US1293346A - Electrical selecting and recording apparatus. - Google Patents

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G. S. CORNISH. ELECTRICAL SELECTING AND RECORDING APPARATUS.

APPLiCATION FILED IULY16, 1917.

Patent-ed Bel. i, 1919.

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APPLICATION FILED JULY I6, I9I7. 1,2@3,S4c6 Patented Feb. 4, 1919.

UNITED STATES PATENT ounron. GUY S. CORN'ISH, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF TO E. L. MORGAN, 018

ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI. ELECTRICAL SELECTING AND RECORDING. APPARATUS.

1,293,346, Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Feb, 4, 1919, Application filed July 16, 1917. Serial No. 180,771.

To all whom it may concern: able and stationary conductors relative to a Be it known that-I, GUY S. CORNISH, a series of printers. citizen of the United States, residing at Cin- Fig. 1s a plan of a section of the percinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State forated sendin tape with the first twelve of Ohio, have invented certain new and useletters of alpha et perforated thereon. ful Improvements in Electrical Selecting Fig. 6 is a die am illustrating the segand Recording A paratus, of which the folments brushes, re fys and electrical conneclowing is a'spec' cation. tions employed to select a single letter out y invention relates to improvements in of the series required to actuate the printing telegraph or other selective and recording apparatus.

1g. 7 .is a section detail on line 7 7 of improved simple and reliable selective appa- Fig. 4. ratus to select out the respectively different signals and apply them to register correctly Fig and directly upon the printing ap aratus 1g. 9 1s a diagram of one of the type-bar type bars at the receiving stations. nother actuating solenolds.

object is to provide a plurality of independhe accompanying drawings illustrate the cut series of contact members functioning preferred embodiment of my invention as as to numbers and time to select the letters applied to telegraph a paratus, in which as indicated by line signals for one or more A represent rotary istributer heads 10- printers or recorders. Another object is to cated at different stations, which are or may provide in combination with suitable relays be each both a sending and a receiving staa series of segments and contact members tion. The headsA and A are duplicates of move 1e relative to each other. Another each other. The several sending instruapparatus. One of its objects is to provide F ig. 8 is a sectional detail on line 8 8 of bi to id i bi ti -with a ments of a multiplex system, a quadruplex series of contact members amovable mem system, for instance, are represented by 2, 3, her carrying a differently arranged series 4 and 5 and the receiving or recording inof contact segments each series correspondstruments by 6, 7, 8jand 9. The brush coning to a definlte slgnal and serving to transtacts of the distributer heads A and A are mlt its own and no other signal to the printrotated in synchronism by suitable known so 1 ing apparatus. Another object is to proapparatus indicated by B which it is not ride a single selector common to a plurality necessary herein to set forth in .detail. The of printers. Another object is to provide respective flistribllter heads each comprise improved means to distribute the selected a statlonarlly mounted disk a of insulating signals to the respective printers over'difi'ermaterial upon one face of which are a secut branch circuits and to record the diflerries of continuous concentric conductor rings ent characters. M invention also comprises 16 and a series of concentric segmental or certain details of orm, combination and ardistributing conductor rings 17; a series of rangement,. all of which Wlll be fully set separate, rotarily mounted brush holders 10 forth in the descrlption of the accompanyon the shafts 11, serve to hold a series of in drawings, in which! 1 brushes 10' which make a series of different %igure 1 is a general diagram of appacontacts with said contact rings and across ratus embodyin lily-invention. from one continuous ring to one segmental 1g. 2 is a etail of one of the locking ring, to connect said rings electrically in selecting relays. pairs. The respective sending instruments ig. 3 is a plan view of the face of one serve to prepare perforated tapes 12, see Fig. type of stationary member for the distribu- 5 on WlllCh tapes there are a series of fee ter head. ing perforations 14 and spaces for five per- Fig. 4 is an enlarged diagram illustrating orations in a row transversely of the tape.

the relation of the selecting relays and mov- In practice, thirty or more characters are ing employed for sending and printing the messages, and by employing difierent combinations of five or less transverse perforations with different positions and spacing for the perforations, each of the thirty or more characters may be distinguishably represented on the tape by said perforations in transverse rows, and these perforations are in turn translatable into electrical signals over the line wire W connecting, for instance, the receiving head A with the send ing head A.

The line is operated as one type of duplex line, that is one sending instrument at each end of the line, and one recording instrument at each end of the line are operated as a du lex unit or system, and are allotted a definite portion or segment of each revolution of the distributer heads for the exclusive transmission of their signals over the line. Other sending and recording instruments in similar duplex units or systems are allotted other definite portions of each revolution of the distributer heads for the transmission of their signals over the line. This is effected by feeding the perforated tapes from the several sending instruments into operative, relation with a series of selecting pins which influence the current so as to translate the perforated si als of the ta es into electrical signals which are sent orward over the line.

The distributer head A at the receiving station being rotated in synchronism with the distributer head A at the sending station, receives and transmits to the selective apparatus the identical electrical signals received by the distributer head A at the sending station. The head A receives in consecutive order five or less independent sig nals, which it sends out over the line to head A. The signals received consecutively at head A are distributed by head A directly or indirectly to the respective circuits 80 to 84: to energize the respective magnets 19 of one of the series of relays 85 to 89, there being one series of relays 85 to 89 for each recording instrument. Distributor heads and sending instruments such as herein diagrammatically illustrated and described have been heretofore employed with difierent, more complicated, and unreliable selective apparatus, and do not require specific illustration and description herein, except that C represents an electric motor, which with its fly wheel 15 tends to drive the shaft 11 at a uniform speed which is slightly greater than the actual speed of said shaft 11, due to the action of the synchronizing apparatus B which by unclutchthe shaft 11 from one of the motors C retarding its movements through sets the heads and of rings and brushes carried by A A, serves to keep the two shafts 11 of localsSO to 84 of printer the respective stations in step or synchronized.

The main line connections are of the general duplex type or system of telegraphy. At each end of the line is a main relay 1), a synchronizin or correcting relay F, and a relay G, w ich transmits the signals through the desired rings and segments of the distributer in sequence to the circuits 80 to 84 of the respective series of vrelays 85 to 89, which in turn set up or prepare for the closing of a definite branch of one of the local recorder circuits 90, through the series of relay contacts 24: and 25. The signals'transmitted to the distributer head A at the receiving station are taken from its collector rings to its segments by the series of brushes 10, so as to separately transmit to the separate local circuits 80 to 84 of four printers those electrical signals sent out from the respective corresponding sending instrument. Signals from sending instrument 2 wouldv be distributed to the 6, the signals sent out by sending instruments number 3 and i 4 and 5 are distributed at the head A to and reproduced in the local circuits 80 to 84 of the respective printers number 7 8 and 9.

The electrical impulses set up in the local circuits 80 to 84 of the respective printers are the duplicate in kind of those passing from the sending instruments 2, 3, 4 and 5 to the distributer head A and are each directed respectively through an independent relay of the series of relays E. For the purposes of identification the respective relays of series E are numbered 85, 86, 87, 88 and 89. Each of the relays of the series of relays E comprises a main movable arm 18 (see Fig. 2) actuated by an electromagnet 19. At the free end of arm 18 is a block of insulating material 20 to the ends of which are attached two contact members 21 and 22. The members 21 and 22 each move between two adjustable contact screws 24 and 25 so as to make contact with the screw 24 when the magnet is energizedand with the screw 25 when the magnet is not energized. The members 21 and 22 of adjacent relays are electrically connected in series by means of flexible conductors 26 as shown in Fig. 4. Each relay of series E is connected up electrically as indicated in Fig. 2 so that when the distributer closes the local circuit, say 80 at 95 and 96 the magnet 19 is brought into circuit and the armature attracted which closes circuit 80 at contact 97 and locks the armature 18 to magnet 19 pernutting circuit 80 to be opened at 96, until the circuit is finally opened at 95 through the distributer contacts after the character has been printed.

H represents a cylinder of insulating ina- 1,aos,see

terial preferably rotatably mounted upon each of the thirty or more different charat the shaft 11 and having upon its periphery acters or signals which it is possible to send a series of segments or conductors symmetri over the wire. As illustrated in Fig. 6 the cally arranged in rows or bars longituditwo rows or bars of segments 31 and 32 are nally of the cylinder and separatcd circumarranged to select out the letter A, that ferentially of the cylinder in a partially is to close the local circuit of the printer symmetrical order into full length segments across the segments 31 and and through 1 and half length segments 32. At four the contacts of the co-acting relays 35 to 89 equidistant points about the cylinder H are of the series E and to hold said circuit arranged double rows of contact brushes'3 closed for an interval suflicient for a sepaand 34 (see Fig. 6), ten in each row, to rate electrical signal to operate the. type bar respectively engage two adjacent rows of actuating mechanism or solenoid and allow contacts and spaced apart, so as to be able the selected type bar to strike. after which segment and one brush to each half length 95 by the distributcr. and then closed ready segment. The respective series of brushes to set up the next character. The brushes 33 and 34 are connected up electrically as 33 and 34 and relays to 89 of the series illustrated in Figs. 6 and 7 through the ad- E then proceed to select and print the next jacent binding posts 35 with the several character coming in over the wire. In the contact screws 24 and 25 of the individual interval other relays and brushes are perrelays 85 to 89 of the respective series of forming in turn a like service for the other 85 relays E. sending and printing units, the contacts on In order to select the electrical signals each quadrant of the head a, Fig. 3 being representing a given letter of the alphabet devoted successively to the sending and retwo rows of segments are employed in conceiving of signals for one sending and printjunction with one set of contact. brushes 33 ing unit. so and 34 and one series of relays E. The sin- As applied to the diagram Fig. 6, the elecgle cylinder H serves to select out the mthtrical signal l-2 or any other signal over vidual character or type signals for each of the line Wire would by the distributer head be reproduced in local circuits 80. 81, 82. interval turns to select for each local cir- 83 and 84 as signals separately in the order as cuit in synchronism with the movements of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 in which they were sent out. the sending apparatus and the heads A and T e sending of the signal A or 1-2 The four independent sets of relays E over the line would through local circuits and brushes 33 and 34 are arranged about 80 and 81 actuate the relays 85 and 86 to the cylinder H, each set being connected up pull over and temporarily lock the contact 1100 in its own independent local printer cirmembers 21 and 22 of said relays 85 and 86 90. in position to make contact with the contact In technical terms the letter A is desscrews 24, while the local circuits S2, 83 ignated as 1-2- meaning that on the and 84 would receive no electrical impulses sending tape of sending instrument 2, for and relays 87, 88, and 89 would remain in instance, perforations are made at transtheir idle or normal positions with their verse spaces 1 and 2 only on the tape as contact'inembers in position to contact with shown at the left hand of Fig. 5. Also that contact screws 25. corresponding electrical signals are sent out he local circuit 90 of printer 6, for inover the line wire W to indicate the letter stance, would thus be closed through 0011- no A and that corresponding signals are tacts 24 of relays 85 and 86 while relavs 87. reproduced in the local circuits 80 and 81 88, and 89 would close it through contacts controlling the printer 6. In like manner 25, leaving circuit 90 still open at the brushes the letter B is known as 1.-4-5 mean- 33 and 34 until the requisite combination of ing that spaces 1, 4 and 5 transversely of the segments 31 and 32 rotated into position bctape are perforated. The letter C is neath the brushes, which would occur when known and indicated on the tape as 2-3-4. si nal 1-2 reached the relays 85 and 86 and In like manner a full series of thirty or wien the segments 31 and 32 indicated in more characters corresponding to each type- Fig. 6 came into position under the brushes bar of the printing mechanisms and also 33 and 34. The path followed by the curcertain signals required to operate the printrent in circuit 90 would then be from binders may be indicated on the tape by perforaing post 40 (see Fig. 6) through a flexible tions and on the wireby electrical signals conductor 91 to member 21 of relay 85, distinguishable one from another. thence to contact screw 24 and the first n the cylinder H the segments 31 and brush 34 to segment 31. the first se ment 32 are permanently arrangedin rows: two of the lower row. Thence by the s econd rows jointly to each signal to be selected, brush 34 and contact screw 24 to member successively and systematically to select out 22 of relay 85. Then'ce by flexible connection 26 to member 21 of relay 86 and by contact screw 24 and the third brush 34 to the second segment 31 of the lower row. Thence by the four brush 34, and contact 24 to member 22 of relay 86. Thence by flexible connection 26 to member 21' of relay 87 and by contact screw 25 and the fifth brush 33 to the fifth segment 31 in the upper row. Thence by the sixth brush 33, and contact 25 to member 22 of relay 87. Thence by flexible connection 26 to member 21 of relay 88, and by contact screw 25 and the seventh brush 33 to the sixth segment 31 of the upper row. .Thence by the eighth brush 33, and contact screw 25 to member 22 of relay 88. Thence by flexible connection 26 to member 21 of relay 89, and by contact screw 25 and the ninth brush 33 to the last segment 31 of the upper row. Thence by the tenth brush 33 and contact screw 25 to member 22 ofrelay 89. Thence by the flexible connection 92 to a brush 93 which contacts with a conductor ring 94 also carried by the cylinder H The local circuit 90 when closed across the segments of the selector would serve to energize and operate the type bar A and cause it to print and space for a new letter. Other letters or signals when set up by any one' series of relays 85 to 89 and the brushes brought into position upon rows of segments suitably divided or spaced would serve to select and print said several characters upon a correspond-' ing printing apparatus. Other conductor rings 95, 96 and ,97 serve to separately receive the signals selected for distribution to other printers.

Projecting from one end of the cylinder H and in electrical contact with the respective conductor rings 94 to 97 are four brush holders 42, 43, 44 and 45 which respectively rotate with the cylinder H and carry brushes 46, 47, 48 and 49 to bear upon the stationarily mounted segmental rings 50, 51, 52 and 53 carried upon the cylinder 54. Each of these stationary segmental rings has an insulated segment to correspond to each character or type bar of the printer, and the several segments are connected by separate wires gathered into cables 57, 58, 59 and 60 leading from the respective segmental rings to the respective printers and thence diverging and connected to the individual type bar actuating mechanisms, spacing mechanism and other essentials of a printer, to print the respective characters selected.

The general printing apparatus employed does not constitute a part of thepresent invention being practically the same as an ordinary manually operated type-writer and does not .require specific description! herein.

In Fig. 9 T have illustrated one of the several individual type-bar actuating solenoids which I preferably employ with and as a part of my improved apparatus for di rectly selecting the characters to be printed. K represents one of the type-bars pivoted at 100 and with a type face 101. At the opposite end the type-bar is pivotally connected by a link 102 to the movable armature section 103 of a solenoid 104. A stationary armature section 105 is also preferably employed with a gap between the two armature sections. \Vhen not energized an at rest the movable armature section 103 and type-bar K occupy the position illustrated in Fig; 9, either by being counterbalanced or held by a spring not illustrated. A circuit closing armature 106 has a flexible section 107 so that when attracted by the armature section 105 it moves and closes the movable contact 108 against the stationarily mounted contact 109 to thereby close the local circuit 110 having its own battery or source of energy 112 through the coil of the solenoid. The circuit 114 is one of the several branches of the printer actuating circuit by means of which the selector mechanism sends a momentary impulse through the coil of the solenoid to energize the same and close the circuit 110, which remains closed and the coil of the solenoid energized by the source of energy 112 until the type bar has finished its stroke and efiected the printing operation, at which point the inclined projection 115 carried by the movable armature section 103 in its downward movement engages the inclined face 116 carried by the armature 106 and separates the contact 108 from contact 109 and thus breaks the circuit 110, whereupon there being no current flowing in the coil of the solenoid, the type bar and armatures 103, and 106 return to their normal positions of rest ready to be again actuated as described.

The position of the respective brushes 46 to 49 and their holders is so arranged with reference to the respective rows of segments 31 and 32 occurring successively about the cylinder H, that when the brushes 33 and- 34 of a given relay series E are in position to select say the letter A the corresponding brush 46, for instance, is resting upon and in electrical contact only with that segment of the corresponding segmental ring 50 which would serve to actuate the type bar and other printing apparatus requisite to print the letter A on the particular printer 6, for instance. In like manner as the cylinder H revolves under the brushes 33 and 34 and the respective rows of segments 31 and 32 in pairs come into position to select any given letter or character, the brushes 46 to 49 respectively have in like manner moved over the faces of the segments on segmental rings 50 to 53 until the brushes 46 to 49 rest upon the proper aegiaaaeae nients to actuate only the type bar of the letter or character being selected.

It will be noted th rotating cylinder H find through the brushes 33 and 34 one complementary arrangement of contact members 31 and 32 which will serve to close the printer actuating circuit 90. Also ment of the rotating contacts 31 and 82 u on the cylinder H to represent respective characters, and the positions of the brushes 4 6 to 49 carried by the cylinder (1 switches 50 to 53 of the respective printers that when such closure of the rinter actuating circuit occurs, the particu ar brush 46 to 49 is upon the segment requisite to print the character represented in the'set up of the relays 85 to 89.

y improved rotary selector picks out the particular letter desired as indicated by the signals passedinto it from the distant losing a path electrically directly to each individual typ e-bar without mechaniinents both mechanical and electrical have can necessary in order to print a single letter.

Prior apparatus hascgenerally employedreciprocatory or back and forth movement of all parts. whereas, my improved apparatus is continuously rotating in one direction, which is of material importance obviates the extensive use of retractile springs movin disks, cams, levers and a multitude of other magnetic operations and operates the typear in as simple and direct a manner as striking a key with the nger.

Another advantage is that the movable contact with the attain signals that the arrangeseries of segments insulated one from another, and that when this circuit is broken, it is simultaneously interrupted a points where ten brushes engage the insulated at the contact of the apparatus. These feaso result in a capacity at an increased rate per unit of time, since only a very small fraction of tures al he movement or act of recording actuallv he apparatus herein illustrated and described is capable of considerable modification without departing from the principle of my invention.

Having thus what I claim is:

1. 'An electrical selecting and recording apparatus comprising a distributer memer, a series of recorder circuit opening and successively enerthe sending line described my invention,

ment movable in synchronism with the discuit ifor each signal to be recorded, and an individual signal recording element for 2. A selecting and recording apparatus comprising a line WIIG, a recorder actuating c1rcuit, a recording instrument having an individual signal recording element for included in a rotatable in synchronism with the signals passing over the line wire and provided wit groups, and a plurality of relays actuated by signals over the fine wire to open and close difl erent branches in said recorder actuating circuit, said brushes and relays being connected in series in said recorder actuating circuit.

selecting and recording apparatus comprising a line wire, a recorder actuating circuit, a recording instrument having an individual signal recording element for member, an ele-' each signal to be recorded included in a branch of the recorder actuating circuit, a recorder circuit closing element rotatable in synchronism with the signals passing over the line wire and provided with a plurality of contacts insulated from each other and characteristically arranged in groups for difierent signals to be recorded, a plurality of brushes to engage in succession d'iiferent insulated contacts in groups, and a plurality of relays actuated by signals over the line wire to open and close difi'erent branches in said recorder actuating circuit, said brushes and relays being connected in series in said recorder actuating circuit.

4. A selecting and recording apparatus comprising a line wire, a recorder having an actuating circuit with a branch for each signal to be recorded,-a recorder circuit closing element rotatable in synchronism with the signals over the line wire and provided with a plurality of contacts insulated from each other and characteristically arranged in groups and a collector ring, a segmental ring the segments of which form terminals for the respective recorder branch circuits, a sliding contact to close the recorder circuit from said collector ring to said segmental ring, a plurality of brushes to engage the insulated contacts of said circuit closing element in groups, a brush to engage said collector ring, and a plurality of relays actuated by signals over the line wire to open and close a series of branches in said recorder actuating circuit, said brushes and relays being connected 'n series in said recorder actuating circuit.

5. An electrical selecting and recording apparatus comprising a recording instrument having a branch actuating circuit for each signal to be recorded and an independent recorder actuating element included in each branch circuit, a series of electrical contact mem bers insulated from each other and arranged in groups characteristic of the respective signals to be recorded, and a series of selecting relays to selectively open and close respective branches of said re corder circuit, said characteristically arranged contact members and said selecting relays being relatively movable.

(3. An electrical selecting and recording apparatus comprising in combination with a distributer element a recording instrument having a branch energizing circuit for each signal to be recorded and an individual recorder actuating element for each signal to be recorded included in a separate branch of said ,circuit, a selecting member rotatable in synchronism with said distributer element and comprising a supporting frame provided with a plurality of electrical contacts insulated from each other and 21.1-

to open and close to be recorded, a-

naeaeae ranged in successive series distinctive of the signals to be recorded to close a recorder energizing branch circuit when a particular signal set up by the distributer element coincides with the corresponding series of contacts carried by said selecting member.

7. A telegraph selecting and recording apparatus comprising a recording instrument having a branch energizing circuit for each si nal to be recorded and an individual recording element for each signal to be recorded included in a separate branch of said circuit, a series oflocking relays separately actuate different branches in said recorder actuating circuit, and circuit closg contacts insulated from each other and characteristic of the signals to be recorded, said relays and said insulated characteristically arranged circuit closing contacts bein relatively movable.

8. A selecting and recording apparatus in combination with a receiving distributer head having a stationary member and a rotary member, a recording instrument having a recorder actuating electrical circuit with a branch for each signa to be recorded and an individual recording element for each signal to be recorded included in a separate branch of said circuit, a plurality of locking relays actuated by electrical signals over the line wire to said distributer to open and close separate branches of said recorder actuating circuit, a member rotating in synchronism with the rotary member of said distributer head and provided with a series of circuit closing con tacts insulated from each other and in rela tively fixed relation characteristic of the signals to be recorded to selectively close the actuating circuit of said recorder through diflerent branches thereof.

9. In a selecting and recording apparatus in combination with distributer heads located at the sending station and at the receiving station respectively and rotating in synchronism, a recorder having an actuating electrical circuit with a plurality of branches corresponding to the respective signals to be recorded and independent recording members for the respective signals plurality of locking relays to open and close difierent branches of sai recorder actuating circuit, and means rotating in synchronism with said distributer heads to selectively close the recorder actuating circuit of said recorder successively through different branches thereof.

'10. In a selecting and recording mechacomprising nism in combination witha line Wire and 12 a pair of distributer heads-at opposite ends thereof rotating in synchronism, a plurality of stationarily located printers, a pluralit of independent printer-actuating elect-rica circuits each having a plurality of in difierent combinations actuating circuits, hes carried by acter to be printed, a series of relays for each printer actuating circuit stationarily located to open and close respective branches thereof, a seriesof stationarily located se mental rings one for each printer circuit and a segment in each for each character to having sliding engagement each with a stationarily mounted segmental ring and a relay contact, to selectively close said'respective printer actuating circuits through their respective branches.

12. In an electrical selecting and recording apparatus, a recorder havin an individual signal recording element or each signal to be recorded. a circuit closing element movable in synchronism with the signals passing over the line and provided with a pluralit cally arranged circuit closing contacts insulated from each other, and a plurality of relays actuated by signals over a line, to close different branches of the actuating circuit of said recorder through said characteristically arranged and insulated contacts.

13. In an electrical selecting and recording apparatus, a line wire, an electrical re- .corder actuating circuit, a recorder having an individual recorder member for each signal to be recorded and each included in a separate branch of said recorder actuating circuit a plurality of selecting relays actuated by signals over the line wire to open and close different branches of said recorder actuating circuit. and a recorder circuit closing clement movable. in synchronisin Wlth I her for each of relatively fixed characteristi-i the signals over the line Wire and provided with a plurality of relatively fixed and characteristically arranged circuit closin t acts insulated from each other, to

14. In a telegraph selecting and recordmg apparatus an e ectrical selector comprisber rotating in synchronisni with the signals assing over the line Wire and provided with a pluralit of contacts arranged in separate series characteristic of slidingly engage the respective segments successively of said stationary segmental ring v the relative positions .of said rotary member and said stat1onarily I a separate branch for each signal to be re- 16. A selecting and recording apparatus comprising a line Wire, a recording instru-' ment having an individual recording memsignal to be recorded included in a separate branch of the recorder actuating circuit. a recorder actuating electrical circuit having a separate branch for each signal to be recorded, means actuated by successive signals over the acteristically arranged to till till

recorder actuating circuit, a recorder actuating electrical circuit having a branch for each signal to be recorded, and a selector element having a cyclic rotary movement in synchronism with the signals over the line and provided with a plurality of relatively fixed and characteristically arranged contact members insulated from each other to close diilerent branches of the recorder circuit through characteristically arranged groups of said insulated contacts at predetermined positions-in said cyclic movement.

18. In a telegraph selecting apparatus in combination with a line wire anddistributer heads at opposite ends thereof rotating in synchromism with each other, a printer, a printer actuating circuit having a separate branch for each signal to be transmitted over the line wire, a stationarily located segmental ring having a segment forming a terminal for each branch of said printer actuating circuit, and a member having a cyclic rotary movement in synchronism with said distributer head and provided with a plurality of contacts permanently arranged in difierent series to correspond with the respective signals to be sent over the line wireand a contact member rotating over the terminal segments of said printer actuating circuit branches to selectively close said printer actuating circuit through its respective branches.

19. In a telegraph selecting apparatus a line wire, distributer members at opposite ends of said line wire movable in synchronism with each other, a plurality of sending and printing members at each end of the line, a printer actuating circuit tor each printer having a branch for each signal to be sent over theline wire, a stationarily located segmental ring for each printer the respective segments of which form terminals for the respective branches of therespective printer actuating circuits, and a member at each endol the line wire rotating in synchronism with the distributer member at that end of the line wire an each provided with a plurality of contact members permanently arranged in diflerent series to correspond with the respective signals to be sent over the line wire, a plurality olf collector rings, and a plurality of contact members engaging and rotating over the segments oi the segmental rings ol the several printers to each selectively and successively close a plurality of printer actuating circuits.

20. A telegraph selecting apparatus comprising a line wire, distributer members at opposite ends of said line wire rotating in synchronism, a plurality of sending an printing members at each end ol said line wire, .a printer actuating circuit for each printer having a branch for each signal to be sent over said line wire, a stationarily located segmental terminal for each of said incense branches, a member at each end of said line wire rotating in synchromism with the dis tributer member at that end of the line wire and provided with a plurality of contacts permanently arranged in diderent series to correspond with the respective signals to be sent over said line wire, a plurality of collector rings and a rotating contact member to successively connect said collector ring with the various segmental terminals of the respective branches of said several printer actuating circuits, a series of printer actuating cirpuits to respectively engage the several contacts of each series of permanently arranged rotary contacts in succession, an a series of relay controlled contacts in each printer actuating circuit controlled by the signals over the line wire.

21. A selecting and recording apparatus comprising a line wire, a recorder actuating circuit having a branch for each signal to be recorded, a recording instrument having an individual recording member for each signal to be recorded included in a branch of said recorder actuating circuit, a plurality of relays actuated by signals over the line wire to open and close branches in said recorder actuating circuit, and a circuit closing element movable in synchronism with the signals over the line wire and having a characteristically arranged series of electrical contacts for each signal to be recorded, to close said recorder actuating circuit through its respective branches.

22. A selecting and recording apparatus comprising a line wire, a recorder, a recorder actuating electrical circuit, a cylindrical circuit closing member having a plurality of contacts insulated from each other and arran ed in groups characteristic of the signals to e recorded, a series of brushes to engage said insulated contacts in groups and the respective contacts of said cups in succession, and a plurality cl se ecting relays actuated by signals over the line wire an i having their vibrating contactselectrically connected in series, said relays serving to include and exclude diderent brushes from the recorder actuating circuit, and said circuit closing member and said brushes being relatively movable in synchronisrn with the signals over the line wire.

23. A selecting and recording apparatus comprising a recorder actuating circuit itor each recording instrument having a branch for each signal of stationarily located recording instruments each having an individual recording element for each signal to be recorded included in a branch of said recorder actuating circuits, a series oil electrical contact members insulated from each other and arranged in fixed relation to each other in groups characteristic ol the signals to be recorded to succvely close selecmd llb to be recorded. a plurality ltltl cob after said type-bar branches in the different recorder actuating a plurality of selecting relays circuits, and arranged in suecesslve serles to selectlvely movable. selecting and recording apparatus comprising a line wire a plurality of stamg circuit having a branch for each signal to be recorded and an individual recording e ement for each signal to b instrument actuated y successive sign over the line to selectively open and close contacts in the branches of its actuating circuit, and means characteristically arranged In combinatlon with electrical selecting means, recordin apparatuscomprismg type-bar for each slgnal to b type-b source of electrical energy included t ereinand adapted to be closed by said circuit closing and interen aging said type-bar actuating arcircuit closing armature to y open said secondary circuit has completed the act of mature and sai automaticall recordin V 26. A selecting and recording apparatus comprising a member having a series of permanently located contacts insulated from h other and characteristically arranged for different signals to be selected, a stationarily located recording instrument having an independently operable recordin memher for each signal be recorded included comprising signal to be re- 7 said recordingelement, a circuit closing armature ener ized by said coil, a primary circuit to initia 1y energize'said coil, a secondary circuit having an independent source of electrical energy included therein and adapted to be closed by said circuit closing armature to secondarily energize gaged by said and a series of selecting relays actuated by t e signals to be recorded and jointly with said rotarily mounted contacts brushes to close said recorder actuatin circuit through a defi corder actuating circuit.

In a selecting and recording apparatus, a rotary selecting and circuit closin member comprising a rotatably mounte Y supporting frame having a plurality of electrica contacts mounted in fixed relation thereon and insulated from each other, said of a recorder, and a contact carried by said collector ring and movable over the surface of said segmental ring.

selecting and recording apparatus comprlsing a line wire, distributer members at opposite ends of said or each recording instrument to selectively open and close different branches of said respq tlve recordmnni-nnleach recorder actuating circuit, and a circuit closing member common to all of said recorder actuating circuits rotatable in synchronism with one of said distributer heads and having a plurality of electrical contact members in relatively fixed relation insulated from each other and arranged groups characteristic of the signals to'be recorded, said selectin groups of contacts serving to successive y engage the brush esa-see terminals of the respective recorder actuating circuits to close said respective recorder actuating circuits through-selected branches thereof.

In testimony whereof I have afiixed my 15 signature in the presemg of two witnesses.

Y S. CQRNISH.

Witnesses:

W. THORNTON Boesn'r, C. W. MILES.

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