Patent GB-190614234-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Workmen's and like Time Recorders.
Inventor: KIELY JAMES FRANCIS
Filed: 1906-06-21
Granted: 1907-01-31
Abstract: 14,234. Kiely, J. F. June 21. Date and time printing stamps.-Relates to improvements in that class of recorders in which a special numbered space on a record sheet is allotted to each workman, and consists of a device for bringing the operator's space up to the printing line, and positioning and operating the printing- mechanism all by one movement of the manual, and further by recording the ins' and 'outs' of each workman at a uniform distance apart, irrespective of the interval of time between successive operations of the manual by the same workman. The workman turns the pointer 10, Fig. 1, to bring the stud 18 into register with the hole bearing his number, as 16, in the disk 15, thus bringing his space on the sheet 1 under the printing-wheels 33. He then rocks the pointer 10 about its pivot 57, thus pressing in the plunger 20 against the action of the spring 21 in the spindle 3 of the drum 2. This operates the lever 25 through the collar 22 sliding on the spindle 3 and connected to the plunger 20 by a pin 23 working in slots in the spindle. The lever 25 operates the pinion 27 by means of the rack 24 and thus turns the disk 29 and cam 30 through half a revolution by a clutch connexion between the disk and the pinion, the revolution being completed by the aid of spring motors 32. A pin on the disk lifts the rod 39, thus rocking the lever 37 and pressing the time-printing wheels 33, 34 on to the record sheet, the ink ribbon 35 being operated in any usual manner. At the same time, a pin on the cam 30 raises a bar 53, and locks the printing-wheels by means of pawls 48. The minute printing-wheel 33 is feathered to the spindle 36 on the lever 37, this spindle being rotated by the usual clock movement. A pin on the wheel 33 engages with teeth on the hour wheel 34 once per revolution of the former. Secured in the rotary drum is an annulus 5 with a row of-evenly-spaced apertures 6, corresponding with the numbers on the dial 15. Each of these apertures contains a number of balls 7, or other spacing-members, one of which is discharged by the plunger 9 at every ope ation of the manual. This plunger is operated by a lever 82 connected by a loss-motion link 83 to a lever 63 which in turn is operated by a link 61 attached to the end of a lever 59 actuated by a spring 58 attached to the primary lever 25. The lever 63 is also connected by a link 65 to the carriage 45 which slides in guides 47. A bar 46 attached to the carriage 45 has its outer end mounted on the sleeve of the priuting-wheels. The number of balls in the race-way 6 determines the depth to which the plunger 9 enters the race-way, and this in turn determines, through the levers 82, 63, the position of the printing- wheels in respect to the record sheet. At each depression of the printing-wheels, the bar 100 rocks the lever 98 thus ringing the alarm 73 through the spring 101, and also raising the gate 8, Fig. 3, allowing one ball to be pressed by the plunger 9 through the aperture 103 in the gate into the reservoir 67 in the fixed disk 52. The finger .104 on the gate prevents more than one ball from escaping at a time. In order to relieve the pressure on the plunger 9, the spring 86 rocks the pawl 87 into engagement with the toothed rack 88, thus relieving the plunger of the action of the spring 58, and also locking the carriage 45 in position. In order to refill the race-ways, the lower gate 69 is raised by means of the hand-lever 70, and the drum is rotated. A finger 78 projecting from the lever 70 engages with the projection 79 on the lever 75 which rocks on a fixed pivot 76 and has a finger 77 on the lower end. In refilling the race-ways, should a ball be absent from any one, on rotating the drum, the finger 77 is allowed to enter that race-way under the action of the spring 80, and the hammer on the other end on the lever 75 strikes the alarm bell 73.