Attendance and Payment Registers.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Feb., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Nov., 1890-Accepted, 31st Jan., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Attendance and Payment Registers.
WILLIAM HACKETT 100 Drayton Park Highbury N. Jeweller do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
An easy and rapid method of recording attendance and payments at Day schools,
Sunday schools, Bands of Hope and the like-by means of perforated plates, into
which a child can place a peg against its number and so register its own attendance
on a prepared sheet underneath. By a similar arrangement, the teacher can record
the payments. The invention is equally applicable for factories or any places where
large numbers of people are employed.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Attendance and Payment Registers.
WILLIAM HACKETT 100 Drayton Park Highbury N. Jeweller do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
My invention is specially applicable to schools but is not limited to that purpose
and supplies in a compact form an attendance & payment marker. To show how
my invention may be carried out I furnish drawings in which the same numbers
represent corresponding parts throughout.
Fig. 1 is the case desk or frame (of any form shape or size) ready for use.
Fig. 2 is the plate of metal or other suitable material and which is hinged to Fig. 1
at either top, side, or bottom and is perforated with holes each large hole having a
smaller hole immediately above it.
Fig. 3 is the bed of frame which fits into Fig. 4 having perforations therein to
correspond with the smaller holes in Fig. 2. Under the said plate (Fig. 2) and
above the said bed (Fig. 3) i.e. between Figs. 1 and 3 is placed a prepared sheet of
paper.
Fig. 4 is the outside of Fig. 1 with drawer for pegs or punch.
Fig. 5 is the prepared sheet of paper with consecutive numbers printed thereon
so that when placed in position the said numbers shew themselves through the
larger of the holes in Fig. 2.
Fig. 6 is the peg or punch for insertion in the smaller holes in Fig. 2 for
the purpose of making the perforations through or in the prepared paper in
Fig. 5.
The method of using the apparatus is as follows In the case of schools each
child on entering is furnished by an attendant with a peg or punch to be inserted
in the small hole immediately above its registered number or the attendant may
make such insertion for the child-the same method applies to factories or any other
place where the apparatus can be used. After the registration of such attendance
the sheet is removed and shews by perforation each individual present thus the
result (by a simple and effectual process) is a permanent record which may be
utilised for filling up a register or preserved for a stated period and bound when it
becomes a register in itself without the trouble of writing.
The payment apparatus is in all respects the same with the single exception that
the smaller hole in the plate Fig. 2 is made somewhat larger to allow of one or

page_text: more (as required) small perforations being made above each number in the prepared
sheet Fig. 5 by means of punches capable of making perforations denoting an
agreed amount.
Having now particularly described & 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
An easy and rapid method of recording attendances and payments at Day schools,
Sunday schools, Bands of Hope, factories and the like as described in the foregoing
Specification and shewn in the drawings.
Dated this 2nd day of Nanomhan 1000.
WILLIAM HACKETT.