Invention Grant
- Patent Title: One-piece valve cluster for brass instruments
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Application No.: US16353971Application Date: 2019-03-14
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Publication No.: US10600393B2Publication Date: 2020-03-24
- Inventor: Michael James Poulin
- Applicant: Michael James Poulin
- Main IPC: G01D9/04
- IPC: G01D9/04 ; G10D9/04

Abstract:
A one-piece valve cluster for brass instruments that facilitates ease-of-maintenance and ease-of-repair includes an upper housing, a lower housing, a plurality of first bisected-casings, a plurality of second bisected-casings, a plurality of first bisected-ports, and plurality of second bisected-ports. The plurality of first bisected-casings and the plurality of first bisected-ports are fashioned into a first-milling face of the upper housing. Similarly, the plurality of second bisected-casings and the plurality of second bisected-ports are fashioned into a second-milling face of the lower housing. The upper housing is mounted to the lower housing to create a single piece valve cluster that can easily installed on the instrument. More specifically, the first-milling face is positioned coincident to the second-milling face. Once mounted, each first bisected-casing is positioned concentric to a corresponding second bisected-casing to form a single cylindrical casing for housing a rotor plug.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190287498A1 One-Piece Valve Cluster for Brass Instruments Public/Granted day:2019-09-19
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