feb 22, 1881	E.P. Needham & Son
238156	Mechanical Musical Instrument	John P. Richardson	Apr 21, 1880	Feb 22, 1881
238413	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Mason J. Matthews		Mar 1, 1881	two-thirds to John Nichol and James Morgan
239213	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Oliver H. Arno	Aug 25, 1880	Mar 22, 1881	American Automatic Organ Company	Organina, see also: RE10279
RE10279	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Oliver H. Arno	Jan 20, 1882	Jan 30, 1883	The American Automatic Organ Company	see also: 239213
239303	Mechanical Musical Instrument	William H. Allen	Dec 3, 1880	Mar 29, 1881		“Transgraphone” (music box with “endless staff”)
240156	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Robert W. Matthews	Jan 19, 1881	Apr 2, 1881
240787	Mechanical Musical Instrument	George W. Turner and Oliver H. Arno	Feb 8, 1881	Apr 26, 1881	The American Automatic Organ Company
241993	Mechanical Musical Instrument	George B. Kelly and J. Herbert Chase	Aug 30, 1880	May 24, 1881
242307	Mechanism for Transmitting Motion	Andrew H. Hammond	Apr 9, 1881	May 31, 1881
242419	Mechanical Musical Instrument	George B. Kelly	Feb 19, 1881	May 31, 1881
242786	Mechanical Musical Instrument	John McTammany, Jr.	Mar 22, 1880	Jun 14, 1881	Alexander McTammany
242857	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Oliver H. Arno	Feb 23, 1881	Jun 14, 1881	American Automatic Organ Company
243661	Mechanical Musical Instrument	George W. Turner	Jan 17, 1881	Jun 28, 1881
243720	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Hirem B. Nickerson	Oct 22, 1880	Jul 5, 1881
244069	Mechanical Musical Instrument	John McTammany, Jr.	Mar 23, 1880	Jul 12, 1881	Alexander McTammany
244922	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Elias P. Needham and Charles A. Needham	Apr 2 1881	Jul 26, 1881
245113	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Oliver H. Arno	May 6, 1881	Aug 2, 1881	The American Automatic Organ Company
245238	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Frank Stone	Apr 22, 1881	Aug 2, 1881	The Munroe Organ Reed Company	Organina
245426	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Oliver H. Arno		Aug 9, 1881	American Automatic Organ Company	Organina
247774	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Joseph Metzger	Mar 25, 1881	Oct 4, 1881
248943	Mechanical Musical Instrument	John McTammany	Jul 28, 1881	Nov 1, 1881
249200	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Hiram B. Nickerson	Feb 25, 1881	Nov 8, 1881
249330	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Merritt Gally	Mar 24, 1881	Nov 8, 1881
250833	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Orwell H. Needham	Jul 28, 1881	Dec 13, 1881	Elias P. Needham and Charles A. Needham
251706	Pneumatic Lever for Mechanical Musical Instruments	Alonzo Durkee	Apr 21, 1881	Jan 3, 1882	Moses Harris
251727	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Robert W. Pain	Apr 21, 1881	Jan 3, 1882	Moses Harris
251846	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Alonzo Durkee	May 12, 1881	Jan 3, 1882	Moses Harris
251861	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Azro Fowler	May 13, 1881	Jan 3, 1882	Moses Harris
251929	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Robert W. Pain	May 12, 1881	Jan 3, 1882	Moses Harris
251930	Automatic Harmonica	Robert W. Pain	June 23, 1881	Jan 3, 1882	Moses Harris
251977	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Henry Wegman	Sep 17, 1881	Jan 3, 1882
252614	Automatic Musical Instrument	John McTammany	Nov 11, 1881	Jan 24, 1882
252844	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Henry B. Morris and Lucien A. Brott	Sep 19, 1881	Jan 24, 1882	The Autophone Company	improvement on 210424
252977	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Otto Spaethe	Jun 21, 1881	Jan 31, 1882
253855	Mechanical Organette	Patrick J Duggan	Aug 22, 1881	Feb 21, 1882
254644	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Andrew H. Hammond	Jan 31, 1881	Mar 7, 1882
254645	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Andrew H. Hammond	Sep 8, 1881	Mar 7, 1882		Tournaphone
254882	Metallic Reed for Musical Instruments	William Monroe	Apr 9, 1881	Mar 14, 1882	The Munroe Organ Reed Company	Tournaphone
256101	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Joseph Herbert Chase	Aug 15, 1881	Apr 4, 1882	Walter F. Abbot
256219	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Gustavus W. Ingalls	Oct 14, 1881	Apr 11, 1882
257112	Mechanical Toy	William A. Webber	Mar 9, 1882	Apr 25, 1882
258508	Mechanical Musical Instrument	George W. Van Dusen	Mar 9, 1882	May 23, 1882
258667	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Orwell H. Needham	Jan 12, 1881	May 30, 1882	John Nichol, James Morgan and Jane Matthews
258908	Organ	Carl Fogelberg and George W. Graves	Jan 14, 1881	Jun 6, 1882
258955	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Henry S. Taylor	Jul 12, 1880	Jun 6, 1882	one-half to George H. Chinnock
259412	Mechanical Musical Instrument	John McTammany	Dec 23, 1880	Jun 13, 1882	Alexander McTammany
260109	Automatic Musical Instrument	John McTammany, Jr.	Apr 1, 1882	Jun 27, 1882
261413	Mechanical Musical Instrument	William A. Webber	Apr 13, 1882	Jul 18, 1882
261483	Valve for Reed-Organs	John P. Richardson	Mar 18, 1882	Jul 18, 1882
262858	Mechanical Musical Instrument	George W. Turner	May 19, 1882	Aug 15, 1882	The American Automatic Organ Company
263282	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Edwin H. Brown	Apr 3, 1882	Aug 22, 1882	The Tournaphone Music Company
263295	Mechanical Musical Instrument	James Morgan	Mar 22, 1882	Aug 22, 1882	The Tournaphone Music Company
263503	Mechanical Musical Instrument	George A. Fowler	Apr 21, 1882	Aug 29, 1882
263787	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Gustavus W. Ingalls	Apr 22, 1882	Sep 5, 1882
263788	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Gustavus W. Ingalls and Amial E. Phelps	June 17, 1882	Sep 5, 1882	Gustavus W. Ingalls
264027	Mechanical Musical Instrument	J. Herbert Chase	Jan 30, 1882	Sep 5, 1882	Walter F. Abbot
266036	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Gustavus W. Ingalls	Jun 16, 1882	Oct 17, 1882
266071	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Oliver H. Arno	Mar 14, 1882	Oct 17, 1882	The American Automatic Organ Company
266411	Attachment for Mechanical Musical Instruments	Oliver H. Arno	June 22, 1881	Oct 24, 1882
266914	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Frank Stone	Jan 16, 1882	Oct 31, 1882	The Munroe Organ Reed Company	Royal Orguinette
267364	Feed and Rewinding Apparatus for Perforated Music-Sheets	Robert W. Pain	Mar 13, 1882	Nov 14, 1882	The National Automatic Piano and Organ Manufacturing Company
267874	Combined Sewing-Machine and Musical Instrument	George D. Garvie and George Wood	Jun 17, 1882	Nov 21, 1882		Dulciphone
268528	Device for Converting Motion	Robert W. Pain	Apr 15, 1882	Dec 5, 1882	The National Automatic Piano and Organ Manufacturing Company
268925	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Henry B. Morris	Feb 13, 1882	Dec 12, 1882	The Autophone Company	Autophone
268979	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Oliver H. Arno	Mar 15, 1882	Dec 12, 1882	The American Automatic Organ Company
269164	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Oliver H. Arno	Mar 14, 1882	Dec 12, 1882	The American Automatic Organ Company
269615	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Oliver H. Arno	Sep 7, 1882	Dec 26, 1882	The American Automatic Organ Company	Gem Organetta
270606	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Robert W. Pain	Mar 23, 1882	Jan 16, 1883	The National Automatic Piano And Organ Manufacturing Company
270686	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Joseph Metzger	May 23, 1882	Jan 16, 1883
271064	Winding-Roller for Musical Instruments	Andrew H. Hammond	Dec 22, 1881	Jan 23, 1883		Tournaphone
271606	Pneumatic Action for Organs	William F. Cooper	Jun 19, 1882	Feb 6, 1883
272269	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Jean Lacape	Oct 4, 1882	Feb 13, 1883	J. Lacape & Co.
272090	Music-Roll	Henry Schmoele	Jun 17, 1882	Feb 1883
273120	Mechanical Musical Instrument	John McTammany	Aug 30, 1881	Feb 27, 1883	Alexander McTammany
273870	Mechanical Musical Instrument	John McTammany	Mar 14, 1882	Mar 13, 1883	Alexander McTammany
277129	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Andrew H. Hammond	Aug 10, 1882	May 8, 1883
277309	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Newman R. Marshman	Apr 12, 1882	May 8, 1883
278771	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Edwin H. Brown	Apr 10, 1882	Jun 5, 1883
279933	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Merritt Gally	Oct 9, 1882	Jun 26, 1883		Clariona
280789	Reed for Musical Instrument	Mellen Bray and George W. McClintock	Feb 7, 1882	Jul 10, 1883	Mellen Bray
282179	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Alonzo Durkee	Mar 7, 1883	Jul 31, 1883	The National Automatic Piano And Organ Manufacturing Company
282877	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Merritt Gally	Apr 20, 1862	Aug 7, 1883		Clariona
284315	Mechanical Musical Instrument	John McTammany, Jr.	Mar 23, 1883	Sep 4, 1883
284844	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Andrew H. Hammond	Nov 14, 1882	Sep 11, 1883		Aurephone
287599	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Emil Welte	Jan 3, 1883	Oct 30, 1883
290672	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Paul Ehrlich	Jan 29, 1883	Dec 25, 1883		Ariston
290697	Automatic Musical Instrument	John McTammany		Dec 25, 1883	Alexander McTammany	see also: 321738
290726³⁾	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Otto Zabekow	Apr 11, 1883	Dec 25, 1883
292671	Automatic Musical Instrument	John McTammany, Jr.	Jun 20, 1883	Jan 29, 1884	Alexander McTammany
293184	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Newman R. Marshman	Nov 6, 1877	Feb 5, 1884	The Mechanical Orguinette Company
296165	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Andrew H. Hammond	Nov 14, 1882	Apr 1, 1884		Aurephone
296238	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Otto Spaethe	Jun 9, 1883	Apr 1, 1884
296685	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Merritt Gally	Jan 16, 1884	Apr 8, 1884
298066	Mechanical Musical Instrument	George H. Chinnock	Nov 20, 1882	May 6, 1884
305806	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Merritt Gally	Mar 6, 1882	Sep 30, 1884
307222⁴⁾	Hand-Organ	Carl Pietschmann	Jul 12, 1884	Oct 28, 1884		Herophon
308242	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Paul Ehrlich	Jan 14, 1884	Nov 18, 1884	The Fabrik Leipziger Musikwerke (Paul Ehrlich & Co.)
308619	Music-Roller for Mechanical Musical Instruments	John Maxfield	Jan 5, 1884	Dec 2, 1884	Jackson A. Nichol
309616	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Merritt Gally	Oct 30, 1882	Dec 23, 1884
312636	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Mamert Hock	Sep 9, 1883	Feb 24, 1885
314012	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Merritt Gally	Mar 5, 1881	Mar 17, 1885
314234⁵⁾	Organ-Reed	Merritt Gally	Aug 9, 1884	Mar 24, 1885
314235⁶⁾	Organ-Reed	Merritt Gally	Feb 25, 1884	Mar 24, 1885
315493⁷⁾	Musical Reed	Merritt Gally	Aug 9, 1884	Apr 14, 1885
318448	Mechanical Musical Instrument	J. Herbert Chase	Sep 7, 1883	May 26, 1885
321738	Mechanical Musical Instrument	John McTammany	Nov 27, 1883	Jul 7, 1885	Alexander McTammany	improvement on 290697
322554	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Robert W. Pain	Oct 13, 1884	Jul 21, 1885
322566	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Lucius T. Stanley	Jul 28, 1884	Jul 21, 1885	J. Stewart Morgan
323829	Pneumatic Action for Organs	Hilborne L. Roosevelt and Charles S. Haskell	Jul 24, 1884	Aug 4, 1885	Hilborne L. Roosevelt
324371	Organ-Reed	Merritt Gally	Mar 27, 1885	Aug 18, 1885
326172	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Frank Stone	Apr 1, 1883	Sep 15, 1885	The Munroe Organ Reed Company
326638	Organ-Reed	Merritt Gally	Jun 3, 1885	Sep 22, 1885
327038	Device for Attaching Music-Sheets to Rollers	Hugh Thomas	Apr 17, 1884	Sep 29, 1885
328503	Automatic Musical Instrument	John McTammany	Mar 19, 1884	Oct 20, 1885	Alexander McTammany
329304	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Merritt Gally	Feb 12, 1885	Oct 27, 1885
329408⁸⁾	Mechanical Accordian	Carl Oettel	Nov 6, 1883	Oct 27, 1885		barrel-operated accordian
329419⁹⁾	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Marshall Arthur Wier	Nov 4, 1884	Oct 27, 1885
329473	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Theodoee Meinhold	Jun 24, 1884	Nov 3, 1885
331747	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Merritt Gally	Jul 11, 1854	Dec 1, 1885
333645¹⁰⁾	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Heinrich Lorenz	Apr 9, 1884	Jan 5, 1886
335271	Valve for Musical Instruments	J. Herbert Chase	Jan 13, 1885	Feb 2, 1886	The Mechanical Orguinette Company
335272	Mechanical Musical Instrument	J. Herbert Chase	May 20, 1885	Feb 2, 1886	The Mechanical Orguinette Company
335534	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Robert W. Pain	Apr 20, 1885	Feb 1886	The Mechanical Orguinette Company
335903¹¹⁾	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Friedrich Ernst Paul Ehrlich	Jul 11, 1885	Feb 9, 1886
338496	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Friedrich Ernst Paul Ehrlich	Sep 24, 1885	Mar 23, 1886
338740	Combined Organ and Sewing-Machine	Jacob R. Hessler	Jul 24, 1885	Mar 30, 1886
339237	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Arthur Wales	Sep 1, 1885	Apr 6, 1886
340876	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Paul Hermann Hartling	Dec 31, 1884	Apr 27, 1886
343116¹²⁾	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Friedrich Ernst Paul Ehrlich	Jul 14, 1885	Jun 1, 1886
343795	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Hugo Burckas	May 27, 1885	Jun 15, 1886
343900¹³⁾	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Merritt Gally	May 15, 1884	Jun 15, 1886
345673	Valve for Organ-Bellows	J. Herbert Chase	Oct 5, 1885	Jul 20, 1886
346152	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Merritt Gally	Apr 23, 1885	Jul 27, 1886
347199	Musical Top	Robert Richardson	Jan 18, 1886	Aug 10, 1886
349634	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Friedrich Ernst Paul Ehrlich	Jun 2, 1880	Sep 21, 1886
350541	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Oskar Paul Lochmann	May 21, 1886	Oct 12, 1886
351171	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Merritt Gally	Dec 23, 1884	Oct 19, 1886
351172	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Merritt Gally	Oct 24, 1885	Oct 19, 1886
351173	Pneumatic Action for Musical Instruments	Merritt Gally	Mar 17, 1886	Oct 19, 1886
352054	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Heinrich Friedrich Hambruch	Feb 17, 1886	Nov 2, 1886
353434¹⁴⁾	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Emil Gustav Sturm	Mar 17, 1886	Nov 30, 1886
355201	Air-Engine for Mechanical Musical Instruments	William D. Parker	Dec 3, 1885	Dec 28, 1886
355229	Pneumatic Engine for Musical-Instrument Actions	Frank Stone	Sep 12, 1885	Dec 28, 1886
356421	Pneumatic Motor for Organs	Robert W. Pain and William B. Tremaine	Jul 24, 1884	Jan 18, 1887	David L. Proudfit
356422	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Robert W. Pain	Dec 3, 1884	Jan 18, 1887	The Mechanical Orguinette Company
356599	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Robert W. Pain	Dec 3, 1885	Jan 25, 1887	The Mechanical Orguinette Company
356690	Mechanical Musical Instrument	George B. Kelly	Mar 11, 1886	Jan 25, 1887
357502	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Giovanni Racca and William Seward	Sep 7, 1886	Feb 8, 1887
358157	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Frank Ernest Kenyon	Sep 13, 1886	Feb 22, 1887		xylophone
359279¹⁵⁾	Automatic Musical Instrument	Ellis Parr	May 25, 1886	Mar 15, 1887
360163	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Carl Kretschmar	Jul 6, 1886	Mar 29, 1887
360280¹⁶⁾	Mechanical Musical Instrument	J. Herbert Chase	July 11, 1882	Mar 29, 1887
361200	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Oliver H. Arno	Apr 2, 1886	Apr 12, 1887	The Arno Musical Box Company
361201	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Oliver H. Arno	Nov 26, 1886	Apr 12, 1887	The Arno Musical Box Company	Arno (music box)
363082	Pneumatic Action for Musical Instruments	Frederick Pritchard and Gustave H. Ahlstrom	Mar 3, 1886	May 17, 1887
363480	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Ferdinand Pietschmann	Mar 12, 1887	May 24, 1887
363591¹⁷⁾	Mechanical Musical Instrument	J. Herbert Chase	May 12, 1884	May 24, 1887	The Mechanical Orguinette Company
363480	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Ferdinand Pietschmann	Mar 12, 1887	May 24, 1887
363841	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Henry B. Morris, Samuel R. Tisdel, and Fred. Labar	Sep 21, 1886	May 31, 1887	The Autophone Company	Roller Organ
368080	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Friedrich Ernst Paul Ehrlich	Jan 17, 1887	Aug 9, 1887
368164	Pneumatic Action for Musical Instruments	William D. Parker	Oct 23. 1886	Aug 9, 1887	The Munroe Organ Reed Company
368165	Pneumatic Action for Musical Instruments	William D. Parker	Feb 21, 1887	Aug 9, 1887	The Munroe Organ Reed Company
369293	Attachment for Orguinettes	Robert M. Lowne	Jun 6, 1667	Aug 30, 1887
369667	Mechanical Musical Instrument	James E. Treat	Nov 17, 1882	Sep 6, 1887	The Automatic Music Paper Company
370466	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Merritt Gally	Jul 25, 1887	Sep 27, 1887
373588	Machine for Making Reed-Plates	Andrew H. Hammond	Aug 8, 1887	Nov 22, 1887
374616	Automatic Musical Instrument	John McTammany	Jan 21, 1886	Dec 13, 1887
375531	Mechanical Musical Instrument	George H. Chinnock and Henry S. Taylor	Jan 3, 1883	Dec 27, 1887
376443	Musical Instrument	Alpheus Lowmiller	Nov 9, 1882	Jan 17, 1888
376725	Mechanical Musical Instrument	William B. Tremaine	Mar 16, 1887	Jan 17, 1888
379887	Repeating-Check for Music-Sheets of Mechanical Musical Instruments	Jesse Crannell	Oct 8, 1887	Mar 20, 1888
380608	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Louis Emile Jerome ThibouvillE	Aug 18, 1887	Apr 3, 1888
380716	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Merritt Gally	Aug 2, 1887	Apr 10, 1888
385999	Valve for Bellows	J. Herbert Chase	Aug 19, 1882	Jul 10, 1888
387141	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Hugo Burckas	Mar 8, 1887	Jul 31, 1888
387635	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Merritt Gally	Apr 17, 1888	Aug 14, 1888
390385	Mechanical Musical Instrument	John McTammany	Mar 19, 1886	Oct 2, 1888
390386	Mechanical Musical Instrument	John McTammany	Jun 20, 1887	Oct 2, 1888
393312	Reed-Organ	Frederick Pritchard	Dec 1, 1887	Nov 20, 1888
393456	Mechanical Musical Instrument	George F. Wells	Jul 24, 1888	Nov 27, 1888	one-half to Manley C. Lawton
393686	Organ	Arian Berkeland	Jun 4, 1887	Nov 27, 1888
394005	Pneumatic Action for Musical Instruments	William D. Parker	Apr 12, 1888	Dec 4, 1888	The Aeolian Organ and Music Company
394006	Pneumatic Wind Musical Instrument	William D. Parker	May 7, 1888	Dec 4, 1888	The Aeolian Organ and Music Company
394794	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Frank Stone	May 26, 1888	Dec 18, 1888	The Aeolian Organ And Music Company
396955	Pneumatic Action for Organs	Frederick Pritchard	Apr 30, 1888	Jan 29, 1889
400102	Automatic Musical Instrument	John McTammany	Oct 23, 1885	Mar 26, 1889
400123	Musical Toy	Jean Schoenner	Oct 12, 1888	Mar 26, 1889
407521	Musical Top	Georg Fischer	Aug 29, 1888	Jul 1889
407801	Mechanical Organ	Edwin S. Votey	Aug 10, 1888	Jul 30, 1889
409678	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Merritt Gally	Mar 12, 1888	Aug 27, 1889
410875	Process of Making Barrels of Musical Instruments	Charles C. Carpenter 2nd and Lucien A. Brott	Feb 13,1889	Sep 10, 1889	L.A. Barber & Co.
417581	Organ	Robert W. Pain	Jan 23, 1889	Dec 17, 1889	The Aeolian Organ and Music Company
425368	Musical Instrument Top	George Cole	May 16, 1889	Apr 8, 1890
433935¹⁸⁾	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Friedrich Ernst Paul Ehrlich	Jan 6, 1890	Aug 12, 1890
443909	Automatic Musical Instrument	James Michael Farmer	Sep 24, 1890	Dec 30, 1890
447970	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Carl Pietschmann	Sep 29, 1890	Mar 10, 1891	The Berliner Musik Instrumenten Fabrik (Chas. F. Pietschmann & Söhne)	Manopan
449439	Musical Instrument	Emil Freiner	Jan 2, 1890	Mar 31, 1891	Francisca Freiner
454472	Stage Setting For Theatrical Representation of Games	Joseph Hart	Feb 20, 1891	Jun 23, 1891		uses an organette as a “diversion”
457445	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Wilhelm Otto Spaethe	Oct 27, 1890	Aug 11, 1891
459590	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Johann Ludwig Müller	Jul 2, 1890	Sep 15, 1891
462963	Musical Instrument	Francesco Allasia	May 7, 1891	Nov 10, 1891
471559	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Carl Kretschmar	Oct 27, 1891	Mar 29, 1892
474999¹⁹⁾	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Ferdinand Pietschmann	Oct 29, 1891	May 17, 1892
491223	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Ferdinand Pietschmann	Aug 11, 1892	Feb 7, 1893
494664	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Theodor Zöllner	Sep 4, 1891	Apr 4, 1893	Thost & Richter
498573	Automatic Cut-Off for Musical Instruments	Constantin Riegger	Dec 16, 1892	May 30, 1893
517805	Mechanical Musical Instrument	George B. Kelly	May 15, 1893	Apr 3, 1894
518329	Musical Instrument	Friedeich Adolf Richter	Mar 28, 1893	Apr 17, 1894		accordian
519737	Musical Instrument	Friedeich Adolf Richter	Nov 16, 1893	May 15, 1894
520297	Musical Instrument	Joseph H. Chase and James B. Tracy	May 10, 1892	May 22, 1894	The Aeolian Organ and Music Company
530107	Toy	Willford A. Hill	Mar 12, 1894	Dec 4, 1894	one-half to John C. Miller	wheel-driven
540059	Automatic Musical Instrument	Daniel Imhof	Feb 19, 1895	May 28, 1895	Imhof & Mukle
544322	Tracker for Mechanical Musical Instruments	Henry C. Reichardt	Dec 18, 1894	Aug 13, 1895	Kock & Weiser
545156	Pneumatic Musical Instrument	Robert A. Gally	Feb 12, 1895	Aug 27, 1895
552796	Mechanical Musical Instrument	William B. Tremaine and Robert W. Pain	Jun 21, 1895	Jan 7, 1896
560283	Automatic Musical Instrument	Adolf Richter	Jul 8, 1895	May 19, 1896
561004	Composite Musical Instrument	William Langenfeld	Jul 8, 1895	May 26, 1896
561881	Electric Chime	James H. Gerry and Frederick M. Schmidt	Mar 18, 1895	Jun 1896	The Self-Winding Clock Company	paper roll
563415	Mechanical Musical Instrument	William Herbert Rollins	Mar 10, 1896	Jul 7, 1896
566150²⁰⁾	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Paul Ehrlich	Sep 18, 1895	Aug 18, 1896
564775²¹⁾	Musical Box	Jean Billon-Haller	Dec 21, 1895	Jul 28, 1896
572950	Music-Box	Frank J. Bernard	May 9, 1895	Dec 15, 1896	The American Music Box Company
574186	Automatic Organ	Theodore P. Brown	Jun 27, 1895	Dec 29, 1896		improvement on 552796
576032	Pneumatic Musical Instrument	Melville Clark	Jul 27, 1896	Jan 26, 1897
578127	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Emil Welte	Feb 12. 1896	Mar 2, 1897
580436	Striking Apparatus for Metallic or Other Similar Instruments	Ernst Oscar Uhlig	Jul 21, 1896	Apr 13, 1897	Uhlig, Schwerin & Co., Fabrik Mechanischer Kindermusik-Instrumente	xylophone
582866	Musical Instrument	Paul Lochmann	Apr 11, 1896	May 18, 1897		zither
590918	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Louis Stocker	Apr 29, 1897	Sep 28, 1897
594236	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Paul Ehrlich	Dec 23, 1895	Nov 23, 1897
596768	Automatically-Operated Stringed Musical Instruments	Oliver H. Arno	Sep 4, 1896	Jan 4, 1898
599703	Mechanical Music-Work	Friedrich Gronau	Jun 12, 1897	Mar 1, 1898
627999	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Feiedrich Gronau	Feb 23, 1898	Jul 4, 1899
628535	Self-Playing Device for Organs	Frederick W. Hedgeland	Dec 20, 1897	Jul 11, 1899	The W.W. Kimball Company
632698	Pneumatically-Operated Organ	Melville Clark	May 23, 1898	Sep 12, 1899
634601	Automatic Musical Instrument	Morris S. Wright	Oct 15, 1898	Oct 10, 1899
635416	Pneumatic Self-Playing Instrument	Charles S. Batdorf	Nov 15, 1898	Oct 24, 1899	James W. Eaton	bells
638000	Musical Instrument	Benhof Edwin Benhardus	Feb 14, 1898	Nov 28, 1899
638615	Automatic Musical Instrument	Morris S. Wright	Oct 15, 1898	Dec 5, 1899
638709	Means for Controlling Registration of Self-Playing Organs	Frederick W. Hedgeland	Feb 13, 1899	Dec 12, 1899	The W.W. Kimball Company
639477	Pneumatic Valve-Action	Joseph Weiser	Jun 18, 1898	Dec 19, 1899	one half to Hermann Leonard
645172	Self-Playing Instrument	Emory C. Hiscock	Jun 19, 1896	Mar 13, 1900	The W.W. Kimball Company
649219	Musical Box for Cycles	Carl Schönlank	Oct 11, 1897	May 8, 1900		bicycle-powered
RE13124	Controlling Mechanism for Self-Playing Musical Instruments and Music-Rolls Therefor	Timothy B. Powers	Oct 17, 1903	Jun 28, 1910	The Telelectric Company
692208	Mechanical Musical Instrument	John McTammany	Aug 4, 1898	Jan 28, 1902		wind instruments
697980	Automatic Musical Instrument	Jules Carpentier	Dec 17, 1900	Apr 22, 1902
700035	Xylophone-Player	Frederick R. Goolman	May 18, 1901	May 13, 1902
747802	Self-Playing Musical Instrument	Jacob Suter and Wenzel Lenk	Feb 3, 1903	Dec 22, 1903		zither
770300	Musical Drum	Ottomar Meinel and Ernst Meinel	Mar 30, 1903	Sep 20, 1904
779716	Pneumatic Action for Musical Instruments	Eugene De Kleist	Mar 23, 1904	Jan 10, 1905
817950	Mechanically-Played Accordion	Alfred Zuleger	Aug 15, 1904	Apr 17, 1906
841424	Merry-Go-Round	George Bester Mckinney	Mar 16, 1906	Jan 15, 1907		incorporates a Roller Organ for music
845165	Automatic Organ-Action	John W. Davis	Sep 26, 1906	Feb 26, 1907	The Davis Piano Player Company
970136	Horn	Etienne Teste	Dec 2, 1908	Sep 13, 1910		Testophone
977238	Automatic Trembler Particularly Applicable to Warning Apparatus	Etienne Teste	Dec 28, 1908	Nov 29, 1910		Testophone
977084	Auto-Organ	James Ross England	Nov 1, 1909	Nov 29, 1910		pulley-driven
1018661	Operating Mechanism for Automatic Accordions and the Like	Reinhardt Glier	Dec 29, 1910	Feb 27, 1912
1103705	Automatic Multiple-Note Horn	Etienne Teste	Apr 3, 1911	Jul 14, 1914		Testophone
1836961	Automatic Accordion	Richard Geartner	May 18, 1931	Dec 15, 1931
2055158	Automatically operable organ	Joseph Verbeeck	Mar 3, 1928	Apr 18, 1939		accordian
2640383	Toy Hand Organ	Charles Feltman	Jan 27, 1951	Jun 2, 1953

With Keyboard

Number	Description	Inventor	Filed	Issued	Assignee	Instrument/ Comment
13946	Machine for Registering Music	H.B. Horton²²⁾		Dec 18, 1855		non-musical keyboard recorder
50381	Improvement in Musical Instruments	Francis Peabody		Oct 10, 1865		disc-operated organ
40573	Keyed Instrument of Music	Francis Peabody		Nov 10, 1863		see also: RE1866
RE1866	Keyed Instrument of Music	Francis Peabody		Feb 7, 1865		see also: 40573
73080	Improvement in Melodeons	William Cooper		Jan 7, 1868		Clariona
157891	Improvement in Barrel-Attachments for Reed Organs	John Van Doren	Jun 4, 1874	Dec 15, 1874
222030	Improvement in Mechanical Musical Instruments	Merritt Gally	May 21, 1879	Nov 25, 1879		Clariona
326171	Organ-Action	Frank Stone	Apr 1, 1883	Sep 15, 1885	The Munroe Organ Reed Company
344646	Musical Instrument	Merritt Gally	Sep 17, 1885	Jun 29, 1886
353894	Pneumatic Action for Musical Instruments	Frank Stone	Jun 1, 1886	Dec 7, 1886
355336	Valve-Action for Musical Instruments	William D. Parker	Dec 3, 1885	Jan 4, 1887
355880	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Albert Andrew McIntire	Feb 3, 1886	Jan 11, 1887
361299	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Charles A. Kustner	May 14, 1886	Apr 19, 1887	The Pianophone Company
361300	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Charles A. Kustner	June 9, 1886	Apr 19, 1887	The Pianophone Company
363245	Organ	George B. Kelly	Jun 26, 1885	May 17, 1887
364813	Musical Instrument	Merritt Gally	Jan 23, 1886	Jun 14, 1887
412657	Automatic Musical Instrument	Robert W. Pain	Jan 23, 1889	Oct 8, 1889	The Aeolian Organ And Music Company
462460	Automatic Organ	George F. Wells	Nov 20, 1890	Nov 3, 1891
467572²³⁾	Mechanical Attachment for Musical Instruments	John Cocchi and Friedrich August Zeitler	Sep 9, 1891	Jan 26, 1892
473338	Automatic Governor for Pneumatic Motors	William D. Parker	Oct 16, 1891	Apr 19, 1892	three-fourths to Edward H. White
487767	Pneumatic Action for Organs	Jarvis Peloubet	May 23, 1892	Dec 13, 1892	Lyon & Healy
488482	Musical Instrument	Robert W. Pain	Dec 4, 1890	Dec 20, 1892
531831	Organ	Theodore P. Brown and Andrew H. Hammond	Jun 21, 1894	Jan 1, 1895
558562	Musical Instrument	Robert W. Pain	Dec 31, 1894	Apr 21, 1896
570200	Organ	Joseph H. Chase	Dec 31, 1894	Oct 27, 1896	The Aeolian Company
576029	Pneumatic Organ	Melville Clark	Dec 2, 1895	Jan 26, 1897
576030	Pneumaticly-Operated Musical Instrument	Melville Clark	Dec 28, 1895	Jan 26, 1897
576031	Reed-Organ	Melville Clark	Mar 26, 1896	Jan 26, 1897
587270	Automatic Combination-Piano	William D. Parker	Mar 8, 1897	Jul 27, 1897	Edward H. White
592641	Automatic Piano-Player	William D. Parker and Edward H. White	Apr 5, 1897	Oct 26, 1897	Edward H. White
593216	Self-Playing Instrument	Frederick W. Hedgeland	Jan 23, 1897	Nov 9, 1897	The W.W. Kimball Company
595342	Musical Instrument	William Herbert Rollins	Feb 28, 1896	Dec 14, 1897
602936	Pneumatic-Organ	Melville Clark	Jun 4, 1897	Apr 26, 1898
603127	Pneumatic-Organ	Melville Clark	Dec 20, 1897	Apr 26, 1898
608252	Self-Playing Organ	Joseph Herbert Chase	Feb 5, 1897	Aug 2, 1898
621289	Mechanical Musical Instrument	William Herbert Rollins	Sep 2, 1896	Mar 14, 1899
638245	Self Playing Organ	Emory C. Hiscock	Jun 3, 1899	Dec 5, 1899	The W.W. Kimball Company
640922	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Charles A. Kustner	Nov 11, 1895	Jan 9, 1900
659210	Pneumatic Organ	Melville Clark	Jul 15, 1898	Oct 9, 1900

Mouth-Blown

Number	Description	Inventor	Filed	Issued	Assignee	Instrument/ Comment
129746	Improvement in Musical Instruments	Antonio L. Mora		Jul 23, 1872		trumpet
211634	Improvement in Mechanical Musical Instruments	Mason J. Matthews	Nov 15, 1878	Jan 28, 1879		see also: RE9861
RE9861	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Mason J. Matthews		Sep 6, 1881	James Morgan and John Nichol	see also: 211634
329420²⁴⁾	Mechanical Musical Instrument Marshall	Arthur Wier	Nov 15, 1884	Oct 27, 1885
422964	Mechanical Indicator for Musicians	John McTammany	Jun 14, 1889	Mar 1890		non-musical teaching aid
427360	Reed-Organ	Frederick Pritchard	Mar 25, 1889	May 6, 1890		trumpet
569777	Musical Instrument	Hubbard D.B. Williams	Nov 6, 1895	Oct 20, 1896
744546	Musical Instrument	Henry Eberly Hibshman	Mar 6, 1903	Nov 17, 1903	Clarence James McCuaig
777370	Musical Instrument	Henry Eberly Hibshman	Nov 10, 1903	Dec 13, 1904
873035	Automatic Sheet-Music Cornet	Charles Edmond Fauth and George David Skamper	Apr 20, 1906	Dec 10, 1907		trumpet
1010724	Musical Instrument	Hermann Claussen	Sep 25, 1909	Dec 5, 1911		trumpet
1497289	Musical Instrument	David Brown	Sep 16, 1921	Jun 10, 1924		trumpet
1560497	Musical Instrument	Joseph Le Roy Banks	Jul 19, 1922	Nov 3, 1925		Rolmonica, see also: RE16986
RE16986	Musical Instrument	Joseph Le Roy Banks	Nov 3, 1927	Jun 5, 1928		Rolmonica, see also: 1560497
1720991	Musical Instrument	Joseph Le Roy Banks	Dec 14, 1927	Jul 16, 1929
1750791	Musical Instrument	Herbert G. Beyer	Nov 3, 1928	Mar 18, 1930
1750792	Musical Instrument	Herbert G. Beyer	Nov 17, 1928	Mar 18, 1930
1752978	Toy	Henry O. Drotning	Apr 12, 1929	Apr 1, 1930		saxophonoe
1791903	Musical-Instrument Player	Warren Victor Prince	Aug 17, 1929	Feb 10, 1931		whistle
1798055	Musical Instrument	Joseph Le Roy Banks	Nov 7, 1928	Mar 24, 1931
1813337	Musical Instrument	M.D. Zimmerman and Harry Pullen	Mar 22, 1930	Jul 7, 1931	International Patents Corporation	Fireside Player PlaRola
1814730	Sound Instrument	Hubert A. Myers	Mar 21, 1930	Jul 14, 1931	one-half to Arthur S. Hickock
1865522	Musical Instrument	Michael Jackson	Oct 20, 1930	Jul 5, 1932
1884003	Mechanical Musical Instrument	Harry Lichtman	May 21, 1930	Oct 25, 1932
209492	Improvement in Mechanical Musical Instruments	Newman R. Marshman and Mason J. Matthews	May 22, 1878	Oct 29, 1878		Trumpetto
2200430	Musical Instrument And Method Of Assembling The Same	Harry Fallen	Jan 26, 1937	May 14, 1940	PlaRola Corporation	PlaRola, Nor-Cos
2479738	Musical Instrument	Jerome L. Goldstein and Mathew A. Strumer	Nov 20, 1946	Aug 23, 1949
2506039	Musical Toy	Moses Sivitz	Apr 22, 1949	May 2, 1950	Bromo-Mint Company	pipes
2543471	Mechanical Device for Teaching Harmonica Playing	James L Scholl	Dec 27, 1946	Feb 27, 1951		non-musical
2669150	Musical Instrument	Paul Shklar	May 10, 1951	Feb 16, 1954
2694333	Player Harmonica	Vincent A. Costello	Jun 29, 1951	Nov 16, 1954	Nor-Cos Corporation	Nor-Cos
2833174	Toy Musical Instrument	William D. Nonnamaker, William M. Nonnamaker and Lloyd O. Lohaus	Jul 11, 1955	May 6, 1958
3186286	Educational Musical Toys	Folke Hugo Torsten Swensson	Feb 1, 1963	Jun 1, 1965		via hose
3247748	Toy	Marvin I. Glass and Arthur E. Neumann	Mar 2, 1964	Apr 26, 1966	Marvin Glass & Associates	whistle

Tune-Sheets, etc.

170402	Improvement in Electric Music-Sheets	William F. Schmoele and Henry Schmoele, Jr.	May 15, 1875	Nov 23, 1875	one-third to Charles Schmoele
187860	Improvement in Sheets for Automatic Musical Instruments	Purdy B. Hoyt	Sep 21, 1876	Feb 27, 1877
189144	Improvement in Paper-Perforating Machines	Roswell T. Smith	Oct 6, 1876	Apr 3, 1877		see also: RE9429
RE9429	Paper-Perforating Machine	Roswell T. Smith	Apr 17, 1880	Oct 19, 1880		see also: 189144
219297	Improvement in Music-Sheets for Mechanical Musical Instruments	Elias P. Needham	Apr 28, 1879	Sep 2, 1879		Melodia, Tournaphone, Aurephone
223675	Process of Manufacturing Perforated Sheets for Mechanical Musical Instruments	George B. Kelly	Jun 14, 1879	Jan 20, 1880	The Mechanical Orguinette Company
223676	Apparatus for Cutting Pattern-Plates to be Used in the Manufacture of Perforated Music-Sheets	George B. Kelly	Jun 14, 1879	Jan 20, 1880	The Mechanical Orguinette Company
223866	Machine for Perforating Sheets of Paper for Automatic Musical Instruments	Roswell T. Smith	Jun 5, 1879	Jan 27, 1880		see also: RE9653
RE9653	Paper-Perforating Machine	Roswell T. Smith	Oct 26, 1880	Apr 12, 1881		see also: 223866
233882	Paper-Perforating Machine	Roswell T. Smith	Mar 1, 1880	Nov 2, 1880		see also: RE10311
RE10311	Paper-Perforating Machine	Roswell T. Smith	Feb 19, 1883	Apr 10, 1883		see also: 233882
224715	Music-Sheet for Mechanical Musical Instruments	Elias P Needham	May 8, 1879	Feb 17, 1880
US255246	Music-Sheet for Orguinettes	Louis Brauer	Apr 12, 1881	Mar 21, 1882
258072	Perforated Music-Sheet	Willis Johnson	Apr 20, 1881	May 16, 1882	The American Automatic Organ Company
259340	Art of Perforating Music-paper For Automatic Organs	Roswell T. Smith	Feb 11, 1881	Jun 13, 1882
286108	Music-Sheet For Mechanical Musical Instruments	Jefferson Bailey	Sep 20, 1882	Oct 2, 1883	The McTammany Organette Company
287062	Machine for Perforating Music-paper for Automatic Musical Instruments	Roswell T. Smith	May 9, 1883	Oct 23, 1883		see also: 318049
300368	Machine For Punching Perforated Sheet-music	Henry B. Horton	Sep 30, 1881	Jun 17, 1884	The Automatic Music Paper Company	music for Aurephone
308624	Machine for Creasing Sheet-Music	James Morgan	Apr 21, 1882	Dec 2, 1884	J. Stewart Morgan
310501	Music-Sheet for Mechanical Musical Instruments	Paul Ehrlich	May 21, 1884	Jan 6, 1885
315052	Machine For Inserting Pins In Music-Barrels	Henry B. Morris	May 1, 1884	Apr 7, 1885	The Autophone Company	music for Roller Organ
318049	Machine for Cutting Music-Paper for Automatic Musical Instruments	Roswell T. Smith	Aug 29, 1883	May 19, 1885		improvement on 287062
322390	Barrel for Mechanical Musical Instruments	Henry B. Morris	May 1, 1884	Jul 14, 1885	The Autophone Company	music for Roller Organ
330913²⁵⁾	Machine for Perforating Music-Sheets for Mechanical Musical Instruments	John Maxfield	Oct 25, 1884	Nov 24, 1885
339679	Machine For Making And Inserting Staples In Music-Rollers	Henry B. Morris	Oct 8, 1885	Apr 13, 1886	The Autophone Company
350747	Perforated Music Sheet for Mechanical Musical Instruments	George B. Kelly	Dec 5, 1885	Oct 12, 1886
350748	Perforated Music-Sheet	George B. Kelly	Dec 7, 1885	Oct 12, 1886
389872²⁶⁾	Machine for Perforating Music-Bands	Jules Carpentier	May 28, 1887	Sep 25, 1888
425935	Music-Sheet for Mechanical Musical Instruments	Friedrich Ernst Paul Ehrlich	Jan 18, 1890	Apr 15, 1890		Ariston
442130	Machine For Preparing Music-Rollers	Henry B. Morris	May 2, 1890	Dec 9, 1890	The Autophone Company
443252	Music-Sheet for Mechanical Musical Instruments	George H. Chinnock	Sep 22, 1888	Dec 23, 1890
452203	Music-Sheet for Mechanical Musical Instruments	William A. Webber	Jan 29, 1891	May 12, 1891	The Aeolian Organ and Music Company
489568	Perforated Sheet or Plate for Musical Instruments	Alexander Peterson	Jun 13, 1892	Jan 10, 1893
497323	Music-Sheet for Mechanical Musical Instruments	Rudolph M. Hunter	Feb 8, 1893	May 16, 1893		improvement on 452203
505878	Perforated Music-Sheet	Willard H. Gilman	Jan 6, 1893	Oct 3, 1893	William S. Reed
517752	Perforating-Machine	George B. Kelly	Jun 30, 1893	Apr 3, 1894
527970	Machine for Making Perforated Sheet-Music	Wilfred E. Griggs	Nov 24, 1893	Oct 23, 1894
529995	Tune-Sheet for Automatic Musical Instruments	August Amthor	Jul 12, 1894	Nov 27, 1894
546133²⁷⁾	Music-Sheet for Mechanical Musical Instrument	Paul Ehrlich	Apr 13, 1895	Sep 10, 1895
560540	Note-Sheet for Mechanical Musical Instruments	Adolf Richter	Sep 19, 1895	May 19, 1896
593165	Tune-Sheet for Mechanical Musical Instruments	John E. Sanders	Aug 27, 1896	Nov 2, 1897
593694	Machine for Perforating Paper	Harold W. Shonnard and George Howlett Davis	Jan 23, 1896	Nov 16, 1897	The Aeolian Company
657682	Spiral Note-Sheet	Adolf Staffelstein	Mar 30, 1900	Sep 11, 1900
671724	Machine for Perforating Music-Sheets for Self-Playing Instruments	Robert A. Gally	Sep 7, 1900	Apr 9, 1901
682272	Case for Perforated Music-Sheets for Musical Instruments	Timothy B. Powers	Nov 16, 1900	Sep 10, 1901	The Magnetic Piano Company
697821	Music-Roll	Lewis Benjamine Doman	Jul 22, 1901	Apr 15, 1902
698104	Machine for Cutting Perforated Sheets for Automatic Musical Instruments	Melville Clark	May 2, 1898	Apr 22, 1902
707283	Operating-Sheet for Automatic Musical Instruments	Edwin S. Votey	Oct 30, 1900	Aug 19, 1902	The Aeolian Company
726676	Perforator for Music-Rolls	Ernest B. Gregor and Maximillian F. Gregor	Feb 24, 1902	Apr 28, 1903
736228	Music-Sheet for Mechanical Musical Instruments	Charles L. Davis	Nov 12, 1902	Aug 11, 1903	Wilcox & White Company

International Patents

General

Number	Description	Inventor	Filed	Issued	Assignee	Instrument/ Comment
CA11685	Improvements On Mechanical Musical Instruments Perfectionnements Aux Instruments De Musique Mecaniques	Arno, Oliver H.		Aug 28, 1880	The American Automatic Organ Company
CH103678	Appareil de musique automatique	Madame Julia Adèle Hirt		Mar 5, 1923
DE22159	Neuerung an mechanischen Musikwerken	Claude Gavioli		Jan 28, 1882
DE26775	Eine Schraubenfläche bildendes, dirchlochtes Notenblatt für Mechanische Spielwerke	Mamert Hock		Jul 20, 1883
DE28364	Neuerung an Schraubenförmigen Notenblättern	Mamert Hock		Jul 20, 1883
DE29387	Deckel- und Walzerlagerung an der unter No. 23366 patentirten Mundharmonika mit Mechanik	Otto Zabekow		May 4, 1884		see also: DE23366
DE30100	Einrichtung an Apparaten zum mechanischen Spielen von Tasten-Instrumenten	Robert Hodges Bishop und William Down		May 10, 1884
DE32800	Auswechselbare Bezüge für Spielwalzen	Ellis Parr		Jan 13, 1885
DE33398	Gegliedertes Notenblatt für mechanische Musikwerke	Friedrich Ernst Paul Ehrlich		Apr 9, 1885
DE33509	Spielwerk	Firma Lamy Söhne		Mar 21, 1885
DE36066	Mechanisches Musikwerk mit einem an den Rändern in Gleitbahnen Gefürten Notenblatt	Eugen Wellner and Emil Prager		Sep 19, 1885		Melyphon
DE36805	Neuerung in der Notenblätt-Führung bei mechanischen Musikwerken	Eugen Wellner und Emil Prager		Mar 31, 1885
DE38234	Einrichtung zum Festlegen von Notenblättern auf Walzen	J. Morgner		Feb 13, 1886
DE39560	Trommelleierkasten	Ch. F. Pietschmann & Söhne		Jan 28, 1886
DE41933	Vorrichtung zum mechanischen Spielen von Tasteninstrumenten	Actiengesellschaft Fabrik Leipziger Musikwerke vorm. Paul Ehrlich & Company		Nov 12, 1886		see also: DE42163
DE42163	Vorrichtung zum mechanischen Spielen von Tasteninstrumenten	Actiengesellschaft Fabrik Leipziger Musikwerke vorm. Paul Ehrlich & Company		Jan 6, 1887		see also: DE41933
DE42203	Leierkasten mit seitlich angeordnetem besonderen Musikkasten	Ch. F. Pietschmann & Söhne		Dec 1, 1886
DE42239	Drehorgel mit durchlochtem Notenblatt	Louis Emile Jérôme Thibouville		Jul 14, 1887		Organina Thibouville
DE45844	Anordnung der Tragscheibe für Notenblätter	Mamert Hock		Feb 23, 1888
DE46543	Musikinstrument für Kinder	H & W Pataky		Apr 7, 1888
DE49836	Bewegungsmechanismus für durchlochte Notenblätter bei mechanischen Musikwerken	Wilhelm Dick und Rudolf Freydeck		Nov 29, 1888
DE50171	Mechanischen Musikwerk mit bandförmigem Notenblatt	Ernst Malke		Mar 30, 1899
DE50626	Vorrichtung zum Bewegen bändformiger Notenblätter bei mechanischen Musikwerken	Ernst Malke		Apr 21, 1889
DE52392	Bewegungsvorrichtung für Notenblätter	Berliner Musikinstrumentenfabrik vorm. Ch. F. Pietschmann & Söhne		Nov 6, 1888
DE52533	Gegliedertes Notenblatt für mechanische Musikwerke	Actiengesellschaft Fabrik Leipziger Musikwerke vorm. Paul Ehrlich & Company		Apr 9. 1885
DE58625	Neuerung an Zungenstimmen-Musikwerken	Otto Schmidt		Dec 5, 1890
DE59175	Antriebvorrichtung bei mechanischen Musikwerken	Berliner Musik-Instrumenten-Fabrik, Actiengesellschaft, vorm. Ch. F. Pietschmann & Söhne		Mar 8, 1891
DE59176	Bewegliche Füfse an Notenblatt-Musikwerken	Berliner Musik-Instrumenten-Fabrik, Actiengesellschaft, vorm. Ch. F. Pietschmann & Söhne		Mar 15, 1891
DE61563	Tastenanordnung für Musikwerke mit durchlochtem Notenblatt	Carl Kretschmar		Aug 9, 1891		see also: DE66483
DE62967	Vorrichtung zum mechanischen Spielen von Tasteninstrumenten	J. Cocchi		Jun 7, 1891
DE66483	Tastenanordnung für Musikwerke mit durchlochtem Notenblatt	Carl Kretschmar		Apr 1, 1892		see also: DE61563
DE68348	Vorrichtung zum mechanischen Spielen von Tasteninstrumenten	Robert Streich und Eugen Bauer		Dec 25, 1891
DE78143	Mechanischen Musikwerk mit umkehrbarer Bewegungsrichtung des Notenbandes	Valentin Schreiber		Sep 23, 1893
DE83680	Vorrichtung zur Nachahmung des Gesanges der Kanarienvögel	Carl Kretschmar und Paul Fehling		Sep 11, 1894
DE87299	Mechanischen Musikwerk mit Stahistimmen und endlosem Notenblatt	Werner Leube		Aug 31, 1895
DE90162	Verfahren zur Herstellung zusammenlegbarer Notenschablonen für Mechanische Musikwerke	Gavioli & Cie		June 3, 1896
DE90501	Vorrichtung zum selbstthätigen Aufspeichern der aus gelenkig verbundenen Theilen bestehenden Notenblätten bei ihrem Austritt aus Mechanischen Musikwerken	Gavioli & Cie		Jun 3, 1896
DE107602	Mechanischen Musikwerk mit Stahistimmen unf aufwickelbaren Metall-Notenbändern	Eugen Mirau		Nov 2, 1898
DE136118	Vorrichtung zum mechanischen Spielen von Tasteninstrumenten	Frederick Engelhardt und Alfred Paul Roth		Dec 31, 1901
DE141684	Wendegetriebe für die Notenförderung bei Musikwerken	Reiss & Klemm		Jul 31, 1902
FR2050609	Jouet musical pneumatique	René Woltz	Jun 18, 1969	Apr 2, 1971
GB188203119		Joseph Mark Draper and James Bartholomew Draper	Jul 1, 1882			Draper's Orchestral
GB188203291		Merritt Gally	Jul 11, 1882			Clariona, Royal Orguinette
GB188203660		Paul Ehrlich	Aug 2, 1882			Ariston
GB188616579		Alfred Maxfield	Jul 27, 1886			Maxfield
GB188639050	Miniature Street Piano		Feb 2, 1886			Orpheus, Pianette
GB188712670	Improvements in Mechanical Musical Instruments	Joseph Mark Draper	Sep 19, 1887	Aug 3, 1888		Draper's Orchestral
GB188714334		Robert Mann Lowne	Aug 5, 1877			endless band adapter (Celestina)
GB189305060		Friedrich Adolf Richter	Mar 8, 1893			accordion
GB189311672	Improvements in or connected with Mechanical Musical Instruments	Ferdinand Pietschmann	Jun 14, 1893	Jul 22, 1893
GB189314666	Improvements in Mechanical Musical Instruments with Tone Producing Reeds	Wilhelm Alfred Seifer	Jul 31, 1893	Oct 7, 1893
GB189317528	Improvements in or connected with Musical Instruments	Friedrich Adolf Richter	Sep 8, 1893	Oct 28, 1893
GB189320889	Improvements in Automatic or Mechanical Musical Instruments	Paul Ehrlich	Jul 31, 1894	Sep 1, 1894
GB189417202	Improvements in Mechanical Musical Instruments	Johann Emil Mucker	May 28, 1895	Jun 29, 1895
GB189500366	Improvements in and relating to Automatic Musical Instruments	Imhof & Muckle	Jan 5, 1895	Feb 9, 1895
GB189513611	Improvements in Pneumatic Musical Instruments	Robert Allen Gally	Jul 16, 1895	Oct 26, 1895
GB189517318	Improvements in or connected with Mechanical Musical Instruments	Friedrich Adolf Richter	Sep 17, 1895	Feb 1, 1896
GB189616579	Improvements in Mechanical Musical Instruments	Alfred Maxfield	Jul 27, 1896	Oct 10, 1896
GB189713021	Improvements in Motors used in Mechanical Musical Instruments	Alfred Maxfield	May 27, 1897	Jul 10, 1897
GB697872	Accordions	Diego Gobbi	May 29, 1951	Sep 30, 1953

With Keyboard

Number	Description	Inventor	Issued	Assignee	Instrument/ Comment
DE48500	Mit einer Noten - Anzeige - Vorrichtung versehener Apparat zum Spielen von Klavieren und Harmoniums	Andreas Wider	Sep 25, 1888
DE51235	Vorrichtung zum mechanischen Anschlagen der Tasten von Pianinos, Harmoniums und dergleichen Instrumenten	J. Cocchi und F.A. Zeitler	Aug 6, 1889	see also: DE55710
DE55710	Vorrichtung zum mechanischen Spielen von Tasteninstrumenten	J. Cocchi und F.A. Zeitler	Jan 23, 1890		see also: DE51235
DE63875	Einrichtung zum mechanischen Anschlagen der Tasten von Pianino's, Harmonium's, u. dergl. Instrumenten	Firma Peterson & Co.	Aug 6, 1889
DE90919	Harmonium mit Einrichtung zum mechanischen Spielen desselben	E. Lippmann	Jul 2, 1896

Mouth-Blown

Number	Description	Inventor	Filed	Issued	Instrument/ Comment
CH97077	Harmonica mécanique	Georges Oscar Messerly	Jul 18, 1921	Dec 1, 1922
CH135770	Instrument de musique	Joseph Le Roy Banks	Oct 29, 1928	Oct 15, 1929
CH138624	Instrument de musique	Herbert George Beyer	Mar 11, 1929	Mar 15, 1930
DE9689	Schablonenflöte	Konrad Trobach und Franz Rosenzweig		Nov 18, 1879	flute
DE23366	Mundharmonika mit Mechanik	Otto Zabekow		Jul 7, 1882	see also: DE29387
DE46566	Blasinstrument für Kinder	Anton Dorner		Jun 20, 1888	mechanical trumpet
DE50531	Kindertrompete mit Melodienplatte, Melodienband, oder Melodiencylinder	Oswald Rauner		Apr 16, 1889
DE61821	Bewegungsrichtung für mechanische Trompeten	Firma Ullmann & Engelmann		Jan 23, 1891	trumpet
DE83918	Blasinstrument mit Zungenstimmen und von einem durchlochtem Notenblatt Bethätigten Pumpenventilen	Karl Lux i. F.C.A Lux		Dec 25, 1894	trumpet
DE97261	Musikinstrument mit Zungenstimmen	Johann Bammes		Mar 2, 1897
DE101533	Mechanisch spielbares Blasinstrument	Gustav Kley		Mar 13, 1898
DE127921	Blasinstrument mit Zungenstimmen und Notenblatt oder Notenwalze	Leo Beutler		Apr 13, 1901
DE129190	Blasinstrument mit Zungenstimmen und durchlochtem Notenblatt	Maximilian Janka		Mar 17, 1901
DE150350	Blasinstrument mit selbstdrehender, vom Blaswind angetriebener Musikwalze	F. Ant. Hubbuch		Jul 28, 1903
DE154728	Mechanisches Blasinstrument	Henry Eberly Hibshman und Clarence James McCuaig		Jul 16, 1903
DE189729	Mechanische Mundharmonika mit Einrichtung zur Schrittweisen Fortschaltung des Notenbandes	Menzenhauer & Schmidt		Aug 26, 1906	Pistonet
DE227462	Mechanische Mundharmonika mit durchlochtem Notenblatt	Ottomar Meinel		Dec 22, 1909
DE403580	Mechanische Mundharmonika	Joseph Le Roy Banks und Clausen & Company		Nov 17, 1922
DE444999	Blasinstrument mit Stimmenzungen	Heinrich Maaß		Apr 17, 1925
DE502116	Mechanische Mundharmonika	Herbert George Beyer	Jun 26, 1930	Jul 11, 1930	Rolmonica
DE529926	Mechanische Mundharmonika	The Rolmonica Patents Company		June 6, 1928	Rolmonica
DE533553	Mechanische Mundharmonika	Firma Otto Hermann Böhm		Aug 17, 1928
DE544848	Mechanisch spielbare Mundharmonika	Karl Adolf Ludwig		Oct 3, 1928
FR333631	Perfectionnements aux instruments de musique	Henry Eberly Hibshman et Clarence James McCuaig		Jul 7, 1903
FR655427	Dispositif pour instruments à vent ou harmonicas permettant d'utiliser un rouleau de papier perforé	The Rolmonica Patents Company	Jun 6, 1928	Apr 18, 1929	Rolmonica
GB322678	Musical Instrument	Herbert George Beyer	Jan 18, 1929	Dec 12, 1929
GB444647	Automatic mouth-organs	Harry Pullen	Oct 12, 1934	Mar 25, 1936
GB658322	Improvements in musical toy	Cowan, De Groot, Ltd.	Aug 13, 1949	Oct 3, 1951	whistle

Tune Sheets, etc.

Number	Description	Inventor	Filed	Issued	Instrument/ Comment
DE29775	Neuerung an Notenblättern	Fabrik Leipziger Musikwerke vorm. Paul Ehrlich & Company		Apr 24, 1884
DE64005	Metallnotenblatt für Mechanische Musik-Werke	Berliner Musik-Instrumenten-Fabrik, Actien-Gesellschaft, vorm. Ch. F. Pietschmann & Söhne		Feb 16, 1892
DE69446	Metallnotenblatt für Mechanische Musikwerke	Berliner Musik-Instrumenten-Fabrik, Actien-Gesellschaft, vorm. Ch. F. Pietschmann & Söhne		Feb 16, 1892
DE70177	Metallnotenblatt für Mechanische Musikwerke	Berliner Musik-Instrumenten-Fabrik, Actien-Gesellschaft, vorm. Ch. F. Pietschmann & Söhne		Jan 8, 1893
DE78063	Auswechselbare Notenplatte für Walzen mit nach Schraubenlinien verlaufenden Notenreihen	Hermann Frenzel		Jan 30, 1894
DE86343	Notenblatt aus Pappe o. dgl. mit durch Metallblech verstärken Oeffnungen für die Transporträder	Otto Foehr		Aug 8, 1895
DE110784	Notenblattführung bei mechanischen Musikwerken	Bernhard Göppert und Julius Jacobi		Aug 1, 1899
DE143089	Notenblatträger für mechanischen Musikwerke	Friedrich Schübbe		Aug 20, 1902
GB189409446	Improvements in Perforated Tune Discs and Sheets for Mechanical Musical Instruments	Friedrich Adolf Richter	May 12, 1894	Jul 7, 1894
GB189414380	Improvements in and connected with Music Sheets for Mechanical Musical Instruments	Friedrich Adolf Richter	Jul 26, 1894	Sep 1, 1894
GB189409382	Improvements in Tune-sheets for Automatic Musioal Instruments	August Amthor	May 11, 1894	Jul 7, 1894
GB189505951	New or Improved Apparatus for Moving and Guiding in a Rectilinear and Positive Manner Long and Endless Music Sheets for Mechanical Musical Instruments	Friedrich Adolf Richter	Mar 21, 1895	Apr 27, 1895
GB189516000	Improvements in or connected with Music Sheets for Mechanical Musical Instruments	Friedrich Adolf Richter	Aug 26, 1895	Sep 28, 1895
GB189522823	Improvements in Music Sheets for Mechanical and other Musical Instruments	Oskar Paul Lochmann and The Fabrik Lochmann'scher Musikwerke Aktiengesellschaft	Nov 28, 1895	May 23, 1896	zither
GB189912863	Improvements in Perforating Machines, particularly Designed for Perforating Music Sheets for Automatic Musical Instruments	The Aeolian Company	Jun 20, 1899	Aug 19, 1899

Other Patents

A list of Keyboard Player Patents is also available.

Editors:

¹⁾ The date shown on an instrument was “Oct 28, 1878”, but this patent seems the likely intent.

²⁾ Patented in England Sep 6, 1878, in France Mar 10, 1878

³⁾ Patented in France Jul 19, 1852 No. 150197

⁴⁾ Patented in Germany Sep 24, 1883 No. 24074, Jan 30, 1884 No. 25745

⁵⁾ , ⁶⁾ , ⁷⁾ Patented in England May 14, 1884 No. 7708

⁸⁾ Patented in Germany Feb 23, 1883 No. 24405, and in Austria-Hungary Jun 14, 1883 Vol. 33 folio 1161, and Vol. 17 folio 1128

⁹⁾ Patented in England Jan 1, 1884 No. 19

¹⁰⁾ Patented in Belgium March 15, 1884 No. 64512, in France March 15, 1884 No. 160974, in England Mar 15, 1884 No. 4968, in Italy May 19, 1884, No. 16808/268, in Austria-Hungary Sep 21, 1884 No. 16788 and No. 42809, in Denmark Feb 10, 1885 No. 748

¹¹⁾ Patented in France Dec 11, 1884 No. 165870

¹²⁾ Patented in Germany Dec 24, 1884 No. 32391, June 16, 1885 No. 34254, in France Feb 9, 1885 No. 166911, in England May 30, 1885 No. 6585, in Belgium Aug 14, 1885 No. 69908, in Austria-Hungary Nov 12, 1885 XIX 2258, XXXV 2225

¹³⁾ Patented in England July 11, 1882 No. 3291

¹⁴⁾ Patented in France Feb 9, 1886 No. 174051, and in England Feb 10, 1880 No. 1971

¹⁵⁾ Patented in England Sep 17, 1885 No. 11052, in Belgium Feb 17, 1886, No. 53118, in Germany Feb 19, 1886 No. 8270, in France Feb 20, 1886 No. 161042, nd in Austria-Hungary June 24, 1886, No. 7,903

¹⁶⁾ Patented in England Sep 29, 1883 No. 4633

¹⁷⁾ Patented in England Sep 14, 1883 No. 4410

¹⁸⁾ Patented in Switzerland Dec 20, 1888 No. 402

¹⁹⁾ Patented in Austria-Hungary Aug 1, 1891 No. 36656, 61711, in England Aug 18, 1891 No. 13903, in France Aug 19, 1891 No. 202271

²⁰⁾ Patented in Germany Jun 21, 1893 No. 78501, in England Nov 3, 1893, No. 20889, in France Mar 1, 1894 No. 236656, in Austria Mar 2, 1894 No. 58758, in Hungary Mar 2, 1894 No. 90401

²¹⁾ Patented in Switzerland Jul 5, 1895 No. 10494

²²⁾ Henry B. Horton was the author of several Autophone patents.

²³⁾ Patented in Germany Aug 6, 1889 No. 51235, and Jan 23, 1890 No. 55710, in England Apr 17, 1890 No. 5862, and in Spain May 31, 1890 No. 10872

²⁴⁾ Patented in England Jun 4, 1884 No. 8564

²⁵⁾ Patented in England Apr 16, 1884 No. 6432

²⁶⁾ Patented in France Feb 25, 1885 No. 107277, and in England May 17, 1887 No. 7194

²⁷⁾ Patented in Germany Nov 8, 1892 No. 79765, in England May 29, 1893 No. 10518, in Austria-Hungary Aug 1, 1893 No. 22849, No. 38065

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