US820642A - Graphophone attachment. - Google Patents

Description

.IPIATENITED MAY 1 1906.

v M. J. & 1. GRBEVY. I GRAPHOPHONB ATTACHMENT.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. '7, 1905 numdoz J 2/Vitvwooeo% 5% UNITED STATES PATENT MATTHEW J. ennnvr AND nLEs GREEVY,-QF OMAHA, :NEBRAS-K A I GRAPHOPHQNE ATTACHMENT-y i I Patented May-15,1906.

To all whorl it may concern:

Be itknown that we, MATTHEW J. GREnvY and J ULES GREEVY, citizens of the United:

This invention relates toimprovements in graphophone attachments, and particularly to a means for controlling the'movement of the record and roducer.

The object of the invention is to provide a means whereby theoperator of a type-writing machine-may by use of the foot or knee cause the commencing or ceasing movement ofthe record-cylinder and reproducer of a graphophone 'or may produceVre eating movement of the graphophone wit out use of the hands.

In the combined use of the graphophone and type-writer the messages of the recordcylinder are communicated to the operator of the type-writer by means of a rubber hearing-tube provided With 'earpieces which -eX-' tend to the graphophone, the latter being, of

course, a separate machine. The operator by moving a. lever upon the graphophone causesthe' record-cylinder to revolve and af-- ter listening often is obliged, to reverse the lever to cause cessation of the'message or on account of s eed differences or Words not being distinct y heard or understood finds it necessaryto reverse said lever. There is a loss of time, therefore, while turning from one machine to the other. The hands of the operator should not be removed from the key board to perform satisfactory type-writing,

and the interruption to control the start and stop and repeating movement of a separate machine with the hands is a great annoyance,

as is well known.

Our invention is designed to overcome- Figure 1 represents a vertlcal fro'nt elevation' of the invention to show relative position of parts and manner of mounting the slidable sleeve, the link, paWLpaWI-rack, el-

bow-lever, and the connecting flexible cords or members. Fig. 2 represents a vertical end view showin, a record-cylinder, reproducer,-and rock-s aft of a grapho hone and the relative position of .a part of t e devices employed, 'asjlevers, rods, pawl, and -pawlby the numeral 12, and the stop-leverby 13,

. more clearly rack, all more fully explained hereinafter, the

figure being shown on the lines a b c of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 represents a top view of a part ofthe invention to I illustrate mounting of guiderod, sleeve, arms 14 and 15, and to show form 1 Fig. i repre- I front elevation of a part of the invention to parts.

:In the drawings the numerall-represents the record cylinder, 2 the reproducer, 3

the reproducer-handle, 4 the reproducerguide, 5 the reproducer slide-rod, 41 the actuating wormcylinder, 42- the vertical alining bar, '26 the rock-shaft, '12 the start lever, 13the stop .lever, and 6 and 6"the show the .relative position of vertical standards of the framework, ofa graphophone now in common use, the parts 3 being sustained upon the platform 7. The construction and-operation of these parts are so well known that they re uire no particular description, and it "is su 'cient to say the. rec'ordecylinder is slidably and removably mounted upon the mandrel 9, is provided I with a finely and s irally grooved longitudinal periphery, and asa revolving movement upon the mandrel, the latter being rotated by means of mechanism'contained within the machine. v a v A stationary rod 5 is sustained between the standards '6 and 6 of the frame. The

reproducer Zisprovided with a disk 10, be-f ne'at'h which is the reproducer-point 1 1,which I travels within the grooves. of the record-cyl inder, already mentioned.

' A forward movement ofthe reproducer in a direction toward standard 6 uponguide 4 .upon the rod 5 .is caused by rotation of the worm-cylinder ll-within r0d'5 by means of a motor contained Within the graphophone,

the speed corresponding with the revolving movement of the mandrel 9, the vertical alinement of the guide 4*upon the rod,.5 being preserved by the vertical bare-2, which travels with the guide 4. This movementicontinues upon the slide-rod 5 parallel with the record-cylinder until the spiral groove upon the latter has been fully traversed.

For the purposes. of thi description the conventionalrockshaft of a graphoph'o'ne is indicated by the numeral 26,- the start-lever When th operatorpresses upon start-lever 12, the rvolving movement of the record cylinder dommences and an audible message .may be received and will continue until the stop-lever 13 has been pressed, or, in effect, until rock-shaft-26'has been reversed. When it is desired to have a Inessagerepeated, the operator presses the stop lever 13, after which the reproducer-handle 3 has to be moved in l O order to cause the raising of thereproducer 2 with disk 10, and the point 11 is caused to retraverse the groove by sliding the guide 4 toward the standard 6" and lowering the reproducer 2 until the point 11 contacts with l 5 the record-cylinder. t

For the purposes of the invention'we con-{ struct a stationary pawl-rack 8 of suitable ,width, attached to and sustained by'and betweenthe vertical standards 6 and 6. 1 This 2o 'trackway is provided with teeth equally spaced apart, transverselydisposed to the trackway, and inclinedly set, the vertical Walls of the teeth bein upon the side facin the di rection from whic the reproducer approaches, and upon the inner Walls of standards 6 and 6" We. mount the 'arms 14 and 15- by means of the pivots 14 and 15, these arms extending to the-front of the machine on a plane lower than "the reproducererod 5, and we rigidly 3o mount upon the arms 14 and 15 the slide-rod 16. The arm 15 is extended in a lateral dimotion, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, to form a lever, which is attached to thespring 18,

mounted upon the platform 7, and as thus constructed theslide-rod '16 is parallel with the rePrOduCersIide-r 'd 5 and with the pawlrack 8 and is adapted to have 'a free swinging movement upon the arms 14 and 15 under' control of spring 18. Upon the slide-rod 16 o wemount the sleeve -1 7, adapted to slide f thereon. The sleeve"'17 hasan integral portion extendingfrom its center upward to form thelink 19, its supper end terminating in the clevis 20, ivotally mounted upon the 5 reproducer-hande3, and upon the arms 21 and 21 of the sleeve 17 we pivotallymount the pawl 22, adapted tolengage the teeth of the pawl-rack 8 under control of means hereinafter described;

in Fig. 1,) having the'arms 24 and 25, and rnount it ri idly upon the end of rock-shaft 26 of a g'ra ophone in a manner so that arm 25 of'the el ow-lever maybe used in the place pf the startlever 12 of a graphophone, and

to the stop-lever, and since theelbow-lever is rigidly mounted upon the end of the rockshaft well-known movement of the latter 6o ma be controlled by actuating the arms 24 an ,25, as is evident. For the purpose of opr- i'at'in arms 24 and 25,-as well as otherparts our nvention, we employ a suitable spring upo pla l atmched't'o arm-2t" 05 'construet ev nd 28 29. s 3

'We'provide the elbow-lever 23, (best shown thear'm 24 of saidlbow-leVer will correspond we place a treadl'e-frame-30 and foot-treadle 31, pivotally mounted thereon, and employ :face' of lever 51.

the springs 32 and 33, 'so that the treadle will be resiliently mounted at either end, and at the toe end of the treadle we attach a fieXi-ble memberas, for instance, a cord 34 Which extends in any convenient manner to pass to the'lever end 250i elbow-lever 23, to which the cord is attached, first passing through eye-stand 29 to give it convenient direction, and to the heel endof the treadle we attach cord 35, which extends to the eye 36 of the extended lever-arm 15, to which the cord 35 is attached'after passing through the eyestand 28 to-convel'ii'ently control direction of the cord; H

, It will be understood that the revoluble movement of-the record-cylinder 1 in almost all graphophones now'in use is controlled by a clutch, which has a lateral on-and-off contact upon the end of the record-cylinder.

This clutch is wholly under control of rockshaft 26, and in Fig. 3 we show the clutch 46, I

which is sustained rigidly'upon the upper end of thevertiCally-dispostad arm 47, Figs. 2 and 3. Arm 47 is constructed integral Withthe horizontal lever 48, disposed transversely there on, and is adapted to have a slight lateral swing by reason of the pivotal mounting of lever 48 at 5'0. -One end of lever 48 is pivotally'mounted upon lever 51 at 52, the lastnamed lever extending parallel with pawlrack '8- and having suitable hearings in standards 6 and 6, Figs. 3 and 5. Upon rockshaft 26 is provided rigidly and transversely thereon the index 52 the free end of which enters the groove'53, incised upon the sur- One 'end of rock-shaft 26 has a bearingor support within the stationary block 54, Figs. 2, 3,'a nd 5. Lever 23 is rigidly mounted upon rock-shaft 26, as by lengthwise movement under operation ofindex 52 of the nook-shaft, thereby operating the clutch.

As thus constructed and arranged our in- Vention provides means so that the operator of a type-writer has'full control of the graphophone without use of the hands, and or the purpose of causin amessageto be repeated the provisions ma care as follows: The pawl 22 is mounted'inclinedly upon its pivotal suport and travels with the sleeve 17 upon a liorizontal plane above the teeth, but closely adjacent thereto While in its normal position; but when cord 35 is.drawn in a direct-ion toward the treadle the arms 14 and 15. are moved in a downward sweep, and with these arms are. carried the reproducer-handle 3, the

link 19-, sleeve 17, s lide rod 16, and pawl 22, thereby causing the pawl toi'engage one of the ,teethof the WWI-rack-X. Since the 'pawl- 9 the toe end of the treadleis pressed, the cord i f the are being the point of contact of the lower end of the pawl with the tooth of the pawl-rack, and as the pressurecome's down wardthe sleeve is moved backward or inthe direction'of-standard- 6-, as is: evident, carry- 1 0 ing with. it the. reproducer, jand this. is the.

operation =Ql'f1'6 eating.-

A.pressin'e downwardof the'hee end of the tre'adle'instan'tly causes the stop actionv of the graphophone, as'well as the action. ofrepeating, onea-ction' being sufficientqfor both purposes. When- 3, l is which causes the-lever end 'to bemovedfin a direction toward, standard- 6, which: causes the record-cylinder to commence' revolution, as is-obvious. Springs 32yandf 33 are adapted to haveequal tension, and a .positive movement of ,is a apted to be greaterthanthe combined resilientforce of all other springs; plus iri c tion, and thcreforethc normal position Of'lever 23 is always stop untilapre'ssure is made upon the toei'end ofthetreadle; f 'Whenthe graphophone.isuseseparatelyfor dictation purposes, the lever 23 is released ,hook upon the end of-sai'd spring. From the 'descriptiongiven the operation of --the invention will be readily' understood.

-When -the lever-arm '24 is under-100mm of spring 27 bymeans-jof thei hook 37, a downjw'ard toe pressure by the operator causes the nd? upon removal .of. the. toe-pressure the treadle' returns to-- a =nor'1nal.;' osi-tion, and movement of the record jcylin ericeasesb c reason of the,resilient'forcefofspring 21, land.

"a pressurefof "the heel causes a repeated ,message', as already described. 1.; In order that the alin-ementofthe sleeve '17-withfslide-rod 16 maylbe' p're'served, so-

occur of these; parts wh {ment is performed, thehorizontally mounted. arrn-4O is employed] This arm 40 is'madc integral with the 'alining-ban 42 and ispro vided with a yoke consisting of the-arms 44 and 45, wlnch -come upon either side of ".Va'rious changes in detail 0t construction may be made Without departing from the spirit of the invention. We have shown but. oneof several-methods of controlling the han-.

' dle ofthe reproducer and .Qf the start and stop lever consideredthebest, and We do not limit ourselves to exactness of construction, the scop ,ofithe invention being governed by the sliding move-1 bination with a reproducer of a zi'norn'operationof spring 27 by means of the sai "* t movement 0 Q QCQrdecylinder, some adapted to-controlsaid. pivotallyrnounted ,Iai'ms,v and. means to control said flexible memben -Y k 5. 1 'In'an attachment'ofthe class described,

I in. combination with the reproducerf and the I 1 0 vertical alining-bar of fa graphophone',- of a link adapted tofcontrol said reproducer; 'a' V, V .pawl adapted to control said-link, a stationh fi' ndi g .01 draggingmovement may, 1

ing knee-lever ma be substituted =fOI the foot-trea'dle provi ed with U-formed hooks.

suitably mounted or ;a foot-loop substituted forthe treadle, and the control of these move ni'ents of thegraphophone wouldbe equally 7o operative.

What we claim as our invention is 1. In a graphoph'one attachment, the com aphophone.,-, 5 of a link adapted to control sai repro'ducer'; 7 5 a pawl adapted to control said link, a station ary rack-engaged by said pawl; mechanism adapted to control said pawl, and means to -control said mechanism; v

2. v,In a graphophone attachment, the com '86:

bination with the reproducer-of a raphophone, of a link adapted to control sai repro 1 ducer; a pawl adapted to control said link; a

stationary rack engagedby said pawl; a 4 slide-rod adapted to controlsaid pawl; mech- S 5 anisi'n adapted to control said slide-rod;- and means 'to control said mechanism. the foot is required to change the normal position of the treadle and'efi'ect a control of- 5 the raphophone, 'Theresiliency of spring27 3. Ina graphophone attachment, the combination with a reproducer of 1a .aphophone,

.ofa link adapted to control sai .re producer; go;

a pawl adapted'to control said link;a'stati0n-,

,-ary rack engaged by said pawl, a slid rod j adaptedzt'o. *cont'roi said pawl; pivotallymounted arms ada tedto control saidslide-L rod; mechanism a apted tocontrol said piv- 5' ,otally-niounted arms, and means-; to control said mechani'sm.

4. In angattachment of the class described,

the combination-with a reproducer of a-- grakphophone," offa adapted to control [00 reproducer; a-pawl adapted "to control saidlinkya stationary rack'enga'ged by said pawl, "a; slide-rod adapted to control said pawl ivotallymounted "arm adapted-"to,

, said 'slide rod'gra flexible member p05 rack engaged by said.--pawl mechanism a r. adiipted' to control said pawl; means to con-. r15 trol said mechanism; a horizontally-disposed alining-bar mounted upon said vertical alin- 'in'gebar, and making contact with said link.

6; In an attachment of the class described,

, in combination with the reproducer and the 12 0 vertical alining-bar ofa graphophon'e, of-a link adapted to control saidreproduc'er; a

pawli adapted' to control said link; a station- 'ary rack engaged by said pawl, a slide-rod;r 1

adapted to'control said pawl; mechanism '125 adapted to control said slide-rod means' to control said mechanism; 'a, -horizontally-d1 sposed alining-bar mounted upon said vertical v a I fililDQ-bfifl', and making contact with said the 01am and it isfevident that an oscillat-i p I adapted to control 'said pawl;

. trolsaidflexible member; a horizontally-dis f in combination with the reprodu'cer a nd the vertical jalining-bar of a graphophone; of a l link adapted to control said reproduc'er; a pawl adapted to control said, link a station tures in presence of twq-witnessesfl I airy rack engaged bysaid pawl;a slide'-l)a r. 'M TH V J GREEVY v V Y W JULES GEE-Evy: mounted arms adapted to control sald slldel rod; 21 flexible member adapted. to contrel [Witnssesz said pivotally-mounted-armsg means to C0n- "S. A. BROADWELL,

posed aliningber mounted upon said vertical I f lling-bar,-nnd making contact With-said In I .I I .r

7. In an attaehment of the wclass des'cribetl, i

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