Patent GB-190312118-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Time Registers or Checking Apparatus for Workmen.
Inventor: DEY ALEXANDER
Filed: 1903-05-27
Granted: 1903-11-05
Abstract: 12,118. Dey, A., and Dey, J. May 27. Time-checking apparatus for workmen. A time register or checking apparatus for workmen for recording times of work, and adapted for use as a costkeeping clock, is shown in Figs. 3 and 5. The minute-hand spindle 1 is actuated by suitable clock mechanism and carries the minute type-wheel 7. The hour type-wheel 9 upon the spindle 10 is rotated from the minute wheel, a tongue carried by the minute-wheel engaging the ratchet 12 of the hourwheel. A brake for the ratchet 12 comprises a pivoted lever having one arm normally engaging the ratchet and the other arm adapted to engage with a mutilated ring carried by the minutewheel. The day type-wheel 20 is rotated by the tongue 28, which engages the ratchet 29 on the typewheel once every twenty-four hours. The pointer 31 is connected to the day wheel 20 by the arched member 32, while the hands 2, 3 are minute and hour hands respectively. The dial face 35 has slots having indicator figures for the year, the month, the number of the worker, and the number of the job upon which he is working. Recording type-wheels H, 46, 41 for these data are set by handles or knobs projecting through the dial face slots. The lower end of the frame member D is used to print a period and a cipher in conjunction with the numeral upon the type segment 41, for the year. The aligning detent or plunger 50, with a wedgeshaped end to fit the notches in the upper ends of the type-wheels H, is raised normally by the spring 52, but is depressed by the handles 53 projecting through the slots in the upper side of the dial face. Automatic reversal of the ribbon 68 is effected by means of the three-armed lever 66, shown in Fig. 11. The pivoted lever 71 is engaged by the forked end of ths central arm and is pulled by the spring 72. When a pin near the end of the ribbon strikes the pins 67, the reversing-lever is swung over, the lever 71 is thrown to the opposite side, the shaft 63 is shifted, and one of the gears 64 engages with its corresponding crown gear on the ribbon spool 60. The shaft 63 is rotated by the ratchet 80 from the pawl formed by the end of a long spring moved by means of the rod 82. This rod 82 carries a detent 84 for aligning the minute type-wheel. An impression may be made upon a web of paper passing from the reel 90, or upon a card inserted into one mouth of a singlechannel holder having a number of mouths in staggered arrangement. A number of stops 134 carried on the tube 126, driven by gear once round in seven days, may be inserted successively into the channel of the card holder to position the card. A single motion of the operating lever is necessary for printing, the action of the lever being first to align and hold the type-wheels by the plunger 50, to press down the rod 82 and feed the ribbon, then to raise the rod 110 and the platen 102 and bring the web and the card against the type-wheels. One type-wheel prints a numeral or character corresponding with each successive day, and a registration on any given day in the wrong space is denoted by this wheel.