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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:
May. 17, 1994
Filed:
Jan. 15, 1993
Applicant:
Inventor:
John T Riboloff, Antioch, TN (US);
Assignee:
Gibson Guitar Corp., Nashville, TN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
84728 ; 84742 ;
Abstract
A switching system for an electric guitar using bridge and fingerboard humbucker pickups and an intermediate pickup provides for ready selection of distinct groups of Gibson tonalities and Fender tonalities. A four pole, five position switch for tone selection provides one-of-ten tonality selection in conjunction with a dual pole, double throw switch.