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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 01, 1977
Filed:
Jun. 13, 1975
Applicant:
Inventor:
Ronald F McGuire, Fairfax, VA (US);
Assignee:
The Anaconda Company, New York, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M / ; H04M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
179 / ; 179 / ; 179 / ;
Abstract
An out-of-band signaling method and apparatus are provided to facilitate the adaptation of payphones to telephone systems, as for example subscriber carrier systems. Part of the speech band is made unavailable to the subscribers and is employed for signaling DC line conditions from one end of the telephone system to the other.