Improvements in Means for Automatically Recording or Checking the Time of Entrance of Employees into Factories, Workshops, or the like.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Dec., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 1st Sept., 1891-Accepted, 28th Nov., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means for Automatically Recording or Checking
the Time of Entrance of Employees into Factories, Workshops,
or the like.
We, CHARLES JAMES GARNETT, Electrician and ALFRED MOORE, Joiner and
Builder, both of Keighley in the County of York, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows, that is to say :-
It relates to improvements in means for automatically recording or checking the
time of entrance of employees into factories, workshops or the like and consists of
so arranging and constructing the parts forming said means of recording that they
are entirely controlled and operated by the workshop's normal clock or timepiece
and in such a manner as to be beyond the power of said employees to tamper or
in any way to interfere with so as to defraud or cause same to be inoperative.
Our improved means are for use in places or workshops where each operative or
employee is supplied with and represented by time-checks, usually of metal, and
we attain the object of our said invention by the employment of a series of
receptacles such as drawers or a box divided into compartments, but preferably the
former, said series of receptacles or compartments representing in the aggregate
the several or varied times at which said employees are allowed or expected to
enter the workshop or commence their work, and after the expiration of each of
said respective times or periods its corresponding receptacle is closed automatically
by the normal clock so that any checks subsequently inserted are reckoned as of
the later time. -
The attachments to the normal clock consist of the well known means employed
for enabling same to complete an electric circuit at any given or pre-arranged time
so that at each of such pre-arranged times an electro-magnet will cause to move one
or other of the coverings of the receptacles above described or will cause the box
to move so as to bring one or another of its several compartments into position for
the reception or rejection of the employees' time checks with the result above
described.
Any one of the arrangements of the receptacles hereinafter described may be
employed in connection with the above described automatically operating mechanism
as may be desired, as each arrangement may have its peculiar advantages adapting
it more especially for the requirements of one place or position rather than
another.
In the first place the receptacles may consist of a series of drawers arranged in
contiguity so that their several hinged coverings may when desired form a some-
what inclined plane down which the time-check has to roll or slide in passing over
one or more of the drawers to the one having its covering lowered or raised out of
position for the reception of or so as to guide the said check into its receptacle
beneath. The said covering having been released by the action of the armature of
the electro-magnet on a holding catch, so that it might move either by gravity or
by the action of a spring into the lowered or raised position described. A rod
having a series of projections or alternative means is employed and mounted in such
manuer that when operated, after the operations of the normal clock upon each of
the coverings in succession, all said coverings are re-adjusted to form the inclined
plane above described.
Again the above described drawers may be arranged in tiers or one above another
nstead of in the order above described, so that a hinged bottom part in each drawer
nay serve as the covering for the drawer beneath, and these hinged bottom-parts
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page_text: may be arrangedr to be automatically operated by the normal clock in the same
manner as are the coverings above described.
Instead of a series of drawers being employed, a box with several compartments,
as above described, may be employed and this box may be moved or allowed to
move as by being drawn by a spring or descending an inclined plane by gravity
when liberated by the electro-magnet so that each of its several compartments may
be successively presented to the slot or opening down or through which the time-
check passes in order to receive same as may be directed by the clock.
Or again the series of compartments may be mounted upon a rotary disc operated
by a spring or other motor, when and as may be permitted by the electro-magnet
controlled by the clock, in such a manner that each compartment is turned in
succession to present itself to the slot or opening where the time check is inserted.
In order to keep the several coverings or the several compartments in their
proper respective positions relatively with the time of operation as indicated by the
clock, the plate, covering the outer opening or slot through which the employees
have to pass their time-checks, is made to form an electrical switch so as to dis-
continue the current of electricity during the night or other time when the recording
mechanism is not required.
An arrangement of mechanism couples the moveable coverings or the moveable
boxes with indicating apparatus placed in such a position as to be visible to the
employee so that he may be aware of any change in position that any of said
coverings or boxes may have assumed.
Dated this 29th day of November 1890.
C. J. GARNETT.
A. MOORE.
Per Samuel Hey,
Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means for Automatically Recording or Checking
the Time of Entrance of Employees into Factories, Workshops,
or the like.
We, CHARLES JAMES GARNETT, Electrician and ALFRED MOORE, Joiner and
Builder, both of Keighley in the County of York 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, that is to say :-
It relates to improvements in means for automatically recording or checking the
time of entrance of employees into factories, workshops or the like and consists of
so arranging and constructing the parts forming said means of recording, that they
are entirely controlled and operated by the workshop's normal clock or time-piece
and in such a manner as to be beyond the power of said employees to tamper or
in any way to interfere with so as to defraud or cause same to be inoperative.
In the accompanying sheets of drawings Figs. 1 and 2 are part-sectional side and
top views shewing the arrangement and formation of apparatus made in accordance
with our invention.
Fig. 3 is a side view shewing a further arrangement of said apparatus and Figs. 4,
5 and 6 are side, top and front views, in section, shewing yet another arrangement
of our said apparatus.
Figs. 7 and 8 are part sectional front and side views of a clock or time-piece,
shewing a method of attaching mechanism thereto whereby same is enabled. to
complete an electric circuit as may be prearranged.
Fig. 9 is drawing shewing in detail a certain part bereinafter described.
Similar letters and figures of reference indicate similar parts throughout the
several views.

page_text: The apparatus made in accordance with our invention is for use in places or
workshops where each operative or employee is supplied with and represented by
time-checks, usually of metal and we attain the object of our said invention by the
employment of a series of receptacles such as drawers a, Figs. 1 and 2 or a box
divided into compartments & Fig. 3, or the disc c carrying the series of boxes d,
Figs. 4, 5 and 6, said series of receptacles or compartments representing in the
aggregate the several or varied times at which said employees are allowed or
expected to enter the workshop or commence their work (the disc c is arranged to
carry double the number of compartments as compared with those shewn by Figs. 1
and 2 in order to accomplish an object hereinafter described), and after the
expiration of each of said respective times or periods its corresponding receptacle is
closed automatically by the norinal clock so that any checks subsequently inserted
are reckoned as of the later time.
The attachments to the normal clock consist of the well known means employed
for enabling same to complete an electric circuit at any given or prearranged time
so that at each of such prearranged times an electro-magnet (e e¹ e² e³ or Figs. 1
and 2 or ff Fig. 3 or g g' Figs. 4, 5 and 6) will cause or liberate to move one or
other of the coverings k, kk2 k³ or k or will cause or liberate the box b (Fig. 3) or
the disc c (Figs. 4, 5 and 6) so that it will move and bring one or another of its
several compartments into position beneath their respective shoots land m for
the reception or rejection of the employees time checks with the result above
described.
Any one of the arrangements of the receptacles as hereinafter described may be
employed in connection with the above described automatically operating mechanism
as may be desired, as each arrangement may have its peculiar advantages adapting
it more especially for the requirements of one place or position rather than
another.
In the first place the receptacle may consist of a series of drawers as a (Figs. 1
and 2) arranged in contiguity so that their several hinged coverings k k¹ k² k³ and k
may when desired form a somewhat inclined plane (as do the coverings kk and k²
Figs. 1 and 2) down which the time-check has to roll or slide on its insertion or
after its passage through the shoot n in moving over one or more of the drawers a
to the one having its covering lowered (as is the cover ³) out of position (or by
having a counter balancing weight or spring will be seen that instead of being
lowered these covers may be raised from covering their respective receptacles) for
the reception of or so as to guide the said check into its receptacle beneath. The
said covering as 3 is released by the action of its electro-magnet e on its armature o³
this being caused to move downwardly so that its catch end releases the finger p³
rigidly mounted upon the spindle or axial pin 3 of the cover k³, the other magnets e e¹
e2 and eas also their armatures o o o² and of acting in like manner with their
respective fingers p p p² and p as will readily be seen.
A rod s having pins ss2 and is employed and mounted as shewn, so that
when the operations of the clock have caused all the covers k k₁ k² k³ and k to move
into the position as that shewn in connection with the covers k³ and k³, by recipro-
cating or moving this rod s in the direction indicated by the arrow t all said covers
are moved by said pins s's and s coming in contact with the supplementary
fingers u unu³ and u so that they are re-adjusted to form the inclined plane
above described.
The above described drawers a may be arranged in tiers or one above another
instead of in the order shewn so that by their respective covers being made to rise
instead of descend each of said covers will then act as the bottom part for the
drawer above it and may be operated by the normal clock to effect the same object
as they do when arranged as before stated.
Instead of a series of drawers a being employed a box b with several compart-
ments as shewn by Fig. 3 may be made use of, the said box b being arranged to be
moved by a cord v operated by a spring or weight (or said box may be mounted
on an inclined plane so that when liberated it may move by gravity) when liberated

page_text: or when one or the other of the electro-magnets for " moves its armature 1 or 2
out of contact with the projecting parts or catch pieces attached to said box b
thus causing said box 6 to present its several compartments in succession beneath
the shoot as is directed by the actions of the clock. As is shewn the armatures
and 2 are so arranged that they are alternately in position for holding and arresting
(the armature 1 being shewn as holding or resisting the action of the weight by
being in contact with the catch piece while the other armature 2 is in the path
of motion of the other piece 62) the box so that when the one is moved to allow
same to freely pass along, the other remains in position for arresting it on its
arrival in position for its next compartment to be beneath the shoot l.
Again the series of compartments may be mounted upon a rotary disc c
operated by the cord 3 and weight 4 (or by any suitable spring motor or other
mechanism) when and as may be permitted by the electro-magnets g and g' controlled
by the clock or time piece in such a manner that each compartment d is turned in
succession to present itself beneath the shoot m where the time-check is inserted.
The operations of the armatures 7 and 8 in connection with the electro magnets g
and are the same as are those of the armatures 1 and 2 above described, the
projections d' on the disc c, between and in connection with which the armatures 7
and 8 alternate corresponding with those 2 on the box b.
In order to keep the several coverings or the several compartments in their
respective positions relatively with the time of operation as indicated by the clock
throughout the twenty-four hours of each entire day, the shoot covering 9 (as shewn
at Fig 1) is made to form an electrical switch so as to discontinue the current of
electricity during the night or other time when the recording mechanism is not
required. Or again in connection with the rotary disc c a sufficient number of
compartments d may be employed so that in each twenty-four hours the said disc c
will have completed one revolution and will be ready and in order for recommencing
said revolution at the commencement of each successive working day.
A glazed opening 10 in the wall of the desk or receptacle in which the disc c is
placed allows indicating figures on the periphery of said disc to be displayed to the
operative so that he may know into which receptacle his check is passing on
insertion into the shoot m.
Any well known arrangement of mechanism may be employed for joining the
moveable covering kkkk³ and to respective indicating pieces displayed to the
operative in order to shew him into which of the receptacles his time check will
pass on insertion in the shoot n.
The mechanism illustrated by Figures 7 and 8 may be advantageously employed
for enabling the time piece or clock to complete the circuits of the electro-magnets f
and f' or ! and g since only one or the other of these is to be operated whenever
a change is required as above described. This mechanism consists of an annular
piece of metal 11 having a series of holes 12 formed in it, the same being mounted
upon the ebonite plate 13 to which the dial 14 is attached. On the spindle 16 of
the hour hand 15 is mounted the balanced lever 17 carrying at its outer end the
toothed wheel 18 upon which is mounted the three part commutator 19 with which
the contact springs 20 and 20° alternately operate (the springs 20 and 20ª are insulated
from the lever 17 upon which they are mounted) so that as the lever 17 revolves
with the hand 15 its wheel 18 is partly revolved whenever it comes in contact with
any plug pin 21 that may be inserted into the holes 12, thus one or the other of the
springs 20 or 20 is always in such a position relatively with the commutator 19
as to complete, so far as it is enabled, the circuit of the electro-magnet with which
it is coupled, the spring 20ª (since the parts a of the commutator 19 are insulators)
is the one shewn by Figs. 7 and 11 as being in this position, while the spring 20 is
clear of and between the contact pieces on said commutator 19.
The electrical connections between the springs 20 and 20° and their electro-
magnets for and g or g¹ are respectively made through the washers or annular
pieces of metal 22 and 23 (which are mounted by nonconducting central parts 22ª
and 23ª, upon so as to revolve with the spindle 16) and the wires 24 and 25 which

page_text: respectively rest against the washers 22 and 23 thus permitting them to rotate
without said wires being wound around the shaft 16 as it rotates although they are
electrically joined thereto by being in contact therewith. These magnets for g
and for g are further joined to the battery 30, the other pole of which is elec-
trically connected to the spring and in operating proximity with this spring = is
the four part contact 26. This contact 26 is mounted upon the spindle 27 which
operates the minute hand 28 so that in each revolution of said hand 28 the
contact 26 will move the spring four times or once every quarter hour.
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From the above description it will be seen that in accordance with Fig. 11 on
the contact 26 next moving so that one or other of its four points will touch the
spring (such position being shewn by Fig. 10 while Fig. 11 shews the said points
clear of the spring ) the circuit of the electro-magnet f", or g¹ will be completed,
the current passing from the battery 30 to the spring through the parts 26, 27,
16, 17, 18 and 19, the spring 20ª along wire 25 (see Fig. 11) through washer 23
and along the other part of the wire 25 to said electro-magnet f' or g' which is
further coupled to the battery 30 by the wire a¹.
The circuit of the electro-magnet for g is completed from the battery 30 through
the spring (that is to say when this spring z is in contact with the part 26) and
the parts 26, 27, 17, 18 and 19, the spring 20 (when clear of the insulating parts c
and in contact with the part 19) wire 24, washer 22 and lower part of wire 24 which
is joined to said electro-magnet for g the same (said magnet for g) being joined to
the battery 30 by the wires r² and x¹.
As the hour hand 15 rotates it may be made to move the commutator 19, at any
part of its revolution as may be indicated or arranged by the placing of pins 21 in
any of the holes 12, however although it may thus move and cause a change in the
completion of the electrical connections so far as regards the springs 20 and 20" and
their respective electro-magnets for g and fl or g¹ yet this change would not be
effective until the contact 26 had completed the circuit through the spring = as
shewn by Fig. 10 (the electrical connection from the contact 26 to the com-
mutator 19 being through the spindles 27 and 16 and lever 17) so that the time of
actual completion of either of the electric circuits is governed or controlled by and
effected through the movements of both the hour and minute hands 15 and 28.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. The combination and arrangement of mechanism as illustrated by Figs. 1 and 2
the same being so constructed that the movements thereof may be controlled by a
clock or time-piece substantially as herein specified and for the purpose set forth.
2. The arrangement and combination of parts forming the mechanism illustrated
by Fig. 3 said mechanism having its motions controlled or governed by a clock or
time-piece substantially as herein specified and for the purpose described.
3. The combination of parts forming the mechanism illustrated by Figs. 4, 5
and 6 the same being arranged to operate substantially as herein specified and for
the purposes set forth.
4. The combination and arrangement of mechanism whereby a clock or time
piece may be utilized for controlling or governing time checking or recording
mechanism substantially as is' herein specified.
Dated this 31st day of August 1891.
SAMUEL HEY,
Agent.