US1344379A - Illuminated displaying device - Google Patents

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J. H. CHIDESTER.

ILLUMINATED DISPLAYING DEVICE. APPLICATION' FILED IIIAII. I, IsII.

Patented June 22, 1920.

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JOHN HARTFORD CHIDES'IER., OF SUMMIT, NEW JERSEY. y

ILLUMINATED DISPLAUYING DEVICE.

Application ledliarch 1` To all ywhom t may concern f Y Be it known that I, JOHN HARTFORD CHIDEs'rEn, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Summit, in the county of Union and State of New Jersey, have invented certainY new and useful Improvements in Illuminated Displaying Devices,

is a specification. The invention relates to a device to be used in connection with a stock ticker or like machines, and is desivned to render the tape simultaneously visible to a large number of personsand this without handling the tape by individuals and to discharge the tape so that it may be inspected in the usual wav if desired. Y

ybjects and advantages of the invention will be set forth in part hereinafter, and in part will be obvious herefrom, the same be-v ing realized and attained through the instrumentalities and combinations set forth in the appended claim. The invention consists in the novel parts, constructions, arrangements, combinations and improvements herein shown and described.

The accompanying drawings, referred to herein, and formin(r a part hereof, illustrate one embodiment of the invention, the same serving in connection yith the description to explain the principles of the invention.

Of the drawings Figure 1 is a side elevation of a device constructed in accordance with the princi# ples of the invention, shown attached to the usual form of stock ticker;

Fig. 2 is a vertical, transverse section o n the line A-B of Fig. 1, looking in the d1- rection of the arrows; l

Fig. 3 is a horizontal, fragmentary section on the line C D of Fig. 1, looking in f the direction of the arrows;

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary, sectional detail of a magnifying device; and

Figl 5 is a similar view of a reflecting and magnifying device.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, illustrating by way of example one embodiment of the invention,l portions of a stock ticker are shown, comprising a substantially circular frame 1, supporting a bracket 2 for the paper roll 3, the web 4 of paper passing from the roll through the machine and being imprinted in a well-known manner.

Specification ofrLetters Patent.

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.of such means comprises "tape 4. A guiding lip or 1 Patented June 22, 1920. 1917. Vsria1m .151,e51. l

Various in dotted lines including the rolls 5, 6, 7 and 8.wl1ich feed the strip through the machine. y he machine of my present invention is provided with an annular frame 10, fitting over the frame 1 of the stock ticker, and being attachedy thereto in a suitable manner, as by clamping screws 11 and 12. Supported upon the frame l0 and upon the bracket 13 extending outwardly therefrom is a cas` ing 14. lVithin ,the casing are provided means for illuminating the printed ticker strip 4 and for projecting and displaying the strip so that it may be simultaneously viewed bya large number of persons at a relatively great distance.k Referring more in detail tothe embodied exemplilication, asupporting runway 16 is provided, extendinghorizontally. At the forward end of the runway 16 are upwardly extending lugs 17 and 18, which serve as side guides' for the tape, and which supporta guiding roller 19, located above the tape 4. At the other end of the runway, 16, are lu 20 generally similar to lugs 17l and 18, an a top guiding and holding roller 21 similar to the roller 19.

cans areprovided for feeding the tape through the device as it is printed and supplied from the ticker, said means being adapted to keep the 'ta e smooth and flat he embodied form a clock mechanism 22, which mechanism drives a gear 23, the gear 23 meshing withk a gear 24 upon the shaft of a roller 25, located beneath the tape 4. Coperating with the driven feeding roller 25 is a spring pressed roller 26 engaging with the upper face of the tape, and being resiliently pressed downward by a spring or springs 27, the two rollers thus providing a friction or slip feed and tension upon the late 28 may be utilized to facilitate the threading of the strip 4 through the machine.

In the embodied form of illuminating means, a lamp 35 is mounted withinthe casing 14, and extends along in the same direction as the tape 4. The lamp 35 is provided with a lrefiector 36, adapted to refiect the light from the lamp upon the ticker strip 4.' The light is thence reflected by means of mirrors, utilizing also, if desired, a magnifying device. and is finally presented at the exhibition point to be Viewed, as a1- parts of the stock tickerare shown ready stated, by a relatively large number of persons simultaneously and at relatively a great distance from the device.

In the embodied form, a magnifying device is utilized comprising a bar of glass 37, mounted in a frame 38, which frame is carried by brackets 39 and 40 at either end of'the casing. The brackets are supported, respectively, by bolts 41, with which they have a slotted connection, in Fig. 2, thereby affording yboth transverse and angular adjustment for the magnifying'V device 37.

rIhe light from the ticker strip 4, whether the magnifying device be utilized or omitted, is received upon a mirror 43, which mirror is supported in a frame 44, the frame being supported in brackets and 46,

which brackets, respectively, are attached tothe casing 14 by bolts 47. The mirror 43 is thus ca able of angular adjustment as desired. rom .the mirror 43 the image from the ticker tape is reflected to a mirror 48, which mirror is supported in a frame 49, carried by brackets or lugs and 51. These brackets are supported, respectively, upon the casing '14 by bolts 52, thereby being like- Wise capable of angular adjustment.

The casing 14 is provided with convenient doors or closures, a door 54 having a plate of glass or other transparent material 55 therein, which permits viewing of the print` ing on the ticker tape at the exhibition point,

as already described, and provides access to the upper part of the casing 14. A transparent slide 56 permits a direct view of the ticker tape 4 upon the `runway 16, where it is strongly lighted by the lamp 35. A door 57 permits access to the ticker mechanism.

Itwill be seen that the device, While pos` sessing the advantages pointed out, is atv tachable to an ordinary ticker without as shown clearly changing any of the mechanism thereof, merely by the use of the clamping screws 11 and 1,2.

Fig. 4 represents a form of double conveX magnifying bar 37 and Fig. 5 repre- 4 sents a form of magnifying'mirror.

From all the foregoing it will be understood that a device has been provided embodying the objects and advantages herein setforth, together with other objects and advantages, which will be obvious or which may be ascertained from practice with the invention. It will also be understood that changes may be made from the structure shown and described, within the scopeof the accompanying claim, Without departing from the principles of the invention and without sacrificing its chief advantages` What I claim as my invention and del sire to secure by Letters `Patent is An attachment for stock tickers compris` ing in combination a frame having a contour to conform to the shape of a stock ticker cabinet, means for removably securing said frame to saidcabinet, a casing fixed to frame and having communication with

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