US2651676A - Electric current impulse transmitter - Google Patents

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US2651676A
US2651676A US241758A US24175851A US2651676A US 2651676 A US2651676 A US 2651676A US 241758 A US241758 A US 241758A US 24175851 A US24175851 A US 24175851A US 2651676 A US2651676 A US 2651676A
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    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04L17/00—Apparatus or local circuits for transmitting or receiving codes wherein each character is represented by the same number of equal-length code elements, e.g. Baudot code
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  • This invention relates to the transmitting of electric current impulses and more especially of combinations of such current impulses as are used in the operation of telegraph apparatus, telautographs, telewriters and the like.
  • the invention is especially concerned with transmitting devices which convert the signal or the like into current impulse combinations.
  • Devices of the kind aforesaid as hitherto known comprise a setting mechanism, i. e. a keyboard with a number of individual keys or a dial for the combinations of current impulses to be transmitted, further certain controlling elements operatively connected with the setting device, for instance impulse discs keyed on a common shaft or on different shafts, means for driving this shaft or shafts and a contact device controlled by the control elements for transmitting the combinations of current impulses.
  • impulse discs are used as controlling elements
  • these discs are formed with projecting cams.
  • the impulse discs forming part of the transmitting devices-according to the present invention have on one of their disc surfaces a cam groove which extends around the disc axis and is characteristic of one particular combination of current impulses.
  • a pin, finger or other feeler cooperating with the disc enters the cam groove and is thereafter moved according to the configuration of the groove to control the contact device and provide for transmission of the combination of current impulses corresponding to the adjustment of the setting device such as for instance the individual key which had been depressed.
  • Fig. 1 is a schematic showing, in perspective, of the mechanical part of the device, while Fig. 2 is a schematic showing of the electrical part and wirin diagram.
  • Fig. 3 is a plan view, drawn to a larger of an impulse disc.
  • Figs. 1 and 2 denotes one of the selectively operable key bars of the keyboard mechanism. For the sake of simplicity only one such bar and key are shown.
  • a snap switch I l capable of assuming two different positions controls the starting of a driving device 12 servingto drive a shaft l3. Keyed on scale,
  • cam disc l5 and a working cam disc l6.
  • each disc I4 has a cam groove 2'1.
  • Firmly mounted on shaft 13 are further a rest- A delaying disc I! is mounted loosely on the shaft I3.
  • the key bars l5 have the form of double-armed levers fixedon an axle l8 supported for rocking motion. One arm of these levers carries the key head l9 and'a vertical arm 20, while the other arm 2
  • a tension spring 22 tends to maintain the key ill in its position of rest.
  • Bar 24 has the form of a doublearmed lever and is mounted for rocking movement on an axle 23 and forced by a coil spring 25 with one of its arms against the arm 20 of the key bar I0. Arm 24 also carries the pin 26 which, when key I0 is being depressed, enters through an opening at the periphery of disc I4 into the cam groove 21 of disc l4.
  • a contact device 29 serving for transmitting the current impulse combinations is actuated by arm 28 of bar 24 in accordance with the configuration of the cam groove 21.
  • the cam disc [5 carries a finger 3i], and a disc l'i loose on shaft 13 carries a pin 3!.
  • is angularly spaced from finger 30 so thatfinger 30 comes into contact with pin" 3
  • the disc l5, by means of its cam 38, can operate a rest contact k.
  • the discs 16 and I! are coupled with respective working contact s and v (Fig. 2.)
  • the driving device 12 as'here provided is of an electromagnetic kind comprising fixed electromagnets 32 and 33 which are excited inpairwise alternation through self-controlled contacts m32 andm3-3, respectively.
  • the driving device further comprises a rotor (not shown) with definite poles.
  • the driving devices as here described are particularly well adapted for the purpose here in View for the reason that they can be brought to a standstill instantaneously in a simple man-' n'e'r by magnetic action as will be explained more in 'detail hereinafter.
  • cuits 34 and 35 are connected across respective contacts'm32 and 17233.
  • the driving device 12 iss'upplied with current from a line 35 which may sup ly a -vo1t'direct'currentp
  • the transmitter-here above described operates as follows:
  • the interruption of the current supply to the driving device 12 by contact 2) is delayed a short period of time after the shaft 13 is arrested. This delay is due to the fact that, when shaft i3 is suddenly arrested, the disc 11 which is loose on this shaft continues revolving under its own momentum. Only after the disc H has returned into its position of rest is contact 1; opened so that now the entire device is in its initial position.
  • the pulse control disc l4 illustrated by way of example in Fig. 3 is designed for use in connection with a device operating as a transmittor for a telegraph system working in accordance with the 5-current step alphabet.
  • the impulse disc is subdivided .into seven sections, namely a section I which may be called the blocking step, a section 2 representing the starting step for the transmitter and five further sections which represent the current impulse combination proper corresponding to the signals to be transmitted.
  • the particular shape of the cam slot is chosen in accordance with the one signal to be transmitted by each cam disc M.
  • the slot sections corresponding to the blocking and starting steps are of uniform configuration in all impulse discs belonging to the device.
  • the cam slot discs offer the advantage of guaranteeing, by the positive steering of the pin or finger in the individually formed cam slots of the impulse discs, a far safer working of the device, because it does away with the bouncing and wear of contacts which frequently occur in devices operatin with projecting cam discs.
  • Impulse distortions are practically rendered impossible, so that the transmitter cannot transmit any faulty combinations of current impulses and consequently any wrong signals.
  • a further advantage offered by the mechanism Ihereabove described as compared with transmitters comprising setting members common to different impulse combinations consists in that any setting element, for instance an impulse disc which might become defective during the operation, will disturb only 'a single combination of current impulses, while in the old devices all combinations controlled by a common setting member are disturbed.
  • Apparatus for transmitting electric pulse combinations comprising a mechanism for selecting a pulse combination to be transmitted, a
  • a pulse control disc for each of the available pulse combinaations mounted on said shaft to revolve together therewith, a start switch controlled by said mechanism and connected with said drive for starting said drive when said mechanism is actuated, pulse contact means for transmitting said pulse combination having a movable contact control member with a feeler, said pulse control disc having a cam groove extending around said shaft and having a composite curve shape corresponding to one of said pulse combinations, said movable control member and feeler having a bias away from said groove, and said mechanism, when being actuated to control said start switch, being engageable with said control member to move said feeler against said bias into said groove, and said groove having a cross sectional shape straddling said feeler and forming a double-sided guiding contour for oscillating said feeler.
  • Apparatus for transmitting electric pulse combinations comprising a pulse control disc for each of the respective pulse combinations, a shaft having a one-revolution drive joined therewith, said disc being firmly mounted on said shaft to revolve together therewith, said disc having a lateral cam groove closed upon itself around said shaft and having a composite curve shape corresponding to one of the pulse combinations, and said disc having a passage extending from said groove to the disc periphery and located at a given place when said drive is at rest, pulse contact means for transmitting said pulse combination having a movable contact con trol member with a feeler disposed near said disc at said place and biased away from said disc, a pulse-combination .selector mechanism, a start switch controlled by said mechanism and connected with said drive for starting :said drive when said mechanism is actuated, said mechanism when actuated being in engagement with said contact control member to move said feeler through said passage into said groove, and said g'roove having a cross sectional shape straddling said feeler to
  • said groove having a first curve section for issuing a receiver-releasin pulse ahead of the pulse combination, said first curve section beginning a given angular amount from the rest position of said feeler so that the releasing pulse is issued only after said pulse control disc has gone through a given part of its revolution, said first curve section being followed by said composite curve shape corresponding to the pulse combination proper.
  • Apparatus for transmitting electric pulse combinations comprising a mechanism for selecting a pulse combination to be transmitted, a shaft, a drive motor joined with said shaft and having a motor control circuit, said circuit comprising a normally open start switch and a normally open holding contact parallel connected to said start switch, a pulse control member firmly mounted on said shaft to revolve together therewith, electric pulse contact means disposed for transmitting said pulse combination and engageable with said member to be actuated by revolution of said member, said start switch being engageable by said mechanism for closing said circuit to start said drive motor when said mechanism is actuated, a cam disc loosely seated on said shaft and engageable with said holding contact to close said holding contact only when moved out of a given rest position, stop means firmly secured to said shaft and engageable with said cam disc after a given angle of revolution of said shaft to then entrain said cam disc, whereby said cam disc closes said holding contact to maintain said motor running independently of said start switch.
  • Apparatus for transmitting electric pulse combinations comprising a mechanism for selecting a pulse combination to be transmitted, a shaft, a drive motor joined with said shaft and having a motor energizing said circuit and a braking circuit, said energizing circuit comprising a normally open start switch and a normally open holding contact parallel to said start switch, and said braking circuit comprising a stop control contact, a pulse control member firmly mounted onsaid shaft to revolve together therewith, electric.
  • pulse contact means disposed for transmit ting said pulse combination and engageable with said member to be actuated by revolution of said member, said start switch being engageable by said mechanism for closing said energizing circuit to start said motor when said mechanism is actuated, a first cam disc loosely seated on said shaft and engageable with said holding contact to close said holding contact only when moved out of a given rest position, a second cam disc firmly mounted on said shaft and having a part abuttable against said first cam disc but angularly spaced therefrom so as to entrain said first cam disc for revolution from said rest position when said second cam disc has passed through a given portion of its revolution, said second cam disc being engageable with said stop control contact at the end of said revolution to arrest said motor.
  • said second cam disc having a continuous cam contour in contact-closing engagemerit with said holding contact over the entire cam periphery with the exception of a peripheral cam portion located at said holding contact when said second cam disc is in said rest position, and said second cam disc having a, mass sufiicient for said second cam disc to continue moving under its own momentum after said first cam disc has completed its revolution, whereby said second cam disc opens said holding contact to reset the apparatus for renewed operation of said mechanism a given period of time after completion of the pulse transmission.

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US2790026A (en) * 1952-04-18 1957-04-23 Moser Otto Teletypewriters
US2983788A (en) * 1956-06-22 1961-05-09 Burkness Donald Clifford Test device for tape readers

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US1737024A (en) * 1926-09-11 1929-11-26 Printel Mfg Corp Electrical code transmitter
US1913905A (en) * 1930-10-02 1933-06-13 Servanton Jacques Call apparatus for automatic telephones
DE579660C (de) * 1932-03-25 1933-06-30 Auguste Sidot Vorrichtung zum Senden elektrischer Stromstoesse
US1954170A (en) * 1930-04-17 1934-04-10 William A Heine Selective electrical impulse control

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US1737024A (en) * 1926-09-11 1929-11-26 Printel Mfg Corp Electrical code transmitter
US1954170A (en) * 1930-04-17 1934-04-10 William A Heine Selective electrical impulse control
US1913905A (en) * 1930-10-02 1933-06-13 Servanton Jacques Call apparatus for automatic telephones
DE579660C (de) * 1932-03-25 1933-06-30 Auguste Sidot Vorrichtung zum Senden elektrischer Stromstoesse

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US2983788A (en) * 1956-06-22 1961-05-09 Burkness Donald Clifford Test device for tape readers

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