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Description

FRENCH REPUBLIC

MINISTRY OF INDUSTRY

INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY SERVICE

1 "addition TO THE PATENT OF INVENTION

No. 1.450.777

P.V. n ° 9.748, Loire

International classification:

No. 92.572

G 08 b

Sophisticated signaling installation allowing calls and responses by light, sound, intercom signals, between a multiplicity of separate stations and centralizing and control stations, applicable in particular in clinics, hospitals, hotels.

Mr. Antoine SEGURA residing in France (Loire).

(Main patent issued July 9, 1965.)

Requested on June 6, 1967, at 15 & 10m, in Saint-Etienne.

Issued by decree of October 21, 1968.

(Official Bulletin of Industrial Property, No. 48 of November 29, 1968.)

This addition refers to the characteristics of the patent which have been partly modified and developed, on the one hand to facilitate the call of nurses or service persons, on the other hand to allow systematic and extensive research. several doctors or other people, by means of a call code.

Depending on the addition, the boxes of rooms or primary stations as well as the boxes of offices or secondary stations, are modified in particular in the arrangement of the switch to allow the call of a nurse, a service person or other.

Another feature is found in the search arrangements by code of doctors or other persons, these arrangements mainly comprise a special central box located for example at the switchboard, or combined with an office box or secondary station, said box being arranged with as many fixed and flashing contact keys as there are colored lamps entering the search code, these lamps which are repeated on said central box are placed on all the room boxes or primary stations as well as on the office boxes or secondary stations, so as to operate in relation to the angular position "presence" of the switch of these boxes, appropriate circuits ensuring the connections between all the stations, contacts and lamps.

According to another characteristic, the special central box or combined with a switchboard, or otherwise combined, comprises a call button making it possible to activate, in addition to code lamps, sound systems such as buzzers and also lamps. emergency services which are located in bedrooms and offices and also in places where people pass through repeater panels, said call button being able to be operated manually intermittently or continuously, or even automatically at regular and adjustable time intervals by means of a timer.

These and other characteristics will become apparent from the following description.

To establish the subject of the addition, without however limiting it, in the accompanying drawings:

FIG. 1 is a front view of an embodiment, according to the addition, of the housings of primary rooms or stations;

FIG. 2 is a front view of an embodiment, according to the addition, of the boxes of offices or secondary stations;

Fig. 3 is a front view of one embodiment, according to the addition, of a special central box for finding doctors or other persons, by means of a suitable code;

FIG. 4 illustrates by a diagram the assembly and the circuits of the housings of rooms or primary stations, the external arrangement of which is illustrated in FIG. 1;

FIG. 5 shows the diagram corresponding to the assembly and to the circuits of the special central box, the external arrangement of which is illustrated in FIG. 3;

FIG. 6 illustrates the circuit diagram of the office boxes or secondary stations, the exterior arrangement of which is illustrated in FIG. 2.

In order to make the characteristics and arrangements according to the present addition more concrete, they will now be described with reference to the figures of the drawings.

Unmodified provisions which are not

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not described in the context of this addition, should be considered as still conforming to the description of the patent with the same references.

In the following description, as in that of the patent, a particularly interesting and targeted application is considered, of installation in a clinic or a hospital center. It goes without saying that this is a non-limiting example.

We consider box B installed in the primary rooms or stations.

This box modified according to the provisions of the addition is illustrated in Figures 1 and 4.

In its external form shown in Figure 1, and also in the diagram of Figure 4, we recognize:

The call lamp B ';

Lamp B2 indicating that the call is recorded;

Lamp B1 indicating the presence of a nurse or service person in the room;

A B5 contactor adapter or strip to receive an adaptable timer or other device with a particular function;

Two lamps / and K of different colors, both of which can be lit in a fixed or flashing manner, and whose role emerges from the rest of the description, in relation to the provisions relating to research , by code, of doctors or other persons;

A button or switch B4 which can be rotated and placed in four positions, namely: a bo position which is neutral and corresponds to non-functioning, a bi position which corresponds to the call of a nurse or service person, a position bp which corresponds to the indication of the presence of a doctor, nurse or service person in the room, and finally br which corresponds to a response indicating that a call has been heard.

Inside the boxes B are also the relays B7, and the buzzer device B 'operating at the same time as the lamp B2, these arrangements having been described and illustrated in the patent.

It is observed that the key contact, with a view to finding a doctor for example, has been deleted following the addition. This eliminates the risk of losing or forgetting the keys.

We find all these elements in the assembly diagram, circuits and connections of figure 4, in which we see and we further notice:

A contactor strip B 'which makes it possible to instantly connect and disconnect the circuits from the box to the installation;

Switch B 'is shown with a circular arrangement of the contacts and blades which corresponds more closely to the reality of the assembly, in a different presentation but equivalent to the diagram of the patent, subject to modifications. We turn the various contacts bo-bi-bp-br. Switch pads 16-17 have been added for searching by physician code, according to the provisions described below.

The office box or secondary station F, is established according to the provisions described in the patent, and we find the same references, with the modifications similar to those which have been described for the room boxes, that is to say:

Removal of the F4 contact from the patent, operating by means of a key and intended for finding a doctor;

Arrangement of two L and M lamps of different colors, both of which can be illuminated in a fixed or flashing manner. These lamps working with the system, described below, of searching by code, of doctors or other persons;

Four positions of the switch (s) F ", namely: a neutral position fo for non-operation, a position fi for calling a nurse or service person, a position fp for indicating the presence of a doctor, nurse or service person, an answer position fr indicating that a call has been heard Switch pads 18 and 19 have been added for searching by physician code.

According to these arrangements, when you want to make a call to a nurse or a service call, the switch B '(or F6) is placed in the corresponding position, that is to say bi (or fi) which has the effect of trigger upstairs (or possibly throughout the clinic) the nurse or service call which results in:

1 ° The flashing of the presence lamps designated by E! to the patent and the flashing of the orange lamp designated by E2 to the patent, which is located in the middle of the over-door housing and signals the appellant chamber;

2 ° In the other rooms where a presence position has been set by means of the switch (bp), the so-called presence lamp B3 flashes and the so-called "orange" call lamp B2 also flashes, in conjunction with the buzzer sounding call. B '.

This effect is that which was caused by the key switches described in the patent, at the time of the medical research, the contact established previously by means of a key being that made at the switch directly without the ignition key.

It is also frequently necessary to reach several doctors and / or persons with important functions, who may be dispersed in all parts of the establishment.

Following addition, provision is made for systematic, rapid and efficient research involving several physicians or determined persons. For this we use a code based on the assembly of several lamps of different colors, each of which can operate in fixed and flashing lighting.

A special central box N (fig. 3) is installed, for example, at the establishment's telephone switchboard or at any other central point. If necessary

Claims (36)

However, there can be several N boxes. The N box can also be combined with an office or secondary box such as F. The N box has, on its exterior form: Two O and P lamps, both of which can be illuminated in a fixed and flashing manner. These lamps are repeating and correspond in particular by their colors and the connecting circuits to the J and K lamps of the primary chamber housing B, and to the L and M lamps of the secondary office housing F. These lamps give by their number, their colors different, their winding mode fixed or flashing a series of different calls in a pre-established code that can interest and designate each of the interested parties. For example, one of the doctors is designated by solid green and solid red, the other by flashing green and solid red, etc. It is obvious that the possibilities of calling and searching for a greater number of doctors and persons of various functions are considerably extended by increasing the number of lamps. Colored lamps are also placed on the boxes G of corridors which are described in the patent; Two ignition keys Q and R which control the circuits of the colored lamps J-K, L-M and O-P. Each Q-R key corresponding to the lamps of a color in three positions: a neutral position, a fixed ignition control position, a flashing ignition position; A call button S which is used to periodically activate sound systems such as B3 buzzers and B2 lamps. The assembly and circuit diagram of the central unit N is well illustrated in figure 5. We recognize the OP lamps, the ignition keys Q and R centered at 20, and which each act on the bars 21 and 22 establishing the various contacts in fixed or flashing lighting of the O and P lamps. These latter are connected by the conductors 23 -24 to the boxes of rooms B, galley F or corridors G. The mercury toggle contact is seen at 25, and also the flasher coil 26. The call button S actuates the multi-contact strip 27 to produce the circuits in the conductors 28 which go mainly to the lamps B2 and to the buzzers Bs of the chamber housings B. The circuits in dashed lines designated by the conductors 29 represent editing to make automatic calls on a periodic basis. In 30 is an audible call control repeater. In the case of automatic call setup, the conductors 28 bis are removed. The operation is explained as follows: To receive their respective code call in the rooms; doctors or people likely to be called must, when they are in a room, place the switch B4 in the bp presence position, which has the effect of - [92.572 / 1.450.777] prepare a call circuit on the two lamps 1 and K. If the attendant wishes to send a call to a doctor or specific person, he must place the Q and R keys in the coded call positions of the person sought, so as to light the indicator (s) in fixed or flashing. The manually operated or automatically triggered S button allows the attendant to activate the call circuits made available to her and also activate the circuits of the floor (s), as well as the emergency lamps and buzzers as indicated. . The shutdown can be automatic or manual. The audible call system can be made automatic by adapting a rotary timer operating for example every 10 seconds to periodically trigger the mainly audible general call, which draws the attention of the interested parties to the coded signals. Of course, on each key Q and R, an ignition contact is provided for this purpose, as illustrated in the assembly sketch of 'Figure 5. The interest and the advantages of these arrangements emerge clearly from the description and the drawings, while extending the possibilities of the installation. As goes without saying and as already emerges from the foregoing, the addition is in no way limited to that of its modes of application, nor to those of the embodiments of its various parts having been more especially indicated. ; on the contrary, it embraces all the variants. ABSTRACT This addition is characterized by: 1 ° The boxes of rooms or primary stations as well as the boxes of offices or secondary stations, which are modified in particular in the arrangement of the switch with two added pads and of which one of the four positions allows the call of a nurse, service person or other; 2 ° The removal from the boxes of rooms or primary stations, and from the boxes of offices or secondary stations, of the contacts by doctor search key; 3 ° Search provisions by code of doctors or other persons, these provisions mainly include a special central box located for example on the switchboard, or combined with an office box or secondary station, said box being arranged with as many keys fixed and flashing contact that there are colored lamps entering the search code, these lamps which are repeated on said central box, are placed on all the boxes of rooms or primary stations as well as on the boxes of offices or secondary stations, so as to operate in relation to the angular position "presence" of the switch of these boxes, appropriate circuits ensuring the links between all the stations, contacts and lamps; [92.572 / 1.450.777] - 4 ° The installation of colored lamps repeating code signals on repeater boards in corridors and passageways; 5 ° The central box comprises colored lamps corresponding to the search code, and as many ignition keys as there are lamps, these keys having three positions: neutral, fixed ignition, flashing ignition; 6 ° The central box has a call button making it possible to activate, in addition to code lamps, sound systems such as buzzers and also emergency lamps, which are found in bedrooms and offices and also in passing places on repeater boards, said call button being able to be operated manually intermittently or continuously, or even automatically at regular and adjustable time intervals by means of a timer; 7 ° The assemblies and circuits of the room and office boxes, and of the central box (s), as shown or described; 4 - 8 ° The central box is mounted alone or combined with a switchboard, or otherwise combined; 9 ° The call by code giving extended possibilities of individual searches of doctors or other persons, according to the number of lamps, taking into account the colors of these lamps, their fixed or flashing operation; 10 ° The contact strips fitted to the bedroom or pantry boxes, and which allow the circuits of these boxes to be connected or disconnected directly on the installation; 11 ° The combinations of the above characteristics and the characteristics of the patent; 12 ° As new industrial products; advanced signaling installations, their boxes and components established according to the above characteristics considered separately and in any combination. Antoine SEGURA Vicarious : Cabinet Charras For the sale of the booklets, contact the Impbtmkrib Nationale, 27, rue de la Convention, Paris (15th).