Patent GB-191110402-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Time Recorders.
Inventor: KIELY JAMES FRANCIS
Filed: 1911-04-29
Granted: 1911-12-07
Abstract: 10,402. Kiely, J. F. July 6, 1910, (Convention date]. Factory and like time-recorders, dial type.- In apparatus wherein a clock-driven time-printing device is positioned by the clock relatively to the support for the record sheet, the positioning movement of the printing - device is prevented until the device is released by the first operation of the printing-mechanism. After a workman has made his first record on any day, each succeeding actuation of the machine by the same workmen on the same day will bring a fresh space on the record sheet beneath the impression point so that a second imprint cannot be made on a space already printed. The printing-carriage K is connected by a band 25 to a spring-actuated drum 27, which is controlled by a clock O. At the end of each week the carriage is moved manually backwards along the column-selecting bar N until a catch 65 on the frame supporting the printing-carriage engages a stud 66 on a frame 54, which is depressed when the workmen's lever F is operated. The printing - carriage cannot move forwards for column-spacing until the frame 54 has been depressed, say, by the first operation of the workmen's lever on Monday. Mechanism for shifting the impression drum. The several records in the same column or day-space are separated by longitudinal adjustments of the drum. A groove in the sleeve 48, which is moved rearwardly when the workmen's lever F is operated, engages one end of a lever 70, the other end of which is flexibly connected to a lever 72 pivoted to a standard 73, Fig. 3. The lever 72 at its upper end engages the record drum J and the movement of the lever 72 is limited by the engagement of a finger 85 with a fixed rack 86. The finger 85 is pivoted to the lever 72, and is connected to a yoke 83 which is also pivoted to the lever 72. A projection 87 on the yoke carries an adjustable screw which, when the lever 72 is actuated, abuts against a bar 79. The bar 79 is slotted at one end to engage a pin on a standard 78, and at the other end is loosely pivoted to the lever 72. The movement of the bar 79 is limited by a projection 103 on the bar which abuts against one of a series of ratchet pins 95. These pins are mounted in disks 96, 97 rigidly mounted on the shaft D. A third disk 98 engages one of the teeth of the pins which are pressed against the edge of the disk 98 by tongues 99 on an encircling spring band 100. At each operation of the workmen's lever F a ratchet pin is disengaged from the disk 98, as shown in Fig. 11, by means of a rod 104 attached to a lever which moves with the frame 54. The operation of the lever F also actuates through levers 70, 71 the lever 72, which moves until the projection 103 has forced a ratchet pin against the rod 104. The arrest of the projection 103 and bar 79 causes the finger 85 to engage in one notch of the rack 86 and the movement of the drum is stopped. The movement of the ratchet pin 95 by the projection 103 causes the next successive notch in the pin to engage the disk 98 when the parts are returned to their normal position. When the workmen's lever is next operated in the same position, the projection 103 is not arrested until it has moved the space of one notch further. The drum J is therefore moved a corresponding space, allowing the second time to be printed further along an horizontal line. The pins are all returned to their initial positions at the end of each day by a disk 111, Fig. 1, rigidly attached to a sleeve 110 which is moved bv a crank disk driven from a clockcontrolled shaft.