Improvements in Apparatus for Recording the Precise Times at which Watchmen or other Persons are Present at a Partioular Place
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Apr., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 5th Jan., 1891-Accepted, 21st Feb., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Recording the Precise Times at
which Watchmen or other Persons are Present at a Partioular
Place:
A communication to me from abroad by TH. HAAGENSEN, of Copenhagen,.in the
Kingdom of Denmark.
I, EDMUND EDWARDS of the firm of Edwards and Co., Patent Agents and
Engineers, of 35, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane in the County of
Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for its object improvements in apparatus by which the precise
time at which any person has used it is indicated and recorded.
In the accompanying drawings which are in illustration of the invention,
Figure 1 is.a side view of the apparatus, partly in section, and Figure 2 is a plan
of the same.
The apparatus consists of a closed box K of wood or other-sintable material in
the lower part of which is a drawer D which is kept closed by a spring.lock M
which can only be opened by a key in the possession of the proper person. Above
the:drawer is arranged a partition N upon which a suitable clock E is fixed; one
of the arbors of which is prolonged so that a toothed wheel.F can be fixed.upon it.
This toothed wheel F gears with another toothed wheel G upon which is fixed a
disc or wheel provided with radial stamps or type indicating the successive minutes
in.an hour, and also a cam H.
The wheel G makes one revolution in an hour. The cam H operates upon the
pin or stud P carried by the lever J, and forces the latter back until at the right
moment the stud slips back by the action of a spring Q. By this movement. another
pin or stud R upon the lever J moves the disc which carries the hour indications
upon its circumference sufficiently forward to indicate the next hour.
In a case a a paper band or roll.g is contained the end of which is led over.the
hour and minute wheel and thence over a roller b carried upon the axle h whence
it passes into the drawer.d below. Upon the axle ha star wheel is also fixed
into the spaces between the teeth of which a wheel. k carried upon a lever / is
pressed by means of the spring m and thus prevents any movement of the axle h
and wheel b at the wrong times.
The paper band is held against the roller by means of a roller c carried upon
a lever.o and held down by the spring n.
Against the teeth of the star wheelf works a pin or stud e carried by the double
ended lever p the other end of this lever being connected by means of the lever
with the bar which can be pressed down by the knob C at its upper end.
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If the knob C is so pressed down the pin or stud e brings the star wheelf forward
half a tooth and the wheel k also half a tooth, so that the paper band g is brought
forward to a corresponding extent. At the same time the bar r operates.by.means
of levers upon the hammer.d and brings the latter down upon the stamp or. type
wheel and so marks. the hours and minutes upon the paper.
If the person operating the apparatus has written his name upon the paper, by
means of the opening A B, then by opening the drawer. D, it can be seen upon the
paper who operated the apparatus and at what time.
The apparatus serves to enable the principal or manager to see whether the
persons employed have been in their places at the right times, or whether a
watchman has been in attendance at the proper times at any particular, place.
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page_text: The apparatus also serves at the same time as an ordinary clock or time
piece.
Dated this 2-1 1.
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EDWARDS & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Recording the Precise Times at
which Watchmen or other Persons are Present at a Particular
Place.
A communication to me from abroad by TH. HAAGENSEN, of Copenhagen, in the
Kingdom of Denmark.
I, EDMUND EDWARDS, of the firm of Edwards and Co., Patent Agents and
Engineers, of 35, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, in the County of
Middlesex, 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 and accompanying drawing, that is to say :-
This invention has for its object improvements in apparatus by which the precise
time at which any person has used it is indicated and recorded.
In the drawings which are in illustration of the invention (lodged with the
Provisional Specification) Figure 1 is a side view of the apparatus, partly in
section, and Figure 2 is a plan of the same.
The apparatus consists of a closed box K of wood or other suitable material in
the lower part of which is a drawer D which is kept closed by a spring lock M and
can only be opened by a key in the possession of the proper person.
Above the drawer is arranged a partition N upon which a suitable clock E is
fixed, one of the arbours of which is prolonged so that a toothed wheel F can be
fixed upon it. This toothed wheel F gears with another toothed wheel G upon
which is fixed a disc or wheel provided with radial stamps or types indicating the
successive minutes in an hour, and also a cam, H. The wheel G makes one revo-
lution in an hour. The cam H operates upon the pin or stud P carried by the
lever J, and forces the latter back until at the right moment the stud slips back
by the action of a spring Q. By this movement another pin or stud R upon the
lever J moves a separate disc O which carries the twelve hour indications upon its
circumference sufficiently forward to indicate the next hour.
In a case a a paper band or roll g is contained, the end of which is led over the
hour and minute wheel and thence over a roller b carried upon the axle h, whence
it passes into the drawer D below. Upon the axle h a star wheel fis also fixed
into the spaces between the teeth of which a wheel carried upon a lever / is
pressed by means of the spring m, and thus prevents any movement of the axle /
and wheel 6 at the wrong times.
The paper band is held against the roller & by means of a roller c carried upon
a lever o and held down by the spring n. Against the teeth of the star wheel f
works a pin or stud e carried by the double ended lever p the other end of this
lever being connected by means of the lever with the bar which can be pressed
down by the knob C at its upper end.
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If the knob C is pressed down, the pin or stud e brings the star wheelf forward
half a tooth, and the wheel k also half a tooth, so that the paper band g is brought
forward to a corresponding extent.
At the same time the bar r operates upon the hammer d by means of levers, and
brings it down upon the stamp or type wheel and so marks the hours and minutes
upon the paper.
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If the person operating the apparatus has written his name upon the paper, by
means of the opening A B, then by opening the drawer D, it can be seen upon
paper who operated the apparatus and at what time.

page_text: The apparatus serves to enable the principal or manager to see whether the
persons employed have been in their places at the right times, or whether a watch-
man has been in attendance at the proper times at any particular place.
The apparatus also serves at the same time as an ordinary clock or time piece.
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 :-
The combination with a clock, of the devices by which the hours and minutes are
indicated, by pressing a knob or handle which operates a hammer d upon a strip of
paper upon which the person using the apparatus has written his name, and by
means of the levers p 4 and stud e turns the star wheel fand roller b, which by its
pressure upon the roller c brings the paper strip sufficiently forward for another
person to write his name upon it through the opening A B, substantially as
described and shewn in the drawing.
Dated this 5th day of January 1891.
EDWARDS & Co.,
35, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents for the Applicant.