Improvements in Workmen's Time Recorders.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Apr., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 25th Jan., 1899-Accepted, 11th Mar., 1899
Improvements in Workmen's Time Recorders.
I, JAMES SHARON MACCOY, of No. 844, Washington Street, in the Borough of
Manhattan, in the City of New York and State of New York, United States of
America, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention relates to an improvement in workmen's time recorders, in which
provision is made for printing, on a record slip inserted in the machine by the
workman, in passing in or out, the time of his passing.
My invention more particularly contemplates a recorder to be operated by
the workman himself, or some one acting for him, after he has inserted his record
slip into the machine, and contains provisions for ensuring the discharge of the
printed slip and its exposure to the view of the workman, after the record has
been made.
My invention also contemplates a special construction and arrangement of
casings and supports for the operating parts, whereby access may be conveniently
had to the several parts for regulating and renewal, and it further contemplates
various features of construction and combinations of parts, as will be hereinafter
more particularly pointed out.
The working parts of the machine are enclosed within a casing having front
and back and sides. In using the terms front and back for the purposes of the
following explanation, I have considered that side of the machine on which the
operator stands, in working the machine, to print the slip and observe the record,
as the front.
The back is in fact a hollow casing hinged to the front section of the casing,
at or near its foot, so as to permit it to be swung apart free from the front section,
leaving exposed the mechanism for pressing the record slip against the type
wheels, and the mechanism for determining the position of the record slip with
respect to the type wheels, which mechanisms, together with the conduit for
receiving the record slip, are carried by the swinging casing on back, and also
leaving exposed the inking ribbon supported in position to be fed across the face
of the type wheels, and mounted, together with the type wheels, and their time
and motor trains, in the fixed section of the casing.
The casing, as a whole, is conveniently supported upon a pedestal of suitable
height, and the said pedestal also serves as a support for a record slip receiver,
comprising a more or less upright section, and a more or less horizontally inclined
portion, for directing the record slip, after it has been printed, and has escaped
from the lower end of the conduit into the more or less upright section of the
receiver, into the more or less horizontally inclined section of the receiver, with
its face upward, where it may be conveniently read by the workman who deposited
it in the conduit, as he passes from the machine into or out of the factory. To
this end, the upper side of the inclined section of the receiver is either left entirely
or partially open, or provided with a transparent cover, in order to expose the
printed slip resting therein.

page_text: The front of the casing may be made removeable from the sides, and may be
secured in position by the same fastening which locks the swinging section or
back in its closed or operating position. This fastening consists of a swinging
loop pivotted to the back, and adapted to slip over a catch fixed to the front
section of the casing, the said loop being locked in its position by means of a
horizontally swinging latch pivotted to the loop, in position to have its end swung
underneath the nose of the catch.
Within the casing there are mounted time and motor trains of gearing con-
nected to operate a series of type wheels for printing the minute, hour, and day
of the month, in a manner quite similar to that shown and described in English
Patent No. 19530 granted to P. G. Giroud, dated October 17, 1895.
The arrangement of the time and motor trains is in the present instance, how-
ever, different from that shewn in said patent, in that the motor train is arranged
below the time train, for the purpose of securing a narrow and compact machine,
but in other respects the structure and operation is quite like that shewn and
:described in the patent referred to, and a particular description of the same is
omitted in my present application, as my present invention relates more par-
ticularly to those parts which co-act with the printing wheels controlled by said
time and motor trains for impressing the record upon the record slip.
The inking ribbon is fed from a supply roll mounted in the upper rear portion
'of the casing, downwardly over the faces of the type wheels, at suitable intervals,
by means of feed rollers between which it passes, one of the said feed rollers
being mounted in elongated open slots in the oppo-sides of the inner supporting
frame for the motor train, for the purpose of shifting the said roller toward and
away from its companion roller. For gripping and releasing the ribbon I provide
a rock shaft with forked arms at its opposite ends, for engaging the projected
ends of the axles of the first feed roller, and attach to the rocking shaft an
operating lever for swinging the forked arms, and hence the roller carried thereby,
away from and toward the companion roller. Both feed rollers are provided
with gears, by means of which they are simultaneously rotated, when swung into
engagement.
Motion is imparted to the feed rollers by means of a ratchet wheel fixed to
rotate with one of them, and operated by one or more teeth projecting beyond the
periphery of a ratchet wheel mounted to rotate with the teeth, and actuated by a
gravity pawl carried by an arm loosely mounted concentric with the axis of the
ratchet wheel, and operated by a connecting link or rod, which connects the arm
before mentioned with one arm of an angle lever pivotally secured to one side of
the front of the swinging casing section or back; the other arm of the angle lever
being connected by the link with an arm fixed to rock with a shaft mounted at
the base of the swinging section of the casing, and operated by the lever which
makes the impression, as will be hereinafter more particularly described.
The lever which serves to press the record slip toward the printing wheels, to
impress the record on the slip, is fixed at its lower end to rock with the shaft which
carries it, and is driven forward, when left free to operate, by means of an actuating
spring seated at one end in a depression at the base of the swinging section or
back, and at its opposite end in a depression formed in the heel of a lever, the
free end of which is provided with a hammer or impression platen, so adjusted-
that when the said lever is forced toward the type wheels, the impression platen
will strike the record slip interposed between it and the type wheels, at a point
directly opposite that set of type on the type wheels, which will make the proper
impression upon the slip.
The lever is forced backwardly, and suddenly released to make the impression,
by means of a cam fixed on a rocking shaft, to which an operating lever is attached,
exterior to the side of the swinging section of the casing. The forward movement
of the operating lever is determined by a yielding stop with the operating handle a
of the operating lever comes in contact, when at the limit of its forward stroke,
and the said lever is limited in its rearward stroke by means of a stop with which

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the extended bent end of the lever comes in contact. The rocking shaft before
mentioned is actuated in a direction to throw it rearwardly into the position
ready to be operated, by means of a spring, one end of which is engaged with the
shaft supporting frame, and the opposite end with the shaft itself.
operating lever is drawn forward after the record slip has been placed within
the receiver or conduit, it rocks the said shaft, and at the same time the cam
fixed on the shaft, thereby pressing the impression lever to the rearward against
the tension of its spring, until the nose of the cam disengages the said lever, and
permits it to move quickly forward, to press the record slip against the type.
The engagement of the cam with the lever is effected through the agency of a
bevel-faced dog carried by the end of a vibrating lever pivotted to the impression
lever, and actuated by a spring tending to hold the dog in position projecting
laterally from the side of the impression lever, so as to engage the cam as its
shaft is rocked. As the cam is returned to its normal position, it will engage the
bevel face of the dog, and force the dog laterally out of the way of the cam
against the tension of its spring, and as soon as the cam has passed the dog,
the latter will again spring laterally into the position ready for again pushing
the impression lever back, when the operating lever is pulled.forward.
There is also fixed on the rocking shaft a cam which serves to press the impres-
sion lever rearwardly, as the shaft returns under the tension of its actuated
spring. The said cam also limits the forward movement of the lever by the
engagement of a projection or lug on the lever with a receding portion of the cam
face.
The conduit for the reception of the record slip is fixed to the front of the
swinging portion or back of the casing, and is provided with a suitable opening
opposite the impression platen, to enable the said platen to strike the record slip,
and force it and the inking ribbon against the type.
In order to determine the distance to which the impression slip shall be inserted
within the conduit, before receiving the impression, a stop gate is provided, which
is capable of being adjusted up and down to suit the day of the week, and the
particular division of the day on which the record is to be made.
To enable this adjustment to be quickly and correctly made, there is provided
exterior to the casing of the machine, a scale which corresponds in its subdivision
to the subdivisions of the record slip. The scale is fixed to rise and fall together
with the stop gate, by means of a slide, to the exterior face of which the scale
is attached, the said slide being guided by a rod along which it travels. The
lower end of the slide is provided with a laterally projecting arm which stretches
across the interior of the casing, and bears against the front of a rod corresponding
to the guide rod, but unlike the guide rod, it is mounted to rock in its bearings
for the purpose of operating the stop gate. The stop gate is hung from a pintle
on the back of the laterally projecting arm, and is provided with a weight pro-
jecting from the back of the gate, which tends, under the influence of gravity,
to hold the gate with its foot across the conduit in position to arrest a record slip
when placed in the conduit. The rocking rod is provided with an arm and nose,
consisting in the present instance, of a wire having its ends turned laterally
toward, and fixed to, the rod, while its body portions extend along and parallel
with the said rod, which nose and arm engages a forked connecting piece fixed
to the back of the swinging gate. The rocking rod is provided with an actuating
spring, the tension of which tends to swing the rod in a direction to hold the
gate closed, the said gate being positively opened when the rod is rocked against
the tension of its actuating spring, to swing the operating arm or nose rearwardly,
and with it, by means of a connecting piece, the gate.
While it is desirable that the impression platen should be promptly withdrawn
from its position across the interior of the conduit, to permit the record slip to
pass promptly out of the conduit, it is at the same time desirable that the gate
which releases the record slip after the impression, and permits the said slip
to fall under the influence of gravity into the receiver on the pedestal, should be

page_text: held open a short space of time, sufficient to ensure the passage of the record
slip before it again assumes its closed position.
I have provided for holding the gate open for a short space of time after the
record slip has been printed, in the following manner:
A simple clock-work, consisting of say three intermeshing wheels and pinions,
and an escapement of ordinary form, is mounted in suitable supports in the
swinging section. The arbor on which one of the wheels rotates, and which
carries the ratchet pinion for locking the arbor to the said wheel by means of the
spring-actuating pawl, has fixed to rock therewith, a cam headed arm, the cam
head of which, when the arm is raised by the rocking of the arbor, will force a
spring-actuated bevel-faced dog carried by the rocking rod before mentioned,
back out of its way without rocking the rod, but on its downward or reverse
movement, under the tension of the clockwork actuating spring, will, by its
engagement with the face of the dog, rock the rod in the direction to open the gate.
The arbor also has fixed to rock therewith a tappet in position to be engaged
by a cam fixed to rock with the rocking shaft before mentioned.
The arrangement of the several parts is such, that when the rocking shaft is
rocked by the pulling of the operating lever forward, the cam will engage the
tappet, and rock the arbor rearwardly, the ratchet pinion working in the mean-
time, idly past the pawl, winding the clock spring, and lifting the cam headed
arm into its raised position. As soon as the operating lever is permitted to spring
back into its normal position, the clock spring will tend to rotate the arbor in
the opposite direction, and will thereby, by means of the connecting pawl, tend
to operate the clock work, which, under the retarding influence of the escapement,
will slowly return the cam headed arm, thereby effecting the opening of the gate,
and holding it open for a little space of time, while the cam head of the arm is
passing the spring actuating dog. As soon as this has taken place, the rod will
promptly rock into its normal position, closing the gate ready for the reception
of another slip.
The scale is held in its desired vertical adjustment by means of a spring catch
provided with a holding nose adapted to engage some one of the series of per-
forations in the scale which may be brought to register with it, the said catch
being so arranged that it may be released from the scale by pressing upon its
tail. The catch is pivoted on a short arm of a lever fulcrummed to the casing,
and provided with an operating handle for rocking the catch bodily a short
distance up or down, sufficient to bring the scale a single step above or below its
normal position, without releasing the catch from it. This is for the purpose
of temporarily adjusting the scale to the in or out position adjacent to that with
which it is for the time being permanently set, to take the time of a workman
who may be, for some reason, going in the opposite direction from that in which
the majority of workmen are supposed to be passing.
The operation as a whole is as follows:-
The scale having been adjusted to the day of the week, and that part of the
day required, as, for example, to take the time of the workman coming into
the factory on Wednesday morning, the gate will by such adjustment of the scale,
have been set in the proper position with respect to the conduit, to arrest the
workman's record slip at such a point as to receive the impression opposite the
word "in," at the beginning of the Wednesday subdivision. The workman, in
passing the machine, having placed his record slip in the conduit, with its face
towards the front, takes hold of the operating lever, and gives it a pull forward,
until it is arrested by coming in contact with the stop. He then permits it to
fly back, under the impulse of its retracting spring, and as he passes from the
machine, he may or may not, as he pleases, glance at his now printed record slip
lying in the lower portion of the receiver, with its face exposed to him, to ascertain
whether or not the machine has printed the correct time, as indicated by the clock
dial exposed on that side of the casing on which the operating lever is located.
The forward pull of the operating lever, by rocking the shaft pressed the impres

page_text: sion lever backwardly, and permitted it to fly forward and make the impression.
The same movement of the shaft also rocked the arbor, and lifted the cam-headed
arm in position to effect a release of the printed slip. The rocking of the arbor
also wound the clock spring for operating the clockwork which determines the
time which the arm shall occupy, in returning to its normal position, and hence
the length of time which the gate shall be held open.
The rocking of the shaft, and hence the backward movement of the impression
lever also, through the said lever, rocks the shaft, which is mounted at the base
of the swinging back of the casing, in the direction to depress the swinging arm,
and the gravity pawl carried thereby.
The parts at the beginning of the forward movement of the operating lever
were in such a position that the further downward movement of the swinging
arm will not operate the ratchet wheel, for the reason that the gravity pawl has
an incline on its tail engaged with a stop on the frame-work, by means of which
the pawl is thrown out of engagement with the ratchet wheel during the down-
ward swing of the said arm, under the movement of the lever, back from its
normal position, preparatory to making the impression.
The rocking of the shaft of the swinging back part of the casing, under the.
backward movement of the impression lever, also rocks a bell hammer carried;
by the said shaft away from the bell, preparatory to permitting the hammer to
strike the bell, when the lever springs forward to make the impression..
As the operating lever is permitted to spring back into its normal position,
the cam passes the dog idly, and forces the impression lever back a distance.
sufficient to remove the impression platen from the interior of the conduit. As
the said lever spring forward when released by the cam to make the impression,:
it at the same time, by rocking the shaft sent the bell hammer into engagement
with the bell, and also rocked the shaft in the direction to lift the swinging arm,
and the pawl carried thereby, up along the margin of the ratchet wheel, into,
position to engage the ratchet wheel for advancing it. As the impression lever
was forced backwardly by the cam into its normal position, it rocked the shaft;
in the direction to swing the arm carrying the pawl downwardly, and hence
rotated the ratchet wheel, and the projecting teeth carried thereby, for feeding
the inking ribbon, when the teeth shall, during their rotary movement together
with the ratchet wheel, come into engagement with a ratchet wheel which operates;
the feed rollers. While the ratchet wheel will be rotated a step, each time the
Jever is thrown backward by the cam, the ribbon will be fed only at such intervals,
as may be desired, depending upon the number of steps which the ratchet wheel
shall be permitted to rotate, before bringing the extended teeth into engagement;
with the feed-roller operating wheel.
As soon as the operating handle was allowed to spring back, the cam promptly
released the record slip, and it was permitted to fall into position to be observed.
By the connection of the angle lever as explained above, with the swinging
arm which carries the feed operating pawl, I am enabled to swing the back section
of the casing and the several operative parts mounted therein, away from the
stationary section of the casing, without in any manner disarranging any of the
parts.
The time which the gate shall be allowed to remain open may be varied, at
pleasure, by multiplying or reducing the clock work as may be found desirable.
-
When the back section is swung apart from the stationary section, access may
be had to such of the working parts as are liable to more frequently need attention,.
so that the machine may be kept in perfect order without requiring the removal
of screws or other fastenings, and the removal of parts which so commonly require
a considerable length of time.
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page_text: Improvements in Workmen's Time Recorders.
I, JAMES SHARON MacCoy, of No. 844, Washington Street, in the Borough of
Manhattan, in the City of New York, and State of New York, United States of
America, Manufacturer, 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:—
My invention relates to an improvement in workmen's time recorders, in which
provision is made for printing, on a record slip inserted in the machine by the
workman, in passing in or out, the time of his passing.
My invention more particularly contemplates a recorder to be operated by
the workman himself, or someone acting for him, after he has inserted his record
slip into the machine, and contains provisions for ensuring the discharge of the
printed slip, and its exposure to the view of the workman, after the record has
been made.
My invention also contemplates a special construction and arrangement of
casings and supports for the operating parts, whereby access may be conveniently
had to the several parts for regulating and renewal, and it further contemplates
various features of construction and combinations of parts, as will be hereinafter
more particularly pointed out.
:-
In the accompanying drawings;-
Fig. 1 is a view of the recorder in side elevation, from the side where the
operating lever is worked.
Fig. 2 is a view in side elevation from the opposite side, showing the indicator
scale in operative position.
Fig. 3 is a view in front elevation, on a somewhat enlarged scale, of the recorder
exclusive of its pedestal, the front casing being removed to shew the operative
parts which coact with the time and motor trains to effect the printing and
releasing of the slip and feed of the inking ribbon.
Fig. 4 is a partial vertical section from front to rear, in the plane of line 4-4
of Fig. 3.
Fig. 5 is a view of the operating parts in side elevation, from that side on which
the operating lever is applied.
Fig. 6 is a view of the same from the opposite side.
Figures 7, 8, and 9, represent in detail three positions of the printing platen
lever with respect to its operating cams.
Figures 10 and 11 represent views in detail from opposite sides of the clock-
work, for timing the release of the printed slip.
Figures 12 and 13 represent in detail, end and side views, respectively,- of the
devices for operating the slip-retaining gate or stop, shewing them in the position
which they assume when the slip is inserted.
Figures 14 and 15 are similar views, showing the position of the parts when
the printing takes place.
Figure 16 shows a side view of the same as the gate or stop is about to be
operated.
Figure 17 is a similar view, showing the position of the parts when the gate
or stop is full opened.
Figure 18 is a view in detail of the yielding catch or abutment carried by the
gate-operating rod, showing it in position on the front of the rod.
Figures 19 and 20 represent respectively edge and top plan views, in detail,
of the arm which connects the gate with the handle on the gate-operating rod.
Figures 21 and 22 represent in detail different positions of the pawl and its

page_text: operating arm and link, with respect to the ratchet wheel which actuates the
ribbon-feeding device; and
Figure 23 represents one of the slips on which the record is printed..
The working parts of the machine are enclosed within a casing, the opposite
sides of which are denoted respectively by A and A¹, the front by A³, and the
back by A3. In using the terms front and back for the purposes of the following
explanation, I have considered that side of the machine on which the operator
stands in working the machine, to print the slip and observe the record, as the
front.
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The back A³ is, in fact, a hollow casing hinged to the front section of the casing
at or near the foot, so as to permit it to be swung apart free from the front
section A¹, leaving exposed the mechanism for pressing the record slip against
the type wheels, and the mechanism for determining the position of the record
slip with respect to the type wheels, which mechanisms, together with the
conduit B for receiving the record slip, are carried by the swinging casing A³,
and also leaving exposed the inking ribbon supported in position to be fed across
the face of the type wheels, and mounted, together with the type wheels and their
time and motor trains, in the fixed section of the casing A and A¹.
The casing as a whole is conveniently supported upon a pedestal C of suitable
height, and the said pedestal C also serves as a support for a record slip receiver,
comprising a more or less upright section c, and a more or less horizontally.
inclined portion c¹, as clearly shown in Figures 1 and 2 for directing the record
slip, after it has been printed, and has escaped from the lower end of the conduit B
into the more or less upright section e of the receiver, into the more or less hori-
zontally inclined section c² of the receiver, with its face upward, where it may be
conveniently read by the workman who deposited it in the conduit B, as he passes
from the machine into or out of the factory. To this end, the upper side of the
section c¹ of the receiver is either left entirely or partially open, or provided
with a transparent cover, in order to expose the printed slip resting therein.
Figures 1 and 2.
The front A2 of the casing may be made removable from the sides A and A¹,
and may be secured in position by the same fastening which locks the swinging
section A³ in its closed or operating position. This fastening consists of a swinging
loop al pivoted to the swinging section A³ at a², and adapted to slip over a catch a³
fixed to the front section of the casing, the said loop being locked in its position
by means of a horizontally swinging latch a, pivoted to the loop a¹ in position to
have its end swung underneath the nose of the catch a³, as clearly shown in
Within the portion of the casing A and A', there are mounted time and motor.
trains of gearing, represented as a whole by D and I) respectively, and connected
to operate a series of type wheels, denoted as a whole by D2, for printing the
minute, hour, and day of the month in a manner quite similar to that shown and
described in English Patent No. 19530 to P. G. Giroud, dated October 17, 1895.
The arrangement of the time and motor trains is in the present instance, how-
ever, different from that shown in said patent, in that the motor train is arranged
below the time train, for the purpose of securing a narrow and compact machine,
but in other respects the structure and operation is quite like that shown and
described in the patent referred to, and a particular description of the same is
omitted in my present application, as my present invention relates more par-
ticularly to those parts which coact with the printing wheels controlled by said
time and motor trains, for impressing the record upon the record slip.
The inking ribbon is fed from a supply roll d, mounted in the upper rear
portion of the casing A and A', downwardly over the faces of the type wheels D²,
at suitable intervals, by means of feed rollers d', d², between which it passes,
one of the said rollers d' being mounted in clongated open slots in the opposite
sides of the inner supporting frame for the motor train, as indicated at d³,
Figure 6, and for the purpose of shifting the roller d¹ toward and away from its
companion roller d². For gripping and releasing the ribbon, I provide a rock

page_text: shaft with forked arms d³ at its opposite ends, for engaging the projected ends
of the axles of the roller d¹, and attached to the rocking shaft an operating
lever do for swinging the arms d³, and hence the roller d', away from and toward
the roller d. The rollers & and d² are provided with gears, indicated in dotted
lines in Figures 4, 5, and 6, denoted respectively by d², d³, by means of which
the rollers are simultaneously rotated when the roller d¹ is swung into engagement
with the roller d².
Motion is imparted to the rollers by means of the ratchet wheel de fixed to
rotate with the roller d², and operated by one or more teeth e, projecting beyond
the periphery of a ratchet wheel E, mounted to rotate with the teeth e, and
actuated by a gravity pawl e¹ carried by an arm e², loosely mounted concentric
with the axis of the wheel E, and operated by a connecting link or rod e³, which
connects the arm e² with one arm e of an angle-lever pivotally secured at e to one
side of the front of the swinging casing section A3, the other arm of the angle
lever being connected by the link e' with an arm es fixed to rock with a shaft e
mounted at the base of the swinging section A³ of the casing, and operated by
the lever which makes the impression, as will be hereinafter more particularly
described.
The lever which serves to press the record slip toward the printing wheels, to
impress the record on the slip, is denoted by F. It is fixed at its lower end to
rock with the shaft 9, and is driven forward, when left free to operate, by means
of an actuating spring f, seated at one end in a depression at the base of the
swinging section A³, and at its opposite end in a depression formed in the heel
of the lever F, as denoted at f¹. At the free end, the lever F is provided with a
hammer or impression platen f2, so adjusted that when the lever F is forced
toward the type wheels, the impression platen f will strike the record slip inter-
posed between it and the type wheels at a point directly opposite that set of type
on the type wheels, which will make the proper impression upon the slip.
The lever F is forced backwardly and suddenly released to make the impression
by means of a cam f³ fixed on a rocking shaft G, to which the operating lever G¹
is attached, exterior to the side of the swinging section A³ of the casing, as shown
in Figure 1. The forward movement of the lever G is determined by a yielding
stop g, with which the handle of the operating lever G₁ comes in contact when
at the limit of its forward stroke, and the said lever G¹ is limited in its rearward
stroke by means of a stop g¹ with which the extended bent end G2 of the lever
comes in contact. The shaft G is actuated in a direction to throw it rearwardly
into the position shown in Figure 1, ready to be operated by means of a spring 9ª,
one end of which is engaged with the shaft-supporting frame, as at g³, and the
opposite end with the shaft itself. As the lever G is drawn forward after the
record slip has been placed within the receiver or conduit B, it rocks the shaft G,
and at the same time the cam f³ fixed on the shaft G, thereby pressing the lever F
to the rear, against the tension of the spring f, until the nose of the cam f³ dis-
engages the lever F, and permits it to move quickly forward, to press the record
slip against the type.
The engagement of the cam f³ with the lever F is effected through the agency
of a bevel-faced dog f4, carried by the end of a vibrating lever f³, pivoted to the
lever Fat fo, and actuated by a spring f, tending to hold the dog f in position,
projecting laterally from the side of the lever F, as clearly shown in Fig. 3, in
position to engage the cam f³ as the shaft G is rocked. As the cam f3 is returned
to its normal position, shown in Figures 3 and 4, under the influence of the
spring, the cam will engage the bevel face of the dog f, and force the dog
laterally out of the way of the cam, against the tension of the spring f, and as
soon as the cam has passed the dog, the latter will again spring laterally into
the position shown in Fig. 3, ready for again pushing the lever F back, when
the operating lever G¹ is pulled forward.
There is also fixed on the shaft G a cam f8, which serves to press the lever
rearwardly, as the shaft G returns under the tension of its actuated spring .

page_text: The cam falso limits the forward movement of the lever F by the engagement
of a projection or lug on the lever with a receding portion of the cam face, as
noted in dotted lines in Figure 9.
The conduit for the reception of the record slip, denoted by B, is fixed to the
front of the swinging portion A3 of the casing, and is provided with a suitable
opening opposite the impression platen, to enable the said platen to strike the
record slip, and force it and the inking ribbon against the type. The opening
through which the impression platen operates is denoted in Figure 3 at h, the
guard for protecting the inking ribbon upon opposite sides of the type to be for
the time being utilized, being shown at h¹.
In order to determine the distance to which the impression slip shall be inserted
within the conduit H, before receiving the impression, a stop gate I is provided,
which is capable of being adjusted up and down to suit the day of the week, and
the particular division of the day, on which the record is to be made.
To enable this adjustment to be quickly and correctly made, there is provided
exterior to the casing of the machine, a scale denoted as a whole by K (see
Figure 2), which corresponds in its subdivision to the subdivisions of the record
slip denoted by K¹. The scale K is fixed to rise and fall, together with the stop
gate I, by means of a slide k, to the exterior face of which the scale K is attached,
the said slide k being guided by a rod k¹, along which it travels. The lewer end
of the slide k is provided with a laterally projecting arm 2, which stretches
across the interior of the casing A³, and bears against the front of a rod k³, corre-
sponding to the guide rod ¹, but, unlike the guide rod k¹, the rod 13 is mounted
to rock in its bearings, for the purpose of operating the stop gate I. The stop
gate I is hung from a pintle i on the back of the arm, and is provided with a
weight, projecting from the back of the gate I, which tends, under the influence
of gravity to hold the gate I, with its foot across the conduit B, in position to
arrest a record slip when placed in the conduit. The rocking rod is provided
with an arm and nose, consisting, in the present instance, of a wire having its
ends turned laterally toward, and fixed to, the rod ³, while its body portions
extend along and parallel with the rod 3, which nose and arm engage a forked
connecting piece fixed to the back of the swinging gate I. The rod is
provided with an actuating spring, the tension of which tends to swing the
rod 3 in a direction to hold the gate I closed, the said gate being positively
opened when the rod is rocked against the tension of its actuating spring k³, to
swing the operating arm or nose rearwardly, and with it, by means of the
connecting piece 3, the gate I.
While it is desirable that the impression platen should be promptly withdrawn
from its position across the interior of the conduit B, to permit the record slip
to pass promptly out of the conduit B, it is at the same time desirable that the
gate I which releases the record slip after the impression, and permits the said
slip to fall under the influence of gravity into the receiver on the pedestal, should
be held open a short space of time, sufficient to ensure the passage of the record
slip before it again assumes its closed position.
I have provided for holding the gate I open for a short space of time after the
record slip has been printed, in the following manner: -
A simple clockwork, consisting in the present instance of three intermeshing
wheels and pinions, denoted respectively by L, L1, L2, and an escapement / of
ordinary form (see Figure 11) is mounted in suitable supports in the swinging
section A³, and the arbour on which the wheel L rotates, and which carries
the ratchet pinion 2 for locking the arbour to the wheel L by means of the
spring-actuating pawl 3, has fixed to rock therewith, a cam-headed arm M, the
cam head m of which, when the arm M is raised by the rocking of the arbor l¹,
will force the spring-actuated bevel-faced dog 16 (see Figures 12 to 18 inclusive)
carried by the rocking rod ³, back out of its way without rocking the rod k³, but,
on its downward or reverse movement under the tension of the clock work actuating

page_text: spring wo wi, by its engagement with the face of the dog, rock the rod 3 in
the direction to open the gate I.
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The arbor also has fixed to rock therewith a tappet 4 (see Figures 3, 4, & 10),
in position to be engaged by a cam fixed to rock with the shaft G.
The arrangement of the several parts is such that when the shaft G is rocked
by the pulling of the operating lever G¹ forwardly, the cam will engage the
tappet, and rock the arbor rearwardly, the ratchet pinion working, in the
meantime, idly past the pawl, winding the clock spring m³, and lifting the cam-
headed arm into its raised position. As soon as the operating lever G is
permitted to spring back into its normal position, the clock spring will tend to
rotate the arbor in the opposite direction, and will thereby by means of the
connecting pawl 3, tend to operate the clock-work L, L', and L2, which, under
the retarding influence of the escapement 1, will slowly return the cam-headed
arm M, thereby effecting the opening of the gate I, and holding it open for a little
space of time, while the cam-head m of the arm M is passing the spring actuating
dog ko.
As soon as this has taken place, the rod will promptly rock into its
normal position, closing the gate I ready for the reception of another slip.
The scale K is held in its desired vertical adjustment by means of a spring
catch N, provided with a holding nose n, adapted to engage some one of the series
of perforations n' in the scale, which may be brought to register with it, the said
catch N being so arranged that it may be released from the scale K by pressing
upon its tail ².
The catch N is pivoted on the short arm o of a lever fulcrummed
to the casing at 0, and provided with an operating handle o¹, for rocking the
catch N bodily a short distance up or down, sufficient to bring the scale K a single
step above or below its normal position, without releasing the catch N from it.
This is for the purpose of temporarily adjusting the scale K, to the in or out
position adjacent to that with which it is for the time being permanently set to
take the time of a workman who may be for some reason going in the opposite
direction from that in which the majority of workmen are supposed to be passing.
The operation as a whole is as follows:-
The scale K having been adjusted to the day of the week, and that part of the
day required, as, for example, to take the time of the workmen coming into
the factory on Wednesday morning, as shown in Figure 2, the gate I will, by
such adjustment of the scale K, have been set in the proper position with respect
to the conduit B, to arrest the workman's record slip at such a point as to receive
the impression opposite the word "in" at the beginning of the Wednesday sub-
division. The workman in passing the machine, having placed his record slip in
the conduit B, with its face toward the front, takes hold of the operating lever G¹,
and gives it a pull forward, until it is arrested by coming in contact with the
stop g. He then permits it to fly back under the impulse of its retracting spring,
and as he passes from the machine, he may or may not, as he pleases, glance at
his now-printed record slip lying in the low portion of the receiver, with its
face exposed to him, to ascertain whether or not the machine has printed the
correct time, as indicated by the clock dial P, exposed on that side of the casing
on which the operating lever G is located. The forward pull of the operating
lever G, by rocking the shaft G, pressed the lever F backwardly, and permitted
it to fly forward and make the impression; the same movement of the shaft G also
rocked the arbor 1, and lifted the cam-headed arm M in position to effect a
release of the printed slip: the rocking of the arbor also wound the clock
spring m for operating the clock-work which determines the time which the
arm M shall occupy, in returning to its normal position, and hence the length of
time which the gate I shall be held open.
The rocking of the shaft G, and hence the backward movement of the lever F,
also, through the lever F, rocks the shaft in the direction to depress the swing-
ing arm e, and the pawl el carried thereby.
The parts at the beginning of the forward movement of the operating lever G
were in the position shown in Figure 5, and the further downward movement of

page_text: the arm will not operate the ratchet wheel E, for the reason that the pawl e¹
has an incline elo on its tail, engaged with the stop el on the frame-work, by
means of which the pawl is thrown out of engagement with the ratchet wheel E
during the downward swing of the arm e, under the movement of the lever F,
back from its normal position, preparatory to making the impression.
The rocking of the shaft e, under the backward movement of the lever F, also
rocks a bell-hammer Q, carried by the shaft e, away from the belt g, preparatory
to permitting the hammer to strike the bell, when the lever F springs forwardly
to make the impression.
As the operating lever G¹ is permitted to spring back into its normal position,
the cam 3 passes the dog f idly, and the cam f forces the lever F back a distance
sufficient to remove the impression platen from the interior of the conduit B. As
the lever F sprung forward when released by the cam f to make the impression,
it at the same time, by rocking the shaft e, sent the bell hammer Q into engage-
ment with the bell, and also rocked the shaft e in the direction to lift the
swinging arm e², and the pawl el carried thereby, up along the margin of the
ratchet wheel E, into position to engage the wheel E for advancing it. As
the lever F was forced backwardly by the cam f8 into its normal position, it rocked
the shaft 9 in the direction to swing the arm e² carrying the pawl e¹ downwardly,
and hence rotated the ratchet wheel E, and the projecting teeth e carried thereby,
for feeding the inking ribbon, when the teeth e shall, during their rotary move-
ment together with the ratchet wheel E, come into engagement with the ratchet
wheel which operates the feed rollers. While the ratchet wheel E will be
rotated a step each time the lever F is thrown backwardly by the cam f8, the
ribbon will be fed only at such intervals as may be desired, depending upon the
number of steps which the wheel E shall be permitted to rotate before bringing
the extended teeth e into engagement with the feed-roller operating wheel. The
action of the shaft e is communicated to the swinging arm e as herein-above
described, by the angle lever pivoted at e³ and the links e and e³ which connect
its arms with the armies on the shaft e", and with the swinging arm e², respectively.
As soon as the operating handle G was allowed to spring back, the cam f
promptly released the record slip, and it was permitted to fall into position to be
observed.
By the connection of the angle lever e with the swinging arm e² which carries
the feed-operating pawl e¹, I am enabled to swing the section A3 of the casing,
and the several operative parts mounted therein, away from the stationary section
of the casing, without in any manner disarranging any of the parts, since the
link e will swing open its pivoted connection with the arm e², and if it should
depress said arm, it would simply throw the pawl el out of engagement with the
ratchet wheel.
The time which the gate shall be allowed to remain open may be varied at
pleasure by multiplying or reducing the clockwork, as may be found desirable.
When the section A is swung apart from the stationary section, access may be
had to such of the working parts as are liable to more frequently need attention,
so that the machine may be kept in perfect order without requiring the removal
of screws or other fastenings, and the removal of parts which so commonly require
a considerable length of time.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is :-
1. In combination, a printing hammer, a spring for actuating the hammer, an
operating shaft, cams under the control of the operating shaft, one for lifting and
discharging the hammer, and one for forcing the hammer away from the record
slip conduit, a record slip conduit, and means for presenting type adjacent to the
record slip conduit, substantially as herein set forth.
2. In combination, a conduit for the reception of a record slip, means for auto-

page_text: matically placing type adjacent to the conduit, a printing hammer in position to
strike the record slip against the type, a spring for actuating the hammer, an
operating shaft, a handle for operating the shaft, a cam for raising and discharging
the hammer, when the handle is moving in one direction, and a cam for partially
raising the hammer when the handle is moved in the opposite direction, the said
cams being under the control of the operating shaft, substantially as set forth.
3. In combination, a conduit for the reception of a record slip, means for printing
the slip, an adjustable stop for determining the position of the slip while being
printed, and an adjustable gauge in an exposed position, and connected with the
said stop for adjusting the stop to its proper position with respect to the record
slip, substantially as set forth.
4. In combination, a conduit for the reception of a record slip, means for printing
the slip, a gate stop for holding and releasing the slip, mechanism for retaining
the gate open for a predetermined time, and means, under the control of the
printing mechanism, for actuating the said gate-opening mechanism, substantially
as herein set forth.
5. In combination, a conduit for the reception of a record slip, means for
printing the slip, a gate, a gate-opening device, a motor mechanism for actuating
said gate-opening device, and means, under the control of the printing mechanism,
for actuating the motor mechanism, substantially as herein set forth.
6. In combination, a conduit for the reception of a record slip, a movable gate
for stopping and releasing the slip, a rocking rod connected with the gate, to open
it, a spring for actuating the rod, a movable dog carried by the rod, a cam
arranged to pass freely by said dog in one direction, and engage the dog to operate.
the rocking rod when moved in the opposite direction, a printing mechanism,
and means, under the control of the printing mechanism, for operating said cam,
substantially as set forth.
7. In combination, a motor mechanism with an escapement, a conduit for the
reception of a record slip, a movable gate for stopping and releasing the slip, a
gate-opening device, a cam under the control of the motor mechanism, to operate
the gate-opening device, a printing mechanism, and means, under the control
of the printing mechanism, for winding the motor mechanism when the printing
mechanism is operated, substantially as set forth.
8. In combination, a conduit for the reception of a record slip, a printing
mechanism, an inking ribbon, a ribbon-feeding device, an angle-lever located
intermediate of the printing mechanism and ribbon-feeding device, and having
one arm connected with the ribbon-feeding device, and another arm connected
with the printing mechanism, and means, under the control of the printing
mechanism, for operating said lever, when the printing mechanism operates,
substantially as set forth.
9. In combination, a conduit for the reception of a record slip, a printing
mechanism, an linking ribbon, a ribbon-feeding device, comprising a supply
roller, a pair of feed rollers, one adapted to be rotated by the other, means for
moving one of said rollers into and out of engagement with the other roller, and
means for imparting a rotary movement to the feed rollers, when the printing
mechanism operates, substantially as set forth.
10. In combination, means for retaining a record slip in position to be printed,
type for making the impression, a lever for forcing the record slip against the type,
means for raising the said lever at intervals, means for feeding an inking ribbon,
comprising a ratchet wheel, a pawl, and a swinging arm carrying the pawl, means
for releasing the pawl from the ratchet wheel at a predetermined point in its
movement, and a connection between the lever-operating mechanism and the arm
carrying the pawl, whereby the pawl works idly during a portion of the lift of
the operating lever, and operates its ratchet wheel during another portion of the
lift of the operating lever, substantially as set forth.
11. In combination, type wheels, means for actuating them, means for holding
a record slip in position to be printed, a lever for making the impression and a

page_text: casing in which the said lever is mounted, the said casing being hinged to swing
toward and away from the type wheels, substantially as set forth.
12. In combination, a casing comprising a fixed portion and a portion hinged
to swing toward and away from the fixed portion, type wheels and their actuating
mechanism mounted in the fixed portion of the casing, an inking ribbon mounted
in the fixed portion of the casing, mechanism mounted in the fixed portion of the
casing for feeding the ribbon, a swinging impression platen mounted in the hinged
portion of the casing, means for operating it, and a connection of such form
between said platen-operating means and the mechanism for feeding the inking
ribbon, that the hinged portion of the casing may be swung away from the
stationary portion of the casing without disconnecting operative parts, substantially
as set forth.
13. In combination, type wheels and their actuating mechanism, means for
feeding an inking ribbon over the face of the type wheels, means for retaining
a récord slip in position to be printed, means for forcing the slip against the type,
and a skeleton guard interposed between the slip and the ribbon, for holding the
record slip from the ribbon when it is forced against the type, substantially as
set forth.
14. In combination, a casing comprising a stationary and a hinged section,
means for locking the sections in closed adjustment, a time train and motor train
arranged one above the other within the stationary portion of the casing, type-
wheels controlled by said time and motor trains arranged at the side of the casing
adjacent to the hinged section, a conduit for the reception of a record slip carried
by the hinged section, a platen-operating lever mounted in said hinged section,
and means for operating said lever, substantially as set forth.
Dated this 24th day of January 1898.
NEWTON & SON,
Agents for the Applicant.