US714188A - Time-sheet. - Google Patents

Description

Patented mw. 25,'1902.,

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(Application med mr. e, 1902.)

No. 7l4,| 88.

(nu Model.)

UNITED STATES ArnNr meren.

OLIE JOHNSON, OF BLVIEVV, MINNESOTA.

Tl IVI E S H E E. T

SPECIFICATION' forming part of Letters Patent No. 714,188, dated November 25, 1902.

Application filed March 6| 1902. Serial No. 96,896. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom. it may concern:

Be it known that I, OLIE JOHNSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Belview, in the county of Redwood and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Time-Sheets; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention has for its object to provide an improved time card or sheet so marked that a permanent and accurate record may be quickly made; and to the above ends the invention consists of the novel devices and arrangement of parts hereinafter described, and defined in the claim.

In accordance with my invention I provide a space in which the name of each employee may be written, and in line with each of such spaces I provide a series of dials, there being one dial for each working day of the week and Sundayincluded, if desired. These dials are marked in graduations indicating the hours of the day and preferably, also, of fractions thereof, at least to the extent of halfhours. The dials are in the best arrangement also provided with secondary indexlines, which make more prominent the marks indicating 12 oclock M. 7 oclock A. M., and some other hour, such as 5 oclock P. M. The two latter secondary marks afford a V-Shaped space in which may be conveniently written the numeral indicating in hours and fractions thereof the amount of work gone by a particular employee during that My invention is illustrated in the single view of the drawing and in which numeral l indicates the time card or sheet ruled by horizontal lines 2, which afford spaces at the left in which the names of the employees may be written. At the right of these spaces vertical lines 3 cross the lines 2 and cut the sheet into a series of squares, in which squares are located so-called dials. At the tops of the Vertical columns of dials are letters indicating the days of the week. The dials are i ndicated as entireties by the numeral 4, and it Will be noted that the same are divided by graduations which indicate hours and halfhours. A long radial graduation-mark 5 is run from the dial to the mark indicating 12 oclock M., and likewise-two other long` graduation-marks 6 and 7, respectively, eX- tend from the center of the dial to the marks indicating 5 oclock I. M. and 7 oclock A. M.

At the right of the dials the sheet is ruled and marked to afford spaces in which may be written the total time for the week in hours, the rate per hour, the total amount, and the time when paid. These latter features may be dispensed with, but are'nevertheless 'convenient and desirable. It will be noted that a space is left between the columns of dials indicated by T and W. This is simply because the sheet is intended to be folded or bound on that line or in that space.

The manner of using the'time-card will become evident from an inspection of the irregular pen-marks on the dials and the data placed at the right and the numerals placed in the spaces between the diverging index-marks 6 and 7. To illustrate, suppose Ed Jones, the first workman indicated on the timesheet, begins work at seven oclock Monday morning, works until noon, takes an hour for dinner,and then begins at one oclock p.m.and works until siX. To indicate this time, the dial is marked as shown on the dial at the top of the column appropriated on Monday and marked with a large letter M. Then at night,`to make the record more certain andmore conveniently read at sight, the numeral 10 is written on the said dial in the space afforded between the radial marks 6 7. This same sort of record is kept up throughout the week,.and at the end of the week the total time is marked at the right of the series of dials in the space provided therefor.

As is evident, but very little time, is taken during the day in keeping a record of the working time ot' a large number of employees, as the person keeping the time need only, when a particular workman starts to work, to start a mark indicating the time and then complete the mark when the workman quits, so as to cover/the time which he may have worked. I myself have in practical experience found this time-sheet a great time-saver to theemployer as well as a very convenient and accurate device for keeping time-records.

The time-sheet described is of course eapaindex-lines' 5 extending to the mark indicate ble of modications Within the scope of my l ing noon, and the radial marks 6 and 7 eX- invention as herein set forth and claimed. tending, respectively, to marks indicating I5 What I claim, and desire to secure by Letcertain hours p. In. and a. In., substantially 5 ters Patent of the United States, is as follows: l as and for the purposes set forth.

A time sheet or card marked with the hori- In testimony Whereot1 I affix my signature zontal lines 2 and vertical lines 3 cutting the in presence of two Witnesses. Same into a plurality of rectangular spaces and affording other spaces in which the names zo of the Workmen may be Written, and provided l/Vitnesses:

With dial graduations Within said former OTTO GOETZE, noted spaces involving the radial secondary OLIE JOHNSON.

J. M. THOMPSON.

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