Jeremiah Carhart - Suction Wind Bellows - US Patent 4,912 - 1846

US PATENT 4,912 - Bellows
https://patents.google.com/patent/US4912A/en

In December 1846, Jeremiah Carhart patented a bellows for musical instruments of the class “Melodeons and Seraphines”

Melodeon and Seraphine were the names for the first free reed organs built in the USA.

Melodeon and Seraphine Free Reed organs were built with pressure wind bellows.

Jeremiah Carhart developed suction wind bellows

Since Jeremiah Carhart's invention, almost all free reed organs in the USA have been built with suction wind bellows.

The first free reed organ to be built with sucker wind bellows was called the Improved Melodeon and was developed by Jeremiah Carhart, George A. Prince and Elias Parkman Needham in Buffalo New York in 1847.

The US Patent No. 4,912 is one of the most important patents in the history of the American Free Reed Organ.