US1000794A

US1000794A - Sign-holder for telephone-dials.

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Publication number: US1000794A
Application number: US59394410A
Authority: US
Inventors: Roy Hanmore Gerard
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1910-11-23
Filing date: 1910-11-23
Publication date: 1911-08-15
Anticipated expiration: 1928-08-15

Description

R. H. GERARD.

SIG-N HOLDER FOR TELEPHONE DIALS.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 23, 1910.

1,000,794. Patented Aug. 15,1911.

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ROY HANMORE GERARD, 0F BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA.

SIGN-HOLDER FOR TELEPHONE-DIALS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 15, 1911.

Application filed November 23, 1910. Serial No. 593,944.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, Roy HANMORE Gn- RARD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Berkeley, in the county of Alameda and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sign Holders for Telephone-Dials, of which the following is a specification.

This invention consists of a novel attachment particularly designed for use in connection with automatic telephones of the type wherein a revolving dial is employed upon the subscribers instrument, for making calls, and a finger stop associated with the dial for limiting the movement of the latter in the customary manner.

At the present time the dial of the subscribers telephone is provided with indicia, including directions for operating the instrument, and since the dial rotates and is brought to rest in any one of about eleven difierent positions, the above indicia is frequently up-side-down, and therefore inconvenient for reading by an operator unfamiliar with the use of the apparatus.

The present invention provides a holder for a sign, or the like and which is mounted upon the axis of the rotatable dial, but is held stationary by the finger stop so that the directions upon the holder are always readable, and, furthermore, by reason of the location of the holder at the central portion of the dial, said directions are prominently placed, resulting in obvious advantages.

For a full understanding of the invention reference is to be had to the following detail description and the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a View showing an ordinary automatic telephone and subscriberls set, of the desk type, and showing the invention in operative position with respect to the dial thereof; Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view of the invention alone and operatively arranged with respect to the screw axis of the dial; Fig. 3 is a combined plan and edge View of the sign holder; and Fig. 4 is a plan view of the sign which is preferably removably applied to the holder.

In the drawings, the numeral 1 designates the standard of an ordinary subscribers desk set telephone and the numeral 2 the receiver supported thereon in the common manner. As in the ordinary apparatus, the finger dial 3 is mounted rotatably upon the base ofthe standard 1, being supported by a screw 4. Near its outer periphery the dial 3 has the finger openings 5 and the finger stop 6 associated with the dial projects over, or overlaps, an edge portion of the dial so as to be engaged by the finger of an operator who rotatesthe latter part.

The sign holder comprising the present invention consists preferably of a circular body or plate 7 of a diameter somewhat less than the diameter of the space surrounded by the finger openings 5 of the dial 3, and said plate or body 7 is formed at its center with an upwardly flared opening 8 adapted to receive the head of the screw A somewhat loosely so that the sign holder will not interfere with the free rotation of the dial 3,

the latter being arranged beneath the sign holder when the same is properly applied to the telephone. At a suitable point in its periphery, the body 7 of the sign holder is provided with a notch 9 receiving the inner extremity of the finger stop 6, the stop thus cooperating with the sign holder to prevent rotation thereof, since the finger stop itself is stationary. A washer 10 may be interposed between the under side of the sign holder and the upper face of the dial 3.

If desired, the directions for using the telephone may be printed, inscribed, pressed or otherwise formed upon the upper surface of the body 7 of the sign holder and said directions will always be readable by reason of the stationary mounting of this part. As shown in the drawings, however, the plate from which the sign holder is made has its peripheral edge formed with an inwardly curved flange 7 adapted to overlap a detachable disk 11, made of paper or similar material and on which the directions for using the telephone are printed. To protect the disk 11, a cover disk 12 is preferably employed, the latter being made of any suitable transparent substance. The printed disk 11 may be formed with a projection 13 on its periphery.

When the sign holder is made in the manner shown in Fig. 3, the disk holding flange 7 is split and the split ends bent outwardly as shown at 7 to form grooved projections, and the space between the said projections constitutes the notch 9, before referred to. The disk 11 will be seated on the sign holding body 7 and positioned properly by interlocking the projection 13 between the projections 7 The projections 7 on the sign holder snugly receive the inner extremity of the finger stop therebetween and thereby establishing the locking connection between the sign holder and the stop 3.

The sign holder may be made of any suit able material in carrying out the invention, and it is to be understood that the specific structure of the various parts as hereinbefore described may be modified, having in view the specialobjects of the invention, and the scope of the claims hereto appended.

Having thus fully described my invention, what is claimed as new is:

1. In combination with a telephone set embodying a rotatable finger dial and a finger stop associated therewith, and a sign holder supported by the axis of the dial and having interlocking connection with the finger stop whereby movement of the holder is prevented during rotation of the dial.

2. In combination with a telephone set comprising a rotatable dial provided with finger openings adjacent to its peripheral portion, an axis for said dial passing through the same, a sign holder arranged over the dial and of a diameter less than the space surrounded by the openings aforesaid, and a stationary finger stop associated with the dial and projecting over the edge portion of the latter and interlocking with the edge portion of the sign holder.

8. In combination with a telephone set embodying a finger dial, a' headed screw passing through said dial and constituting the axis thereof, a finger stop associated with the dial and extending over the edge portion of the latter toward its center, and a sign holder through which the screw aforesaid passes, said sign holder being arranged above the dial and having a peripheral notch receiving the inner extremity of the finger stop, whereby the sign holder is prevented groin rotation during the movement of the 4. As a new articleof manufacture, a'sign holder for automatic telephone sets comprising' a centrally apertured plate ofsubstantially circular form, the edge portion of the plate being formed with a sign holding flange, said flange being split at a suitable point and the split ends being bent outwardly so as to provide spaced projections, and a sign comprising a disk held in place on the holder by the edge flange aforesaid, said sign having a peripheral projection extending into the space between the spaced projections of the holder.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature 1n presence of two wltnesses.

ROY HANMORE GERARD.

Witnesses: I

MARY H. GERARD, C. H. G. RUNDE.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents. Washington, D. 0.