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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 09, 1985
Filed:
Mar. 01, 1983
Applicant:
Inventor:
Jerry McKibben, Seneca, SC (US);
Assignee:
Coats & Clark, Inc., Seneca, SC (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
84216 ; 84234 ; 8429 / ; 84453 ;
Abstract
A plastic damper for attachment to a vibrating piano wire, the damper consisting of a single piece part having an end slot for turning by a screwdriver, and communicating peripheral slits for receiving the piano wire. One end of each peripheral slit has a slightly greater width than the rest of the slit, so that the piano wire can be inserted through this end of the slit, and locked against the damper by rotating it with a screwdriver, so that the relatively narrow major part of the slit 'twist-locks' against the wire; the slight resiliency of the plastic facilitating the 'twist-lock' action.