Aug. 23, 1932. 1,872,940 F. G. HALLDEN RELAY RECEIVING CIRCUIT FOR CARRIER TELEGRAPH SIGNALS Filed July 1, 1930 vm m ! mm QN m ! NN INVENTOR rncozmcx amen ATT'oRNEY Patented Aug. 23, 1932 ‘ UNITED STATES 1,872,940 PATENT, OFFICE. FREDERICK G. HALLDEN, OF JAMAICA, NEW YORKI ASSIGNOR TO INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS LABORATORIES, INC” 0]? NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK _ RELAY RECEIVING CIRCUIT FOR CARRIER TELEGRAPH SIGNALS Application ?led July 1, 1930. Serial No. 465,214. This invention relates to receiving appara tus for carrier telegraph signals‘and has par ticular reference to the ampli?cation of sig nals after they have been recti?ed. The out put of the circuit is utilized in the operation ampli?er tubev 11. The?lament 12 of this ampli?er tube is energized by a battery 13, the positive pole of which connects with the negative pole of the battery 14. The con necting lead 15 between these two batteries is of a relay from which any desired type of tapped for a condenser 16 and a high resist telegraph receiver may be controlled. ance 17 , these ‘two elements being shunted One of the principal difficulties experienced across to the grid lead 18 which connects be in the past in operating a printing telegraph tween the transformer coil 6 and the grid 10. 10 from signals received by radio or over chan nels upon which carrier Waves have been im 16 The plate 19 of the ampli?er tube is connected to the winding of a relay 20, and'this plate circuit has impressed upon it the usual poten~ 60 pressed, is that the signal strength as re ceived varies within quite wide limits, so tial as from a B battery 21.‘ The relay arma thatvthe stability of the rectifying and am ture 22 is normally held against its front con plifying circuits is not easily maintained. .tact by a current ?owing from the B battery The primary object of this invention is to 21 through relay 20 and across from the plate provide a rectifying and amplifying circuit 19 to the ?lament 12. When this current is of extreme stability, advantage being taken suppressed by the tube action, the relay. arma— of a condition in which a normally ?xed plate ture is retracted by the spring 23 so as to com 20 current energizes a relay during the absence plete a circuit to the telegraph receiver as rep of 'a signal, and when the signal is received, resented by the leads 24. - this current is so reduced by a negative bias ‘Referring to Fig. 2, the alternative circuit on the grid of the ampli?er tube that the re will now be described. The transformer 5 ~ lay will be released. Since an excessively with its primary winding 4 and secondary strong signal can do no more than arrest the winding 6 is shown in Fig. 2 the same as in 75 flow of current in the relay-to-plate circuit,‘ Fig. 1. The grid lead 18 is the same. The the desired stability is obtained. * condenser'16 is likewise connected across be In carrying out this invention, an ordinary tween the grid lead 18 and the ?lament con 80 receiving set responsive to radio. frequency nection 15. The circuit through rela 20 con- . oscillations may be used, and the output nects similarly with the plate 19. T e arma thereof when converted into audio frequency ture 22 in the telegraph receiver circuit 24 is 80 may be ?rst recti?ed and then ampli?ed so as the same. to operate the controlling relay. Referring to the drawing: Figure 1 shows diagrammatically the rec tifying and amplifying circuits. Two principal differences are ap parent: One source of energy, preferably 110 volts direct current, supplies both the ?la ment potential and the plate potential. This 85 current passes through the . switch 25, the Fig. 2 shows an alternative arrangement of positive lead connecting with an adjustable ‘ I l resistance 26, taps from which connect re these circuits. 40 45 spectively with the winding of relay 20 and The radio/receiving set 1 is represented with its antenna 2 and ground 3. The output from the radio receiver‘will beunderstood to be in the form of audio frequency oscillations which pass through the primary 4 of a trans resistance reduces the voltage, making it suit former 5. I The secondary 6 of this trans former is connected at one terminal with the nects with the negative side of the energizing with an additional resistance 27. This-last able for the tube ?laments 8 and 12. These ?laments are in series, connected’ by the lead 15. One terminal of the ?lament 12 con plate 7 of an ordinary two-element recti?er source. A resistance 28 is connected between tube 9. This tube includes a ?lament 8 which the ?lament 8 and the conductor 29, the latter receives its current from the battery 14. The being a connection from the transformer 60 90 other terminal of the transformer coil 6 con winding 6 to the plate 7. It is obvious that in place of the tubes as nects with the grid 10 of a three-element 95 2 1,372,940 shown, it would be possible to use tubes ducing the current in the plate circuit and adapted for operation with alternating cur causing the relay 20 to release. ‘ rent applied to the ?laments. The operation of this invention is as fol lows: The half-waves which are recti?ed by the tube 9 are ?attened out by the action of the condenser 16 so as to have substantially the 70 When no signal is being received (or, in other words, during a “spacing” interval), same effect as a continuous current. I claim as my invention: the recti?er tube 9 will be inactive because no 1. Apparatus for rectifying and amplify current can pass from the plate 7 to the ?la ing telegraph signals comprising a trans 10 ment 8 except that which is generated by the former, a recti?er connecting therewith, an 75 ~ transformer 5.‘ This is evident from the fact ampli?er tube the grid circuit of which is con that no potential greater than that of the ?la nected to said transformer, a neutral relay ment is otherwise impressed upon the plate connecting with the plate of said ampli?er circuit 18. Under these conditions there tube, means normally to maintain a de?nite 15 fore, it is possible to adjust the space current potential on said grid with respect to its ?la 80 in the tube 11 from the late 19 to the ?la ment and to impress upon said grid in re ment 12 so as to energize the relay 20 and sponse to a received signal a purely negative hold its armature 22 in an open circuit po charge from the circuit which includes said sition with respect to the telegraph receiver 20 25 80 circuit 24. When, however, the signalling impulse is received and converted by the ra dio receiver 1 into audio frequency, the im press of this signal upon the transformer winding 4 provides an inductivev effect upon the winding 6, the oscillations from which are passed to the plate 7 and recti?ed. A transformer and recti?er tube. _ 2. In a telegraph receiving, network, a rec ti?er. a resistance in the output circuit of said recti?er, a thermionic ampli?er having a grid and a plate circuit, a neutral relay included in said plate circuit and energized by a normal flow of current therein, means for supplying 90 signal impulses to said recti?er, and means negative bias is thereby impressed on the grid for applying the variation of the potential 10 of the ampli?er tube and the space current between the terminals of said resistance to from the plate 19 to the ?lament 12 of this said grid circuit during the continuance of ampli?er tube 11 ‘is immediately reduced to said signals for the purpose of suppressing 95 the point where relay 20 deenergizes, allowing the current in said plate circuit and de~ener- ‘ its armature to be retracted by the spring 23 gizing said relay. so as to close the telegraph receiver circuit 24. 35 3. In a telegraph receiving network, a rec The “marking’7 signal is thus communicated ti?er having an output circuit, a thermionic to the telegraph receiver. ampli?er having an input circuit including a 100 It will be noted that a positive and depend grid and a ?lament, and an output circuit, able action of the relay 2,0 is obtained in this a resistance in the output circuit of said rec manner. The reason for this is that a de?nite 40 45 space current is established from the plate 19 to the ?lament 12 according to the character istics of the tube itself and the plate poten tial. The operation of the transformer 6 in association with the recti?er tube 9 can have only one effect regardless of the strength of the input signal, that is, to negatively bias the grid 10 and reduce the space current from the plate 19. Referring to Fig. 2 the same con ditions prevail as hereinbefore described with reference to Fig. 1. The maintenance nor 59 mally of a zero potential on the grid 10 with respect to the ?lament 12 is effected by the use of the high resistance 28 in series with the 55 ti?er and the input circuit of said thermionic ampli?er, said resistance having one terminal connected to said grid and; another terminal 105 connected to said ?lament, and a neutral re lay included in said ampli?er output circuit and energized by a normal flow of current therein. , 4. In a telegraph receiving network, the 110 combination of a recti?er having an output circuit, and a resistance bridged across said circuit, a relay, an ampli?er having an input circuit connected to the output circuit of said recti?er and an output circuit connected to 115 said relay which is energized by the normal ?ow of current'in said circuit. secondary 6 of the transformer 5. During the In witness whereof, I hereunto subscribe spacing interval when no current is generated my name this 30th day of June, 1930. FREDERICK G. HALLDEN. by the transformer, the grid 10 of the am plifying tube 11 is also at zero potential with respect to its ?lament. Under this condition a certain current is flowing in the plate circuit of the amplifying tube 11 through the receiv ing relay 20. ‘The spring 23 of this relay is 120 adjusted so as to be overpowered by the am pere turns of its coil and pull the armature againstthe front contact. The impress of the a signal biases the grid 10 negatively, thus re~ 130 y
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