Intermatic

{{Short description|American company}}

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| name = Intermatic Inc.

| logo = Intermatic logo 2022.png

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| logo_alt = Logo of Intermatic Inc as of 2022

| image = Intermatic Time-All Model TN311.jpg

| image_size = 250px

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| industry = Electrical equipment

| predecessor = International Register Company

| founded = {{Start date and age|1891}} in Chicago, Illinois, United States

| founder = Arthur Woodward{{cite web |title=Intermatic Incorporated |url=http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/ilcenbus/id/1319 |website=www.idaillinois.org |publisher=State of Illinois |access-date=22 August 2022 |language=en}}

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| hq_location_city = Spring Grove, Illinois

| hq_location_country = United States

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| num_employees = 250 to 1000

| num_employees_year = 2022

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| website = {{URL|intermatic.com}}

}}

Intermatic Incorporated is an American manufacturer of time switches headquartered in Spring Grove, Illinois. Intermatic was founded in 1891 in Chicago, Illinois as the International Register Company to produce fare registers.{{cite web |title=Intermatic Incorporated |url=http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/ilcenbus/id/1320/ |website=www.idaillinois.org |publisher=Illinois Digital Archives, State of Illinois |access-date=22 August 2022 |language=en}}

The company's founder was A.H. Woodward who held several patents on fare registers (mechanical devices for recording passenger ticket and ridership).{{cite web |last1=Woodward |first1=Arthur H. |title=Bell mechanism for registers |url=https://patents.google.com/patent/US803655A/en |access-date=4 October 2022 |date=7 November 1905}}{{cite web |last1=Woodward |first1=Arthur H. |title=Fare-register |url=https://patents.google.com/patent/US818508A/en |access-date=4 October 2022 |date=24 April 1906}}

File:Fare Register drawing for U.S. Patent 818,508.png

The company introduced its first lighting timer in 1945, and today makes timing and control systems for line and low voltage systems used in residential, commercial, government, and industrial systems.{{cite web |title=Intermatic Inc - Company Profile and News |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/989955Z:US |website=Bloomberg.com |access-date=22 August 2022 |language=en}}

The company sells the Time-All line of timers for consumer applications.{{cite web |title=Word Mark TIME-ALL |url=https://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4808:ho9d8n.2.1 |website=tmsearch.uspto.gov |publisher=United States Patent & Trademark Office |access-date=22 August 2022}}{{cite news |title=New timers with 'smart' electronics. |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1986/11/06/548986.html?pageNumber=68 |access-date=22 August 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=11 November 1986 |pages=68 |language=en |quote=For example, the Time-All Programmer from Intermatic Inc.}}