Patents by Inventor Joseph L. Kappes

Joseph L. Kappes has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 4279187
    Abstract: An arpeggio system, utilizing bipolar digital logic devices in all control and sequencing functions, generates a variety of arpeggio and strum note patterns. A key operated switch enables a NOR logic note gate, or a series of octavely related note gates, and activates a system clock which causes a pulse to be transmitted along a chain of shift registers, one of which corresponds to each note of the organ. If a given note gate has been enabled when its corresponding shift register is pulsed, the note gate is triggered. When a note gate is triggered, the system clock pauses for a preselected interval allowing the signal from a corresponding tone generator to be sounded through an appropriate system of filters and amplifiers. The system clock can cause the shift registers to scan in the up, down, or up and then down directions. An octave priming device can permit the sounding of notes in higher octaves which correspond to notes actually played.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 1980
    Date of Patent: July 21, 1981
    Assignee: Baldwin Piano & Organ Company
    Inventor: Joseph L. Kappes
  • 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