Automatic timekeeping and accounting unit
First Claim
1. An automatic timekeeping and accounting unit including a manually operated keyboard for establishing indicia representing an account and for establishing indicia representing a work activity;
- a clock means for establishing the time interval in which a particular work activity occurred;
recording means coupled to said keyboard and to said clock means for recording the aforesaid indicia;
register means coupled to said keyboard for storing the indicia representing the account and the indicia representing the work activity;
electronic calculator and display means for presenting numeric solutions to problems established by manual actuation of the keyboard; and
switching means for selectively connecting the keyboard to said electronic calculator and for simultaneously disconnecting the keyboard from said register means.
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Abstract
An automatic timekeeping and accounting unit is provided which has particular utility for use by professional persons such as lawyers, accountants, and the like. The unit of the invention keeps track of the person'"'"'s working activities during the day, and it also serves to record the time and subject matter of interrupting telephone calls, if the user so desires, along with information relating to other work activities. The unit to be described also includes a simple switch which converts the unit into an electronic calculator for performing additions, divisions, subtractions, multiplications, and other calculations, similar to the commercially available solid state pocket calculators, without affecting its timing capabilities.
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1. An automatic timekeeping and accounting unit including a manually operated keyboard for establishing indicia representing an account and for establishing indicia representing a work activity;
- a clock means for establishing the time interval in which a particular work activity occurred;
recording means coupled to said keyboard and to said clock means for recording the aforesaid indicia;
register means coupled to said keyboard for storing the indicia representing the account and the indicia representing the work activity;
electronic calculator and display means for presenting numeric solutions to problems established by manual actuation of the keyboard; and
switching means for selectively connecting the keyboard to said electronic calculator and for simultaneously disconnecting the keyboard from said register means. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4)
- a clock means for establishing the time interval in which a particular work activity occurred;
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