from The Dolceola Pages (maintained by Gregg Miner, as part of www.minermusic.com)
Patent #719,641: The original 1903 patent
for the Dolceola's action, issued to Leander and David Boyd.
Patent #857,380: The improved action (to reduce
noise), issued to Leander only, in 1907.
The action as it appeared in the 1904 Dolceola
Instructor, and on some instruments. My instrument (serial # 2582,
theoretically made in 1905) does not have the "flat jack spring (8).
According to Cohen's research, this was added somewhere between #s 2793
(1905) and 3660 (1906).