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UNITEi)" STA res I JAMES W. BEYCE,4JEBINGHAMT0N, EW YORK, ASSIGNOR 'ro THE INTERNATIONAL TIME genconmNe COMPANY or NEW YORK, A oo-pPoRATroN on NEW. YORK.

. MULTIPLE TIME RECQRDER.

' Application filed- .Tune 23, 1921. Seria1-No. 479,753.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES W. BRYCE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Binghamton, in the county of Broome and State of New York, have'invented certain new and useful Improvements in Multiple Time Recorders, of which the following is;

a full, clear, and exact description.

In many industrial plants at the present time, it is customary to keep records of'the time which workmen spend on a job, in

orderto determine thepay at so much per hour to which heis entitled forhis work. Usually the periods of elapsed time are recorded automatically on a card by a suitable machine into which the/ card is inserted at the beginning and at the end of a job, but

9 under present practice a card is required for each job and for each period of a working day. This means may require a very large number of cards, andis expensive for that reason besides involving complications and adding to the amount of clerical work which has to be performed in making the computations.

The purpose I have in view in the invention upon which this application for Letters Patent is based, is to simplify this method by reducing to minimum the number of cards required and the number of,

computations that must be made and with this object in view I have devised what I term a multiple recorder which permits a plurality of elapsed times on diiferent jobs to be recorded on the same card and which totalizes the several elapsed times and thereby simplifies the entire operation and reduces the number both of cards needed and computations required.

select a certain time unit, which for all ordina'ryconditions of work and practice may be the tenth of an hour or six'minutes. This,

therefore, is the smallest fraction of time In carrying out this invention I "have; found 1t necessary for practical reasons to scription of the drawings hereto ann zed which illustrate the same. A Flg. 1 is a view"'1n elevation of the interior mechanism of a complete machine, the View being a vertical section on the line 11 of Fig. .6. 4

Fig. 2 is a" vertical section of the sameon line 22 bf Fig. 6 looking to the left. Fig. 3 is a vertical section on the line 83 of Fig. 6, looking in the same direction. a

F 4" is a vertical section on the line 4.-4 of Fig. 6, looking to the right. I

- Fig. 5 is a horizontal section -on the line 5.,5 of Fig. 6, looking in the direction of the arrows'in that figure. p

Fig. 6 is a horizontal section on the line 66 of Fig. 2, looking down.

Fig. 7 is an enlarged detail view chiefly in elevationvof the type wheel operating mechanism. I

Fig. 8 is a view of the same on the same scale at right angles to Fig. 7.

Fig. 9 is another view of the same this being a plan View looking down.

Fig. 10 is a plan iew on an enlarged scale of a visual indicator forming part of theapparatus. I Fig. 11- is a sectional view of this part or device on the line 11 11 of Fig. 10'.

Fig. 12 is a sectional view of the same ,on the line 12-12 of Fig. 10.

Fig. 13 is a sectional view of the same on the line 1313 of Fig. 10.

Fig. 14 is, a sectional view of the same 011 the line 1 17-14 of Fig. 13.

Fig. 15 is a side view in elevation of the device of Fig. 10.

Fig. 16 is a sectional detail on thexline 16-16 of Fig. 15. ,1 g

Fig. 17 is a detached view of a circuit controlling device shown in its operative relation to the machine in Fig. 2.

Fig. 18 is a section of the same on the line 1818 of Fig. 17.

Figs. 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 and 24 illustrate details of the mechanism which will be herefirst be had to the card 1 shown in Fig. 25.

' i 'shed this job,'he-again inserts thev card and heard to pass further into the machine'andv he again inserts the card and punches two 7 tenths of an hour is on the zero line, while ous figures are similarly numbered.

have been one hour and nine-tenths of an .sented by the position of the first two holes workman startsin on another job and again 2 messes tion will indicate the total time from the start. At the end of the day, or at any other time the total of all the elapsed times may be automatically ascertained and printed by means Whichwill be hereinafter described, but the above will show the purpose and the result'of the operation bf the machine.

Following, for purpose of more rea'oly' description, the method of using or operating the machine as far as practicable, a card 1 I Fig. 26 is a wiring diagram of the system. Numerals are used to designate the various parts and corresponding. parts inthe vari- For a more ready understanding of the principle of the invention, reference'may For convenience, it is assumed that this card is inserted in the machine by an employee at the beginning of a working day and punched by the operation of the handle of the machine. A knife or cutter operates to cut off a rectangular section 2 from the lower left hand corner of the card which is arrested in proper position by a fixed "stop, and punches two holes 3 and 4, -at-the starting or zero line. After the workman has finuntil itencounters a stop 16 in a knife 15 (see Figs. 5 19), which knife is forced forward by the'operation of the handle 17, Fig. 1. This handle is fast toa shaft 18 which carries operative cams, one. of which 19, Fig. 19,, engages a stud on a pivoted lever 20, the end of which engages with the bifurcated end of a pivote .bellbc'rank lever .21, operates the handle. Another section 5 is that forces an arm 22, pivoted at 23, against out from the edge as thefirst out allows the a section from two or more holes 6 and 7 are punched. the card. I

In the meantime the clock mechanism has" The handle 1'7 carries a segmental plate beeh running and the machinecontrolled by 24, which has connected with its lower end such mechanisms turns the type wheels so a stout spiral spring 25 and is provided with that they print atthe edge of the card 2.1 teeth 26, which engage with a full stroke whichindicate's that the elapsed'time on the pawl 27 having a retractile spring 28, and particularjob is two hours andone tenth which operates to prevent the backward of an hour. g Y movement of the plate 24 and the handle in Suppose that. the workman immediately-neither direction until a full stroke .or swing starts on another job, at the finish of which of "the handle has-been made.

cam projection 29 (Fig'. 12) is caused to engage with a roller on a bell crank lever 30 pivoted at 31, and the upper end of this lever-is connected by a link 32 with a slidholes 8 and 9, and cuts off" another section. The mechanism then .prints the numerals 1.9, showing the elapsed time for the job to hour, or, making for the present a mental calculation, four hours from 'the time repreand 35, Figs. 2 and 6, and when operated by the cam forces this frame to the left, Fig. 2. Each barrel carries ten pins evenly spaced, as shown in Fig.6, and the lower barrel, the pins on which correspond to tenths of an hour, is rotated step by step by means ofa pawl 36, Fig. 15, pivoted to an arm 37 fast to a spindle 38, and carrying a segmental gear 39 engaging with a similar segment 40 on a pivoted armature lever 41. The said armature lever is attracted once every six minutes by an electro-magnet 42 "operated by a master clock, which is not 3 and '4. This faet is "shown by the two holes 8 and 9, I the first of vwhich re iresenting the hole 9 representing hours is on the fifth vertical line. o

We assume that this brings us to the lunch 01'' noon hour. On returningfrom lunch the punches his card, but the two holes 10. and 11 will be exactly in the same position as holes -8and 9, because the master clock-has cut off the timing and other mechanism dur-' ing the non-working 01' noon hour. nected with the lower pin barrel, makes one At the completion of the job the card is complete revolution every hour, as such again punched. The fi ures 0,8 are printed ratchet wheel has ten teeth. i th r in, showing that the elapsed time Motion from the Power to the upper pin job was eight tenths of an hour and the barrel is imparted Ly the means shown in holes 12 and 13 will be in ositions that in- Fig. 15. The spindle of the ratchet wheel dicate four hours and ei t tenths of an carries a can 44 with a single projection, hour after the starting time indicated byand on this cam bears a pawl 45, fixed on a holes 3 and 4. I

The workman may in this way record elapsed time of one or more or no other jobs, the elapsed time of each job bein printed in the margin while the holes by their posifixed on this shaft is an arm 45 carrying a pawl 46 cooperatin with ratchet 48. A spring 45 stretched between a'portion 46 of pawl 46 and a portion 45 of arm 45 is inserted in the chute 14and passes down- Bythe rotary mo vement of the shaft 18 a the-knife 15 and causes the/latter to cut out the lowerleft hand corner of ing frame 33 carrying two pin barrels 34 shown, and hence the ratchet wheel 43, constub shaft .45, hearing in plate 45?. ,Also

holds said pawl resiliently against the ratchet. The pawl drops once during each revolution of the ratchet 43. This movement permits the pawl 46 which has been raised and forced back by the high point of the cam 44 to be drawn forward by a spring 47 and to advance the ratchet wheel 48 and the upper pin barrel one tooth each hour. The movement of the ratchets 43 and 48 is imparted to the upper end and lower pin barrels respectively by means of flexible and extensible spindles 49*, Fig. 16.

From the above it will be seen that. the position of the pin barrels is dependent upon clock time. When, therefore, the handle is pulled the particular pins set-by time will operate one or another of two horizontal lines of punches 49 and 50, and force the same through the'card which is then in the chute. The punches 49 lie directly in the path of the advancing pins, and are forced forward thereby. The pins of the lower barrel, however, encounter slides 51,

having-upright projections 52 that engage the punches of the lower row, and in order to insure the proper return of the punches, a slide 53 is pivoted to the frame 33 and connected to a universal bar 54, which engages the punches when the frame is drawn back and pulls back those that have been advanced.

In the top of the machine is av window 55, under which are placed two disks 56, 57, with ten evenly spaced digits thereon representing hours and tenths of an hour. The tenths of an hour disk 56 is rotated step by step by the armature lever 41 operating through a pawl 58 on a ratchet wheel 59, and by any well known form of transfer mechanism 59 one complete revolution of the said disk moves the other or hour disk 57 forward one step or one tenth of a revolution.

Each disk 56 and 57 carries a contact 60,. which following its movement of rotation sweeps at one end a circular contact 61'and at the other over a series of ten contacts 62 on a sunflower, shown in Fig. 11. The purpose of this will be more fully herein-j after described.

The first or mechanical operation of punching a card at the beginning of a job has now been described. Following our original assumption that the workman started in within six minutes of the beginning of a workng day, it is manifest that the pin barrels will bein zero position, and the type wheels 63 which lie in front of a card in the chute and are struck by a printing pad 64 when thehandle is pulled, will also be in zero position, and hence the card will come from the machine with only the two holes 3 and 4, and the figures 0.0 printed in the corresponding margin to the right. Any proper or well known' means for operating the printing padmay be employed. I have shown in Fig. 4 an arm 99 on the shaft 'carrying the printing pad and to this arm is connected one arm of a bell crank lever 100 by a link 101. When the handle shaft is turned the bell cranklcvcr 100 is operated by a cam 102 on the handle shaft and pulls downthe arm 99 and operates the printing mechanism.

Assume, however, that at the completion of the job the card is again inserted and the handle pulled. Then the following operations will take place. The time which has elapsed since the beginning of the working day will be shown on the dials through the window 55 and the pin barrels will have been moved to corresponding positions, or, following the illustration selected by the card of Fig. 25, the barrel 35 will have made two and one tenth revolutions while the barrel 34 will have made two tenths of one revolution. By this means the contact 60 of the dial 56 will have been brought upon the second contact of the sunflower which corresponds to one tenth of an 'hour, while that of the dial 57 will restupon the third con tact or that corresponding to two hours. The pulling of the handle will hence punch the holes 6 and 7.

On the shaft 18 of the handle are toothed segments 65 that gear with other segments 66 turning about center 67 (Figs. 3 and 7) and operating arms .68 connected by spiral springs closely with segmental arms 69,

turning also about the center 67. The arms 69 gear wit-h flat plates 70 having teeth on,

both edges and vertically movable upon guide pins 71, entering slots 72. Parallel with these plates '70 are other plates to, similarly adapted to have a limited vertical movement and with teeth on one edge only. Between these two bars are pinions 74 carried by intermediate Vertically movable plates 75 having teeth which engage with pinions on the two type Wheels 63, respectively. Pivotally connected to the intermediate bar 75 is a lever 76 turning about the arm 76 so that the latter is lowered by its spring 76 and carries-pinion 74 and rack 75 with it. The rising of rack 70 and the lowering of rack 75 both operate through pinion, 74 'to lower the .rack 7 3 until the latv ter is stopped by pawl" 117. The distance through which rack 70 rises and the distance through which rack 73 descends determine the position to which rack 75 shall rise or descend. This in turn, controls the setting of the type 63.-

Restoration of the handle causes rack to be restored to its lower position. It also causes arm 77 to raise arm 76 with rack 75. These two operations in turn, through pinion 74, raise rack 73 to normal position, and the parts are all in the posi tion of Fig. 7. This mechanism constitutes awell known form of differential for setting the type wheels and is controlled by the following means.

lVhcn the handle is pulled a cam 79 on its shaft (see Figs. 2 and 18) operates a bell crank lever 80 turning on shaft 31 and causes it to raise a link 81 and thereby turn a segmental gear 82 and revolve the contact arms 83, 84 The arm 83 is provided at one end with a brush 88" cooperating with acontact 83 (see Figs. 17 and 18). Integral with brush 83 is another brush 83 cooperating with a series of contacts 85. The other end of said arm. has similar brushes 83 83 cooperating with contact 83 and contacts 86 respectively. Arm 846. has a similar set of contacts cooperating with contacts 84., 85 'at one end and 84 86 at the other end. i

l n the-bottom of the machine are 5 rows of contacts divided into 2 groups, see Figs. 3 and 24. The contacts in the 5 rows of one group are designated 87, 88, 89, 90 and 91 and those in the other group 87, 88, 89*, 90 a-nd'91 see also wiring diagram, Fig. 26. Of these rows 87, 89, 91 and 87, 89", 91 are stationary and the contacts 88,90 and 88, 90 are movable, by the rocking of member 124, from engagement with the contacts on their left to engagement with the contacts on their right as viewed in Fig. 3.

In the upper left hand corner of Fig. 2 are shown pivo-tally mounted spring pins I 92" and 93, there being ten of each which when operated bear against a card or pass through punched holes in the card Where such occurto make contact with a plate 94,

back of the card (see Fig. 5). At the lower left hand corner of Fig. 2 are shown two rows of ten similarly constructed and mounted pins 95 and 96, which are adapted to perform the same operation as the upper pins.

leferring now to the diagram Fig. 26, the pins 93 which correspond to hours are connected separately by insulated wires in a cable 97 to one group of the stationary contacts 89, while theother set of pins 92 corresponding to tenths of hours are simila-rly connected by wires in a cable 98 to the other group of stationary contacts in the same line 89".

The ten stationary contacts of the sunflower, Fig. 11, corresponding to and connected with the hour dial 57, are in the same manner connected with the ten stationary contacts of one group 87, while the ten contacts of the sunflower corresponding to tenths of an hour and connected with the dial 56, are in the same way connected with the other group often stationary contacts in the same line 87*. The movable contacts of one group 88 are connected with the ten contacts 86 of one of the circuit selectors 84; for example, those on the right, while the ten movable contacts of the other group in the same line 88 are connected to the riglxt1-liand contacts 86 of the other circuit selector 8t. Again, the movable contacts of one group 90 are connected to the left hand contacts 85 of the first circuit selector 8-1, while the other and corresponding group of movable contacts 90 are connected to the left hand group of contacts 85 of circuit selector 8'1.

Finally, the stationary contacts of one group 91 are connected to the hour pins 95, while the other group of stationary contacts 91. are connected with the tenths of hourv pins 96. The purpose of these connections will now be described.

It has'been shown that as the dials 56 and 57 are rotated by impulses from the master clock, the contacts of the two sunflowers connected therewith are caused to sweep over contacts 62. And it may now be assumed that the card is inserted at the end of the first job or two hours and one tenth of an hour after the start and the handle worked. In the manner above described the two holes 6 and 7 will be punched, but by the operation of the handle a lever 103 will be engaged by a cam 19 on shaft 18, and the other end of this lever will be forced up and toward the right in Fig. 4. The said lever is con nected to a bar 195 which is also pivoted to a pivoted arm 106, so as to have a parallel motion. The bar 105, upon being forced to the right, swings an arm 10?, fixed on' the shaft 132*- (Fig. 2) which carries the two sets of pinarms 92 and 93, and this motion of the shaft swings the pins against the card and through the holes 3 and 4 therein so as to make contact with the plate 94:.

The plate 94 (see Fig. 26) is connected by the wire 108 with one pole of a battery or source of current 109, so that current passes therefrom to the first or zero pin of the upper row 93, and thence to the first of the row of contacts 89, thence to the corresponding contact 90, and thence to the zero contact 85 of the circuit selector 84; At the same time the zero pin 92 makes contact with plate 94, so that current also flows therefrom to the zero pin of the set 92. thence to the zero stationary contact 89 and thence through the corresponding contact 90 to the zero contact 85 of the circuit selector 84..

At this time, current is also led by wire 108 to the common return plate 61 of the printed at the top of the card at 119, by the hour sunflower and thence through the confollowing means. In Fig. 1 a vertical push tact 60 to the stationary terminal 62 corrod 120 is shown as mounted in the machine responding to the second hour, and thence and normally held up by a spring 121.

to the corresponding fixed terminal of the When a total is to he printed," this rod is group 87, thence to the corresponding ter pushed down and a lever 122 connected to its minal of the right hand set of fixed contacts lower end turns a shaft 123 and by such 86 of the circuit selector 84. Thebrush arm means shifts an arm 124 (Fig. 2) and there- 83 of this device is being now rotated by the by transfers the movable contacts 88 and 90 pulling of the handle through the segment from contacts 87 and 89 to 89 and 91 respec- 82, so that when said brush comes onto the tively and transfers contacts 88*, 90, from live or two hour contact 86, the current contacts 87, 89 to'contacts 89 and 91 passes thereto and therefrom to'wire 110, respectively. a 8 through the magnet 111, and thence by wires bifurcated projection 125 on said rod 112, 113, back to battery. 120 engages a pin on a pivoted lever 126and As at this time and also by the movement forces said lever down. This lever is conof the handle the plate is being raised nected by a link 127 with a pivoted lever 128,

synchronously with the movement of brushconnected. by a spring 129 with-oneside of a arm 83, the plate 70 is checked at the proper frame turning loosely on the center shaft instant by the engagement therewith of a 130. The two sidesof this frame are desig-- pawl 114, controlled by the magnet 111. nated 131, and are shown in Figs. 1 and 4. By the same movement of the brush arin The free ends of the side levers 131 are 83, the current is also passed to the zero pivotallybonnected by links 132 to theshaft contact 85,'through wire 115, to magnet 116, 132 that carries the two rows of pins 92 which locks the plate 73 bymea-ns of a pawl and 93, and tends to pull these pins down 117, and hence the'diiferentia'l will set the as the push rod 120 descends. hour type'wheel 63 to print the numeral 2. A Extending from the push rod 120 is an The dogs 114 and 117 will be held in cooperarm 133 (Fig. 20) to which the arm 22 is ation with the racks 70 and 73 by the inpivoted, and as the push rod descends this herent friction .due to the. upward pull of arm 22 is carried below the projection v134 the s ring between members 68 and 69 and on the knife 15, whereupon that knife is the ownward pull of spring 76 on arm retracted by a spring 135 and the projection 76. The spring connecting members 68 and 16 thereon withdrawn from. the chute and 69 tends to pull rack 70 upward tightly permits the inserted card to drop to the botagainst dog 114 while spring 76' acting on tom of the chute. pinion 74 tends to pull rack 73downward Thelinks 132 carry the device shown in tightly against dog 117 and will'hold these Fig. 21, that is to say, a small spring actudogs in position until the parts of the maated pawl 136, rigid with which isv an arm chine are operated in reverse directions to- 137 with a rounded end-having a square release this pressure. The relative timing shoulder. As the links are carried down of the movement of pins 92, 93 on the one by the side bars 131, the. arm 137 travels hand and the switch arm 83 on the other is over the card, but as soon as it reaches the such that the contacts 92, 93 engage the out away portion of the same it swings to the plate 94 before the contacts 83, 83 on switch right and permits the pawl 136 to engage in arm 83 make contact with the first of the t oth r step in a fixed plate 138 and contact points 85, 86. i arrests the downward movement of the pins If the corresponding circuits be traced 9 and 93 and he ide bars 131. with regard to the other circuit selector 84 Another function Performed y the push whose one tenth hour contact 86 is alive, it rod 0' i o ring a pin 139 thereon into will be seen the magn t 118 lo k th l t engagement with a pivoted arm 140 which is 70 at the one tenth of an hour position, 01 S a 4 ry g the p n 95 and magnet 118 will lock the other plate and 96. Whereby, on the descent of the said 7 3 at the zero position, so that the diiferenrod these pins will be swung over toward the tial will move the tenths of an hour type card and will pass through any holes therein wheel 63 to the osition where it will print 1. with which they may register.

The card will, t erefore, show 2 hours and 1 Keeping now in mindthe construction of tenth of an hour as the elapsed time and the parts described, it will be seen that when will contain the holes 3, 4, 6 and 7. a total is taken, the- lower pins 95, 96, enter At the finish of the next job the proper the starting holes, while the upper pins 92,

pins 92, 93, will enter the holes 6 and 7, and 93, enter the last or upper holes, these the time which has elapsed since those holes springs having been lowered and stopped in were punched will be printed on the right the proper position to do this. It will also hand margin of the card. be observed that the contacts 88 and 90 and At any time the total, of the elapsed time 88 and 90" have been shifted, so that if we printed on a card may be ascertained and assume these conditionsand again refer to 4 i one of contacts 86*,of selector.84.

the diagram, Fig. 26, the operation of total printing will be readily understood. The pins 95, in other words, will now be connected through contacts 90 with contacts.-

85 on the left hand side of the circuit selector 84, while the pins 93 will be connected through contacts 88 with contacts 86 on the right hand side of circuit selector 84. In similar manner pins 96 will be connected by 10. contacts 90 with the left "hand contacts 85 of circuit selector 84 and pins 92 with the right hand contacts 86 of the same selector through contacts 89*.

. In all other respects the operation is 'the same as that hereinbefore described except,

of course, that the printed time will be the total clock time between the first punching and the last. punching of the card, without reference tothe number of intermediate punchings.

As stated above, much of the mechanism employed in this device is familiar to those skilled in this art and is not therefore de- 1 scribed in great detail. This is particularly true of the differential, which, in practice,

would be supplied with the.usual accessomes, and which is a mechanism now well understood, it being, for example, fully set In summarizing the operation of the machine, it will .be noted that when the sev-.

eral operations are performed upon the card to compute the time consumed on each job, thepins 92, 93 cooperate with the card to ascertain the positions of the last previous perforations and according to the positions of such perforations energize 2. corresponding one of contacts 85 in the selector 84 and a corresponding one of contacts 85 in selector 84. At this time timing mechanism through the sunflowers 56, 57 will energize one of the contacts 86 of selector 84 and Inthis way the last previous perforations in the card will control the plates 73 and 73 and the current time will control the positioning of plates and 70, This in turn aswe have seen controls'the setting of the type wheels 63', Fig. 7. When on the other hand the total time represented by all jobs recorded on the card is to be computed the operation of the rod 120 Fig. 1, throws the sunflowers 56, 57 representing the clock timin out of control and at the same time brings the contacts 95, 96, Fig. 2 into operation. The card is dropped to the bottom of its slot so that contacts 95 96 cooperate with the first perforations made in the card. The upper contact pins 92, 93 .at this time are brought into cooperation with the up- "permost set of perforations in the card. Un-

der these conditions contact pins 95 and 96 determine which of contacts and 85: of selectors 84, 84 shall be energized while the contact pins 93, 92 determine which of contacts 86, 86 of selectors 84, 84" shall be energized. Thus it will be seen that the first holes perforated through the card will controlthe positioning of plates 73 and 73 while the last set of holes made in the card This device is of very substantial value-- as a means of saving material and time. It

being purely automatic in its operation, it

obviates the necessity of mental computations and in this regard is a great labor saver.

What I claim as my invention is '1. In a recording mechanism of the kind herein described, the combination with timing mechanism, manually manipulative mechanism and time controlled card punching means, of time type wheels and rinting mechanism, means for setting sai type wheels and cooperating circuit controlling mechanism therefor theoperatio'n of which is dependent upon and controlled by the timing mechanism, the punched holes in 'the card and also by the manual mechanism whereby the elapsed time between one punching and the next will be printed upon the card.

2. In a recording mechanism of the kind described adapted to punch and print a card at varying intervals, as for example at the beginning and ending of certain .jobs, of

time between the initial and the fi l punch 20.

ing operations.

4. In a recordin mechanism of the kind described the combination with time controlled card punching mechanisms of time controlled circuit closers in, circuits adapted to be completed through punched holes in the card, of circuit selectors operated by the power applied to operate the machine and time printing mechanism controlled by the conjolnt action of the time controlled circuit closer and the power operated circuit I selectors operate selectors, whereby the elapsed time between punchings will be printed. l

5. In a recording mechanism of the kind described, the combination of the following card the elapsed time betweensuccessive punchmgs.

'6. In a recording mechanisnro'f the kind,

described,the combination with time ,controlled card punching mechanism, printing mechanism, means for printing thereby the elapsed time between each two of trollers, the pins,

time recording on a card elapsed ass '7 elapsed time between the initial and the final punchings 8. In a recording mechanism of the kind described, the combination of time controlled card punching mechanism, time printing wheels, an operating handle for operating the punching mechanism and setting the time type wheels, time controlled circuit controllers, circuit selectors operated by the movement of the handle, contact pins adapted to pass through registering holes in the card, circuit connectors between the circuit conand electro-magnets therein for determining the extent of movement of the type wheels, whereby they are set to print the elapsed time between successive punchings.

9. In anelapsed time recording device,

and the circuit selectors time controlled means for computing and time for a plurality. of jobs, and means controlled by such records for recording the total of the seva greater number of successive punchings e'ral elapsed time recordscontained on such dependent for operation upon the duration of such periods, and means similarly controlled for printing the total (elapsed time between the initial punching and the last ofany number of punchings.

e 7. In a recording mechanism ofthe kind described, the combination with time controlled card punching mechanism, time printing mechanism, and means dependent upon the length of the interval between successive punchings for setting such printing mechanism to print such" elapsed time, of 1 'a total elapsed time printing controlling means, comprising supplemental contact pins adapted to register with the holes in ltially punched in the card, means for moving the original contact pins to register with the holes last punched in the card and circuit controlling means and connections whereby the printing mechanism iscaused to printthe card.

10., Inan elapsed time recording device, time controlled means for computing and recording on a card elapsed time for a plurality' of jobs, and means controlled bysuch records for recording on thesame card the total of the several elapsed time records'contained on such card.

11. Ina recording 'machlne, time con trolled vrecorolfefliecting means whereby designat-ions ofthe relative starting and finishing times of apluralityof jobs may beeffected upon a single card, meanscontrolled by the card printing upon the card the total time"consumed on all jobs represented thereon.

In testimony whereof I hereto aflix my" signature.

JAMES W; BRYCE.

for automatically printing the.- time consumed on each job, and means for v

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