US945044A - Time-recorder. - Google Patents

Description

J. MORRISON.

TIME RECORDER.

nrucuzon FILED JULY 30, 1909.

Patented Jan. 4, 1910.

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J. MORRISON.

TIME RECORDER. APPLIOATION FILED JULY 30, 1909.

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UNITED STATES PALIENT OFFICE.

JAMES MORRISON, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE CINCINNATI TIME RE- CORDER COMPANY, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

TIME-RECORDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 4, 1910.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JAMES MORRISON, a citizen of the United States, residing in Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Time-Recorders, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

My invention relates to that class of workmens time recorders in which there is recorded on a card given him for that purpose, the time of entering and leaving his place of work.

The object of my present invention is to simplify the present mechanism employed for such time recorders, and to so arrange the parts that there shall be very little like lihood of their breaking down and getting out of order.

The special object of my construction is to avoid the employment of the various automatically acting parts which are so frequently adopted, and which are so frequently the cause of trouble, but while leaving the shifting of the levers to the workman himself, I provide for an operation which the most ignorant of workmen cannot fail to understand and perform.

My improvements are embodied in that certain novel construction and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter particularly pointed out and claimed.

In the drawings Figure l is a front elevation of my improved machine with the front casing removed. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 8 is a detail cross section considerably enlarged, taken on the lines 3, 3 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a similar cross section taken on the lines 4, 4 of Fig. 2.

1 represents a portion of the casing in which the machine is inclosed, and in this casing is mounted a suitable framework 2 for supporting the operating parts.

3 represents as a whole the usual series of type carrying wheels for printing the desired record on the record strip or workmens card, and these wheels are actuated in the usual way by means of the connecting rod 5 which connects the wheels with the clock mechanism not shown. Mounted immediately in front of the type wheels by the lugs 6, 6 loosely secured on the shaft 7, mounted in the framework transversely of the face of the machine is the usual card receiver 8. This card receiver is provided with the usual flaring mouth for the reception of the card, and the depending lateral guides 9, 9 and the entire card receiver is arranged to be shifted laterally on the rod 7 to present the card therein to the proper set of type carrying wheels to give the proper out and in record. The card is supported in the card receiver by an abutment plate 10, which is arranged to be shifted vertically as will be hereinafter described, to change the vertical position of the card for each record and for the record from day to day.

12, 13 are a pair of pulleys supported on spindles 14, 14 in the framework, and on these pulleys an endless inking ribbon 11 is mounted, the web on one side being interposed between the card in the card receiver, and the type wheels, and 15 is the printing platen or hammer mounted on an arm or plate 16, secured centrally to the rock shaft 17, mounted in suitable bearings in the framework. At one end this rock shaft carries the pawl 18 which is engaged by a pin 19 on an operating lever 20, pivotally mounted at 21 in the case. Vhen this lever is depressed, the engagement of the pin 19 with the pawl 18 rocks the shaft 17, and carries the hammer away from the inking ribbon until the pawl passes the pin, and thereupon the rock shaft 17 and printing platen is returned to its normal position by a coiled spring not shown, connecting an arm of the shaft with the framework. The lever 20 is returned to its normal position by the spring Pivotally mounted on the rock shaft 17 is a slotted plate 24 which carries at its outer end a spring pawl 25, which engages a ratchet wheel 26 on the ink ribbon pulley 12. 28 is a pin projecting laterally from the lever 20 which engages in the slot 29 in the plate 24 so that with each actuation of the lever 20, the pulley 12 will be rotated to shift the inking ribbon. I have found that this construction of an endless inking ribbon is much preferable to the mechanism usually provided, in which the inking ribbon is carried from end to end and requires that the actuating mechanism should be shifted to change the direction of the movement of the ribbon. It frequently happens that this change is neglected, and with the ribbon stationary, after a few imprints are taken, the

ink is soon exhausted, while with my construction the ribbon is always moved in the same direction, and this ditliculty cannot arise.

The abutment plate 10 which supports the card in the proper position is carried by the plate 30, which is mounted on the cross plate 31 secured to the lower end of two vertical rods 32, 32. Upon the upper end of these rods 32, 32 is secured the forwardly projecting plate 33, the front end of which is provided with asegmental slot 34-, through which projects the pin 35 on the collar 36, and by which connection the plate is coupled to the collar. This collar 36 is loosely mounted on the vertical rod 37 and the collar is raised and lowered by a shifting lever 38, which projects through a vertically slotted and laterally notched curved indicator plate 39, fixed to the front of the case. Immediately behind this fixed indicator plate is a similarly curved rocking plate l0, which carries, at top and bottom, horizontal inwardly projecting arms ll, 42, and these arms are pivotally mounted on the vertical rod 37.

The curved plate 4-0 is provided with a narrow vertical slot 4E3, through which projects the shifting lever 38, so that with the movement of this lever from side to side the locking plate 40 will be rocked on the shaft 37, and with it the arms 41, 42. The inner end of the arm All carries the depending rod tet. which, in turn, carries on its lower end a bifurcated connecting piece 5, which is pivotally secured at L6 to a lug on the card receiver 8.

It will be evident from this construction that as the shifting lever 38 is shifted from side to side to engage the lateral notches 47, that the card receiver will be shifted laterally to present the card to the type wheels in the proper position, and it will be also evident that as the shifting lever is raised or lowered from notch to notch in the vertical slot 48, that the abutment plate 10 will be correspondingly raised and lowered. The rods 32, 32 pass through suitable openings in the framework, so that in the shifting of the lever from side to side the abutment plate will not be rocked.

In order that the shifting lever shall be locked against any movement except when the recorder is to be used, I provide a catch for the rocking plate 40. Pivotally mounted in the lug 50 on the framework is the lever 51, the inner end of which engages a spring pressed pin 52 which normally engages on either side of the projection (33 of the arm 42, so that when the shifting lever is in engagement with any indicating notch the lever is locked until released by depressing the lever 51. This lever 51 may extend. out in front of the case so to be operated by the workmen, or it may be covered up and inaccessible except to the foreman or other otlicer who, with a separate key, may unlock this portion of the case and gain access to the locking device.

Inasmuch as the supporting plate {ll for the abutment plate is preferably light to reduce the weight, any workman applying too much pressure on the card inserted in the card receiver might depress the abutment plate. To prevent this and maintain rigidity for the abutment plate. I provide the depending guides of the card receiver with a pair of notched plates 53, 53. The lateral notches in these plates correspond to the lateral notches in the indicator plate 39, and as the card receiver is shifted from side to side the proper notch will be brought into engagement with the side edge of the abutment plate, and the abutment plate will be held rigidly in position.

The operation of my improved machine will be evident from the foregoing description.

The cards for the workmen are made up in any desired way, either with morning records in one column and the afternoon records in another, or with the in records in one column and the out records in another column. The type wheels only print the time and the shifting of the card in. the card receiver either laterally or vertically is merely to locate the record properly on the face of the card.

In the construction illustrated the lateral notches on one side represent the morning records, and on the other side the afternoon records. The notches are provided for the ins and outs for each day, and the machine is arranged as illustrated for a weeks use of the card. The latch 51 being depressed either by the workmen or by the foreman or other otiicer, the first workman places the shifting lever in the first in notch for the proper day of the week. Then he passes his card into the card receiver and for the first day the abutment lever will be raised to its top position. The workman then depresses the lever 20 to print on the *ard the proper record of the time. All the other workmen follow and merely pass their cards into the card receiver and depress the lever 20 for the record. The first man out moves the shifting lever into the first out position and proceeds as before, while the first man in after the intermission moves the shifting lever into the second in notch. The first man out in the evening shifts the lever to the second out notch and there the lever remains until the next day, when the first man in carries the lever into the in position for the second day.

lVith my construction in which the shifting lever operates both the card receiver and the abutment plate, it is just as simple a matter to change the position of the card for the consecutive days as it is to change ltlt) from in to out and in this way I am able to provide an exceedingly simple and perfectly operating machine with a minimum number of parts.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. In a time recorder, a card receiver and an abutment plate, each adapted to be shifted to locate the registration position properly on the card, with a shifting lever under control. of the operator and means coupling said lever to the card receiver and to the abutment plate, whereby both operations may be performed by the single lever.

2. In a time recorder, a card receiver and an abutment plate each adapted to be shifted to locate the registration position properly on the card, with a shifting lever under control of the operator and means coupling said lever to the card receiver and to the abutment plate, whereby both operations may be performed by the single lever, with a latch to lock the lever from actuation until released.

In a time recorder, a card receiver adapted to be shifted laterally and an abutment plate forming an end support for the card, adapted to be shifted vertically, a shifting lever and means coupling said lever to the card receiver and to the abutment plate, an indicating plate with vertical slot through which said lever projects, said plate being provided with lateral notches at each side of the slot to receive the lever and determine the lateral and vertical position of the card in the receiver.

4. In a time recorder, a card receiver adapted to be shifted laterally and an abutment plate forming an end support for the card adapted to be shifted vertically, a shifting lever and means coupling said lever to the card receiver and to the abutment plate, an indicating plate with vertical slot through which said lever projects, said plate being provided with lateral notches at each side of the slot to receive the lever and determine the lateral and vertical position of the card in the receiver, and said card receiver being provided with a corresponding series of lateral notches to support the abutment plate when the card receiver is shifted into position to receive the card.

5. In a time recorder, a laterally shiftable 3 card receiver and a vertically shiftable abutment plate, a shifting lever directly connected to the abutment plate to raise and lower the same, a vertical rocking plate directly connected to the card receiver, with a vertical slot therein through which the shifting lever passes, whereby a single movement of the lever will actuate both card receiver and abutment plate.

6. In a time recorder, a laterally shiftable card receiver and a vertically shiftable abutment plate, a shifting lever directly connected to the abutment plate to raise and lower the same, a vertical rocking plate directly connected to the card receiver, with a vertical slot therein through which the shifting lever passes, whereby a single movement of the lever will actuate both card receiver and abutment plate, and a latch to engage the rocking plate and lock the shifting lever from operation.

JAMES MORRISON.

lVitnesses Bnssm A. BEALL, ROBERT P. I'IARGITT.

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