Improvements in Registering Apparatus, Chiefly Designed for Registering Amounts due for Piece-work.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Apr., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 8th Jan., 1891-Accepted,. 21st Feb.,, 1891
TROVISIONAL DE MULTICATION.
Improvements in Registering Apparatus, Chiefly Designed for
Registering Amounts due for Piece-work.
I, THOMAS PINK, of Staple Street, Long Lane, Bermondsey, in the County of
London, Manufacturer and Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this inven-
tion to be as follows:-
My invention relates to apparatus for registering or recording, the amounts due
for piece-work, and it comprises a series of devices, one of which is held by, cach.
piece-worker, and is hereinafter termed "a workman's register," which. workman's
register is capable of having registered upon it the amounts due to him for work.
done and, a second. device hereinafter termed, "a recorder" adapted to, have
registered upon it the sum of the amounts recorded upon the different workmen's.
registers.
According to my invention cach workman's register comprises a case, the face of
which is provided with dials for indicating pounds, shillings and pence, the fingers!
working over the said dials being geared together in a well known manner. so, that
they can be operated by depressing or pushing the key against a ratchet.or other
device for operating the train of wheels.
The recorder is constructed in substantially the same manner as the "workmen's
register" except that the dials are adapted to record the sum of the amounts.
indicated upon all the workmen's registers. This recorder is advantageously con-
structed with a key or pusher, the outer end of which is designed to serve as. a
key for operating the workmen's registers.
With this construction.it will be understood that when a workman's register is
pushed onto the projecting key of the recorder the same movement will, operate
both the said workman's register and the recorder, the number of pushes: corre-.
sponding to the amount to be registered.
By applying the workinen's registers one after the other the amount, indicated.
on each workman's register will be added to the amount indicated by the recorder..
Dated the 14th day of Annil 3000
G.. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant..
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Registering Apparatus, Chiefly Designed for
Registering Amounts due for Piece-work.
I, THOMAS PINK, of Staple Street, Long Lane, Bermondsey, in the County of
London, Manufacturer and Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
My invention relates to apparatus for registering or recording the amounts due
for piece-work and for similar purposes, and it comprises a device hereinafter
termed," a workman's. register" which is capable of having registered upon it the
amounts due to a workman for work done, and a second device hereinafter termed
a recorder" adapted to have registered upon.it the sum of the amounts recorded
upon several workmen's registers.
According to my invention the workman's register comprises a case, the face of.
which is provided with dials for indicating pounds, shillings and pence, or other
values, the fingers working over, the said dials being geared: together: in a well
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page_text: known manner, so that they can be operated by depressing or pushing a key or the
like against a ratchet or other device for operating the train of wheels.
The recorder' is constructed in substantially the same manner as the
"workman's register" except that the dials are adapted to register a larger
amount in order to record the sum of the amounts indicated upon several
workmen's registers. This recorder is advantageously constructed with a key
or pusher, the outer end of which is designed for operating the workman's
registers.
With this construction it will be understood that, when a workman's register is
pushed onto the projecting key of the recorder, the same movement will operate
both the said workman's register and the recorder, the number of pushes corre-
sponding to the amount to be registered..
By applying the workman's registers one after the other the amount indicated
on each workman's register will be added to the amount indicated by the recorder.
To enable my invention to be fully understood I will describe the same with
reference to the accompanying drawings, in which-
Figure 1 is a front view of a workman's register constructed according to my
invention; and,
Figure 2 is an end view of the same :
Figure 3 is a section on the line ax of Figure 2 shewing the mechanism in side
elevation; and,
Figure 4 is a section on the line y y Figure 3 shewing the mechanism in plan:
Figure 5 is a view similar to Figure 1 of the recording mechanism; and
Figure 6 is a view similar to Figure 3 of the mechanism of the recorder.
The workman's register and the recorder are constructed in substantially the
same manner, that is to say, each of them is provided with an outer case a, one
side b of which is advantageously formed of glass, and has arranged behind it a
face having a series of dials graduated according to the amount to be registered,
for instance, for pounds, shillings and pence or for dollars and cents; a finger or
pointer c working in conjunction with each dial, which fingers or pointers c, c are
operated by a train of gearing d in a well known manner, or they may be operated
by any other suitable means.
The arbor of the first motion wheel of the train of gearing has secured to it a
ratchet-wheel e, and in engagement with this ratchet-wheel is a pawlf carried by
an arm projecting from a block h adapted to slide in a tubular-guide i, the arm g
projecting through a slot in the side of the guide. It will be obvious that, when
the block is pushed backwards in the tubular-guide i motion will be imparted
to the ratchet-wheel e and thence to the train of gearing, the amount indicated upon
the dials corresponding to the number of movements imparted to the said block.
Springs k, k serve to return the block to its normal position.
The tubular-guide i of the "workman's register" is provided with a tubular-
extension adapted to enter the guide i of the recorder to move the block h
therein; and secured to the end of the guide i of the "recorder" is a rod m
adapted to pass through the tubular-extension of the workman's register into the
tubular-guide in order to operate the block of the said workman's register.
With this construction it will be obvious that, when the rod m of the recorder is
introduced into the guide i of the workman's register, and the said workman's
register and recorder pressed towards each other, the two blocks will be
simultaneously moved and so cause a corresponding rotation to be recorded upon
the respective dials.
n is a spring detent pawl with which each apparatus is provided to prevent the
movement of the ratchet-wheel in a backward direction.
In order to prevent the workman's register from being operated by the
introduction of a plain rod into the tubular guide, and to prevent the recorder
from being operated by simply pressing a tube into its guide, I provide for
normally locking each block in its guide. For this purpose I advantageously
provide each block with an upward extension o to which are pivoted two

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tumblers p, p, each of which has at or near one end pins or projections q, and in
connection with the tubular-guide i is arranged a locking plate having an aperture
therethrough sufficiently large to allow the pins or projections q, 9, to pass when
the tumblers p, p are raised to a certain position but which, when the said tumblers
are in their normal position, forms an abutment against which the pins q, q can
bear to prevent the movement of the block relatively to the tubular-guide.
Each tumbler is also provided with an arm s projecting into the tube i, and the
ends of the tubular-extension and the rod m are so shaped that, when they are
introduced into the respective guides, they will first of all lift the tumblers to the
required position to allow their pins 9, 9 to pass through the openings in the
locking-plates r, r and then push the blocks / backward.
In using the apparatus hereinbefore described the "workman's register" is
retained by the workman while the "recorder" is kept by a foreman. When a
workman has completed a certain amount of work the foreman having passed it,
takes the workman's register and indicates on such register in the manner herein-
before described the amount due to the workman for such work, the amount being
at the same time indicated upon the "recorder." This operation is repeated with
each workman, the total of the amounts allowed by the foreman being indicated
upon the "recorder."
In some cases it may be advisable to arrange a key or pusher in connection with
each dial of the "workman's register" and of the "recorder," so that, say,
shillings may be indicated without it being necessary to add each penny of the
amounts separately.
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. Registering or recording apparatus comprising two essential parts which can
be connected together, so that both can be operated simultaneously by the same
movement, substantially as described.
2. Registering or recording apparatus comprising two essential parts, each of
which parts is provided with registering mechanism adapted to be operated by a
key or pusher on the other part, the said keys or pushers being adapted to fit one
within the other, so that both sets of registering mechanism can be operated
simultaneously, substantially as described.
3. In registering or recording apparatus comprising two parts adapted to be
connected and operated simultaneously, the combination in each part of a train of
gearing, a block sliding in a tubular-guide and carrying a pawl engaging with a
ratchet-wheel secured to the arbor of one of the wheels of the train of gearing,
and a key or pusher adapted to operate the block of the other part, substantially as
described.
4. In registering or recording mechanism of the kind referred to in the preceding
claiming clause, the combination with the block sliding in tubular-guides, of
tumbling levers adapted to be operated by the keys or pushers substantially as, and
for the purpose, described.
Dated
9th day of January 1901
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.