Facsimile apparatus

• US 3,084,213 A
• Filed: 02/28/1958
• Issued: 04/02/1963
• Est. Priority Date: 02/28/1958
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Jerome H. Lemelson
• Original Assignee: Jerome H. Lemelson
• Inventors: Lemelson, Jerome H.
• Application Number:
  US03/723,075
• Time in Patent Office: 1,859 Days
• US Class Current: 379/100.01
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/327 Initiating, continuing or ending a single-mode communication; Handshaking therefor H04N1/32614 takes precedence

Claims

1. AUTOMATIC FACSIMILE APPARATUS COMPRISING IN COMBINATION WITH A SENDING STATION, AN AUTOMATIC TELEPHONE SWITCHING AND CONNECTION SYSTEM FOR EFFECTING THE TRANSMISSION OF PICTURE SIGNALS FROM A SENDING STATION TO SELECTED OF A PLURALITY OF RECEIVING STATIONS CONNECTABLE TO SAID SENDING STATION THROUGH SAID SWITCHING SYSTEM, A PICTURE SIGNAL GENERATING MEANS INCLUDING MEANS FOR GENERATING A PLURALITY OF TELEVISION PICTURE SIGNALS CAPABLE OF BEING TRANSMITTED OVER A WIRE PAIR OF SAID SWITCHING SYSTEM ON AN OUTPUT OF SAID SENDING STATION WHICH IS CONNECTABLE TO SAID AUTOMATIC SWITCHING SYSTEM THROUGH AN OUTPUT SWITCH, A SWITCHING SIGNAL GENERATING MEANS OPERATIVELY CONNECTED TO THE OUTPUT OF SAID SENDING STATION, SAID SWITCHING SIGNAL GENERATING MEANS HAVING RECORDED THEREIN A PLURALITY OF SELECTION SIGNALS EACH OF WHICH IS ADAPTED WHEN REPRODUCED FOR EFFECTING A RESPECTIVE LINE CONNECTION BETWEEN SAID SENDING STATION AND A SELECTED RECEIVING STATION, MEANS FOR CLOSING SAID OUTPUT SWITCH AND GENERATING THEREAFTER A PLURALITY OF SIGNALS FOR EFFECTING A CONNECTION OF SAID OUTPUT AND A FIRST OF SAID RECEIVING STATIONS, A RELAY MEANS AT SAID SENDING STATION, MEANS FOR AUTOMATICALLY ENERGIZING SAID RELAY MEANS WHEN A CIRCUIT CONNECTION IS COMPLETED, MEANS CONTROLLED BY SAID RELAY MEANS FOR OPERATING SAID PICTURE SIGNAL GENERATING MEANS TO GENERATE A FIRST PICTURE SIGNAL ON THE COMPLETED LINE, APPARATUS AT SAID RECEIVING STATION FOR RECORDING SAID SIGNAL, MEANS AT SAID SENDING STATION FOR ACTUATING SAID OUTPUT SWITCH TO OPEN AT THE TERMINATION OF TRANSMISSION OF A COMPLETE PICTURE SIGNAL, MEANS OPERATIVE BY A SIGNAL GENERATED AT SAID SENDING STATION FOR DISCONNECTING THE LINE FROM SAID AUTOMATIC SWITCHING SYSTEM TO SAID FIRST RECEIVING STATION AT THE TERMINATION OF RECEIPT THEREBY OF A COMPLETE PICTURE SIGNAL, MEANS THEREAFTER FOR AUTOMATICALLY ENERGIZING SAID SWITCHING SIGNAL GENERATING MEANS AFTER DISCONNECTING THE OUTPUT OF SAID SENDING STATION WITH SAID RECEIVING STATION FOR GENERATING A NEW SELECTION CODE, AND MEANS THEREAFTER FOR GENERATING FURTHER PICTURE SIGNALS EACH AFTER A CONNECTION IS EFFECTED WITH A PREDETERMINED RECEIVING STATION BY THE GENERATION OF A RESPECTIVE SELECTION CODE.