A New or Improved Code or System and Table or Chart to be Employed in Transmitting and Translating Telegraphic Messages.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Dec., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 5th Sept., 1889-Accepted, 5th Oct., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Code or System and Table or Chart to be
Employed in Transmitting and Translating Telegraphic
Messages.
I, FREDERICK WILLIAM BURGER, of Leadenhall Buildings, in the City of London,
Commission Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The object of my invention is to provide a simple code or system and table or
chart by the aid of which a message consisting of words or sentences or combinations
thereof commonly used in commerce to express the condition of the market with
respect to various goods or to convey other information, such, for example, as the
financial position of various business firms, may be readily transmitted in a condensed
form and as readily translated by the recipient.
For this purpose I employ a table divided into several parts or heads each of
which may relate to a particular branch of trade and I separately number, and
sometimes separately color, each division or head in order to facilitate reference
thereto.
Under each head I arrange one or more groups of separate words or sentences
expressive of the condition of the market, recommendations relative thereto and
other matter and I separately number each word or sentence.
It will thus be seen that by selecting and telegraphing the number of the
particular division or head to which reference is desired to be had and the number or
numbers of the word or words or sentence or sentences or combinations thereof that
it is desired to convey, I am enabled rapidly to compile and transmit a message of
considerable length in a condensed form and without risk of error and by the aid of
my table the receiver of the message is enabled as readily to translate the same.
If desired I may substitute other characters or signs for the numerals hereinbefore
referred to.
Dated this Sixth day of December 1888.
VAUGHAN & SON,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Code or System and Table or Chart to be
Employed in Transmitting and Translating Telegraphic
Messages.
I, FREDERICK WILLIAM BURGER, of Leadenhall Buildings, in the City of London,
Commission Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
The object of my said invention is to provide a simple code or system and table or
chart by the aid of which a message consisting of words or sentences or combinations
thereof commonly used in commerce to express the condition of the market with
respect to various goods and to convey other information, for example, the names of
firms prominently trading may be readily transmitted in a condensed form and as
readily translated by the recipient.
For this purpose, I employ a table divided into several parts or heads each of which
may relate to a particular branch of trade and I separately number, and sometimes
separately color, each division or head in order to facilitate reference thereto.

page_text: Under each head, 1 arrange one or more groups of separate words or sentences
expressive of the condition of the market, recommendations relative thereto and other
matter, and I separately number each word or sentence.
It will thus be seen that by selecting and telegraphing the number of the particular
division or head to which reference is desired to be had and the number or numbers
of the word or words or sentence or sentences or combinations thereof that it is
desired to convey, I am enable rapidly to compile and transmit a message of
considerable length in a condensed form and without risk of error, and, by the aid of
my table, the receiver of the message is enabled as readily to translate the same.
If desired, I may substitute other characters or signs for the numerals herein before
referred to.
I will now proceed, aided by the accompanying fragmentary diagrams, more fully
to describe my invention.
The diagrams represent a code or system and table suitable for the requirements of
the coffee trade, but, it will be understood, that the invention is equally applicable to
other trades and merely requires the information to be modified accordingly.
I have found it convenient in practice, to divide the table of information into two
parts, which I have respectively marked "K" and "L."
Each of these parts is divided into several sections, each of which is marked with a
reference number, and subdivided into several heads of information, such as is
commonly transmitted in market telegrams, and, in some cases, these subdivisions or
heads are separately numbered, in order to facilitate reference thereto.
This rule, which is a very simple one, is as follows:-
The first group of five figures of the message are to be read off from table K., the
first figures being selected from section 1, the two following from section 2, and the
two last from section 3.
The second group of five figures are to be read off from table L, the first two
figures being read from section and the three remaining figures from section 2.
Now, observing this rule, I will take as an example, the two following groups of
five figures, which would be transmitted as two words
"The turn of the market has surprised a large portion of the trade."
(246). Table L. Section 2. Subsection 2.
"Look upon the market as changeable and sensitive and think would
readily give way under weaker foreign advices."
As, in some cases, it may be necessary to supplement a message, by a reference
back from table L. to table K., and, perhaps further, by a reference again to table L.,
and, sometimes, to indicate to what goods such extra group or groups of figures
refer, I arrange, in conjunction with each table K. and L., a table of word signs
in the diagrams marked respectively K' and I, which would be selected and
transmitted according to the information desired to be conveyed.
For example, if I'desired to supplement the message 83869. 84246 above trans-
lated, which concludes with table L. by a group of figures from table K., I would
select from the table K, say, the word "wipbrug" which, translated, would mean

page_text: "the following word of five figures is to be interpreted from table K." and then let
such five figures follow.; and, again, if I desired further to supplement the message by
a reference back again to table L., I would select, say, the word "wipstaart" from
table L', which translated, would mean "the following word of five figures is to be
interpreted from table L."
Furthermore, it may sometimes be required to commence a telegrain with two or
more groups of five figures from table K., and, as such a course would be opposed
to the rule hereinbefore established, it would be necessary to select a suitable word
from the table, K¹, to make known to the receiver that the following, say, two words
(each of five figures) were to be interpreted from table K., after which words, the
said rule would again apply, and the following group or groups of five figures
would be interpreted from table L. in the usual order.
The examples herein shown and described are such as I found to answer well
in practice, but, it will be readily understood that the grouping and arrangement
of the various heads, and the information comprehended thereunder, may be
considerably varied without departing from my invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:-
The code or system and table or chart substantially as herein before described
and for the purpose stated.
VAUGHAN & SON,
Agents for the Applicant.

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