The Steinway Bell Patent

[gordon stelter]

I would imagine, with the hitch pins working as little
"pry bars" that the plate WOULD be twisted downward,
not upward, by the string tension here. 
     Thump

--- Richard Brekne <Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no>
wrote:
> To be sure Del, I suppose I should have included
> that. I
> just thought the patents claim was interesting. It
> makes
> perfect sense that it functions as a mass coupler as
> well.
> 
> But are you saying then that the plate is not
> actually
> stressed upwards by the string pressure as the claim
> makes
> below ?
> 
> RicB
> 
> Delwin D Fandrich wrote:
> 
> > The question was not what the original patent
> claimed it
> > was for, nor was the question what the company has
> claimed
> > it was for over the years (two or three different
> things
> > right there). The question was, as I understood
> it, what
> > does it actually do. Del
> >
> >
> >      ----- Original Message -----
> >      From: Richard Brekne
> >      To: PTG
> >      Sent: September 13, 2002 1:50 PM
> >      Subject: The Steinway Bell Patent
> >       [Image]
> >
> >      --
> >      Richard Brekne
> >      RPT, N.P.T.F.
> >      UiB, Bergen, Norway
> >      mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no
> >     
> http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html
> >
> >
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --
> Richard Brekne
> RPT, N.P.T.F.
> UiB, Bergen, Norway
> mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no
> http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html
> 
> 


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