Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Mar., 1887
Compete Left, 7th Dec., 1887
Complete Accepted, 13th Jan., 1888
I HENRY COWARD WORTH EMERY of 77 Southwark Street, Surrey, Engineer do
hereby declare the nature of my said invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is, to construct and arrange certain appliances to
constitute an apparatus in or by which the times of the entry of workmen and others
into factories or the like may he recorded.
The appliances are contained in a box and are composed of a wheel, the periphery
of which is sectioned or partitioned off into the desired number of compartments or
pockets for the reception of Tickets.
The wheel is mounted on an axle and is connected by a spiral spring attached to a
cross bar or other fixed part so that the wheel can be turned by hand to wind up the
spring in order to set the wheel to any given time say a.m., supposing work to
commence at that hour, an indication of that hour being seen through a glass panel
fitted in the lid of the box.
One part of the periphery of the wheel is labelled or marked with the hours of the
day and also with divisions of each hour according to the width of the pockets which
indications appear in succession through the glass panel as the wheel is permitted to
move over the distance, this being effected by a kind of tappet or equivalent controlled
and operated by ordinary clock gear also contained in the box and preferably arranged
horizontally therein upon a shelf near the upper part.
The front face of the wheel is marked with divisions of time and has a number of
holes in it for the insertion of a pin or stud into that part indicating the hour
corresponding to the commencement of the days work or of some fixed time prior to
that; thus, supposing the working hours of the day to be 10 and the men commence
at 6 a.m. the pin is inserted into a hole opposite say 545, the pin then comes into
contact with and removes a rod or catch from a drawer to enable the draw to be slid
outwards by a spring and expose tickets contained in it for the workmen to take as
they arrive who then write their respective names or other marks for identification on
the tickets and insert them through a slit in the lid to fall into the pocket which is
directly under it, the wheel being stationary up to 6 o'clock and for say 5 minutes

page_text: after. The escapement or tappet then allows the wheel to escape the width of one
pocket, the drawer remaining open so that workinen coming late can have their time
recorded in a similar manner.
I have referred to the boxes having one drawer only but there may be any number
of drawers to open simultaneou-ly or otherwise for tickets of different colours.
The invention is described for checking the entry of workmen but it is applicable
for checking the times for delivery or sending out of parcels and goods also for
recording the progress of work and of duties to be performed at given intervals
of time.
The clock gear is of the ordinary construction and according to the required
divisions of time at which the wheel is desired to move to change the compartments
so the escapement of the tappet is arranged to operate. A standard or other dial can
be arranged in connection so that the persons when inserting the tickets can see
the proper time.
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H. GARDNER,
166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said H. C. W. Emery.

page_text: I, HENRY COWARD WORTH EMERY, of 77 Southwark Street, Surrey, Engineer do
hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to bu
performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
The object of this invention is to construct and arrange certain appliances to
constitute an apparatus in or by which the times of the entry of workmen and others
into factories or the like may be recorded.
The invention will be clearly understood by the annexed drawings Figures 1, 2,
and 3.
The appliances are contained in a box A and are composed of a wheel B,
the periphery of which is sectioned or partitioned off into the desired number of
compartments or pockets C for the reception of Tickets, as seen at Figures 1 and 2.
The wheel B is mounted on an axle and is connected by a spiral spring D attached
to a cross har E or other fixed part, so that the wheel can be turned by hand to
wind up the spring D in order to set the wheel B to any given time, say, 6 a.m.
supposing work to commence at that hour, an indication of that hour being seen
through a glass panel F fitted in the lid of the box.
One part of the periphery of the wheel B is labelled or marked with the hours of
the day and also with divisions of each hour according to the width of the pockets,
which indications appear in succession through the glass panel F as the wheel B is
permitted to move over the distance, this being effected by a kind of tappet or
equivalent H, seen in enlarged view Figure 3, controlled and operated by ordinary
clock gear I also contained in the box A and preferably arranged horizontally therein
upon a shelf J near the upper part as seen at Figure 2.
The front face of the wheel is marked with divisions of time and has a number
of holes K in it for the insertion of a pin or stud 1. into that part indicating the hour
corresponding to the commencement of the day's work or of some fixed time prior to
that, thus, supposing the working hours of the day to be 10, and the men commenced
ai 6 a.m. the pin 1. is inserted into a hole opposite, say 5.15 the pin then coming
into contact with a lip a set in the path of the pin L said lip a being part of a lever b
and removes a rod M'or catch from a drawer N to enable the drawer to be slid out-
wards by a spring P and expose tickets contained in it for the workmen to take as
they arrive, who then write their respective names or other marks for identification
on the tickets and insert them through a slit Q in the lid to fall into the pocket C
which is directly under it the wheel B moving intermittently for the pockets to arrive
in succession under the slot Q for receiving the tickets.
This intermittent motion is caused by the withdrawal of the tappet II at say, every
half minute of time by the cam S, as it rotates drawing the tappet suddenly back and
as released to suddenly return under the action of the spring R.

page_text: I have referred to the box as having one drawer only but there may be any number
of drawers to open simultaneously or otherwise for say tickets of different colours.
The invention is described for checking the entry of workmen but it is applicable for
checking the times of delivery or sending out of parcels and goods also for recording
the progress of work and of duties to be performed at given intervals of time.
The clock gear I is of the ordinary construction and according to the required
divisions of time at which the wheel B is desired to move to change the compartiments
so the escapement or the tappet H is arranged to operate. A standard or other dial
can be arranged in connection, so that the persons when inserting the tickets can see
the proper time.
The axle of the cam S carries a disc with numerals on it whien can be seen in
successive order through the aperture T of the lid of the box.
I have shown the apparatus Figure 1 provided with three levers & so that supposing
a workman to arrive at three different periods of the day all the tickets having been
abstracted from the drawer and inserted in the pocket C of the wheel B a second pin
or stud being inserted into one of the other ring of holes can come in contact with
its lip of say lever e for the drawer N to be released for the tickets in that drawer to
be abstracted and inserted through the slot T so that they lodge in other pockets C
of the wheel B for registering the entry of the second or later workmen. If a third
set of workmen come in at a different hour a pin or stud is placed in the inner ring
of holes of the wheel B so that at the proper time the lever d is oporated for the
drawer N to be released.
If the tickets in the three drawers be of separate colours, the entry of workmen
within the prescribed limits of time would be apparent from the position they occupy
in the wheel B.
I have in Figure 1 shown the wheel marked off for 12 hours but it may be
for 24 or any other fixed period the wheel making one complete revolution in
that time.
The tickets are prevented leaving the wheel by the shield B¹.
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
As a tell tale or registering apparatus for the purpose or purposes described, the
pocketed wheel B releasable intermittently for rotation by the tappet H actuated by
clock gear, said wheel B having on its face a series of holes for the insertion of studs
which operate levers and release drawers for exposing tickets the whole arranged
substantially as shown in the annexed drawings.
The 7th day of December 1887.