Time Character Advancing Or Resetting Mechanism Patents (Class 346/91)
  • Patent number: 4044548
    Abstract: A time clock is provided which includes a minute wheel that is advanced every minute and an hour wheel that must be advanced every hour, wherein a deflecting pawl device is utilized, in place of gears, to connect the wheels. Both wheels have ratchet teeth, and a pawl that oscilltes once each minute to advance the minute wheel. The minute wheel, which rotates once every hour, has a cam that moves beside the pawl to deflect it sidewardly so that the pawl engages a tooth on the hour wheel. Thus, at the next oscillation of the pawl, both wheels are advanced. The minute wheel bears the numbers 0 through 59, while the hour wheel bears the numbers 1 through 12 repeated five times, so that both wheels have 60 numbers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 1976
    Date of Patent: August 30, 1977
    Assignee: New England Business Service, Inc.
    Inventor: Francis W. Rowbottam
  • Patent number: 4041503
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 1976
    Date of Patent: August 9, 1977
    Assignee: Simplex Time Recorder
    Inventors: Wilfried Michel, Hartmut Reichert, Erich Willmann
  • Patent number: 3983568
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1975
    Date of Patent: September 28, 1976
    Assignee: Simplex Time Recorder Company
    Inventor: Rudolph B. Danke
  • Patent number: 3975743
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 1975
    Date of Patent: August 17, 1976
    Assignee: Simplex Time Recorder Company
    Inventors: Gunther Trischler, Hartmut Reichert