An Improved Apparatus for Checking and Indicating Payments.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Sept., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 9th May, 1892-Accepted, 25th June, 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Apparatus for Checking and Indicating Payments.
A communication to me from C. MICHAELSEN, Clockmaker, of Lübeck, in the
Empire of Germany.
I, EDMUND EDWARDS, of the firm of Edwards and Co., Patent Agents and
Engineers, of 35, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, in the County of
Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:―
The apparatus which forms the subject of the present invention has two dial
plates, one upon one side accessible to the employer, (who desires to control and
indicate payments made by a servant) and having a central hand pointing to
divisions at the outer edge (100 for instance), whilst the other is used by the clerk
or servant and has similar divisions, pointed to by a similar needle at the other end
of the same axle. These needles are both turned round by the servant (as herein-
after described) till they point to numbers corresponding with the amount of
payment which it is desired to indicate, and they remain there until the master
presses a knob when they both spring back to zero, whilst a third hand remains
pointing to the amount upon the master's dial, being moved forward with each
successive movement of the main needles, until it has made a complete circuit,
when a hand upon a smaller dial moves forward one division to represent one
hundred, and the third needle commences a fresh rotation, and so on as long as may
be necessary.
The apparatus consists of wheel work arranged between two metal discs or plates,
through the centre of which an axle passes, its ends also passing through a
divided dial plate or card at each side, and having a needle or hand fixed at each
end and pointing to the divisions on the dials, one of the needles being accessible
to and used by the master or employer, and the other by the clerk or servant. The
axle at the last named end is made square so that the servant can turn it round
with a key. Supposing the dial plates have a hundred divisions representing (say)
shillings, and the clerk or servant has turned the axle so that the needle represents
an amount (paid or received) of 25 shillings, the needle on the master's side will
also point to the same number, and when the latter has taken notice of it he
presses a spring knob by which means both needles spring back to zero. For this
purpose a revolving fly, or vane is arranged, which is released by pressure upon
the knob so that it can then revolve. Upon the axle of the fly is a pinion driven
by a toothed wheel which also has upon its axis a pinion which is driven by a
toothed, wheel which can turn freely upon the axle which carries the needles at its
ends as already described. This loose whee! has a central tube fitting freely upon
the axis and carrying at its end (upon the master's side) a third concentric needle
or hand, and a coiled spring one end of which is fixed to the axle and the other
to one of the frames or side plates brings the axle back as much as it has been
turned forward by the key of the clerk or servant, whilst the third concentric
needle carried by the loose wheel has also moved forward and remains pointing
upon the master's dial the additional amount which it has added to the amount
previously indicated.
Adjoining the loose toothed wheel, a ratchet toothed wheel is fixed upon the
same axis, and a spring pall carried by the loose wheel engages with the teeth, so
that when the clerk or servant turns the axle the ratchet teeth move under the
pall, the loose wheel remaining at rest and the spring is wound up; whilst when
the fly is released the axle is turned back again, taking with it the ratchet wheel,
and (by means of the pall) the loose wheel, which accordingly carries round the
needle upon its tubular centre through a distance equal to that through which the

page_text: main needle was moved, and accordingly a corresponding number is added to
the amount already indicated.
Upon the loose wheel is fixed a pin or stud which at each revolution moves
forward one tooth of another ratchet wheel, which carries upon its axis a needle
or index which shews therefore the number of revolutions of the third hand (or
of hundreds). The last named ratchet wheel is provided with a spring pall which
keeps it in position.
By the improved apparatus each separate amount is indicated as well as the total
sum during a day or other determined period.
Of course, the division upon the dial plates is inade according to the character of
the business in which the apparatus is to be used.
Dated this 25th day of September 1891.
EDWARDS & Co.,
35, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Apparatus for Checking and Indicating Payments.
A. communication to me from CORNELIUS MICHAELSEN, Clockmaker, of Lübeck,
in the Empire of Germany.
I, EDMUND EDWARDS, of the firm of Edwards and Co., Patent Agents and
Engineers, of 35, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, in the County of
Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement and accompanying drawing, that is to say :-
The apparatus which forms the subject of the present invention has two dial
plates, one upon one side accessible to the employer, (who desires to control and
indicate payments made by a servant) and having a central hand pointing to
divisions at the outer edge (100 for instance), whilst the other is used by the clerk
or servant and has similar divisions, pointed to by a similar needle at the other end
of the same axle.
These needles are both turned round by the sorvant (as hereinafter described)
till they point to numbers corresponding with the amount of payment which it is
desired to indicate, and they remain there until the master presses a knob when
they both spring back to zero whilst a third hand remains pointing to the amount
upon the master's dial, being moved forward with each successive movement of the
main needles, until it has made a complete circuit, when a hand upon a smaller dial
moves forward one division to represent one hundred, and the third needle com-
mences a fresh rotation and so on as long as may be necessary.
In the accompanying drawing, which is in illustration of the invention,
Figure 1 is a view of the apparatus shewing the dial plate turned to the employer
or master.
Figures 2 and 3 are a side view and plan respectively.
Figures 4 and 5 shew the interior clockwork, with and without the spring.
Figure 6 shews separately the index hands and parts connected with thein.
The apparatus consists of wheel work arranged between two metal discs or
plates A and B, through the centre of which an axle C passes, its ends also passing
through a divided dial plate or card at each side D and E, and having a needle or
hand fixed at each end and pointing to the divisions on the dials, one of the
needles being accessible to and used by the master or employer and the other G
by the clerk or servant. The axle C at the last named end is made square so that
the servant can turn it round with a key. Supposing the dial plates D and E have
a hundred divisions representing (say) shillings, and the clerk or servant has turned
the axle so that the needle G represents an amount (paid or received) of 25
shillings, the needle F on the master's side will also point to the same number, and

page_text: when the latter has taken notice of it he presses a spring knob H by which means
both needles F and G spring back to zero.
For this purpose a revolving fly, or vane J is arranged which is released by
pressure upon the knob H through the bar H' pressing back the pin H³ which
holds the vane so that the latter can then revolve. Upon the axle of the fly is a
pinion J driven by a toothed wheel K which also has upon its axis a pinion K¹
which is driven by a toothed wheel C₁ which can turn freely upon the axle C which
carries the needles at its ends as already described. This loose wheel has a central
tube fitting freely upon the axis and carrying at its end (upon the master's side) a
third concentric needle or hand L, and a coiled spring M one end of which is fixed
to the axle C and the other to one of the frames or side plates A brings the axle C
back as much as it has been turned forward by the key of the clerk or servant,
whilst the third concentric needle L carried by the loose wheel C' has also moved
forward and remains pointing upon the master's dial the additional amount which
it has added to the amount previously indicated.
Adjoining the loose toothed wheel C', a ratchet toothed wheel N is fixed upon
the same axis C, and spring pall N¹ carried by the loose wheel engages with the
teeth, so that when the clerk or servant turns the axle C the ratchet teeth N move
under the pall N', the loose wheel C¹ remaining at rest and the spring is wound up;
whilst when the fly J is released the axle C is turned back again, taking with it
the ratchet wheel N, and (by means of the pall N³) the loose wheel C', which
accordingly carries round the needle L upon its tubular centre through a distance
equal to that through which the main needle was moved, and accordingly a corre-
sponding number is added to the amount already indicated.
Upon the loose wheel C¹ is fixed a pin or stud 0¹ (Figure 6) which at each
revolution of the wheel C₁ moves forward one tooth of another ratchet wheel O
which carries upon its axis a needle or index P which shews therefore the number
of revolutions of the third hand (or of hundreds). The last named ratchet
wheel O is provided with a spring pall P' which keeps it in position.
By the improved apparatus each separate amount is indicated as well as the
total sum during a day or other determined period.
Of course, the division upon the dial plates is made according to the character
of the business in which the apparatus is to be used.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. A checking and indicating apparatus, consisting of the axle C carrying the
needles F and G and having connected to it the spring M and the ratchet wheel N
which is coupled with the loose toothed wheel C' by the pall N¹ so that by turning
the axle C the indices F and G are turned and the spring M wound up, which
when the knob H is pressed and the fly or vane J released, by means of the ratchet
wheel N and the pall N¹ causes the wheel C' and the handle L fixed upon its
hollow axis to move forward and the needles F and G backward, the fly or vane.J
being revolved by the wheel C through the train of wheels and pinions so as to
serve to regulate the movement, substantially as and for the purpose described and
shewn.
2. In combination with the cl ecking and indicating apparatus described in the
first claim, the pin O' on the wheel C which at each revolution moves the
wheel O one tooth forward and the needle or index hand P through one division of
its dial.
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EDWARDS & Co.,
35, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents for the Applicant.