IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS BAD
Year: 1866

page_text: . LETTERS PATENT to Richard Boulton Jones, of Nelson Terrace, City Road,
Telegraphic Machinist, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS
BAD
Sealed the 21st May 1867, and dated the 24th November 1866.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Boulton Jones
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
24th November 1866.
I, RICHARD BOULTON JONES, of Nelson Terrace, City Road, Telegraphic
Machinist, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING & RECORDING MESSAGES OR SIGNALS,"
to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to the class of electric telegraph instruments known
printers," or instruments that record the signals or messages sent by
indenting or marking on a strip of paper a series of dots and lines, or dots
and spaces or lines and spaces, the peculiar arrangement and disposition of
which in relation to each other and their succession are used or employed
to express letters of the alphabet, and combinedly to produce words and
sentences in accordance with the will of the sender or transmitter of a message.
These arbitary signs or marks are usually produced either by indenting or
embossing with a dry style or point, or by bringing the slip of paper imme-
diately in contact with an inked roller or a slip of carbonaceous paper or
other web.

page_text: Now by my Invention I am enabled to mark the signs representing letters,
words, and numerals upon the strip of paper or other material in fluid ink by
means of a reservoir or self-supplying pen, which is fed self-actingly as the
writing proceeds, and rendering unnecessary the constant watching and
renewing incident to the use of inking rollers and the contrivances in ordinary
use, and enabling the reception and writing of messages to go on uninterruptedly.
I construct the apparatus according to this Invention in the following
manner-Upon, by the side of, at the end of, or to any convenient part of
the instrument case I place a tube or other form of reservoir for containing a
supply of fluid ink, having at the bottom thereof a small tube or conduit pipe
by which communication is made with the hollow stud pin or fulcrum of the
lever from which the writing pen depends, and on which it is mounted in
(hollow) connection with the ink reservoir. The hollow stud pin or fulcrum
may have its end plugged or closed, and a small hole drilled at the side or
at a right angle with its axis, like a hollow plug single-way stop-cock; upon
this I mount the double lever arm, the boss of which is hollow like the shell
of an ordinary stop-cock; on one side thereof externally projects the arm or
fork through which the motion of the armature lever of the magnetic appa-
ratus is communicated, and on the opposite side of the boss is a hollow arm,
which I prefer to set or incline upwards when at its normal position of rest or
in action, so that the small supply of ink which is permitted to flow at each
downward movement of the pen and writing arm (to which it is attached)
will not be liable to flow out or be discharged therefrom. The inner end of
the hollow arm, and the opening in the shell forming the boss into which the
tubular arm is screwed, or otherwise secured, are not incident to or opposite
to the hole or passage in the hollow stud pin or fulcrum, whilst the instru-
ment is out of action and the pen out of contact with the paper; but upon
the electric current being transmitted and the armature being drawn to the
poles of the magnet, the pen lever arm and its pen are depressed, by reason
of the shorter lever or fork at the opposite side of the boss being lifted by the
vibrating lever arm of the armature, and thereupon the two openings or passages
coincide for the moment and the ink is free to flow from the reservoir to the pen.
At or near to the outer end of the hollow pen arm the penholder is screwed or
otherwise fitted; this penholder is drilled or made hollow, and the plates or
nib pieces forming the pen or writing instrument are attached thereto and are
regulated by means of a screw, like the ordinary "drawing pen or "bow
pen" used for mechanical drawing. For the purpose of regulating the supply
of the ink between the reservoir and the hollow stud pin or fulcrum of the
writing apparatus, I propose to fit a screw plug, which may be worked or
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page_text: regulated from the top of the reservoir, or within the hollow shell forming the
boss of the pen arm, and surrounding the hollow stud pin or fulcrum I would
place another shell or ferrule, having a hole or opening in its side and a pro-
jecting lever arm or tail piece for moving it more or less round to shut off. or;
open to a greater or lesser extent, as may be required, the passage way between
the bottom of the reservoir and the penholder. The drawing-off motion may be
that commonly in use for such like instruments, and the magnets and armature:
may be similar to those ordinarily employed, whilst the position of the
actuating lever arm connected with the armature, as also its proportions, may:
be varied to suit the movement of or action upon the inking apparatus.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Richard Boulton Jones in the Great Seal Patent Office on the.
23rd May 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
BOULTON JONES, of Nelson Terrace, City Road, Telegraphic Machinist, send.
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fourth day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, in the thirtieth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Richard Boulton Jones, Her special license that I, the said Richard,
Boulton Jones, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as Ì,
the said Richard Boulton Jones, my executors, administrators, or assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all,
times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might.
make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECORDING MESSAGES OR
SIGNALS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Richard,
Boulton Jones, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing:
under my hand and seal, or under the hand and seal of one of them, should
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in.
what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed
in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Richard Boulton Jones, do hereby:
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to,

page_text: be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement and the accompanying Sheet of Drawings:-
This Invention relates to the class of electric telegraph instruments known
as "printers," or instruments that record the signals or messages sent by
indenting or marking on a strip of paper a series of dots and lines, or dots and
spaces, or lines and spaces, the peculiar arrangements and dispositions of which
in relation to each other and their succession are employed or used to express
letters of the alphabet, and combinedly to produce words and sentences in
accordance with the will of the sender or transmitter of a message; these
arbitrary signs or marks are usually produced either by indenting or embossing
with a dry stile or point, or by bringing the strip of paper immediately in
contact with an inked roller or strip of carbonaceous paper or other web.
Now by my Invention I am enabled to mark the signs representing
letters, words, and numerals upon the strip of paper or other material in fluid
ink by means of a reservoir or self-supplying pen, which is fed self-actingly as
the writing proceeds, and rendering unnecessary the constant watching and
renewing incident to the use of inking rollers and the contrivances in ordinary
use, and enabling the reception and writing of messages to go on uninterruptedly.
I construct the apparatus according to this Invention in the following
manner-Upon; by the side of, at the end of, or at any convenient part of
the instrument case I place a tube or other form of reservoir for containing a
supply of fluid ink, having at the bottom thereof a small tube or conduit pipe,
by which communication is made with the hollow stud pin forming the
fulcrum of the lever, from which the writing pen depends, and on which it is
mounted in (hollow) connection with the ink reservoir. The hollow stud pin
or fulcrum may have its end plugged or closed, and a small hole drilled at the
side or at a right angle with its axis, like a hollow plug single-way stop-cock;
upon this I mount the double lever arm, the boss of which is hollow, like the
shell of an ordinary stop-cock; on one side thereof externally projects the arm
or fork, through which the .motion of the armature lever of the magnetic
apparatus is communicated, and on the opposite side of the boss is a hollow
arm, which I prefer to set or incline upwards when at its normal position of
rest or inaction, so that the small supply of ink which is permitted to flow at
each downward movement of the pen and writing arm (to which it is attached)
will not be liable to flow out or be discharged therefrom. The inner end of
the hollow arm and the opening in the shell forming the boss into which tho
tubular arm is screwed or otherwise secured are not incident to or opposite to
the small hole or passage in the stud pin or fulcrum whilst the instrument is
out of action and the pen out of contact with the paper, but upon the electric

page_text: current being transmitted and the armature being drawn to the poles of the
magnet the pen
lever arm and its pen are depressed by reason of the shorter
lever or fork at the opposite side of the boss being lifted by the vibrating
lever arm of the armature, and thereupon the two openings or passages
coincide for the moment and the ink is free to pass from the reservoir to the
pen. At or near to the outer end of the hollow pen arın the pen holder is
screwed on or otherwise fitted; this penholder is drilled or otherwise made
hollow, and the plates or nib pieces forming the pen or writing instrument
are attached thereto and are regulated by means of a screw, like the ordinary
"drawing pen," or "bow pen," used for mechanical drawing. For the purpose
of regulating the supply of the ink between the reservoir and the hollow stud
pin or fulcrum of the writing apparatus I propose to fit a screw plug which
may be worked or regulated from the top of the reservoir, or within the
hollow shell forming the boss of the pen arm, and surrounding the hollow
stud pin or fulcrum I would place another shell or ferule having a hole or
opening in its side and a projecting lever arm or tail piece for moving it more
or less round to shut off or open to a greater or lesser extent, as may be required,
the passage way between the bottom of the reservoir and the penholder. The
drawing-off motion may be that commonly in use for such-like instruments,
and the magnets and armature may be similar to those ordinarily employed,
whilst the position of the actuating lever arm connected with the armature,
às also its proportions, may be varied to suit the movement of or action upon
the inking apparatus.
For the purpose of illustrating and more clearly defining the improvements
in accordance with my present Invention I have in the accompanying Drawing
adopted and shown the casing and movement of an ordinary printing instru-
ment, in connection with which an ordinary dry stile would otherwise be
employed, the going movement, drawing-off motion, and electro-magnetic
apparatus being generally identical with electro-magnetic telegraph instruments
in ordinary use, and I have added thereto my improved fluid ink pen and the
reservoir and apparatus connected therewith, as also the arrangement of stop-
ping gear and apparatus for permitting of the pen being put out of action
during the transmitting of currents through the magnetic coil when such
instruments are employed at intermediate stations, and for the time are not
required to record or write the message in course of transmission.
In the arrangement of apparatus shown in the accompanying Drawing I
have not applied the valve at the bottom of the reservoir as herein described,
as that part of the apparatus being so readily understood does not require
explanation, and I have not shown several modifications of the horizontal tube

page_text: or conduit from the bottom of the reservoir for connecting the pen therewith,
but have selected one mode of constructing, combining, and working the pen
apparatus with the ink reservoir as being a convenient means of putting my
Invention into practice. At the bottom of the reservoir a lateral opening is
shown, and a tube consisting of two pieces or cylindrical casings, one enveloping
the other, and each free to move or partially revolve independently of the
other; at right angles or at any other convenient angle to this tube an
opening is formed through each of the cylindrical casings, and through which
the ink is permitted to flow through the hollow arm which is attached to the
outer casing; the inner tube is free to revolve or turn to a certain extent, the
amount of movement being regulated by means of a lever and handle, or any
other convenient arrangement. Now supposing this tube is turned round to
the extent of the diameter of the openings, that opening would then be closed
by the outer casing, and the ink cease to flow.. Again, supposing the tube was
only caused to turn round to half that distance a proportionate quantity of ink
would be allowed to flow, and thus the quantity of ink may be regulated at
pleasure by hand. Again, the outer cylindrical casing to which the pen is
attached has a similar and corresponding opening to the tube before mentioned,
and at the opposite side has attached a forked lever, which is worked by the
current acting upon the armature in the usual manner. When the pen is down
on the paper this opening corresponds to the opening in the inner tube, but
when the current is broken and the pen rises from the paper it causes the outer
tube to turn partially, and consequently the ink to be cut off. It will thus be
seen that the flow of ink to the pen is both regulated by the action of the pen
itself, and also to a greater nicety by the motion of the lever actuating the
inner tube. A stop actuated either in connection with (or separate from) the
handle or lever which is used to start and stop the train of clockwork in the
usual manner is introduced as herein-after explained; to this handle or lever
a forked or other suitably shaped lever is connected in such a manner that
when the instrument is not required to work, and consequently when the train
of clockwork is stopped, then by the movement of the aforesaid handle the
forked lever throws a stop over the tail end of the lever, which actuates the
pen in such a manner that the pen is kept from contact with the paper so
long as the instrument is not working. In like manner when the instrument
is set going by the motion of the handle the forked lever removes the stop
from the lever which actuates the pen, and allows it to work freely. Thus
when the instrument is employed at an intermediate station, and the current
is passing through the coils, but is not required to act upon that instrument
to mark or record the message intended to be transmitted past it, sufficient

page_text: room is left for the play of the armature to permit of a slight motion thereof
sufficient to call the attention of the operator without marking the paper.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
In the accompanying Drawings, Figures 1 and 2 represent a side elevation
and plan respectively of the instrument; Figure 3 is a cross section through
the ink reservoir and the cylindrical casings connected with the pen ; Figure 4
illustrates the forked lever actuating the stop; Figure 5, an enlarged view
of the improved pen; Figure 6, an enlarged view illustrating the method of
actuating the pen; Figure 7, a plan of the starting and stopping handle, and
of the forked lever shown in elevation in Figure 4.
Now supposing the instrument to be at rest the handle A will be placed
in the direction of the red line a, b, stopping the train of clockwork in the
usual way, by that motion it will cause the lever B to assume the position
shewn in red lines, Figure 4, throwing the stop C over the lever D, and
holding the pen E away from the paper which passes over the roller M,
thereby preventing the pen from marking the paper. Again, when the instru-
ment is required to work the handle A is moved back, acting on the lever B
it removes the stop C from the lever D, which is then free to move, and be
acted upon by the current in the usual way.
The method of regulating the ink is shown in Figures 3 and 6. The ink
from the reservoir G flows freely along the tube H to the opening I, and when
each of the cylindrical casings K and L are in the position shewn in the
Drawing, Figure 6, in black, the ink is free to flow to the pen E, and con-
sequently. to mark the paper on the roller M; when, however, the pen is
raised from the paper to the position shewn in red lines F, it will be seen that
the ink is cut off from the pen, thereby preventing the flow of ink when the
pen is in a position of rest. Again, the flow of ink may be regulated by the
lever N which is attached to the middle cylindrical casing H and K by means
of a set screw O. By the movement of the lever N to N' the passage way in
the cylindrical casing K shewn at K' is moved so as to prevent the flow of
ink to the pen; or by placing the lever N in any position between N
and N¹ the quantity of ink permitted to flow to the pen may be regulated at
pleasure.
In Figures 5 and 6 are shewn front and side sectional elevations of the pen
which I prefer to employ, and which has a centre plate between the nibs for
the purpose of leading the ink equably to the two marking nibs.
A screw plug P is shewn in Figure 6, illustrating the means adopted for
cleaning the ink passage of the pen arm by unscrewing P and passing any

page_text: suitable rod through the passage; in like manner the screw R, Figure 3, can
be unscrewed in order to clear the tube H. The paper roller is intended to
be mounted upon the spherical terminal or cover of the ink reservoir G; the
paper is drawn therefrom, and passing first through a clip guide or spring
finger, and then under a roller or guide stud, is caused to pass between the
pen and the roller below it, and from thence to the drawing-off rollers actuated
by means of clock work in the usual way.
The means of transmitting motion from the armature to the tail end of the
pen arm is shewn in Figures 1 and 2; the lever D having a stud or pin pro-
jecting from its face is made to take into the forked end of the pen lever, as
shown to a larger scale in Figure 6. The form of the pen
middle plate E may be varied, as also their proportion and
other; these pens are readily removed and exchanged.
What I claim is,-
nibs and of the
relation to each
First, the improvements in apparatus for transmitting and recording
messages and signals by means of a pen and fluid ink, as herein described.
Second, the construction and mode of combining the mechanical apparatus
for writing or recording messages by means of currents of electricity trans-
mitted through instruments or apparatus, as herein described and illustrated.
Third, the mechanical contrivance or apparatus, herein described, for sup-
plying and regulating the supply of fluid ink to a pen or writing instrument,
as herein described and illustrated, or any mere modification thereof.
Fourth, the mode or method, herein described, of stopping or putting out
of action the pen or writing instrument.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Boulton Jones, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of April, One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-seven.
Witness,
RICHARD BOULTON JONES. (L.S.)
WILLIAM FREDERIC: ROGERS,
19, Salisbury Street,
Strand..