Improvements in Time Checking Apparatus for Work People, Night Watchmen, and the like.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Apr., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 11th Jan., 1892-Accepted, 27th Feb., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Time Checking Apparatus for Work People, Night
Watchmen, and the like.
We, FREDERICK PASCALL of York Villa, Francis Grove Wimbledon, in the
County of Surrey, Confectionery Works Manager and WILLIAM FREDERICK
STOCKER of No. 169 Waterloo Road in the County aforesaid Watchmaker and
Jeweller do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has reference to apparatus for checking the time at which work
people enter a factory in the morning, afternoon or at any other time as desired
and it is also applicable for use as an apparatus for checking night watchmen and
the like.
According to our invention we provide a clock with a tube or the like for
containing or holding a pile or column of numbered tickets or blanks and we so
arrange the mechanism of the clock that one ticket is released or removed every
five minutes, quarter of an hour, or other desired space of time as the case may be,
whence it drops, slides down or is conveyed down a shoot or the like leading to a
suitable receptacle. This receptacle is provided with another shoot into which the
work people drop their tickets which they have taken off the time ticket board or
rack or with which they have been previously provided by the time keeper or
other authorized person.
It is therefore evident that when desired the attendant
removes the whole column or file of mixed clock- and work people's-tickets and
the time at which all the work people's tickets were deposited in the apparatus
can be identified by reason of the clock tickets which are in the column and mark
the expiry of the specified times.
As applied for night watchmen we prefer to have an apparatus for releasing the
tickets at specified times in one or more parts of the building and the place or
places for insertion thereof in the time checked receptacles in another or other
parts of the building.
When the time checking apparatus is again to be put in working order the
different kinds of tickets are separated, the clock tickets being put back in the
tube therefor in proper order and the work people's or watchmen's tickets being
hung up on the rack or put in the proper place ready for the next checking
operation.
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JENSEN & SON,
77, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agents.
COMPLETE
SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Time Checking Apparatus for Work People, Night
Watchmen, and the like.
We, FREDERICK PASCALL of York Villa, Francis Grove, Wimbledon in the
County of Surrey, Confectionery Works Manager and WILLIAM FREDERICK
STOCKER of No. 169 Waterloo Road in the County aforesaid, Watchmaker and
Jeweller 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 has reference to apparatus for checking the time at which
workpeople enter a factory in the morning, afternoon or at any other time as
desired and it is also applicable for use as an apparatus for checking nigh'
watchmen and the like.

page_text: Fig. 1 Sheet 1 of the accompanying drawings shews in front sectional view the
general arrangement of the case for the clock of the apparatus, the mode of
suspending a pile of numbered blauks or tickets one of which is delivered into the
receptacle below at the lapse of determined intervals.
Fig. 2 is a side view of the same.
Fig. 3 is a front sectional view of a modified form of tube or case for receiving
the time indicating and workmen's tickets.
Fig. 4 is a detail plan of the guide or holder for the rod or wire on which are
threaded the numbered time indicating tickets.
Fig. 5 is an elevation of the holder with the wire.
Fig. 6 is a plan of one of the time indicating tickets and
Fig. 7 is a transverse section thereof.
Fig. 8 is a plan of the tube or case for receiving the time indicating and work-
people's tickets in the lower receptacle.
Fig. 9 is an elevation thereof with the front part removed.
Fig. 10 Sheet 2 is a front view of the clock (the front plate being removed)
showing the train of gearing for working the periodical disengagement of the time
indicating tickets and
Fig. 1 is a side view thereof partly in section.
Fig. 12 Sheet 3 shows the front plate of the clock and
Fig. 13 is a part sectional back view of the clock showing the arrangement for
the release and discharge of the time indicating tickets.
Fig. 14 Sheet 4 is a plan of the apparatus for the release of tickets at specified
times for the use for instance of night watchmen and
Fig. 15 is an elevation of same showing its application to a frame or box with a
drawer.
According to our invention and referring to the figures on Sheet 1 we provide a
clock (the dial of which is indicated in dotted lines) with a tube or cupboard A. for
containing a pile or column of numbered tickets or blanks B which are here shown
threaded on a rod or wire C having a washer D rivetted on the top thereof. The
tickets B are preferably made of cork or some other light material and are shown
on Figs. 6 and 7. They are provided with figures to indicate the time at which
they are released and allowed to drop into the shoot of the lower receptacle. The
rod C is threaded on the guide E and held there by means of the washer D, the
guide or holder E being screwed to the top of the cupboard A with an intervening
washer or distance piece F. The rod C is of such a length that when in position
the lowermost time indicating ticket B may be removed laterally without touching
the rod or disturbing the ticket next above, the whole row or column being kept in
position on the rod by being first lowered into a short tube G (Figures 1, 11
and 13) and by then raising the rod C and placing its upper end in the guide or
holder E.
We so arrange the mechanism of the clock that one ticket B is released or
removed every five minutes, quarter of an hour or other desired space of time as
the case may be, whence it drops slides down or is conveyed down a shoot or the
like leading to a suitable receptacle A. In the example shown and described
more especially with reference to Figs. 1 and 2 Sheet 1, 10 and 11 Sheet 2 and 12
and 13 Sheet 3 the lowermost ticket B rests on a bridge H which has a slot !
having working therein (and making a stroke once every five minutes) a finger K,
Figs. 11 and 13. This finger K is pivotted at L to the framework of the clock
and has a counterweight M in such manner that when the crank dise N makes half
a revolution the finger (which has a slot in which works the crank pin a Fig. 13)
follows the motion and displaces a time indicating ticket allowing the latter to slide
down the bridge say to the right and on the return of the finger it releases another
similar ticket B to the left. The object of the counterweight is to facilitate
starting the displacement of the ticket B by tending to move the finger K at least
one half of each of its strokes. The crank disc N is for instance actuated in the
same way as the striking movement of a clock as shown on Figs. 10 and 11 Sheet 2

page_text: and 12 and 13 Sheet 3. The barrel T is connected to the fusee by a chain
indicated by a dotted line in a well known manner which fusce actuates a pinion U,
having at the other end of its spindle a wheel u. This wheel 2
pinion which has mounted on its shaft a stop wheel with stops and at the
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back end of the spindle is the crank disc N. The stop wheel gears with the
pinion on the spindle of the relief wheel we having stop w which relief wheel w
communicates motion to the fly X. Referring to Figures 12 and 13 the spindle a
of the minute hand has mounted thereon a wheel which gears with a wheel.²
and this latter again communicates motion to a wheel mounted on the same
spindle as this latter is the pawl wheel at which gears with and keeps raising and
allowing to drop every five minutes the pawl Y. The pawl Y has at the back the
lifting party the stop of which goes through the slot in the plate see Fig. 12 and
gears periodically with the pin w¹ of the wheel C. The lifting party by its con-
nection with the warning part on the commencement of the rise releases the
wheel and allows the crank disc N to make a half revolution thus causing the
finger K to remove a ticket B but the wheel e is almost immediately again stopped
by the further gradual rising of the lifting party which comes against the stop w
on the wheel w see Figs. 10, 11 and 12. "Fig. 3 shews a modified form of lower
receptacle A' containing a vertical dividing wall a with a hinged gate which may
be swung over by an outside connection in order to divert the tickets into one side
when the other is filled.. The height of the receptacle Al is hereby considerably
reduced. Naturally instead of making the receptacle double it may be made treble
and so on.
The tube or case contained in the lower receptacle A¹ for the tickets is
preferably made in two halves A' A³ hinged together as shown in Figs. 8 and 9
in such manner that all the tickets may readily be removed when filled but it
may also be made as a box with a long vertically hinged lid. The case A'A'
hereinafter called merely the case A2, is also open to a shoot or hopper O in the
case Ainto which the workpeople, on their entrance into the factory, drop their
tickets which they have previously taken off the ticket board or rack or with
which they have been previously provided by the time keeper or other authorised
person. These tickets are designated in Fig. 9 by the letter P. It is therefore
evident that when desired the attendant removes the whole column or file of mixed
time indicating tickets B and workpeople's tickets P and the time at which all
the workpeople's tickets were deposited in the apparatus can be identified by
means of the tickets B which are in the column and mark the expiry of every
five minutes.
As applied for night or other watchmen we prefer to have an apparatus as
shown on Figs. 14 and 15 Sheet 4 consisting of a clock with a tube closed at
the top in any suitable manner to prevent tampering with. This tube Q is filled
with the desired number of tickets B. The bottom of the tube has a slot large
enongh for the entry and exit of a finger K forming part of the minute hand so
as to allow of one or more tickets B to be removed each revolution of the minute
hand and to be carried forward until it or they reach the hole R through the
clock down which the said ticket or tickets drop into the drawer S whence it or
they may be removed by the watchman and inserted in time checked receptacle
or receptacles A' (Figs. 1, 2 and 3) in another or other parts of the building.
The tube may be provided with a weak spring 7 on the outside projecting over
the slot on the side nearest the hole R to prevent the unauthorised removal of
the tickets by shaking the apparatus.
It is also evident that the whole apparatus including the tube Q may be enclosed
in a case and the drawer below be replaced by an open receptacle.
Referring generally to both kinds of apparatus when the time checking apparatus
is again to be put in working order the different kinds of tickets are separated, the
clock tickets being put back on the rod C in the case A or in the tube Q as the
case may be, in proper order and the workpeople's tickets are hung up on the rack
or put in the proper place ready for the next checking operation.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is.
1. In apparatus for checking the time of entry of workpeople into a building the
combination of a clockwork device for periodically removing and discharging time
indicating tickets from a pile or column of same down a shoot into a receptacle
below, said receptacle being also adapted for receiving the workpeople's tickets,
substantially as described and shown.
2. In combination with apparatus for checking the time at which night or other
watchmen deposit tickets in a time checking apparatus a clockwork device for
periodically removing and discharging time indicating tickets from a column of
same down into a drawer or other open receptacle substantially as described and
shown.
3. The constructions of apparatus as shown on the drawings.
of January 1892.
JENSEN & SON,
77, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agents.