Improvements in Means or Apparatus for Checking or Recording Time.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Sept., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 5th June, 1889-Accepted, 13th July, 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means or Apparatus for Checking or Recording
Time.
I JOHN FRANOIS WOODS of Hoxton House Asylum, Hoxton in the County of
Middlesex, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of my invention is to obtain a simple, cheap and efficient time check
suitable to be employed in lunatic asylums and other places where it is necessary to
obtain evidence that an attendant or other person was present and attending to his
duties at given times.
For this purpose I take an ordinary clock movement and remove the hands and I
removably mount upon the cannon or shaft of the hour wheel in place of the hour
hand a drum or cylinder which I secure in position preferably by means of a milled
nut and upon one face or end of this drum or cylinder I provide a dial which has
preferably twelve divisions marked around its circumference denoting hours and is
figured accordingly.
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Around the periphery of this drum or cylinder I place a band of india rubber
or other suitable material to form a cushion and around this cushion I arrange a
paper or other strip divided and figured in conformity with the dial. In order to
retain this divided strip securely in position I preferably arrange one or more pointed
studs upon the periphery of the drum or cylinder upon which the ends of the strip
are pressed and such ends may also if desired be secured together by means of gum or
other cement applied thereto.
The clock movement and drum or cylinder are enclosed within a suitable lock-up
case provided with an aperture through which the dial figures can be seen, and over
such drum or cylinder upon the outside of and passing through the case is arranged a
spring pencil, stud or pricker which upon being depressed will produce a permanent
mark upon the divided strip and thus record the time at that moment.
The object of removably mounting the drum or cylinder upon the cannon of the
hour wheel is to enable the divided strips to be readily changed.
By these means I obtain an inexpensive time checking or recording apparatus which
is very simple in its construction, thoroughly efficient in its action and cannot readily
be disarranged.
Dated 28th day of September 1888
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means or Apparatus for Checking or Recording
Time.
I JOHN FRANCIS WOODS of Hoxton House Asylum, Hoxton in the County of
Middlesex, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, 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 object of my invention is to obtain a simple cheap and efficient time check
suitable to be employed in lunatic asylums and other places where it is necessary to
obtain evidence that an attendant or other person was present and attending to his
duties at given times.

page_text: For this purpose I take an ordinary clock movement and remove the hands and
I removably mount upon the cannon or shaft of the hour wheel in place of the hour
hand a drum or cylinder which I secure in position preferably by means of a milled
nut and upon one face or end of this drum or cylinder I provide a dial which has
preferably twelve divisions marked around its circumference denoting hours and is
figured accordingly.
Around the periphery of this drum or cylinder I place a band of india rubber or
other suitable material to form a cushion and around this cushion I arrange a paper
or other strip divided and figured in conformity with the dial. In order to retain
this divided strip securely in position I preferably arrange one or more pointed studs
upon the periphery of the drum or cylinder upon which the ends of the strip are
pressed and such ends may also if desired be secured together by means of gum or
other cement applied thereto.
The clock movement and drum or cylinder are enclosed within a suitable lock-up-
case provided with an aperture through which the dial figures can be seen and over
such drum or cylinder upon the outside of and passing through the case is arranged
a spring pencil stud or pricker which upon being depressed will produce a permanent
mark upon the divided strip and thus record the time at that moment.
The object of removably mounting the drum or cylinder upon the cannon of tho
hour wheel is to enable the divided strips to be readily changed.
And in order that the said Invention may be more clearly understood and readily
carried into effect 1 will proceed aided by the accompanying drawings more fully to
describe the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 is front elevation of an instrument constructed according to my
invention.
Figure 2 is a plan thereof.
Figure 3 is a front elevation thereof showing the door of the case open.
Figure is a side elevation thereof partly in section.
Figure is a transverse section drawn to an enlarged scale of the drum or cylinder
and connected or co-acting parts separately.
Figure 6 is an edge view drawn to an enlarged scale of the drum or cylinder
separately.
Figure 7 is a detail view drawn to an enlarged scale of the spring pencil stud and
connected parts soparately.
In the several figures of the drawings like parts are indicated by similar letters
of reference.
a represents the case of the instrument represents the cannon or shaft of the hour
wheel of an ordinary clock movement and c represents a drum or cylinder which is
removeably mounted on shaft b.
The cannon or shaft 6 is formed with a fixed flange or collar 6' thereon which
forms an abutment or stop for the drum or cylinder c and the drum or cylinder c
is capable of being fixed in relation to the cannon or shaft 6 by means of a milled
nut which screws upon a thread formed to receive it upon the end of the cannon or
shaft band jams the drum or cylinder c against the flange or collar 6.
One end or face of the drum or cylinder e is provided with a dial c which has
preferably twelve divisions marked around its circumference denoting hours and these
divisions are figured from one to twelve accordingly.
The periphery of the drum or cylinder c is formed with flanges and within these
flanges is placed a band c³ of india rubber or other suitable material to form a
cushion and around this cushion c³ is arranged a paper or other strip c* which is
divided and figured in conformity with the dial.
In order to retain the divided strip c₁ securely in position several pointed studs co
are fixed upon the periphery of the drum or cylinder c and project through the band
or cushion c³ so that the ends of the divided strip et may be pressed thereon and if

page_text: desired and as an additional security the overlapping parts of such ends may be united
by means of gum or other cement applied thereto.
Or the divided strip might be otherwise fixed in position upon the drum or
cylinder c..
The clock movement and drum or cylinder c are enclosed within lock-up case a
the door a of which is provided with a glazed aperture a² at the upper part thereof
through which the dial figures can be seen and the time ascertained. Over the drum
or cylinder c and passing through the case a is arranged a cylindrical fitting d³
through which works a pencil stud or pricker d formed with a flange or shoulder d¹
thercon against which a coiled spring d acts to normally retain the pencil stud or
pricker din its raised position. The pencil stud or pricker d although normally
retained in its raised position by means of the coiled spring d² is capable of being
depressed by pressure applied to its upper end and its lower end will thereby be
brought into contact with and produce a permanent mark upon the divided strip c
and thus record the exact time at which the pencil stud or pricker d was operated.
When it is desired to examine the marks produced by the pencil stud or pricker upon
the divided strip the drum or cylinder c may be removed bodily from the cannon
or shaft 6 by unscrewing the milled nut 6 and whilst so removed the divided strip c
which has been defaced inay be readily replaced by a new one.
By these means I obtain an inexpensive time checking or recording apparatus which
is very simple in its construction thoroughly efficient in its action and cannot readily
be disarranged.
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.
1. In a time checking or recording apparatus a lockup box or case a an ordinary
clock movement, a drum or cylinder c removeably mounted upon the cannon or shaft b
of the hour wheel thereof such drum e being divided and figured upon its face c¹ and
adapted to carry a divided stripe around its periphery and a spring pencil stud or
pricker d arranged over such drum or cylinder c and passing through the case a
all in manner substantially as herein shown and described and for the purpose
stated.
2. In a time checking or recording apparatus a lock-up box or case a provided
with a sight aperture a² an ordinary clock movement, a drum or cylinder c removeably
mounted upon the cannon or shaft b of the hour wheel of such movement and fixed
thereon by means of a flange or collar and nut 62 such drum c being divided and
figured upon its face c¹ band or cushion c³ placed around the periphery of the drum c
and adapted to carry a divided stripe pointed studs to hold said strip in position
and spring pencil stud or pricker d arranged over such drum or cylinder c and passing
through the case a all in manner substantially as herein shown and described and for
the purpose stated.
Dated Tune
1000