DE1058107B - Timing device for determining temporal processes, e.g. B. from telephone calls - Google Patents

Description

GERMAN

The invention relates to a device which allows, in addition to a general time orientation, the beginning and end z. B. a phone call and thus its duration in conjunction with a Telephone facility on electromechanical! Ways to capture them, to convert them into time values, these if necessary to save and evaluate separately.

Devices are known that the duration of a long-distance call purely mechanically with a kind of stopwatch determine, which at the same time provided with a general clock-like time orientation and at any Place can be arranged, but without special additional functions, what a, uch for facilities applies, the z. B. their fee determination usually in a separate arrangement from the actual Effect telephone set, through the office or your own manual. Triggering a Spring mechanism, the z. B. adjusted a roller on which the elapsed time and the time to be calculated Fee is to be read.

However, the devices mentioned have the disadvantage that they are only for purely mechanical or electrical Time and fee calculation are usable.

The invention overcomes this deficiency and allows both a time orientation in general as well as the start and sequence of a telephone call on electromechanical! Ways in directly or indirectly.

This is achieved in that, in cooperation with a clock of a known type, reciprocally with With the help of relays, manual or automatically driven or actuated devices, electromechanical The timing device is controlled in a semi or fully automatic manner in such a way that that through the coordinated interaction of the individual electromechanical units a continuous time determination, its conversion into time-identifying values, finally its storage takes place in a transmission device working at the same time as an interrogation device, and that this Values as electrical impulses to a call recording device, e.g. B. tape recorder, are supplied.

The invention is described below using an exemplary embodiment shown in the drawing. The device consists of the actual telephone or telephone set F or such an apparatus part connected to the telephone network FN and a time measuring device.

The latter consists of a clock with manual and / or electromagnetic stop device as well as each According to the extended purpose of use, if necessary additional mechanical and electrical ones Components and switching elements.

Timing device

to determine timing, e.g. B. from telephone calls

Applicant:

Franz Schumacher _r

Unterfürberg near Fürth (Bay.),

Rosittener Str. 16

Franz Schumacher, Unterfürberg near Fürth (Bay.),
has been named as the inventor

The drive of this watch can be wound by a normal spring mechanism with manual winding, purely electrically, by means of Magnet or driven in any other way. the Numbers are arranged with a pointer, as usual and known, possibly with additional seconds and Stop pointer, or pointerless by means of digits that can be moved vertically or horizontally 2.

The time-stop device can be operated in the usual way semi-automatically by means of the manually operated stop switch 3 or fully automatically by means of the relay R 4 or relay set in a control unit 5, whereby the beginning or end of the conversation can be determined from current, voltage or frequency pulses from the telephone network. If relay Rx _{responds, the break contact γ4 χ} , changeover contact 6, push or pull changeover switch 7 of the circuit for relay i? 4 is closed via contact rx _v. Contact r 4 ₂ den. Stop solenoid 8 switches on. On the armature 14 of the stop magnet 8, a switching rod 9 for actuating the changeover switch 7 is attached, which now places its switching bridge so that the circuit of the relay A4 can be closed again via the changeover contact 10 if the listener comes to rest when the conversation is over and thereby switching contact 6 touches contact 10 and switching contact 11 is closed with the same movement. The relay i? 4 can respond again, actuate the stop magnet 8 and thus the stop watch 12. The relay i? 4 is _{switched off again by itself by opening the contact r4 1} and thus also, delayed by the capacitors, magnet 8 Initial suction 5Z8 / 34-

Had thrown a position. The reset to the zero position of the stop pointer 15 can be opened later of the switching contact 11 take place when the handset is lifted for a new call and switching contact 6 has already made contact with switch contact 16. When the anchor is tightened for the third time 14 is omitted by a suitable mechanism on the switching mechanism of the changeover switch 7 thereof Transfer after contact 17.

In the same or a similar manner, the contact 11 is also blocked in order to prevent impulses from reaching the time-stop device in the wrong sequence by repeated pressing. If resetting to the zero position is carried out manually using button 3, this is equivalent to tightening the armature 14 a third time 3 in the "off" position of switch 18. If the end of the call is brought about by the other subscriber, relay Rx triggers the corresponding switching processes again or this triggers a separate relay Ry . Hanging up your own handset has no effect, since switch 7 has already been thrown. The return to the zero position takes place as before after picking up the receiver again, switching the changeover contact 6, whereby the circuit is closed via contacts 16 and 19, before contact 11 is then delayed via the receiver rocker by means of a relay or the like.

In order to indicate the end of a certain period of time or if it has been exceeded, a response and drop-off delayed relay i? 22 can be switched on by the relay set of the time measuring device or by the sliding contact 20 of an adjustable timer switch 21 that runs in time cycle. r22 ₂ can cause a lamp 23 to light up or flash or a bell or buzzer to sound. With the help of the time measuring device there is now the possibility of using the existing display device for the "mechanical time values" in connection with another device for this purpose, e.g. B. to change the position of a sliding contact 24 on a potentiometer or to bring about a direct capacitive or inductive change in a C or L element in order to use an interrogation device to determine the existing time values as characteristic, e.g. B. frequency pulses, as a definition for a certain time identification, which means that when an automatic call recording device is connected, it is possible to record both calls in the absence of the participant and to be able to determine the time the call was made by recording the time identification on the tape . The recording of the time identification is preceded by its storage. Your query is carried out with the help of pulse and locking disks. To achieve this, z. B. controlled by the call recording device _{via relay contact r25 1,} the motor 26 start up. This rotates a pulse disk 27, which continuously emits current or frequency pulses via the pair of contacts 28. The pulse disk drives over an axis with the help of a gear z. B. in a ratio of 1:12 (according to the possible number of hours) two in their position to each other occupying a certain position, similar to 27 shaped disks 29 and 30 for a single query cycle. The disc 29 with its recessed part has a certain starting position to the contact pawl and contact 31. The disc 30 can now be via a compensating drive from. Clockwork are rotated and so reduced more or less depending on the currently prevailing time, the variable impulse path from the value number "12" to the value number "0" with the help of the two disks, if the disks overlap in such a way that their complementary Scope no possibility of incidence for the contact pawl 31 is available. There is therefore no connection to contact 32 either. Or vice versa, with the greatest possible distance of incidence for pawl 31, z. B. corresponding to the hour value "12", all twelve pulses marking the number of hours (e.g. generated by disk 27 and pair of contacts 28) can pass through pair of contacts 31/32. Do the disks only have a pulse path z. If, for example, the value for "3" hours is formed accordingly, then only three impulses arrive via the contact pair 31/32 before their pawl by lifting one of them. Blocks.

The transmission of the currently pending number of minutes can be done in the same way with pulses z. B. higher or lower frequency range. To avoid mutual interference in the transmission of impulses, the other pulse path is blocked by lifting the contact 32 by means of the cam 33.

Finally, it can now be a similar type of "interrogation device" to automatic. Dialing numbers are used to make a desired voice connection

and to bring this about at a desired adjustable time.

The number of pulses must then not be twelve, but must be ten. The number of the interconnected devices corresponds to the number of digits in the call number. The disc 30 can here depending on the desired. Number set in a similar manner to a lever drive will.

The interrogation mechanism is triggered by a motor via a contact in the manner of contact r25 _x so often at a set number of intervals until the corresponding connection is established. For this purpose, a flashing, bell or buzzer signal can be given via relay contact of the type of contact 34 or accordingly with the lamp 23 or some other device.

Claims (5)

Patent claims: 1. Timing device, both for general orientation of the current time and for determining the beginning and end of time sequences, e.g. B. of telephone calls, characterized in that in cooperation with a clock (12) of known type alternately with the help of. Relays (Rx, i? 4), manual (3) or automatically driven or actuated devices (8) of an electromechanical type in a semi- or fully automatic manner, the timing device is controlled in such a way that the coordinated interaction of the individual electromechanical units continuously determines the time , their conversion into time-identifying values, finally their storage in a transmission device (R22, 26 to 33) that also works as an interrogation device, and that from there these values are sent as electrical impulses to a call recording device, z. B. tape recorder, are supplied. 2. Timing device according to claim 1, characterized in that the clock (12) with the Selector insert 1 forms a unit and that in this unit display means both the time, the duration of the conversation as well as the costs of the conversation in a suitable one. Arrangement of digits display, namely that these displays as a reciprocal combination with a watch-like Numerical arrangement as well as in. A numerical arrangement, pointerless, by means of in. Vertical or horizontal direction of movable digits (2) exist. 3. Timing device according to claim 1, characterized in that the guide of a telephone call, time values of a mechanical nature into electrical time identification values, z. B. be converted into pulses of a certain nature, frequency and number and these Impulse an automatic call recording device in addition to the recorded call as Time identification are supplied. 4. Timing device according to claim 1 and 3, characterized in that the time value transmission by »querying« assigned to one another, representing a storage for the time values Disks (29, 30) happens, which on the one hand have a fixed rest position with respect to contact pawls. (31) have, on the other hand, the drive of the clock via a compensation drive running according to the. Lapse of time can be adjusted, which together with the initially stationary disk creates a pulse gap form, over the route at the z. B. by means of motor (26) query made according to the time measure as long as the impulses generated by another contact ίο (28) pass through relevant contact pawl (31) can slide in the gap formed. 5. Timing device according to claim. 1, 3 and 4, characterized in that the interrogation device is also used for the automatic selection of a preceding sequence of digits and, in addition to recording the time of a process on film or tape, also for displaying the date at the same time.
20th Considered publications:
German patent specifications No. 635 920 ', 431 938,
818, 599 799, 944 800, 826 167; German Auslegeschrift No. 1 008 366;
Swiss Patent No. 231 798. 1 sheet of drawings