IMPROVE- MENTS IN APPARATUS FOR CHECKING OR INDICATING THE PERIODICAL ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF EMPLOYEES."
Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Maberley Llewellin, of the Firm of Llewellins
and James, of Bristol, in the County of Gloucester, and of Glasgow, in the
County of Lanark, North Britain, Engineers, for an Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN APPARATUS FOR CHECKING OR INDICATING THE PERIODICAL
ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF EMPLOYEES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Maberley
Llewellin at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 7th June
1881.
WILLIAM MABERLEY LLEWELLIN, of the Firm of Llewellins and James, of
Bristol, in the County of Gloucester, and of Glasgow, in the County of Lanark,
North Britain, Engineers. "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR CHECKING OR
INDICATING THE PERIODICAL ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF EMPLOYEES."
This Invention, which relates to apparatus for checking or indicating the
periodical arrival and departure of workmen and women and employees generally
at and from the place of their occupation has reference to improvements in that
class of such apparatus for which Letters Patent were granted to John Adams
bearing date the eleventh day of July A.D. 1855, No. 1554.
The Invention consists in the first place in rendering the interior circular box or
case (which is sub-divided into compartments and partially rotated at intervals,
so as to deposit the employees checks or tallies into different compartments
corresponding approximately to the time of their arrival or departure) more easily
removable from the outer stationary case, for which purpose a door is made in the
side of the outer case, and the inner movable case is supported on or provided with
a spring balance arrangement for weighing the checks or tallies deposited in it, the
weight being indicated by a finger or pointer in connection with the spring
moving through an arc, or in a horizontal or vertical plane over a dial, or
alternatively each compartment of the box may be so provided with a weighing
arrangement. From the weight the number of employees who have passed into
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page_text: or out from the place of employment is ascertained, each check or tally being of a
regulated weight.
Under another arrangement the inner removable case and each division of it is
placed over or under a vertical drum, upon which is wrapped a sheet of paper.
Upon the case or compartiments a pointer carrying a finger so placed that when
a certain number of checks falls into the compartments the box or the individual
compartment is depressed and the pencil makes a mark upon the paper wound
round the drum.
A further improvement consists in forming the hopper or shoot through which
the checks or tallies are deposited into the compartments of the rotating inner
case with a series of holes or slits around its side or on the top, so that in the
event of a crowd there may be no delay in enabling the employees to deposit their
checks and in providing a movable plate or band surrounding or covering that part
of the hopper wherein the slits are made, the said plate or band being formed with
corresponding slits or openings. In using the improved apparatus it is intended
that the employees shall be provided with different sizes of numbered checks or
tallies to represent the different times of arrival and departure during the day, and
by partially rotating the movable plate or band the slits or openings in the hopper
or shoot are immediately previous to such times diminished in size from morning
to evening, so that the check or tally provided for one of the periodical arrivals or
departures cannot be passed into the box at another, and at the same time the
compartment of the rotating box into which the numbered check falls shows
whether the employee corresponding to that number has been in time, and if not
how much is to be deducted from him or her for late time at each of these intervals.
The checks, besides being of different sizes, may be of different colours if desired,
and the movable band or plate on the hopper may either be operated by the
same clockwork which actuates the inner box or it may be operated by hand
and provided with a lock to retain it in the position to which it has been
adjusted.
In conjunction with the mechanism for checking the time of the workpeople
another improvement consists in providing apparatus for checking the periodical
arrival and departure of managers, foremen, or others in charge, and the said
apparatus consists of a cylinder or drum mounted on a spindle and rotated by the
same clockwork which actuates the other parts of the mechanism, or it may be
actuated by other and independent means. The cylinder or drum is divided by
horizontal lines into a series of spaces corresponding to the days of one week,
month, or other period of time, and by vertical lines into spaces corresponding to
the various times at which the managers or foremen should arrive and depart. A
spiral or stepped groove with a pin in it or the equivalent of such arrangement on
the cylinder or drum so actuates the same that it falls or rises one horizontal space
each day, and the said cylinder or drum is placed near to a bolo or opening in the
outer case or in the hopper or shoot, the size of which corresponds to one of the
vertical spaces on the drum and enables the manager or foreman to write his name
or to make a prearranged mark on a paper, card, or ribbon surrounding the drum,
or instead of paper the drum may have a slate, porcelain, papier-mache, or
equivalent surface capable of being cleaned.
Under another arrangement of the apparatus the interior box may be stationary
and the checks delivered into its various compartments by a rotating shoot
suspended at the bottom of the hopper on a spindle and rotated from the clockwork
which actuates the other moving parts of the apparatus, or by other and
independent means. The object of suspending the shoot is to do away with
"stepping" or supporting its lower end on a fixed point (as in the Patent of John
Adams, herein before referred to), thereby obtaining the advantage of a clear and
uninterrupted space for placing in and taking out the boxes or compartments into
which the checks fall; or the said shoot may have a pendulous motion and deliver
the checks into a series of compartments in a drawer or tray, which drawer or tray
rests upon or is provided with a spring balance or spring balances, as and for the

page_text: purposes hereinbefore referred to; or under another modification the side or top of
the outer case may be rotated by the clockwork and have slits or holes through
which to deliver the checks into that compartment of the box, drawer, or
tray which corresponds to the time of arrival or departure of the holder of the
check.
Under another modification two or more shoots or hoppers and two or more
corresponding drawers, trays, or compartments are superposed upon one another
with the object of checking the arrival of the employees by one arrangement and
the departure by another.
When two or more sets of the improved apparatus constituting this Invention
are used at the same place of occupation they may each be provided with
independent actuating clockwork, or they may all be actuated synchronously from
a central clock by any of the well known electric or pneumatic synchronizing
arrangements.
In conjunction with any or all of the modifications bereinbefore described an
arrangement of check boards may be employed. On these boards, one of which is
provided for each period at which the employees arrive and depart during the day,
the checks proper for that period are hung. Each of the said boards is covered
with a shutter or door actuated by the clock work which operates the other parts
of the apparatus, and at given intervals during the day the clock releases detents,
whereby one door after the other swings or slides open, theroby exposing the
checks, which are removed from the boards by the employees according to their
several numbers and deposited in the checking apparatus.
In workshops or factories where the employees follow different trades, as, for
example, in shipbuilding yards, the apparatus may be so arranged that the checks
of the employees shall shall be passed through different hoppers or shoots and fall
into separate compartments according to their respective avocations.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said William Maberley Llewellin in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 6th December 1881.
WILLIAM MABERLY LLEWELLIN, of the Firm of Llewellins and James, of
Bristol, in the County of Gloucester, and of Glasgow, in the County of Lanark,
North Britain, Engineers. "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR CHECKING OR
INDICATING THE PERIODICAL ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF EMPLOYÉES."
My said Invention which relates to apparatus for checking or indicating the
periodical arrival and departure of employees generally from the place of their
occupation has reference to improvements in that class of such apparatus for which
Letters Patent were granted to John Adams, bearing date the 11th day of July,
A.D. 1855, No. 1554.
My said Invention consists in the first place in rendering the interior circular
box or case into which the employées' checks or tallies are deposited at the times
of their periodical arrival or departure, both or more easily removable from the
outer stationary case, for which purpose a door is made in the side of the outer
case.
The Invention consists, secondly, in forming the hopper or shoot through which
the checks or tallies are deposited into the compartments of the inner box or case
with a series of holes or slits around its sides or on the top, so that in the event of
a crowd there may be no delay in enabling the employees to deposit their checks.
A movable ring or band surrounds or covers that part of the hopper wherein the
slits are made, the said ring or band being formed with corresponding slits or
openings.
The Invention consists, thirdly, in providing in conjunction with the mechanism
herein before described an arrangement of apparatus for checking the periodical
arrival and departure of the manager's foremen or others in charge, and the said
apparatus consists of a cylinder or drum mounted on a spindle and rotated by
the same clockwork which actuates the other parts of the mechanism, or by
independent means.
And in order that my said Invention may be properly understood, I now
proceed more particularly to set forth the system, mode, or manner in or under
which the same is or may be used or carried out in practice, reference being had
to the accompanying Drawings, and to the letters and figures marked thereon, that
is to say,
On the Sheet of Drawings hereunto appended, Figure 1 is an elevation, and
Figure 2 a vertical section of one arrangement of the checking apparatus as con-
structed in accordance with my said Invention. As shown by these Figures the
apparatus consists of a pillar or standard A, on the upper end of which is secured a
cylindrical box or casing B provided with doors C in one side. At the interior of
the casing B a circular removable box or casing D is placed, the said box or casing
being subdivided, as more particularly seen in plan at Figure 3, into a series of
compartments corresponding or approximately corresponding to the different times
of arrival or departure of the work people during one day, that is to say, one com-
partment is provided to hold the checks or tallies of those who are not late at Euch
times of arrival, and another one or more compartments to hold the checks of those
who are late, the amount of late time when more than one such late compartment
is provided being approximately determined by the compartment of the box D
into which the check falls.
The inner renovable box D may either rest upon the bottom of the outer case B,
as shown at Figure 2, or under another arrangement shown in vertical section at

page_text: Figure 4, it may be provided with and rest upon a spring balance E for the
purpose of weighing the checks or tallies deposited into its several compartments,
the weight being indicated by a finger or pointer as in the ordinary arrangements
of spring balances; or alternatively each compartment of the box D may be so
provided with a weighing arrangement. From the weight the number of employees
who have passed into the place of employment is ascertained, each check or tally
being of a regulated weight, whilst at the same time the period of arrival or
departure of each employee is also determined by the compartment of the box D
in which that employée's check or tally is found.
Under another arrangement indicated in vertical section at Figure 5, the inner
removable box D is placed over a drum F, upon which is wrapped a sheet of paper,
and the said box or each division of it has a pointer a carrying a pencil b, so placed
that when a certain number of checks falls into the compartments, the box or that
individual compartment is depressed, and the pencil makes a mark upon the paper
wound round the drum. When this arrangement I used, and when each compart-
ment of the box D is provided with a pointer as described, each compartment is
also provided with a spring balance, and the said compartments are independent of
each other, the box D being built up of segments which may or may not be held
together by an outer casing or band.
Under another arrangement indicated in vertical section at Figuro 6, the outer
casing B and the inner box or casing D may be so arranged that the checks or
tallics of those who are late will not be retained, but will pass through and out of
the machine. To effect this one or more divisions of the inner box D is or are
made without any bottom, and in the bottom of the outer case B a slit or slits is or
are made immediately under these bottomless compartments, whereby the checks
or tallies dropped thereinto fall out of the apparatus as indicated.
When an inner removable box, of the construction shown at Figures 4 and 5, is
employed, the said box is or may be connected to a clockwork arrangement by the
spindle G, whereby it is rotated so as to bring its several compartments underneath
a stationary hopper and shoot which may either be arranged as shown at H, or in
dotted lines at I, Figure 4, or in any other equivalent and convenient manner.
In the arrangement Figure 4, wherein the check or tally box D is rotatory and
connected to the actuating clockwork by the spindle G, the said box for convenience
of removal is or may be made in segments or halves.
When the inner removable box rests on the bottom of the outer casing B, as in
the arrangements shown at Figures 2 and 6, the shoot J by which the tallies or
checks are at the proper times delivered into the several compartments of the
box D is connected to the clockwork by the said spindle G, and is by the said
clock work rotated. The hopper K through which the checks or tallies are dropped
into the shoot constitutes in the arrangement, Figures 1 and 2, the lower end of a
hollow pillar L bolted to the upper side of the casing B, and formed with a series
of holes or slits c around it, so that in the event of a crowd there may be no delay
in enabling the employees to deposit their checks. A movable ring d, Figure 2,
surrounds the hopper K, and in the said ring similar slits are made.
In using the improved apparatus it is intended that the employees shall be
provided with different sizes of numbered checks or tallies to represent the different
times of arrival or of arrival und departure during the day, and by partially
rotating the ring or band d the slits or openings in the hopper are immediately
previously to such times diminished in size from morning till evening, or vice versa,
so that the check or tally provided for one of the periodical arrivals or departures
cannot be passed into the box D at another.
The checks besides being of different sizes may be of different colours if desired.
The ring or band d is provided with a lock to retain it in the position to which it
has been adjusted.
In the hollow pillar L an arrangement of apparatus to check the periodical
arrival and departure of managers, foremen, and others in charge is also provided.
This apparatus consists of a cylinder M mounted on the same spindle G with the

page_text: rotating shoot, and rotated by the same clockwork which actuates the shoot J or
the revolving box D. The cylinder is covered with paper, and the paper surface is
divided by horizontal lines into a series of spaces corresponding to the days of one
week, month, or other period of time, and by vertical lines into spaces corresponding
to the various times at which the managers or foremen should arrive and depart.
Inside the cylinder M another cylinder N is mounted stationary in the pillar L,
and the said cylinder N has a series of collars or flanges around it. The distance
between each of these collars or flanges represents a working day, and in order that
the cylinder may fall one space each day, it is provided with a pin or roller which
rests upon one of these flanges or collars, and at the termination of each day's
working time, the said pin falls through an inclined groove e on to the collar or
flange immediately below it, thereby moving the cylinder M downwards one space.
In the pillar L a door O is made for the removal of the paper or card from the
cylinder M, and the substitution of a fresh paper or card therefor, and in the upper
part of the said door or in the pillar itself a slot or hole is cut, as indicated in
dotted lines at P, Figure 2, the size of which hole corresponds to one of the spaces
between two of the horizontal and two of the vertical lines on the cylinder, and
enables the manager or foreman to write his name, or to make a prearranged mark
in the said space. Instead of paper the cylinder may have a papier mache,
porcelain, slate, or other surface capable of being cleaned.
Figure 7 shows an arrangement for actuating the cylinder M by means of. a
screw, instead of by the stepped groove shown at Figure 2, but in lieu of either of
these arrangements, the arrangement shown at Figure
which consists of two rollers or bobbins, one of which R is mounted upon the
may be adopted, and
spindle G connected to the clock work, whilst the other S is carried in bearings in
the pillar. On the roller or bobbin S a continuous ribbon of paper is wound, from
which it is by the rotation of the spindle G gradually drawn on to the bobbin R,
and the ribbon has spaces marked upon it, which at the proper times come opposite
the part marked T, representing the hole or opening through the pillar at which
times they are written or marked upon by the managers or foremen.
Figure 9 represents a modification of the apparatus having two check or tally
boxes, one being for checking the arrival, and the other the departure of the
employees.
Under a modification indicated in dotted lines at Figure 2, the lower end of the
shoot J may be hinged and have a pendulous motion imparted to it at certain
times by a rod and bell crank lever, or the equivalent of these connected to the
clockwork by a spindle passing through the spindle G. Under this arrangement
each compartment of the box D is subdivided into a series of concentric compart-
ments, whereby the box is rendered capable of containing checks for more than
one day, the shoot being oscillated each day so as to describe a circle of greater or
lesser radius.
Under another arrangement the shoot may be dispensed with, and the top of the
outer casing or box B formed with slits in it and rotated by the spindle G, so as to
deposit the checks or tallies into the compartments of the inner box D.
When two or more sets of the improved apparatus constituting this Invention
are used at the same place of occupation, they may each be provided with inde-
pendent actuating clockwork, or they may all be actuated synchronously from a
central clock by any of the well known electric or pneumatic synchronizing
arrangements.
In conjunction with any or all of the modifications herein before described, an
arrangement of checkboards shown at Figure 10 is employed. On these boards, one
of which is provided for each period at which the employees arrive and depart
during the day, the checks proper for that period are hung. Each of the said
boards is covered with a shutter or door actuated by the clock work which operates
the other parts of the apparatus, and at given intervals during the day the clock
releases detents a, whereby one door after the other slides open, thereby exposing

page_text: the checks which are removed from the boards by the employees according to their
several numbers, and deposited in the checking apparatus.
In workshops or factories where the employees follow different trades, as for
example, in shipbuilding yards, the apparatus may be so arranged that the checks
of the employees shall be passed through different hoppers or shoots, and fall into
separate compartiments, according to their respective avocations.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and several systems or modes in or under which the saine is or may be
used or carried out in practice, I would observe in conclusion that what I consider
to be novel and original, and therefore claim as the Invention secured to me by the
hereinbefore in part reeited Letters Patent is,-
The several combinations of mechanism constituting the different arrangements
of improved apparatus for indicating the periodical arrival and departure of
employces, substantially as herein before described and shown at Figures 1 to 10 of
the Drawings hereunto annexed.
.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Maberly Llowellin, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Fifth day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and eighty one.
WILLIAM MABERLY LLEWELLIN. (L.S.)