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W. N. WHITE.

WAGES INDICATOR.

No. 70,926. Patented Nov. 12, 1867.

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WINDSOR N. WHITE, OF WINCHENDON, MASSACHUSETTS.

Letters Patent .No. 70,926, dated November 12, 1867.

IMPROVEMENT IN WAGES-INDICATORS.

TO ALL PERSONS TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME:

Be it known that I, WINDSOR N. WHITE, of Winchcndon, in the county of Worcester, and State of Massachusets, have invented a new and useful or improved Wages-Reckoner or Indicator; and do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specification, and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure 1 is a side elevation,

Figure 2 a longitudinal section, and

Figure 3 a-transverse section of it.

Figure 4 is a representation of the outer curved surface of the cylinder developed upon a plane.

In such drawings, A denotes a cylinder arranged within a case, B, and so applied thereto as to be capable of being easily revolved therein by the hand of a person while grasping a knob, a, fixed on the shaft or journal of the cylinder. The case is made with a long slot or opening, Z2, extending lengthwise through it, and provided with a scale, 0, arranged against its edge in manner as represented. This scale I divide into thirty-seven equal parts, placing figures in them, from 1 to 30 in order, in thirty of them. In the remainder I mark g, g, g, g, as shown in fig. 1. The covered surface of the cylinder is to be divided by longitudinal parallel lines, and transverse parallel lines into rectangles, within each of which figures, as represented in fig. 4, are marked. The first transverse column, at the left end of the cylinder, is to indicate the amounts of wages per week. The longitudinal column, next to any rectangular space containing any one of such amounts, will indicate the aggregate of wages up to each day of the month, at the rate per week designated by such rectangular, allowing six days to each week. Thus, if the rate per week is $2, the rate for one day will be shown to be 33 cents; for two days, 67 cents; and for thirty days, $10, which is sufiiciently near for all practical purposes. The rate for one-eighth of a day will be shown to be 4 cents; for one-fourth of a day, 8 cents, and so on.

This apparatus will be found to be of great value to paymasters of factories, as well as to various other persons who may have wages to pay to operatives, as it will afford a ready means of ascertaining the amount of such wages, without requiring any resort to arithmetical calculation. In the place of the single cylinder, its equivalent, viz, an endless belt, supported on two rollers, may be "employed, the outer surface of such belt being divided and marked with figures like that of the cylinder.

I do not confine my invention to the precise numbers or figures exhibited as placed on the divisions of its cylinder and scale, as these may be varied without changing the principle of operation; that is to say, the column exhibiting therate of wages may represent other rates, the figures in the horizontal ranges being altered accordingly.

What I claim as my invention is- The said wages-indicator, or combination and arrangement of the cylinder, divided and marked substantially as described, with the slotted case or its equivalent, and the scale applied to such case, as set forth.

WINDSOR. WHITE.

Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, F. P. HALE, Jr.

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