224,290. Miles, J. W., and International Time Recording Co., Ltd. Aug. 8, 1923. Workmen's time-recorders.- A card-carriage into which the card is inserted by the workman is positioned by means actuated by the operating- handle so as to be brought into a different predetermined position at each time-recording operation, the means comprising feelers co-operating with holes punched in the card at each operation. The card-carriage 12 is slidably mounted on guides 13, 14, 31 and the card 49 rests on a stop 11 adjusted vertically according to the day of the week. When the card is inserted for the first time it presses aside each of six spring-pressed feelers 36 - - 41 pivoted at 43 to the carriage, thus moving them out of the path of a projection 51 on a bar 35 moved to the right on operation of the handle 17, the bar being connected to the handle by member 33, chain 28 and lever 27 having a pin 26 upon which act a cam 25 turned by linkages 24, 22. The projection 51 thus misses all the feelers and contacts with a member 71 fixed to the carriage so as to move the carriage to the right until the pin 26 reaches a concentric portion of the cam 25, when the carriage will be held stationary for printing and punching. During the movement to the right a fixed stop 55a contacts with the first feeler 36 and moves it out of the path of a punch 55. Further movement of the handle 17 causes a pin 65 fixed to it to reach the bottom of a slot 64 in a lever 63a and move this lever downwards, rocking a shaft 62 having fixed to it an arm 60 which pushes home the punch. The handle 17 is freely mounted on a shaft 20 urged to rotate in a clockwise direction, Figs. 4 and 7, by a spring. Fixed to the shaft 20 is an arm 21<a> carrying a platen 21, and a member 18 pivoted to the handle is adapted to engage a projection 19 on the shaft 20 to rotate the shaft anticlockwise until a roller mounted on the frame contacts with the member 18 to disengage it. The shaft then flies back so that the platen presses the card against clock-controlled type-drums 10, the platen being then withdrawn by another spring. Release of the operating handle withdraws the punch and allows the card-carriage to return to its left-hand position under the action of springs 16, 32. On the next insertion of the card the feeler 36 will take through the hole punched and will thus be in the path of the projection 51 so that when the handle 17 is operated the card-carriage will be moved further to the right, the next feeler 37 will be moved aside by the stop 55a as shown in Fig. 8, a new hole will be punched and printing will take place in a fresh position on the card. The last feeler 41 is connected with a latch 75 engageable with a projection 76 on the handle so as to prevent the handle being operated when this feeler is taking through a hole, the last record for the day having been made, or when there is no card in the machine. If the handle 17 is operated too vigorously a pivoted member 63<b> having teeth 81 riding over a fixed pin 82 will be thrown forwards and engage a pin 83 to prevent further movement until the handle has been released.