IMPROVEMENTS IN TELE- GRAPHIC PRINTING APPARATUS
Year: 1864

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henri Adrien Bonneville, Patent Agent, of the
British and Foreign Patent Offices, 24, Rue du Mont Thabor, Paris, in
the Empire of France, and 38, Porchester Terrace, Bayswater, in the
County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN TELE-
GRAPHIC PRINTING APPARATUS."-A communication Victor Delaye, residing
at Rue de la Paix, Paris, in the Empire of France.
Sealed the 15th November 1864, and dated the 7th June 1864.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henri Adrien Bonneville,
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 7th June 1864.
I, HENRI ADRIEN BONNEVILLE, Patent Agent, of the British and Foreign
Patent Offices, 24, Rue du Mont Thabor, Paris, in the Empire of France, and
38; Porchester Terrace, Bayswater, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN TELEGRAPHIC
PRINTING APPARATUS," communicated to me by Victor Delaye, 'a person
residing at Rue de la Paix, Paris, in the Empire of France,. aforesaid, to be
as follows, that is to say:-
This Invention consists in certain improvements in telegraphic printing
apparatus, whereby messages may be printed in- known characters, directly,
rapidly, and with great facility. The improved apparatus is worked from two

page_text: electro-magnets by reverse or alternate currents with two pairs of coils of
unequal force. It is composed of two distinct movements or systems, one of
These
which I call the composing system and the other the printing system.
two systems are connected with two distinct clockwork movements.
The first, or composing system, is worked by means of inverse or contrary
currents. It consists of a wheel made of aluminum, or other suitable light
metal, on the circumference of which are cut letters, figures, or other signs,
corresponding with the sending plate, and caused by the propelment to
assume successively all the positions or follow all the movements of the
manipulator. This wheel is inked either by a wheel suitably covered placed
immediately above it, or by a pad, arranged so as to be placed in contact with
The
and then withdrawn from the surface of the letter about to be printed.
latter arrangement is preferable on account of offering less resistance to the
revolution of the letter-wheel and increasing the rapidity of transmission.
spring blade, placed above an escapement wheel, allows of uncounting or
bringing the letter-wheel back to blank by simply pressing with the finger on
a button attached to it, thus overcoming one of the most serious difficulties
encountered in this class of machines.
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The second, or "printing system," is like the first, or "composing system,"
connected with a clockwork movement. This system is actuated by the
increase of force given to the current by lowering the manipulator, when a
piston, placed at a suitable distance below the lowest part of the circumference
of the type-wheel, rises and lifts the paper, which is wound upon a roller at
the side, and passes between the type-wheel and the piston against the letter
to be printed. Two other rollers placed at the opposite extremity of the
machine are acted upon after each impression, and being brought in contact
draw an equal length of paper at each rising of the piston. By the above
means, words may be printed clearly and rapidly upon bands or strips of paper.
The apparatus is not liable to get easily out of order, and is regulated with
great facility.
The manipulator differs from those in common use, inasmuch as by means
of an articulated lever joined to its centre, and of a system of discs place inside
establishing the current, the extremity of the lever may be placed in contact
with the two wires which pass through the axe of the manipulator, thus
obtaining a more or less intense current by raising or lowering said manipulator
or winch.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Henri Adrien Bonneville in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 21st November 1864.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRI
ADRIEN BONNEVILLE, Patent Agent, of the British and Foreign Patent Offices,
24, Rue du Mont Thabor, Paris, in the Empire of France, and 38, Porchester
Terrace, Bayswater, in the County of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventh day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, in the twenty-seventh year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto me, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, Her special licence that I, the
said Henri Adrien Bonneville, any executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time
to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should
and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN TELEGRAPHIC PRINTING APPARATUS," commu-
nicated to me by Victor Delaye, a person residing at Rue de la Paix, Paris,
in the Empire of France, aforesaid, upon the condition (amongst others) that
I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, my executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Inventioni,
and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the saine
to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months
next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
. NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, do hereby
declare the nature of the said 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 consists in certain improvements in telegraphic printing
apparatus, whereby messages may be printed in known characters, directly,
rapidly, and with great facility. The improved apparatus is worked from two
electro-magnets by reverse or alternate currents, with two pairs of coils of
unequal force. It is composed of two distinct movements or systems, one of
which I call the composing system, and the second the printing system. These
two systems are connected with two distinct clockwork movements.

page_text: The first or composing system is worked by means of inverse or contrary
currents; it consists of a wheel made of a aluminum or other suitable light
metal, on the circumference of which are cut letters, figures, or other signs,
corresponding with the sending plate and caused by the propelment to assume
successively all the positions of or follow all the movements of the manipulator.
This wheel is inked either by a wheel suitably covered placed immediately
above it or by a pad, arranged so as to be placed in contact with and then
withdrawn from the surface of the letter about to be printed. The latter
arrangement is preferable on account of offering less opposition to the
revolution of the letter wheel and increasing the rapidity of transmission. A
spring blade, placed above an escapement wheel, allows of "uncounting" or
bringing the letter wheel back to blank by simply pressing with the finger on
a button attached to it, thus overcoming one of the most serious difficulties
encountered in this class of machines.
The second or printing system is, like the first or composing system, con-
nected with a clockwork movement. This system is actuated by the increase
of force given to the current by lowering the manipulator, when a piston,
placed at a suitable distance below the lowest part of the circumference of the
type-wheel rises and lifts the paper which is wound upon a roller at the side
and passes between the type wheel and piston against the letter to be printed.
Two rollers placed at the opposite extremity of the machine are acted upon
after each impression, and being brought in contact draw an equal length of
paper at each rising of the piston. By the above means words may be printed
clearly and rapidly upon bands or strips of paper. The apparatus is not
liable to get easily out of order, and is regulated with great facility.
The manipulator differs from those in common use, inasmuch as by means
of an articulated lever joined to its centre, and of a system of dises placed
inside establishing the current, the extremity of the lever may be placed
alternately in contact with the two wires which pass through the axle of the
manipulator, thus obtaining a more or less intense current by raising or
lowering the said manipulator or winch. The above improvements in the
receiving or printing apparatus and in the manipulator or sending apparatus
consist in employing two systems of organes independent of each other, and
worked by two clockwork movements, and two electro-magnets for transmitting
and composing and for printing signs or letters, and in certain modifications in
the manipulator which allow of employing two piles of unequal force or of
dividing the force of one pile in order to act, with one part of its elements
only, or with the weaker pile, on the composing system, the plate of whose
coil requires a less force of attraction or with the whole of the elements of one

page_text: pile or the stronger pile when two are used on the printing system, the plate
of the coils of which is only attracted when the whole of the force of the one
pile or the stronger of the two is employed.
The accompanying Drawings, in all the Figures of which the same letters of
reference indicate similar parts, represent, Fig. 1, an elevation of the
telegraphic printing apparatus from the side of the type wheel; Fig. 2, an
elevation of the same from the side of the electro-magnets; Fig. 3, a plan
view from which several organs are removed in order to show other parts
placed below them; Figure 4, a front and side elevation of the escapement,
intended for preventing the reimpression of the same letter or sign without a
second attraction of the plate to which it is fixed; Fig. 5, a plan view of the
manipulator with part of its dial plate removed; Figure 6, a vertical section of
the same, and Figure 7 an elevation of the handle or winch of manipulator.
Receiving Apparatus, Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 4.-This apparatus works by means
of two clockwork movements enclosed in the box A, fixed on the foundation
plate B. One of these movements connected with the composing system by
the toothed wheel C, fixed on one end of a spindle S, passing through the box
is acted on by means of an escapement D, and a plate or armature E by the
coil F, and the two electro-magnets G, G; these latter are regulated by
means of collar screws H, H, inserted in supports 1, I. The tapped ends of
these screws enter screw nuts J, J, fixed in the branches of the horse-shoe.
By turning the collars the magnets may be made to turn on their vertical
axes, K, K, and are thus regulated. The other clockwork movement con-
nected with the printing system by the wheel L fixed on another spindle which
also passes through the box A is acted on by the two coils M, M, by means
of an escapement N, and a plate or armature O. This latter, requiring by its
position a greater force of attraction than that acting on the escapement of the
composing system, the arrangement of the manipulator allows of acting with
the stronger pile or with all the elements of one pile as the case may be on
the armature O, and with only a part of the elements of the latter or with the
weaker pile on the armature E.
Composing System.-The effect of the attraction of the armature E is to
give to the bent rod P a come-and-go movement, which it communicates to
the spindle by means of the forked picce R. This piece is solidary with
this spindle, in the centre of which are fixed two steel rods T, T, one of which
is slightly in advance of the other, so that at each oscillation of the spindle Q
each tooth of the escapement wheel C meets successively the ends of the two
rods T T, and is thus twice checked. On the other end of the spindle S, and
at the other side of the box A, a wheel V, made of aluminum or other suitable

page_text: light metal around the circumference of which are cut the letters or signs to
be reproduced being fixed, the result is, that at each partial rotation of the
escapement wheel C, the type wheel V also receives a rotary movement, and
consequently each letter or each sign presents itself successively to the strip of
paper X intended for receiving the impression, the entire rotation of the type
wheel V consequently corresponds to a complete revolution of the escapement
wheel C. In order to place the type wheel at blank, it suffices to press on
the button Y, the rod of which carries a pair of jaws, between which is fixed
the support Z, carrying one end of the spindle S, sliding in a slot formed in
the side of the box A. This pressure inclines this spindle mounted on a
rocking support a on the side on which is placed the type wheel, and this
inclination disengages the escapement wheel C from the rods T, T, and allows
it to turn until the pin 6 occupying on this wheel a position corresponding to
that of the blank on the type-wheel V is stopped by the vertical rod c. It will
be understood that the number of the teeth of the escapement wheel C is regu-
lated by the number of signs or letters carried by the type-wheel V. These
signs or letters are inked by a circular pad d, which presses by its own weight
on the type wheel V, and this pressure is regulated by means of a screw e placed
below its moveable support f.
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Printing System.The attraction of the armature O which commands the
printing clockwork movement disengages the lever ; which is solidary with the
spindle of the clockwork passing through the side of the box A from one of
the two rods h, h, fixed one in advance of the other on the upright i of this
armature, and thus allow the said spindle to turn on itself, but the lever j in
turning, once more meeting one or other of the said rods h, h, whether the
coils M, M, act or not on the armature O, the result is that the movement of
the piston n, which carries the paper X against the letter or sign to be printed
being solidary with the movement of the spindle of the clockwork; the
pressure of the paper against the letter of the type-wheel only takes place at
each revolution of this spindle. A small spiral spring p fixed at one end to
a cord passing on a grooved pulley r, the tension of which may be regulated
by a buttons, and at the other end to a hook t fixed to the upright of the
armature O brings the latter back to its place when the attraction bas ceased.
The impression of the letters or signs of the type wheel V is made on the
band or strip of paper X wound on a wheel u, the support of which is fixed
in the foundation plate B. This band of paper is guided between or against
the rollers x, x, x, and passes between the drawing rollers y, y, worked by the
printing clockwork. One of these rollers, the lower one, is supported by a
fixed axis, whereas the upper one turns on an axis supported by two brass

page_text: plates, oscillating on an axis fixed in the side of the box, on which axis is.
fixed a washer a'. The pressure necessary for drawing the paper is given
to the upper roller y by means of a spring 6' commanded by the pressure
screw cl, acting on one of its extremities and fixed by its other extremity to
the washer a. In order to disengage the band of paper from between the
rollers y, y, a small lever d¹, provided with a projection at its lower extremity,.
is used for raising the two brass plates z, and consequently the upper drawing
roller y. The rotation of the drawing roller is caused by the clockwork move-
ment, a spindle of which passing through the side of the box A carries a circular
plate e, at its extremity, on which and near whose circumference is fixed a pin
or stud f which at each of its revolutions engages itself between the teeth of.
a wheel g¹ fixed on the axis of the lower drawing roller y, to which it gives a
rotary movement, and consequently causes the band of paper to move a certain
distance. This stud, before attaining the toothed wheel g¹, meets with the
segment h¹ fixed to the end of the lever i¹, carrying at its other end the piston.
n, and causes the lever to turn on its axe, and to carry the piston n against
the paper band, and the latter against the sign or letter which the type
wheel V presents at the moment. The axis of the lever is supported by a
bracket, fixed to the side of the box A, and which also carries a spring m¹,.
intended for raising, after each impression, the end of the lever ¹ carrying the
segment . A regulating screw n¹ serves for keeping the lever at the requisite
height. The screw p¹ serves for regulating the height of the piston n.
Sending Apparatus.-Manipulator, Fig. 5, 6, and 7.-The manipulator
employed for this apparatus differs, as previously said, from ordinary manipu-.
lators, inasmuch as it allows of acting at will on the composing system by
only employing part of the force of the one pile or the weaker pile when two
are used, and on the printing system by employing all the force of the one or
the stronger of the two piles. It is composed of a box, the upper part of
which forms a fixed dial plate, on which are figured signs or figures similar to
those intended to be reproduced and around the circumference of which are
cut notches or scotches q', opposite each of these signs or letters. Under the
dial plate is placed a moveable brass disc r¹, the axis of which carrying at its
upper end a head s², of ivory or other nonconducting material, receives a winch
t, under which is fixed a stud or pin u', which may be made to descend at
will in the scotch corresponding to the letter or sign it is wished to transmit.
In the under plate of the disc r¹ is formed a circular groove v¹, presenting a
number of undulations equal to that of the letters or signs of the type-wheel
V. In this groove slides a pin or stud a fixed in a double lever y¹, whose
axis is placed at the point . The ends of this lever, terminated by blades

page_text: a, a, coming alternately in contact with the screws q", q", u", ul, and
operating the reversement of the currents, obey the come-and-go movenients given
to the pin by the undulations of the groove v, when, by means of the winch
or handle t¹, a rotary movement is given to the disc r. Thus are established
the inverse currents which act on the armature E, working the bent rod P
of the composing system, and consequently all its organs. The current
engendered by one part only of the elements of the pile, is established at the
point cu by means of the steel blade d" forming the extremity of the bent
lever c¹¹, the axis of which is fixed on the side of the winch at the point f¹¹ as
long as the latter is not lowered, but when the lowering takes place, and the
pin u¹ enters one of the scotches q¹ of the dial plate, the lever e¹¹, which is
commanded by the pressure exercised on the roller g, placed at its other end
is lowered, the contact at the point c¹¹ no longer exists, the current ceases, and
the blade d being lowered as far as the contact ", establishes a stronger
current with all the elements of the pile, which act on the armnature O of
the printing system, and consequently on the piston n, which presses the band
of paper x against the letter or sign of the type wheel v. This letter or this
sign is the same as that marked on the dial plate opposite the notch in
which the pin of the winch is introduced. The spring i", acting on the bent
lever e, serves for bringing the blade d" back to the first contact c". The
two handes j, j, serve for changing the communication by causing the
brass blades, 11, to slide on one of the contacts m¹¹, m¹¹, 11, m, m.
The communication of the currents of the pile to the manipulator is esta-
blished as follows:-The brass which communicates only with one part of
the elements of the one or with the weaker of the two piles is fixed to the
contact n, and the zinc to the contact p¹, and both are in communication
with the screws q, q¹¹. The brass of the contact n" communicates with the
metallic circle, and from there to the point of contact c", by the spring s",
which runs on this circle when the winch t¹ is in movement, and by a con-
ducting wire. This communication is next established between the point el
and the screws u", u", by the lever e¹ and the winch. The reversement of
the current takes place by the double lever y'. The brass corresponding with
all the elements of the one or the stronger of the two piles is screwed to the
contact . This contact itself communicates with the metallic circle all, and
from thence by the spring 2", which runs on this circle, and by a conducting
wire screwed to the screw w to the point of contact . All the conducting
wires are indicated by red lines.
Having thus described the nature of the said Invention, and the manner in
which the same is to be performed, I wish it to be understood that I do

page_text: not intend to confine myself to the use of the particular organs above
described, which may be modified without changing the principle of the said
Invention in any way, but what I claim is the arrangement and application
of the different organs for transmitting, composing, and printing, and
particularly-
The use of only one pile, and the division of its elements, or the use of two
piles of unequal force, in order to act with a more or less intense current
alternately on the composing and printing systems.
The arrangement of the winch of the manipulator with its lever, spring,
and roller for establishing the alternative communication with tho two piles,
or with the divided elements of one pile alone, or any analogous mode of
obtaining this result.
The system of bringing the type wheel back to blank by means of the
escapement wheel C.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Eighteenth day of November, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.
H. BONNEVILLE. (L.S.)