Patent GB-642528-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to telecommunication systems
Inventor: WRIGHT ESMOND PHILIP GOODWIN
IPC: H04M15/08
Filed: 1946-03-09
Abstract: 642,528. Exchange systems. STANDARD TELEPHONES & CABLES, Ltd. March 9, 1946, No. 7406. [Class 40 (iv)] In the event of congestion between two exchanges B and C a delay operator at exchange A can transfer a call for C to a delay operator at B. The operator at B sets up calls to both the called party at C and the particular operator who called from A and an answer from A automatically completes the connection of A to C through B. The four-wire junction over which B calls A is used in the final connection between A and C. A delay operator CA at a delay position DOP in exchange A sets up a call to a delay operator at B over the line L under control of her keyset KS, a register REGO, a relay set RSO1 and voice frequency transmitter and receiver VFTO1, VFRO1. The operator at B has access to a number of connecting circuits CC over a switch H5 and a free line L2 is seized by switch SC when TC finds battery on scmp. The operator at B then keys the numbers of the called party at C and of the operator at A, the latter number being sent over line L3 and switches IS1, IS2. When A answers, the answer signal between the voice frequency equipments on the line L3 causes relay set RSO3 to operate relay AA over the wiper sams. The connection from A to C is completed at contacts aa3, aa4. The operator at A then calls the calling party either by keying or by operating a switch to transmit his stored number. If the called party at C answers before the operator at A, the answer signal operates voice frequency receiver VFRO2, relay set RSO2 and relay AC. Relay ASA follows and locks to contact asa1 storing the answer signal from C. When the operator at B replies, relay AA operates as before to complete the connection at contacts aa3, aa4. Relay ASB follows and applies ground over wiper samx to pass on the answer signal to B. The line L3 over which the operator at B calls the operator at A is included in the final connection between B and C. The Provisional Specification outlines the European telephone network and proposes a new arrangement. In the proposed system, direct lines between adjacent countries are retained. In addition, a number of transit centres are arranged in a ring connected by two coaxials, one confined to traffic in a clockwise direction and the other to traffic in an anticlockwise direction. Each country has access to the ring at two transit centres and the ring has access to every country. Two ranges of carrier frequencies are used. The lower frequencies are used for normal traffic and the higher frequencies are reserved for emergency traffic. International operators may set up calls to distant countries through automatic equipment at the transit centres. To enable calls to be set up quickly keysenders will be used and numbers will be transmitted in a four-unit code. The numbers of both the calling and the called parties may be indicated at an operator's position and the operator may transfer the call and the indications to another operator on the same board as described in Specifications 642,541 and 642,527. In case of difficulty, an operator may transfer the call forward to an operator in the distant country, as described in Specification 642,542. By dialling a special digit a calling subscriber may obtain an automatic announcement of the call charge.