Patents Assigned to D. H. Baldwin Company
  • Patent number: 4006658
    Abstract: The present system is a capture action system for electronically recording stop tab configurations in an electric organ, and for recalling the stop tab configurations at will, by depressing of a single control piston for each desired configuration of stop tabs. The system includes provision for setting and recalling combinations of stop tabs associated with a single division of the organ, for example, the swell manual, but not affecting tabs in other divisions, and also includes provision for recording and recalling combinations of all tabs on the organ (general stop) without regard to division. The system further includes a divisional or general cancel function, for operated tab switches, resetting these to inoperative position, and reversible stop functions in which a control piston when actuated reverses the position of its associated stop tab, the reversible stops retaining their abilities to function within the divisional and general combinations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 1976
    Date of Patent: February 8, 1977
    Assignee: D. H. Baldwin Company
    Inventors: Joseph L. Kappes, Walter Munch, Jr., Dale M. Uetrecht
  • Patent number: 3999149
    Abstract: A modulator for modulating an audio signal in response to a dc signal of adjustable level and concurrently in response to a sub-audio signal, in which the modulating signals do not appear in the output of the modulator nor intermodulate each other, the system including transistor pairs which respond differentially at the bases to the modulating signal and additively to the audio signal in response to application of the audio signal at the emitters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 1975
    Date of Patent: December 21, 1976
    Assignee: D. H. Baldwin Company
    Inventor: Dale M. Uetrecht
  • Patent number: 3971283
    Abstract: An electronic Zimbelstern system in which a sequential counter actuates a set of self-damping circuits in a predetermined repeating sequence, the self-damping circuits each enabling a different set of sinusoidal tone sources in such relative amplitudes and with such relative rise and decay envelopes as to simulate the sounds of sequentially sounding bells of diverse fundamental frequencies when electro-acoustically reproduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 1974
    Date of Patent: July 27, 1976
    Assignee: D. H. Baldwin Company
    Inventor: William C. Wayne, Jr.
  • Patent number: 3971672
    Abstract: A photovoltaic system in which strips of active photovoltaic cells are coated on one side of a sheet of glass, the glass being illuminated by the sun from the other side of the sheet and the strips being separated by inactive areas devoted to electrodes, in which light diffusing areas are provided on said other side of the sheet of glass in superposition of the inactive areas in order to refract sunlight which would otherwise fall wholly on the inactive areas, on large part to the active areas of the cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 1975
    Date of Patent: July 27, 1976
    Assignee: D. H. Baldwin Company
    Inventor: Curtis M. Lampkin
  • Patent number: 3959565
    Abstract: A sheet of glass coated with SnO.sub.x by intermittent spraying of a mixture of materials in non-aqueous solution and in an oxidizing atmosphere, while maintaining the glass at a fixed temperature by supporting the glass in molten liquid at a controlled temperature, the spraying being conducted in successive passes involving small amounts of spray per pass, and the sheet of glass moving continuously along a pool of the molten liquid during the spraying process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 1974
    Date of Patent: May 25, 1976
    Assignee: D. H. Baldwin Company
    Inventors: John F. Jordan, Curtis M. Lampkin
  • Patent number: 3940635
    Abstract: A Zimbelstern system or sequential bell ringing system in which a sequential counter actuates a set of self-damping circuits in a predetermined repeating sequence, the self-damping circuits each enabling a different set of sinusoidal tone sources in such relative amplitudes and with such relative rise and decay envelopes as to simulate the sounds of sequentially sounding bells when electro-acoustically reproduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 1974
    Date of Patent: February 24, 1976
    Assignee: D. H. Baldwin Company
    Inventor: Albert Meyer
  • Patent number: 3930430
    Abstract: An electrical organ in which each of the keys of the organ is mechanically coupled to one single pole single throw electrical switch, and a plurality of said switches are each connected to a plurality of photoelectric tone sources through pulse shaping keying circuits, the keying circuits connected to each key switch being connected in a cascade circuit with the direct current potential source and the photocell of one of the tone sources, the other tone sources having photocells connected to the junctions of keying circuits in said cascade circuit. The tone circuits actuated by a given key of the organ may be at the same frequency or may comprise a chiff tone component or a noise-puff component, or may include a special decay circuit which activates a photocell modulated at a different pitch from the main-tone component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 1974
    Date of Patent: January 6, 1976
    Assignee: D. H. Baldwin Company
    Inventors: Edward M. Jones, William C. Wayne, Jr.
  • Patent number: RE29144
    Abstract: The present system provides an automatic chord accompaniment and/or an automatic rhythm system, actuation of only one left hand operated key producing proper distribution of root, third, fifth and seventh parts of a chord and root and fifth parts of a bass line. The bass and/or chord notes may be automatically rhythmically pulsed or selectively converted to a continuous mode, while the chord notes may be rhythmically pulsed to simultaneously sound different accompaniment instruments, such as guitar, piano, banjo, etc., at different rhythmic intervals, a touch bar being provided to select a minor chord when desired. A set of musical key selector buttons is provided which automatically provides seventh chords in correct positions for a given key selection. One or more accompaniment instruments may play different rhythmic sequences when seventh chords are sounded, while actuation of two or more keys, simultaneously, defeats the chord and bass accompaniment. .Iadd.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 1976
    Date of Patent: March 1, 1977
    Assignee: D. H. Baldwin Company
    Inventor: David A. Bunger