Improvement in Printing Telegraph Instruments.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 14th June, 1894-Accepted, 8th Dec., 1894
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvement in Printing Telegraph Instruments.
I, OSCAR LILLIAN KLEBER, of 506 Wood Street, Pittsburgh, in the County
of Allegheny, State of Pennsylvania, United States of North America, Merchant,
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 :-
My invention consists of a systemized class arrangement of, and grouping of
telegraphic signals consisting of dots and dashes with corresponding class groups of
alphabetical letters, numeral characters, punctuation marks, and other intelligible
signs in combination with an organized mechanism, whereby transmitted telegraphic
signals are caused to produce, translate, singly and separately print such letters of
the alphabet, numeral characters, and in such order as is required to form words
and sentences at the opposite end of an electric line corresponding and agreeing
with messages sent or transmitted; which systemized arrangement and grouped
telegraphic characters and peculiar grouping of the letters of the alphabet,
together with the method of effecting requisite and rapid changes of position of.
the letters of the alphabet etc. so as to make them correspond to Morse or other
signals sent, and means employed to accomplish such results will be readily
understood from the following description taken in connection with accompanying
drawings wherein
Figure represents a front elevation of the mechanism designed to receive
and print the alphabetical letters and numeral characters on the reception of
Morse or other telegraphic signals equivalent or representing such letters and
characters.
Figure 2. The side elevation of the same mechanism.
Figure 3. Perspective view showing the construction of such a pole changer as is
made use of in operating my improved telegraph.
Figure 4. Perspective view of a detached portion of such essential parts of the
mechanism as are designed to accomplish the object of my invention.
Figure 5 a plan of an organized system of electrical devices used in operating
my improved printing telegraph by means of a single main line.
Figure 6 is a detail view hereinafter explained.
To give my invention bodily form and put the same to practical use, I construct
a suitable rigid frame 1, and erect in proper bearings therein a train of cog
wheels 2, which may be actuated and driven by a weight, spring or any suitable
force or power.
To this frame 1 is hinged or pivoted a secondary and smaller frame 3 the forward
part of which is provided with a soft iron plate 4 forming the armature of an
electro-magnet 5 secured to the base of the main frame and arranged directly.
underneath said armature or soft iron plate. This pivoted portion 3 of the frame
is adapted to move upwardly by means of a spring 6 and downwardly by the action
of the energized electro-magnets 5.
Arranged horizontally in bearings in the upper part of this movable portion of
the frame is a suitable shaft 8 having rigidly secured to the same, and so as to
revolve therewith, a type wheel 9 having around its periphery projecting
alphabetical letters and numeral characters.
Next in order on said shaft and affixed likewise is a circular plate 10 or plain
wheel which has a cam 11 or incline projecting from its outer face, and a pin 12 on
its opposite side.
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Within the movable portion of frame 3. and a little distance from said circular

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plain wheel 10 and also affixed to the same shaft 8 so as to revolve with it,
is a requisite number of toothed wheels a b c d each having an equal number of
radially projecting teeth which are arranged side by side a little distance apart, and
relatively so affixed to said shaft 8.and with such respect to each other, that the
teeth in any one wheel shall be opposite the blank spaces between the teeth of all
the adjoining wheels.
These wheels are also provided in addition to their teeth, with a number of short
inclined projecting planes or slides, e f g h which connect each pair of adjacent
wheels and are arranged obliquely to the axis and plane of said wheels.
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A suitable distance from the toothed wheels just described and rigidly affixed to
same shaft 8 so as to revolve therewith, is a requisite number of circular selecting
disks, klof uniform size, each provided with radially projecting teeth or short
cogs 13, occurring at irregular intervals around the periphery of said wheels; and
between some of these teeth portions of the metal are removed to form deep radial
depressions 14, so located and arranged to coincide in point of number and
circumferential position to the several inclines e f g h or oblique slides on the other
toothed wheels, herein before described.
This shaft 8 carrying said circular disks and toothed wheel is also provided with
a small cog wheel or pinion 15, in gear with a larger toothed wheel 16 forming one
of a number or train of cog wheels actuated by a weight to give quick and rapid
rotary movement to said shaft and the various wheels affixed thereon so that their
upper surface shall revolve towards the front of the apparatus. Near the front of
the movable portion of the frame 3 a little lower down, and parallel to the shaft 8,
and wheels just described, is arranged another shaft 17 having around and about
its middle portiou two collars 18, 19, one of which 18, is adapted to turn on said
shaft 17.
Each of these collars is fitted with an upwardly projecting finger 20, 21, the tops
of which terminate in a horizontal plane radial with the axis of the selecting disks
and spacing wheels.
The terminal ends of these fingers are bent inwardly in the form of a short
hook 22, 23, designed and adapted to come in contact with, and operate against
the respective faces of the circular selecting disks, and toothed wheels opposite
thereto.
The hook 23 on that finger 21 controlling the spacing wheels, is plain, whereas
the hook of the finger 20 controlling the selecting wheels is provided with a thin
continuation or projecting point 24 which overlaps the periphery and extends
down the side of such selecting disk, as the finger may be temporarily in
contact with.
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Each collar 18, 19, in addition to its finger 20, 21 is provided with a short
pin 25, 26, extending horizontally outward towards the front of the apparatus, and
underneath these two pins and a little lower down, and parallel with them is a thin,
flexible, bifurcated spring or plate 27, one end of which is attached to the soft
iron armature 4 fastened to the front movable portion of the frame 3, so as to move
with it.
The other ends of these thin, flexible springs press against the projecting
pius, 25, 26, so as to force them upwardly, and thereby, press the hooks of the
fingers against the peripheries of their respective wheels.
These collars are also provided, each with a downwardly extending arm 28, 29,
the one on the collar of the plain hook 23 being bent near its lower portion to form
an incliue 30 towards the front.
The other arm 28, or that on the collar 18 supporting the finger 20 having its
hooked end furnished with the thin projecting point, is bent horizontally at its
lower portion 31 in a line parallel to the shaft 17, supporting said collars; to
the extreme end of this bent portion is attached a thin, flat spring 32, which
lies nearly parallel, and also along the same. This thin flat spring is arranged
so that its upper plane surface shall present a downward incline its entire length
and width.

page_text: At, or near the rear end of the apparatus, and rigidly attached to the base plate
thereof, is an electro-magnet 33. This electro-magnet 33 is provided with the
usual, ordinary constructed armature 34 affixed to a bar 35 having its rear portion
pivoted to the main frame. Its opposite end extends between, and a little distance
in front of the aforesaid downwardly projecting arms 28, 29, attached to the collars
supporting the hooked fingers; and from one side of this forward end of the pivoted
armature bar 35 and just above and along the inclined surface of the flat spring 32
attached to the longitudinal portion of the arm is a thin projecting rod 36 that in
a downward descent of the armature bar is carried with it, and by its action on the
inclined surface of said spring forces it backward, thereby throwing that finger 20
in connection therewith, free from the selecting disks, and passing beyond the flat
surface of the spring 32 said arm and finger will recover their former position by
the action of the thin flat spring 27 operating upwardly against the projecting
pin. 26 attached to the collar 18.
On an upward movement of this end 35 of the armature bar the thin rod 36 is
carried with it in its upward ascent; without changing the position of the finger 20
it pushes the spring outward, and passes between it and the horizontal portion of the
arm and regains its position on top of the inclined surface of said spring 32 ready
for repeated action.
In a line with said thin rod 36, but on the opposite side of the armature bar is a
similar rod 37 that extends to, and a little beyond the other downwardly extending
arm 29 which rod 37 in its descent operates on the bent inclined portion 30 of
said arm, pushing it backward, and thereby lifting the finger-hook 23 off the
toothed wheels provided with inclined or oblique short slides, holding said hooked
finger free from the same until the armature bar 35 is released and returns to its
normal position.
The horizontal shaft 17 supporting these hooked fingers, is carried in suitable
bearings, by the pivoted portion of the frame 3, and is adapted to move
longitudinally in one direction by means of the inclined or oblique planes e f g
operating in connection with the plain hook 23 therewith to push said shaft, in one
direction; and in the opposite direction said shaft 17 is drawn by means of the
revolving cam 11 on the large plain wheel 10 coming in contact with an anti-
frictional roller 38 on that end of said shaft, and this rectilinear reciprocating
movement of said shaft, carries the hooked fingers simultaneously back and forth
at proper times across the faces of their respective wheels.
In front, and parallel with the shaft 17 is another shaft 39 having its bearings in
the immovable portion of the frame. This shaft 39 is given a partial rotation in
one. direction by means of a weight 40 on the end of a projecting short arm 41;
and in the other direction by means of the piu or stud 12 on the cam wheel 10
coming in contact with a similar arm S extending from said shaft so as to be operated
on by said pin.
Attached to the middle portion of said rock-shaft 39 is a downwardly extending
plate 42, the lower edge of which is directly above the thin flat spring 27 attached
to the armature 4 of the electro-magnet 5 beneath; and in the descent of the said
armature, said flat plate 42 will assume a vertical position so that upon a return or
upward movement of the said armature the fore ends of said flat springs 27 are met
by the plate 42 and held down.
A spline 43 or rib which extends along the underside of this shaft 39 when the
plate is in a vertical position, is brought directly over the ends of the projecting
pins 25, 26, extending outwardly from the collars 18, 19 so that on an upward
movement of the armature 4 the hooked fingers are drawn free from their respective
wheels. The cam wheel 10 on its revolution brings round the pin 12 thereon which
presses against the lever S on said rock-shaft, throws the plate 42 attached thereto
outward, freeing said flat springs 27, enabling them to operate on the projecting
pins 25, 26 of the collars; and thereby return the hooked fingers 20, 21 to the
peripheries of their respective wheels.

page_text: At the same time the cam 11 by its operation on the little anti-friction
roller 38 forces the finger-shaft 17 in the direction of the cam, and draws the
fingers across the faces of the wheels to the original position or starting point.
Said cam 11 and pin 12 are so arranged, and located as to bring about these
results at the desired and proper times.
On the extreme front of the apparatus, and extending up from the base thereof,
are two binding posts, to which wires are attached for sending electrical impulses
into the forward electro-magnets 5 which draws down the movable portion of the
frame 3, carrying with it the selecting disks, spacing wheels, and type wheel, to
make an imprint. To operate these several electro-magnets separately by a
current of electricity to be transmitted along a single main line, use in this
connection one or more polarized relays, shown in an enlarged perspective view, in
drawing, Figure 3.
This polarized relay consists of a permanent magnet 46 having pivoted to a pole
thereof, one end of a long iron lever 47; to the opposite or free end of this lever
is pivoted a brass continuation 48 of said lever, to about the middle of which, and
cross-wise thereof is affixed an iron armature 49.
The end of this brass portion most remote from its pivotal connection with
lever 47, is adapted to swing in a horizontal plane, a short distance between two
adjustable points 50 and 51, the latter of which is insulated, in the top of a forked
•post 52.
A spring 53 attached to a post 54, and to said brass bar 18 tends to draw the
same toward and against the insulated point 51. In, or near the top end of a
post 55 is an adjustable screw or point 56 that the lever 47 at intervals comes in
contact with, and this point of contact in said lever is provided with a platinum
plug 57.
On each side, and near the middle of the lever 47, are electro-magnets 58, each
of which is provided, at its upper end with a short pole piece 59, that projects
toward the aforesaid lever 47.
Suitably mounted near the cross armature 49, on the bar 48, are electro-
magnets 60.
These electro-magnets are connected by means of the usual insulated wire, -one
of the terminal ends of which is in communication with an electrical battery, the
other being in connection with the main line 62.
From the post 55 a wire 63 extends to the printing device; and from the
post 52 a wire 64 extends to the message receiver. Another wire 65 goes to a
focal battery.
To describe the operation of this prolonged relay I will refer to the diagram of
the entire electrical system used in operating my improved telegraphic apparatus,
which is delineated in drawing Figure 5.
By pressing down key 66 the line is put in communication with main battery 67
by wire 68, which is connected to the negative pole of said battery; the electrical
current will then flow along wire 69 to back of closed key 70 and by wire 71 to
earth; the current will then flow by wire 72 to coils 60, then by wire 74 to coils 58,
and as the bar 47 is permanently magnetized the action of the current in spools 58
is such that the pole 59 will attract said bar, and pole on spool 58¹ will repel it,
thus connecting bar 48 with point 50, and by means of the wire 64 to message
receiver or sounder 33, which is designed to operate the alphabetical selecting
device hereinbefore described, without in any manner affecting the electro-
magnet 5 used for operating the printing device, and which operation of said
selecting device can be continued for any length of time, and during any number
of impulses so long as the polarity of the poles 59 remain unchanged, because the
bar 47 by reason of its pivotal connection with the brass bar 48 will enable the
coils 60 to affect a movement of the cross armature 49 and bar 48, without changing
the position of the bar 47; the attraction of the poles in spools 60 being such as
to cause the cross bar 49 to move in that direction, drawing the end of the bar 48

page_text: against the point 50, whereby the several impulses of the current from the main
battery 67 are directed into the electro-magnets 33 of the selecting devices, ant
bring into play a like action in the local battery 78.
By releasing key 66 and pressing down key 75 the point of contact at 70 is
broken, and the current passes by wire 76 to the negative pole of battery 67, and
through same to its positive pole, then through wire 77 to top of key 66, thence by
wire 72 through coils 60, then by wire 74, to electro-magnets 58, which establishes
a polarity therein on its going to the main line 62. A reversal of the electrical
current brings about a change of polarity in the magnet 58, and causes the bar 47
to shift its position, and come in contact with point 56 thereby the current will
flow from battery 78 along the line 63 to the magnet of the printing device. This
action of the magnetized bar 47 is such as to draw the cross armature 49 out of
the field of attraction exerted by electro-magnets 60, whereby electro-magnets 33
and the selecting device operated thereby become for the time inoperative.
Thus it will be seen that by operating key 66, such electrical impulses may be
sent over the connecting wires as will operate the selecting device only. That
portion of the system at the opposite end of the main line, and designated as
station is precisely like that just described at station X and is effected by every
electrical impulse sent along the main line in the same manner, and to the same
extent.
Having described the construction of my improved printing telegraph, and an
electrical system whereby the same may be operated over one main line at a
distant point I now proceed to describe the operation of said printing telegraph,
the several parts of which are constructed substantially in the manner hereinbefore
set forth.
The selecting and spacing disks being at the point of zero, or starting position,
by pressing down that key 66 designed to send a current of electricity through the
message receiver stationed at a distant point it will energize the coil 33 which will
draw its armature bar 35 down, this action will carry with it the thin rod 36 pro-
jecting from that side of the forward end of said armature bar, and slide down the
inclined surface of the flat spring 32 on the lower horizontal portion of the finger
arm 28, and force it backward, thereby throwing the finger 20 free from the
selecting disks, and as the rod 36 passes said inclined spring the finger is immediately
thrown forward against the wheels by the action of the flat spring 27 acting on the
projecting pin 26 attached to the collar of said finger, at the same instant the
rod 37 on the opposite side of this end of the armature bar 35 by sliding further
down the inclined portion of the rod 29 attached to the collar of that finger 21
adapted to control the action of the toothed spacing wheels, leaves them free
to rotate.
If the impulse be one of short duration, such as is required to make a dot only,
the armature 35 will immediately return to its original position and that finger 21
controlling the spacing disks will also have resumed its position thereon, and as the
disks and wheels revolve the hooked end 23 of this finger will be acted upon by the
oblique slide h extending from the first d to the second c toothed wheel or spacing
disk, which action will thrust the finger 21 of said spacing disk, as well as the
finger 20 controlling the selecting disk over on to those next adjoining, and further
rotation of said wheels and disks is checked by said finger 21 coming in contact
with the nearest projecting tooth on said spacing disk C.
As before remarked when a dot is made and the finger 21 on the spacing
wheels a b c d comes in contact with one of the oblique slides, the effect will be
to shift said finger 21, as well as the other finger 20, over on to the adjoining disk
and wheel, and when a dot is made, when the finger acting on the spacing wheel is
in such relative position or point where no slide appears, then such dot is made
without the fingers being forced to leave the particular wheels they happen to be
on, the wheels simply escaping to the extent of one cog. If the message key be.
held down a length of time sufficient to transmit a longer electrical impulse, to
make a dash, the armature 35 operating the fingers will necessarily remain down

page_text: during that period; the finger 20 controlling the selecting disks having dropped
back thereon. Just before the armature 35 arrives at its lowest point the other
finger, 21 by means of the continued pressure on its inclined arm 29 will remain
out of contact with the spacing wheels sufficiently far and long as to enable the
oblique slides and teeth to pass said finger without check, which wheels will continue
to rotate until a radial projection 13 on one of the selecting disks i j k l opposite
the finger 20, controlling the same.comes in contact with said finger and thereby
checks further rotation.
The peculiar position of the oblique slides efgh depression 14, and radial
projections 13 on all of these wheels are arranged and predetermined so as to meet
the requirements of the alphabetical signals.
When these discs comprising the selecting and spacing mechanism are at a
position designated as zero, or starting point, in which position the finger 21 is
engaged in the first cog before the slide h on disc d and a short electrical impulse
is sent to make a dot which represents the letter E, that letter on the periphery of
the type wheel 9 will be carried around and opposite to any predetermined point
required for the printing of said letter. To make an impression of that letter, a
moving strip of paper or message blank is arranged in proper position to receive it,
and which strip of paper or message blank may be given a suitable intermittent
motion to space off the several letters, and words as they are received by any
suitable mechanism adapted to the purpose.
When the printer key 75 is depressed, it will energize the electro-magnets
pulling down the armature 4 attached to the forward part of the hinged, and
movable portion of the frame 3 carrying the selecting disks, spacing wheels, and
finger-shaft, together with the fingers thereon, causing the type wheel 9, which is
also attached to said shaft to make an impression on the underlying sheet of paper.
properly arranged to receive it.
By this downward movement of the armature 4, the bifurcated spring. 27
attached thereto is also drawn down enabling the plate 42 on the rock-shaft 39
just above said spring to assume a vertical position, and the spline 43, underneath
Baid rock-shaft 39 to obtain a place directly above the projecting pins 26, 25 on
the fingers of the collars 18, 19.
Such is now the relative position of the connected parts with said armature 4 as
that on a liberation and upward movement thereof these said separate parts will be
so affected and brought into such position enabling the fingers, selecting discs, and
spacing wheels to return to the original starting point ready for a repetition of the
operation..
This apparatus is designed and intended to operate by electrical currents
conveying and making signals of the Morse type or other arbitrary signals,
receive the same, and translate and print them upon a tape or message blank
properly arranged to receive them; and the production of said signals may be
effected by any suitable automatic transmitter, ordinary telegraphic key or a
system. of electrically connected type-writing keys, whereby it may be operated
by any one skilled in the art of type-writing.
In order that the invention may be perfectly and readily comprehended, I have
shewn in Figure 6 to an enlarged scale a development of the peripheries of the
wheels a, b, c, d and i, j, k,l and of the type-wheel 9. I also show a telegraphic
code of the "Morse" description placed adjacent to the type-wheel.. I wish it
clearly understood however that in this figure I only shew one out of many methods
of arranging the teeth, spaces and planes on the spacing and selecting discs and
that my invention is applicable to any description of dot-and-dash telegraphic
signals...
I will now proceed to describe the action of the mechanism in receiving and
printing the word "HAT" in Morse characters, translating and printing the same
into alphabetical letters, consisting of four dots, one dot and one dash, and one
dash, to wit
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On the first short electrical impulse or dot entering the apparatus the effect is

page_text: to cause the armature 35 to make a quick downward and upward motion. This
downward action of the armature bar so operates the fingers 20, 21 as to lift the
finger-hooks free from their respective wheels in the manner herein before described,
enabling said wheels (which are in gear with the clock work) to start with a rapid
rotary movement which is suddenly checked by the return of the armature bar 35,
and consequent liberation of the finger 21 opposite the spacing wheel which
immediately returns thereto, and comes in contact with the first inclined slide h
whereby said finger 21 is shifted from its position on the first wheel d to another
position against the cog on the next adjoining. wheel c, thus arresting the rotary
movement of the several wheels. This shifting movement of the fingers 20, 21
and the finger-shaft 17 carries with it to a like extent that finger 20 operating on
the selecting discs ij kl.
The second short electrical impulse produces a similar result, with the difference
that the fingers are carried from the second to the third wheels, and in like manner
the third short electrical impulse shifts the fingers from the third wheels into the
fourth wheels; and the fourth short electrical impulse enables the wheels to escape
to the extent of one cog without further shifting of the fingers, and thus the
letter H has been produced, and that part of the type wheel 9 containing the
letter H has been brought around to a position ready to print therefrom. At that
instant an electrical impulse is sent through the electro-magnets 5 which operates
the armature 4 attached to the projecting front portion of the movable part of the
frame 3 carrying all the selecting and spacing mechanism, together with type.
wheel downward to make an imprint of that letter upon a paper suitably arranged
to receive it.
On the descent of the aforesaid mechanism the shaft 39 to which is affixed the
horizontal spline 43 and small plate 42 turn sufficiently to prepare the mechanism
to free the fingers from their respective wheels on an upward movement of that
armature bar 4, which then remain in that position until the cam 11 on its revolu-
tion forces the finger-shaft 17 longitudinally outward to zero or its starting point,
at the same instant the stud 12 on the opposite side of the cam wheel 10 will have
pressed down the small lever S attached to the rock-shaft 39 thereby liberating
the fingers and enabling them to return to the perimeters of their respective
wheels at the place of beginning.
To make the letter A the operation of the mechanism in making the first dot is
substantially the same as that of the first dot of the letter H. To make the
succeeding dash, a longer electrical impulse is sent which draws the finger 21 away
from the spacing disc c sufficiently long, and holds it away enabling said discs to
rotate without check. But as the finger 20 operating and Controlling the selecting
disc has by this time fallen back upon its second disc K, the first radial projection
thereof comes in contact with the hook 22 of said finger; thereby stopping further
action of the wheels, which have rotated to a distance greater than that required
for a single dot, and thus a dash is made, the type wheel 9 being at the same time
turned so as to bring the letter A to the proper position ready to be printed by the
action of the mechanism as in the case of the letter H, which printing operation
again returus the fingers, and wheels to their primary position ready for the
production of the next letter.
As the final letter T is now to be produced a dash is made which is effected
by presenting a long electrical impulse that withdraws the finger 21 of the
spacing wheels sufficiently long therefrom to enable the said wheels to rotate
until the finger 20 on the selecting discs comes in contact with the first radial
projection 13 on the first wheel of selecting discs which checks their further
rotation.
The type-wheel 9 has by the same action moved around to bring the letter T in a
position ready to print therefrom, and thus the word HAT is transmitted in Morse
characters, received by the apparatus, translated into alphabetical letters, and
printed upon a tape or message blank properly arranged, moved and spaced to

page_text: receive it, which movement and spacing may be accomplished by any suitable
means known to the art.
Without going through the entire and tedious array of letters, and numerals it
may be briefly stated that each transmitted signal will influence the discs, and
consequently the connected type wheel moving in unison therewith, and as the 5
letters and numerals on said type wheel are relatively so arranged as to agree
with certain points and positions on the discs, and respond to the signals made
thereon, it necessarily follows that the letter or numeral corresponding to its signal
must move and coincide in point of time and therefore take a certain and
predetermined position.
On the developments of the wheels shewn in Figure 6 I have indicated the
disc and the position thereon of either the Enger 20 or finger 21 when any
particular signal consisting of dots and dashes has been transmitted, by means of
the letter to which that particular signal corresponds.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I wish it distinctly
understood that I do not limit. myself to the precise mechanical construction of
the device shown and described as it may be changed in that respect without
departing from the spirit of my invention, but I declare that what I claim is :-
1. In a printing telegraph, a shaft which has affixed thereon a wheel with
alphabetical letters, and numeral characters arranged around its periphery, suitable
means for revolving the same, in combination with a series of wheels, each of
which has an equal number of teeth, and intermediate spaces, the teeth of the
series relatively arranged in oblique lines or stepwise across the faces of the
wheels.
2. In a printing telegraph a shaft which has thereon a wheel with alphabetical
letters and numeral characters arranged around its periphery, in combination with
a series of wheels, each of which has an equal number of radial teeth, and in
addition thereto a number of prominent incliued slides arranged obliquely to the
axis and plane of said wheels.
3. In a printing telegraph a revoluble shaft provided with a series of wheels
each of which has an equal number of radial teeth, and in addition thereto
a number of prominert inclined. slides arranged obliquely to the axis and
plane of said wheels in combination with a finger adapted to move across said
wheels and engage them separately for the purpose of checking and controlling
their rotation.
4. In a printing telegraph a revoluble shaft provided with a series of spacing
wheels, each of which has an equal number of radial teeth arranged at equidistant
points around the peripheries of said wheels, and in addition thereto a number of
prominent inclined slides that occupy parallel positions to each other obliquely to
the axis and plane of said wheels, in combination with a series of circular, selecting
discs provided with radial teeth arranged in different predetermined positions, a
series of transverse depressions that coincide in point of relative position to the
several inclined projecting slides in the spacing wheels, and a pivoted finger
adapted to move across said selecting discs, and engage them separately, and return
to its first and original position.
5. In a printing telegraph a series of spacing wheels and a series of selecting
discs of the construction shown and described in combination with a separate finger
for each series of wheels, said fingers having an independent movement to and from
their respective wheels and selecting discs, but so supported on and by a shaft as
that a transverse movement of one finger will effect a like result of both in the
same direction.
6. In a printing telegraph a series of spacing wheels, each of which has an
equal number of teeth and a number of inclined slides arranged as shown
and described in combination with a hook-ended finger for controlling the rotary

page_text: movement of said spacing wheels a downwardly extending arm which is bent to
form a forward incline at its lower portion, an armature bar from the side of
which projects a rod that will act upon said inclined arm and force it backward
on a descent of said armature bar and thereby draw the finger free from the
spacing wheels and prevent its return until released by an upward movement of
said armature.
7. In a printing telegraph a revoluble shaft provided with a series of spacing
wheels which have radial teeth arranged at equidistant points around their
peripheries, and in addition thereto a number of prominent inclined slides that
occupy parallel positions to each other obliquely to the axis of said wheels, in
combination with a pivoted finger adapted to have a movement to and from said
wheels, and engage them separately, and a lateral or side movement in one
direction by the action of the inclined slides upon said fingers; a series of circular
selecting disks provided with radial teeth arranged in different predetermined
positions; a series of transverse depressions that coincide in point of relative
location to the several inclined projecting slides in the spacing wheels; a finger
adapted to engage said selecting disks, and pass transversely through the
depressions therein, and across the same by a slide on the spacing wheels coming
in contact with its finger to force both fingers in the same direction, a.downwardly
extending arm attached to the finger of said selecting disks; a spring secured to
the lower portion of said arm; a pin projecting sideways from an armature bar
that will on its downward movement press upon said spring and force the finger of
the selecting disks out of contact therewith, and on passing said spring permit -
said finger to return to its former position on the selectors before the upward
movement of said armature bar.
8. In a printing telegraph, the combination of a type wheel, a series of spacing
wheels, and selecting disks, a finger adapted to control and check the rotation of
said spacing wheels; a finger that will control and govern the rotary action of said
selecting disks; an armature of an electro-magnet, that on being energized will
draw down said selecting disks, spacing wheels and type wheel to make an impress
on a strip or sheet of paper properly arranged to receive such impressions.
9. In a printing telegraph the combination of a type wheel, spacing wheels, and
selecting disks, a finger adapted to control and check the action of said spacing
wheels, a finger that will control and govern the rotary action of the selecting
disks; an armature of an electro-magnet that on being energized will cause said
fingers to so time their movements that on each electrical transmission of a signal
the said spacing wheels and selecting disks will rotate, be controlled and checked
at proper positions to bring a letter or numeral on said type wheel corresponding
to said signal around and stop at any desirable predetermined point.
10. A telegraphic instrument constructed and adapted to transmit and receive
Morse telegraphic signals, and translate the same into alphabetical letters, and
numerical characters, and separately print them, in combination with an electrical
generator, a main line of transmission, a polarized relay consisting of a perma-
nently magnetized pivoted bar arranged between the poles of two electro-magnets,
a non-magnetic bar pivoted to the free end of the permanent magnetic bar, an iron
armature attached to the non-magnetic bar, and an electro-magnet for actuating
said iron armature, to open and close the line of a local circuit by impulses sent
over the main line of transmission.
11. A telegraphic instrument of the character described, in combination with an
electrical generator, a main line of transmission, a pivoted magnetic bar arranged
between the poles of two electro-magnets, each having opposite polarities and in
the main line, a non-magnetic bar pivoted to the free end of the magnetic bar; an
iron armature attached to the non-magnetic bar; an electro-magnet also in the
main line for actuating said armature by electrical impulses sent along the main
line, whereby said non-magnetic bar at each electrical impulse is brought in
momentary contact with points in the circuit of a local battery to produce like
impulses in said local circuit.

page_text: 12. A telegraphic instrument constructed and adapted to transmit and receive
Morse signals and translate the same into alphabetical letters and numeral characters
and separately print them, in combination with a suitable electrical generator, a
main line of transmission, a polarized relay consisting of a permanently magnetized
pivoted bar, arranged between the poles of two electro-magnets forming part of
the main line, a non-magnetic bar connected to the permanently magnetized bar,
an iron armature attached to the non-magnetic bar, an electro-magnet for actuating
said iron armature, a local circuit and battery having no electrical communication
with the main line, but in such relative position to the non-magnetic bar of the
polarized relay that a change of polarity in the magnets of said relay will operate
to open and close said local circuit.
13. A telegraphic instrument constructed and adapted to transmit and receive
Morse signals and translate the same into alphabetical letters and numeral characters,
and separately print them, in. combination with a suitable electrical generator, a
main line of transmission, a polarized relay, consisting. of electro-magnets of
different polarities arranged in, and forming part of, said main line, a permanently
magnetized bar pivoted so as to swing between said electro-magnets, a non-magnetic
bar pivoted to the magnetic bar, an iron armature affixed to the non-magnetic bar,
two adjustable points, one of which is insulated, and between which the non-
magnetic bar is adapted to swing, a spring to draw said non-magnetic bar toward
and against said insulated point, an electro-magnet forming part of the main line,
and in such proximity to the armature on the non-magnetic bar as to produce in
the same a vibrating movement corresponding to an electrical impulse sent over
the line of communication without affecting the position of the magnetized bar
forming part of said polarized relay.
14. A telegraphic instrument constructed and adapted to transmit and receive
Morse signals and translate the same into alphabetical letters and numeral
characters, and separately print them, in combination with a main line of com-
munication, a polarized relay of the character described and the local electrical
circuit constructed and adapted to operate substantially as described, an electrical
battery for working the main line, a wire that connects the positive pole of said
battery to a contact point under a suitable key 66, a wire that connects the
negative pole of said batter to a point at the top of said key, a wire which
permanently connects said key\o the main line, a wire which connects a contact
point under the opposite end of key 66 to a similar point back of, and under closed
key lever 70, a wire from the same point connecting it to the negative pole of the
battery, a wire which connects a point under the forward end of said key lever 70
to the positive pole of the battery, and a wire, one end of which terminates in the
earth, and its other end in said key lever 70, which systémized arrangement of
wires and keys enables the operator to suddenly change the polarity of the
polarized relay, and thereby bring into action such portions of the local circuit
as may be required to operate separately the selecting apparatus and the printing
device.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.