Patent GB-190306416-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Fare, Cash and like Registers.
Inventor: OHMER JOHN FRANCIS
Filed: 1903-03-19
Granted: 1903-06-18
Abstract: 6416. Ohmer, J. F. March 19. Fares, registering and checking receipts, checking and recording.-A fare register is shown in Figs. 1 and 2, comprising a series of type wheels 8 by means of which the various fares collected are registered, a key 57 bearing an identification mark adapted to be placed in printing alignment with the type wheels, and impression devices adapted to press one or more sheets against the wheels and key mark, whereby an impression is obtained showing the work of the register and the identification of the person taking the statement. The fare indicator cards 4 are connected to the slides or bars 3, guided by the vertical guides 2 secured to the frame 1. The plate 5 is movable simultaneously with each indicator card, and is actuated by the oscillating-bar 5 f lying across the upper ends of the members 5<g>. The register-actuating wheels 9 on the shaft 6 are driven from ratchet-wheels 10, engaged by pawls which are pivoted on arms that are actuated by the operating-members 5<g>. When the lower side-plates 13 are in their raised position, the arms 15 engages with the studs 16 on the plates. The printing-device, shown in Fig. 5, has the two windings of paper 19, 19<a> on the shaft 18, and the platen 23 is moved by the eccentric bar 22 so that its raised portion enters the opening 25 in the carbon sheet holder 24, and a duplicate statement is obtained from the type wheels. The inking-roller 17, Fig. 2, mounted in the depending arm 17<a>, may be dispensed with. The eccentric bar 22 has fixed to it the two discs 28, 29, which impart motion to the ink-roller 17 in the initial movement of the bar 22, and move the feed-rollers 20, 21, through the mutilated gear 32 with the face ratchets 33 which engage with the plate 34 on the roller 21. Cooperating with a keyhole in the disc 29 is a locking - device for maintaining the eccentric bar 22 in a locked condition. When a key is inserted in this keyhole, the spring- pressed dog 36 is moved out to enable the disc 29 to be turned with the key, otherwise the dog 36 enters the keyhole and locks the eccentric-bar 22. When the identification key 57 is inserted to the full limit, the dog 51, Fig. 12, is moved from engagement with the disc 29, but the dogs 46, 47, which are simultaneously and oppositely moved by the bar 49, are only partially moved from engagement with the shoulders 5<c> on the plate 5. In this position, the register cannot be operated, but the eccentric bar 22 can, and the register can be unlocked by key, the dogs 46, 47, being moved from the shoulders 5<c>. The identification key is normally within its keyhole, and is removed when it is desired to lock the machine. Means are provided to hold the dogs 46, 47 against vibrations that might be caused by movements of the register as in a car or vehicle. In modified identification means, Fig. 17<a>, the rotatable housing 41 is mounted on the casing 27, and the end of the eccentric bir 22 is capable of movement through the slot 44 in the disc 43, which rotates with the housing 41, by means of the lowering and raising of the side plates 13. The disc 54, the crank 42, and associated parts cannot be moved until the identification key 67 is in place. The means for identifying persons with the work of registers is applicable to cash and like registers or recording machines.