Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Oct., 1835
Complete Specification Left, 18th June, 1896-Accepted, 12th Sept., 1896
purposes.
I, OLIVER IMRAY, of No. 28 Southampton Buildings, in the County of London,
Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Patent Agents, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to mechanism more particularly applicable for recording
periods of working hours, and indicating the wages due at the end of each of the
periods.
Fig. 1 is a front elevation of a machine according to this invention.
Fig. 2 is a vertical section on the line 2-2 of Fig. 3 which is a plan drawn to a
smaller scale, with a portion of the casing removed.
Fig. 4 an end view drawn to the same scale as Fig. 3 of part of the mechanism
next the front.
The other figures drawn to such enlarged scales as to show the details more
clearly are:
Fig. 5 a perspective view of the tripping mechanism interposed between the
clockwork and the recording devices.
Fig. 6 is a perspective view shewing the chief parts of the recording devices.
Fig. 7 is a front view of the disc which supports the recording wheel.
Fig. 8 is a section of the recording wheel, its supporting disc and the clutch.
Fig. 9 shows a part of the tape or paper strip upon which the record is
printed.
Fig. 10 is a transverse section of the clutch and its arm.
Fig. 10 is a front view of the same.
Fig. 11 is a front view of the recording wheel detached.
Fig. 12 is a section of the lock which controls access to and motion of the clutch
lever of the recorder.
Fig. 13 is an inside front view of the lock.
Figs. 14 and 15 are respectively a front view, and a section of the filling piece.
Fig. 16 is an elevation showing in addition to the parts in Fig. 5 the stop for
preventing the release of the recording motor.
Figs. 17, 18 and 19 are respectively a front view, an edge view, and a horizontal
section of the stop.
Figs. 20 and 21 are respectively a front and an edge view of the cam mounted
upon the hour arbor.
wheels.
Figs. 22, 23 and 24 show the lever actuated by the cam.
Figs. 25, 26 and 27 show portions of three different type
Fig. 28 is a perspective view of the stencil for indicating the separate pieces of
work performed.
Referring to Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 4 A is the front end wall, B B' are the side walls.
B' is the rear wall. C is the top or cover and B' the bottom of the casing, which
is made in any suitable way to prevent tampering with the mechanism or access to
the interior except by authorized persons, who can obtain access as will be

page_text: described. The front and back end walls are connected by bars B. Within this
casing is arranged a separate mechanism for each of several operatives, who
can keep his own time of working, this mechanism being exclusively under his
control.
Between the front and back walls A and B' there is an intermediate support B³
parallel to the walls.
The prime actuating and controlling mechanism is a clock movement, which may
be of any suitable kind. That shown (Figs. 5, 16, 20 and 21) is of ordinary kind,
it having arbor D for the hour hand, which supports the minute hand sleeve d
carrying a pinion d¹ which gears with wheel &, carrying pinion d³, which drives
wheel d', to which is secured the hour hand, these parts constituting the ordinary
"dial train." A peculiarly shaped cam D' Fig. 20 is secured to the minute hand
sleeve behind the pinion d. It has two cam portions D' which come into action
upon parts hereafter described, once every half hour. The clock work is actuated
by springs preferably two in barrels E E', giving motion to the arbors of the
hands and to the escapement e' by gear e, e', e³, e², e³, eª. (Fig. 2).
Every half hour the cam D' causes the recording devices to be actuated as
follows:-
h Figs. 3, 6 and 16 is a motor shaft, caused to revolve by a spring or weight H*
independently of the springs E E', aud provided with a ratchet wheel and
spring pawl to prevent it from turning back. A wheel H on it gears
with a pinion 1 fast upon a shaft on which is fixed an escapement disc F
and on H is a pinion which imparts power intermittently to the recording
wheel K.
This motor shaft is permitted to rotate more or less by the escapement
mechanism which is controlled by the cam D' as follows:-
G (Figs. 1, 5, and 16) is a lever preferably made in two parts, g and g', pivoted
at G to the dial plate or other suitable support. The part 9' is adjustably secured
to the part g by set screws g³ in slots g². The end 9 is bent inward, so as to be
acted on hy cam parts D' of D'.
The lever G is made longitudinally adjustable so that, if it is desired to have
the escapenient disc advanced one step, a half minute before the half hour, or a
half minute after the half hour indicated by the clock, the part gl is slid a little to
the left or to the right. If it is slid to the left, it is lifted by the cam parts D²
and allowed to drop just before the half hour, and if it is slid to the right, it drops
after the half hour.
At each half hour, the inner end 7 of the lever G is raised in opposition to a
spring G and the outer end is lowered. The outer end carries an inwardly
extending arm of which has two pins or projections gỗ, gª (Figs. 22, 23, 24) situated
at different radial distances from the pivot G'. The spring or weight H* tends to
give rotation to the shaft and the disc F on it, having projecting pins. When
the parts are in their normal positions, one of the pins f rests against the
projection of the lever G. But when one of the cams D³ raises g' and depresses
the other end of the lever G the pin f' turus a very little till it comes in contact
with the projection 9. When the cam D releases g', the spring G³ raises the
outer end of the lever, pulling the projection go away from its position' in front of
the pin, allowing the disc F to make part of a rotation until it is stopped by
the next pin meeting the projection 9*.
Thus every half hour a step-by-step movement is permitted, for operating the
recording devices which are constructed and arranged as follows: is a shaft
mounted at right angles to the face of the instrument, and made of any desired
. length, to support a number of recording wheels.
It is intermittently turned by the wheel J which gears with a pinion 4 ou tlie
motor shaft h.
As the recording mechanisms are all alike, I shall describe only one of them.
The recording wheel K is preferably detachable at any time from the shaft, so
that one or another of a number of interchangeable wheels can be used. To

page_text: facilitate its change, I use a disc L with a nave 1 (Fig. 8) and the wheel K itself.
K has keyhole slots, ³, (Fig. 11) which are adapted to register with screws P
on the disc L (Fig. 7). The wheel K has a slot K¹ extending from the periphery
to a central hole (Fig. 11), so that it can be centered upon the navel, and in
which position it is held by the screws entering the slots . 1 (Fig. 8) is a
collar on the shaft I forming a shoulder against which abut the parts above
described.
To close the slot K' of the wheel K, a filling plate K³ is slipped on the wheel,
and is held in place by fingers K (Fig. 14) entering holes in the wheel K.
The edge of the plate K' extends across the gap at the end of the slot rendering
the periphery continuous.
When the desired wheel K is placed it and the disc L are practically integral
and equivalent to a single wheel or disc loose upon the shaft, the step by step
motion of the shaft once every thirty minutes not being necessarily imparted to the
recording wheel K, which however, can be connected to the shaft as follows:
M is a collar fixed on the shaft and having pins m² which enter holes m³ in the
part M which is a clutch hub sliding on these pins and, therefore, rotating with
the shaft. The clutch (Figs. 8 10 and 10A) has an arm M' carrying a clutch
pin M³ at a radial distance equal to that of a series of holes 12 in the disc L so
that the pin M³ enters one of the holes when the clutch is moved toward the
wheel K.
N is a clutch lever which engages with the nave M and is pivotted at n' (Figs. 2
and 3). The outer end of N is connected with a lock at N₁ (Figs. 12 and 13)
having a key (of which each operator has one for his particular recorder). When
the key is inserted, the lever N can be moved so as to engage or disengage the
clutch M and the pin M³ from the disc L.
Each recorder is assigned to an operative or employe as, for instance, in a
factory where it is desired to have an automatically kept record of time. When
he wishes to begin he inserts his key, and moves the clutch M until it is engaged
with the disc L and consequently with the recording wheel K ; and thereafter a
record is made every half hour as follows:
The wheel K has devices adapted to indicate the intervals of time or amounts of
meney, or both, preferably the latter. These devices may be of any of several
kinds, preferably raised types as at k (Fig. 6) for indicating successive half hours
and other types for indicating the amounts of money earned at the ends of the
time periods.
O is a roll of paper tape having its axis 01 mounted in a support O³ (Figs. 2
and 8). The tape passes from the roll over a platen roll 03 (Fig. 2) and as the
recording wheel K rotates its types print on the tape, which is advanced by the
movement of the wheel K.
The types are inked by an inking roll P so situated as to come into contact with
them just before they reach the platen roll O'.
In order that the printing mechanism may be occasionally thrown out of action,
the platen roll and the inking roll P are mounted in a frame Q, having two
sides 9, 9, pivotted at q' on the frame O2, a cross bar 04 of which enters a recess
in the undersides of the bars qy (Figs. 2 and 6).
The axes of the platen roll 0³, and inking roll P are mounted in slots at y q³
(Figs. 2 and 6) and rest upon springs, which press the rolls against the
wheel K. By a link R connected to the fower end of he frame Q the frame can
be rocked on its pivot O' so as to move the platen roll and the inking roll away
from the recording wheel.
The link R is jointed to a door R₁ at r (Fig. 2) when this door is opened the
rolls are moved away. There may be one door for each of the recording mechanisms
to which the link R of each is pivotted, or all the links R on each side of the machine
may be jointed to a single door.
The operation of the machine may be understood from the drawings and the
description. If for instance, an operative or employé begins to use the instrument

page_text: at the beginning of the week; the clutch M being then out of engagement with the
disc L and wheel K, so that although the shaft I may have been intermittently
rotating no record will have resulted.
If the operative arrives before seven he inserts his key in lock N¹ and this moves
the lever N causing the clutch M to engage. At this time the recording wheel K
has its zero point near the platen roll.
At seven o'clock a.m. the cam D' releases lever G allowing the escapement disc F
to move one step, and the recording wheel K produces the characters 0-7. 00 shown
at the bottom of Fig. 9. At the end of half an hour the characters -.10 are printed
on the tape, at the end of an hour the characters 1. 20, and so on the pay of this
operative being at the rate of twenty cents an hour, so that as the successive
characters indicating the half hours are recorded, the corresponding wages due are
also recorded.
Then say, at noon, the operative again inserts his key disengaging the clutch M
and thereupon the recording wheel ceases to act until he again engages the clutch
say at I p.m.
In this way a record is kept of the hours during which the operative is employed
for several days and also the wages carned. The recording wheels are preferably
made large enough to record the ordinary number of working hours for a week.
At the end of the week the time keeper unlocks the door at R' and ascertains at
once from the tape the total number of hours of work and the total amount of
wages due, the act of opening the door R moving the platen roll and inking roll
away so as to prevent any marring of the record.
After removing, or it may be examining the tape, he places the recording wheel
at the zero point ready for another week's record.
The type, on the recording wheel K, are of course varied to correspond with the
rate of wages.
For this purpose the types may be removable but preferably different wheels are
employed for different rates of wages.
Each instrument can be made so as to furnish records for a large number of
persons by mounting upon the shaft, or shafts I a number of mechanisms which are
duplicates of the mechanisms K consisting of the parts L, M, etc., above described.
Two shafts I are shown worked by a single motor and governed by a single clock
mechanism, the second shaft receiving power from the wheel J through a series of
gears JJ and J. Each of the recording mechanisms has its own clutch lock
with a special key kept by the employé to whom the mechanism is assigned.
A bell may be combined with each recording mechanism to signal the movement
of the clutch as shown at N2 the hammer N having an arm which lies in the path
of the lever N or parts connected therewith (Figs. 2 and 3).
The recording mechanism above described requires the throwing of the clutch
out and in by the employé.
But in some cases it is desirable to have an automatically actuated mechanism
which shall positively prevent the movement of any of the parts from disc F.
For this purpose I combine with the trip lever G the following parts.
S, Fig. 16 is a link jointed to the lever G extending upwards and having on it
an adjustable nut S'. T is a lever pivotted at t and having its end t¹ in the path of
the nut at S', the link S, passing through a hole in t' which thus supports S in an
upright position. The lever T is preferably made in two parts, t i³, adjustably
secured together at t, the lower part 3 being curved as shown.
U (Figs. 16, 17, 18 and 19) is a disc having a stop U1 in the plane of t. This
stop extending a little more than half round the disc U. There is also a smaller
stop U which extends one-twelfth of the disc U and is situated directly opposite
the centre of the stop U. The lower end t of t is normally pressed toward the
axis of the disc U by the spring G which, tending to raise the end g of lever G,
causes the link S to descend and its nut S₁ to bear on the end of the lever T.
The disc U is caused to rotate once in twenty-four hours by gearing u, u¹, u³,
connecting it to the clock train.

page_text: The devices last described operate as follows:--If the working hours are from
seven in the morning until six in the evening the stop U' is adjusted on the face of
the disc U so as to extend from 7 round to 6, therefore at 7 o'clock the lower end t
of lever T is free to swing to the left, as indicated by dotted lines in Figure 16, and
as its upper end t no longer supports the nut S₁, the end 97 of the lever G can
descend, the other end ascending when the cam D' escapes 9' at 7 o'clock. The
recording mechanism will then operate every half hour as set forth, (there being
nothing to interfere with the free rising and falling of the lever G) until the noon
hour, is reached, at which time the smaller stop U' has descended far enough to
meet to and push it to the right, thus raising t to such a position as to prevent the
link S from descending the lever G being thus held in an inactive position. As
soon as the short stop U moves away from which occurs at 1 p.m. t is again
free to swing to the left and there is no impediment to the free movement of the
lever G until 6 p.m., at which time the longer stop U again pushes to back to the
right so as to lock the link S and lever G against movement, in which condition
they are held by the stop U' from 6 p.m. till 7 a.in. next morning.
Thus accidental or improper action of the recording mechanism is guarded
against.
Mechanism of the kind described can also be readily applied to recording the
time devoted to "job" work. For this purpose a supplemental marking device
such as a rod V' (Fig. 28) carrying a type can be passed through the casing and
down a guide tube such as V, Figures 3 and 7, the lower end of which is
immediately over one of the edges of the paper tape at the point of printing. The
types on the end of this rod V₁ are numbers, or marks, indicating the several
numbers of the job and the characters are imprinted opposite the hours of
commencing and finishing.
Thus, by referring to Fig. 9, it will be seen that the number 8 occurs at two
places on the tape, respectively, opposite 3 and 9, indicating that the job 8
occupied the operative. for six hours.
The mechanism described can be employed not only for recording the several
times and wages of operatives but also to analogous purposes as may be readily
understood.
If the operative should be too late to insert his key into the lock N' before 7
he can have no record on the paper until 7.30, even though he should throw
the clutch M into engagement with the recording wheel. In other words, the
record commences at the first half hour next after his insertion of the key moving
the clutch; and so also the record is stopped immediately after the clutch is
disengaged.
Dated this 1st day of October 1895.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.
Apparatus for Recording Hours and Wages of Operatives, and
like purposes.
I, OLIVER IMRAY, of No. 28 Southampton Buildings, in the County of
London, Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Patent Agents, 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:
:-
This invention relates to mechanism more particularly applicable for recording

page_text: periods of working hours, and indicating the wages due at the end of each of the
periods, which I will describe referring to the drawings accompanying my
Provisional Specification in which :-
Figure 1 is a front clevation of a machine according to this invention.
Figure 2 is a vertical section on the line 2--2 of Figure 3 which is a plan drawn
to a smaller scale with a portion of the casing removed.
Figure 4 is an end view drawn to the same scale as Figure 3, of part of the
mechanism next the front.
The other figures, drawn to such cularged scales as to shew the details more
clearly, are:-
Figure 5, a perspective view of the tripping mechanism interposed between the
clockwork and the recording devices.
Figure 6, a perspective view shewing the chief parts of the recording devices.
Figure 7, a front view of the disc which supports the recording wheel.
Figure 8, a section of the recording wheel, its supporting disc and the clutch.
Figure 9 shews a part of the tape or paper strip upon which the record is
printed.
Figure 10, a transverse section of the clutch and its arm.
Figure 10, a front view of the same.
Figure 11, a front view of the recording wheel detached.
Figure 12, a section of the lock which controls access to and motion of the clutch
lever of the recorder.
Figure 13, an inside front view of the lock.
Figures 14 and 15, shew respectively a front view, and a section of the filling
piece.
Figure 16, an elevation shewing in addition to the parts in Figure 5 the stop for
preventing the release of the recording motor.
Figures 17, 18, and 19 shew respectively a front view, an edge view, and a
horizontal section of the stop.
Figures 20 and 21, shew respectively a front and an edge view of the cam mounted
upon the hour arbor.
Figures 22, 23 and 24 shew the lever actuated by the cam.
Figures 25, 26 and 27 shew portions of three different type wheels.
Figure 28, a perspective view of the stencil for indicating the separate pieces of
work performed.
Referring to Figures 1, 2, 3 and 4, A is the front end wall, B B are the side
walls B is the rear wall, C is the top or cover and B the bottom of the casing,
which is made in any suitable way to prevent tampering with the mechanism or
access to the interior except by authorized persons, who can obtain access as will
be described. The front and back end walls are connected by bars Bº. Within
this casing is arranged a separate mechanism for each of several operatives, who
can keep his own time of working, this mechanism being exclusively under his
control.
Between the front and back walls A and B there is an intermediate support B
parallel to the walls.
The prime actuating and controlling mechanism is a clock movement which may
be of any suitable kind. That shown (Figures 5, 16, 20 and 21,) is of ordinary
kind, it having arbor D for the hour haud, which supports the minute hand
sleeve d carrying a pinion d' which gears with wheel d, carrying pinion d³, which
drives wheel d³, to the spindle of which is secured the hour hand, these parts
constituting the ordinary "dial train." A peculiarly shaped cam D₁ Figure 2) is
secured to the minute hand sleeve behind the pinion d¹. It has two cam
portions D which come into action upon parts hereafter described, once every
half hour. The clock work is actuated by springs, preferably two, in barrels EE,
giving motion to the arbors of the hands and to the escapemente' by gear e, e¹, e³, e
Figure 2.

page_text: Every half hour the cam D' causes the recording devices to be actuated as.
follows:-
(Figures 3, 6 and 16) is a motor shaft, caused to revolve by a spring or
weight H* independently of the springs E E', and provided with a ratchet wheel h
and spring pawl / h³ to prevent it from turning back. A wheel H on it gears
with a pinion fast upon a shaft on which is fixed an escapement disc F,.
and on H is a pinion which imparts power intermittently to the recording
wheel K.
This motor shaft is permitted to rotate more or less by the escapement
mechanism which is controlled by the cam D' as follows:-
G (Figures 1, 5 and 16) is a lever preferably made in two parts, g and g', pivotted
at G' to the dial plate or other suitable support. The part gl is adjustably secured
to the part by set screws in slots 9. The end g' (Fig. 5) is bent inward, so as.
to be acted on by cam parts D' of D¹.
The lever G is made longitudinally adjustable so that, if it is desired to have
the escapement disc F advanced one step, a half minute before the half hour or a
half minute after the half hour indicated by the clock, the part g' is slid a little
to the left or to the right. If it is slid to the left, it is lifted by the cam parts D"
and allowed to drop just before the half hour, and if it is slid to the right, it drops.
alter the balf hour.
At each half hour, the inner end 97 of the lever G is raised in opposition to a.
spring G and the outer end is lowered. The outer end carries an inwardly
extending arm g' which has two pins or projections 9° 9° (Figures 22, 23, & 24)
situated at different radial distances from the pivot G. The spring or weight H*
tends to give rotation to the shuft fand the disc F on it, having projecting pins f³.
When the parts are in their normal positions, one of the pins rests against the
projection 9 of the lever G. But when one of the cams D' raises g' and depresses
the other end of the lever G the pinturas a very little till it comes in contact
with the projection . When the cam D releases 9', the spring G³ raises
the outer end of the lever, pulling the projection g away from its position in front
of the pin allowing the disc F to make part of a rotation until it is stopped by
the next pin meeting the projection g*.
Thus every half hour a step by step movement is permitted for operating the
recording devices which are constructed and arranged as follows:- is a shaft.
mounted at right angles to the face of the instrument, and made of any desired
length, to support a number of recording wheels..
It is intermittently turned by the wheel J which gears with a pinion / on the
motor shaft h.
As the recording mechanisms are all alike, I shall describe only one of them.
The recording wheel K is preferably detachable at any time from the shaft, so
that one or another of a number of interchangeable wheels can be used. To
facilitate its change, I use a disc L with a nave (Figure 8) and the wheel K
itself. K bas keyhole slots, k³ (Figure 11) which are adapted to register with
screws on the disc L (Figure 7). The wheel K has a slot K¹ extending
from the periphery to a central hole (Figure 11) so that it can be centered
upon the navel, and in which position it is held by the screws 13 entering the
slots (Figure 8) is a collar ou the shaft I forming a shoulder against which
abut the parts above described.
To close the slot K' of the wheel K, a filling plate K³ is slipped on the wheel,
and is held in place by fingers K₁ (Figure 14) entering holes in the
wheel K. The edge of the plate K' extends across the gap at the end of the
slot rendering the periphery continuous.
When the desired wheel K is placed it and the disc L are practically integral
and equivalent to a single wheel or disc loose upon the shaft, the step by step
motion of the shaft once every thirty minutes not being necessarily imparted to.
the recording wheel K, which however can be connected to the shaft as follows:
M² is a collar fixed on the shaft and having pins m? which enter holes m² in the

page_text: part M which is a clutch hub sliding on these pins and, therefore rotating with
the shaft. The clutch (Figures 8, 10 and
pin M' at a radial distance equal to that
so that the pin M³ enters one of the holes
wheel K.
104) has an arm M' carrying a clutch
of a series of holes 12 in the disc L
when the clutch is moved toward the
N is a clutch lever which engages with the nave M and is pivotted at n¹,
(Figures 2 and 3). The outer end of N is connected with a lock at N' (Figures 12
and 13) having a key (of which each operator has one for his particular recorder).
When the key is inserted, the lever N can be moved so as to engage or disengage
the clutch M and the pin M³ from the disc L.
Each recorder is assigned to an operative or employé as, for instance in a factory
where it is desired to have an automatically kept record of time. When he
wishes to begin he inserts his key, and moves the clutch M until it is engaged with
the disc L and consequently with the recording wheel K; and thereafter a record is
made every half hour as follows:-
The wheel K has devices adapted to indicate the intervals of time or amounts
of money, or both, preferably the latter. These devices may be of any of several
kinds, preferably raised types, as at k (Figure 6) for indicating successive half
hours, and the other types for indicating the amounts of money earned at the
ends of the time periods.
O is a roll of paper tape having its axis O¹ mounted in a support O* (Figures 2
and 6). The tape passes from the roll over a platen. roll O (Figure 2) and as
the recording wheel K rotates its types print on the tape, which is advanced by
the movement of the wheel K.
The types are inked by an inking roll P, so situated as to come into contact
with them just before they reach the platen roll O³.
In order that the printing mechanism may be occasionally thrown out of action,
the platen roll ()' and the inking roll P are mounted in a frame Q, having two
sides gq, pirotted at gl on the frame 02, a cross bar 04 of which enters a
recess in the undersides of the bars g g (Figures 2 and 6).
The axes of the platen roll 0³, and inking roll P are mounted in slots at q² q
(Figures 2 and 6) and rest upon springs 9* 9°, which press the rolls against the
wheel K. By a link R connected to the lower end of the frame Q the frame can
be rocked on its pivot 0+ so as to move the platen roll and the inking roll away
from the recording wheel.
The link R is jointed to a door R' at r (Figure 2), when this door is opened
the rolls are moved away. There may be one door for each of the recording
mechanisms to which the link R of each is pivotted, or all the links R on each
side of the machine may be jointed to a single door.
The operation of the machine may be understood from the drawings and the
description. If for instance, an operator or employé begins to use the instrument
at the beginning of the week, the clutch M being then out of engagement with
the disc L and wheel K so that although the shaft I may have been intermittently
rotating no record will have resulted.
If the operative arrives before seven o'clock a.m. that being the hour of
starting work he inserts his key in lock N¹ and this moves the lever N causing the
clutch M to engage. At this time the recording wheel K Las its zero point near
the platen roll.
At seven o'clock a.m. the cam D' releases lever G allowing the escapement
disc F to move one step, and the recording wheel K produces the characters 0-7-00
shown at the bottom of Figure 9. At the end of half an hour the characters -10
are printed on the tape, at the end of an hour the characters 1-10, and so on, the
pay of this operative being at the rate of twenty cents an hour, so that as the
Buccessive characters indicating the half hours are recorded, the corresponding
wages due are also recorded.
Then say at noon, the operative again inserts his key disengaging the clutch M

page_text: and thereupon the recording wheel ceases to act until he again engages the clutch
say at 1 p.m.
In this way a record is kept of the hours during which the operative is employed
for several days and also the wages earned. The recording wheels are
preferably made large enough to record the ordinary number of working hours
for a week.
At the end of the week the time keeper unlocks the door at R' and ascertains
at once from the tape the total number of hours of work and the total amount of
wages due, the act of opening the door R moving the platen roll and inking roll
away so as to prevent any marring of the record.
After removing, or it may be examining, the tape, he places the recording
wheel at the zero point ready for another week's record.
The type, on the recording wheel K, are of course varied to correspond with
the rate of wages.
For this purpose the types may be removable but preferably different wheels are
employed for different rates of wages.
Each instrument can be made so as to furnish records for a large number of
persons by mounting upon the shaft, or shafts I a number of mechanisms which are
duplicates of the mechanisms K consisting of the parts L, M, etc., above described.
Two shafts I are shown worked by a single motor and governed by a single clock
mechanism, the second shaft receiving power from the wheel J through a series of
gears JJ and J. Each of the recording mechanisms has its own clutch. lock
with a special key kept by the employé to whom the mechanism is assigned.
A bell may be combined with each recording mechanism to signal the movement
of the clutch as shown at N' the hammer N* having an arm which lies in the path
of the lever N or parts connected therewith (Figures 2 and 3).
The recording mechanism above described requires the throwing of the clutch
out and in by the employé.
But in some cases it is desirable to have an automatically actuated mechanism
which shall positively prevent the movement of any of the parts from disc F.
For this purpose I combine with the trip lever Ġ the following parts.
:
S, (Figure 16) is a link jointed to the lever G extending upwards and having on
it an adjustable nut S¹. T is a lever pivotted at t and having its end t' in the
path of the nut at S', the link S, passing through a hole in t' which thus supports S
in an upright position. The lever T is preferably made in two parts, tt, adjustably
secured together at t*, the lower part t being curved as shewn.
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U (Figures 16, 17, 18 and 19) is a disc having a stop U' in the plane of . This
stop extending a little more than half round the disc U. There is also a smaller
stop U which extends one-twelfth of the disc U and is situated directly opposite
the centre of the stop U. The lower end t of t is normally pressed toward the
axis of the disc U by the spring G' which, tending to raise the end g of the lever G,
causes the link S to descend and its nut S¹ to bear on the end of the lever T.
The disc U is caused to rotate once in twenty four hours, by gearing u, u³, u³,
connecting it to the clock train.
The devices last described operate as follows:-If the working hours are from
seven in the morning until six in the evening the stop U is adjusted ou the face of
the disc U so as to extend from 7 round to 6, therefore at 7 o'clock the lower end to
of lever T is free to swing to the left, as indicated by dotted lines in Figure 16, and
as its upper end t¹ no longer supports the nut S', the end g of the lever G can
descend, the other end ascending when the cam D' escapes 9' at 7 o'clock. The
recording mechanism will then operate every half hour as set forth, (there being
nothing to interfere with the free rising and falling of the lever G) until the noon
hour is reached, at which time the smaller stop. U has descended far enough to
meet t' and push it to the right, thus raising t¹ to such a position as to prevent the
link S from descending, the lever G being thus held in an inactive position. As
soon as the short stop U' moves away from t which occurs at 1 p.m. t is again
free to swing to the left and there is no impediment to the free movement of the
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page_text: lever G until 6 p.m., at which time the longer stop U₁ again pushes to back to the
right so as to lock the link S and lever G against movement, in which condition
they are held by the stop U¹ from 6 p.m. till 7 a.m. next morning.
Thus accidental or improper action of the recording mechanism is guarded
against.
Mechanism of the kind described can also be readily applied to recording the
time devoted to "job" work. For this purpose a supplemental marking device
such as a rod V₁ (Figure 28) carrying a type can be passed through the casing
and down a guide tube such as V, (Figures 3 and 7) the lower end of which is
immediately over one of the edges of the paper tape at the point of printing. The
types on the end of this rod V₁ are numbers, or marks, indicating the several
numbers of the job, and the characters are imprinted opposite the hours of
commencing and finishing.
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Thus, by referring to Figure 9, it will be seen that the number 8 occurs at two
places on the tape, respectively, opposite 3 and 94, indicating that the job 8
occupied the operative for six hours.
The mechanism described can be employed not only for recording the several
times and wages of operatives but also to analogous purposes as may be readily.
understood. If the operative should be too late to insert his key into the lock N
before 7 o'clock he can have no record ou the paper until 7.30 o'clock, even though
be should throw the clutch M into engagement with the recording wheel. In other
words, the record commences at the first half hour next after his insertion of the key
moving the clutch; and so also the record is stopped immediately after the clutch
is disengaged.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim in respect of apparatus for recording hours and wages of operatives and like
purposes is:
1. The combination of clock work, a number of recording wheels moved step by
step at definite intervals as permitted by the clock-work, inking and platten rollers
so arranged that paper tapes are printed from the recording wheels with time
periods, wages earned and other particulars, substantially as described.
2. In combination with each recording wheel a clutch and key, whereby it is
engaged with or disengaged from the intermittently moving shaft on which it is
mounted, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
3. In combination with the clutch lever for each recording wheel a signal bell,
substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
4. The construction of each recording wheel and its driver in such manner that
the wheel can be readily removed from its driving shaft or placed thereon,
substantially as described.
5. Mounting the inking and platten rollers for each recording wheel on a
pivotted frame linked to a side door, substantially as 8. and for the purpose set
forth.
6. In combination with the release lever G of each intermittently moved shaft,
the link S, lever T and wheel U with its stops U¹ and U' arranged and operating
substantially as described.
Dated this 18th day of June 1896.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.