An Improved Mode of and Apparatus or Appliances for Recording the Exact Time Persons Shut and Open Places of Business or Enter or Inspect Works, Stores, or other Places.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Dec., 1887
Complete Specification Left, 31st Aug., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 5th Oct., 1888
An Improved Mode of and Apparatus or Appliances for Recording
the Exact Time Persons Shut and Open Places of Business or
Enter or Inspect Works, Stores, or other Places.
We, MATTHEW GLEN KELSO, Optician of 2 Commerce Street, and CHARLES
REICHERT, Clock Manufacturer, of 77 Main Street, both in Glasgow, Lanarkshire,
do hereby declare the nature of our invention to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object the enabling of proprietors, employers and
managers of businesses to know the exact time when the premises, stores or other
places were opened or closed, or entered by their employees entrusted with the Keys
for that purpose, and also for knowing the exact time when watchmen entered the
premises, or the different parts of the premises, for ascertaining and satisfying
themselves that all was safe at the times of their periodical visits; and thus enable
masters and managers of such businesses and places to know that their employees
perform their duty punctually and satisfactorily.
The nature and novelty of the Invention consist all as follows:-
First. In fitting in connection with the doors of the said premises, or parts of the
premises to be entered, such as public houses and other buildings entered by those
having the Keys for that purpose, as preferably the locked outer doors of such
premises, an electric make and break contact, preferably inclined springs, one fixed
to the moving door and one to a stationary part of the woodwork inside, so that, the
moving spring would act on the stationary spring either in opening the premises or
in closing the premises, and break the circuit immediately the door was opened or
closed, and cause an electric current to flow or complete the circuit immediately the
door was being opened or closed; or one spring or plate might be fitted to the door which
would make and break contact with two stationary terminals to complete the circuit
through the positive and negative electrodes. The stationary make and break contact
would be connected up by a wire to the negative element of any voltaic cell or local
battery, and the positive element by a wire to an electro magnet and armature lever
which would have a marking point, knife, or other equivalent on it to make a mark

page_text: on a paper disc mounted on the hour hand spindle of a clock or timepiece, or it might
be a divided sheet mounted on a large cylinder on the hour spindle of a clock, the said
dial being divided radially into twelve or twenty four divisions to signify hours, or
the sheet divided into the same number circumferentially by parallel lines to the axis,
and all lettered to correspond to the hours of the day and night; and these hour
divisions would be divided into sixty to indicate minutes. The pointer or marker of
the lever and armature of the electro magnet, would be so mounted as to act
tangentially and at right angles to these marks of hours and minutes in a plane
through the centre line of the said revolving disc or cylinder, so as to prick a point or
make an incision or mark on the paper while touching it during the time the circuit
was completed, and thus indicate the time the door was opened or closed or held open
with the contact made. The circuit might either be completed by a connection from
the other end of electro magnet wire to earth, or by a special return wire connected
to switch on door, or this switch on door might be connected to earth through wires
and the metallic hinges, and attached to water or gas pipes instead of having
a return wire. The timepiece and acting magnet and marker might all be arranged
in the managers room or in a room for the purpose on the premises inaccessible to the
employees or at the managers house. In this way the hour and minute would be
recorded on the dial or moving paper moved by the clock at which the persons entered
or left the premises, and be convenient for inspection at any time, and for being filed
for reference afterwards, a new divided paper disc or sheet being inserted on the dial
or cylinder of the clock each day. Instead of the electric make and break contacts
being placed in direct connection with main opening and closing doors as described
for completing the circuit and effecting the marks on the dial, these might be fitted up
as spring push make and break contacts, and the watchman might open certain smaller
doors of compartments with his Key provided for that purpose, and actuate the
spring push to record the time he opened the door and visited the place.
Dated this 1st day of December 1887.

page_text: An Improved Mode of and Apparatus or Appliances for Recording
the Exact Time Persons Shut and Open Places of Business or
Enter or Inspect Works, Stores, or other Places.
We, MATTHEW GLEN KELSO, Optician, of 2 Commerce Street, and CHARLES
REICHERT, Clock Manufacturer, of 77 Main Street, both in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, do
hereby declare the nature of our said invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement, in writing, reference being had to the accompanying Sheet of Drawings,
and to the letters and figures marked thereon, that is to say :-
This Invention has for its object the enabling of proprietors, employers, and managers
of businesses to know the exact time when the premises, stores or other places were
opened or closed, or entered by their employees entrusted with the keys for that
purpose, and also for knowing the exact time when watchmen entered the premises, or
the different parts of the premises, for ascertaining and satisfying themselves that all
was safe at the times of their periodical visits; and thus enable masters and managers
of such businesses and places to know that their employees perform their duty
punctually and satisfactorily.
And in order that our said invention, and the manner of performing or carrying the
same into effect or practice may be properly understood, we have hereunto appended
an explanatory sheet of Drawings, in which the same reference letters are used to
indicate corresponding parts in all the figures where shown. Figures 1 and 2 are a
front elevation, and a sectional end elevation respectively, at right angles to each other,
illustrating one arrangement of our new or improved apparatus or appliances for
carrying into practice our new system or mode of recording the exact time persons
shut and open places of business, or enter or inspect works, stores, or other places,
consisting of a clock T within a case T', and rotating cylinder G, of the recording
mechanism, with the electromagnet E and armature lever EE" the face and hands
of the clock being removed in Figure 1. Figure 2 A shows a side view of the
armature and marking lever E', E, and inking arrangement Es detached and at right
angles to the position it is shown in Figure 1. Figure 3 is a back view (looking in
the opposite direction to that seen in Figure 1) of the cylinder G, on which the sheet
or strip of paper F, seen in Figure 4 is wound round its circumference and fixed by a
pointer G from which the numbers start, to indicate the time records when contact
and markings are made. And Figure 5 is a diagramatic view showing the electric
connections and new or improved system or mode complete.
Referring to these Drawings, the nature and novelty of the invention consist all as
follows: First. In fitting in connection with the doors of the said premises, or parts
of the premises to be entered, such as public houses and other buildings entered by
those having the keys for that purpose, as preferably the locked outer doors A of such
premises, an electric make and break contact, preferably inclined, springs a a¹ as

page_text: shown in Figure 5, one a fixed to the moving door A, and one a¹ to a stationary
part A¹ of the wood work inside, so that the moving spring a will act on the spring al
in the stationary framing A' either in opening the premises, or in closing the premises,
and make and break the circuit and cause an electric current to flow or complete the
circuit immediately the door A, was being opened or closed; or one spring or plate a
might be fitted to the door A which would make and break contact with two stationary
terminals in the framing A' to complete the circuit through the positive and negative
electrodes in the battery Z; or the springs might be hidden in the frame of the door,
and the door made to act on one of the springs so as to make and break contact when
the door was closed, and make and break contact by the power of the spring when
the door was being opened. The stationary make and break contacts a, a¹, are con-
nected up from their terminals by a wire 21 to the negative element of any voltaic
cell or local battery, such as Z Figure 5, and the positive element by a wire to an
electro-magnet E, and armature lever E¹ shown moro particularly in Figures 1 and 2,
and the current would from thence pass through the wire 22 and spring a and complete
the circuit when this spring came into contact with the spring a of the door A, and
return to the battery Z through the conducting wire. The armature lever E¹ is
carried at its upper end by a spring e on the bracket, E2 carrying the electro-magnet
or bobbin E, and carries at its lower end a roller on a hinged lever, said roller being
inked by a pad E³ carried on a bracket E, or attached to the clock case, T, or instead
of a roller E it might be a marking point, knife, or other equivalent on it, to make
a mark on a divided sheet F shown in Figure 4 mounted on a large cylinder G shown
in back view in Figure 3. This divided sheet F is shown in Figure 4 divided radially
into twenty-four transverse divisions; 1 to 24 to signify hours, and the sheet is shown
divided circumferentially into seven angled or spiral lines or divisions to indicate
the time record for 7 consecutive days, which would be all lettered to correspond to
the hours of the day and night; and these hour divisions are shown divided into
quarters, in the first division or hour 1, but they might be divided into sixty divisions
to indicate minutes. The roller or pointer, or marker E" of the lever and armature E
of the electro-magnet E, is so mounted as to act at right angles to these marks of
hours and minutes in a plane through the centre line of the said revolving cylinder G
so as to mark or prick a point, or make an incision or mark on the paper F while
touching it during the time the magnetic circuit was completed, and thus indicate the
time the door A was opened or closed or held open with the contact made. The
circuit might either be completed by a connection from the electro-magnet wire, by a
special return wire 22, 1, connected through the door springs a a¹ or the wire leading
from the door spring a and negative electrode of battery Z, might be connected to
earth through wires and water or gas pipes or other connections instead of having a
complete direct return wire. The time piece T and indicating cylinder G. and acting
magnet and marker E El might all be arranged in the manager's room or in a
room for the purpose on the premises locked up or inaccessible to the employees
or at the manager's house. Motion is communicated to the rotating cylinder
or disc G from the arbor or spindle which revolves once an hour actuated
by the toothed wheels C, D, of the spindles of the minute and hour hands of the
clock. This spindle b through a train of intermediate toothed wheels b' finally actuates
the lower large spur disc wheel 62, to revolve once in twenty-four hours, and by the
studi, passing through the hole ¹, actuates the cylinder G carrying the recording
paper F, turning loose on the stud spindle G³, also carrying the spur wheel 2;
the stud being secured in the bracket T2 of the clock frame T. The cylinder G is
so mounted portably on its spindle G2, that it can be removed and replaced at any
time desired to put on new papers For examine the marks on the papers by the
spring locking lever g and semi-circular screw bush g' working on a screw g² on the
fixed stud G, and so that at each revolution it is screwed outwards on its stud G
to the extent of one pitch of the screw g², which is preferably left handed for that
purpose, that is each day corresponding to the spiral division on the card F.
The spring locking lever g, is shown dotted-in in its unlocked position in Figure 3, when
it can then be removed from its spindle, and replaced and locked with the bush g' engag-

page_text: ing into the screw g² on the stud G, this lever being actuated by the stud handle yll
within the cylinder G, to engage and disengage the catch pin g³ in its retaining
stud hole at g, in the cylinder G. To enable the cylinder G to be taken off and
replaced exactly in the position it was in before being taken off, on its screw g², it
is fitted with a screw washer and studs entering a hole in the cylinder G
this washer having a pointer 2 for setting it radially to the marking arm E" at
starting in beginning a new paper at the beginning of each week, and as indicated
in Figure 1 and detached full size in side and edge view Figure 6, the back face of
the eye and screw bush lever g' of the cylinder G being always inserted close up to
the collar before locking it on to its screw g. This arrangement of the cylinder G
and its fittings with spiral lined card F enables it to work for a week without
requiring to be touched or have a new card put on the cylinder, and on taking off
the card F it records the exact time the door has been opened, or opened and shut
during the whole week. But when the door is only desired to act and record in the
night-time, the electric connections a, a', might be switched round out of action
during the day, and turned into action again in closing the premises at night. For
recording single days only. the cylinder G might be made as a disc with a disc card
placed on it and need only be mounted on a plain stud without the screw fittings
and locking lever described, and need not have any of the transverse spiral
divisions on the disc cards, but only the hour divisions f, and minute divisions
between them, and these might be made radially on the disc card. In Figure 5 is
shown an electric bell Z in the circuit which might be near the outer door, so as to
give an alarm and let the employees know that their visit and departure has been
recorded correctly, and the time they had remained in the premises. In this way the
hour and minute at which the persons entered or left the premises would be recorded
on the dial or moving paper F moved by the clock, and be convenient for inspection
at any time, and for being removed and filed for reference afterwards. Instead of
the electric make and break contacts a, a, being placed in direct connection with
main opening and closing doors A as described, for completing the circuit and
effecting the marks on the dial paper F, these might be fitted up as spring push
make and break contacts within a separate receptacle or chamber in the wall, and
the watchman might open the doors of these compartiments with his key provided
for that purpose, and actuate the spring push to record the time he opened the door
and visited the place and the time he left it again, and make the apparatus act all
substantially the same as described in reference to the arrangement connected with
the outer door A A¹ in Figure 5.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is
First. The system, or mode and means, of recording the exact time persons open
and shut places of business, or enter or inspect works, stores or other places consisting
in the use of a cylinder or dise G, covered with a sheet F, of divided index paper,
and actuated by clock-work mechanism or gearing, said paper being marked or
pricked by means of a lever with inking or marking roller or pricker, operated
through electrical or equivalent connections by the opening or closing of doors
or equivalent make and break contact mechanism, substantially as and in the
manner herein described in reference to and shown in the accompanying Drawings.
Second. In apparatus or appliances for recording the time persons open and shut
places of business, or enter or inspect works, stores or other places, the use of a
cylinder or disc G having its rim or periphery covered with index divided paper or
material, suitable for a week, day, or other period, and operated by clock-work
mechanism in combination with electrical connections, substantially as and in
the manner herein described, in reference to and shown in the accompanying
Drawings.
Third. In apparatus or appliances for recording the time persons open and shut
places of business, or enter or inspect works, stores, or other places, the mounting

page_text: of a spring or springs or equivalent fittings on moving doors or organs, which in
opening and closing make and break electrical connection to actuate an electro-
magnet and armature lover, and mark or prick the index paper of a time-recording
cylinder or disc, substantially as and in the manner herein described, in reference
to and shown in the accompanying Drawings.
Fourth. In apparatus or appliances for recording the time persons open and shut
places of business, or enter or inspect works, stores or other places, the use of an
electro-magnet and armature lever, with marking or pricking device to ink or mark
the index paper on a revolving time recording cylinder or disc, substantially as
and for the purpose herein described, in reference to and shown in the accompanying
Drawings.