Improvements in Electric Time Checking and Registering Apparatus.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 5th May, 1892
Complete Specification Left, 10th Aug., 1892-Accepted, 17th Sept., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Electric Time Checking and Registering
Apparatus.
I CHARLES MILES of 6 Wells Road Totterdown Bristol do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to an improved method of checking and registering all
employées at any time fixed upon by the employer: the nature of which is as
follows-I use a galvanic battery governed by a clock in the following manner.
I employ a box having one or more slots which have beneath them shutters: to
each shutter I attach an electric wire which is connected to the dial of a clock &
fixed at the time the shutter is required to open. To obtain the necessary action
of the shutters I use electro magnets so fixed that when the contact is made by the
clock the magnets attract the shutters bringing them over and beyond the slots
giving a fair way for the check to drop through into a box provided. The length
of contact is so arranged that at the required time the circuit is broken and the
shutters fall into their former position. Should a check now be put into the box
it would be returned at the front or sides.
To indicate the number of checks put into the box I employ suitable means by
which the dropping of the check actuates a lever which either indicates the check
(by puncture) on a strip of suitable material or takes the impression of the same:
thus countering any error in booking up.
Attached to the battery is a call bell or gong to work in conjunction or inde-
pendent of the shutters, which is also governed by the clock: and adjustable at
any time.
I do not confine myself strictly to these details but what I claim is the improved
method and principles herein mentioned and by which the apparatus is governed.
Dated this Fourth day of May 1892.
CHAS. MILES,
6, Wells Road, Totterdown, Bristol.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Electric Time Checking and Registering
Apparatus.
I CHARLES MILES of 6 Wells Road Totterdown Bristol in the County of
Somerset, Engineer 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 an improved and economical method of checking and
governing the time of workmen or employees at any period of time or at any place
predetermined by the employer.
In carrying my invention into effect I use a box of convenient size, shape, and
of suitable material: having the required number of slots at the top to receive a
check or checks; inside the box and directly beneath said slots I place shutters at
such an angle that these cross the slots and the dropping line of the check or
checks through the said slots. The angular line of the shutters is carried to and
through the front of the said box, and this is designed to carry the check or
checks through the front of the box the use of which will be hereinafter described.
Directly in front of the said shutters are placed electro magnets one to each shutter

page_text: Figure 5, is a front elevated section of the said box, through a. b. Figure 7.
Figure 6, is a plan of the box having the top removed, and giving a plan view of
the electro magnets and shutters.
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Figure 7, is an end elevated section through the line C D. Figure 6.
the check Figures 7. and 8.
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Figure 8 is another section through the line E. F. Figure 6, shewing the shutter
when not affected by the magnet.
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The working and the uses of the various parts as shewn by the drawings are
as follows,
For example.
As the hour hand of the clock passes round the dial of the said clock and touches
the contact plate E, Sheet 4, the current is conducted along the wire F, from the
battery to the spindle of the clock passing along the hour hand and is taken off by
the contact plate E, is conducted by one of the wires Figures 1, and 4, Sheet 1,
and 2, to the coil i. Figure 6, shews the connection through said coil and the
return to the battery by the conductor j, vide Figures 3, and 4, Sheets 1, and 2, 3
thus vitalizing the electro magnet which instantly attracts the shutter K, Figures 6,
and 7, Sheets 3, and 4, over and beyond the slot as shewn in Figure 6, Sheet 3,
the shutter is firmly held by magnetic attraction during the time the hand is in
contact with the plate E, affording space for the check or checks to drop freely
through into the drawer L, Figure 6, Sheet 3, the said drawer being divided into as 4
many partitions as there are slots; the contact plate E being adjusted for any
required time for opening and shutting.
As the minute hand of the clock before mentioned arrives at the required figure
of the time the hour hand leaves the contact plate the circuit is broken, the
magnet releases the shutter which then falls back into its original position and 4
remains at rest until the said hour hand comes round and completes the electric
circuit again Should a check now be put into the slot it would be diverted, slide
down the groove M, Figure, 8, Sheet 4, and pass out through the front, dropping
into the till N, Figure 8, Sheet 4, and be returned to the employee.
The example shewn and as described refers to 9 o'c. The other numbers 6, 5
and 2, represent a days work of three periods, but the arraingment of slots, and
magnets, can be increased to as may be required.
Inside the box I place a small electric bell which is included in the circuit and
caused to ring by the shutters making contact while they are attracted by the
magnets, and which action ceases the moment that the shutter is released as before 5
described.

page_text: 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.
First. In electrical time checking apparatus the arrangement, construction, and
use of the combination of electro magnets and shutters with slots for the insertion
of checks substantially as herein described with reference to the appended
drawings.
Second. In an electrical time checking apparatus the arraingment of automatic
electrical connections substantially as and for the purpose herein set forth with
reference to the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 4th day of A no 1809
CHARLES MILES.