AN ACCURATE AUTOMATIC TIME RECORDER. The illustration represents an improved time-record ing mechanism operated in connection with a standard clock which gives in permanent printed form the hour and minute at which persons arrive and depart in the morning at meal time or at any time of the day or night. It is designed for use in factories shops stores offices or wherever the time of the employes is required to be noted. The recording mechanism is arranged in a suitable casing within the clock case below the dial and behind the glass panel of the door so that the works can be plainly seen there being a central opening in the glass in front of the recording mecha nism for the admission of the registering key. The clock works are of the best variety made being the Seth Thomas 100 beat pendulum movement. The ink ribbon is within the casing with the mechanism and the paper reel is just below it to the right. To the right of the clock as shown in the main view is an hung numbered keys such as shown in full size in the accompanying cut. Each workman or employe whose time is to be taken is given a number and when he goes to work he takes his key from the keyboard inserts it in the keyhole of the recorder turns it one-quarter around and then re moves and hangs it up again before passing on to his work. By this move the paper ribbon within the machine is going out instead of coming in he holds down the lever projecting side and a star is then printed in front of the hour on the paper strip as shown in some of the instances given in the accompanying illustration. According to the record shown it ap pears that No. 21 arrived between 47 and 48 minutes after 6 o'clock ; No. 75 at 6:53; No. 28 at 6:56; No. 56 going out at 10:30 and No. 97 going out at 12:3 etc. The paper strip can be rea dily removed for filing away as often as desired thus forming a perfect and indisputable record of the workman's time. A bell rings as each record is registering for another without the act being
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