Improvements in Checking Workmen's Time and the like and Apparatus therefor.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Aug., 1886.
Complete Left, 3rd May, 1887.
Complete Accepted, 10th June, 1887.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Checking Workmen's Time and the like and
Apparatus therefor.
I PERCIVAL EVERITT, of No. 47 Cannon Street, in the city of London, Engineer,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
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This invention relates to providing apparatus such that a workman on entering on
his employment will by pulling or pushing out a slide or drawer, or its equivalent,
obtain a card, ticket or its equivalent on which will be stamped or otherwise indicated
the time that he obtained such ticket. For this purposo I combine a clock or other
suitable time marking mechanism with printing or stainping mechanism and a ticket-
containing receptacle and delivering mechanism.
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It will be obvious that this invention can be employed for other purposes than for
checking workmen's time.
G. F. REDFERN,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London,
Agent for the Applicant.

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Apparatus therefor.
1, PERCIVAL EVERITT, of No. 47, Cannon Street, in the City of London, Engineer,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to
performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement :-
This invention relates to a new kind of delivering and registering apparatus for
marking and checking the time of entry of workmen or other employées upon their
work or duties. The apparatus is so constructed that a workman on entering on his
employment may by pulling or pushing out a slide or drawer, or its equivalent, obtain
a card, ticket, or its equivalent on which will be stamped or otherwise indicated by
self acting mechanism the time that he obtained such ticket and entered upon his
duties. For this purpose I combine a clock or other suitable time-marking mechanism
with printing or stamping mechanism and a ticket containing receptacle and delivering
mechanism.
In order to enable my invention to be fully understood I will proceed to describe_a
means by which it can with advantage be carried into effect by reference to the
accompanying drawings in which figure 1 represents a front elevation of an apparatus
for checking workmen's time and the like, in which, by pulling out a slide or drawer
a workman will obtain a ticket on which will be stamped the time that he obtained
such ticket, the front of the casing of the apparatus being removed; figure 2 is a side
elevation of the apparatus with the side of the casing removed, and figure 3 is a
horizontal section on line AB of figure 1; figure 4 is a front elevation of the lower
part of a modified form of the apparatus; figure 5 is a side elevation of the same
with the side of the case removed and figure 6 is a plan of the drawer or slide used
with the said modified form of apparatus. Similar letters in all the figures represent
similar or corresponding parts.
Referring to figures 1, 2, and 3, a, represents the clock which may be of any
suitable construction; it is fixed to the framing b, of the mechanism and may have
its dial visible outside the casing A through a hole in the door c; the arbor of the
minute wheel of the clock a, is extended backwards inside the apparatus as shewn
at d, in figure 2, and has a wheel e, fixed thereon having ratchet teeth on its face
in which the upper end of a lever f, is kept in engagement by means of a spring ;
the lever is pivotted at 7, to an arm or bracket i, fixed to the framing b;
j, and k, are discs or wheels having type on their peripheries for printing the minutes
and the hours respectively on the tickets, the disc, being operated by a pinion 1,
fixed thereto and gearing with a toothed wheel m, operated by a spring wound up in
a barrel n, by means of a key applied to the square o, of its spindle p; the disc j,
is provided with a number of pins 9, which engage with a stop-and-release device
on the lower end of the lever f, (shewn in a detached elevation in figure 7) in such a
manner that the disc j, is only allowed to rotate a twelfth of a revolution every five
minutes; this device consists of a spring-hinged fingers, whose tendency is to move
downwards and which when the upper end a, of the lever f, is at the bottom of the

page_text: teeth on the whee! e, is borne upon by one of the pins 7, and is thereby pressed
against a stop r; when, however, the end a, of the lever is on the
point of a tooth the lower end will have moved so that the pin 7, will bear on
the stop r, and the finger s, will be slightly forced downwards; as the end a', of the
lever falls upon the next tooth the stop r, will be moved away from the pin 7, when
the disc j, will be free to rotate until the next pin g, comes against the finger s, and
so on; a two-armed lever t, u, is mounted loosely on the spindle p, and the arm t,
thereof carries a pawl v, engaging with the ratchet teeth w, on the side of the hour
type disc ; the other arm u, is caused to bear on a snail cam a, fixed to the side of
the minute type disc j, by means of a spring y, attached to the armt, and to the
framing by this means the hour type disc k, is caused to rotate to the extent of
one of the teeth w, and so change the type at every complete revolution of the
minute type-disc j; z, is a band of carbon paper or the like which passes over two
pullies 6, 6, and over the top of the type wheels j, and k, the ends of the said band z,
being attached to and wound around pulleys 63, and 4; the face of the pulley b, is provided
with a ratchet wheel c', operated by a spring pawl d, on an arm e', mounted loosely on the
axis of the pulley b; this arm is moved by a projecting surface, (shewn clearly in
figure 3) on the slide or drawer g, each time the latter is opened and closed so as to
rotate the ratchet wheol c', and pulley &, and thereby wind the band of carbon paper 2,
onto the pulley b, and thereby present a fresh portion of the said band to the typo
discs; ', is a spring for bringing back the arm e, when it has been operated by the
projecting surface, is the box for containing the tickets j', which are piled one
above the other as shown the box i, being held and guided (when moved vertically
by the means hereinafter described) by arms k¹, k¹, jointed to the same and to the
framing b. The bottom ticket rests on a flange or ledge A, on two sides of the box at
the bottom thereof; the rest of the bottom of the box is open; the slide or drawer g²,
consists of a frame open at the top and bottom as shewn; m³, is a projection on the
slide or drawer which when the latter is pulled out by means of its handle n', passes
between the flanges or ledges P, and comes in contact with the lowermost ticket and
forces it forward so as to deliver it to a shoot o', and through the slit or opening p³,
in the case A, outside the apparatus; the ticket box it, is provided with rollers 7', ',
which work on the sides of the slide or draw ', and support the ticket box; the
ticket box is placed immediately over the type discs j, and k, and the slide or drawer
is provided with inclined surfaces and s, forming depressions or openings into
which the rollers 7', roll as the slide or drawer is pulled out whereby the ticket
hox, is lowered onto the type discs j, and k, so as to print the lowermost ticket; in
order to prevent the ticket box from being again lowered when the slide or
drawer g', is closed a tumbling lever t, is pivotted to the frame b; a pin u¹, on the
slide or drawer ', when the latter has been almost completely opened comes
against a tail v¹, on the lever t, and pushes the lever under a projection w¹, on the
ticket box the surfaces of the slide or drawer g', which move under the rollers g',
are slightly lower at the rear of the inclines s', than at the front of the inclines, so
that when the said rear portion is moving under the rollers 9', the ticket box, is
just low enough for the lever, to take under the projection e, and support the
ticket box while the slide or drawer is pushed inwards; when however the front or
higher part comes under the rollers, the ticket box will be raised and the pro-
jection, will be free of the lever t, which will then tumble on its pivot into the
inclined position shewn in figure 2 so as to be clear of the projection, when the
ticket box, is lowered onto the type discs j, and k.
The operation of the apparatus is as follows:-
The type discs, and, having once been adjusted so that the proper type shall be
in position to print the hour and minute indicated by the clock a, the workman
or other person whose time it is required to check in order to obtain a ticket
must pull out the slide or drawer g', when the incline », coming under the roller q',
will cause the ticket box i, to be lowered and the lowermost ticket therein will be
printed by the type which is uppermost on the peripheries of the type discs j, and k;
the inclines s², will then raise the ticket box 1, and the projection m³, on the slide or

page_text: drawer g', will come against the edge of the ticket having the approximate hour and
minute of delivery printed thereon and will deliver it through the slit or opening p³,
outside the apparatus; the pin u³, will meanwhile have raised the lever t, into
position under the projection o³, so as to support the ticket box ¹; the slide or
drawer g, being now pushed back into the case A, the lever t, will be caused to
fall away from under the projection to³, by reason of the box 1, moving onto the
raised surface at the front of the incline, on the slide or drawer g₁, as herein-
before described and the parts will be in position ready to print and deliver another
ticket on the slide or drawer g¹, being again pulled out; when the minute wheel e,
of the clock a, has moved the space of five minutes the end a', of the lever will have
moved on to the next tooth of the wheel e, and will consequently allow the minute
printing discj, to rotate one twelfth of a revolution so as to change the type to print
a time five minutes later; at the end of one hour the snail cam a, on the disc j, will
by means of the lever t, u, and pawl v, move the hour printing disc k, forward to the
extent of one of the ratchet teeth w, so as to present the proper type for printing the
following hour and so on. It will of course be necessary that the clock a, and the spring
in the barrel n, be wound at proper intervals of time.
The apparatus shewn in figures 4, 5, and 6 is similar to that hereinbefore described
and represented in figures 1 to 4 with the exception that the printing discs j, and k,
are arranged on the minute and hour arbors respectively of the clock a, and therefore
the arrangement of toothed wheel e, lever, pinion 4, toothed wheel m, barrel
spring) lever t, u, pawl, ratchet teeth w, and snail e, are not required.
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For changing the ink band z, however instead of driving the lever e¹, by means of
a projection on the slide g', as shewn in figures 1 to 3, 1 provide an inclined pro-
jection, as shewn clearly in figure 6. It will be evident that this arrangement will
allow the minute type disc j, to print any minute during the hour instead of the said
disc being only moved at intervals of five minutes as in the apparatus illustrated in
figures 1 to 4.
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. The manufacture and use of a new kind of apparatus such as is herein described
for checking workmen's time and the like whereby a person on entering or passing a
place where the apparatus is fixed may on pulling out a drawer or slide, obtain a
ticket marked or printed with the time of delivery of such ticket.
2. In apparatus for checking workmen's time and the like the combination of
delivering mechanism and self acting printing mechanism with ordinary clockwork
arranged and operated in the manner and for the purposes herein before described.
3. The apparatus for checking workmen's time and the like constructed as herein-
before described and represented in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 2nd day of May 1887