Improvements in Telegraphic Apparatus.
Year: 1898

page_text: ¡Date of Application, 1st Nov., 1898-Accepted, 7th Jan., 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Telegraphic Apparatus.
I, FREDERICK WILLIAM GOLBY, of 36, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middle-
sex, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me by Dr. Jean
Baptist Isabeau de Constant, of Essen, Germany, Professor, to be particu-
larly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:—
The object of the present invention is to simplify the process or manner of
telegraphing, which is at present somewhat circumstantial and slow.
The apparatus which forms the subject of the present invention and the system
of letters and words connected with it of the greatest simplicity and destined
to save time and money, as with it a message can be telegraphed in one tenth of
the time required hitherto.
In the accompanying drawing the apparatus is represented as applied, for
instance, to an ordinary Morse telegraphic apparatus.
Fig. 1 is an elevation and Fig. 2 a plan view of the apparatus, and Fig. 3 is
an example of a telegraphic code, alphabet or table of signs which may con-
veniently be used with the apparatus shown in Figs. 1 and 2, but this code per se
forms no part of the present invention.
In the Morse-telegraphic apparatus shown in Figs. 1 and 2, a is the travelling
slip of paper, b is the printing disc, c the lever pivotted at d, e the spring con-
nected to the lever e, f the ink wheel, gl a guide wheel for the slip of paper and
,, h, the electro-magnets. The whole apparatus is identical with those
hitherto, and the novelty consists in employing three printing discs b, 6, 62
instead of one. Furthermore above the guide-roller g is arranged a second
guide roller y having projections or teeth on its circumference which mark the
slip a when passing between the two rollers g and g with the central line re-
quired by the new system.
The three electro magnets are connected by wires to key levers by which they
are operated in the usual manner.
The three printing discs are operated by the three key levers independent one
from the other, but they can also be operated all three or each two simultaneously,
from which results an infinite number of combinations of movements for the
letters and words to be telegraphed, so that it is, for instance, possible to write a
polysyllabic word by pressing down the key levers but once.
It is obvious that by these means an enormous saving of time is obtained.
As will be seen by the example, shewn in Fig. 3, of a code or table of signs
suitable for use with the apparatus, the words recurring most frequently in
telegrams are rendered by a sign, but of course also entire periods repeated fre-
quently may be rendered in this way.
The invention, of course, is not limited to three printing discs, as more than
three such discs may be employed if desired.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said in-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:-
Telegraphic apparatus having three or more printing discs (b, 61, 62) instead
of the one used hitherto and a roller (g) marking the central line of the travelling
slip of
paper, for the purpose of simplifying and shortening the process of tele-
graphy, a special alphabet or table of signs being used, substantially as described
and illustrated.
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