Abstract: A wall panelling for altering the acoustic properties of a wall, comprising wall elements adapted to have their orientation altered with respect to the wall. The wall panelling comprises a plurality of hinged frames mounted on the wall panelling or the wall itself and adapted to be swung away from the wall panelling or wall, respectively. The frames contain wall elements mounted therein for rotation by 180.degree. with respect to the associated frame. The front and rear faces of the wall elements have different acoustic absorption or reflection properties.

Abstract: An acoustic tile that provides soundproofing in a modular wall, such as is used in a modular panel office system, comprises a rigid rectangular metallic frame, a septum formed of a calcium carbonate-filled molded synthetic rubber polymer, a layer of low-density fiberglass and a layer of high-density fiberglass. The front of the frame is covered by fabric, and the back of the frame has fittings to attach the acoustic tile to a wall panel.

Abstract: An acoustic sound-masking system carried in a core module provides conversational privacy for workers in an open-plan office space. The core module is movable to a desired location on the open floor and has at least three substantially like height side-panel portions providing a movable tubular enclosure. This module has a top member configured to provide a closure of the top end of the tubular enclosure and at least one through aperture is formed and in which is mounted a loudspeaker. This loudspeaker is adapted to produce sound and direct this sound upwardly and outwardly. Each loudspeaker is mounted so as to not protrude excessively above the top surface of the top member. At least one divider is attached or has one end substantially contiguous to the tubular enclosure. A plurality of desks or work areas is arrayed between the dividers, with a pair of desks or work areas between each divider.

Abstract: A multi-tubular acoustic absorber panel system suited particularly for use in open office environments or workspaces with unwanted echoes, excessive noise, or the need for enhanced acoustic privacy. The basic components of the system are a series of sound absorbent tubular members and a structure for holding the members in an array, creating a baffle which can be attached to wall or ceiling surfaces or, in the preferred embodiment, to a manufactured office partition. When installed, the system creates a lightweight, adaptable, highly absorbent enclosure, capable of significant reduction in unwanted noise and increase in acoustic privacy.

Abstract: A gangway bellows is used as a cross-over shelter between two vehicles which are flexibly connected to each other. The sidewalls of the gangway bellows have a double-wall design. Each internal wall is constructed as a curtain, which is suspended at its upper end from the roof of the gangway bellows and ends with its lower end immediately above a crossover unit, between the vehicle sections, having a turntable. The inner walls cover the track groove and, between themselves and the side walls of the gangway bellows, form chambers in which service facilities can be accommodated. Each curtain is folded preferably to correspond to the gangway bellows. Support elements may be interposed between each curtain and the respective side wall of the bellows.

Abstract: A portable acoustic absorber system which can be used in particular in open office environments or in large spaces with unwanted echoes or excessive noise. The device operates by supporting and arraying panels of efficient sound absorbing materials in a helical configuration in which a majority of the surface area of those panels is exposed. During shipping, or when the device is not in use, it can be reconfigured into a closed position, which occupies much less space.

Abstract: A movable, prefabricated wall panel having a rigid rectangular frame. A core structure is disposed in the region bounded by the frame, which core structure preferably comprises at least one honeycomb layer. Sheetlike skins are fixedly secured to opposite sides of the frame and extends across the region bounded by the frame for confining the honeycomb layer therebetween. A plurality of small openings are formed in either or both of the skins so that they communicate with cells of the honeycomb layer to create Helmholtz sound-absorbing chambers. Each sheetlike skin is covered by a layer of porous fiberglass material for absorbing sound, which layer includes an inner thin mat of high-density fiberglass which is in turn covered by a relatively thick outer layer of low-density fiberglass. This outer layer has a variable density gradient across the thickness thereof, which density gradient progressively increases across the thickness toward the mat.

Abstract: A sound attenuating partition or door construction which includes outside rigid panels having significantly different thicknesses, a void being left between the panels, a sheet characterized as a limp mass loosely hung within the void, and grooves cut into an inner surface of at least one of the outside panels in order that the void serves as a sound absorbing anechoic chamber.

Abstract: In order to hold at a minimum the noise emission of the winding gear in a winding unit of a spinning machine for the processing of endless filaments, the winding unit is provided with a noise protection door which is pivotingly translatable from an initial or idle position at the side of the winding unit into an operating position in front of the winding unit. The noise protection door comprises a guide portion which is supported or guided by means of rolls and guide pins and a noise protection portion pivotally supported on the guide portion by means of pivot pins. The guide pins forming part of the guide portion and the guide pins forming part of the noise protection portion project into two guide grooves arranged in mirror-image fashion, one of which is provided in a floor plate and the other in a cover of the winding unit. Thus the guide portion is guided in a straight line and the noise protection portion is pivotally guided.

Abstract: A portable acoustical shield and sound enhancing enclosure including vertical lower panel sections connected to each other by removable Velcro.RTM. hinges to form a shield or enclosure of a desired configuration. Upper panel sections are secured to the lower panel sections at any desired angle by removable padded clamps. The acoustical shield and sound enhancing enclosure is located between a musician and his audience for reducing the stage front volume of instruments and for maximizing sound separation and clarity.

Abstract: An acoustical shield assembly for an industrial sewing machine includes a plurality of shield components readily movable from operating sound attenuating positions to open positions permitting easy access to a sewing machine. The assembly preferably includes front and face shields pivotally mounted in overlapping relationship. A lower side shield is positionable beneath a sewing plate of a sewing machine and movable to an overlapping relationship with the front shield. A tubular shield is pivotally mounted above and to the rear of the sewing plate. Acoustical material is mounted in top of the tubular shield to dissipate machine generated noise. The assembly may also include a rear shield for partially enclosing the rear and one side of the sewing machine. The rear shield preferably has a top face cooperating in spaced relationship with a top face of the front shield, but defining an opening for passage of thread and the dissipation of heat.

Abstract: A portable, free-standing sight and sound barrier comprises a covered core of a lightweight, resilient foam. The core is flexible because it has alternating wall and hinge portions. The hinge portions are thinner parts of the core, generally being between about 3/8-1/2 inch thick. Suitable core materials are polyethylenes, polystyrenes, urethanes, or mosaic composites of these foams. Suitable coverings are fabrics, foils, paper, or paints, depending on the particular use contemplated for the barrier.

Abstract: A readily removable and replaceable acoustical pad for an interior space dividing system of the type having horizontal and vertical frames forming generally rectangular pad receiving windows with the upper horizontal frame member of each window having a depending flange or flanges forming a tongue, each pad having an upwardly opening central groove along the top edge adapted to mate with the tongue whereby the pad may be inserted in the window by first mating the groove with the tongue and then pivoting the pad to a vertical position into a snug fit in the window. The pad is preferably foam and fabric covered to deform along the bottom, vertical and groove spaced top edges to obtain the snug fit, and includes a frame, the upper element of which forms a V-shape groove. A metal septum is centrally positioned in the frame with fiberglass pads on each side, within the frame. Options include one half size foam covers with tack boards either directly fabric covered or with a one quarter size foam cover option.

Abstract: An acoustical system for damping and absorption of sound in rooms to provide a sound damping even at very low frequencies, e.g. 50 Hz, and simultaneously improve speech comprehension in the entire room by reduction of the resonance time. The acoustic absorption can be varied to vary the resonance time over the entire part of the frequency area. The sound absorbents 14 in the form of plates, mats or similar constructions, are arranged at an angle in at least one corner area 11 formed by the walls 12 and ceiling 13 of the room. In the corner area 11 behind the absorbent 14, an air volume is trapped so that the absorbent due to the sound influence has a membrane effect. The inclination and position of each absorbent 14 can be varied individually or in groups.

Abstract: A pair of sound shielding and pick-up devices to be placed on both sides of a musician facing his audience including plastic sheet sandwiches with sound deadening space between and transducers located at various points on the sheets which are angled concavely toward the musician.

Abstract: An adjustable light and air-admitting thermal and acoustic barrier has a plurality of sound-attenuating blades pivotally mounted in a frame in a mutually spaced, parallel relationship. When the barrier is mounted at an open window, the blades may be adjusted to various open positions to allow desired amounts of outside light and air into a room, but cooperate in such open positions to form an effective sound trap for annoying outside sounds. Each of the blades functions as both a sound absorber and a sound transmission barrier, and comprises an elongated, relatively thin core of solid, sound-reflective material having longitudinally extending edge and intermediate flanges which define cavities on opposite sides of the core. Secured within the cavities by the flanges are strips of sound-absorbing insulating material, the core and insulating material being laterally enfolded by a cover secured to the flanges.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a noise shield including a massive shield wall and an attachable absorbent unit on the shield wall. Thus the noise shield can be used with the absorbent unit along the parts of the road where you do not want reflections of the noise which you want to reduce and without absorbent unit along the parts of the road where you just want a reduction of the noise.The noise shield is constructed of posts, which are anchored in the ground. Between these posts are mounted support beams. The shield wall consists of shield modules. Each shield module consists of a plank panel, which is mounted on a frame, the plank panel functioning to reduce noise. Furthermore, into the cavity of each shield module; an absorbent unit can be inserted therein, which includes a frame and a panel. A noise shield can be constructed along a part of a road by anchoring the posts in the ground, mounting the support beams thereon and placing the prefabricated shield modules between these posts and support beams.

Abstract: A flexible acoustical wall covering, method of making same, and wall panel employing same are provided wherein such wall covering is comprised of a laminated construction comprised of a substrate and an outer layer bonded against the substrate with the outer layer having a roughened outside surface defined by projections and indentations which serve as miniature sound baffles and a plurality of spaced openings in and disposed perpendicularly through the laminated construction which allow sound waves to pass therethrough with a fluid impervious film sealing the openings and enabling the wall covering to be used as a fluid impervious covering yet with the film allowing substantially unobstructed passage of the sound waves therethrough.

Abstract: A floor-standing acoustic space divider has an upward and outward protuberance along the top edge of at least one of its sides. The protuberance increases the acoustic shadow of the space divider, reflects direct sound back into the area from which it originates, improves speech privacy in open plan architectural space and improves noise reduction in its immediate locale.

Abstract: Two acoustical wall panels are secured together back-to-back to form an acoustical wall baffle installable perpendicularly to a wall of an office space in abutting relationship to the wall, ceiling, and floor. Each of the wall panels includes a fibrous glass board mounted in an extruded aluminum frame and covered on the front and edges with a decorative fabric. Each frame includes a rear mounting foot strip for spacing a wall panel from a wall and enabling the wall panel to be hung by the top frame member on concealed brackets, and a rear groove for anchoring the fabric covering by a rubber or plastic cord. The two wall panels are clipped together at the mounting foot strips of the frames by generally U-shaped metal or plastic strips. On the exposed vertical front edge of the wall baffle, a decorative trim strip is inserted between the two wall panels at the fabric anchoring grooves. The wall baffles are mounted by sliding them onto T-shaped mounting strips adhered to the ceiling and floor.

Abstract: An improved space divider is disclosed. The divider comprises two half-panels which are joined together and supported to being free-standing. A specific construction is also disclosed which has excellent acoustic properties together with a good fire rating.

Abstract: A ceiling baffle includes a glass cloth faced fibrous glass board, grooved and folded to provide a double thickness of board. End caps for the folded board are each provided with blade portions extending between the two thicknesses of board and with a hole in an upper wall portion for receiving a barb portion of a suspension clip attachable to an inverted T-bar of a ceiling grid system for mounting ceiling panels.

Abstract: A fibrous glass board is longitudinally grooved on one side adjacent the center for folding. The folded board is provided with a pair of plastic end caps respectively on opposite ends. The exposed surfaces of the folded board are provided with a decorative facing material, preferably glass cloth. Means are provided for suspending the completed baffle by the end caps from a gridwork of inverted T-bars.

Abstract: Sound insulating units and sound barriers made therefrom include at least one flexible sheet having a surface density of at least 2.0 Kg/cm.sup.2. Such sheets are capable of being connected to form an efficient sound barrier.

Abstract: A sound attenuating laminate exhibiting a relatively low change in acoustic resistance with respect to particle velocity is disclosed. The laminate includes a gas permeable mat of randomly arranged, small diameter filaments interleaved between two layers of resin impregnated, open weave web or cloth. A predetermined pattern of adhesive applied to the filamentous mat penetrates the mat to bond the laminate into an integral structure. The laminate can be easily fabricated to form sound attenuating panels having a variety of contours by curing the composite within a mold.

Abstract: A cover for suppressing sound from a machine includes a pair of cover members having sound suppressing material thereon and connected to and supported by a pair of oppositely-disposed brackets mounted on the base of the machine. The cover members may be positioned in a horizontal plane in a closed position at least partially over the machine, and at least one of the cover members is pivotally connected to the brackets to move to an upstanding disposition in an open position. Stop members limit the movement of the pivotally mounted cover member between its open position and its closed position.

Abstract: A lightweight sound absorbing panel is disclosed. The panel comprises front and rear faces mounted to a supporting frame and having a core therebetween. The core is at least partially free airspace throughout a substantial portion of the area of the panel whereby weight reduction and increased sound absorption are obtained.

Abstract: A sound insulating panel having improved sound absorption properties. Known sound insulating panels are of sandwich-type construction, requiring several manufacturing steps which are both time-consuming and expensive. Additionally, partitions can be formed from panels according to the present invention which require neither special skills nor additional tools when erecting or dismantling the partitions. According to the present invention, there is provided an improved sound insulating panel having a pair of opposed major surfaces extending between a pair of opposite vertical edges. One of a pair of complementary tapes are mounted on at least one of the vertical edges of the panel. The tape is adapted to releasably engage a second complementary tape located on a second structure, such that the two tapes form a sound absorbing connection between the panel and second structure.