Improvements in Time Recording Devices.
Year: 1898

page_text: Improvements in Time Recording Devices.
I, HENRY KING, of the St. Leonards Collegiate School, St. Leonards-on-Sea, in the
County of Sussex, Schoolmaster, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:—
This invention relates to time recording devices and has for its object the arrange-
ment and construction of a simple mechanism whereby a clock or time piece is
adapted to record on a separate dial or dials, face or faces provided with hands or
other indicators the time or the sum of the times, occupied by a certain operation or
series of operations, the mechanism being so arranged as to enable any dial or face
to be immediately connected with or disconnected from the clock or time piece at the
will of the operator.
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This device is particularly applicable for recording the periods of time occupied by
two or more opponents or competitors at a game of chess or any other trial of skill,
of work, or of endurance. It is obvious however that it may be used for many other
purposes, such as for example, recording the time occupied by any piece of work
whether performed at one time or in several portions or by recording the time during
which a messenger is engaged on his commission.
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To carry my invention into effect I take any ordinary clock or time piece and I attach
to it externally a cog wheel, wheel or other gear connected with the minute or hour
band mechanism.
I mount upon a board, plate or other support a dial or face, or a series of dials or
faces having time divisions, and to each dial or face, I arrange a hand or hands or
index driven by a cog-wheel, wheel or other gearing attached thereto.
This board plate or other support is mounted upon a foundation carrying the clock
or time piece in such a manner as to be capable of movement relative to the clock or
time piece, so that the mechanism of each dial or face can be brought into contact
with the cog-wheel, wheel or other gear attached to the clock or time-piece, so that
the clock or time piece, when going will move the hand or hands or other index of
the particular dial or face so brought into contact therewith.
To each main dial or face I provide a supplemental dial or face with the necessary
gearing to indicate hours, and also another supplemental dial or face to indicate
seconds or to otherwise shew that the mechanism of that particular main dial or face
is being worked by the clock or time-piece.
The board, plate or other support carrying the dials or faces may if desired be
adapted to fall down out of the way of the clock or time-piece in order to obtain
access to the same.
FELL & JAMES,
1, Queen Victoria Street, London, E.C., Agents for the Applicant.

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Improvements in Time Recording Devices.
I, HENRY KING, of the St. Leonards Collegiate School, St. Leonards-on-Sea, in the
County of Sussex, Schoolmaster, 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 time recording devices and has for its object the arrange-
ment and construction of a simple mechanism whereby a clock or time piece is
adapted to record on a separate dial or dials face or faces provided with hands or
other indicators the time or the sum of the times, occupied by a certain
operation or series of operations, the mechanism being so arranged as to enable
any dial or face to be immediately connected with or disconnected from the clock or
time piece at the will of the operator.
This device is particularly applicable for recording the periods of time occupied
by two or more opponents or competitors at a game of chess, or at any other trial of
skill, of work, or of endurance. It is obvious however that it may be used for many
other purposes, such as for example, recording the time occupied by any piece of work
whether performed at one time or in several portions, or by recording the time a
telephone is in use, a clerk is employed in his writing, a speaker is addressing an
audience, a chemist or other operator is engaged in a laboratory process or
experiment.
To carry my invention into effect I take any ordinary clock or time piece and
I attach to it externally a cog wheel, wheel or other gear connected with the minute
or hour hand mechanism, of such clock.
I mount upon a board plate or other support a dial or face or a series of dials or
faces having time divisions, and to each dial or face I arrange a hand or hands or
index driven by a cog-wheel, wheel or other gearing attached thereto.
This board plate or other support is mounted upon a foundation carrying the
clock or time piece in such a manner as to be capable of movement relative to
the clock or time piece, so that the mechanism of each dial or face can be brought
into contact with the cog-wheel, wheel or other gear attached to the clock or time
piece, so that the clock or time piece, when going will move the hand or hands or
other index of the particular dial or face so brought into contact therewith.
Or equivalently I may adapt the various dials to slide or move upon their
support relatively to the clock so as to engage with and be disengaged from the
gearing of the clock at will.
To each main dial or face I provide a supplemental dial or face with the necessary
gearing to indicate hours, or other divisions of time, and also another supplemental
dial or face to indicate seconds or to otherwise shew that the mechanism of that
particular main dial or face is being worked by the clock or time piece.
The board plate or other support carrying the dials or faces may if desired be
adapted to fall down out of the way of the clock or time-piece in order to obtain
access to the same.
In order that my invention may be the better understood I will now proceed to
describe the same in relation to the drawings hereunto annexed, reference being had
to the letters and figures marked thereon, like letters referring to like parts in the
various figures.
Figure 1 is a front elevation of one form of my invention.
Figure 2 is a rear elevation of the vertical support for the dials..
Figure 3 is a side elevation of the complete device as shewn in Figure 1.

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Figure 5 is a rear elevation of the clock with the vertical support removed.
Figure 6 is a front elevation of a modified form of my device.
Figure 7 is a back elevation of the same.
Figure 8 is a detail view of the sliding sleeve carrying the indicating dial and gear
wheels.
Figure 9 is a sectional view of the same.
Figures 10 11 and 12 are further modified arrangements of gearing.
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Referring to the form of device shown in Figures 1 to 5 it will be seen that an
ordinary clock A is attached to an angular support B to which is hinged the vertical
board C. This board is adapted to slide laterally a small distance upon its hinge
pivot a, this is shown in Figure 4. The arbor of the minute hand of the clock
carries a cog wheel D, the arbor being supported by a standard E carried by the
angular support B. The board C carries two cog wheels F F which gear with cog
wheels G G which are connected to the index fingers H H of the dials J J which are
mounted upon the front face of the board C. A small dial K with gear wheel L. is
provided to each dial J and operated by the cog wheel G to indicate the hours or the
number of times the large hand has been round the dial. Another sinall dial with
index finger M is also provided, operated through the wheel N by the wheel F to
indicate the fact that the particular index-finger desired is working. The board C
can be folded down backwards in order to obtain access to the back of the clock and
when in the vertical position is maintained in place by the jamming screw O which
passes through the board and engages in the standard E. It will be seen that when
the board C is slid to its full extent transversely relative to the clock in one direction
or the other, one or other of the wheels F engage with the cog wheel D of the clock,
and the index finger of the dial is operated. When slid half way neither wheel F is
engaged.
In Figures 10, 11 and 12, I show an equivalent arrangement in which in place
of the transverse rectilinear motion there is substituted an oscillating motion the
supporting lever C₁ carrying the dials J J in the arrangement shown in Figures 10
and 11 and their gearing being pivotted on the clock at the point P, so that either.
one or other dial can be put into motion according to the side to which the lever C¹
is tilted, in an equivalent manner to that herein before described.
In the case of the arrangement shown in Figure 12 the dials are mounted
stationary on the support carrying the clock.
In Figures 6 and 7 the clock A is supported in the centre of a cruciform frame
or one with radiating arms and each dial J and its gearing is mounted upon a sleeve R
adapted to slide upon one of the radiating arms of the frame so as to be moved
relatively to the clock with great facility. It will be seen from Figure 7 that the
4 upper dials are disengaged from and the two lower dials are engaged with the cog
wheel D of the clock A. I provide memorandum tablets upon the frame adjacent
to the dials J J upon which any given fact can be recorded which may have reference
to the particular dial adjacent to it. The sleeve R is provided with a spring tongue
having a projection U which is adapted to engage into either one of the holes Vin
the arms of the frame so as to maintain the wheels into or out of engagement as cir-
cumstances require. A plurality of separate and independent operations can be timed
by this arrangement.
It is obvious that the devices as illustrated in Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, and 10 can be made
with the supplemental dials facing in the opposite direction to the main dial, in
which case the cog wheels F would not be necessary, the wheels G and D gearing
direct into one another. This arrangement is clearly seen in Fig. 11. This would
considerably lessen the amount of mechanism and the cost of manufacture. This
device is applicable for use when it is not necessary that the true time by the clock
or time-piece should be known at a glance. In the devices illustrated in Figs. 10, 11
and 12, I fit retaining devices such as spring tongues T to maintain the desired dial
and gearing in engagement with the clock. It is obvious that every one of the

page_text: devices can be fitted with hour band arrangements similar to that shown in
Figures 1 and 2.
Further by centrally dividing the board C vertically as indicated by dotted line 1-2,
(Figures 1, 2 and 4) each dial can be put into and taken out of action independently
of the other dial. If toothed wheels are found not to act satisfactorily in any par-
ticular case I may substitute therefor wheels driving by frictional contact.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1st. A time recording device consisting of a timing mechanism, in combination
with a frame carrying the timing mechanism a plurality of independent indicating
dials provided with indicators operated by gearing carried by the said frame and
adapted to move thereon relatively to the timing device so that the gearing of the
said indicators can be engaged with and disengaged from the gearing of the timing
device, substantially as described.
2nd. In a time recording device, a timing mechanism mounted upon a support in
combination with another support adjustably engaged upon the first support and
carrying two independent dials provided with indicators and gearing adapted so that
either will engage with the timing mechanism according to the relative position of
the dial support with the timing device, substantially as described.
3rd. In a time recording device a timing mechanism in combination with two
independent dials provided with indicating mechanism, the said mechanism of the
independent dials being adapted to engage with the timing mechanism so that when
one indicator is operating the other is non-operative, substantially as described.
4th. A time recording device, having two independent dials and a timing mechanism
adapted for positive alternative simultaneous engagement and disengagement
respectively, substantially as described, and illustrated in Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10 11
& 12 of the accompanying drawings.
5th. A time recording device, having a plurality of independent dials adapted to
be engaged with and disengaged from the timing mechanism, substantially as
described, and illustrated in Fig. 6, 7, 8 & 9 of the accompanying drawings.
1000
FELL & JAMES,
1, Queen Victoria Street, London, E.C., Agents for the Applicant.