Abstract: The apparatus includes a card rack having a plurality of slots each aligned with an inclined channel adapted to receive a card. The rack has at least one longitudinally extending trough which communicates with each channel so that a portion of each card will be exposed in the trough. A card stripper is provided for stripping cards from the channels and through their associated slots. The card stripper has a portion receivable in the trough for contacting the ends of the cards as the stripper is moved along the trough.

Abstract: An apparatus for registering cards for printing in time recorders and the like uses a punch and die to form perforations which are co-linear with the printed information on the card. The perforations are sensed on subsequent insertions of the card and are used to prevent further insertion of the card and register the card in position so that each printing on the card will be made below previous printings.

Abstract: A printer countwheel mechanism in a time stamp machine keeps a running count of the number of groups of documents stamped by automatically advancing a countwheel to the next highest number when all documents in the group have been stamped. A document group comprises one or more documents. Each document in the group is stamped with the same countwheel number. When stamping single documents, i.e. groups consisting of only one document, the countwheel is advanced every stamping operation so that every document is stamped with a different number. When stamping duplicates, i.e. groups of two documents, the countwheel is advanced every other stamping operation so that duplicates are stamped with the same number. The mechanism may also be disengaged when it is not necessary to keep a count of the number of documents stamped.

Abstract: A programmed digital secondary clock which functions as a master clock, a sub-master clock or a slave clock. The master clock maintains an updated real time count based on a 50 hz or 60 hz ac line or digital oscillator signal, displays the count, and serially transmits digital information representative of the updated real time count for use by a slave clock. The sub-master clock, receives an hourly or twice-a-day correction signal from a conventional master clock or a conventional electronic receiver, corrects the real time count, displays the corrected count, and serially transmits digital information representative of the corrected real time count for use by a slave clock. Identical programmed digital secondary clocks can be connected in daisy chain. The first clock can operate as a master clock or as a sub-master clock. The following clocks can be operated as slave clocks.

Abstract: A flexitime recorder for informing workers of the respective actual times they have worked during a day's work program of work time including a break time as well as of a set work time within the day's work time less any break work time whereby each worker is apprised of the amount of his overtime or undertime with respect to the set time in which a programming means generates a first signal representing the day's program of work time and including the break time represented by an absence of the first signal and a second output signal representing a set work time within the day's program and in which a first gate responsive to the first signal couples timing pulses from a timing pulse generator to individually operable switches associated with storage counters, each of which is associated with an individual worker and in which a second counter responsive to the output of the first gate and to the second output signal of the programmer passes timing pulses to an additional counter so as to indicate set time.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an attendance time recorder having a printing device for printing times on a data medium such as a time card. The arrangement includes a printing head adapted to support printing types and a plurality of adjacently disposed number wheels of annular form with internal teeth for indexing by engagement with an indexing pawl and retaining means for the data medium. The retaining means and the printing head are adjustable according to a program and a drive is provided for effecting linear sliding movement of the printing head relative to the retaining means.

Abstract: A time recorder for recording elapsed time, including a time stamp with means for bringing the closer character of the least increment wheel into alignment with the characters on the other wheels.

Abstract: A time recorder with a time controlled printer for recording time data in the lines of a stamping card, with a card slide forming a stop abutment for the stamping card which can be slid into the apparatus in the direction perpendicular to its lines, an electrical circuit including a switch which can be operated by sliding the stamping card to trigger the printing mechanism when the stamping card is in the printing position also with a plurality of stop abutments as a first element for defining the possible positions of the card slide when printing the stamping card and a bolt, adapted to cooperate with the plurality of stops and acting as a second element, both elements being movable relative to each other into an engagement and non-engagement position and one of the elements being associated with the card slide and being slidable therewith in relation to the other element, the two elemets being driven into the engagement position by the stamping card and are slidable in the said engagement position together

Abstract: An improved time-registration device for recording date and work times on lines of a registration card including a day-program wheel of at least 31 sectors, of which the 29th to 31st sectors contain cams of varying height, and a month-program wheel with at least 12 sectors, each of said sectors having a cam height corresponding to the number of days in each month, scanners for the day- and month-program wheels operating together mechanically at the end of each month to operate a switch to advance the wheels for the following month, the improvement comprising the month-program wheel being frictionally driven by the day-program wheel at the end of each month.

Abstract: The flexitime recorder has a plurality of time store counters which are actuated by timing pulses transmitted by a generator, and there is a plurality of switches which are actuable by persons whose time is being recorded, in order to control the counters in accordance with their in-time. The flexitime recorder has a programming device for preventing the counters storing in-time outside predetermined periods including a daily set working time, and there is a registering device controlled by the timing pulses for registering the set working time each day.

Abstract: A time recorder for recording time data in columns by means of a time controlled printing device on a data medium, the printing device and data medium being slidable relative to each other and every numerically recorded time datum having an identical feature, including a device having electrical circuit means with scanning means for the data medium to prevent overprinting on time data, the scanning means comprising an optical tracing device which is orientated to the position of the defined mark and responds to the presence of the said mark and drives a stop abutment.