Apparatus for Exhibiting Printed News Tapes and the like.
Year: 1898

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Apparatus for Exhibiting Printed News Tapes and the like.
I, PHILIP CORNISH, Architect and Surveyor, No. 83, Henniker Road, Stratford,
Essex, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The printed ribbon or tape on leaving the instrument is drawn and wound
spirally on the circumference of a vertical cylinder of any convenient size which
cylinder on being caused to revolve ascends or descends a fixed vertical shaft pass-
ing through its axis & having a screw thread or threads cut thereon the cylinder
having a corrospondently threaded nut forming the centre and bearing on which
it revolves & is supported upon the shaft. The pitch of the screw threads are
determined by the width of the tape & the position of the matter printed thereon.
Provision is made for the control of the cylinder attatchment, guidance support on
or removal of the tape from off the cylinder which may be caused to revolve by
any convenient motive power or it can be so arranged as to wind the tape on decend-
ing by the force of gravitation alone the unwinding of the tape on removal causing
the cylinder to reascend to its original position.
Apparatus for Exhibiting Printed News Tapes and the like.
I, PHILLIP CORNISH, of 83, Henniker Road, Stratford, Essex, Surveyor, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be per.
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following state-
ment;-
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news
This invention relates to the electrically operated instrument known as a
ticker," such as are usually employed in hotels and other places by
which the news of the day is printed upon a long tape which is
unwound from the ticker and is usually allowed to drop into a basket
or other receptacle. The object of my invention is to provide an improvement
whereby this tape as it is unwound from the ticker is rewound spirally on a cylinder
supported by a vertical screwed shaft placed in a suitable frame in such a manner
that the news on any part of the tape may be read at any time. A further object
is to provide a device of this class, which is particularly adapted for use in brokers
offices, in connection with stock tickers for the purpose hereinbefore specified:
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page_text: and with this and other objects in view the invention consists in the construction,
combination and arrangements of parts hereinafter described and claimed.
This invention is fully disclosed in the following specification of which the
accompanying drawing forms a part, Fig. 1 of said drawing being a side elevation,
and Fig. 2 a half plan view of the apparatus which employ part of the con-
struction being shewn in section.
In the drawing forming part of this specification the separate parts of my improve-
ment are designated by numerals of reference, and in the practice of my inven-
tion I provide a suitable base 5, which supports a table 6, which is preferably
circular or octagonal in form, and which is provided with upwardly directed out-
wardly curved arms 7, which support a ground ring 8.
Mounted on the table or support 6, is an open frame work; comprising vertical
rods 9, any desired number of which may be employed, and these rods are con-
nected at their upper ends in any desired manner, and passing vertically and
centrally through the open frame thus made is a shaft 10, the lower portion of
which is screw-threaded as shewn at 11.
Mounted on the shaft 11 is a cylinder 13 the bottom of which is provided with
a screw-threaded opening at 14, the thread of which corresponds with that formed
on the shaft 11; and the upper end of the cylinder 13, where the shaft passes there
through is provided with ball bearings 15.
The cylinder 13 may be of any desired construction and is preferably composed
of top and bottom plates connected in any desired manner, and the drum portion.
composed of any suitable material wound thereon or secured thereto.
In practice I connect with one side of the frame a bracket 16 on which is placed
the ordinary news or stock-ticker 17 and at the beginning of the day the cylinder 13
is raised on the shaft 11 by turning said cylinder in the proper direction, until
the bottom thereof is level with the bottom of the ticker. In this position of the
parts, the tape of the ticker is carried through the frame and connected in any
desired manner with the drum or cylinder, and said cylinder may be caused to
revolve by any desired form of mechanism or it may be caused to revolve, and at
the same time, as will be understood, descend by its own weight. The pitch of
the thread on the shaft 11 will depend upon the width of the tape, and it will be
understood that as the cylinder turns and descends, the tape will be wound spirally
thereon, and the news or other matter printed on the said tape may be read by any
desired number of people, and may be read or referred to conveniently at any time
during the day. The cylinder 13 and the frame in which it is placed may be
of any desired size and the lower portion of the said frame may be covered or filled
in with a net work of wire or any suitable material. The upper part of the frame
and pedestal may be fitted with panels or plates for displaying notices or announce-
ments.
If the cylinder is operated by its own weight as above described, it may be
when fully covered by the tape, turned in the opposite direction and raised on the
shaft 11 and in its operation the tape already wound thereon may be removed as
will be readily understood, and if the said cylinder is turned by machinery or
mechanism of any form, it will be also understood that provision may be made
for raising it as above stated by revolving it in the opposite direction from that in
which the tape is wound thereon whenever necessary.
I have not shewn any mechanism for operating this cylinder for the reason that
it will be understood that any suitable mechanism may be provided in case the
said cylinder is not desired to operate by gravity.
My improvement is simple in construction and operation, and is well adapted
to accomplish the results for which it is intended, and it will be apparent that by
means thereof the quotations on the tape may be read at any time by an indefinite
number of people. Whereas by the use of a basket or other device for receiving
the tape as is ordinarily the case, the quotations cannot be conveniently without
pulling the tape from the basket and as a rule but one person can conveniently
read said quotations at a time.

page_text: 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:-
1. The herein described device, consisting of a pedestal or support, an open
frame mounted thereon. A vertical shaft mounted centrally of said open frame
work, a cylinder mounted on the said shaft and adapted to revolve thereon and to
move up and down. As herein described said cylinder being adapted to receive
the tape from a news ticker, substantially as described.
2. A device of the character herein described comprising a suitable support, an
open frame work mounted thereon, a news ticker connected therewith, a screw-
threaded vertical shaft mounted in the said frame, and a drum or cylinder mounted
on the said shaft, the bottom of the said drum or cylinder being provided with a
screw-threaded opening through which said shaft passes substantially as described.
3. The combination with a news or stock-ticker of a suitably supported open
frame, a screw-threaded shaft mounted vertically in the said frame, a drum or
cylinder mounted on the said shaft which passes centrally therethrough, and on
which said cylinder is adapted to revolve and to descend by gravity, said cylinder
being adapted to receive the tape from the news or stock ticker substantially as
described.
4. The combination with the said frame and pedestal of panels or plates or like
devices for exhibiting notices or advertisements as herein described and set forth.
Dated this 9th day of May 1898.
S. S. BROMHEAD,
Patent Agent, 171, Queen Victoria Street, London, E.C.