The American Electro Magnetic Telegraph: With the Reports of Congress, and a Description of All Telegraphs Known, Employing Electricity or GalvanismVail, Alfred
History
The American Electro Magnetic Telegraph: With the Reports of Congress, and a Description of All Telegraphs Known, Employing Electricity or Galvanism
Vail, Alfred
Telegraph -- History
We will now describe, by figure 10, those parts connected with the
wheel work, which could not be easily shown in figure 9. F and E
represent, in outline, the two rollers which grasp the paper, 2 and 2.
The roller E is connected with the train by a cog wheel upon it. F is
not so connected; but is pressed hard upon E by means of springs upon
the ends of the axle; S represents the grooved steel roller beneath
which the paper, 2 and 2, is seen to pass. Directly under the steel
roller is one of the steel pen points at R, upon the end of the pen
lever; a part of which only is shown. Thus far the description given of
the clock work, relates to those parts, by the agency of which the pen
is supplied with paper. We now proceed to explain that part connected
with the clock and pen lever, by which the clock is set in motion or
stopped at the option of the distant operator.
In figure 9, at R′, is seen a small pulley upon the barrel shaft of the
clock work; at Q, is another pulley, but larger. From the pulley, R′,
is a cord,[5] or band, 10, proceeding to pulley, Q, and then returning
under it to pulley, R′, making it continuous. This band communicates
the motion of pulley, R′, to the pulley, Q. In figure 10, these pulleys
are represented by the same letters. B represents the barrel; the
arrow, the direction in which it revolves when in motion. The arrow at
Q shows the direction which it takes when motion is communicated to it
by R′. Part of the pulley, Q, is broken away in order to show the arm,
H, soldered at the middle of the same spindle upon which is the pulley,
Q, and directly beneath the pen lever, L. It is bent at D, so as to
turn down and strike the wooden friction wheel, C, at the point, P. The
friction wheel is secured upon the last spindle of the train at its
middle and directly under the lever, L. From the pen lever, L, is seen
a small rod of wire, A, passing down through the arm, H, with screw and
nut under it, at I, for the purpose of shortening or lengthening it. It
is permitted to work free, both at its connection with the lever and
arm. This wire is also extended and passes down through the platform,
where it operates upon a hammer for striking a bell, to apprise the
operator that a communication is to be sent. The several parts being
now explained, their combined action is as follows:
[5] The pulley and cord have been dispensed with and two small cog
wheels substituted.
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