An Improved Apparatus for Registering or Recording the Entry of Persons into Works and the like.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 7th June, 1899-Accepted, 22nd July, 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Apparatus for Registering or Recording the Entry of
Persons into Works and the like.
'I, LOUIS CLAUS, of 81, Luisenstrasse, Hanover, in the Empire of Germany,
Inventor, 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:-
The subject of the present invention is an apparatus for registering or recording,
intended to mark the time of facts which happen, belonging to that class of apparatus
wherein a style or punch for marking, operated by hand, acts upon a registering
card or sheet moved by clockwork mechanism. It is distinguishable from
apparatus of this kind already known because it admits of recording upon the
same sheet, the one near the other, of facts which may have occured almost
at the same time. This renders it especially suitable for controlling the entrance
of workmen into their factories.
And in order that my invention may be thoroughly understood I now proceed
to describe the accompanying drawing thereof, reference being had to letters
and figures marked thereon.
Fig. 1, is a longitudinal section.
Fig. 2, shows a plan view of the apparatus.
Fig's. 3, and 4, show transverse sections of the apparatus in the various positions
which it assumes during its operation.
Fig. 5, shows the pin or peg which serves to produce the marks.
The clockwork movement A and the registering or recording cylinder B, are
placed in a closed box or casing accessible only to the person charged with the
control of the apparatus. The clockwork movement may be so arranged that the
time may be seen by it from the exterior; in point of fact, however, it is only
necessary that it should be so constructed that the spindle a govering the register-
ing or recording cylinder B may accomplish a determined number of revolutions
during a fixed time. This spindle a is provided with a point or centre a¹, and
also carries an arm c fixed thereon. The point or centre a¹ supports one of the
hubs or bosses of the registering or recording cylinder B, whilst the arm c is
connected to the cylinder end or bottom through a point or centre c¹. At the
other or opposite end the registering or recording cylinder B likewise rotates
upon a supporting point or centre d which is pressed strongly forward by a
spring e, and which can be withdrawn from the recess in the centre of the hub
or nave of the cylinder B by means of a screw 0, which moves towards the
exterior upon the screw threaded portion d² of d. The pin performs the office
of abutment for the spring e, so that this latter may be able to act axially upon d.
So far as concerns the cylinder B itself, it serves simply to receive the registration
sheet C and to carry it round in accordance with the uniform speed
which is imparted to it by, the clockwork movement A, 80 as to
advance it beneath the style or punch for marking g In order that these latter
may leave in the registration sheet or band C a very distinctive mark, the register-
ing or recording cylinder is provided with groves f turned or formed therein

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beneath the styles or punches for marking and corresponding therewith in such
a manner that at that part where the marking style or punch penetrates the sheet
or band of paper C there will exist no firm support.
The styles or punches g are fixed upon levers having an arm ; oscillating
round g, which are kept away from the cylinder by springs g³, and the free end
of which engages with a bolt h guided vertically by h. The upper free end of
this bolt retains the nose of the draw or slide piece i which can be operated
by hand by means of the handle or knob projecting. in an upward direction.
It is brought back to its position of rest by a spring All these draw or slide
pieces with their springs are arranged upon a cover E, which turns upon the hinge
or joint . In order to render the draw or slide piece'i inaccessible to the persons
whom it is desired to control, a second cover F is employed, which only possesses
openings or apertures m corresponding to those which are provided in the cover E
The chamber in which move the slide pieces i is separated from the chamber
of the registering or recording cylinder B, by the horizontal partition G in which
are arranged below the openings or apertures n m, guiding tubes k, which corre-
spond therewith and each of which is placed exactly over a corresponding
lever g¹. In order that the distance between the lever g', and so that the total
length of the apparatus may be the least possible, it is advantageous, that the
arrangement of the openings n m be such as is shown in plan in Fig. 2. The
openings are preferably marked by means of ordinary numerals.
In order to enable the machine to operate, pins are employed for moving the
styles or punches g, which pins are passed through the openings m n, and are
pushed by the help of a knob and plunger on pin p. By reason of this pressure
the corresponding lever g is lowered, the style or punch g forms a hole in the
registration sheet C, and at the same time operates by the withdrawal of the
bolt h, the unlocking of the draw or slide piece i. This latter, after the obdurator
or plunger p has been withdrawn, moves forward under the action of the spring ³,
and closes the openings n m, so as to render it impossible to any one not authorized
to obtain access to the pins q. These pins are provided with a characteristic or
distinctive mark corresponding to that of the openings n m, and each of the
persons to be controlled receives one of these pins which he should introduce into
the apparatus, in the manner hereinabove described, upon his entrance into the
works.
The control is then a very simple matter, inasmuch as the controller has only
to open the box or casing in order to see the exact number of pins q which have
been placed in it, and whether they have been introduced into their respective
openings. For each marking lever g¹ is arranged upon the periphery of the
registration sheet C a band which has on it the same designation as the corre-
sponding opening. Moreover generators marked upon them at suitable distances,
indicate the time at which the mark was made.
In this apparatus intended for the control of the entrance of work people into
factories, a registration sheet, after having served for a registration or recording,
will offer as nearly as possible the appearance shown in Fig. 1, for in that case
the differences between the entry of the various persons are not, or should not
be, very great.
The pin, Fig. 5, may likewise be held by the slide or draw piece by means of
notches formed therein by filing.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
For registering or recording the entry of people into factories etc. an apparatus
for registering or recording of that kind or class wherein a marking style or
punch worked by hand operates on a registration sheet moved by a clockwork
mechanism, characterised by the fact that several spring levers carrying the
marking style or punch and being arranged the one beside the other, are advanced

page_text: by means of pins q which are provided with distinctive marks and are first intro-
duced into openings m n, having the same marks, and are then shoved by means
of plungers or pins with heads or knobs p, towards the sheet C intended to
receive the registration marks and fixed upon a cylinder or roller B provided
with grooves or channels f to facilitate the entrance of the marking styles or
punches, and put in rotation by the clockwork movement, a spring draw or
slide piece being at the same time released or unlocked so as to close the spring m n
corresponding therewith, after the removal or withdrawal of the headed plunger
or pin, which latter may also be retained by the spring draw or slide piece enter-
ing into a groove or notch provided in the pin or plunger for that purpose, sub-
stantially as hereinabove described and illustrated in the annexed drawing.
1000
J. P. BAYLY,
18, Fulham Place, London, W.,
Agent for the Applicant.
J. P. BAYLY,
18, Fulham Place, London, W.,
Agent for the Applicant.