US689301A - Time-check. - Google Patents

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Patented nec. I7, Ism. F. H.' GIL-SUN.

TIME CHECK. (Application mea Aug. ias, 1900.)

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THE Norms PETERS u UNITED STATES FRANKLIN II. GILSON, OF VEL'LESLEY, MASSACHUSETTS.

PATENT OFFICE.

TIME-CH ECK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 689,301, dated December 17, 1901.

Application filed August 28,1900. Serial No. 28,273. (No modelJ To ctZZ whom t Monty concern:

Be it known that I, FRANKLIN H. GILsoN, of Wellesley, in the county of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Indicating Elapsed Time, of which the following-is a specification.

The object of the present invention is the provision of an apparatus for determining the wage cost of work done in factories and other industrial establishments where it is desirable or necessary to ascertain the cost of time spent by each operative on a certain job or piece of work. In-such establishments operatives of `different degrees of skill are employed for various kinds of work, and the wages paid thereto vary accordingly, so that it has hitherto been necessary in iiguring the cost of a certain piece of Vwork to determine the length of time spent by each operative thereon and then to calculate the wage cost according to the value of each operatives time. This has required a large clerical force in factories or workshops of any considerable size and has added greatly to the cost of production.

According to theillnstrated aud described embodiment of the present invention I provide a clock-movement for each operative equipped with hand or index which at will may be coupled to an arbor which rotates once in twelve hours and with a scale on which is indicated the wage cost of the hours and fractions thereof spent by the operative. Preferably, though not necessarily, the scale is graduated to indicate tenths of the hours,

thus making the computation of time into money much easier than when the divisions are in fifths.- The scales may be printed or indicated upon the ordinarydial, in which case Iprovide a plurality of interchangeable dials in which thewage cost or time value is printed on the scale opposite the vfractions of hours, so that the index shows at any time both the lapsed time since the beginning of certain work, together with the wage cost thereof at any rate per hour. The index may be used alone or in conjunction with the ordinary hour and minute hands, as shown upon the accompanying drawings.

In addition to the described features the invention comprises certain others which are .show portions of the movement.

illustrated upon the drawings now to be deresents a clock-movement equipped with my invention. Fig. 2 represents a side view of the same with the casing broken away to Fig. 3 represents in section the index disengaged from the hour-hand arbor. Fig. 4 represents a similar View with the index frictionally engaged with the said-arbor. Fig. 5 represents the index and the device which holds it out of engagement Awith the arbor. Fig. 6 represents a sectional View of the hour and minute handsand the wheel which causes their rotation.

I may employ any suitable clock-movement providedwith an arbor a, to which the hourhand a is attached. The said arbor is hollow and is journaled upon the main arbor b, to which is usually attached the actuatingspring. The hour-hand arbor is formed with the usual wheels a2, intel-meshing with a pinion a3, journaled upon the stud-shaft a4. The pinion o3 is formed with a large wheel 01,5, which intermeshes with and is 'driven by a pinion b', rigidly attached to the mainspringarbor b. The minute-hand is indicated at c .and is on a sleeve c', rotatably mounted on the arbor d. The sleeve is provided with a pinion c2, intermeshing with the wheels c3 c4 on the hub of the pinion n.3. The mechanism thus far described is not a part of my invention, except in so far as I utilize it for rotating or moving the index, a-nd consequently the clock-movement may be varied, as desired.

The movement is confined within a casing d, having in the front the usual glass disk or crystal d'. Within the casing is a dial e, and between the dial and the crystal is a frustoconical ringf. The hands are placed, as usual, between the dials and the crystal. On the dial are indicated the hours from l to l2, as shown, and a scale e' is provided in which the spaces between the numerals indicating the hours are divided into tenths, each tenth being numbered, as shown. Outside of and concentric with the scale indicating the hours and the fractions thereof is another scale e2,

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which indicates the money value ofthe hours and the fractions thereof.

On the drawings the value of each hour is indicated at twenty-tive cents; but it will be understood that I provide for each clock a plurality of interchangeable dials, in which the money value of the hours varies from the lowest tofthe highest wages paid to the operatives. It a certain skilled operative is paid fifty cents an hour, the clock movement vwhich is provided for him is equipped With a dial in which the value of each hour is indicated as that sum.

I have shown the scale for the money value of the time spent as being printed directly upon the dial; but Ihave contemplated printing it upon a separate slip of paper and placing it upon the crystal, since it may then be removed and replaced by another one without taking the movement from the casing.

The arbor ct of the hour-hand is elongated to a greater extent than is usual, and it projects beyond the hub of the hour-hand, as shown in Fig. 6. In the center of the crystal or glass disk d is clamped a diskg by means of a collar g', threaded on a boss or (lange thereon, the crystal being perforated at its center to receive it. The disk has a central aperture g2 and is provided with spring-tingers g3. A shaft g4, which is swelled at g5, is passed through the aperture g2, and at its end is provided with a cup or socket Q6, which is slit to provide spring-fingers g7 to embrace the end of the arbor d. The upper end of the shaft g4 is secured to a knob or button g8, by means of which it may be rotated or moved longitudinally. An index h is secured to the cup g, directly beneath the crystal d'. By this construction it will be seen that the cup g6 may be frictionally engaged with the end of the hour-hand arbor a, so that the index h will be carried around as said arbor rotates, or that when the shaft g4 is moved outward to disengage the cup from the arbor the swelled portion of the shaft is frictionally engaged by the spring-fingers gand is clamped in the position shown in Fig. 3, whereby it is held stationary. The manner of using the invention will be understood from the foregoing description.

Assuming that at about twenty-one minutes past two an operative commences work upon a certain job, the index 7L is set to zero (or twelve oclock) and is thrust into frictional engagement with the hour-hand arbor, as shown in Fig. 4. The index will move with the arbor until the job is completed, at which time the operative notes upon a card the length of time spent upon the job and the money value of the time, which he can easily ascertain from the scale e2. Upon commencing another job the index is reset to zero.

It is evident, so faras many features of the invention are concerned, that I may dispense with the monetary scale e2, if found desirable.

In some factories each operative is kept in ignorance of the wages paid the others there employed, and of course in such case I would not use the interchangeable dials or place on the dial the monetary scale, although I should in such case prefer to retain the division of the hours into tenths and should furnish a table or chart by means of which the timeclerk could easily translate the elapsed timespent by each operative on a job into money values.

Having thus explained the nature of the invention and described a Way of constructing and using the same, although without having attempted to set forth allot the forms in which it may be made or all of the modes of its use, I declare that What- I claim isl. The combination with a clock-movement having` an hour-hand arbor and a dial, of an auxiliary hand orindex adapted to be engaged with or disengaged from said arbor Without disturbing the hour-hand, a support for said hand or index on the opposite side of the dial from the clock-movement, the said hand or index being rotatable on an axis in line with the axis ot' the said hour-hand arbor.

2. The combination with a clock-movement having an index and a transparent cover therefor, of means for detachably engaging said index with an arbor of said movement, said 95 means extending through the said transparent cover of the movement.

3. The combination with a clock-movement having an index and a dial, the support for the index being on the opposite side of the dial from said clock-movement, means for detachably engaging said index with one end of an arbor of said movement, and a graduated scale having money Values indicated thereon, the said index being rotatable on-an axis in line with the axis of said arbor.

4. The combination with a clock-movement having an arbor and a dial, ot' an index, a support for said index on the opposite side of the dial from the movement, a yielding means for detachably engaging said index with one end of said arbor, the said index being rotatable on an axis in line with the axis of the said arbor.

5. The combination with a clock-movement, of a dial, an index, a support for the index on the opposite side of the dial from the said movement, the said index being adapted to be detachably connected to one end of an arbor of said clock-movement to be actuated thereby, and a plurality of interchangeable scales indicating dii-ferent series of values adapted to be su pported in operative relation to said index.

In testimony whereof I have aiixed my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

FRANKLIN H. GILSON.

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Vitnes-ses:

M. B. MAY, E. BATCHELDER

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