IMPROVEMENTS IN TELEPHONE APPARATUS
Year: 1886

page_text: I SYDNEY ADDISON EDWARDS of 6 Great Charles Street Birmingham in the
County of Warwick Merchant do hereby declare the nature of the said invention
for IMPROVEMENTS IN TELEPHONE APPARATUS to be as follows:-
This invention has for its object the construction of the telephone apparatus so.
as to be portable and capable of being, moved from place to place without in any
way disconnecting the wires so that the same apparatus may be placed on a table
removed to a shelf or hung on a wall at will.
To effect this I place upon the stand or frame carrying the apparatus a reel or
other winding arrangement which may be similar in construction to a winding
tape measure or may be self acting in a similar way to a spring tape measure.
This winding arrangement carries wound upon it a length or lengths of insulated
wire so that when it is required to remove the apparatus from one situation to
another it is only necessary to unwind or "tell out" the requisite amount of wire
and wind it up again when replacing the apparatus again into its original position.
Or the apparatus may be upon a stand upon wheels with the winding arrange-
ment so constructed that the act of moving the stand forward will unwind the
wire and the act of moving it back again will wind the wire.
Or the wires may be hung up with balance weights at one end and the other
end carried over head and attached to the apparatus so that moving forward the
apparatus will draw out the wires and when the apparatus is placed back into its
original position the weights will draw back the wire again.
Many ways of giving out and drawing in the wires may be applied, the object
of my invention being to unwind and wind or give out and take in the requisite
amount of wires to allow of the telephone apparatus being moved from place to
place without disconnecting the wires.
PAYNE & TALBOT,
Agents for the Applicant,
4 & 5, Arcade Chambers,
Corporation Street, Birmingham,

page_text: Improvements in Telephone Apparatus.
I SYDNEY ADDISON EDWARDS of 6 Great Charles Street Birmingham in the
County of Warwick, Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this said invention
for IMPROVEMENTS IN TELEPHONE APPARATUS, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and to the letters
and figures marked thereon :-
This invention has for. its object the construction of the Telephone Apparatus
BO as to be capable of being moved from place to place without in any way
disconnecting the wires so that the same apparatus may be placed on a table
removed to a shelf or hung on a wall or placed anywhere desired.
To effect this I place upon the stand or frame carrying the apparatus a reel or
other winding tape measure or may be self acting in a similar way to a spring
tape measure.
This winding arrangement carries wound upon it a length or lengths of insulated
wires so that when it is required to remove the apparatus from one situation to
another it is only necessary to unwind or tell out the requisite amount of wire,
and wind it up again when replacing the apparatus in its original position.
Or the apparatus may be upon a stand upon wheels with the winding arrange-
ment so constructed that the act of moving it back again will wind the wire.
Or the wires may be hung over wheels or pulleys with weights hung upon the
wires the wires being attached to the apparatus in the ordinary way.
Thus moving forward the apparatus will draw out the wires and when the
apparatus is placed back into its original position the weights will draw back the
wires again.
Referring to the accompanying drawings Fig. 1. shews a view of a Telephone
Apparatus A is a case containing a reel upon which the insulated wires B are
wound by turning the handle C when it is required to place the apparatus in a
different position, the reel is turned by means of the handle C so as to give out the
required extra length of wires or draw in the portion thereof not required as the
case may be.
It will be obvious that by causing the reel to be acted upon by a spring in a
similar way to an ordinary spring tape measure the drawing in of the wires may
be made self acting and the arrangement would be specially applicable in cases
where the apparatus was placed upon or attached to a travelling table or stand.
The current may be connected through the axles of the winding apparatus.
Fig. 2. shews a way in which the wires may be told or gathered in by means of
balance weights D is the balance weight attached to the pully block G round
which pass the wires Band from thence over the fixed pulley block or weel E all
being contained in the casing F which may be fixed against a wall or in any
desired position.
When the Telephone Apparatus to which the wire B¹ is attached is removed
further from the case containing the weights the wires B¹ are drawn out from the
case at H thereby raising the weight and when the apparatus is again brought
nearer to the weight case the weight will draw in the superfluous length of wire.

page_text: Many ways of giving out and drawing in the wires may be applied the object of
my invention being to unwind and wind or give out and take in the requisite
amount of wires to allow of the Telephone Apparatus being moved from place to
place without disconnecting the wires.
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 application to Telephone Apparatus of arrangements to enable the apparatus
to be portable without being detached from its wires, such arrangements, consisting
in means for giving out and drawing in the length of connecting wires.
Dated this 18th day of October 1880.
PAYNE & TALBOT,
Agents for the Applicant,
4 & 5, Arcade Chambers,
Corporation Street, Birmingham.