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US2787657A
US2787657A US84104A US8410449A US2787657A US 2787657 A US2787657 A US 2787657A US 84104 A US84104 A US 84104A US 8410449 A US8410449 A US 8410449A US 2787657 A US2787657 A US 2787657A
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  • a start-stop printing telegraph signal combination consists of a code combination of an equal number of code elements transmitted successively, each code element consisting (as transmitted) of one or other of two different conditions, usually denoted marking and spac ing, persisting throughout the duration of the element.
  • the duration of each cod-e element is the same.
  • the number of code elements is usually five or six and the code combination is immediately preceded by a start element of spacing condition and of duration equal to that of one of the code elements and is immediately succeeded by a stop element of marking condition.
  • the nominal duration of the stop element is usually either equal to that of a code element, in which case the system is said to work (when a five-element code combination is used) on a seven-unit basis, or one and a half times that of a code element in which case the system (when a five element code combination is used) is said to work on a seven and a half unit basis.
  • Distortion in the line or other transmission medium alters the times of change-over between marking and spacing conditions and the function of a regenerative repeater is to respond to distorted signals and in response to retransmit signals in which each element is of the proper duration.
  • the condition of the received signal in the line, or other transmission medium is scrutinised substantially at the middle of each element period, and an element of the condition thus determined commences to be transmitted and is extended to its full duration.
  • the regenerated and retransmitted signals thus lag behind the received signals by an interval equal to half a signal element period.
  • the object of the present invention is to provide a regenerative repeater for start-stop signal combinations.
  • vacuum tube means are used for timing the signal element periods, for scrutinising the incoming signals and for determining the transmission of the regenerated signals.
  • a regenerative repeater for start-stop printing telegraph signal combinations comprising a chain of cold cathode gas discharge gaps each formed between a cathode and an anode, means for rendering these gaps conducting sequentially to time the intervals occupied by the elements of a signal combination, means under the joint control of said chain and the received signal operative at the middle of each signal element period to condition a transmitter circuit to cause said circuit to transmit a signal element of the same kind as that received and ice means to cause said transmitter circuit to remain in that condition until again reconditioned.
  • the invention makes use of a source of pulses of repetition period short compared with the durationof a signal element.
  • the receipt of a start element of a signal causes pulses from said source to be applied to the chain to cause the gaps to become conducting sequentially.
  • a counting circuit or time-base circuit constituted by the chain of gaps is thus set into operation after the commencement of the start element with the very minimum of delay, this delay being at its maximum the repetition period of the pulses.
  • the principle of starting a counting circuit at any instant or with a very brief delay is sometimes referred to as a ratchet start but hitherto a continuously operating source of pulses of very short repetition period has not been used for this purpose.
  • regenerator circuits When signals are being received over a transmission circuit which includes a radio path, atmospheric or other interference may cause space condition to be delivered to the regenerator momentarily and thus simulate the commencement of a, start element. A similar condition may occur owing to momentary interruptions of a line transmission circuit or momentary failure of power supply at any point. If a momentary spacing condition is received with regenerator circuits hitherto known, the circuits that control the timing of the scrutinising of the received signals will be set into operation but when the condition of the received signals is scrutinised in the middle of the start. element period, the condition will be found to be marking and no start element will be sent forward regenerated. The regenerator, however, continues its cycle and a real signal which commences to be received during such cycle may be missed or mis-read.
  • the present invention provides a regenerative repeater for start-stop printing telegraph signal combinations comprising a time base for timing and counting the elements of a signal combination, means dependent on the commencement of a received start element for rendering said time base operative, means for examining the incoming signal condition at a time subsequent to said commencement and not later than the lapse of half a signal element period and means operative upon said condition received being then marking to render said time base inoperative and to restore the regenerator to initial condition.
  • the present invention is applicable, as will be clear from the above, to regenerative repeaters for regenerating signal combinations in which the stop period is equal in duration to one element period or to one-and-a-half element periods. If, however, the stop period is only equal to the one element period, special difiiculties arise. If, in the received signals, the mark-space transits constituting the commencement of the start element are mistimed, corresponding errors appear in the durations of the stop periods. If these result in a stop period being shortened so as to be of much shorter duration than one element, a difficulty arises that further distortion of the stop period is likely to occur in subsequent transmission through a telegraph channel of limited speed. This distortion is likely further to reduce the length of stop periods at each new regeneration.
  • stop period becomes reduced to as little as half an element period, it may be beyond the capacity of the transmission channel to retransmit the stop element at all. It is, nevertheless, essential in the regenerator, to allow for some shortening of. the stop period to avoid cumulative errors in the case in which the source of signals is running slightly faster than the regenerator.
  • the maximum distortion does not exceed 50%
  • the occurrence of a stop period shorter than three-quarters of the normal length indicates a high degree of probability that the transit to a start condition which terminates the stop periods has been advanced by distortion. Accordingly, the delay in the instants when scrutiny of the received elements takes place which follows from delaying starting the counting train until a time corresponding to six and three-quarters element periods has elapsed since the previous transit to a start condition gives a high degree of probability that the scanning instants will approach more nearly to the ideal timing.
  • a regenerative repeater for start-stop printing telegraph signal combinations of which each stop element nominally occupies one signal element period comprising means dependent upon the commencement of a received start element for rendering a time base cir cuit operative to time a signal combination, and means to cause said time base to become again dependent upon the commencement of a received start element after the lapse of a period after said first mentioned commencement less than-the nominal period of a full signal combination by a period between 0.1 and 0.4 of an element period.
  • Fig. 1 consisting of Figs. 1A and 1B
  • Fig. 2 consisting of Figs. 2A, 2B taken together represent a single circuit diagram of a rengerator.
  • Fig. lB being placed to the ri ht of Fig. 1A and Figs. 2A and 2B being placed below Figs. 1A and 113 respectively.
  • Fig. 3 consisting of Figs. 3A and 3B. is a modification of that part of the circuit shown in Figs. 2A and 2B. Figs. 3A and 313 should accordingly replace Figs. 2A and 28 below Figs. 1A and IE to form a single circuit diagram.
  • Fig. 4 consisting of Figs. 4A and 4B is a timing chart showing the operating sequence of the various electrodes of the multi-cathode tubes and various control tubes shown in Figs. 1A and 113.
  • Fig. 43 should be placed to the right of Fig. 4A.
  • the regenerative repeater shown in Figs. 1 and 2 uses a continuously-running source 1 'of pulses of a short repetition-period. These pulses may be derived from an oscillator operating at 5,000 cycles per second so that the pulses are delivered at 0.2 millisecond intervals. Pulses from the source 1 are delivered as negative-going pulses to the conductor 2 and are thus delivered to various points in the circuit of Fig. 1 which will be referred to hereafter. They are also delivered over a transformer T3 to a balanced modulator generally designated by the reference numeral 4.
  • the balanced modulator comprises the secondary of transformer T3, the primary of a second transformer T5, and four rectifiers, MR6, MR7, MR3 and MR9.
  • the incoming telegraph signals are applied through terminals 10 and 11 between the midpoint of the secondary winding of transformer T3 and the mid-point of the primary oftransformer T5.
  • the primary of the transformer T3, the rectifiers and transformer windings forming the balanced modulator are so connected that when the incoming line is in the rest condition, that is, with a mark condition applied to terminals 1t) and 11, positive pulses appear on terminal 12 of the secondary of transformer T5 and negative pulses on terminal 13, whereas when a spacing condition is applied to terminals 10 and 11, positive pulses appear on terminal .13 and negative pulses on terminal 12.
  • Terminals 12 and 13 are connected over rectifiers MR14 and MR15 respectively to mark lead 16 and space lead 17 respectively.
  • the rectifiers MR14 and MRIS suppress negative-going pulses so that when marking conditions are applied to terminals 10 and 11, positive-going pulses appear on mark lead 16 and when spacing conditions are applied to terminals 10 and 11, positive going pulses appear on the space lead 17.
  • the balanced modulator 4 is of known type but is employed in an unusual way to reverse the polarity of the pulses appearing on terminals'12 and 13 in accordance with the reversals of the received signal conditions which reversals are of course of a much lower frequency than that corresponding to the .pulse repetition rate.
  • the regenerator being described is intended for operation with a five-unit code and signal elements of 20 milliseconds duration corresponding to a signalling speed of 50 bands.
  • the change from the rest condition (mark) to space condition in the signals received on terminals 10 and 11 causes positive pulses to appear in the space lead 17.
  • This lead is connected over resistance R19, rectifier MR20, condenser C21 and resistance R22 to the control electrode ofa three-electrode cold cathode tube CT23.
  • a source of biaspotential 24' is connected to the control electrode of the tube CT23 over a resistance R25 and the resistance R22 but is insufficient normally to render this tube conducting.
  • the anode'of the tube CT23 is connected to a suitable source of potential through a resistance R26 and also is connected over a condenser C27 .to the anode of'a similar tube CT23, the anode of which is connected to a suitable source of potential over resistance R29.
  • the potential from the source 24 and the resistances R22 and R25 and the anode potential of the tube CT 23 are so arranged that the first pulse applied to the control electrode thereof, causes the tube to become conducting.
  • Normally tube CT 28 is conducting and the connections between the anodes of the two tubes CT23 and CT28 cause CT28 to be made non-conducting when tube CT23 becomes conducting.
  • the tube CT23'becornes conducting within a maximum limit of time of 0.2 milliseconds after the change over from mark to space, since this is the maximum time that can elapse after the change over before a pulse is applied to the control electrode of the tube.
  • a counting circuit Fig. 1A.
  • the function of this counting circuit is to count the pulses from the pulse source 1 and thereby to time the signal element periods and the period occupied by a signal combination. The appearance of positive potential on the conductor 31 starts this counting circuit into operation as will :be explained hereinafter.
  • the pulses from the source 1 that are to be counted are applied over a conductor 2 and condensers C32, C33 and C34 respectively, to the cathodes of cold cathode tubes CT35, CT36 and CT37.
  • the counting operation is performed by three multi-cathode tubes MCT 38, MCT39 and MCI40.
  • Each of these tubes MCT38, MCT39 and MCT40 is of the type described in the co-pending application of G. H. Hough, filed September 27, 1949, and bearing Serial No. 118,055.
  • tube MCT38 ten cathodes K41 to K50 are arranged in circular formation so that cathode K50 is adjacent to cathode K 51, though for purposes of circuit description, the cathodes are shown arranged in line.
  • tube MCT39 is provided with ten cathodes K51 to K60 and tube MCT40 with the ten cathodes K61 to K70.
  • Tube MCT38 is provided with an anode 71 and tubes MCT39 and MCT40 are provided with anodes 72 and 73, respectively.
  • transfer electrodes 76 are connected between the various cathodes K51 to K60 in tube MCT39 and are all connected to a common lead 77.
  • transfer electrodes 78 are provided between the various cathodes K61 and K70 and are connected to a common lead 79.
  • the various cathodes K41 to K50, K51 to K60 and K61 to K70 are each separately connected to ground over separate time constant circuits each denoted by the reference numeral 80.
  • Each time constant circuit 80 consists of a resistance and a condenser in parallel and the time constant thereof is greater than the duration of each of the pulses from the source 1 (Fig. 2A). In order not to unduly complicate the circuit diagram only some of the time constant circuits 80 have been shown.
  • the operating sequence of the several cathodes K may be readily followed as this description proceeds with the aid of the timing chart shown in Fig. A.
  • the gap between the cathode K41 and the anode 71 of this tube is conducting and the application of potential to that transfer electrode 74 which is between the cathodes K41 and K42 results in the transfer of the discharge from the gap between cathode K41 and anode '71 to one across the gap between the cathode K42 and the anode 71.
  • the discharge between the cathode K41 and the anode 71 is at the same extinguished.
  • the efi'ect of the same pulse applied through the tube CT35 to conductor 75 causes the discharge to be transferred from cathode K50 of tube MCT38 to the next cathode in the circle, namely, K41.
  • the nineteenth pulse over conductor 2 causes cathode K50 to discharge and the twentieth pulse causes cathodes K41 and K53 to discharge.
  • the fiftieth pulse causescathodes K41 and K56 to discharge.
  • This potential is impressed over conductor 17 and over rectifier MR92 onto condenser C93, the other side of which is connected over a resistance R94 to the trigger electrode of a three element cold cathode tube (BT95.
  • This trigger electrode is connected over resistances R94 and R96 to a source of bias, potential in suflicient to trigger the tube.
  • tube CT will be rendered conducting on the fiftieth pulse and current will flow through the space winding of a telegraph relay TR97, which winding is connected between the cathode of tube CT95 and earth.
  • the tube CT95 together with another like tube CT98 and their circuit connections form a transmitter circuit, CT95 being the space tube and CT98 the mark tube.
  • the cathode of tube CT98 is connected to earth through the mark winding of the telegraph relay TR97,
  • conductors 90 and 85 in additionnto being connected to conductors 89 and 86 are also connected through conductors 101 and1t12respectively and rectifiers MR103 and MR104 to. a conductor .105 which is connected over rectifier MR106, condenser C107 and resistance RIOS-to the trigger electrode of tube CT98. Mark lead 16 is also connected to conductor 105.
  • Tube CT98 is initially conducting and thus the bias impressed over conductor 105 from the cathodes K50 and K56, after the forty-ninth pulse, has no immediate effect, since its function is to prevent the lowering of the potential on the trigger electrode of tube CT98 when positive pulses appear over lead 16.
  • Tubes CT95 and CT98 are connected'through individual time constant circuits 110 and 111 and a common resistance R112 to a common source of anode potential.
  • CT95 becomes conducting
  • CT98 is made non-conducting and current ceases to flow through the mark winding of relay TR97.
  • the contacts tr99 of the relay change over and the signal transmitted over the outgoing line 100 changes from mark to space and this is the commencement of the retransmission of the incoming signal.
  • tube CT98 will be triggered or tube CT95 will remain conducting according as the hundred-and-fiftieth pulse appears on mark lead 16 or on space lead 17, that is, according to whether the incoming signal condition on terminals and 11 is mark or space.
  • the transmitter circuit will accordingly be conditioned in accordance with the incoming signalling condition at that instant to transmit a regenerated signal element, and will remain so conditioned for milliseconds.
  • tube MCTSS The function of tube MCTSS is to countall the pulses from conductor 2, tube MCT39 toscount every 10th pulse and the function of tube MCT is to count every 100th pulse. It has previously been pointed out that a pulse is transferred from. one cathode to, the other of tube MCT39 when a bias potential is impressed on the trigger electrode of tube CT36 from cathode K50. ,Inasmuch as cathode K when it commences to discharge remains discharging during 10 pulse periodsit is essential that a bias potential shall not be impressed on the trigger electrode of tube CT37 during length of a signal combination.
  • tube MCT40 would count each pulse applied to it from-the pulse generator 1 over conductor 2 and condenser C34 during these ten. pulse periods. Accordingly a rectifierMR-113, is connected between the cathode K50 of. tube MCT38 and the cathode K60 of tube MCT39.
  • This rectifierMR113 shunts the potential derived from the current-flowing from cathode K60 of tube MCT39 through its own time constant circuit 30 to earth by a path through the time constant circuit associated with cathode K50 of tube MCT38 to earth. Whilst cathode K50 is discharging, however, rectifier MR113 is blocked and the potential derived from cathode K60 when it is discharging is applied to the trigger electrode of tube CT37 which is therefore rendered conducting by a pulse received from pulse generator 1 over conductor 2. Thus a pulse is only passed over conductor 79 to the transfer electrode 78 of tube MCT40 when both cathodes K50 and cathodes K60 are simultaneously discharging.
  • every hundredth pulse causes the discharge in tube MCT40 to be transferred from the cathode which is then discharging to the nextcathode.
  • the cathode K61 is normally discharging and on the firstimpulse passed to conductor 79 the nextlcathode K62 discharges. This occurs after the hundredth pulse applied to conductor 2 from the source 1 and each hundredth pulse is passed on in like manner to cause successive cathodes of the tube MCT40 to discharge.
  • the successive gaps in the tube MCT40 will therefore discharge or be rendered conducting at 20 milli second intervals.
  • The-purpose of the tube MCT40 is to measure out the It is assumed in the present description that the system is working on a sevenrnnit basis so that the stop element of a signal com- .bination as originally transmitted is equal to the length of one of the .code elements. As stated above, it is important to measure the minimum length of a signal .combination to a high degree of accuracy and in the emcircuit shown in Figs. l and 2 a time of 132 milliseconds is measured and the time base or counting circuit of Fig- 1 is then restored automatically to its normal condition in which itis again dependent upon the commencement of a received startelement.
  • cathodes K50, K53 and K67' will be simultaneously.
  • discharging for the first time and potential will be passed from cathode K50 over a conductor to 'be applied to rectifier MR114.
  • potential is impressed from cathode K58 over conductor 118 to rectifier MR119.
  • Potential is also impressed from cathode 67 over line 120 to rectifier MR121.
  • the other sides of these rectifiers are connected together and to lead 16 over a resistance and this point of juncture is connected to the trigger electrode of tube CT28 through rectifierMRllS, condenser C116, and resistor R117.
  • connections from .the cathode K50, K58 and K67 through the rectifiers MR114, MR119 and MR121 constitute a electrode of. the tube CT28 until all three cathodes are discharging.
  • a bias potential is applied to the trigger elec- The mark lead 16,.as stated above, is connected over conductor 123 to [the rectifier MR and on the occurrence of the next pulse on the mark lead the tube CTZS is triggered.
  • This causes the tube CT23 to extinguish and thus cuts ofi the source of pulses from the counting circuit by removing'the bias, from the trigger electrode of CT35. In the absence of this path the tube CT35 is unable to pass on pulses from theconductor 2 to trigger tube MCT38, and
  • the negative pulse induced in the secondary winding of the transformer T124 is applied over condenser resistance combinations to the conductors 125, 126 and 127 and thus to the cathodes K41, K51 and K61 respectively, thus bringing these cathodes into the discharging condition ready to commence another count.
  • the gaps that were conducting in the tubes MCT38, MCT39 and MCT40 are extinguished owing to the action of the common anode resistance of each tube in well known manner.
  • Another facility which is referred to earlier in the specification is the suppression of a false start. This is provided as previously explained to prevent a momentary space condition delivered to the regeneratorsimulating the receipt of a start element. This facility is provided by examining the start element at some time less than or equal to 10 milliseconds after the initiation of the count to see whether the line condition is still at space and, if it has returned to mark, the count is stopped and the circuit restored to normal. At 10 milliseconds after the commencement of the count the cathodes K50, K56 and K61 are discharging and this combination does not recur during the remainder of the signal combination.
  • Cathode K50 is connected through conductors 85 and 128, rectifier MR131 to a common point to which cathode K56 is connected over conductors 90 and 129 and rectifier MR132 and to which cathode K61 is connected over conductor 130 and rectifier MR133, this common point being connected over rectifier MR134 and to the trigger electrode of tube CT28.
  • the coincidence of the bias applied from all three cathodes also coincides with a positive pulse on the mark lead 16, which is connected through a resistance to the common point above referred to over conductor 135a, the result will be that the tube CT28 will be triggered in exactly the same way as described above for the minimum stop facility and produce the same result, namely, stopping the count and restoring the multi-cathode tubes to normal rest condition.
  • regenerator For many applications it is now necessary that a regenerator shall be able faithfully to retransmit-a signal consisting of a long application of spacing condition to the line.
  • signals are required in, connection with supervisory equipment associated with printing telegraph exchange systems and are used to indicate that the transmission over a particular circuit is completed and that the circuit can be released andreconnected to form a part of another through connection.
  • cathodes K50, K55 and K67 are discharging.
  • Cathode K50 is connected over conductors 85 and 135, rectifier MR136 to a common point to which cathode K55 is connected over conductors 90 and 137 and rectifier MR138 and cathode K67 is connected over conductors 120 and 139 and rectifier MR140.
  • CT143 is one of apair of tubes CT143 and CT144 of which CT144 is normally triggered.
  • Space lead 17 is connected over conductor 145 to the common pointof rectifiers MR136, MR138 and MR140 and if, therefore, there is a positive pulse on space lead 17 at the moment when the bias potential is applied to these rectifiers from the cathodes K50, K55 and K67, tube CT143 will be triggered. The firing of tube CT143 extinguishes tube CT144.
  • tube CTMS causes a rise of potential to occur over resistance R146 and this is applied over condenser C147, rectifier MRMS, condenser C116, resistance R117 to the trigger electrode of tube CT28 which is therefore triggered and extinguishes tube CT23.
  • the extinguishing of tube CT23 restores the counting circuit to normal as previously described.
  • tube CT144 is extinguished the positive pulses which are appearing on space lead 17'are short circuited to earth over resistance R19 and rectifier MR149 and resistance R150.
  • Rectifiers MR163 and MR164 on the one hand and rectifiers MR165, MR166, MR167 and MR168 on the other ensure that the space and mark tubes CT95 and CT98 respectively are supplied with a continuous train of pulses when the incoming line is resting in space or mark condition. This is not an essential feature but has been included to preclude any danger of the tube which should be discharging becoming extinguished during any transient condition. Such failure might otherwise result in the regenerator going out of service.
  • Fig. 3 shows a modification of Fig. 2 whereby a further facility may be provided, namely, enforced stop insertion.
  • the system described up to now provides that each character received shall terminate with a seventh element of mark condition forming the stop element period and this is regenerated and retransmitted, but measured off to a definite length if desired.
  • distortion may occur to such a degree that the stop period is lost altogether or is displaced in time and there is therefore a danger that no stop element will be sent forward. This is more likely to occur when the circuit includes a radio link on which fading is occurring.
  • Figure 3 shows a circuit which is arranged so that the regenerator operates automatically to commence to transmit a stop condition 120 milliseconds after it first commences to retransmit the start element irrespective of the condition of the incoming line.
  • Fig. 3 forms a single circuit diagram with certain of the connections from Fig. l.
  • the elements of Fig. 3 are the same as those of Fig. 2 and perform the same function they are designated with the same reference numerals.
  • the enforced stop insertion facility is provided it is inconsistent with the provisions for the precise measurement of the duration of a signal combination that have been previously described and is also inconsistent with the facility of transmitting a long space signal and accordingly the circuits of Fig. 3 are simplified by omitting those parts of Fig. 2 that are required for those facilities.
  • t e circumstances in which it is required to provide the enforced stop insertion facility are not those in which it is required to transmit along space.
  • the circuit of Fig. 3 accordingly operates similarly to that of Fig. 2 in its response to the commencement of a start signal and starts up the counting circuit of Fig. l in the same manner.
  • bias potential is impressed upon both the space lead 17 and .the mark lead 16 and therefore on the control electrodes of the tubes CT95 and CF98 at 10 milliseconds after the commencement of the incoming start element and at a period of 20 milliseconds thereafter, and the transmitter circuit constituted by tubes CT95 and CTQS acts in exactly the same manner as the similar transmitter circuit in Fig. 2 to retransmit the regenerated signal elements.
  • cathode K67 of tube MCT40 commences to discharge for the first time .and a positive potential is applied from its cathode over .conductor 120, Fig. 1 to conductor 169.
  • a positive potential is applied from its cathode over .conductor 120, Fig. 1 to conductor 169.
  • a rectifier MRI'itl so arranged that it becomes of high resistance when the potential is applied to it over the conductor 169. This prevents pulses from the space lead being applied to the trigger of the space tube CT93 which therefore cannot be rendered conducting from then onwards.
  • the primary winding of transformer T3 is provided with an additional Winding 171 and thus positive pulses from this winding .go into a conductor 172 by means of which they are applied over rectifier M11168 to the trigger electrode of tube GT9?) provided there is a potential on conductor 105 which is impressed thereon by the coincidence circuit previously described formed by rectifiers M12104 and MRIGS from the cathode circuits of K50 and K56.
  • This coincidence occurs milliseconds after the cathode K67 has commenced to discharge, that is, 130 milliseconds from the commencement of the count which is immediately at the end of the transmission of the sixth element of the retransmitted signal.
  • the transmission of a mark period therefore always follows the transmission of the code elements of a signal.
  • cathodes K50, K58 and K67 will be simultaneously discharging for the first time and the simultaneous occurence of potentials impressed over conductor 113 upon rectifier MRill -l, over conductor 118 upon rectifier MR119 and over conductor v120 upon rectifier MREZI will permit a potential to be impressed over rectifierMRliS, condenser C116 and resistance R117 on to the trigger electrode of tube CTZS, whereupon this tube will be triggered and the count will be brought to an end and the counting circuit restored to normal condition in the manner previously described with reference to Fig. 2. There will therefore be a compulsory insertion of a stop period of at least 16 milliseconds.
  • a counting circuit could be used constituted by well known counting chains of cold cathode gas discharge gaps in which each discharge gap is contained in an individual tube, and the circuit connections ensure that the tubes become conducting one at a time in turn, the striking of each tube extinguishing the previous tube in the chain. It is, however, even in this case not necessary to use a number of tubes equal to the number of ulses to be counted, since the tubes can, in known mannor, be arranged in separate sets to count units, tens, hundreds etc. pulses or on any other scale of notation.
  • a binary counting chain could be used instead of the three tultigap tubes counting pulses on the decimal scale of notation.
  • the pulse generator 1 could supply 6,400 pulses per second and these could be applied (through a gate circuit as described herein) to a binary counter consisting of successive pairs of cold cathode tubes as described in the U. S. Patent No. 2,576,099, issued on November 27, 1951 to Frederick Harry Bray, George Clifford Hartley and Desmond Sydney Ridler.
  • Each pair of tubes halves the frequency so that the reduction from 6,400 pulses per second to 100 pulses per second (the pulse period of which measures the 20 m. 5. element periods) can be effected by six pairs of tubes and the necessary bias for carrying out operations after periods which are not multiples of 20 milliseconds can be obtained from a combination of several tubes in the binary chain.
  • regenerator uses a contact making relay 'to effect the re-transmission of signals it is clear that this re-transmission could be effected by connecting the line wires to appropriate points in the transmitter circuit constituted by the pair of tubes CT and CT93.
  • Regenerative repeater for start-stop printing telegraph signal combinations comprising a chain of cold cathode gas discharge gaps, each formed between a cathode and an anode, means for rendering said gaps conducting sequentially to time the intervals occupied by the elements of a signal combination, a transmitter circuit, means under .the joint control of said chain and the received signals operative at the middle of each signal element period to condition said transmitter circuit to cause said circuit to transmit a signal element of the same kind as that received and means to cause said transmitter circuit to remain in that condition until again reconditioned.
  • Regenerative repeater as claimed in claim 1, comprising a source of pulses of repetition period short compared with the duration of a signal element and means operative upon the receipt of the start element of a signal combination to cause pulses from said source to be applied to said chain to cause said gaps to become conducting sequentially.
  • Regenerative repeater as claimed in claim 2 in which said chain of gas discharge gaps is divided into a plurality of sets, the gaps in one set being rendered conducting one at a time in turn on the application thereto of successive pulses from said source and the gaps in another set being rendered conducting one at a time in turn on the occurrence of a conductive condition across a given one of said first set of gaps.
  • Regenerative repeater as claimed in claim 1 in which said chain of gas discharge gaps comprises one or more sets of gaps, each set being contained within a single envelope and in which the means for rendering the gaps conducting sequentially comprises auxiliary electrodes, one adjacent each gap.
  • each gap of any one of said sets of gaps is formed between an individual cathode and an anode common to the set.
  • Regenerative repeater as claimed in claim 1, comprising a source of pulses of repetition period short compared with the duration of a signal element, means operative upon the receipt of the start element of a signal combination to cause pulses from said source to be applied to said chain to cause said gaps to become conducting sequentially, and means operative only upon the joint occurrence of a conducting condition in each of a plurality of gaps in 'dit Schlt sets of said gaps to condition said transmitter circuit.
  • Regenerative repeater for start-stop printing telegraph signal combinations comprising a normally operating source of pulses of repetition period short compared with the duration of an element of a signal combination, a counting circuit means operative upon the receipt of a start element of a signal to cause pulses from said source to be applied to said counting circuit for counting said pulses, means controlled by said counting circuit for scrutinising the received signals after a number of pulse periods equal to half a signal element period after the said commencement and at times equal to the number of pulse periods in a signal element period thereafter, a transmitting circuit, means controlled by the condition of the incoming signals at said times to condition said transmitter circuit to transmit a signal element of the same kind as that received at the respective times, and means to cause said transmitter circuit to remain in that condition until again reconditioned.
  • Regenerative repeater for start-stop printing telegraph signal combinations comprising a normally operating source of pulses of repetition period short compared with the duration of an element of a signal combination, a transmitter circuit, means dependent upon the condition of the incoming signals to cause said pulses to be applied to one or another point of said transmitter circuit, a counting circuit, means operative upon the receipt of a start element of a signal to cause pulses from said source to be applied to said counting circuit for counting said pulses, means controlled by said counting circuit for applying a bias potential to both said points of said transmitter circuit at the middle of each signal element period from said receipt of a start element and means operative jointly by the pulses and said bias potential at one of said points in said transmitter circuit to cause the transmission of one or another signalling condition during a signal element period.

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