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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7266048 | Digital time clock for operation in conjunction with mechanical time clock A digital time clock that may be used in conjunction with a mechanical time clock. The digital time clock is placed on or adjacent to an existing mechanical time clock. A radio frequency identification (RFID) tag is associated with each time card that is distributed... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7265767 | Illuminated ribbon shield A ribbon shield for a time clock may be provided which may be placed within a printing chamber along with a printing mechanism. The ribbon shield may also incorporate a light source (e.g., electroluminescent lamp) to illuminate the printing chamber and an inserted t... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7122988 | Rotation drive device and rotation drive method This rotation driving apparatus includes a torque generating circuit 72 for generating a torque of a servo motor 30 with voltage supply from a power source 71 and a motor control circuit 73 for controlling rotation of the motor. In the to... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7021540 | Storage medium mounting/dismounting mechanism and information processing apparatus A storage medium can be mounted at and dismounted from an information processing apparatus without having to dismount a storage medium adapter from the information processing apparatus, and one of the storage medium and the storage medium adapter can be selectively ... | 04/04/2006 |
| 6968783 | Method for printing security documents using sheets with identifiers For manufacturing security documents, a plurality of security documents are printed on a sheet. The sheets are being processed in batches (15a, 15b). Each sheet carries a unique, machine readable identifier. During manufacturing, the batc... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6850466 | Time recorder A time recorder can print characters without reducing the print font size or increasing the width of a time card itself. Also, no limitations are imposed on the number of clock ins/outs per day. A control unit checks the identity of card identification information a... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6061303 | Programmable time recorder A time recorder includes a digital display and a printer for printing selected information including time, date, comment and number. A removable cover covers programming text which surrounds the display. During programming, the cover is removed to expose ... | 05/09/2000 |
| 5990915 | Time recorder with code reader and data storage A time recorder receives bar coded time cards, punches time data on the cards and stores the time data in memory. Each card has a bar code at each end corresponding to the same value. For each pay period, a unique bar code and the card on which it is prin... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5988056 | Printing apparatus and method A printing device wherein top frontal positioning of motor and drive train is avoided so that the size of the top portion can be reduced thereby improving the ability of the operator to view the alignment of a printable article in relation to the printer.... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5793707 | Programmable time recorder A time recorder includes a digital display and a printer for printing selected information including time, date, comment and number. A removable cover covers programming text which surrounds the display. During programming, the cover is removed to expose ... | 08/11/1998 |
| 5767868 | Method for establishing a user identification code and a job classification code on a time card A method for establishing a code on a time card includes the step of selecting that day, among numerical figures representing dates printed in a date column on the time card, which is equal to an ID code number of a card user, and the step of applying a c... | 06/16/1998 |
| 5317547 | Time recorder When a time card is inserted in a time recorder, for daily flextime, and selection is made of a work starting time column using a printing column selection key, the current time is printed onto a specific location of the work starting time column of the c... | 05/31/1994 |
| 4985713 | Time recorder having belt printing types A printing portion of a time recorder having belt printing types comprises a plurality of hour-use belt printing types arranged in a row on a surface of a first belt and gradually fed by hour unit in accordance with a time signal, a plurality of minute-us... | 01/15/1991 |
| 4937599 | Variable configuration time clock 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 incl... | 06/26/1990 |
| 4899173 | Time clock device 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 ... | 02/06/1990 |
| 4847791 | Timekeeping system A system to process employee and job data, in a shop having a number of mechanic employees and a number of machines, including at least a first employee-input station, a second timekeeping station, and a third management station. A printer and a computer ... | 07/11/1989 |
| 4837584 | Security time clock system System for requiring the contemporaneous application of time clock data and personal data to a time card to prevent or signal the fraudulent application of either type of data at a time which is substantially different from the other type of data, i.e., b... | 06/06/1989 |
| 4831388 | Elapsed time recorder An elapsed time recorder comprising an entrance recorder installed at the entrance for printing the entry time on a time card and simultaneously coding this entry time and printing the coded entry time on the time card, and an exit recorder installed at t... | 05/16/1989 |
| 4755835 | Time recorder with printing wheels and impression hammer 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 ... | 07/05/1988 |
| 4751521 | Time recorder with automatic correction for momentary discontinuation of power supply 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 puls... | 06/14/1988 |
| 4603335 | Time recorder for vertical and horizontal use A time recorder which can be used for both vertical and horizontal states is disclosed. It has a box shaped main body just as a usual time recorder. The main body has an end face in which an insertion slot for inserting a time card is formed. Adjacent to ... | 07/29/1986 |
| 4542286 | Time card and carrier 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... | 09/17/1985 |
| 4524266 | Method of and apparatus for discriminating between various types of check-out periods in employee time-recording systems and the like 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 ho... | 06/18/1985 |
| 4506274 | Time card recorder and method for identifying employee work schedule 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 schedul... | 03/19/1985 |
| 4494127 | Apparatus and method for recording both machine-readable and printed information 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 ma... | 01/15/1985 |
| 4446468 | Single piece trigger and knock off mechanism A single piece trigger and knock off mechanism for a switch operated card printer includes a lever integrally connected to a resilient mounting bracket which provides a first flexural pivot. The lever comprises a pair of integrally connected arms, each pr... | 05/01/1984 |
| 4423314 | Time recorder 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 queui... | 12/27/1983 |
| 4423315 | Time recorder 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 per... | 12/27/1983 |
| 4420759 | Card locking device for time recorder A card locking device for use in a time recorder which is constructed in such a manner that while a wire type dot matrix type printer performs its printing operation such as time printing or the like on a time card inserted into a card guide passage, a lo... | 12/13/1983 |
| 4415801 | Printer countwheel mechanism 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 grou... | 11/15/1983 |
| 4394666 | Time recorder A time recorder comprising, in combination, read-out means for reading out a personal code shown on a time card inserted; print line number storage means provided correspondingly to each personal code for storing data expressing a print line number on the... | 07/19/1983 |
| 4381511 | Printing device for a time recorder A printing device for a time recorder in which printing operation is performed on a preselected printing column of a time card by means of a dot printer, while the latter is transversely displaced by a distance equal to the width of a printing column of t... | 04/26/1983 |
| 4361092 | Process and apparatus for time card preparation and utilization and the like This disclosure is concerned with presequencing machine-readable time card identifications in the printing of decks of time cards, automatically using the time-recording clock to fill in corresponding human-readable identification, and with a corresponden... | 11/30/1982 |
| 4358777 | Device for recording and handling of information regarding time and activities A device for recording, handling and documentation of time/activity data. The duration of different categories of work occasions and/or activities, as for example down time, can be measured by activation of a press button corresponding to each category of... | 11/09/1982 |
| 4270043 | Methods of and apparatus for time clock recording and computation and related uses 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 automatin... | 05/26/1981 |
| 4170015 | Time clock device This invention relates to a new time clock system comprising a memory counter which counts seconds, minutes, hours, days, months and years for a 9,999 year period; a microprocessor which controls the counting of the time, which also operates a time displa... | 10/02/1979 |
| 4017857 | Computer time clock A time accounting system including at least three distinct elements: a magnetic stripped card, a recording clock and a recorder/encoder assembly. The magnetic stripped card is fed into the recording clock which prints and electromagnetically encodes prede... | 04/12/1977 |
| 4011434 | Stand-alone cumulative elapsed-time calculating system A system for elapsed-time calculation is disclosed. The system employs a magnetic-striped card in conjunction with a stand-alone terminal for recording the coming and going of employees, along with other pertinent payroll data, directly on the magnetic st... | 03/08/1977 |
| 3978493 | Time recorder 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 el... | 08/31/1976 |
| 3975743 | Time registration device for the recordation of presence or work time 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 a... | 08/17/1976 |
