2004-10-30/2019-04-29 - From the OHS PC Database, derived from A Guide to North American Organbuilders, by David H. Fox (Organ Historical Society, 1991). - Patents held: Patent #222,866; December 23, 1879; reed organ action. Patent #345,673; July 20, 1886; organ bellows valve. Patent #570,200; October 27, 1896; suction valve for reed organ. Patent #568,310; September 22, 1896; exhaust bellows or feeder. Patent #627,570; June 27, 1899; valve for player organ. Patent held in association with J. B. Tracy: Patent #445,044; January 20, 1891; improvement to key action for reed organ. Sources: Information taken from the text of United States Patents.
2018-12-18/2019-02-11 - From Organ Database Builders editor Charles Eberline, July 14, 2018. - This inventor-s full name was Joseph Herbert Chase. His name and location are given as follows in the patent documents: Patent 222,866: J. Herbert Chase, of Cambridge, Massachusetts Patent 345,673: J. Herbert Chase, of Brooklyn, New York Patent 445,044: Joseph Herbert Chase and James B. Tracy, of Meriden, Connecticut, Assignors to the Aeolian Organ and Music Company, of New York, N. Y. Patent 570,200: Joseph H. Chase, of Meriden, Connecticut, Assignor to the Æolian Company, of New York, N. Y. Patent 568,310: Joseph H. Chase, of Meriden, Connecticut, Assignor to the Æolian Company, of same place Patent 608,252: Joseph Herbert Chase, of Meriden, Connecticut Patent 627,570: Joseph H. Chase, of Meriden, Connecticut, Assignor to the Aeolian Company, of New York, N. Y. City directories of Cambridge, Massachusetts, contain the following listings for J. Herbert Chase: 1875, page 96: no listing 1876, page 95: Chase J. Herbert, at Mason & Hamlin's, h. 66 Columbia 1877, page 95: Chase J. Herbert, at Mason & Hamlin's, house 66 Columbia 1878, page 99: Chase J. Herbert, at Mason & Hamlin's, h. 51 Market 1879, page 59: Chase J. Herbert, action maker, 162 Broadway, house 29 Norfolk [162 Broadway was the address of Mason & Hamlin] 1880, page 60: Chase J. Herbert, action maker, 162 Broadway, house 31 Tremont 1881, page 64: no listing Sources: Cambridge, Massachusetts, city directories, Cambridge Public Library, downloaded on various dates from Internet Archive, links at https://archive.org/details/cambridgepubliclibrary. U.S. patent documents, United States Patent and Trade Office, accessed July 4, 2018, through the search page, http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/PTO/patimg.htm.
2015-09-13/2020-04-09 - For further information, see: The Aeolian Co.
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