Improvements in and relating to Workmen's Time Recording and. Wage Computing Apparatus.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Se, t., 1899-Accepted, 21st July, 1900
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Workmen's Time Recording and.
Wage Computing Apparatus.
I, JAMES HENRY GARRATT, of No. 5, Denning Street, Rochester, Monroe Co.,
New York, United States of America, Machinist, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be parti-
cularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement: --
My invention relates to workmen's time recorders for recording their time, and
at the same time mechanically computing the amount of money due to each work-
man at the end of a week, or at any intermediate time, the rate per hour being
established.
The object of my invention is to provide a workman's time-recorder to record
time only, or to both record time and to compute wages at a pre-determined rate
per hour, and enter, print or otherwise indicate the amount upon a suitable card
or record strip; the several mechanisms being operated by a direct or indirect
connection to a clock movement, or other motor, by which a time-keeping and
wage-computing wheel is revolved, continuously or intermittently at regular
intervals; said wheels being severally put into gear with the motor by the
operation of a workman's key.
Means are also provided whereby the wheels can be revolved to be re-set at
the starting point whenever this is desirable.
In carrying my said invention into practice I prefer to employ apparatus con-
structed as hereinafter described, reference being had to the accompanying draw-
ings, in which :-
Figure 1 is a front elevation of one form of my improved time-recorder pro-
vided with two tiers of key-tumblers, some of which are shown as operated, and
others as not operated.
Figure 2 is a vertical section, from front to rear, of a form of my improved time-
recorder provided with four tiers of key-tumblers, showing the parts in the
position which they occupy when all the record wheels are raised from the driving
pinions, and
Figure is a rear view of the same, with parts removed.
Figure 4 is a detail, in elevation, of the mechanism for rotating the spindle
supporting the driving pinions.
Figure 5 is a cross-section of the trip-ratchet, showing the sliding tooth. '
Figure 6 is a like view showing the stationary tooth.
Figure 7 is a cross-section of the time-wheel and its widened tooth.
Figure 8 is a front elevation of a key-tumbler, ready to receive its key.
Figure 9 is a like view of the same after rotation to the locked position by
means of a workman's key, which latter, however, is not shown in this figure.
Figure 10 is a cross-section of the key-tumbler, with the workman's key in
engagement therewith, showing the plunger in its normal position.
Figure 11 is a similar view showing the plunger turned in the tumbler.
Figure 12 is a section on the line B, B, Figure 10.
Figure 1 is a section on the line C, C, Figure 11, showing the key-tumbler arm
turned and thrust inwards and the tumbler-relcasing sliding-bolt projected.

page_text: Figure 14 is a cross-section on the line A, A, in Figure 2.
Figure 15 is a. detail view of the time-wheel and trip-ratchet, drawn to an
enlarged scale, and
Figure 16 shows a section taken on the line D, D, Figure 15.
A suitable outer casing has a door a, and b is a suitable clock, operating also
as a motor. A spindle c common to all the driving pinions, is mounted in the
casing and d is a rod parallel with said spindle carrying a series of swinging
rockers e, each having an arm f, and in each of which a record wheel is jour-
naled. Each wheel has a strip or band h, such as an electrotype, having figures
showing the amount of wages for a series of hours at a fixed rate per hour. Cross-
rods support swinging angular locking pawls each having an extension m.
Rotating locking tumblers n are set in the casing in sleeves o each of the latter
having a flange p in which a slot r is cut, which coincides with and forms a part
of the slots in the tumbler; the tumblers which have been inverted are locked
as hereinafter described, and, as each tumbler is numbered, these indicate the
workmen who are present, while the non-inverted tumblers show those who are
absent.
Each workman is designated by a number on a key t and each key indicates the
tumbler to receive it.
In each locking-tumbler, a rotating key-tumbler u is mounted, provided with
a suitable key-hole-slot to receive a supervisor's key w' and each key-tumbler u
has an arm in a chamber w.
By means of the key ¹ the arm can at any time be turned and advanced so
as to thrust the sliding bolt against the pawl to hold the latter in position to
support the rocker and hold the record wheel out of engagement with the
driving pinion. This operation also unlocks the tumbler. n, so that the key t
of any individual workman can be withdrawn, and the corresponding record
wheel stopped from recording, if that workman ceases work before the customary
hour. When the key u¹ is put in and the arm e turned into line with the sliding
bolt, as in Figure 11, then the quick pushing in of the key-tumbler will push
the bolt in, swing the pawl k, and throw the record wheel upwards to make an
imprint on the record strip.
Each record wheel is provided on one side with a gear y and the spindle chas
pinions spaced apart to permit the computation strip or band / to drop between
them. Then, when the key t is inserted and the tumbler is turned to bring
the slot s opposite the extension m, the pawl can swing and permit the rocker e
and the record-wheel to drop, so that the gear of the latter engages with a pinion
on the spindle c, so that thereafter the rotation of said spindle will revolve the
record wheel.
The spindle c is provided with a ratchet 2 engaged by a pawl 3 on a reciprocating
bar 4 actuated by a bell-crank 5, cord 6, lever 7 (Figure 2), and pin-wheel 8
having pins 9 and driven by the clock-movement in any well known manner.
In the rotation of the pin-wheel 8 each pin in turn raises the lever 7 and the
spindle is thereby revolved a fixed distance; and, as the pins are set to indicate
a fixed time, for example, half an hour on the clock, the record wheels are, as
hereinafter described, intermittently revolved a half-hour space or distance and
thus enable a record of wages to be made for fractional parts of an hour (in this
instance half an hour).
Each workman's key is locked in its tumbler when half turned, by the
shoulder P of the sleeve band by the extension m of the pawl & engaging the
slot s'. In order that at a given time all of the keys can be removed, as at noon
or at night, means are provided for simultaneously and automatically unlocking
all the tumblers in the following manner:-
A. second pin-wheel 10, provided with pins 11, and driven by an escapement of
any convenient construction, tripped at predetermined times by means hereinafter
described, intermittently raises a lever 12 and through a cord 13 lifts an arm 14
and universal-bar 15, and this, directly or through the links 16 connecting it to

page_text: the pawls, swings all the pawls k, withdraws their extensions m from the slots s'
and unlocks all of the tumblers (as shown in Fig. 2) and they remain so unlocked,
for a fixed period, to permit the removal of the keys after the tumblers have been
turned back, by hand, by means of the key t, or automatically, by any convenient
means, to bring the slot s opposite to the slot r. The links 16 are loosely con-
nected to the bar 15 in such a manner that, when the lever 12 falls from a pin 11
and thus lowers the universal-bar, each or any of the computation wheels can be
maintained raised by the extension m of the pawl k resting against the back of
the tumbler n leaving the said tumbler unlocked, and leaving the corresponding
record-wheel raised out of mesh with its driving pinion. The said pawls will
re-lock those tumblers having their slots opposite to the corresponding exten-
sions m and the corresponding record-wheels will drop into engagement with their
driving pinions. This leaves the unlocked tumblers in position for the workmen
to insert their keys, rotate the tumblers and lower their record-wheels, such
tumblers being thus re-locked.
The pin-wheel 10 is here shown with its pins spaced so that each time it is
released by the escapement the said pin-wheel will be revolved through a distance
equal to half of the pitch of the teeth, to cause the alternate oscillation of the
lever 12 to and from the positions shown in full and dotted lines respectively in
Figure 2. To remove the load from the clock and preserve its correct time-
keeping, the pin-wheels 8 and 10 are preferably driven by separate motors, such
as wound-up-spring devices of any ordinary or suitable construction, and suitable
tripping devices are provided, similar to the mechanism for releasing the hour-
striking mechanism of a clock, to release them at predetermined times.
Upon a suitable shaft, a ratchet and pawl 17 is mounted, and intermittently.
driven by the pin-wheel 8, reciprocating bar 4, and pivoted lever 18. This drives
the time-wheel 19 on the same shaft. This has several series of notches 20, 21
and 22 and, in the present instance, the several notches of each group respectively
indicate half an hour. It also has the fixed teeth 23 and 24 projecting beyond
said notches and a sliding tooth 25 (Figures 2, 15 and 16), mortised or otherwise
set into the wheel so that it can be moved in or out on a radial line, into equal
or lesser projection to the teeth 23, 24.
Three fingers 26, 27, 28, loose upon the end of the shaft, lie close to the face of
the time wheel and are separately adjustable to regulate time. Thus, the
finger 26 is shown as set at 7 o'clock A. M., the time to begin work, and by shifting.
it one notch it will indicate the opening time at 7:30 A.M., and a shift of two
notches will indicate it at 8 A.M., and other shifts can be to 8:30 and 9 A.M.
The finger 27 is shown as indicating 6 P.M. as the closing time and by shifting
it one notch it will indicate 5:30 P.M., two notches 5:0 P.M., as the closing time,
and can be shifted to 4 P.M.
The finger 28 is shown as set at midnight, and is the overtime finger, indicating
the time of closing in the evening and by shifting it to the left it can be brought
to indicate either 11, 10 or 9 P.M., as the closing time, and the time when this
finger will actuate the mechanism and cause the recording of overtime to cease.
This time wheel thus indicates and can be set for various starting and closing
times, to vary the hours of labor, either 10, 9, or 8 hours per day, and the over-
time also, and makes a complete revolution every twenty-four hours.
Upon a suitable shaft, a trip-ratchet 29 is suitably mounted in- such position
as to be engaged successively by the finger-teeth, each rotating it one or more
teeth, the pawl 30 preventing backward rotation. This trip-ratchet, in passing
beneath the pawl, also operates an arm 31 (Figures 2 and 14) to raise a trip-
rod 32, the upper end of which engages with and operates in any convenient
manner to release the escapement driving the pin-wheel 10 so that the latter
revolves the predetermined distance, to alternately raise or lower the universal
bar. This trip-ratchet makes a full revolution once a week.
In many factories they stop work at 5 P.M., on Saturday and at 6 P.M., on other
days. To operate this trip at 5 P.M., I provide a sliding tooth 33. By moving

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the tooth 25 outward it will engage the tooth 33, and this tooth 25 will thus trip
the escapement. As the finger 27 will then skip the off-set tooth 34 (Figures 2,
6 and 15), the trip will not be operated at 6 P.M., but as it is necessary to keep
the ratchet 29 on time the widened point of the tooth 24 (Figure 7) will duly
engage with the tooth 34 on the ratchet 29 and shift the ratchet correctly to pre-
vent any break in its time. The teeth 23 trip the escapement at 12 noon and at
12:30 1.M., respectively, when the mid-day recess is half an hour, thus releasing
the keys at noon and relocking them half an hour later.
To return the record-wheels to their normal or starting positions, as once a day,
a suitable crank 35 drives a brush 36 which is held in contact with said wheels
and this revolves and at the same time cleans the wheel. Suitable stops are
provided to arrest the record-wheels when they have been revolved back to their
zero positions.
To make a record of the earnings, the door is opened and pressure upon the
button 37 on each rocker 3 throws each record-wheel up against the ink-ribbon 38
and an imprint is made on the card 39 in the holder 40.
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 workman's time recorder, the combination with a record-wheel, having a
rate-strip on its face, and provided with a gear, of a spindle provided with a
pinion engaging with said gear to revolve said wheel and means to drive said
spindle.
2. In a workman's time recorder, the combination with a record-wheel, pro-
vided with a gear and provided with means whereby it can be oscillated vertically,
of a spindle having a pinion with which said gear engages when said wheel is
lowered and means to drive said spindle and thus revolve said wheel during such
éngagement.
3. In a workman's time recorder, the combination with a series of record-
wheels, each provided with a gear substantially as shown and described, of a
spindle having a series of pinions with which the gears of said record-wheels
engage when lowered, and by means of which said wheels are revolved by means
of said spindle during such engagement, and means to drive said spindle.
4. In a workman's time recorder, a spindle having pinions spaced apart thereon,
in combination with a series of record-wheels, each having a rate-strip upon its
periphery, and on one or both sides a gear of a lesser radius than said wheel.
whereby when any one of said wheels is lowered its gear will engage with a
pinion to be revolved, and means to drive said spindle.
5. In a workman's time recorder, the combination with a time-notched wheel,
provided with projecting teeth, of a ratchet wheel intermittently rotated by said
teeth at predetermined intervals of time, and an escapement released by each
impulse given to said ratchet wheel.
6. In a workman's time recorder, the combination with a power-driven time-
notched wheel, of fingers mounted upon its shaft and adjustable with reference to
said notches to indicate the hours of labor of a workman.
7. In a workman's time recorder, the combination with a power-driven time-
notched wheel, of fingers mounted upon its shaft, and adapted to engage with
said notches, and separately adjustable to indicate the time of opening and
closing of the labor-hours of a day, and also the overtime-closing time when a
workman works overtime.
8. In a workman's time recorder, the combination with a power-driven and
time-notched wheel, and adjustable fingers mounted upon its shaft indicating
the labor-hours of a day by the spaces between them, and teeth upon said wheel,
of a ratchet driven by the successive engagement of said fingers therewith to
release a power-driven escapement and a workman-designating device locked and
released at predetermined intervals of time by said escapement.

page_text: 9. In a workman's time recorder, the combination with an escapement driven
by a clock-movement or other motor, and a spindle having pinions secured thereon,
intermittently driven by said escapement, of record-wheels adapted to be raised
or lowered into or out of engagement with said pinions, a second escapement driven
by the same motor or by a separate motor and operative to raise or lower said
wheels at predetermined intervals of time.
10. In a workman's time recorder, a series of workman's record-wheels mounted
in separate vibratory frames, a series of pinions mounted upon a spindle common
to all and driven by a primary power, and a device driven by a secondary power
whereby said wheels are separately lowered into engagement with said pinions to
be driven or raised out of engagement therewith at fixed or predetermined times.
Dated this 12th day of September 1899.
D. YOUNG & Co.,
11 & 12, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.