Improvements in Time-checking Apparatus for Workmen and the like.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Apr., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Jan., 1897-Accepted, 22nd Apr., 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Time-checking Apparatus for Workmen and
the like.
LEO THOMAS DARNAULT of 54 Oxford Road, Gunnersbury in the County of
Middlesex Engineer, LUIS CALDERON of 54 Oxford Road Gunnersbury W.
Merchant, RAFAEL ZEVALLO8 of 54 Oxford Road Gunnersbury, W. Merchant,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The invention has for its object improvements in time-checking apparatus to be
used in checking the time of arrival of workmen and other employees, the vigilance
of watchmen and for other analogous uses.
For this purpose in connection with a visible time-piece I employ a case having
at a suitable position a slot through which the checks or tickets are passed.
In the interior of the case is a tireless wheel divided into a number of spokes the
end of the spokes thus being free; this wheel rotating say once an hour.
Above said wheel is a chamber containing a number of time discs which chamber
has an opening at the bottom, which with the wheel is so arranged that as each
spoke of the wheel comes uppermost it shall eject one time-disc from the chamber
and deliver it into a shoot at the bottom of which the time discs collect in
a pile.
The checks or tickets passed through the slot in the case are received on to a
receiver from which they are ejected or pushed into the fore-mentioned shoot by an
arm extending on to the receiver from an outer apparatus to be hero and after
described. Thus the checks or tickets will be interposed between time discs which
latter. as also the checks or tickets being suitably marked, will enable the time of
deposit of the various checks or tickets to be readily ascertained.
If any persou should pass two or more checks or tickets through the slot in the
case at the same time or even consecutively without the outer apparatus being
brought into play between the deposit of each separate check or ticket, the checks
or tickets thus conjointly or consecutively deposited will not be thrown into the
receiving shoot, but. owing to their extra weight will cause the receiver to incline in
such a manner that the checks or tickets will fall into another shoot which I may
call a delecting shoot and on reaching the bottom will make electric contact and
thereby operate an alarm at any suitable place.
The outer apparatus hereinbefore mentioned is a turn-stile placed at the side of
the case and having an extending arm which projects within an aperture in the
case, the end of this arm resting ou the receiver. A ticket or check being dropped
through the slot and falling on to the receiver is pushed or ejected into the
receiving shoot by the end of this arm, on a person passing through the turn-stile,
the arm resuming its first position by means of a spring.
Dated thi Dightonth dox of Februare 18996
L. T. DARNAULT.
LUIS CALDERÓN.
RAFAEL ZEVALLOS.

page_text: Improvements in Time-cheoking Apparatus for Workmen and
the like.
We, LEO THOMAS DARNAULT, Engineer, LUIS CALDERON, Merchant, and
RAFAEL ZEVALLOS, Merchant, all of 54 Oxford Road, Gunnersbury, W., 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:-
Our invention relates to apparatus for use in checking the time of entry or
departure of workmen and other employees to or from works or the like, or in
checking the vigilance of watchmen or for analogous purposes.
It has for its objects to prevent, or give notice of, the deposit in the apparatus of
checks by workmen in a fraudulent manner; to provide improved means of
computing the time of arrival of the workmen, and generally to effect the improve-
ments hereinafter indicated.
In the accompanying drawings,
Figure 1 is a partial front elevation,
Figure 2 is a sectional plan taken on the line y-y of a portion of the apparatus
shewn in Figure 1, certain details, for the sake of clearness, being omitted.
Figure 3 is a sectional plan of another part,
Figure 4 is an underside view,
Figure 5 is a sectional elevation of part of the apparatus taken on the line -
in Figure 3, aud
Figure 6 is.n side elevation of a detail hereinafter referred to, all drawn.to a
reduced scale, of an apparatus constructed in accordance with our invention.
Figures 7 and 8 are respectively an identifying check and a time disc drawn to
full size.
Like letters indicate corresponding parts throughout the drawings.
Referring to the drawings, the time checking or recording apparatus is contained
within a suitable casing A provided with a door (not shown) which may be locked.
It is located at the entry to, or exit from, the works or other place where it is
employed and in convection with the said apparatus is a turnstile B through which
the workmen must pass but cannot return. For use with the apparatus also there
is.a number of workmen's identifying checks (Figure 7) each bearing a number or
other distinctive device. The casing A has a slot a into which the workman, or
other person whose time it is desired to check, deposits his check b. Within the
casing and opposite the slot a is a shoot c down which the check b slides until it is
deposited on the receiving plated hinged at d¹ to one arm, and supported at d by
the other arm, of a T-shaped part carried by a counterbalanced lever e hereinafter
described. From the receiving plate d the check is tipped into the shoot f by the
operation of the turnstile, which in being turued by the workunan actuates the
lever g (see Figure 6) so that its curved upper end engages the underside of
the said receiving plate d so as to elevate its end d' and tip the said check into the
hopper-shaped entrance of the shoot f, through which it slides into the receiver h.
This receiver h is provided with a suitable door or slide h' to facilitate the with-
drawal of the deposited checks when required.
Dięcs or counters i bearing certain periods of time such as illustrated in Figure 8
are placed in proper order within a magazine & which is provided with a slot or
opening at its bottom to enable a finger lof a clockwork mechanism L to engage
the bottom disc and deliver it through another opening into the shoot m, through
which it is conveyed to the receiver h. The finger is timed to make one

page_text: revolution in a given time such, for instance, as five minutes, and the time discs:
bear "times" upon their faces increasing by that number of minutes, thus, in such
a case, the time discs would be deposited in the receiver one by one at intervals
of five minutes and each disc would bear upon its face the time at which it was
ejected into the receiver 4. Meanwhile the checks deposited within the pre-
determined period by the workmen in the proper manner through the slot a will be
collected in the receiver between that time-disc i which fell before, and the one
which fell after them, thereby showing the period of time between which they were.
deposited by the workmen.
The turnstile B (see Figures 1, 3, 4 and 5) is normally prevented from turning
backwards by the ratchet-wheelp and pawl p and prevented from.turning forwards
(unless freed by the proper manipulation of the apparatus) by the catch g and
plate g. In the gangway C of the turnstile is a platform r, hinged at r' (Figure 3).
upon which the depositor steps, and in so doing causes the lug to depress the
end of a lever plates fulcrumed at s' and to raise the catch g in the direction of
the arrow 1 on Figure 5, so as to release the plate q'. Beneath the ratchet wheel p.
are pins Normally the catch 9 is kept in engagement with the plate q¹ by a
Upon a workman properly passing his check into the apparatus it is first received
on the plate & where it remains until the depositor euters the turnstile in order
to gain admission and upon his turning such turnstile one of the pins 9' engage the
end of the levert fulcrumed at t* which extends along the bottom of the casing A
and theuce upwards through the slot t' and horizontally again as shown in Figure 1
whereby the lever g is caused to tilt the roceiving plate d, passing the deposited
check into the receiver has described after which the said levers are returned to
their normal position by the weight t'.
heavy weight s².
Should a check be improperly deposited as for example by one depositor passing
more than one check at the same time or immediately after each other and without
the turnstile baving been operated as bereinbefore described with a viow to
endeavouring a fellow-workman's time to be registered for payment when in fact
he has not arrived for work, the improperly deposited ohecks will first reach the
receiving plate d, which as already described is supported by the counterbalanced
levere having a counterbalance weight el, but this weight e being only sufficiently
heavy to counterbalance oue check, it results that when more than one is deposited
on the said receiving plate d that the end of the lever e is caused to descend and
shoot the said checks into the detective receiver n which has a movable bottom n¹
provided with a stud n' and is supported by a spring n which also forms one of the
contacts of an electrical circuit closing device. Upon these improperly deposited
checks reaching the bottom of the detective receiver n an electrical circuit is closed
through the contacts and n' and an electric bell o situated in the employers office.
or other convenient place is caused to ring. After the extra weight is removed
from the receiving plate d, the counterbalance weight e' descends until it comes in.
contact with the stop e and thus restores the receiving plate d to its original
position.
Upon the outside of the apparatus there may advantageously be a visible time.
piece so that the workmen themselves may know the time of their entry.
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. In a time-checking apparatus wherein identifying checks and time discs are
employed, meaus, substantially as described, whereby properly deposited identifying
checks and the time discs are accumulated in a receptacle in such manner that a.
time check is obtained.
2. In a time-checking apparatus, means, substantially as described, whereby
improperly deposited identifying checks are diverted into a detective receiver and
caused to indicate their presence thereiu.

page_text: 3. In a time-checking apparatus the method of computing time periods by
causing a time disc to be passed from one receptacle to another substantially as
described.
4. In a time-checking apparatus, the combination of an identifying check shoot
terminating in a balanced receiving plate, means, actuated by the operation of a
turnstile, of tilting such balanced receiving plate, and time checks and means
for periodically ejecting one of such discs into a receiver substantially as set
forth.
5. In a time-checking apparatus, the combination, with a receiver for identifying
cbecks and time discs, of means for periodically passing time discs therein, and
means, actuated by the operation of a turnstile, of conveying the previously
deposited identifying check into such receiver, substantially as set forth.
6. In combination with a time-checking device and a turnstile, a movable
platform operated by the weight of a person passing thercover and serving to
release.the apparatus substantially as set forth.
7. In combination, a time checking apparatus, a turnstile, and means connected
with the latter for tilting the previously deposited identifying check into a time
checking receiver substantially as set forth.
8. The construction, arrangement and combination of parts constituting our
improved time-checking apparatus substantially as described and as illustrated in
the accompanying drawings.
L. T. DARNAULT.
LUIS CALDERÓN.
RAFAEL ZEVALLOS.
L. T. DARNAULT.
LUIS CALDERÓN.
RAFAEL ZEVALLOS.