An Improved Telephone Cabinet.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Mar., 1892
Complete Specincation Lert, 10th Dec., 1892-Accepted, 28th Jan., 1893
Complete Specincation Lert, 10th Dec., 1892-Accepted, 28th Jan., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Telephone Cabinet.
We, JOHN SHAW VOST, and FRANK ROWLANDS FISHER, of Union Street,
Halifax, in the County of York, Cabinet Makers and Upholsterers, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to telephone cabinets or cupboards for containing the
usual telephonic appliances and which cabinets are employed for a person to enter
when using the telephone. The object of placing the telephonic instrument in a
cabinet is to ensure quietness so that the person may hear more distinctly what is
being said, but in consequence of their present construction the quietness desired is
only partially attained.
Our improvements in these telephonic cabinets consist in making the sides as
well as the door, of double casing in which we insert sawdust, wool, cotton, or other
substance or material for the purpose of deadening sounds or noises which may be
going on outside the cabinet; by which means we ensure greater quietness than is
found with a single boarded cabinet.
If glass is placed in the door panels, we propose to make it double with a space
between.
Dated this 15th day of March 1909
TASKER & CROSSLEY,
Halifax, Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Telephone Cabinet.
We, JOHN SHAW VOST, and FRANK ROWLANDS FISHER, of Union Street,
Halifax, in the County of York, Cabinet Makers and Upholsterers, 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:-
This invention relates to telephone cabinets or cupboards for containing the
usual telephonic appliances, and which cabinets are employed for a person to enter
when using the telephone. The object of placing the telephonic instrument in a
cabinet is to ensure quietness so that the person may hear more distinctly what is
being said, but in consequence of their present construction the quietness desired is
only partially attained.
In order that our invention may be more fully understood, we will make reference
to the accompanying drawing which illustrates a telephone cabinet constructed
according to our invention. Our improvements consist in making the sides as well
as the door of double casing as shewn at A and B whilst the space C between the
portions A and B is filled in with sawdust, wool, cotton, or other substance or
material for the purpose of making the cabinet silent and deadening sounds or noises
from the outside; by which means talking from the outside cannot be heard.
If glass is placed in the door-pannels we also propose to make them double as
shewn at D and E.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
Firstly. The construction of a telephone cabinet formed with double casing, as
shown and dosovihad

page_text: Secondly. The construction of a telephone cabinet formed with double casing,
the intervening space being filled with sawdust or other material, for purposes and
in manner described.
Dated this 15th day of December 1800
TASKER & CROSSLEY,
Halifax, Agents.