Abstract: A time clock housing has a back plane circuit providing parallel circuit connections between identical pins on a plurality of circuit board connectors mounted on the back plane. This permits mounting any circuit board to any connector. The time clock includes a basic configuration of components as follows: a power supply, a floppy disk controller, a central processing unit, a ROM, a RAM, a real time clock having its own battery, an input/output circuit, an interface circuit, a keypad, a card reader, a liquid crystal display and an internal printer. The time clock optionally includes components as follows: a backup battery, a hard disk controller and hard disk, a video display circuit, a modem and a local area network circuit. Connectors may also be provided for connecting other devices to the time clock to enter data or receive data.

Abstract: A computer time clock, which is to use a photo-electric mechanism to decode the card and to store the data in a built-in diskette, and which provides a complementary memory for storage of the data at time the built-in diskette is overloaded, which can also provide multiple alarms for additional functional control and burglar-proof setting in the night.

Abstract: This invention relates to a time clock device, which contains a hinged time card shelf, which is adapted to be pressed down by the user of the time clock when he inserts his time card into the time clock. Upon pressing down on the time card and time card shelf, which the operator can do with one hand, the time, date, and other desired information, is printed onto the time card by a thermal printer which is actuated by a switch activated by the movement of the time card shelf to its lower or pushed down position.

Abstract: The computerized time clock system includes a personal computer via which employee, job and schedule records may be assembled and maintained. A computerized time clock communicates with the personal computer and received employee and scheduling data therefrom, in order to validate and record time-in and time-out transactions executed by employees. Current time records are maintained in the memory of the time clock and at the end of each day are transmitted to the personal computer for addition to permanent disk records including a record of each time-in and time-out transaction for an extended period. Sales records may also be maintained in personal computer 20, for example the quantity of liquor or food served by a particular employee or in a particular department, which sales information may be correlated with labor costs found in the permanent time records.

Abstract: An employee clock system is disclosed which has a central data collector device connected to a plurality of remote satellite time clock stations. The timekeeping function is performed at the central data collector, and communication between the data collector and the time clocks takes place over communication channels wired in a spoke, rather than in a loop, configuration. The system permits use of a supervisor's card to clock in for another employee, while preventing non-supervisory employees from doing so. The central data collector collects employee attendance data from all the remote time clock stations, puts it in a form usable by a general purpose programmable computer, and sends it to the computer for use in preparing a payroll, Battery back-up is provided to permit employees to clock out in the event that the plant is closed because of a power failure.

Abstract: A data handling terminal includes a microcomputer and a memory, the microcomputer preferably being intended for connection to a central computer. The data handling terminal (1) is characterized in that it includes a feed path (5) arranged to advance a so-called time card (29), in that arranged along the path (5) is a reader (18), which is arranged to read a bar code (30), a printer (19) and a sensor (21), which is arranged to transmit a signal to the microcomputer (2) when the time card (29) occupies a pre-determined position in relation to the printer (19).

Abstract: A control system is provided having stationary check points which are contactlessly read by a data collector and verified. The data so read can be stored and transmitted by a transmitter to a central unit, where the data so received are centrally evaluated. Together with the data of the check point being read, the time at which the respective check point is read is transmitted to the central unit as well. If all data are received by the central unit, it transmits back a verification entry, and the data are subsequently stored in a memory together with such verification entry. If no verification entry is received, the data are automatically and continually retransmitted to the central unit until the verification entry is received by the receiver in the data collector. In addition, the data collector has a random generator capable of establishing which individual check points are to be successively called on by the security guard.

Abstract: A time recorder includes a clock circuit for producing a clock signal, a detector for detecting when a time card is loaded in the time recorder to produce a detection signal, and a correcting circuit for producing a correcting signal effective to correct time information. A printing wheel assembly is rotationally driven to print the time information which is displayed in a display device. A positioning mechanism receives the loaded time card and moves relative to the printing wheel assembly for positioning the loaded time card in a print position relative to the printing wheel assembly. A hammer is opposed to the loaded time card and actuated to act thereon against the printing wheel assembly to thereby print the time information.

Abstract: A time recorder is normally powered by a main power source for supplying a commercial power and occasionally powered by a back-up power source during interruption of the commercial power supply. A clock means counts time to constantly produce a clock pulse, and a digital display constantly digitally indicates updated time data in response to the clock pulse. An analogue display is driven for analogically indicating time information and a recording mechanism is driven for recording time information on a recording medium. A driving device drives the analog display and recording mechanism in response to the clock pulse to update the time information indicated in the analog display and recorded by the recording mechanism. A detecting device is connected to the main power source for detecting the interruption of the commercial power supply.

Abstract: A programmable unit for attachment to a work-station whereby power to the work-station will be shut off after a pre-set time-period, unless work-station activity occurs before the outset of the time-period, when the pre-set time-period will initiate again.

Abstract: This card processor includes an electrical driving means for operating either in a take in mode for conveying a card upon insertion thereof to a determinate position, or in an ejection mode for expelling a taken in card to the outside, and a control means for controlling supply of electrical energy to the electrical driving means so as to cause it to operate either in the take in mode or in the ejection mode. A non volatile memory means is set upon insertion of the card and reset upon expelling of the card.

Abstract: A watchman's tour recording system includes a portable housing containing a data reader for reading and recording data from tour stations and a printer for printing out recorded station data and entry time in alphanumeric form. The printer is located in a locked compartment and is accessible by supervisory personnel for periodic tour entry monitoring. Station keys carry coded identification as a linear array of apertures filled with alternative pellet materials which are transmissive or non-transmissive to infrared light but are visibly indistinguishable. Strobe holes are positioned in a parallel linear array for synchronizing data reading. During assembly, the pellets are mutually distinguishable by split and continuous rings which serve as energy directors during ultrasonic welding of the pellets into the key, and which are hidden from view in the assembled product.

Abstract: This disclosure is concerned with providing automatic identification of lines of time cards and the like on which time-in, time-out and related data is to be printed or recorded, by printing distinctive marks in the data field of the card on such lines, and sensing the presence of the marks to signal advancement on the next card usage to the next line.

Abstract: There is disclosed herein an improved card reader for a security system utilizing a central controller and a plurality of card readers for controlling traffic through critical doors in a facility. The improved reader includes means for improving the system throughput by buffer storing large numbers of transactions all occurring within a short time for time clock functions in time and attendance applications for hourly employees. Also disclosed are means for conditioned emergency responses to sensed changes in status of alarm contacts coupled to the reader and located in the vicinity of the reader within 2 miles. There is also disclosed means for temporarily storing transaction information for transactions made during periods when communications with the controller are lost. During such degraded mode operation, access is granted to cardholders with the proper system code and their ID code and the time of the transaction are stored in a buffer.

Abstract: A time card carrier has means for alterably storing employee identification, time and attendance data, and means for releasably retaining an employee time card having an imprintable portion. The time card has an extended tab portion for proper orientation of the card on the carrier. The time card carrier is reusable to allow a fresh time card to be inserted onto the time card carrier at the beginning of each new payroll period.

Abstract: There is disclosed herein an improved card reader for a security system utilizing a central controller and a plurality of card readers for controlling traffic through critical doors in a facility. The improved reader includes means for improving the system throughput by buffer storing large numbers of transactions all occurring within a short time for time clock functions in time and attendance applications for hourly employees. Also disclosed are means for conditioned emergency responses to sensed changes in status of alarm contacts coupled to the reader and located in the vicinity of the reader within 2 miles. There is also disclosed means for temporarily storing transaction information for transactions made during periods when communications with the controller are lost. During such degraded mode operation, access is granted to cardholders with the proper system code and their ID code and the time of the transaction are stored in a buffer.

Abstract: A system for generating data for input to a computer representing the length of time the worker has spent at a workstation performing a task includes portable memory circuit, a data entry circuit, and a data reading circuit. The memory circuit stores data relating to the task. The data entry circuit is located at the workstation and is adapted to electrically connect to the memory circuit and automatically and periodically writes into the memory circuit data program into the entry circuit which relates to the task at the workstation. The data reading circuit is electrically connected to the computer and is also adapted to electrically connect to the circuit. The data reading circuit transfers into the computer the data written into the memory circuit by the data entry circuit.

Abstract: This disclosure is concerned with automatically identifying authorized break, meal and other time intervals in check-out and check-in of employee timecards in time-recording systems and the like and accommodating for the same in computing total working hours in such systems.

Abstract: A time-clock recording and computation apparatus of which operation is controlled by a microcomputer, includes computation means comprising a data storage unit (107) in which attendance data based on a predetermined attendance system are stored, and a processing unit (100) effecting predetermined calculation based on the data stored in said data storage unit. The apparatus further includes optional rest processing means provided in the computation means. The optional rest processing means is operative to execute predetermined processing comprising the steps of storing parameters in respect of an optional rest in the data storage unit, effecting comparative judgement between the data indicative of entering and leaving and optional rest processing patterns based on said parameters, and sequentially summing up the processed results in the data storage unit.

Abstract: A time card recorder for recording an employee's clocking times, such as his clocking-in and clocking-out times at the beginning and end of a work period, upon a time card and for indicating a relationship between such clocking times and a working schedule which has been assigned to that employee. The time card recorder includes apparatus for storing each of a plurality of possible working schedules and apparatus for reading a symbol from the employee's time card which identifies the working schedule associated with that card. The symbol is the same for a plurality of time cards of different employees associated with the same working schedule.

Abstract: A device for recording both machine readable information and visible information on a recording member such as a time-card or ledger card or pass-book with a strip of magnetic record material on it. The device includes recording apparatus for recording machine readable information on the recording member, a transport mechanism for moving the recording member and the recording apparatus relative to each other, a printer for printing visible characters or other marks upon the recording member, and print spacing apparatus which uses the relative motion between the recording member and the recording apparatus to space the characters from one another on the recording member. In a preferred embodiment, the recording apparatus is a magnetic recorder and the magnetic recorder and the printer are fixed relative to each other during the motion created by the transport mechanism. Preferably, the same mechanism which creates the relative motion for recording also moves the record card into and out of the device.

Abstract: The record surface of a work slip on which work contents for a printing machine are recorded with a time axis separately according to the kinds of work, is read, so that the total periods of times are obtained separately according to the kinds of work. The total periods of time are displayed, and printed out.

Abstract: An apparatus for storing and processing card identification information and associated time information primarily intended for use in combination with a standard time clock. The apparatus includes a card reader removably mountable to a standard time clock and having a through opening overlying the time clock opening in registration therewith to permit passage of a time card through the aligned openings. The card reader contains means for detecting machine readable coded information contained on the card. Data processing means are located externally of the time clock and coupled to the card reader for processing coded information detected by the card reader.

Abstract: A time recorder having an assembly with structure for reading out a personal code recorded on an inserted time card, a memory provided corresponding to each personal code for storing status data expressing at least the distinction of either "arrival queuing" or "departure queuing", a print column control for making reference to status storage corresponding to the personal code read out by a read-out at the time of receiving of the time card and also for printing the time of receiving of the time card in the arrival time column if the contents of the status storage are "arrival queuing" or in the departure time column if the contents are "departure queuing", and a storage status control for setting the contents of a status storage means to "departure queuing" every time when the printing is made in the departure time column.

Abstract: A working hour system corresponding to each of a number of different kinds of plural work classes is stored in the form of predetermined format in a storage section of a time recorder. A time card has a work class code expressing the work class of the person who owns the card. When the time card is inserted into the time recorder, the time recorder first reads out the work class code recorded on the time, determines the work data related to the time of acceptance of the card by arithmetic operation based on the working hour system in a storage section corresponding to the work class code, and prints the results of this arithmetic operation on the time card.

Abstract: A time clock and/or computer system has a central management office with readout communication to factory work stations. Work instructions to the work stations are displayed for the foreman who prints or punches a working order. The order together with worker ID are fed to a time clock at the station before and after the job. Signals to a terminal at the station indicate delays to the foreman and management.

Abstract: A time cost recorder enables entry and exit transactions to be recorded at will both by a badge bearing digitally encoded machine readable identity information and by a card bearing both digitally encoded machine readable identity information in the same recording medium and form as a badge and visible characters referring to the entry and exit transactions. Constant instructions for operation of the machine are stored in read-only memory, and a random-access memory includes locations severally allocatable to the badges and cards for recording the data relating to the entry and exit transactions of each badge or card according to the identity thereof. Thus badges are passed in the direction of arrow 4 through a combined reader and printer and cards are inserted in the direction of arrow 6 into a combined badge reader/printer that has a motor driven card transport roller that moves the card into and then out of the reader/printer.

Abstract: A data recorder for use in processing cards and the like comprises a housing which has mounted therein electronic control system incorporating both firmware and software programs. A thermal printer and optical reading device are mounted in the housing for printing information onto the card and reading information on the card respectively. The data recorder may be used as a clocking-on device and special cards provided for changing at least one of the software programs of the electronic control system.

Abstract: An automated employee time and attendance system having a central processor and a plurality of sub-systems which are capable of providing data used by the central processor in payroll determination. Each sub-system is capable of maintaining clocking information along with other employee data, adjusting such data and retrieving such data in a printed form when so desired by a timekeeper. A means is provided for allowing the monitoring of loaned and borrowed employees as between the sub-systems so that payroll determination in their regard is accurately maintained. Periodically data stored in the sub-systems are conveyed to the central processor where it sorts and merges all data received from the sub-systems including the clocking data whereby accurate payroll determination is effected.

Abstract: This disclosure is concerned with time-clock recording and computation that, through a novel clock track card and separate clock track and data channel optical reading, in cooperation with microprocessor calculation, storage and control, enables automating employee time and attendance and similar data in a format directly recordable on the card and also directly useable by payroll or other processing computers and the like.