Automatic Age

Issue: 1927 April

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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T he A
u t o m a t ic
A
ge
Another Stiff Sentence Seeburg Meets
for Vending Thief
Prince W illie
Robert
Danz, 28, o f 416 Third
street, Albany, N. Y., accused o f
stealing1 tw o gum-vending machines
and $15 in money from the store o f
Stephen Fusach at Watervliet, N. Y.,
last December, pleaded guilty to
charges o f second degree grand lar­
ceny and third degree burglary in
A lbany County Court a few days ago
before Judge Earl H. Gallup, and
was immediately sentenced to 15
years in Clinto Prison, the lightest
sentense which could have been im­
posed on the man, a second offender,
but the heaviest yet meted out in
Albany County since the Baumes law
regulating prison sentences went into
effect.
Under the Baumes law, Danz
might have been sentenced to as
much as thirty years, as a second
offender, he having been convicted
before o f burglary and grand lar­
ceny. John Thomas, 26, o f 594
Third street, Albany, and John E.
Gray, also o f Albany, arrested with
Danz, were given suspended sen­
tences.
Photo Machine to
Enlarge Activities
New York, Mar. 27.— Henry M or-
genthau, form er ambassador to Tui’-
key, and a group o f business asso­
ciates announced today that they had
purchased the control o f the photo­
maton— a quarter-in-the-slot auto­
matic photographing device.
The deal was closed when a check
fo r $1,000,000 was handed to Anatol
Josepho, the inventor, a young Rus­
sian, who has been in this city fo r
three years. The value placed on the
invention was not stated. The mil­
lion was paid only fo r the inventor’s
interest in Photomaton, Inc.
Mr. Morgenthau announced that it
was his intention to open 220 studios
at strategic points throughout the
United States within two years.
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J. P. SEEBU RG , p r e s id e n t o f &
J. P. Seeburg Piano Company*
Chicago, interrupted his winter v»c
tion in Florida to return to this
and greet Prince William o f
'
big game hunter and e x p lo re r, ^
is visiting America and deliver1^
some lectures fo r the ed ifica tion
naturalists and scientists. Mr.
burg is one o f the few A m e rica n c! ,
zens who are numbered as persOP**!
friends o f the royal visitor.
N. Marshall Seeburg, treasure
the J. P. Seeburg Piano ComP^-j
left fo r a Southern business trip
month. He is calling on Seeb1*
operators in Florida and will P1'0...
bly visit Cuba, where Seeburg
operated and theatre instruments
popular.
A New Perfume
Vender
£ $
A perfume coin machine 01
western make has made its aPPeji,e
ance in the trade. It borders on
type o f the mint vender.
. *
The user o f the perfume vend1 .
machine inserts a 25-cent piece a
receives a small bottle o f p e n u j
and also a number o f slugs,
to 20. B efore each sale an indie*1 j
tells the user how many slugs *
be given with that sale, as a “ sa^0
inducement.” The slugs have .
cash or trade value but are
^
only fo r insertion in the mac*" ^
which gives the user a spray of
fume fo r each slug.
New Vending
Company
Electric
Vending
Corpora*’0^
electrical suppies, $1,000,000;
.
Island, N. Y . (United States c °
poration Co.)
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