US514501A - Electrical annunciator - Google Patents

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O.P.SOATTERGOOD. ELECTRICAL ANNUNGIATOR.

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CHARLES F. SCATTERGOOD, OF ALBANY, NEXV YORK.

ELECTRICAL ANNUNCIATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 514,501, dated February 13, 1894.

Application filed November 3, 1893. Serialllo. 489,935. (No model.)

To all whom zit may concern.-

Be it known that 1, CHARLES F. SCATTER- GOOD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Albany, Albany county, New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Electrical Annunciators; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will en able others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a new and improved electrical annunciator especially for use in targetpractice.

In the drawings Figure 1 shows a front elevation of the transmitter face or base of my apparatus to be located near the marker. Fig. 2, a similar elevation of the face of the annunciator, to be located in any convenient place near the scorer and Fig. 3, elevations of the rear of Figs. 1 and 2 showing the wiring of the device.

In target practice the marker is usually stationed in a pit near the target for protection. That portion of my apparatus shown in Fig. 1 will be near him where he can readilyoperate it. This portion of the apparatus consists of a practical representation of the target, showing the rings numbered 2, 3, t, 5. In these rings, preferably, and preferably radiating from the center, are assembled in predetermined positionsa number of push buttons, and for convenience and ease of discernment they are preferably colored black and white alternately, or given any other colors desired, a white button being shown at 1 and a black one at 2. Around the outer ring are numbers, preferably after the manner of the numbers of a clock faceindicating hours, and each hour number is located at the end of a line of push buttons, said line, for convenience of description, being designated as an hour line, said lines ofpush buttons and said hour numbers forming or producing a graduated face on the transmitter portion of my device. On the rear of Fig. 1 (see upper portion of Fig. 3) are circles of wire preferably, connected up so that the push buttons, when operated, will cause the drops or indicators at the annunannunciator, further description thereof is deemed unnecessary.

Considering that portion of my apparatus termed the transmitter, (see Fig. 1) as in position near the target and the annunciator near the scorer and both properly wired the operation is as follows. A marksman shoots at the target and strikes it at a point indicated by the numeral a, Fig. 1. He will have hit, therefore, in ring t and nearest to hour line V. The marker, therefore, operates the push button in ring at nearest the hour line V and the following result is attained, (see Fig. 3.) The push button operated has made connection with the two halves of the contact plates at 5 and the electric current passes, as indicated by the arrows, first to the bell then to the circular wire ring 6 and along wire ring 6 to the helix 7 connected with the ring, (said helix 7 operating the drop 5 in the annunciator) thence along the wire to wire circle 3 in the rear of Fig. 1,thence along thatcircle and down to the return wire to helix 9 and thence to the battery, and in so doing has operated the drops or indicators, indicated by circles with white centers in Fig. 2, and both drops have been operated by the single action of a single push button, the reading at the annunciator being, ring a time line V, meaning that the ball has struck the target in ring a nearest to time line V.

To avoid confusion in the drawings I have shown in Fig. 3, the wiring for only one push button and two drops or indicators at the annunciator, and as the balance of the wiring to connect up all the push buttons and drops is simply a repetition or duplication of the wiring shown, such wiring is omitted, as that shown,.will readily indicate to those skilled in the art the manner of wiring the remainder. The action of a single push button on the graduated face of the transmitter, therefore, produces a compound result, viz: it indicates both the ring and the spot in the ring that has been struck by the marksman.

It is evident that my process may be made to produce not only two but a still greater variety of readings by simply duplicating or extending a portion of the wiring.

It will be seen that my apparatus is manually operated, the stroke of the bullet on the target having nothing to do with operating my annunciator.

I am aware that annunciators for hotels have heretofore been made and used, whereby not only the room in which the push button was located but also the floor on which the room was also located has been indicated on the annunciator by a single action of asingle push button and I disclaim as to all such apparatus but, I am not aware that a number of push buttons have been assembled on the face of a graduated transmitter in such near proximity to the operator that such operator could operate any one or more of them without moving from a given position and readily or nearly instantly determine by the graduations which push button is proper to operate and thereby produce a number of separate readings at the annunciator.

Having fully described my invention, so that those skilled in the art may know how to make and use the same, what I claim is- An electrical annunciator having a transmitting plate with push buttons arranged in connection therewithin concentric circles and a receiving annunciator, consisting of a plate having a series of drops or indicators, one series in circular form and the other series on the face of the plate, each push button on the transmitter plate having an electrical conductor leading to and in electrical connection With the operating mechanism of a number of drops or indicators on the receiving plate, said conductor forming an electrical circuit, in order that when a single push button is operated a number of drops will be operated indicating the number of the circle and the point on the circle of the push button operated, substantially as and for the purposes described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES F. SOATTERGOOD.

Witnesses:

W. M. BROWN, A. M. TURNER.

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