Abstract: A loudspeaker system comprising an enclosure having first and second sidewalls, at least one of which is inclined to the vertical direction and at least one acoustic transducer adjacent each of the aforesaid sidewalls.

Abstract: A loudspeaker system providing multi-directional sound distribution throughout all listening areas of a room. The system includes a housing with at least four high frequency loudspeakers arranged symmetrically about the center of the front section. High frequency sound is beamed from the loudspeakers at pre-determined angle toward the walls, floor, and ceiling of a room in order to optimize sound dispersion throughout the room. Each inclined panel is pivotally mounted to the housing and the housing includes an adjustment means for varying the incline of the panel. The loudspeaker system can thus be adjusted to disperse sound in a desired pattern which is selected depending on the shape of the room. The room may thus be fully saturated with high frequency sound which is normally directional in nature.

Abstract: This invention relates to a cabinet for audio reproduction speakers of the type which have a movable speaker cone mounted within a fixed speaker frame. The cabinet includes a plurality of external cabinet members juxtaposed to form a substantially rectangular cabinet having a rectangular void therein together with front and rear openings. Each of the external cabinet members is formed from a thin and acoustically stiff material for moving in a vibratile mode when energized. End sections of adjacent ones of the external cabinet members define therebetween isolation slots for permitting the independent vibratile mode of each of the external cabinet members. Nodal couplers span the isolation slots for transmitting vibratile energy between adjacent external cabinet members.

Abstract: A speaker system comprising a speaker cabinet having a forward baffle plate, two side plates and a rear plate, a passive diaphragm, a speaker mounted in the baffle plate of the speaker cabinet, an opening disposed in the baffle plate next to the speaker as an outlet for the sound radiated from the passive diaphragm, a dividing plate slantedly disposed between the baffle plate and the rear plate of the speaker cabinet, the dividing plate dividing the speaker cabinet into a first part including the speaker and a second part including the opening, the passive diaphragm being mounted in the dividing plate.

Abstract: A speaker structure comprising a tetrahedronal shell having an upper end and an equilateral triangular base with equisized triangular walls and with the margins of the adjacent walls and base being secured together and wherein one of the walls includes a pattern of port openings and these openings are arranged about a central opening spanned by a speaker which is fixed thereabout.

Abstract: A loudspeaker having precise imaging, neutrality of frequency response, and controlled mid-range and tweeter dispersion. The loudspeaker incorporates an open cell, reticulated polyurethane cartridge for placement of a supertweeter mounted in the loudspeaker at an angle of 45.degree. from other speaker axes. The housing therefore may be positioned so as to adjust the high frequency acoustic radiation to the right or the left of the loudspeaker frontal axis, thus making a mirror image pair of the loudspeakers possible. In addition, angled corner posts are arranged at the front corners of the loudspeaker in order to reflect back into the loudspeaker mid-range and high frequency sounds that strike the posts.

Abstract: A loudspeaker having a magnet housing and mounting flange is mounted within an enclosure including an inner member of corrugated fiberboard cut at angles to the corrugations thereof to define hingedly interconnected panels foldable to form a generally prismoidal housing with a speaker opening in one wall and with support panels extending from the bottom of the housing and recessed to receive the speaker magnet housing therein to support same. The walls of the corrugated housing are held in assembled configuration by interlocking tabs and slots and interlocking tongues and recesses, and the speaker mounting flange overlies the outer surface of the one wall and is trapped thereagainst by a face panel of corrugated fiberboard.

Abstract: A triaxial or four-dimensional radiant energy transducer system is embodied in an omniphonic microphone and loudspeaker system as it relates to the sound spectrum. This is a system which is capable of detecting the location and direction of a source of sound and, conversely, is capable of re-presenting the location and direction of that source of sound.

Abstract: A loudspeaker has a rectangular casing providing a frontal wall in which are mounted a plurality of speaker mechanisms responding to differing frequency ranges. The high frequency speaker is oriented so that the axis of radiation is inclined upwardly and to one side of the normal to the front wall. In the preferred embodiments a lower frequency speaker, such as a low and midfrequency speaker, is similarly oriented but to a slightly lesser angle of inclination. The front wall has a conically concave portion the axis of which is similarly inclined, to accommodate the lower frequency speaker, and the high frequency speaker is mounted on the conical wall portion. Some embodiments also have a separate low frequency speaker. Two such speakers are located, widely spaced laterally from each other, adjacent the wall of a room with the left hand speaker radiating to the right and the right one radiating to the left.

Abstract: An audio speaker system designed to achieve multidirectional sound characteristics which includes an enclosure body having a base, front wall, two angled, forward sound directing side walls, at least one angled, inclined rear wall and a top wall which slopes downward from the rear wall to the front wall. At least one acoustic speaker is affixed to the top wall and to each of the front, side and rear walls of the enclosure body.

Abstract: A speaker is enclosed in furniture cabinets consisting of three units. The base cabinet, supported on legs, is a rectangular parallelepiped and accommodates a full range speaker. The top cabinet is pyramidal and accommodates a tweeter at one of its sides. An intermediate cabinet of smaller dimensions than either the base or top cabinets is interposed between the two and opens into both and accommodates a tweeter control.

Abstract: Four speakers, each having a small thickness, are arranged so as to form a cubic arrangement. The four speakers form the four side surfaces of the cubic arrangement, with each of two diametrically opposed speakers extending at an acute angle relative to a vertical plane perpendicular to the other two speakers. A top panel connects the top edge surfaces of the speakers and has thereon means for attaching the system to a ceiling, or the like. In a modification of the invention, the speaker system is surrounded by a decorative housing having a top and bottom circular surface connected by four decorative posts. The four posts lie adjacent to the four corner edges of the cubic configuration. A grill cloth surrounds the front faces of the speakers for decorative and acoustical functions.

Abstract: A loudspeaker arrangement for radiating sound signals in an improved acoustical dispersion pattern includes mounting a plurality of speakers on a loudspeaker enclosure having a vertical axis. The speakers radiate sound signals in at least four directions normally to the vertical axis in the circumambient region of the enclosure, and at least one of the speakers is mounted in an upper region of the loudspeaker enclosure and radiates sound signals having at least a sound signal component in the vertical direction so that the high-frequency signal response above the enclosure is improved.

Abstract: A loudspeaker combination comprises a rectangular casing having mounted on its top wall a midfrequency speaker and two or more high frequency speaker devices. The midfrequency speaker is oriented generally upwardly with an angle of declination of less than 45.degree. from the vertical. The high frequency speakers are oriented generally horizontally, with a slightly upward inclination. The axis of the midfrequency speaker and of at least one of the high frequency speakers are slanted sideways in the same general direction. This latter speaker or speakers radiates at least substantially one-half of the total high frequency sound energy of the loudspeaker combination. The remaining high frequency speaker or speakers radiate in different directions, preferably toward an adjacent wall or walls. In one embodiment the midfrequency speaker device also radiates low frequency sound; in another, a separate low frequency speaker device is provided.

Abstract: This invention relates to a system for masking conversation in an open plan office. A conventional generator of electrical random noise currents feeds its output through adjustable electric filter means to speaker clusters in a plenum above the office space. Each cluster has two speakers in a trigonal prism-shaped cabinet, symmetrically disposed about an axis of symmetry, oriented to be vertical. The speaker arrangement is such that, throughout the open plan office area, including below speaker clusters, the background sound energy level horizontally in the open plan office space has a generally constant value except for a modification which provides for a quiet region below a cluster. By proper spacing of clusters horizontally along the plenum region, transmission of background masking sound through an acoustic ceiling throughout an open plan office space, conversation in one region of the office cannot be distinguished at a distance of the order of about 15 feet or more.