the a u t o m a t ic a g e
Vol.
CHICAGO, A P R IL , 1927
No. 9
development of
Automatic Phonograph
N ext Coin Machine
,
new Automatic V ictor Ortho-
^ °n ic phonograph machine, so far
We are able to learn, is not coin-
J^trolled.
But the follow ing de-
^ option will be o f interest to both
^ t o r s and manufacturers.
Experiments extending over five
^ ai’s and a steady development that
®£an with an electrical process fo r
cording sound have resulted in the
^oduction o f a machine by the Vic-
1 Talking Machine Company labor-
ories that will play fo r an hour,
j e machine automatically feeds
e^Ve records to the revolving disk
0rtl a magazine, with stops between
r ^0l'd.s o f less than half a minute,
/ e more than the normal stops be-
®en the movements o f a symphony,
the machine makes is possible to
into the magazine the records o f
entire symphony, or an assorted
°£i'am o f dance records, or the
0l’e important selections o f an
and listen to them all without
fv ,® necessity o f
changing records.
e machine stops after the last
ecord.
The new machine is called the
Co . at^c Orthophonic Victrola. It
y ^ b in es the automatic features with
^
tone-reproducing qualities o f
w.® orthophonic
machine, which
So
increased the range o f tone
nds and eliminated many limiting
’jij^tures o f the first talking machine,
m ® sevei*al operations which take a
th ^l'°m the turntable, deposit it in
6 magazine and replace it with a
^ disk are performed by a system
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o f cams, which are so simple that
there is said to be no more chance of
anything getting out o f order than
there was in the old-fashioned ma
chine.
Any twelve records can be selected
to be placed on the magazine spindle,
which is then pushed forward until
it irests at an angle o f sixty degrees
above and to the left o f the turn
table. The electric m otor is started
by the usual stalling switch at the
side o f the turntable, and then the
machine is started by pushing what
is called the reject button. This
causes the record lift ring, a sort o f
mechanical hand, to move up and
take a record from the magazine
spindle and place it on the turntable.
Another cam then swings the sound
box foward and drops the needle in
a slot, which permits it to slip into
an eccentric groove, which has been
placed on all V ictor records fo r the
last tw o years, and which moves the
sound box ann back and forth. This
sets another cam moving which
causes the record lift ring to lift the
record from the turntable and dump
it into a magazine fo r the discards.
Another record is then put on and
the sound box moves back to the
playing position.
I f assorted records without neces
sary sequence are placed on the mag
azine spindle, and it is desired to dis
card one o f them after it starts, the
x-eject is lifted off, dropped into the
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