Patents by Inventor Walter Munch, Jr.

Walter Munch, Jr. 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: 4058042
    Abstract: A transposing electronic instrument wherein the clock frequency applied to control a top octave frequency generator is derived by comparing any single output of the generator with the response of a frequency reference circuit to that output, deriving a dc voltage representative of the difference in frequency of the input and output of the reference circuit and controlling the clock frequency from the dc voltage, thereby transposing all the outputs of the top octave frequency generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 1975
    Date of Patent: November 15, 1977
    Assignee: D. H. Baldwin Company
    Inventors: David R. Wade, Walter Munch, Jr.
  • 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