Improvements in Time Recorders for Registering the Time of Arrival or Departure of Workmen or others.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Feb., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 25th May, 1891-Accepted, 5th Sept., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Time Recorders for Registering the Time of
Arrival or Departure of Workmen or others.
1, WILLARD LE GRAND BUNDY of Binghampton in the County of Broome,
and State of New York, United States of America, Gentleman, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to time registering mechanisms actuated directly by a
clock, or by connections to the clock, by which the time of the arrival or departure
of workmen, employées etc. is registered by each of such employées themselves.
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My object is to produce a mechanism by which each workman or employée: in a
shop or factory, or the like will, by his own act, accurately register the time of his
arrival or departure, thereby preventing all disputes each workman having his
own key, and being known by an arbitrary number, which is embossed upon the
bit of the key, and upon its being inserted and turned, will present the embossed
number in alignment with the numbers upon the hour and minute registering
wheels, and through the agency of a hammer and pad thereon actuated by the key,
and a ribbon and strip of paper, in proper juxtaposition, the hour, minute, and the
number of the key will be printed upon the paper, and a feed mechanism will shift
the paper and ribbon a fixed space ready for the operation of the printing
mechanism by the next workman and the registering of his time and the number of
his key, as. before.
Then the "time" of each workman is made up from the paper strip, crediting
each one with the time between his arrival and departure, whether it be full time
or only part thereof.
My invention consists in the several novel features of construction and operation
herein described.
It is constructed, as follows:
A case is formed enclosing a clock-work, upon the minute shaft of which I mount
a spur gear No. 1, meshing with and rotating another gear No. 2, and a shaft No. 3,
and
gear No. 4, which engages with and rotates a gear No. 5, which is secured
upon a horizontal shaft No. 6, which rotates a gear No. 7, on this shaft, and this
gear meshes with and rotates a gear No. 8, which is mounted. loosely upon a
shaft No. 9, and is either integral with or connected to a disk or minute. wheel,
also loose on this shaft.
Upon the periphery or outer face of the rim of this wheel consecutive figures
from 1 to. 60, both inclusive are embossed.
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The gear No. 8 has sixty teeth or cogs, and the gears Nos. 1. 2. 45 and 7 are all
properly "timed
with the clock movement, so that the minute wheel rotates in
exact time with the minute hand.
Upon the shaft No. 9 and along side of the minute I mount loosely an hour
wheel provided on its face with figures from 1 to 12 both. inclusive.
Each of these numbers are duplicated for reasons hereinafter set forth.
Integral with or connected with, and mounted along side of the hour wheel is a
disk No. 12, loose upon said shaft. This disk has twelve notches, in its periphery
or rim, and the rim is concaved between said notches.
Another disk No. 14 mounted upon the shaft No. 6, is provided with a tooth in
a concavity in its rim, and this tooth is adapted to engage successively with the
notches upon the disk No. 12 with each rotation of the disk No. 14 and as, the
latter is timed to, rotate once in an hour, each rotation will rotate the. hour wheel
the distance of one hour space thereon.

page_text: Suitable collars on the shaft No. 9 hold the wheels and disks in place thereon.
A key receiver is provided consisting of a cylinder journaled upon its outer
end in the casing, slotted longitudinally and notched transversely so that the
shank of the key will fit loosely in the barrel of the receiver and the bit will
move longitudinally and fit freely in the slot.
The ward of the key is beveled outwardly to its outer end, and its bit has
embossed upon its outer end a figure or series of figures or characters, or a name
which will designate a particular workman.
In this invention all the keys are of the same size and form and vary only in
the numbers upon the outer end of the bits thereof.
When the key is inserted in the receiver and turned the receiver is rotated
with it, and the ward comes into contact with a key locking pawl. This pawl
is pivotally hung between parallel bars and has a convex outer face, and serrated
or stepped inner face, and the key ward comes into contact with these steps
successively.
A pin through the pawl bears with its projecting ends upon the aforesaid
parallel bars, and operates as a lever in conjunction with the key ward, to force
these bars outward. This rotates a shaft No. 27 to which the bars are secured
raising an arm secured to said shaft, which pulls up a connecting rod and
arm No. 30 secured to a shaft No. 31 which carries the hammer helve and the
partial rotation of this shaft throws the printing hammer away from the printing
point.
Then, as the key ward at about a quarter turn passes the lower end of the pawl,
this whole mechanism is released, and a spring throws the hammer against a paper
strip inks a ribbon and the face of the hour and minute wheels, and against the
figures upon the end of the bit of the key, and thus imprints upon the paper the
number of the key, the hour and the minute.
As the key is turned the beveled point of the ward engages with and is locked
by each step, through the tension of the spring so that the key cannot be turned
back or removed until an impression has actually been made.
The key receiver rotating with the key forms a backing for the key when the
impression blow is struck and insures a good impression.
A rod No. 35 is pivotally connected to the arm No. 30 and at its upper end is
connected to an arm No. 36 having a pawl mounted thereon, and engaging with a
ratchet wheel, the hub of which fits through the arm No. 36 and No. 39 is a shaft
upon which the ratchet is secured.
Upon the shaft No. 39 a roller No. 40 is secured.
Upon the hub of the ratchet wheel is a pin or stud adapted to engage with the
teeth of a star wheel successively with each rotation of the ratchet. This star
wheel is secured upon a shaft No. 43 journaled transversely in the casing, and a
ribbon spool is secured upon the shaft and rotates with it, by the rotation of the
star wheel with the engagement of said pin with said star wheel, so that this
mechanism is the ribbon feed, the ribbon being wound below upon a spool and is
actuated whenever the ratchet is rotated a full revolution by the raising of the
arm No. 30 of the hammer mechanism.
A rod No. 46 is journaled in the casing and on said rod the side bars of a frame
are secured. A central cross bar is placed between these side bars; I also provide
a top cross bar; and a torsion spring is secured to said rod and connected to the
top cross bar, so that the torsion of the spring will press a roller No. 50, journalled
in the side, against the roller No. 40 and the rotation of the star wheel and the
shaft rotates the roller No. 40 the grip upon the paper, these rollers, and the
rotation of the roller No. 40 constitutes the frictional paper feed.
The strip of paper is wound upon a roll and leads thence up in front of the
printing wheels and key, outside of the ribbon, to, and between, the feed rollers.
After an impression is made by the turning of the key, the ward is behind the
pawl, and then when the key is turned back toward the starting point, the ward
will bear against the pawl, raise its free end up and pass under it until, when
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page_text: disengaged, the pawl will drop back clear of the ward and lie in its normal position
and then, only, can the key be withdrawn.
It will be seen that the key makes only a quarter turn to bring the bit upon the
printing line; that the impression is made at the instant it reaches that point;
that a quarter turn back enables me to remove the key; and that the whole
operation of registering only occupies the minimum of time.
A stop pin projecting from the key receiver and engaging with the shaft limits
the forward rotation of the receiver when the key is turned, and another stop
checks the backward rotation at the proper point for the insertion or removal
of the key.
A notch transverse to the receiver permits the pawl to swing freely across
over the receiver, with the backward turning of the key, and after the releasing
of it from the ward, it drops back to its normal position.
A pawl regulates the rotation of the star wheel.
A guard plate fitting between the bit and ward of the key when it is turned,
holds the key in place longitudinally until it is turned back.
11 101 171001
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Time Recorders for Registering the Time of
Arrival or Departure of Workmen or others.
WILLARD LE GRAND BUNDY of Binghampton in the County of Broome .
and State of New York, United States of America, Gentleman, 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 time recording mechanisms, actuated directly by a clock,
or by connections to the clock, by which the time of the arrival or departure of
workmen, employees &c., is recorded by each of such employees themselves.
My object is to provide a mechanism by which each workman or employee in a
shop or factory, or the like, will, by his own act accurately record the time of his
arrival or departure, thereby preventing all disputes each workman having his
own key, and being known by an arbitrary number, which is embossed upon the bit
of the key, and upon its being inserted and turned, will present the embossed
number in alignment with the numbers upon the hour and minute registering
wheels, and through the agency of a hammer and pad thereon actuated by the key,
and a ribbon and strip of paper, in proper juxtaposition, the hour, minute and the
number of the key will be printed upon the paper, and a feed mechanism will shift
the paper and ribbon a fixed space ready for the operation of the printing mechanism
by the next workman and the recording of his time and the number of his key, as
before.
Then the time" of each workman is made up from the paper strip crediting
each one with the time between his arrival and departure, whether it be full time,
or only a part thereof.
My invention consists in the several novel features of construction and operation
hereinafter described and which are specifically set forth in the claims hereunto
annexed.
It is constructed as follows, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,
in which
Fig. 1, is a front elevation of a clock having its front broken away to show the
recording mechanism.
Fig. 2, is an enlarged front elevation of the recording mechanism.

page_text: in partly dotted lines.
Fig. 4, is a top plan of the hour and minute recording wheels and the mechanism
for actuating them inserted and turned into position in alignment with these wheels,
ready for the making of the impression or print, as shown in Fig. 3.
Fig. 5, is a sectional elevation of the recording mechanisin, the front being
removed, and the hour and minute wheels, and the means for actuating them, being
also left off, and showing in dotted lines the position assumed by the hammer and
helve and their operating mechanism when a key is turned, and just at the instant
when the hammer is about to be released by a slight further movement of
the key.
Fig. 6, is an elevation of the combined paper, and ribbon feed mechanism,
detached.
Fig. 7, is a side elevation of the key having an arbitrary number upon a bit
thereof, and offset from and substantially parallel with the shank of the key.
Fig. 8, is a top plan thereof.
Fig. 9, is a sectional detail of the hour recording wheel, and the one-toothed gear
for actuating it.
Fig. 10, is a front elevation of the key-locking pawl, the parallel bars supporting
it, and the shaft to which said bars are secured.
Fig. 11, is a side elevation of the pawl detached.
Fig. 12, shows the key turned in the key holder and the hammer in the act of
making an impression.
Fig. 13, is an isometrical elevation of the key receiver.
Fig. 14, is a detached elevation of the receiver and key.
Fig. 15, is a sectional elevation showing the key partly turned, and the ward
locked with the swinging pawl.
Fig. 16, is a like view of the same parts, showing the key ward just as it has
passed the lower end of the pawl, and released the hammer printing mechanism to
strike its blow.
Fig. 17, shows the same parts after a hammer blow, and the key partly turned
back, and in the act of passing back through under the pawl.
A, is the case enclosing a clock-work, upon the minute shaft of which I mount a
spur gear 1, meshing with and rotating another gear 2, and the shaft 3, and gear 4,
which engages with and rotates the gear 5, which is secured upon the horizontal
shaft 6, which rotates the gear 7 upon, this shaft, and this gear meshes with and
rotates the gear 8, which is mounted loosely upon the shaft 9, and is either
integral with or connected to the disk or minute wheel 10, also loose on this
shaft:
Upon the periphery or outer face of the rim of this wheel, consecutive figures
from 1 to 60, both inclusive, are embossed.
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The gear 8 has sixty teeth or cogs, and the gears 1, 2, 4, 5 and 7 are all properly
timed with the clock movement, so that the minute wheel rotates in exact time
with the minute hand.
Upon the shaft 9 and alongside of the minute wheel, I mount loosely the hour
wheel 11, provided on its face with figures from 1 to 12 both inclusive.
In the drawings Fig. 4, I show each of these numbers, duplicated for reasons
hereinafter set forth.
Integral with or connected with, and mounted alongside of the hour wheel 11, is
the disk 12, loose upon said shaft. This disk has 12 notchés, 13 in its periphery or
rim, and the rim is concaved between said notches as shown.
Another disk 14 is mounted upon the shaft 6, is provided with a tooth 15, in a
concavity 16, in its rim, and this tooth is adapted to engage successively with the
notches upon the disk 12, with each rotation of the disk 14, and as this disk 14 is
timed to rotate once in an hour, each rotation will rotate the hour wheel the distance
of one hour space thereon.
Suitable collars on the shaft 9 hold the wheels and disks in place thereon.

page_text: The key receiver 17 consists of a cylinder journaled upon its outer end in the
casing, slotted longitudinally as at 18, and notched transversely as at 19 see
Figure 14, so that the shank 20, of the key, will fit loosely in the barrel of the
receiver, and the bit 21 will move longitudinally and fit freely in the slot 18.
The key is of substantially the form shown in Fig. 7, its ward 22, being beveled
outwardly to its outer end, and its bit 21, has embossed upon its outer end, a figure
or series of figures or characters, or a name, which will designate a particular
workman.
In this invention all of the keys are of the same size and form, and vary only in
the numbers upon the outer end of the bits thereof.
When the key is inserted in the receiver and turned, the receiver is rotated
with it, the ward comes into contact with the key locking pawl 23. This pawl is
pivotally hung between the parallel bars 24, and has a convex outer face, and a
serrated or stepped inner face 25 Figures 10 and 11, and the key ward comes into
contact with these steps successively.
A pin 26 (Fig. 10) bears with its projecting ends upon the parallel bars 24, and
operates as a lever, in conjunction with the key ward, to force these bars outward.
This rotates the shaft 27 to which the bars are secured, raising the arm 28
secured to said shaft, which pulls up the connecting rod 29, and arm 30, secured
to the shaft 31, which carries the hammer helve and the partial rotation of this
shaft throws the printing hammer 32 away from the printing point, all as shown in
Fig. 5.
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Then as the key ward at about a quarter turn, passes the lower end of the pawl;
this whole mechanism is released, and the spring 33 throws the hammer against the
paper strip 34, and inking ribbon a Figure 12 and the face of the hour and minute
wheels, and against the figures upon the end of the bit of the key, and thus imprints
upon the paper, the number of the key, the hour and the minute.
As the key is turned, the beveled point of the ward engages with and is locked
by each step, through the tension of the spring 33, so that the key cannot be turned
back or removed until an impression has actually been made.
The key receiver rotating with the key forms a backing for the key when the
impression blow is struck, and insures a good impression.
A rod 35 Figures 3 & 6 is pivotally connected to the arm 30, and at its upper
end is connected to the arm 36, and 37 is a pawl mounted thereon, and engaging
with the ratchet wheel 38, the hub of which fits through the arm 36, and 39 is the
shaft upon which the ratchet is secured.
Upon this shaft 39, (Fig. 3) a roller 40 is secured.
Upon the hub of the ratchet wheel, is a pin or stud 41 adapted to engage with
the teeth of the star wheel 42, successively with each rotation of the ratchet. This
star wheel is secured upon the shaft 43, journaled transversely in the casing, and a
ribbon spool 44, is secured upon the shaft and rotates with it, by the rotation of the
star wheel by the engagement of said pin with said star-wheel, so that this mechanism
constitutes the ribbon feed, the ribbon being wound below upon the spool 45 (see
Fig. 3), and is actuated whenever the ratchet is rotated a full revolution by the
raising of the arm 30 of the hammer mechanism.
A rod 46 (Fig. 3) is journaled in the casing, and 47 are the side bars of a frame
which are secured upon said rod, 48 is a central cross bar between these side bars,
49 is a top cross bar; and 50 is a torsion spring secured to said rod, and connected
to the top cross bar, so that the torsion of the spring will press the roller 51 (upon
which the strip of paper is wound), journaled in the bars 47, against the roller 40
and the rotation of the star wheel and its shaft rotates the roller 40, and the grip
upon the paper, these rollers and the rotation of the roller 40, constitute the
frictional paper feed.
As before stated, when the ward 22 of the key slips off from the lower end of the
pawl 23, the hamnier impression mechanism is thereby released and the impression
is made.

page_text: When thus released, the pawl assumes its normal vertical position, as shown in
Fig. 5, and the key ward is horizontal, the same as the bit is shown in Fig. 12. This
pawl is free to swing outward.
Then as the key is turned back, the ward will strike against the back side of and
swing the pawl outward and just before the ward reaches a vertical position, it
passes out of its engagement with said pawl, which then falls back to its normal
position. The back side of this pawl is curved so as to facilitate this disengagement
of the ward from the frictional contact of the ward. When this ward then reaches
a vertical position, the key can be withdrawn, and then only. This leaves the pawl
and impression mechanism, all in position ready to be operated by the next key.
It will be seen that the key makes only a quarter turn to bring the bit upon the
printing line that the impression is made at the instant it reaches that point; that
a quarter of a turn back, enables me to remove the key; and that the whole
operation of recording only occupies the minimum of time.
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A stop pin 52 Figure 5 projecting from the key receiver, and engaging with the
shaft, limits the backward rotation of this receiver, when the key is turned back,
after an impression has been made, as aforesaid, and holds the receiver in position
for the withdrawal of the key and for the insertion of the next key; and another
stop 53 checks the forward rotation of the key and receiver, when the key bit
reaches the printing line.
As will be seen in Figs. 3 & 5 the pawl 23 is shown so long that it could not be
swung outward by the key ward, nor could it drop back, as above described, unless
provision was made therefor.
Accordingly I cut a notch 19 transverse to the receiver, through which the lower
end of the pawl swings forward across over the receiver, and through which it drops
back when disengaged from the key ward.
A pawl 55 (Fig. 6) regulates the rotation of the star wheel.
A guard plate 56 (Fig. 3) fitting between the bit and ward of the key when it is
turned, holds the key in place longitudinally until it is turned back.
The numbers upon the hour wheel are duplicated for the reason that there is a
liability that an operating key may be inserted and operated while the gear 14 is
rotating said wheel in which case if there was only a single number upon the wheel
the impression would be part of the figure for one hour and part of that of the suc-
ceeding hour and be consequently imperfect; while by my double figures, the wheel
will always print XI until XII is actually in the printing line.
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 is
1 :-The combination with the key, the bit thereon carrying the numeral or
character, the beveled ward upon said key, and the slotted receiver receiving the
key, of a swinging pawl provided with a series of steps on its face with which the
key ward successively engages.
2-The combination with the key, its beveled ward, and numbered bit, and the
slotted key receiver, of a swinging pawl provided with steps on its face, with which
the key ward successively engages, a frame with which said pawl engages when the
key is turned and intermediate mechanism actuated by the movement of said frame-
by which the hammer is actuated, hour and minute recording wheels, and a
recording strip.
3: A clock movement and hour and minute recording wheels, synchronous
mechanism actuating said wheels, a key provided with a bit carrying numbers
brought into alignment with the hour and minute wheels by the turning of the key,
a recording strip and an impression hammer, in combination, as set forth.
4: A clock movement, hour and minute recording wheels, synchronous
mechanism actuating said wheels independent of each other, and actuated by the
clock movement, a key provided with a bit carrying numbers brought into align-

page_text: ment with the hour and minute wheels by the turning of the key, a ward upon the
key, a recording strip, an impression hammer operated by mechanism actuated by
the ward of said key as it is turned, in combination as set forth.
Dated this 27th day of May 1891.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, Agents for the Applicant.