Year: 1889

page_text: I, JOHN JOFEH of No. 40 Walden Street in the County of Middlesex Draughtsman
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:--
This invention relates to apparatus for checking workmen's time by registering
For this purpose a
the time when they begin and the time when they end work.
clock is arranged with a type wheel having on its periphery types representing hours
and parts of hours, the wheel being so set and driven relatively to the hands of the
clock that the type presented at one particular point corresponds with the time
indicated on the dial. Each workman is provided with a ticket which on his arrival
he inserts in a slot and then moving a handle he presses the ticket against the type
wheel. On releasing the handle he can remove the ticket marked with the time.
In like manner on leaving he can get the ticket marked again with the time, and
the ticket so marked forms a voucher for the wages due. Connected with the
handle is an inking apparatus similar to that used in stamping presses, whereby
the types on the wheel arc inked.
In some cases the movement of the handle may be made to strike a bell so
as to give an audible signal that the apparatus has been used. The apparatus is
preferably constructed so that the handle cannot be moved unless a ticket is
inserted in the slot.
1991 dor of October 1889
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.
Apparatus for Checking workmen's Time.
I, JOHN JOFEH, of No. 40 Walden Street, in the County of Middlesex,
Draughtsman, 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:-
This invention relates to apparatus for checking workmen's time by registering
For this purpose a
the time when they begin and the time when they end work.
clock is arranged with a type wheel having on its periphery types representing hours
and parts of hours, the wheel being so set and driven relatively to the hands of the
clock that the type presented at one particular point corresponds with the time
indicated on the dial. Each workman is provided with a ticket which on his arrival
he inserts in a slot and then moving a handle he presses the ticket against the type
wheel.
On releasing the handle he can remove the ticket marked with the time. In like
manuer on leaving he can get the ticket marked again with the time and the ticket
Connected with the handle is an
so marked forms a voucher for the wages due.
inking apparatus similar to that used in stamping presses whereby the types on
the wheel are inked.
In some cases the movement of the handle may be made to strike a bell so as to

page_text: give an audible signal that the apparatus has been used. The apparatus is pre-
ferably constructed so that the handle cannot be moved unless a ticket is inserted
in the slot.
The accompanying drawings shew the arrangement of my before described
apparatus which I prefer to employ. Fig. 1 shews a front view, Fig. 2 a back view,
the clockwork being removed, Fig. 3 a vertical section with the printing appliances
out of action, and Fig. 4 a similar section shewing the said appliances in action.
Within a closed casing A is an ordinary clock mechanism B which may or may
not have hour and minute hands moving over an external dial as an ordinary clock
as shewn at Fig. 1.
On the arbor B' of the hour hand is mounted a disc C of sufficiently large diameter
to have marked upon its periphery divisions of hours and minutes for the 12 hours
corresponding to one revolution of the hour arbor. The said divisions are made
in relief upon the periphery, being by preference moulded in india rubber.
Opposite the lowest point of the disc C is a fixed index D also of india rubber,
representing an arrow, which lies in the same plane with the lowermost part of the
periphery of C. The index D is fixed to an arm D¹ which is attached to the end of
the fixed pivot E of a lever E to be presently described.
Below the disc and index D is a small table F carried by a plate F¹ sliding
between guides G G against the inner face of the front side of the casing, which has
a vertical slot so that the sliding plate also appears on the outside.
Access is gained to the table F from the outside through a slot F in the sliding
plate F. This has an arm F3 to which is connected by means of a link H, the one
end of the before mentioned double ended lever E pivotted on the pin E' and having
at its other end a handle E projecting through a curved slot in the casing, so that by
drawing down this handle the sliding plate F¹ can be moved upward until the
table F comes in contact with the lowest part of the periphery of disc C and the
index D. This upward movement is however prevented by a spring catch J,
catching with its beak on to the edge of the table F.
The sliding plate F¹ also carries, at a certain distance above the table F, a
hinged flap K carrying an inking pad K', and held in a horizontal position by a
spring K2.
This flap is in such a position that when the sliding plate FI has been slightly
raised by the lever, the pad K¹ comes in contact with both the lowest part of the
periphery of C, and the arrow D, so as to ink these parts; upon the farther upward
movement of F¹ however, a fixed finger L comes in contact with the upper side of
the flap, near its pivot, so that on the plate F being further raised, the flap is
forced downward by the finger so as to lie flat against the plate F¹, as indicated at
Fig. 4, and thus allow the table F to rise and come in contact with the disc C and
index D. On the descent of the plate F¹ again, the flap again assumes the hori-
zontal position as soon as it is released by the finger L.
O is à bell the striker of which is actuated by a pin on the lever E every time this
is depressed by the workman, so as to give a signal of the fact.
The action of the apparatus is as follows:-
The disc C revolves with the hour arbor of the clock in such a way that the
division on its periphery which is for the time opposite the arrow D indicates
the exact time of the day.
A workman furnished with a strip of stiff paper or card such as is shewn at M
Fig. 4, on his arrival at the works, pushes the same through the slot F2 ou to
the table F of plate F, thereby also pushing back the catch J so that the table is
free to rise. In then depressing the handle E the workman raises the slide F¹,
thereby firstly inking the bottom divisions of the disc C and the arrow D, and then
bringing the slip of paper or card M in contact with those parts, so as to impress the
inked divisions of C and the arrow D on the paper, which impression will appear as
shewn at Fig. 5, where it will be seen that the impression was taken at 2 hours
17 minutes o'clock, that division having been opposite the arrow at the time of
taking the impression.

page_text: The workman then releases the handle so as to allow the slide with the table and
inking pad to descend again, and withdraws his card from the table.
The same operation may be repeated when the workman leaves, so as to have
a record of the time he has actually been at work.
The disc C may be fixed on the hour arbor, so as to be carried round with it, but
in order to render its movement steady, I prefer to make it loose on the arbor B',
and to provide it with a spring arm which is made to bear continuously against
an arm B2 on the arbor by means of a weight N attached to a cord N¹ wound round
the boss C of the disc C, so that as the arbor B¹ rotates the arm C₁ of the disc is
kept by the descending weight N pressed against the arm B of the arbor.
When the weight N has run down it can be wound up again by turning the disc C
in the contrary direction upon the arbor B', this being permitted by the spring
action of its arm C¹.
Instead of a weight, a spiral spring might be used, tending to rotate a toothed or
frictional pinion gearing with a toothed or frictional ring on the disc, or the clock-
work may be so arranged that a toothed wheel thereof gears with a toothed ring on
the dise, the wheel and ring being so proportioned as to cause the dise to make a
complete revolution either in twelve or in twenty four hours.
The inking pad might also be differently arranged; thus it may be carried by a
separate slide opposite the slide F¹, and raised and lowered by the same or a different
movement, or it may be arranged as a roller to move horizontally under the disc
and index.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is―
1. Apparatus for checking workmen's time wherein a disc having divisions in
relief on its periphery for indicating time, is made to revolve by clockwork so as
always to present divisions indicating the time of day opposite a fixed index, an
impression of such divisions and index being taken by the workman upon a strip of
cardboard or paper by moving a lever whereby firstly the divisions and index are
supplied with ink, and secondly a table carrying the piece of paper is raised so as
to bring the paper in contact with the disc and index, substantially as described.
2. In apparatus for checking workmen's time, the combination of a disc C having
divisions in relief upon its periphery, and rotated by clockwork B, a fixed index Ď
situated opposite the lowest point of the disc C, a device for applying ink to the
lowest divisions of the disc and to the index, and a slide F' carrying a table F for
receiving a strip of cardboard or paper, which slide is raised by a lever so as to
bring the paper strip in contact with the inked part of the disc C and the index D,
substantially as described with reference to the drawings.
3. The use for inking the disc C and index D referred to in the preceding claim,
of an inking pad K' carried by a spring flap K pivotted to the slide F and acted
upon by a fixed finger L so that on raising the slide by the lever, the pad K¹ is first
brought in contact with the disc and index, and is then turned downwards by
the finger L, so as to allow the table F with the paper strip to come in contact with
the disc and index substantially as described.
4. Apparatus for checking workmen's time, combined and operating as herein
described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 21st day of droust 1890
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.