Note: Descriptions are shown in the official language in which they were submitted.
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PHQ 85.021 10.12.19~5
"Electronic signal recording device."
The invention relates to a device for electronic information
technology, comprising a mouth piece and an ear piece provided remote
from each other on either side of a handgrip, the handgrip, the ear
piece and the mouth piece being part of a housing of the telephone hand
set type.
Such handsets are generally known and customary. There are
telephone handsets intended for cordless operation. Telephone handsets
of such a type are extended to a complete telephone set by incorpora-
ting the dialling mechanism in the handgrip. The dialling mechanism isconstituted by a numerical keyboard whose circuit arrangement is inclu-
ded in the handgrip.
What is commonly referred to as a car-telephone is known,
in which the handset can be accommodated on a cradle on the dashboard
of a motorcar. The connecting cable of the car-telephone hand set is
connected to a transmitter and receiver arrangement provided in an
appropriate place in the motorcar.
In addition, pocket dictating machines are known, with which
a message spoken into a microphone can be recorded on a magnetic tape.
The message stored on the magnetic tape can then be reproduced again
via a loudspeaker. Pocket dictating machines of such a type are gene-
rally of a compact, rectangular shape, so that they are light and easy
to transport.
The invention has for its object to provide a device of the
type defined in the opening paragraph, which is implemented as a dicta-
ting machine and can more specifically be used as if it were the hand-
set of a car-telephone in a motorcar.
According to the invention this object is accomplished in
that the housing includes a recording device for magnetic tape casset-
tes.
By incorporating a recording device for magnetic tape cas-
settes, the device in the shape of a telephone hand set can be used as
a dictating machine, the mouth piece including the recording microphone
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and the ear piece including the reproduction loudspeaker or the
receiver. Such a device can be used in a motorcar as if it were a
car-telephone; with this device it is also possible to pretend as
if the motorcar were provided with a car-telephone connection.
In accordance with a further embodiment of the invention
the recording device is incorporated in the handgrip of the
housing. Cordless telephones have a housing that in the region of
the handgrip already has such a width that a tape transport
mechanism of a magnetic tape cassette device can be accommodated
therein without any further measures.
In accordance with a further embodiment of the invention
it is provided that the control keys of the recording device are
provided in the transition area between the handgrip and the ear
piece or the mouth piece, respectively. In such a configuration,
the operating keys can be appropriately operated without visual
control of the fingers of the relevant hand.
In accordance with a further embodiment of the invention
it is provided that a coiled connection cable has a plug for
insertion in a socket in a motorcar. When this socket is, for
example, the jack of a cigarette lighter, then no special
provisions need to be built into the car for operating the device.
Only the carrier must be provided somewhere in the dashboard of
the motorcar to enable locating of the dictating machine as if it
were a car-telephone.
The invention may be summarized as a device for
electronic information technology, and constituting a dictating
machine, comprising an elongated housing, having a mouth piece and
an ear piece remote from each other at respective ends of the
housing, said pieces being disposed on a same side of said housing
and facing in a same general direction so that the mouth piece may
be adjacent a user's mouth when the ear piece is held against a
user's ear; and a handgrip between said ear piece and mouth piece
having a surface on said side, a tape cassette deck arranged in
said handgrip on said same side, facing in said direction for
access thereto through said surface, and a plurality of control
keys arranged at least adjacent said handgrip, for controlling
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operation of said deck for recording of information spoken into
said mouth piece and for playback of information through said ear
piece, and located for engagement bv flanges of said user on a
hand which is gripping the handgrip.
The invention will now be described in greater detail by
means of example with reference to the embodiments shown in the
drawing.
Therein:
Fig. 1 is a side elevational view of a dictating machine
in the form of a telephone handset,
Fig. 2 shows the dictating machine of fig. 1 in a plan
view from the operating side and
Fig. 3 is an elevation side view of a dictating machine
as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, provided in a motorcar dashboard.
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The dictating machine l shown in Fig. 1 com-
prises an elongated housing 5, having a mouth piece 3 and
an ear piece 4 arranged, remote from each other, at oppo-
site ends, and facing in the same general direction so that
the mouth piece 3 may be adjacent a user's mouth when the
ear piece 4 is held against the user's ear. Between the
mouth piece and ear piece the housing 5 is shaped as a
handgrip 2. The housing 5 of the dictating machine 1 has
consequently the shape of a telephone handset.
Fig. 2 shows in a plan view the modified struc-
ture of the dictating machine 1 as compared with a custom-
ary dictating machine and as compared with a customary
telephone handset. A recording device 6 of a dictating
machine is arranged between the mouth piece 3, which
includes a microphone, not shown, and the ear piece 4,
which includes a loudspeaker capsule not shown, in the
handgrip 2. The dictating machine is, for example, suit-
able for using so-called mini or micro cassettes. Such a
magnetic tape cassette 7 is accommodated behind a cover 8.
For operating the recording device 6 control
keys 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 are provided, distributed over the
transition a:rea 14 between the handgrip 2 and the ear piece
4 and also over the transition area 15 between the handgrip
2 and the mouth piece 3. In this embodiment the keys 9 and
11 for fast forward and rewind and also the recording keys
10 are arranged in the transition area 14. The on-off key
12 is located in the transition area 15. Preferably a
large key 13 at the side of the handgrip 2 is used for
starting and stopping the tape transport in the play/record
mode.
As shown in Fig. 3, the dictating machine 1 can
be placed by means of its housing 5 on a carrier 16 in the
dashboard 17 of a motorcar. The connecting cable 18 for
the dictating machine 1 is coiled and has at its free end
l9 a plug 20 for insertion in a socket. When the machine
is used in a motorcar, the plug 20 may, for example, be of
such a structure that it fits in the socket of a cigarette
lighter.
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With such a structure and such an arrangement of
a dictating machine it can not be distinguished from a
motorcar telephone. Consequently, such a dictating machine
can be provided, ready to hand, in the customary location
of a car-telephone in a motorcar.
