I offer a collection of 110 patents of Melville Clark or his companies Melville Clark Piano Co., Apollo Piano Co. and Story & Clark Piano Co., published between 1897 and 1940. Most of the patents are from USA or Great Britain (all in english), 4 patents are from France, Switzerland (in french) and Germany (in german).
They are busy with various piano technique, like automatic piano, upright piano, organ, transposing device/variation-register for automatic musical instruments, interior-player piano, note-sheet terminal and a lot more.
All patents are complete, that means contain the full text and all drawings (see example). You will get a professional overview about the inventions of Melville and the technical developments of the piano companies which you find nowhere in the world in this good quality / completeness.
Delivery is as a zipped file with a patent collection of pdf files (not printed, not a book). You need only the wellknown free programme Acrobat Reader or a similar one to open the files. You can also print each file.
Copyright of the patent collection has only the seller!
Shipping:
You can download this patent collection after payment. I will send a link for downloading a zip-File of about 55 MB with the patent collection. After downloading please unzip the file. Then you will get a data directory with the pdf - patent files.
I will send the link for downloading not later than one day after payment via the ebay message system (please see your news at "My ebay"). Then you have 10 days time to download your patent collection of historical patents.