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HIMME'R.

WATOHMANS TIME RECORDER.

Patented Jan. 11, 1887.

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WATOHMANS TIME RECORDER. No. 356,070. I Patented Jan. 11, 1887. 12 .2. 0 R

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vrrALIs HIMMER, OF. NEW YORK, N. Y., AssIeNoE TO THE STANDARD ELECTRIC CLOCK COMPANY, or sAME PLACE.

WATCHMANS TIME-RECORDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 356,070, dated January ,11, 1887.

Application filed April 9, 1886. Serial No. 198,371. (No model.)

T0 ctZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, VITALIs HIMM'ER, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in VVatchmens Clocks, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to that class of watchmens clocks in which a recording-dial is retated by a main clock, and is marked by a pencil operated by electricity when the watchman closes an electric circuit.

The obj ects of my invention are, first, to provide an improved method of indicating and recording the presence of awatchman at designated places at appointed times; second,

where a watchman is required at an appointed hour to make a tour of certain places in a des ignated succession, to provide means whereby a record will be made only when said places are visited in the correct order; and, third, to provide an automatic device by which,when the round is made upon the recording-dial, a signal will be sent back to the watchman, thus notifying him that electrical connection has been made. I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings, in which- Figure 1 is a front view of the main clock (part of the dial being removed) and of the recordingdial and all the mechanism. Fig.

2 is a side view of the mechanism connecting.

the main clock with the recording-dial. Fig. 3 is an enlarged side view of the recordingdial, and mechanism for rotating the same.

Fig. 4. is an enlarged front View of the recording-dial, part of the same being removed, to show the parts rotating the same, and also of the pencil and electrical connections. Fig. 5 is a side view of a part of the mechanism for making the electrical connection with designated places in an appointed order. Fig. 6 is an enlarged front view of the ratchet-wheel X and pawl 0. Fig. 7 is an enlarged section of a portion of said wheel. Fig. 8 is an enlarged side view of the pencil.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throu ghout the several views.

A is the dial of the main clock, supported by a suitable case, 13. Upon the shaft of its hour-hand is a pinion, O, which gears with a pinion,D, at one end of the shaft E, at the otherend of whichis apinion, F, gearing with a pinion, G, upon the shaft of the plate H, which carries the record-dial I. Thesaid pinions are so arranged that, upon each rotation of the hour-hand of the main clock, the plate H, carrying the recording-dial I,will make one rotation. The recording-dial is printed with figures corresponding with the hour-figures upon the main clock-dial, and it should be so placed upon the plate II that the figure beneath the recording-pencil shall correspond with that to which the hour-hand points.

The recording-dial I should be made of pa per or other substance easily marked, and it is held upon the plate II by means of the spider or spring fingers J, which are removable and are held in place by a screwor nut, K.

L is a recording-pencil having a lead or metal point, M, passing through a holder, N, Fig. 8, and which, as it wears away, is kept constantly in Contact with the recording-dial I by means of the spring 0. A second spring, 0, bears lightly against the side of the lead M to prevent it from slipping. The pencil L is attached by a pivot, P, to an elbow, Q, of the armature R, its proper position when in operation being in line with said elbow Q, in which position it may be held by a pin and socket, S S, the pencil being sufficiently elastic to allow the pin to spring into its socket. By means of this pivot the pencil maybe swung aside, as shown inFig. 4, when adjusting the dial 1 or the lead. M. The armature R is pivoted at T, so as to swing into contact with the magnet U when electrical connection is made, and so as to be drawn away from said magnet by the spring V when electrical connection is broken. Thus by the movement of the armature R the pencil L will move downward and the lead or point M will mark the dial I, as shown in Fig. 4., thus recording the time at which the electrical connection was made.

The armature R is jointed at 9, so as to allow IOO rial are any required number ofbinding-posts, such as l to 10, Fig. 4, each electrically connected with a push-button or other circuit making and breaking device, 1" to 10", at designated places at which a watchman is to be present at an appointed hour. Each of these bindingposts is also electrically connected with a separate electrical terminal or pin of conducting material, 1 to 10, inserted in the insulatingplate \V, the ends being flush with the plate. They are arranged in an arc of a circle. Above them is the circuit making and breaking ratchet-wheel X of conducting material pivoted upon the plate I) of conducting material. The plate Z1 is in the same plane with the plate \V. so that the two plates 7) and \V form a smooth surface, above which the ratchet X moves. The ratchet X is so placed as to be concentric with the circle in an arc of which said pins 1 to 10 are placed. In the ratchet-wheel X are perforated nipples Y upon its rower side, through which loosely pass conducting-pins Z Z Z, so arranged that in the rotation of the ratchetwheel X each of 0 these pins Z will come in contact with and electrically connect with each of the pins 1 to 10, successively. Each pin Z is kept constantly but very lightly in contact with the plates \V and I), upon which the ratchet X revolves, by means of a very elastic steel spring, a and these plates W and b are so placed, as shown in Fig. 6, that two of the pins Z are always in connection with the plate I), while oneof them is always in connection with some one of the pins 1 to 10.

As shown in Fig. l, the plate bis connected by wire ewithone end of thecoil of magnet U, the other end of said coil being connected to the battery i by wire (I. The opposite side of said battery is connected with the buttons 1" to 10" at the distant stations. Thus, when the watchman at the designated station touches the button at that stationas, for instance, 9", Fig. lelcctrical connection will be made with the magnet U through the pins 9 and 9 and Z, Fig. 4-, spring a, ratchet X, plate I), and wire 0, one of the pins Z being at that moment in contact with the pin 9inthe plates "\V, with which the button 9 is connected. A marl; will thus be made upon the dial I; but no electrical connection will be made, and no record will be made upon thedial I if any other button is pressed at this time. Hence, if the watchman fails to be at the designated station at the time when the pin Z is in contact with the pin which is electrically connected with that station, his failure will appear by the absence of a mark upon the dial.

The method of revolving the ratchet X is as follows: At the lower end of the armature is a pawl, c, which at each movement of the arma ture away from the magnet U moves forward the ratehct-wheelX one tooth, by means of the spring V; and each time the armature R is drawn to the magnet the pawl ewill be moved so as to engage the next tooth of the ratchet Xnamely, into the position shown in dotted lines in Fig. at. The adjusting screw-stopf, against which the pawl 0 comes in contact when drawn away from the magnet, adjusts its movement in this direction, and the setscrew 71, below the joint of the armature, adjusts the movement of the pawl c in the opposite direction. By means of the two set-screws f and h the movement of the pawl may thus be exactly adjusted. Thus each time the watchman, by pressing the button, makes electrical connection, the pawl 0 will be'pullcd back and engage a tooth of the ratchet-wheel, and when the watchman releases the button, thus breaking electrical connection, the ratchet-wheel-X will be moved forward one tooth. The move ment of the ratchet occurring only when electrical connection is broken, there will be no spark when the pin Z moves away from the pins 1 to 10.

The number of teeth in the ratchet-wheel X should be the same as the number of bindingposts, one to ten, or a multiple of that num ber, corresponding with the number of pins carried by ratchet-wheel X. Thus, it there are three of these pins Z, as shown in Fig. 4-, and if the number ot'bimling-posts is ten, then the number of teeth on the ratchet wheel should be thirty, as shown in Figs. at and (i.

The pins Z must be placed in such position thatone of the pins Z will be in contact with some one of the pins 1 to 10 whenever the ratchet-wheel X is at rest; and the pins Z must be placed at such distance apart that at each movement of the ratchet wheel X one of them will come into contact with the next pin of the series 1 to 10. The pins Z should he placed at such distance apart upon the ratchetwhcel X that when one moves away from the last of the pins, 10, another will move into contact with the first ot' the series, 1", as shown in Fig. 6. Thus there is never a time when any two of the pins 1 to 1t) are in electrical connection, and yet at all times there mustbe one of said pins in electrical connection with the magnet U.

In using the devices above described, it it is a watchmans duty to pass through a building once every hour, and so to be at the ten diiierent stations in succession at which are the buttons 1" to 10", connected with the bindingposts l to 10, he will be able to record his presence upon the recording-dial I by pressing the buttons in their designated order. For the device being set so that one of the pins Z rests upon the pin 1, upon pressing the button 1", connected with binding-post 1, he moves the armature and pencil, and upon releasing the button the ratchet-wheel moves forward so as to make, electrical connection with the binding-post 2. By the time he has reached the button 2", connected with binding-post 2, the recording-dial I will have moved slightly, so that upon pressing that button the mark of the pencil will not be made in the same place as the last. It, therefore, he should fail to press the button connected with this bindingpost, but shall by negligence pass it over and ICC IIO

press another button there would be norecord on the dial; hence, if the watchman makes his round properly at the appointed time and presses the buttons in their proper order, the recording dial will indicate the fact. It is best for the watchman to be instructed to be at the successive stations 1 to 10" at intervals of, say, iive minutes, so that the dial I will have time to move the last mark from under the pencil.

It is evident that when the watchman releases the button 10" the ratchet-wheel X will move the pin Z into'contact with 1*, Fig. 4, so that the apparatus will be ready for the watchman to make his next round, commencing with button 1.

In order that the watchman may know whether or not he had touched the buttons in their proper order, I place an electric bell in the circuit, near each of the buttons 1" to 10". These are shown in Fig. 1 by numbers 1 to 10. If, therefore,a watchman should omit to press a button in the order of his round, he would be notified of his mistake by the failure of the next bell to sound, and he could easily rectify the error by commencing the round again, as the bell will notify him when he reaches the bell previously omitted.

\Vhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. 'In a watchnians clock, the armature It, carrying a pencil and apawl, the pencil being in combination with a recordingdial and the pawl being in combination with thecircuitchanging ratchet X, said ratchet being electrically connected with the magnet that attracts said armature and at each movement breaking electrical connection with one of a series of circuit-making buttons, 1", at distant stations and making electrical connection with another, substantially as described.

2. In a watchmans clock, the dial. I, magnet U, having an armature, combined with a recordingpencil, the circuit-making button 1" and electric hell 1, said button and bell being in the same electric circuit, substantially as described.

3. In a watchmans clock, the pencilL,having the niarkingpoint M, and springs O and O, in combination with a recordingdial and the armature of a magnet, substantially as described.

4L. In a watchmans clock, the series of any suitable number of electric terminals 1 to 10 each insulated from the next and each electrically connected with, a separate circuit-making device at a distant station, in combination with a circuit-changing ratchet, X, substantially as described.

5. In a watchmans clock, the ratchet X, pin Z, and spring a, in combination with the insulating-plate WV, having a series of electrical terminals flush with its surface, substantially as described.

6. In a watchmans clock having a recording dial and pencil, the jointed armature It, bearing the pawl e, in combination with the adjusting setscrews f and 72, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature,in presence of two witnesses, this 8th day of April, 1886.

VITALIS HIMMER.

Witnesses:

O. WYLLYs Burrs, J. E. HINDON HYDE.

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