Speaker enclosure

Claim 2

A loudspeaker enclosure comprising a mounting wall which is apertured to receive the sPeaker with the speaker cone extending inwardly therefrom and with the axis of the cone being substantially perpendicular to said mounting wall, the aperture being substantially acoustically unobstructed so that sound vibrations emanating from the front of the cone pass through the aperture perpendicular to said axis, and a reflecting wall surface angled inwardly from adjacent one edge of the mounting wall at an angle of about 45* with respect to said mounting wall and said axis and traversing the space behind the speaker cone, said reflecting wall providing with the opposite edge of the mounting wall a relatively large and substantially acoustically unobstructed opening through which sound vibrations emitted rearwardly from the speaker and reflected through an angle of 90* by said reflecting wall surface pass freely in perpendicular noninterfering relation to the sound vibrations emanating from the front of the speaker.

Claim 3

A loudspeaker enclosure as set forth in claim 1, wherein the enclosure is in substantially symmetrical triangular form.

Claim 4

A loudspeaker enclosure as set forth in claim 1, wherein the reflecting wall surface is imperforate.

Claim 5

A loudspeaker enclosure as set forth in claim 1, wherein the reflecting wall surface is of sandwich form including spaced inner and outer panels and a filler in the space therebetween.

Claim 6

A loudspeaker enclosure as set forth in claim 4, wherein the filler is sand sandwiched between the said panels.

Claim 7

Right- and left-hand loudspeaker enclosures, each as claimed in claim 1, disposed in spaced relationship with open ends of the enclosures opening laterally outwardly and with the speakers facing forwardly.

Claim 8

Right- and left-hand loudspeaker enclosures, each as claimed in claim 1, disposed in spaced relationship with the open ends of the enclosures opening forwardly and with the speakers facing laterally outwardly.

Claim 9

Right- and left-hand loudspeaker enclosures, each as claimed in claim 1, disposed in spaced relationship with the open ends of the enclosures generally forwardly and with the speakers facing generally toward one another.

Claim 10

A loudspeaker system comprising an enclosure having a mounting wall with an aperture for exposure to a listening area, and a speaker secured to said mounting wall and having a vibratory cone across said aperture, said cone having its central axis substantially perpendicular to said wall and with one end of the cone lying within said enclosure, said enclosure including a sound-reflecting wall that is presented to said one end of the cone and is intersected by said central axis at an acute angle, means joining said sound-reflecting wall to said mounting wall remote from the periphery of said aperture, means forming in said enclosure a relatively large and acoustically unobstructed opening for exposure to said listening area, means for otherwise substantially acoustically closing said enclosure, the excursion of the cone along said axis emitting sound waves unobstructedly through said aperture and also unobstructedly toward said reflecting wall for subsequent reflection through said opening, the sound waves passing through said aperture and the sound waves passing through said opening being substantially at 90* angles with respect to each other and characterized as being in noninterfering relation with each other, and said enclosure being further characterized as permitting substantially free-vibrating motion of the cone.

Claim 11

A loudspeaker system comprising an enclosure having a mounting wall with an aperture for exposure to a listening area, and a speaker secured to said mounting wall and having a vibratory cone across said aperture, said cone having its central axis substantially perpendicular to said wall and with one end of the cone lying within said enclosure, said enclosure including a sound-reflecting wall that is presented to said one end of the cone and is intersected by said central axis at an acute angle, means joining said sound-reflecting wall to said mounting wall remote from the periphery of said aperture, means forming in said enclosure a relatively large and acoustically unobstructed opening for exposure to said listening area, means for otherwise substantially acoustically closing said enclosure, the excursion of the cone along said axis emitting sound waves unobstructedly through said aperture and also unobstructedly toward said reflecting wall for subsequent reflection through said opening, the sound waves passing through said aperture and the sound waves passing through said opening being substantially at 90* angles with respect to each other and characterized as being in noninterfering relation with each other, and said enclosure being further characterized as permitting substantially free-vibrating motion of the cone.