IMPROVEMENTS FOR INDICATING THE TIME WHEN PERSONS COMMENCE AND LEAVE THEIR WORK OR CALLING
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Adams, of Aldwincle, in the County of North-
ampton, Gentleman, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS FOR INDICATING
THE TIME WHEN PERSONS COMMENCE AND LEAVE THEIR WORK OR CALLING."
Sealed the 8th January 1856, and dated the 11th July 1855.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Adams at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 11th
July 1855.
T, JOHN ADAMS, of Aldwincle, in the County of Northampton, Gentleman,
do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS FOR INDI-
CATING THE TIME WHEN PERSONS COMMENCE AND LEAVE THEIR WORK OR CALLING "
to be as follows:-
According to my Invention a series of cells or chambers are caused to
revolve regularly by clock-work. These revolving cells are enclosed in a box,
in the top of which is an aperture, from which descends a tube. The cells or
chambers are by the motion of the clock-work brought successively under the
end of the tube, so that a card or ticket put in at the aperture in the top of the
box descends by the tube into one or other of the revolving cells or chambers,
and thus registers the time at which it was put into the box.
Or, in some
cases, in place of making the chambers or cells to revolve, I connect the
descending tube with the clock-work, and thus deliver the card or ticket into
one or other of the stationary chambers or cells.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Adams in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 11th
January 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
ADAMS, of Aldwincle, in the County of Northampton, Gentleman, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the nineteenth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself. Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said John Adams, Her special licence that I, the said John Adams, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said John
Adams, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during
the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS FOR
INDICATING THE TIME WHEN PERSONS COMMENCE AND LEAVE THEIR WORK OR
CALLING," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said John Adams,
my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or
their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be
performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office
within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that J, the said John Adams, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement
thercof, that is to say:-
According to my Invention a series of cells or chambers are caused to
revolve regularly by clock-work. These revolving cells are enclosed in a box,
in the top of which is an aperture, from which descends a tube. The cells or
chambers are by the motion of the clock-work brought successively under the
end of the tube, so that a card or ticket put in at the aperture in the top of
the box descends by the tube into one or other of the revolving cells or chambers, s
and thus registers the time at which it was put into the box. Or, in some
cases, in place of making the chambers or cells to revolve, I connect the

page_text: descending tube with the clock-work, and thus deliver the card or ticket into
one or other of the stationary chambers or cells.
And in order that my said Invention may be most fully understood and
readily carried into effect, I will proceed to describe the Drawing hereunto
annexed.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure shows a vertical section of an apparatus arranged according to my
Invention. a is a cylinder, in which a series of chambers are formed; this
cylinder is mounted on an axis b. c is a bevilled wheel, also mounted on the
axis b; and d is a bevilled pinion, receiving motion from suitable clock-work,
and communicating it to the wheel c and the cylinder a; c is a slit, passing
through the top of the box f, through which the tickets are introduced into
the compartments of the cylinder a; thus it is evident that the position of
the ticket in the cylinder a will determine the time at which it was put in.
Figure 2 shows a plan of the cylinder a; Figure 3 shows, in vertical section,
another method of arranging apparatus according to my Invention. g, g, are
the series of chambers arranged in a circle on the bottom of the box; his a
bent tube, carried at its upper end by the bearing i, and resting at bottom
on the centre k. On the tube ha tooth wheel is mounted, which receives
motion from suitable clock-work, and causes the tube to rotate slowly.
Z is a hole in the top of the box, through which counters or tickets are
introduced, and it is evident that the position of the counter in the series of
chambers will indicate the time at which it was introduced.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Adams, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eleventh day of January, in the year of our Lord
One thousand cight hundred and fifty-six.
Witness,
W. CARPMAEL, Jun.
JOHN ADAMS. (L.S.)