US1179700A

US1179700A - Take-up device for telephone-cords.

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Publication number: US1179700A
Application number: US85057414A
Authority: US
Inventors: William P Cornell
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1914-07-13
Filing date: 1914-07-13
Publication date: 1916-04-18
Anticipated expiration: 1933-04-18

Description

W. P. CORNELL.

TK'E-UP DEVICE FOR TELEPHONE CORDS.

l'APPucATmN meu 1uLY 13. 1914.

1,1 79,700. Patented Apr. 18, 1916.

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WILLIAM P. CORNELL, OF CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA.

'TAKE-UP DEVICE FOR TELEPHONE-003133.

Specieation of Letters Patent.

Application led July 13, 1914. Serial No. 850,574.

- fic'ation accompanied by drawings.

This invention relates to a device for taking up the slack of the receiver cord of a telephone, although the invention.may be applied to different analogous purposes.

The receiver cord usually runs from thereceiver to the base of the telephone stand and then upwardly through the post to the base of the mouth-piece, and sufiicient length of cord is provided to permit the receiver to be removed from the hook and placed at the ear of the party using the telephone. This receiver cord frequently becomes tangled and catches among papers or upon ar.- ticles upon the desk or other support for the telephone stand.

My improvement consists of a device for automatically taking vup the slack in the cord, but which permits the cord to be eX- tended in use. j

In accordance with this invention the cord always remains in a coil adjacent the tele.- phone .stand or post when not in use, the cord cannot become tangled and does not become mixed up with papers and articles on the desk..

. The invention is illustrated in one of its referred-forms in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a perspective View of the telephone stand provided with the improvements, showing the telephone cord in coiled position; Fig. 2 is a detail perspective view showing the telephone cord extended; Fig. 3 is a detail side View of a portion of one form of my flexible spring; Fig. 4 is a transverse View or end view of Fig. `3; Fig. 5 is a side view of a portion of a modified device;

and Fig. 6 is a transverse end view of Fig. 5.

Referring to the drawings, A represents the base of an ordinary telephone stand having the poslt B andfmouthpiece C.

D represents the telephone hook and E the receiver. The telephone cord F extends from the receiver at one end to the base A and my improved device for taking up slack comprises flexible means secured to the telel'phone cord F substantially throughoutits length and adapted to coil and uncoil as the telephone cordl is relaxed, as shown in Fig. 1, or extended, as shown in Fig. 2. This deyice for automatically taking up the slack 1n the receiver cord, preferably comprises a coiled spring G suitably secured in-- any desired manner to the receiver cord substantially along its entire length. The "coiled spring may be formed of. iexible spiral spring wire of any desired metal, as` for instance, brass wire and in the form shown in the drawings this spiral spring is provided with lcross pieces or fingers H which may be soldered thereto at suitable intervals, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 4:, or else these fingers or hooks may be in thefornr'shown in Figs. 5 and 6, comprisin pieces of wire J, looped around the spring instead of being soldered thereto. The telephone cord F is placedin the loops and the ends a of the loops are bent down around the cord, so that the cord conforms to the convolutions of the spring and as the spring is extended by tak` ing up the telephone receiver E, the cord is also extended, but as the spring is relaxed, thc-.telephone cord is automatically coiled into a. substantially small compass, as illustrated in Fig. '1.

i I am not to be understood as limitingthe invention to the specific constructions of e Patented apr., rasate.

spring shown in the figures, because' the y spiral spring `may be secured to the cord by other means than those shown.

This device has been found to operate eficiently and well in actual use and it is not only a great convenience, but saves wear and tear on the telephone cord, which is not so apt to become broken and the covering' of the cord is protected against wear.

I claimv and desire to obtain by Letters f' Patent the following:

1. The combination with a movable telephone desk-stand, telephone receiver and receiver support or hook, and flexible telephone cord connected to the receiver at one end, and entering the base of the stand at the other end, of a continuous flexible spiral Avspring to which the telephone cord conforms and to vwhich said cord is secured substantially throughout its length, whereby the spring takes up the slack in the cord when the receiver is placed on the hook. l

2. As a new and improved article of manufacture, a device adapted to be applied externally to the telephone cord of a teleg V 1,179,7oo

phone for taking vup the slack, said device specification in the presence of two subscribcomprsinlg a exible spiral of sprng1 Wiz' ing'witnesses. 'Y the convo utons o which are rovde wit v means for securing the devicl to the tele- VILLIAM P' CORNELL' 5 phone cord, substantially throughout its Witnesses: l

length. y ERNEST BAYNARD VIND,

In 'testimony whereof I have signed this B. KATER MCINNES.