Keeping Track of Piece Work 



An automatic timekeeper calculates the time each 

 workman spends on a job, and needs no verifying 



AN ingenious machine has been in- 

 vented which automatically calcu- 

 lates the time spent by any workman 

 on any job. The machine prints this time 

 on a card in addition to the times of starting 

 and stopping. 



Each workman uses a card for each job. 

 He stamps it at the machine when he 

 starts and again when he finishes. Each 

 card shows the 

 starting and stop- 

 ping time of each 

 job and the 

 elapsed time 

 spe'nt on it. 

 Hence the cards 

 can be used in 

 d e t erm i n i n g 

 many vital 

 factors in the cost 

 of modern factory 

 production in- 

 cluding the labor 

 cost of the prod- 

 uct; the produc- 

 tive and non-pro- 

 ductive hours ; the 

 machine time, and 

 the time actually 

 spent on the job. 



A sample card. It shows that workman No. 75 

 worked 3.2 hoiirs in tjie morning and 2.7 hours in 

 the afternoon on Order No. 92, on operation 63 



to determine the payroll efficiency records 

 and data for piece work prices. 



The machine itself consists of a small 

 cylindrical barrel about eight inches in 

 diameter and six inches high. It has a 

 clock on its upper face with two handles, 

 one on either side. These are used for 

 printing the various times on the cards. 

 In operation, the card is first inserted in 

 a slot on top of 

 the machine and 

 the right-hand 

 lever is pushed 

 away from the 

 operator. This 

 prints the date 

 and the time of 

 day, a printed 

 arrow indicating 

 the minutes and a 

 wedge the hours 

 as shown on one 

 of the cards re- 

 produced on this 

 page. Then by 

 pulling the right 

 lever toward the 

 operator before 

 the card is removed, two dials which form 

 a part of the record are printed. One indi- 

 cates hours, the other tenths of hours. 



The calculagraph, showing the two levers by means of which the cards are printed. 

 At right of the picture it is shown in use in a factory where each job foreman 

 reports by telephone to the timekeep>er in the central office the record of each job 



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