US746778A - Workman's time-check receiver. - Google Patents

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PATENTED DEC. 15, 1903. C. E. BECKWITH & R. M. CLARK. WOR KMANS TIME CHECK RECEIVER.

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L R J-l No. 746,778. PATENTED DEC. 15, 1903.

C. E. BECKWITH & R. M. CLARK. WCRKMANS TIME CHECK RECEIVER.

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APPLICATION FILED NOV. 6, 1902.

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UNITED STATES Tatented December '15, 1903.

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CHARLES E. BECKWVITH, OF GALESBURG, ILLINOIS, AND ROBERT M. CLARK,

OF NEWTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

WORKMANS TlME- SHEC K RECEIVER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 746,778, dated December 1 Application filed November 6, 1902. Serial No. 130,228. 1\'0 m el- T0 aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, CHARLES E. BECK- WITH, of Galesburg, in the county of Knox and State of Illinois, and ROBERT M. CLARK, of Newton, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, citizens of the United States, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Time-Clocks, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in explaining its nature.

The invention has for its object a time clock having two receptacles for holding timecards, means for opening and closing them alternately or in any other desired order and at any desired time actuated by the clock, and an indicating-dial, also operated by the clock, having different indicators for the va rious divisions of time noted upon it and which indicators are made successively visible through a sight-hole, preferably arranged in the clock-dial, the purpose of said dial being to provide indicators which are to be transferred to the ticket to be deposited in one of the ticket-receptacles and whereby the time of said deposit may be accurately ascertained from said indicator so applied.

We would say that any type of clock mechanism may be employed for furnishing the means for supporting and operating the indicating-dial and for opening and closing the ticket-receptacle.

WVe will now describe the invention in con nection with the drawings, forming a partof this specification, wherein- Figure 1 is a view, principally in front ele vation, of a time-clock embodying our improvements, a portion of the dial being removed to show theindicating-dial behind it; and Fig. 2 is a vertical central section.

/ Referring to the drawings, A represents the receptacle for holding one type of ticket, A the receptacle for holding the other type. The first is used when an employee is on time and the second when he is late in arriving at his destination. A slot at affords means whereby the ticket may be deposited in the receptacle A and a slot a means whereby the ticket may be deposited in the receptacle A. A

partition a extending downward between the slots, prevents the tickets from crossing as they are dropped into their respective receptacles. The slots preferably are arranged in the casing of the clock surrounding the dial. Theyare opened and closed as required by the slot-cover plate B. This is arranged back of the slots and is of a size to cover at one time either one or the other of the slots, its purpose being to close one when the other is open. It is carried at the end of a lever b, pivoted at b to a cross-bar b and it is moved by the pins b carried by a disk or wheel b mounted upon or operated by the hour-hand shaft to make one revolution in a day of twelve hours. l/Ve have shown the disk or wheel as having pins so placed as to operate the lever and slide to open the slot at and close the slot a at two intervals in the day; but of course the number of times of such movement of the cover-plate may be varied. We have also shown a single operating-pin for then operating the cover and may use a single one or two together, if

desired. The pins are preferably made adfastening-nut upon the other side of the wheel or disk to screw upon the stem and clamp the head to the wheel or disk. The upper end Z) of the lever has theinclined surface hhagainst which the operating-pins come into contact when the cover and lover are in one position. The contact of the pins with this end will cause the lever and cover to be moved and to be held in their removed position for such interval of time as may be desired, and

when the pins clear the end of the lever it 5 may then be returned by gravity to its firstnamed position. By this means the slots 0, ct are alternately opened and closed and maintained opened and closed, and so that at one interval of time it is possible to put time-tick- 10a ets in the On time slot and at another time it is closed, so that it is impossible, and

The pins are fas- 80 when the On time slot is open the Late slot is closed, while the cover operates to open the Late slot when the On time slot is closed. Consequently an employee can only place an On time ticket in the On time slot at predetermined intervals. all other times he is prevented from so doing and must then deposit a late ticket in the Late slot. To indicate the time of deposit of the late ticket, the indicating-dial C is used. This is also operated by the hour-hand shaft and makes onerevolutionineachtwelve hours. It is concealed behind the main dial 0 of the clock, in which is a small sight-hole 0, through which the indicators of the indicating-dial may be read. Ne prefer to use for such indicators two figures. These figures are arranged in circular order upon the face of the indicating-dial, one within the other, and so that the figures are in line, and the figures are also arranged in hourly or other groups. They are also so arranged that no two figures having the same relation to each other are repeated. There is used in conjunction with these indicators a key, which determines the time of each pair of figures. The employee is required to write upon his ticket the two figures of the indicating-dial in sight through the hole 0 when he deposits his ticket. These figures are meaningless to him; but by means of the key, which has the time value of each pair of figures, the time when the deposit of the late-ticket in the Late slot is made is readily ascertained. As the employee has no knowledge of the arrangement of the indicating-figures, it becomes impossible for him to readily make a fictitious entry upon his ti meticket at the time of deposit, while entries which are errors will be readily ascertained. To avoid a possibility of employees learning the arrangement of the indicating-figures to the extent that a fictitious entry may be made, the indicating dial is so arranged that the combination may be changed as frequently as is desirable, and by setting the key to the same combination the actual time of the arrival may be readily determined.

It will be seen that this mechanism can readily be applied to ordinary clocks or any use in that it is only necessary to form the slot-holes a a in the casing, to arrange the two-part receptacle below, and to mount the indicating-dial or disk or wheel carrying the lever upon the sleeve of the hour hand and the plate-operating lever upon the clock in operative relation to the pins, and a cheap, simple, and effective means for obtaining the times of employees is secured.

'Having thus fully described our invention, we claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States 1. A time-clock havingin addition toitsordinary construction two receptacles for holding tickets, a slot opening into each, means adapted to be acted upon by the hour-shaft for moving said cover to alternately or successively close said slots, in combination with a time-dial having a sight-hole, a rotary indicatiug-dial back of the time-dial having arbitrary indicating characters thereon which when the said imiiicating-dial is rotated are adapted to be successively brought into line with said sight-hole and this after one of said slots is closed, and means for so rotating the indicating-dial, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

2. A. clock having in addition to its usual and ordinary construction receptacles for holding tickets, a slot for each receptacle, a cover for successive or alternate use with each, an indicating-dial back of the time-dial attached to the sleeve oi the hour-hand, or to the hour-shaft, to be turned thereby, the indicators of which are successively visible through the dial, a wheel or disk mounted upon said hour sleeve or shaft, and means for operating the cover adjustably mounted upon said wheel or disk, and a cover-moving device interposed between said means and the cover. I

3. The combination in a clock-casing of the slots (6, a, the lever l) pivoted at l/ and having at its lower end the cover B and at its upper end the inclined edge W, with one or more rotary operating-pins adapted to be brought into contact with said edge to move the lever and cover from one position to another.

0. E. BECKXVITH. ROBERT M. CLARK.

Witnesses to signature of G. E. 1-3.:

Janus W. CARNEY, W. (J. FRANK.

Witnesses to signature of R. M. (1.:

HELEN M. GILFOIL, GEORGE N. CLARK.

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