I have a collection of 49 images of pages of what must be most if not
all of Harry Chamberlin's patents. I believe I downloaded these from the
USPTO based a search started from that one patent that is readable from
optigan.com. The drawings of the rewind mechanism of the M series are
included here, along the earlier Musicmaster machines that formed the
heritage of the Mellotron Mark I/II. They are quite fascinating as are
the descriptions of the various mechanisms. I've had these for a while
and they deserve to be seen by anyone who is interested. I guess I
always intended to upgrade my Mellotrons and Chamberlins Web site and
put these there, but that's just not happened.
I would be glad to make these available to anyone who wants to host them
on their Web site. A second, less desireable option, would be the yahoo
file area, but this limits the audience to just members of this list.
There are something around a megabyte's worth of files. They are all in
'png' format which is not the most common, but most browsers these days
can handle them. They would need sorting and indexing by era or machine
type.
On a personal note, I would like to say that I'm am quite pleased to see
the interest in the Chamberlin machines here lately. I believe Mellotron
fanatics everywhere owe a huge debt to Mr. Chamblerlin and these patents
help to demonstrate that.
Bob S.
J.K.Beresford wrote:
>There's a chamby patents listed here but I can only get one link to work
>properly. Can anyone else? I think the final version of the M1 etc was more
>refined than suggested here. Interesting site if you want to know about and hear
>optigans/orchestrons.
>www.optigan.com/archives.html
>John
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