It is known that car parking in cities is regulated in terms of time, as you can see in the various guarded car - parks or in those regulated-by parking-meters, or in those areas regulated ^" by parking-cards, etc.

The driver often does not remember his time of arrival or forgets to indicate it with a special parking-card, or he leaves his car there longer than allowed.

This device corrects or shows eventual inconveniences. This invention consists of a clock with electrical, ele_c tronic, mechanical, plastic and metallic components which shows both inside and outside the car or vehicle, the hour and the minute the engine stopped.This is connected to the ignition system. Yhen the car is started, the clock starts again and shows the exact hour erasing the time at which the engine stopped. The next time it stops it will go on working internally hut it will only show the time the engine was stopped.

" Hour-clock " guarantees the driver the possibility of indicating the stopping tine and makes it easier for par king guards or traffic wardens to check on parked cars . It is also useful when accidents occur, in that nobody re members the exact time at which the accident took place, and this time is so important and decisive in some cases.

This is the general outline to put the patent into opera-

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tion, consequently, when actually put into practice there may he variants concerning the substance and the innova¬ tive concept which is sometimes characterized ^" by the in¬ genious and original coordination of elements completely or partly familiar with which one can attain new results which are socially and economically useful and which had not heen attained hy means of the use of one or more is lated elements derived from common Knowledge.

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