. Electrical world. same point, and were in communication with the station oper-ator. The voltmeter side of the instrument is connected to the servicein the usual way, and the telephone connections are made the sameas in regular telephone work, usually requiring but a few minutesto install the voltaphone for operation, provided a telephone linebetween the distributing center and the generating station is telephone wire should be continuous between the voltaphoneand generating station during the hours that voltage readings are tobe taken; that is to say, it should not be necessary
. Electrical world. same point, and were in communication with the station oper-ator. The voltmeter side of the instrument is connected to the servicein the usual way, and the telephone connections are made the sameas in regular telephone work, usually requiring but a few minutesto install the voltaphone for operation, provided a telephone linebetween the distributing center and the generating station is telephone wire should be continuous between the voltaphoneand generating station during the hours that voltage readings are tobe taken; that is to say, it should not be necessary for the generatingstation to ask the telephone operator for connection with the instru-ment whenever readings are desired. It does not interfere with theuse of the line for other service, and ifseveral voltaphones are to be used on thesame telephone line, they can be arrangedwith a system of polarized relays, and anysub-station can be called up as desired, orthe instruments can be made so that thev r-; I < -f i-. FIG. I.—DIAGR.\M OF VOLTAPHONE CONNECTIONS. investment increases directly as the capacity, and reasonable ratesshould remain constant. The Lorimer brothers have devoted nearly a decade to the in-vention of the automatic telephone here described, and their ideashave been carried out by skilled mechanics in a well equipped factory. As the perfected system stands to-day, ready for the market, itrepresents a cash outlay of several hundred thousand dollars. TlicLorimer system is covered by patent applications in the United Statesand many foreign countries. These patents, save that for Canada,are owned and the system is manufactured by the American Ma-chine Telephone Company, Limited, of Piqua, Oiiio. Mr. N. D. Neill is president and general manager of this com-pany, Mr. C. J. Kintner is vice-president and Mr. G. W. Lorimer issecretary, treasurer and electrical engineer. Rights covering themanufacture and sale of the Lorimer apparatus in Ontario and Que-bec have been a
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