Automatic telephone dialing and transmitting device

Claim 1

AN AUTOMATIC TELEPHONE DIALING AND TRANSMITTING APPARATUS COMPRISING, (A) A CYCLE WHEEL ROTATABLE AT CONSTANT SPEED AND HAVING A CODED PERIPHERAL SEGMENT FORMED OF A SERIES OF NOTCHES CUT ALONG THE SEGMENT DEFINING, THEREBETWEEN, A PLURALITY OF FINGERS DISTRIBUTED, ALONG SAID SEGMENT, IN ACCORDANCE WITH A PREDETERMINED CODE; (B) A ROTATABLE POWER SHAFT; (C) AN AXIALLY DISPLACEABLE DRUM PARALLEL TO SAID POWER SHAFT; (D) RESILIENT MEANS PRESSING SAID DRUM AXIALLY IN ONE DIRECTION; (E) COOPERATING CLUTCH PARTS, ON SAID SHAFT AND DRUM, NORMALLY OUT OF MUTUAL ENGAGEMENT BY THE ACTION OF SAID RESILIENT MEANS AND ADAPTED, WHEN IN ENGAGEMENT, TO CAUSE ROTATION OF THE DRUM; (F) A ROTATABLE RECOILING DISC HAVING A DIAL OPERATING FINGER PROJECTING FROM THE SURFACE THEREOF AND ADAPTED TO ENGAGE A FINGER HOLE IN A TELEPHONE DIAL; (G) A FLEXIBLE CABLE CONNECTED, AT ONE END, ON SAID DRUM FOR WINDING THERERAROUND, AND AT THE OTHER END TO THE PERIPHERY OF SAID DISC FOR ALSO WINDING THEREAROUND, IN SUCH A WAY THAT IN OPERATION OF SAID APPARATUS SAID CABLE WINDS ON SAID DRUM AS IT UNWINDS FROM SAID DISC, AND VICE-VERSA, THUS CAUSING ROTATION OF SAID TELEPHONE DIAL; (H) AN OPERATING ARM PIVOTABLE INTERMEDIATE THE ENDS THEREOF AND IN CONTACT, AT THE ENDS, SIMULTANEOUSLY WITH THE PERIPHERY OF SAID CYCLE WHEEL AND SAID DRUM IN SUCH A MANNER THAT WHEN THE REVELANT END OF SAID ARM MOVES FROM A GROOVE AND RIDES OVER ONE OF SAID FINGERS, SAID DRUM MOVES AGAINST SAID RESILIENT MEANS TO FORCE THE CLUTCH PARTS IN MUTUAL ENGAGEMENT, THE DRUM ROTATES AND THE FLEXIBLE CABLE UNWINDS FROM SAID DISC AND WINDS ON SAID DRUM AGAINST THE RECOIL ACTION OF SAID DISC TO DIAL A NUMBER AND WHEN SAID RELEVANT END DROPS INTO A NOTCH, THE DRUM IS FORCED IN OPPOSITE DIRECTION BY SAID RESILIENT MEANS, THE CLUTCH PARTS FALL OUT OF ENGAGEMENT AND THE FLEXIBLE CABLE UNWINDS FROM SAID DRUM TO WIND ON SAID DISC UNDER THE RECOIL ACTION THEREOF.