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International Teleservice Corporation

Florida Data Corporation

Optical Business Machines

John H MacNeill

Allen W Vogl

James E Bellinger

Douglas J Buron

Steven C Poe

A retainer member uses a simply curved surface to engage the yoke-receiver handset juncture. The retainer member includes a top portion which matches the handset receiver circuitry and includes end portions that engage the substantially circular receiver portion of the handset to provide a further distribution of applied forces. The top portion of the retainer member is provided with an end plug bore or opening having a top surface to prevent the end plug from becoming dislocated within the receiver portion. Also, a separate telephone wire channel is provided to keep separate the telephone wires from the flexible stranded cable thus insuring that no damage will occur to the telephone signal wires when the handset is subsequently stressed.

Retainer member for anchoring a telephone handset to a telephone housing

A pay telephone station having a lower housing coin chute (14) which is provided with a coin fraud prevention unit (10) in the form of a thin base (15) arranged in a slot (11) of a coin channel cover plate (12). The base (15) is provided with a pawl (23) having a tooth (24) with a chamfered face ( b 25) which is biased into the path of a coin passing through a coin path (39) by a torsion spring (26). An anchor (59) for connecting a handset (56) to the upper housing coin dial unit (50) of the station includes a base with apertures (63, 64) and a V-shaped body (65) with a notch 66 defined between surfaces (69, 70). A long thumbscrew member (74) with a textured gripping surface connects the anchor (59) to a projector (51) integral with the upper housing (50). The handset cord assembly (A) is first passed through an aperture (54) in the projection (51) and then through the aperture (64) in the base (60). A button (68) firmly attached to a lanyard (67) in the armor (55) of the assembly (A) is held against the surfaces (68, 70) by the lanyard (67) and in the notch (66) by the thumbscrew (74) adjacent the button (68). A shorting connector (80) is provided for rapidly changing hook switch configurations in the upper housing coin dial unit (50). A configuration module (90) is used to rapidly and easily connect various circuits (93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99) on a printed circuit board (92) in the upper housing coin dial unit (50).

Coin fraud prevention unit and modular configurations for pay telephone

A pay telephone station having a lower housing coin chute (14) which is provided with a coin fraud prevention unit (10) in the form of a thin base (15) arranged in a slot (11) of a coin channel cover plate (12). The base (15) is provided with a pawl (23) having a tooth (24) with a chamfered face (25) which is biased into the path of a coin passing through a coin path (39) by a torsion spring (26). An anchor (59) for connecting a handset (56) to the upper housing coin dial unit (50) of the station includes a base with apertures (63, 64) and a V-shaped body (65) with a notch 66 defined between surfaces (69, 70). A long thumbscrew member (74) with a textured gripping surface connects the anchor (59) to a projector (51) integral with the upper housing (50). The handset cord assembly (A) is first passed through an aperture ( 54) in the projection (51) and then through the aperture (64) in the base (60). A button (68) firmly attached to a lanyard (67) in the armor (55) of the assembly (A) is held against the surfaces (69, 70) by the lanyard (67) and in the notch (66) by the thumbscrew (74) adjacent the button (68). A shorting connector (80) is provided for rapidly changing hook switch configurations in the upper housing coin dial unit (50). A configuration module (90) is used to rapidly and easily connect various circuits (93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99) on a printed circuit board (92) in the upper housing coin dial unit (50).

Coin fraud preventing unit and modular configurations for pay telephone

A locking pin for retaining a body on a drilled shaft or stud has a first straight section the end of which passes through the aperture in the stud. Opposite the aforesaid end the straight section terminates in a long sweeping 270.degree. section that straightens out into a leg of a U-shaped section having two legs lying astride the stud and lying at right angles to the straight section. The legs of the U-shaped member pass over the straight section and are angled down to contact the surface of the body to be retained on the stud whereby to provide a locking pin only two diameters of the wire high, having three lines of contact with the surface to prevent wobble and to prevent a line or rope from getting under the pin and lifting it off the stud. The pin is readily removed by placing a thumb nail under the base of the 'u' or an opposed loop and lifting until the legs of the U are raised above the end of the stud.

Locking pin

A high speed printing head comprises a circular array of stylii drivers for printing characters in a dot matrix format. Each driver includes a permanent magnet and bucking coil electromagnet which when energized causes a stylus to impact a printing surface. The stylus is carried on the end of an arm supported by crossed horizontal and vertical supporting flexures at its other end whereby the arm pivots about a virtual axis lying near the plane of the working air gap of the electromagnet to reduce wear of the pole piece and armature and increase impact rebound of the arm. The magnetic structure and arm structure intersect only above the pole piece reducing flux leakage and size and weight of the structure. The arm and flexure structures are non-magnetic except at said region of intersection to reduce, in conjunction with the single region of intersection of said structures, cross-talk between adjacent drivers.

High speed electromagnetic printing head

A printing head provides an array of stylii and stylii drivers for forming characters in accordance with a desired matrix of dots. Each driver comprises a flat piezoelectric ceramic wafer and a levered beam having a stylus secured to one end and providing at the stylus end a multiplication of the movement of the wafer of approximately 4 to 1 to 7 to 1. The wafers and supporting structure are circular and structured to nest preferably coaxially, with each levered beam lying at a small angle relative to its adjacent beams so that the printing ends of the stylii may be constrained to lie along a straight line perpendicular to the direction of movement of the head.

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Indialantic, FL, United States of America

John H MacNeill