Improvements in Apparatus for Checking Workmen's Time.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 19th July, 1899
Complete Specification Left, 21st Mar., 1900 -Accepted, 21st Apr., 1900
Date of Application, 19th July, ro
Complete Specification Left, 21st Mar., 1900 -Accepted, 21st Apr., 1900
[Communicated from abroad by KARL PUTTKAMMER and FRIEDRICHI ORTHMANN,
both of Charlottenburg, in the Empire of Germany.]
Improvements in Apparatus for Checking Workmen's Time.
I, HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake & Co., Patent Agents,
45, Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to apparatus for checking workmens time of that class
in which the counters or checks are collected in different receivers according to
the time at which they are dropped into the apparatus.
In existing apparatus of this type the check-receivers are moved in succession
into the path of the chute in connection with the inlet aperture, the intermittent
movement at the required time being generally obtained by means of a clock-
driven contact. This arrangement requires an electro-magnet for each receiver
which allows only of a limited number of receivers being adopted besides ren-
dering the apparatus unwarrantably costly.
Another disadvantage in connection with this type of apparatus is that the
check-receivers in which the checks are collected are not sufficiently protected
against unauthorized interference after its removal from the apparatus by the.
attendant or time keeper in order to take it to the clerks department. Checks
may then be dropped into the apparatus without the latter indicating them.
The improved apparatus constructed in accordance with our present invention
requires but a single electro-magnet for operating any desired number of
receivers while at the same time the insertion of counters or checks after time
is rendered impossible.
With the object of enabling a single electro-magnet to operate a number of
receivers we arrange between the stationary inlet-chute and the receivers a
guide-chute adapted to be adjusted as to position for delivery into the one or
other receiver at the proper times. To prevent misuse we provide receivers in
form of bags or the like so arranged as to automatically unlock while being
placed in the box or casing and to become automatically locked when being
removed therefrom thus only allowing a responsible person to open the receivers
with a proper key.
In order to enable our invention to be clearly understood and readily carried
into practice we will now more fully describe the same.
In the casing containing the mechanism of the apparatus is arranged a sta-
tionary or fixed inlet-chute, which may he made large enough to enable several
workmen to simultaneously deposit their counters or checks without fear of
their jamming in the interior. A guide-chute is adapted to be adjusted at the
proper times in such a manner as to lead either towards one of the bags or
receivers or towards a compartment according to whether it is placed above one
of the three channels. One bag or receiver serves to receive the counters or

page_text: checks from workmen entering during the interval between the opening of the
workshops and starting work, the other bag serves to receive those from men
entering at the last minute, and the above mentioned compartment receives
those from men who arrive after time or too late.
To enable the position of the guide-chute to be adjusted at the required time
so as to lead into the one or other of the three channels as required it is formed
with a segment on which are provided pins so arranged as to be acted upon by
the projection on the armature lever, thus when the first pin is engaged by the
projection the guide-chute is above the first channel while the other two pins
correspond to the other two channels. It will be understood that the weight of
the guide chute is greater than that of the sector and consequently the said chute
which is pivotted has the tendency to fall in succession from one position into
the next in the other of the channels directly the armature is attracted by its
electro-magnet and thereby releases the projection.
As it is not desirable to allow the guide-chute to alter its position too suddenly
and in order to enable the counters or checks to drop into the channels up to
the very last moment of the limit of time allowed, we provide three supplemen-
tary pins or studs close to the pins above described for the projection to catch
on to after leaving the first named pins: so holding the guide-chute until it
can drop into its next position.
The bags or receivers are suspended underneath the channels and are pro-
vided with a lock for automatically locking them when being removed from the
apparatus, such locks opening automatically while the bags are being attached
in position. The lock may be of any suitable construction but as this is no
part of our present invention we will not describe the same herein.
The apparatus herein before described in addition to the advantages already
cited possesses another appreciable advantage in that any number of apparatus
may be regulated by a single clock so that the guide-chutes in all such apparatus
move at exactly the same time.
Obviously more than the two bags or receivers may be adopted in anyone
apparatus and instead of the above mentioned compartment a bag may be used
if desired, and again the bags may be replaced by any other convenient receiver.
Dated this 19th day of July 1899.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.
Improvements in Apparatus for Checking Workmen's Time.
I, HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake & Co., Patent Agents,
45, Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, 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 that class of apparatus for checking workmen's
time in which the counters or checks are collected in different receivers accord-
ing to the time at which they are dropped into the apparatus.
In existing apparatus of this type the check-receivers are moved in succession
into the path of the chute in connection with the inlet aperture, the intermittent
movement at the required time being generally obtained by means of a clock-
uriver contact. This arrangement requires an electro-magnet for each receiver
which allows only of a limited number of receivers being adopted besides ren-
dering the apparatus unwarrantably costly.

page_text: Another disadvantage in connection with this type of apparatus is, that the
check-receivers in which the checks are collected are not sufficiently protected
against unauthorized interference after its removal from the apparatus by the
attendant or time keeper in order to take it to the clerk's department. Checks
may then be dropped into the apparatus without the latter indicating them.
The improved apparatus constructed in accordance with our present invention
requires but a single electro-magnet for operating any desired number of
receivers while at the same time the insertion of counters or checks after time
is rendered impossible.
With the object of enabling a single electro-magnet to operate a number of
receivers we arrange between the stationary inlet-chute and the receivers, a
guide-chute adapted to be adjusted as to position for delivery into the one or
other receiver at the proper times. To prevent misuse we provide receivers in
form of bags or the like so arranged as to automatically unlock while being
placed in the box or casing and to become automatically locked when being
removed therefrom, thus only allowing a responsible person to open the receivers
with a proper key.
The apparatus is represented in the drawings in which
Figure 1 is a sectional elevation and
Figure 2 a plan view of the armature lever operating the guide chute.
In order to enable our invention to be clearly understood and readily carried
into practice we will now more fully describe the same.
In the casing containing the mechanism of the apparatus is arranged a sta-
tionary or fixed inlet-chute a, which may be made large enough to enable several
workmen to simultaneously deposit their counters or checks without fear of
their jamming in the interior. A guide-chute is adapted to be adjusted at
the proper times in such a manner as to lead either towards one of the bags or
receivers e, d or towards a compartment e according to whether it is placed above
one of the three channels f, g, h indicated by dotted lines. The bag or
receiver c serves to receive the counters or checks from workmen entering dur-
ing the interval between the opening of the workshops and starting work, the
other bag serves to receive those from men entering at the last minute, and
the above mentioned compartment e receives those from men who arrive after
time or too late.
To enable the position of the guide-chute b to be adjusted at the required time
so as to lead into the one or other of the three channels f, g, has required, it
is formed with a segment i on which are provided pins k, l, m so arranged as to
be acted upon by the projection on the armature lever o, thus when the first
pink is engaged by the projection the guide-chute is above the first channel f
while the other two pins 7, m correspond to the other two channels y and h. It
will be understood that the weight of the guide chute is greater than that of
the segment and consequently the said chute which is pivotted has the
tendency to fall in succession from one position into the next thus leading into
one or other of the channels, directly the armature is attracted by its electro-
magnet g and thereby releases the projection n.
As it is not desirable to allow the guide-chute to alter its position too sud-
denly and in order to enable the counters or checks to drop into the channels f
and g up to the very last moment of the limit of time allowed, we provide three
supplementary pins or studs 4, 1, m¹ close to the pins k, 1, m above described
for the projection to catch on to after leaving the first named pins k, l, m;
so holding the guide-chute until it can drop into its next position.
The bags or receivers c, d are suspended underneath the channels and are
provided with a lock for automatically locking them when being removed from
the apparatus, such locks opening automatically while the bags are being
attached in position. The lock may be of any suitable construction but as
this is no part of our present invention, we will not describe the same herein.
The apparatus herein before described in addition to the advantages already

page_text: cited possesses another appreciable advantage in that any number of apparatus
may be regulated by a single clock so that the guide-chutes in all such apparatus
move at exactly the same time.
Obviously more than two bags or receivers may be adapted in any one apparatus
and instead of the above mentioned compartment a bag may be used if desired,
and again the bags may be replaced by any other convenient receiver.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said in-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to
me by my foreign correspondents, I declare that what I claim is;
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1. In an apparatus for checking workmen's time, the combination of a guide-
chute b pivotally suspended and operated by the armature o of an electro-magnet,
and of bags c, d, e for counters over which the chute is directed at certain in-
tervals of time, substantially as described.
2. In an apparatus for checking workmen's time the combination of a guide-
chute pivotally suspended and operated by the armature o of an electro-magnet,
of bags c, d e for counters and of a segment i, pins k, 1, m thereon which,
operated by the armature o, direct the bags to the channels f, g, h conducting
to the bags, substantially as set forth.
3. In an apparatus for checking workmen's time the combination of a guide
chute b, bags c, d, e for counters, of a segment i, pins k, 1, m and pins ¹, m
supporting the chute 6 still for a short time over the channels-substantially as
set forth.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.