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US2171366A
US2171366A US95337A US9533736A US2171366A US 2171366 A US2171366 A US 2171366A US 95337 A US95337 A US 95337A US 9533736 A US9533736 A US 9533736A US 2171366 A US2171366 A US 2171366A
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    • H04M1/00—Substation equipment, e.g. for use by subscribers
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  • This invention relates to improvements in tele- .phone systems.
  • the invention also has the object of providing a system of this character wherein the master-station is equipped with a signalling or message delivering apparatus informing the subscriber calling this master station. during the master subscribers absence, that the message to be delivered by the calling subscriber will be recorded.
  • Another object-of the invention is to provide a system of this character in which the messages recorded at the masterstation may be listened to from the record made at the master station, so that the master subscriber may, prior tohis return to the master station, learn what communications were made with the master sta- 'tion during his absence.
  • Another object of the invention is to render 35 the reproduction of the messages recorded at the master station dependent upon the use of a code.
  • the invention furthermore,- has, the object of, providinga telephone system oi this character wherein the code comprises the utterance of sounds or tones at predetermined intervals into that apparatusfrom Awhich the master or his' agent intends to receive the reproduced messages recorded during his absence at the master station.
  • the invention furthermore, 'as the' object of correlating the code in accord nce with which the master or controlling official supervises the reproduction of the messagesl recorded during his -bned with the recording machine II.
  • Another object of the invention is to equip the master station with a connection controlling member automatically actuated by a motor upon the receipt of a call during the masters absence and whereby the sequence of connections for reproducing the recorded ⁇ messages is effected upon the use of the predetermined code.
  • the invention furthermore, has the object of providing a system of this character, wherein the master or controlling ocial of the system has' it in his power to selectively alter the code which controls the reproduction of the messages to the party listening vfrom any sub-station of the system.
  • the equipment which is to be positioned at the master station or station ofv the controlling oi'llcial or owner of the entire system comprises an ordinary ⁇ telephone apparatus I which in this instance is combined with an electromagnet 36 adapted to raise the receiver 36
  • the telephone apparatus at this station is com- This recording machine operates under the well known and 53 in this machine'support the steel wire'40 absence with that message or signal which is or tape and pull vthis wire or tape through the.
  • magnetic control device 54 which device carries the magnets for responding to the locally varied magnetized portions by 'induction or for altering the local magnetic conditions of the carrierstoextinguish the local magnetiaations. for restoration purposes.
  • This recording machine II actuates a' worm- I02 driving a worm gear ⁇
  • either one of two sets of contact springs 'I0-'I3 or 80-83 respectively is actuated, to be moved from normally .open to ⁇ troller drum IV which is assembled of of several controller drum discs.
  • the relay I0 Upon energization by the calling current (the switch
  • the electromagnet 36,Y therefore, will raise the hook for the receiver (even though the latter remain on the hook) and thereby connect the telephone I into the system.
  • This motor G3 is a reversible motor: it operates the reels 43 and l! forming part of a signal message apparatus III.
  • the motor G3 also operates a contact roller or cona plurality trol switch closes the circuit for the motor 53 at the point V of the remote control switch, thereby leading the current through the conductor cord 38 to the motor 53 to start the same in a predetermined direction, namely, forward.
  • the controller drumvIV is imparted rotation through the motor 53 for which purpose gear transmission comprising the worm 52 and worm gear 61 are provided.y
  • the end disc SI 'of the controller drum causes the current to flow to the amplifier Ill.
  • the circuit extends from line I through the mercury switch 33, then closed, wires 235, 231, amplier III, wire 233, contact finger I2I, contactor disc 3l, contact linger
  • the controller drum disc has a sector at which this current is interrupted, the closure of the Vcontact closing position. This actuation of these current for the amplier
  • the motor S3 not 'only drives the controller drum IV but it also drives through a transmission gearing the reels or drums I8, 49, each of which supports a steel wire or steel tape variably magnetized at different points in such manner as to reproduce some general message or communication.
  • the currents which are induced by the variable localized magnetic alterations of this steel wire or tape in the reproducing head l1 flow through wires ZIII, the amplier
  • the microphone therefore functions as if it were spoken into.
  • the subscriber making the call from some sub-station of the system rst hears solely that message which is delivered from the machine DI. This message informs the Vcalling subscriber of the number ofthe station with which he has been connected, and it will also convey to the calling subscriber the fact that his own communication will now bev recorded.
  • the movement of the controller drum IV is effected from the worm gear 61 through a cam 55 on the gear which upon rotation enters into engagement with the pawl 64 of the'drum to impart the movement to actuatefrom then on the controller drum.
  • the contact sector of disc 3 of the drum IV is conductively connected with the contact segments of the discs I and 5, which segments are not visible in the drawing, and this conductive disc 3 also is in conductive connection with the conductive sectors of the discs 6 and 1.
  • the circuit for relay 3l includes wire2I3 exd' ltending from the amplifier, thevrelay.3l, ⁇ wire 2li, mercury switch I1 (then closed), wire 2I5, contactors
  • flow in the output circuit of the amplicircuit for relay 31 includes bides the serially 75 Vconnected amplifier and relay 31 wire 2
  • l n 'I'he relay 34 is a relay which releases its armature slowly only, when it is disconnected from the energizing circuit owing to the contact linger IIS,
  • 9 connect contact fingers II8, II9 with the mercury -switch I8, so that upon closure of this switch the relay 31 may be energized even though the contact fingers I I8, IIS are not connected with each other at the drum 89.
  • I5 associated with the controller drum discs- 4.- 5,' 6 and 'I respectively are severally connected with the relays II to I4 inclusive. Now whenever any one of these contactngers II2
  • being energized, actuates the recording machine II through the key T.
  • the electromagnet II upon being energized tilts the mercury switch 3
  • the worm gearing 62, 81 will then rotate the controller drum IV backwards, and the gearing actuated by the motor 63 also will move the magnetically influenced message wire in the opposite direction through the signalling machine -III to rewindA the reel. ment of the controller drum, the cam 86 again strikesv therocker arm 98 to move the same into the position shown in the drawing, thereby establishing contact at the springs 9G in order to energize the electromagnet 14, the circuit including lead 5
  • the relayv34 associated with the ampliiier IOI is continuously energized, and its armature, therefore, remains attracted.
  • the circuit includes the amplier electromagnet 34, mercury switch II and contact ngers IIS,
  • the relay 34 becomes deenergized, and itsarmature
  • the electromagnet 42 tilts the mercury switch 39 to current interrupting position, thereby pre-l ventingthe supply current flowingin the linesv I, 2 from continuing through the system. When no more current can lilow into the system thru the line I, 2, the recording operation is terminated.
  • the timing feature of the sound code is correlated to the selectively ⁇ changeable setting of the dises 4, 5, 6 and. 1. on the controller drum IV.
  • the segments of lthese discs are contacted by theirjrespective fingers
  • , 302, 303 also may be set for selectively timedv operation.
  • the calling current energizes the relay I0.
  • This frelay as described above, again places the reinto the microphone of his apparatus at the very springs
  • 24 may be effected by an impulse flowing from the'amplifler
  • 'I'he path of this impulse extends from the amplier
  • aA current flows from the line 5
  • the electromagnet is energized by this current. It immediately attracts its' amature
  • the path of acurrent would now be open from line 5
  • the energization of the 'electromagnet 51 causes the mercury switch l0 to be tilted to close the.
  • the energization of the electromagnet 40 causes the armature'95 thereof to be attracted: unless this armature is already in that-position in which it is shown.
  • The. controller drum 4 upon continuing its r0- tation will cause the contact fingers
  • the electromagnet 44 inthe recording'machine II sets this machine for reverse operation, therewhich it had been unwound.
  • the electromagnet 16 upon being energized, tilts the mercury switch 32 to current closing position and tilts the companion switch I1 t0 current opening position.
  • the contact lingers
  • the electromagnet I9 pulls the bar 20 against the tension of spring 2
  • the electromagnet 31 is energized throughth'e amplifier current fromy
  • the relay 31 closes the contact
  • the recording machine II therefore, operates now in reverse, imparting a reverse movement to the worm gear
  • 'Ihe calling party now having received the reproduction of the message previously recorded in the machine II and also having received the clos- .v
  • a telephone system having a line leadingv to a subscribers station, a speech recording and reproducing machine at said station, a message delivery apparatus at the station, an automatic connection control means for successively placing Said apparatus and said machine in connection with the line, a motor operatively associated with said connection control means and said message delivery apparatus, a relayv conductively connected with the automatic connection control means when said last named means has-been moved by the motor to a predetermined position, the connections between the Ymessage delivery apparatus and the line being under control of said relay and another relay conductively connected with said connectionv control means, means operable from any sub-station of the system for energizing said la'st named relay, and
  • a telephone system having a line leading to a sub-station, the combinationl of a speech recording and reproducing machine, a' message delivery apparatus, a connection control means for successively connecting said apparatus and said machine with the line, a motor operatively associated with said connection control means and said apparatus, a relay controlling the operation lof the machine for recording, means dependent upon the position of the connection controlling means for energizing said relay subsequently to the operation of said message delivery apparatus and another relay conductively connected with said connection control means, means operable from any sub-station of the system for energizing said last named 'relayv and means under control of said last named relay for reproducing the message recorded in said ma' chine when the latter had been placed in connection with the line.
  • said machine and apparatus each comprising a traveling steel carrier for locally magnetically differentiated p0rtions, an inductively operable element in opposition to said steel carrier, a connection control means, a motor operatively associated with said connection control means and said message delivery apparatus, an amplier interposed between .the inductively operable element of the message delivery apparatus and the line, vmeans operable by the connection control means for energizing said amplifier, said amplier being permanently connected with ⁇ the sub-station, whereby the voice currents produced by the inductively opera- Ative elementof the message delivery apparatus l of said last named relay for reproducing the message reported in said machine when the latsubscribers station, the combination .oi a speech recording and reproducing macmne, a message delivery apparatus, a connection control means, a motor operatively associated with said ap-A paratus and said connection control means, and circuit elements under the control of said means for rendering the speech recording machine adapted to successively record in-coming speech, reverse the
  • connection control means for successively connecting said apparatus with the line and said machine for recording with the line, and means operable fromany sub-station o f the system in accordance with a predetermined code for setting said machine for reproducing the speech recorded thereon on the line, whereby saidspeech on the record of the machine may be received at any sub-station of the line by a subscriber acquaint with the code.
  • a telephone system having a line leading toa subscribers station, a message delivery apparatus at the station, a speech recording 'and reproducing machine at the station, an automatic connection control means, said automatic connection control means being provided with a plurality of elements displaceable relatively to each other selectively, and means cooperating with said selectively displaceable elements and operablev from any substation ofthe system' for setting the reproducing machine to reproduction and connecting it with the line. whereby upon the operation of said selectively displaceable elements, of the connection control means, the speech recordedvon the recording machine may be reproduced and listened to at any station of the system, i
  • a telephone system having a line leading 1 to a sub-station, 'a message delivery apparatus at said sub-station, arspeech recording and reproducing machine at said sub-station, an automaticvconnection control means forsuccessively connecting the apparatus'wlth the line and the recording'machine for speech vrecording purposes with the line, a relay, and means controllable ⁇ from any sub-station of the system but operable through the connection control means and said 75 the line by the message delivery apparatus.
  • connection control means being provided with a plurality of selectively movable elements, a plurality of switches, electromagnets controllingfsaid switches, conductors connecting said electromagnets with the selectively placeable elements of the automatic connection control means, wherebysaid switches are moved in predetermined timely sequence dependent upon the selective setting of said displaceable elements of ythe connection control means, and means operable upon a predetermined setting of said switches for v reproducing the speech recorded on the recording machine on vthe line, the connections between said relatively movable 4elements of theconnection control means and of the electromagnets controlling the switches being dependent upon the timely sequence of voice currents arriving through the line, .whereby the Setting of the reproducing machine and the
  • connection control means operatively associated with said connection control means and said ⁇ message delivery apparatus, means for rendering said motor operative upon'arrival of an incoming call'at the substation, the connection control means beingtively connectible with said selectively settable elements of the connection control means during the motor 'induced movement of saidv means, a4 plurality of switches, each controlled by one of said electromagnets, means for normally holding all of said switches in a predetermined position, means biassing said switches selectively into diierent vdirections whereby upon release 'of said switches from the holding means controlled by .said electromagnets, switches biassedl in onev direction will alter their position. while other switches biassed lin another direction will retain their position in spite of their release, circuit connections between said switches and the repro.-
  • ducing machine means impulsive by voice cur-l rents from the line for establishing. circuits through said selectively settable elements and said electromagnets, andA means under control of the connection control means for setting the recording andy reproducing machine to reproduction on the line, whereby the reproduction of the vrecorded speech into vtheline matically operative upon speech recorded on the' machine is rendered effective through the voice currents and'through the setting of the selectively settable elements ⁇ and through the ⁇ .selective biassing of said switchesthe timing of the voice currents for completing the circuits energizing, the electromagnets being determined by bringing the in'- tervals inthe message delivered from the'message delivery apparatus in coincidence with the setting of the selectively settable elements of the connection control means.
  • connection control means whereby upon the movement of said connection control means, the voice currents coming in from the line will be recorded in ampli'ed-condition on the recording machine, elements selectively settable on .
  • the automatic connection control means switches operatively connected with said elements, said switches being selectively movablel from circuitinterrupting position to circuit closing position when said connections between saidy selectively settable elementsA and controlmeans.
  • the automatic connection controlfmeans establishing the connection between saidfrelay selectively predetermined sequence, and vmeans depending upon the arrival. of voice curre'nts'at said amplifier at selectively timed intervals o f the message delivered by the message delivery apparatus-for, intermittently energizing said relay,
  • the control elements for the switches in the connection control'means and the recording machine cooperatively placing said recording machine into position for lreproduction, whereby through incoming v oice currents'in a selectively timed sequence and at selectively predetermined intervals, the recording machine is set for reproducing the speech recorded thereon into the line.
  • an automatic connection control means for successively connecting said apparatus and the machine to the line, whereby the calling subscriber is informed that the message to be spoken by him will be recorded, means at the sub-station operable from any other sub-Stationen the line through voice currents uttered from said second named sub-station into the'line in predetermined timely relation with respect to the message deliveredby the apparatus of the rst named sub-station for reproducing the speech recorded in the rst named sub-station into the line to be received at the second named sub-station, and means for ln' dicating at the second named sub-station that the reproduction is terminated HERMANN HIPPLE.

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US2665337A (en) * 1950-10-16 1954-01-05 Promundo Telephonograph with answering device
US2692915A (en) * 1951-01-12 1954-10-26 Muller Willy Telephonograph adapted to be connected to the public telephone system
US2709202A (en) * 1950-10-16 1955-05-24 Promundo Method for the coded remote control of a telephonograph over a telephone system and installation for the performance of the method
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US2766323A (en) * 1951-12-27 1956-10-09 Promundo Method and apparatus for the arbitrary repetttion of parts of automatic telephonograph messages which were not understood
US2769033A (en) * 1951-09-21 1956-10-30 Waldman Herbert Telephone message recording and message repeat back systems
US2773123A (en) * 1951-12-27 1956-12-04 Promundo Method and device for distant control of a telephonograph by code signals over a telephone line
US2773124A (en) * 1951-12-31 1956-12-04 Promundo Method and device for controlling a telephonograph
US2777899A (en) * 1951-12-31 1957-01-15 Promundo Telephonograph with device for repetition of announcements
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US2429607A (en) * 1940-03-14 1947-10-28 Int Standard Electric Corp Radio traffic signaling system
US2537407A (en) * 1947-03-07 1951-01-09 Daphne Invest Trust Method of and arrangement for the coded remote setting in operation of an automatic telephonograph over a telephone circuit
US2724016A (en) * 1950-05-27 1955-11-15 Telephone Answering And Record Telephone answering and recording device
US2724015A (en) * 1950-05-27 1955-11-15 Telephone Answering And Record Telephone answering and recording device
US2665337A (en) * 1950-10-16 1954-01-05 Promundo Telephonograph with answering device
US2709202A (en) * 1950-10-16 1955-05-24 Promundo Method for the coded remote control of a telephonograph over a telephone system and installation for the performance of the method
US2692915A (en) * 1951-01-12 1954-10-26 Muller Willy Telephonograph adapted to be connected to the public telephone system
US2769033A (en) * 1951-09-21 1956-10-30 Waldman Herbert Telephone message recording and message repeat back systems
US2766323A (en) * 1951-12-27 1956-10-09 Promundo Method and apparatus for the arbitrary repetttion of parts of automatic telephonograph messages which were not understood
US2773123A (en) * 1951-12-27 1956-12-04 Promundo Method and device for distant control of a telephonograph by code signals over a telephone line
US2773124A (en) * 1951-12-31 1956-12-04 Promundo Method and device for controlling a telephonograph
US2777899A (en) * 1951-12-31 1957-01-15 Promundo Telephonograph with device for repetition of announcements
US2782255A (en) * 1951-12-31 1957-02-19 Promundo Telephonograph
FR2498785A1 (fr) * 1981-01-23 1982-07-30 Duranton Rene Dispositif de telecommande comportant un recepteur de signaux vocaux transmis sur ligne telephonique

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