Improvements in Electrically Controlled Apparatus for Checking and Registering the Attendance of Workmen and the like.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Sept., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 24th May, 1895-Accepted, 17th Aug.,
1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Electrically Controlled Apparatus for Checking
and Registering the Attendance of Workmen and the like.
I CHARLES KENNEDY JARDINE of Georgetown, Demerara, Newspaper
Proprietor, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention is designed to improve the construction and use of electrically
controlled apparatus for checking and registering the attendance of workmen and
for the like uses.
In carrying out the invention 1 effect the combination with a comparted
receptacle and a tube or slot delivering into one compartment thereof of a
moveable stationary deflector beneath the said tube and normally out of the path
from it to said compartment and a clock mechanism electrically connected with
the deflector and to release it at a predetermined time and permit it to move
across said path and direct the check into another compartment.
Also the combination with a comparted receptacle and a tube arranged above
the receptacle, a guide for delivering the tickets normally to a receptacle placed
outside the apparatus of a movable deflector beneath the said tube and normally
out of the path from it to said compartment, an indicator connected with the
deflector and a clock mechanism electrically connected with the deflector to release
it at a predetermined time and move across said path direct the check into another
compartment and operate the indicator.
Also the combination with a comparted receptacle and a tube arranged above it.
with a movable deflector beneath the said tube and normally out of the path to the
said compartment of a movable bolt to cross the said tube and thereby cut off
and prevent the ticket at a predetermined time passing through the tube into
the comparted drawer connected with the deflector and the electrically connected
clock mechanism.
Also in an automatic electric time check the combination with the deflector, the
indicator and the bolt, of an electro magnet to operate the same and a clock
provided with a circuit closer for operating the magnet.
Also in an automatic electric time check the combination of the case holding a
battery, the comparted drawer with the guide, the tube, the electro magnet, the
armature, the catch, the bar and bolt, with its guide, the tube, the deflector, and
the indicator plate.
Also the combination with the deflector and the catch and armature, and the
bolt, of the rod provided with the hook, the wheel, a counterpoise, and the inclined
hinged plate attached to the drawer.
The outer case of the apparatus may be of mahogany or other wood polished
with a door in front opening to a space or press made to hold Leclanché cell.
In a drawer with compartments is fitted a guide at an angle, the end of
which is carried through a slot in the back both of drawer and case to the
outside.
A plate is screwed to the back of the drawer having an inclined plate hinged to
it which projects into the drawer.
A compartment above the drawer opens into it and in this is arranged the electric
automatic apparatus for receiving the checks or tickets of employés in factories,
workshops, offices and the like.
A plate of which there are two forming the sides which carry the arbours of

page_text: the moving parts and between which the following other parts are fixed: an
electric magnet, keeper and yoke, a catch mounted on an arbour which allows it to
oscillate and to one end of which is screwed the magnet keeper or armature.
A bar slides in slots in the said plates. This bar carries a bolt which along
with the bar is held in place by the catch.
A brass clock held in place by screws and pins and through which there is cut a
slot. To the front of this block and in the middle of the slot is a tube or guide
which receives the end of the bolt. This tube or guide is carried through to the
edge of the slot and continued by a hole in the block on the other side of the slot
to receive the end of the bolt when shot.
A lever, bent at top is mounted on an arbour which allows it to oscillate. To
the bottom of this lever is rivetted a plate. On the top there is a slot in which
there is hinged a bar carrying a fork or bent wire, and at the foot a wheel.
Through the lever a shaft is pinned the ends of which engage connecting rods
which connect the lever to the bar. On the back of the bar is a screwed wire
carrying a ball which acts as a weight or counterpoise.
A rod mounted on an arbour which allows it to rock and which is bent to clear
the slot in the lever plate. On the front end is fixed a plate on which is engraved
the words "Early "Late 966
Closed" or equivalent indications written in such a
position as to display the word "Early” through an opening in the outer case.
On the other end is a fork which engages the bent wire.
Two parallel wires are used as guides to the bar.
When the lever is perpendicular the deflector plate is removed from the path of
the tickets dropped through the slot thus allowing the tickets to drop into the
compartment of the drawer where they fall upon the guide, pass through the slot,
and are delivered into a receptacle outside.
The tickets thus dealt with are "Early."
When the armature of the magnet is attracted to the magnet the catch is raised and
the bar slides back in the slots to a point when it is held by a projection on the catch.
This allows the lever to fall backwards, swinging the deflector into the path of the
ticket; shutting off the "early" compartment of the drawer and guiding the
tickets into the "late" compartment. At the same time the rod lever is depressed
at the back by the hook which raises the plate on the front and shews the word
"Late" through the opening on the outer case.
When the armature of the magnet is next attracted to the magnet the catch is
again raised and the bar slides to the end of the slot to a point thus shooting the
bolt across the slot and thereby preventing any more tickets being inserted until
the apparatus is reset. This allows the lever to again fall backwards carrying the
bar and the hook along with it.
The hook engaging the slot in the bar depresses it further raises the plate in
front and shews the word "Closed" through the opening in the front of the outer
case.
When the drawer is withdrawn from the case the inclined plate engages the
friction wheel raising the rods, the one rod pushing back the other bar to the end of
the slots withdrawing the bolt and placing the deflector plate out of line with slot
and resetting the catch ready for the next hour at which the work begins.
The electro magnet is connected with a clock. This is a clock made specially to
work in conjunction with the time checking apparatus. The works of the clock
are attached to the face which is hinged to open outwards. The face of the clock
is pierced with 24 or other number of holes. On the back of the clock face and
insulated from it is a brass ring with 24 or corresponding number of holes to corre-
spond with the holes pierced in the clock face. These holes are tapped to receive
a plug, shaped, the point of which is tipped with platinum. This plug is screwed
into the brass ring so as to project into the path of the hour hand-which is also
tipped with platinum-of the clock which slides over the point of the plug and
completes the circuit, one terminal being attached to the clock works, the other to
the brass ring.

page_text: The operation of the time check clock and battery may be thus briefly
described;
I. Each employé is given a numbered check.
II. Tickets dropped in before the hour at which work begins pass through the
box into a receptacle behind, which may be in an inner office, the checks passing
through the wall or partition.
III. When the hour hand of the clock reaches an hour at which work begins
and in which a plug has been inserted (these may be inserted at any hour as desired)
the electric circuit is closed and the magnet is made active. The magnet then
attracts the keeper which raises the catch and allows the bar to slide backwards in
the slot. This has caused the deflecting plate to lie at an angle across the path of
the slot and the tickets now dropped into the box will be deflected into the "late"
compartment of the drawer. At the same time the depression of the rear end of
the lever has raised the plate in front which shews the word "Late" through the
opening in the outer case. The employés who drop their tickets into the box after
the hour are thus known and may be registered as
late."
IV. The time check is supposed to remain as it is for fifteen minutes registering
the people who are "late." At the end of that time the hour hand of the clock
comes in contact with the plug. The circuit is again closed, the keeper of the
magnet is again attracted, the catch is again raised and the bar carrying the bolt
slides back shooting the bolt across the slot and closing the time check against the
admission of any more tickets until it is reset.
The effect of this is to compel the employés who may enter the works after the
expiration of the 15 minutes to put themselves in communication with the time-
keeper or principal in order that there absent time may be noted or that they may
be otherwise dealt with.
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Improvements in Electrically Controlled Apparatus for Checking
and Registering the Attendance of Workmen and the like.
I CHARLES KENNEDY JARDINE of Georgetown, Demarara, Newspaper
Proprietor 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 is designed to improve the construction and use of electrically
controlled apparatus for checking and registering the attendance of workmen and
for the like uses of the character of that described and shewn in the Specification
of Letters Patent granted to Frederick George Manley Wetherfield and dated the
31st day of July 1891, No. 12982.
In carrying out the invention I effect the combination with a comparted
receptacle and a tube or slot delivering into one compartment thereof of a movable
stationary deflector beneath the said tube and normally out of the path from it to
said compartment and a clock mechanism electrically connected with the deflector
and to release it at a predetermined time and permit it to move across said path
and direct the check into another compartment.
Also the combination with a comparted receptacle and a tube arranged above
the receptacle, a guide for delivering the tickets normally to a receptacle placed
outside the apparatus of a movable deflector beneath the said tube and normally
out of the path from it to said compartment, an indicator connected with the

page_text: Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the apparatus, part of the outer casing being
broken away so as to shew the internal fittings.
Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view of the upper part of the casing shewing the
apparatus in side view.
Fig. 3 shews portions of the apparatus by a plan view.
Figs. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 shew details to be hereinafter described.
Fig. 13 shews a time check such as may be used with the invention.
Figs. 14 and 15 shew by front view and plan view respectively a clock as
adapted to work in conjunction with the apparatus.
Fig. 16 shews the clock by a front view but with the dial or face and hands
removed.
The outer case of the apparatus may be of mahogany or other wood polished
with a door A in front opening to a space or press made to hold a Leclanche
cell A¹.
In a drawer B with compartments B1 B2 is fitted a guide B3 at an angle, the end
of which is carried through a slot 13 in the back, both of drawer, and case, to the
outside.
A plate B is screwed to the back of the drawer having an inclined plate B
hinged to it which projects into the drawer.
A compartment C above the drawer opens into it and in this is arranged the
electric automatic apparatus for receiving the checks or tickets of employés in
factories, workshops, offices and the like.
The plates a, of which there are two, form the sides which carry the arbors of
the moving parts and between which the following other parts are fixed; an electro-
magnet b, keeper 6' and yoke 62, a catch c mounted on an arbor c which allows
it to oscillate and to one end of which is screwed the magnet keeper or
armature b¹.
This bar carries a bolt d² which
A bar d slides in slots in the said plates aa.
along with the bar is held in place by the catch c.
The notch serves to prevent the bar d being held when the circuit is closed at
the end of the "late" period to be described.
A brass block e is held in place by screws and pins and through it is cut a slot e¹.
To the front of this block e and in the middle of the slot is a tube or guide which
receives the end of the bolt d². This tube or guide e is carried through to the

page_text: edge of the slot and continued by a hole in the block on the other side of the slot to
receive the end of the bolt when shot.
A lever bent at top is mounted on an arbor f' which allows it to oscillate.
To the bottom of this lever is rivetted a plate 2. At the top there is a slot in
which there is hinged a bar f³ carrying a fork or bent wire and at the foot a
wheel. Through the lever fa shaft f is pinned the ends of which engage
connecting rods f' which connect the lever f to the bar d. On the back of the
bar f³ is a screwed wire carrying a balls which acts as a weight or counter-poise.
A small rack works in conjunction with the shaft f so as to prevent the
deflector being reset from the top by the insertion of a knife or other thin
blade. The rod or lever f10 has a wheel" at its lower end as shewn separately
in Fig. 12 for the sake of clearness.
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A rod y is mounted on an arbor g' which allows it to rock and which is bent at y²
to clear the slot e² and the lever plate f2. On the front end is fixed a plate g³ on
which is engraved the words "Early""Late Closed" or equivalent indications
written in such a position as to display the word "Early" through an opening in
the outer case. On the other end is a fork g which engages the bent wire f.
Two parallel wires h h are used as guides to the bars f³ and f10.
When the lever is perpendicular the deflector plate is removed from the
path of the tickets dropped through the slot e thus allowing the tickets to drop
into the compartment B of the drawer B where they fall upon the guide B³ pass
through the slot B and are delivered into a receptacle outside. The tickets thus
dealt with are 66 Early."
"At this period the bolt a² is clear of the slot el, the bar d
being held by the projection c² on the catch c. This catch c has its inner end
weighted so as to normally remain down.
When the armature of the magnet b is attracted to the magnet b by the electric
circuit being closed, the inner end of the catch is raised and the bar d being
released from the projection ², slides back in the slots to a point where it is held
by a projection on the catch c. This allows the lever f to fall backwards,
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swinging the deflector 2 into the path of the ticket; shutting off the "early
compartment B of the drawer and guiding the tickets into the "late" compart-
ment B2. At the same time the rod lever y is depressed at the back by the hook f*
which raises the plate g³ on the front and shows the word "Late" through the
opening in the outer case.
When the armature of the magnet is next attracted to the magnet the catch is
again raised and the bar d, being released from the projection c³ slides to the end of
the slot d to a suitable point thus shooting the bolt 2 across ths slot e¹ and thereby
preventing any more tickets being inserted until the apparatus is reset. This allows
the lever to again fall backwards carrying the bar f³ and the hook f¹ along
with it.
The hook engaging the slot in the bar y depresses it further raises the
plate 3 in front and shows the word "Closed" through the opening in the front of
the outer case.
The rack rests upon the bar f, so that in each position that the
apparatus takes, a tooth on the rack bears upon the bar and holds it so as to prevent
the deflector from being moved from the slot, as by the insertion of a knife.
When the drawer B is withdrawn from the case the inclined plate B6 engages the
friction wheels f³, f" raising the rods f³, 10, the lever rod f pushing back the other
bar d to the end of the slots d' withdrawing the bolt d' and placing the deflector
plate out of line with slot e¹ and resetting the catch a ready for the next hour at
which the work begins.
The electro magnet is connected with a clock D. This is a clock made
specially to work in conjunction with the time checking apparatus. The works of
the clock are attached to the face which is hinged to open outwards. The face of
the clock is pierced with 24 or other number of holes D'. On the back of the
clock face and insulated from it is a brass ring D³ with 24 or corresponding
number of holes D² to correspond with the holes pierced in the clock face. These
boles are tapped to receive a conducting. plug D' suitably shaped the point of which

page_text: is tipped with platinum. This plug is screwed into the brass ring so as to project
into the path of the hour hand (which is also tipped with platinum) of the clock
which slides over the point of the plug and completes the circuit, one terminal being
attached to the clock works, the other to the brass ring.
Thus if
In the clock shown in Figs. 14 and 16 are twelve pairs of holes D', one of each
pair being exactly at each hour and the other fifteen minutes further on.
for example two plugs be inserted, at D4 and D** respectively, when the hour hand
reaches D it will complete the circuit at one o'clock and cause the checks to
pass into the late compartment B². Upon the hour hand reaching the
plug D the magnets would again act thus closing the slot eat a quarter past
one o'clock.
The operation of the time check, clock and battery may be thus briefly described ;
1. Each employé is given a numbered check.
11. Tickets dropped in before the hour at which work begins pass through the
box into a receptacle behind, which may be in an inner office the checks passing
through the wall or partition.
1II. When the hour hand of the clock reaches an hour at which work begins
and in which a plug has been inserted (these may be inserted at any hour as
desired) the electric circuit is closed and the magnet 6 is made active. The magnet
then attracts the keeper b' which raises the catch c and allows the bar d to slide
backwards in the slot d'. This has caused the deflecting plate f² to lie at an angle
across the path of the slot e¹ and the tickets now dropped into the box will be
deflected into the "late" compartment B2 of the drawer B. At the same time the
depression of the rear end of the lever g has raised the plate g³ in front, which
shews the word "Late" through the opening in the outer case. The employés who
drop their tickets into the box after the hour are thus known and may be registered
as "late."
IV. The time check is supposed to remain as it is for fifteen minutes registering
the people who are "late." At the end of that time the hour hand of the clock
comes in contact with a plug D**. The circuit is again closed, the keeper of the
magnet is again attracted, the catch c is again raised and the bar d carrying the
bolt d² slides back shooting the bolt across the slot and closing the time check
against the admission of any more tickets until it is reset.
The effect of this is to compel the employés who may enter the works after the
expiration of the 15 minutes to put themselves in communication with the timekeeper
or principal in order that their absent time may be noted or that they may be
otherwise dealt with.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The combination with a comparted receptacle and a tube or slot delivering
into one compartment thereof of a movable stationary deflector beneath the said
tube and normally out of the path from it to said compartment and a clock
mechanism electrically connected with the deflector and to release it at a
predetermined time and permit it to move across said path and direct the check
into another compartment, substantially as described.
2. The combination with a comparted receptacle and a tube arranged above the
receptacle, a guide for delivering the tickets normally to a receptacle placed
outside the apparatus of a movable deflector beneath the said tube and normally out
of the path from it to said compartment, an indicator connected with the deflector
and a clock mechanism electrically connected with the deflector to release it at a
predetermined time and move across said path direct the check into another
compartment and operate the indicator, substantially as set forth.
3. The combination with a comparted receptacle and a tube arranged above it
with a movable deflector beneath the said tube and normally out of the path to the
said compartment of a movable bolt to cross the said tube and thereby cut off and

page_text: prevent the ticket at a predetermined time passing through the tube into the
comparted drawer connected with the deflector and the electrically connected clock
mechanism, substantially as set forth.
4. In an automatic electric time check the combination with the deflector, the
indicator and the bolt, of an electro magnet to operate the same and a clock
provided with a circuit closer for operating the magnet, substantially as specified.
5. In an automatic electric time check the combination of the case A holding a
battery A' the comparted drawer B with the guide B³ the tube e¹ the electro magnet />
the armature the catch e the bar d and bolt d' with its guide e² the tube e' the
deflector and the indicator plate g³, substantially as described.
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6. The combination with the deflector 2 and the catch cand armature b' and the
bolt d' of the rod f³ provided with the hook the wheel f the counterpoise,
and the inclined" hinged plate Be attached to the drawer, substantially as
described.
Dated the 23rd day of May 1895
WM. BROOKES & SON,
55 & 56 Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicant.