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US1647A
US1647A US1647DA US1647A US 1647 A US1647 A US 1647A US 1647D A US1647D A US 1647DA US 1647 A US1647 A US 1647A
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  • the circuit Of conductors may be made of any4 metal-such as copper, or iron wire, or strips of copper or iron, or of cord or twine, c.” other substances-gilt, silvered, or covered with -any thin metal leaf properly insulated and iu ⁇ the ground, Or through or beneath the water, or through the air.
  • Signs of numerals consist, first, of ten dots or punctures, made in measured .distances of equal extent from cach other, upon paper or any substitute for paper, and in number correspondingV with the numeral desired to be represented.
  • one dot or puncture for the numeral l two dots or punctures for the numeral 2, three of the same for 3, four for 4, ve for 5, six for 6, seven for 7, eight for S,
  • Example 1',l ⁇ /lode l in which is also included a second character, to represent a cipher, it prefered..
  • Signs ofnumerals consist, secondi y, of marks made as in the case of dots, and particularly represented on the annexed drawing marked Example l, Mode 2. Y
  • Signs of numerals consist, thirdly, of characters .drawn at measured distances in the shape of the teeth of a common saw by the use of a pencil or any instrument for marking.
  • numerals consist, fourthly, O f dots and lines separately and conjunctively used as follows, the numerals-1, 2, 3, and 4 being represented by dots, as in Mode l, iirst given above: rEhe numeral 5 is repesented by a line equal in length to the space betweenthe two dots of any other numeral; Gis represented by the addition of a dot to the line represent- -ing 5; 7 is represented by the addition of two dots to said line; Sis represented by prefixing a dot to said line; 9 is represented by two dots prefixed to said line; and 0 is represented by two lines, each of the length of said line that represents the number 5; said. signs are particularly set forth in the annexed drawings, marked Example 1, Mode 4.
  • the sign ot' a distinct numeral, or of a compound numeral when used in a sentence of words or of numerals, consists of a distance or space of separation between the characters of greater extent than the distance used in separating the characters that'compose any such distinct or compound numeral.
  • Au illustration of this sign is particularly exhibited in the annexed drawing marked Example 2.
  • Signs of letters consist in variations of the dots, marks, and dots and lines, and spaces of separation of the same formation as compose the signs of numerals, varied and combined dierently to represent the letters of the alphahet in the manner particularly illustrated and represented in the annexed drawing marked Example 3.
  • Signs of words, and even ot set phrases or sentences, may be adopted for use and communication in like manner under various forms, as convenience may lsuggest.
  • ner als consist, tlrst, of fourteen pieces or plates of thin metal, such as type-metal, brass, iron, orlike substances, with teeth or iudentations upon one side or edge of teu of said type, 'corresponding in number to the dots or punctures or marks requisite to constitute ⁇ the numerals respectively heretofore described in thc system of signs, and having also a space left upon the side or edge of each type, at one end thereof, without teeth or indentations, corresponding in length with the distance or separation desired between each sign of a numeral.
  • Another of said type has two indentations, forming thereby three teeth only, and without any space at either end, to correspond with the size of a cypher, as heretofore described by refer- ⁇ ence to Example 1, Modes 1, 2 3, of drawings ln said system of signs.
  • One ot er of said type is without any indentation on its side or edge, and being in length to correspond with the distance or separation desired between distinct or compound numerals, and with the sign heretofore described for that purpose.
  • One of the remaining two -of said type is formed with l one corner of-it beveled, system of type, Ex-
  • the type-cases are wood,or of any other material, with small compartments of the exact length of the type, for greater convenience in distributing, and resembling those in com mon luse among printers.
  • the type-rules are of wood or metal, or other material that .may be preferred, and about three feet in length, with agroove into which the type, when used, are placed. uthe under side of each type-rule are coge. by which they are adapted to a pinion-wheel having corresponding cogs and forming part of aportrule.
  • the straight portrule consists of' a pinionwheel,.before mentioned, turned by-a handcrank attached to a horizontal screw that plays into the cogs of tlepinion-wheel as the latter de into the -cogs of the typerule, or byany other power in any of the well-lmown methods ofmeehanism. It is connected with a railway or groove, in and by which the type-rule, from the motion imparted to it by said wheel, is conveyed in a direct line beneath a iever that breaks and connects the galvanic circuit in the manner hereinafter mentioned. A delineation of said wheel, crank, and screw is contained in the drawings hereunto annexed marked Example 8, Figs. 1,2, 3.
  • the circular port-rule is a substitute, when preferred, for both the type-rule and the straight port-rule, and consists oia horizontal or inclined wheel, Example 9, Fig; 1, A, oi
  • any convenient diameter, of wood or metal having,r its axis connected-on the under side oi' vthe wheel, with a pinion-wheel, K, and as in the case of thestraight port-rule.. it is moved by tile motion of the pinion-wheel, asv is the type-rule in the former description.
  • a shoulder or cavity a, Figs. l, 2, corresponding in depth with the thickness of the type used, and in width, b, equal to that oi' the type, exclusive of their teeth or indentations.
  • rlihe type deposited in the feeder as before mentioned form a perpendicular column, as in Fig. 2, the lower type oi which rests upon the surface oi the before-named shoulder of the wheel b, Fig. 2, and the cog oi' the wheei,projecting npward,enters the groove 1D' D, Fig. 4, of the type hereinbefore described.
  • the lower type in the column thatis held bythe stationary feeder is carried forward and and removed, the next type settles immediately-upon the shoulder of the wheel, and, after the manner of the removed. type, is brought in contact with an- I other cog of said shoulder within the groove of the type, and thence carried forward from beneath the incumbent colummas was its predecessor. Then follows consecutively in the saine method each type deposited within the feeder so long as the wheel is kept in mo- Y tion.
  • the deposit oi' the type in the stationary feeder is regulated by the order in which the letters or numerals or words they represent are designed to be communicated at any distant point or points.
  • rihe signal-lever Example 9, Fig, consists, tiret, for use with the straight port-rule, ample 8
  • Fig. i, A, oi' a strip ci' wood of any length from six to twenty-four inches, resting upon a pivot, o, or in a notched pillar formed into a fulcrnm by a metal pin, a, passing through it and theiever.
  • a metallic wire bent to a semicircnlar or half-square form, as at A, or resembling the prongs of a fori; dstended, is attached by its center, as described in the annexed drawings, Example 8, at the point markedA.
  • a metallic tooth or cog, b, curvedV On the opposite extremity of the lever is a small weight, C, to balance or offset, in part, when needed, the weight'of the lever on the opposite side of the fulcrum.
  • the lever thus formed is stationed directly over the railway or groove D D, heretofore described as forming a connected part of the straight port-rule.
  • This termination 'of the metallic circuit in ⁇ the two cups or vessels breaks and limits the current of electricity or gal'vanism through the circuit; but a connection of the circuit is eii'ected or restored by the falling'of the two ends of the pronged wire A attached to said lever into the two cups, connecting the one cup withv the other in that way.
  • said circuit is inA like manner again broken, and the current of electricity or galvanism destroyed.
  • the signal-lever consists, secondly, for use with the circular'portrn'le, Example 9, Fig. 3, of a strip-of wood, G, with a metallic wire, A, -at one end, of theform and for the purposes of the lever already described above. It turns -on a pivot orfulcrum, a, placed eitherl near the middle orin the end of the lever.
  • an elbow, c is formed on a right angle with the main lever, and extending downward from the level with the pivot or fnlcrum suiciently for s metallic tooth, H, in the end thereof, corresponding with the teeth or indentations of the type, already described, to press against the type projecting from the shoulder or cavity of the wheel A, Fig. 1', that forms the circular port-rule, before described.
  • Said wheel is placedbeneath the said lever, as seen at G, Fig. 1, in a position to be reached by the extremity or tooth H of the arm of the lever justr mentioned.
  • the register- consists, first, of a lever of the shape of the lever connected with the circular port-rule above described, and is delineated in the annexed drawings marked Example 10, Figs. 1, 2, and 4, at A.
  • Said lever A operates upon a fulcrum, a, that passes through the end that forms the elbow a, upon the lower extremity of which, and facing an electromag net, is attached the armature of a magnet, j'.
  • I n the other extreme of the lever, at, B is inserted one 'or more pencils, fountain pens, printing-wheels, orother marking-instruments, as maybe seen in the Fig. 4 of the example last mentioned, at letter B.
  • the magnet is at letter O in the same ligure.
  • Said cog b moves in a quarter-circle only, as the motion oi' said arm oi' the lever passes backward ⁇ and forward in the act ci' recording, as hereinafter described.
  • the lever passes backward ⁇ and forward in the act ci' recording, as hereinafter described.
  • Fig. 5 of said example marked l0 in the annexed drawings, represents sections of said hammer and bell.
  • Said several parts of the register are set in motion bythe communication' ⁇ to or action upon the beforenamed armature of a magnet, attached to the lever of the register, of the electric or galvanic current in the circuitJ of conductors,and from ⁇ an electro-magnet in said circuit, as before described, stationed near the said armature.
  • said armature is drawn or attracted from its stationary and horizontal position toward the said magnet when the latter ischarged from the circuit ci conductors, said lever is turned upon its fulcrum, andthe opposite end thereof necessarily descends and brings the pen, or marking-in strument which it containsflin contact with the paper or other substance on the-revolving cylinder directly beneath it.
  • said armature ceases to he thus drawn or attracted by said magnet, as is the case as soon as said magnet ceases to be charged from the circuit of conductors, or as the currentin said circuit is onlineen in the manner hereinbei'ore described, the said armature is forced baci; by its own specific gravity, or by u spring or Weight, as may be needed, to its former position, and the pen or markinginstrument,in the opposite end oi' the lever is again raised from its contact with the paper or other substance ou the before-named revolving cylinder.
  • This same action is communicated simultaneously from the same circuit of conductors to as niany registers as there are corresponding magnets provided within any circuit and at any desired distances from each other.
  • the cylinder and its two associate rollers are setin ⁇ motion simultaneously .with the first motion of the lever by the withdrawal ot' a small wire or spindle, g, Example 10, Figs. 2 and o, from beneath one branch of a ily-wheel, k, that forms a part of the cloclr machinery hereinafter named.
  • Said wire g is withdrawn by the action upon said Wire ot' a small electromagnet, o, Figs, 2 and 5, stationed in the circuit and near the large magnet before named, as delineated in Fig.. 5 of Example 10.
  • Said cylinder and rollers are subsequently kept in motion by a train of wheels similar to common clock-wheels, as in Figs.
  • the electro-magnetthus used is made in any ci' the usual modes, such as windin g insulated copper wire, or strips of copper, or tinioil, or other metal around a bar ot' soft iron, cit-her straight or bent into a circular form, andhaving the two extremities ofthe coils connected with the circuit of conductors, so that the coils around the magnet make part of the circuit.
  • I adopt the following mode, and also for connectingandusing any desired number oi' additional and intervening batteries or generators of said current, and for connecting progressively any number of consecutive circuits, viz: .Place at any peint in a circuit an electro-magnet of the denomination already described, with an armature upon a lever of the forma-nd structure, and in the position of that used at the register to hold and operate the markinginstrulueut, with only a substitution therein for such marking-instra- -ment of a forked Wire, A, Example 9, Fig. .3,
  • This operation instantly connects the breakin said second circuit, and thus produces an additional and original power or current of electricity or galvansm fromV the battery of said second circuit to the magnet or magnets placed at any one or more points be broken at pleasure, asin the first circuit; and from thenceby the same operation the same results may again be repeated, extending and breaking at pleasure such c urrentthrough yet another and another circuit, ad infinitum, and with -as many intervening registers .for simultaneous :action 'as may be desired, and at any distances from each other.
  • the dictionary' or vocabulary ⁇ consists of words alphabetically arranged and regularly numbered, beginning with theletters of the alphabet, so that each word in the language has its telegraphic number, and is designated at Pleasure, through .the signsv of nnmeralsrm- V .-1,
  • the modes which I propose of insulatingthe wires or other metal for conductors,'and of laying the circuits, are various.
  • the wires may be insulated by winding each,l wire with silk, cotton, flax,
  • solution of shellac, or into pitch or resin and They v may be laid through the air, inclosed above the ground, in the ground, or in the water.
  • they When through the air they may be insulated by covering that shall protect them from the weather, such. as cotton, ax, orhemp, and dipped into any solution Iwhich is a non-conductor, and elevated upon pillars.
  • any solution I which is a non-conductor, and elevated upon pillars.
  • inclosedabove the ground they may be laid in tubes of iron or lead, and these' again may be inclosedin wood, if desirable.
  • levers one or more armatures of an electromagnet and as said parts are severally deand arrange' ⁇ conductors combined with mechanism.

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