Patent GB-190117499-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Apparatus for Registering Monetary Transactions.
Inventor: FRYDMANE JULES
Filed: 1901-08-31
Granted: 1902-04-10
Abstract: 17,499. Frydmane, J. Aug. 31. Receipts, checking and recording.-By means of compo6ing-whee!a d, discs x, Fig. 23, with peripheral type, at one end of the machine, are set for printing an amount and an initial allotted to the salesman on a record strip, Fig. 26, and others at the other end of the machine are set for printing the same on a ticket 38 and its counterfeit 39, Fig. 27, which are also dated and numbered. The printing being then effected, the composing-wheels are turned while in gear with adding-wheels 102 in a rocking frame 98 on a shaft 9, with intergeared indicating - wheels 128, 129. The record strip, unwound from a reel 15 and folded on a stretching-frame 22, is led over a hinged table 17 and under a feed-roller 18 to a winding-wheel 19 borne by loaded arms 25. All these parts are mounted on a carriage 20, which can be slid inwards upon guides 3 by means of a transverse rocking shaft 35 with lever 34 and operating.handle 36, so as to bring the righthand half of the strip, Fig. 26, under the type when an amount to credit has to be registered, whereas the debit amounts are printed on the left side. The last of the composing-wheels, being only intended to print significant abbreviations against the credit items, is normally held by a bolt o in a bracket 33 upon the stationary shafc of the composing-wheels, but the bolt is drawn by the lever which shifts the carriage. The table is lifted to the type when a toggle joint 28 is straightened by the operation of a shaft 29,and an arm 68 bearing an inking-roller 71 participates in the action. As the table returns, a pawl 24 at the rear end of it drives the feeding-ratchet 23. The card strip supplying the ticket and counterfoil is similarly printed to produce them, but the feed-rollers are independent of their table, and are driven a full revolution, after which the ticket is cut off by a slight re-elevation of the table against a fixed blade. A third hinged table and wheels print the number and date. The operation of the toggles is derived from a cam on a shaft 13 acting through a lever, connecting-rod, and crank when the shaft is turned by hand or power one revolution in the direction of the arrow. A toothed sector 136, in gear with the indicating- wheels, is rocked by a second cam 138, and a spring, from the position shown in Fig. 4, so as to set the indicating-wheels to zero and leave them free for showing the new item. The feed-rollers of the ticket strip are geared to a Maltese cross which is driven by a pin on the cam. A third cam 97 acts on the rocking frame 98 at a roller 96, and keeps the adding-wheels 102 in gear with the composing- wheels and with the e indicating - wheels, while a pair of cams 12 act on levers 8 which are linked to a bail 5 that returns the composing- wheels d to zero. The tens are carried when the wheels are geared, single hinged teeth 119 on the cam shaft being put into the planes of the wheels by tangent cam arms 118, Fig. 19. Points 121 on the wheels set the tangent cams into the effective position, and cams 120 on the cam shaft re-set them, while catches 122 hold them lightly in both positions. In order to set the composing wheels for printing the total addition, the adding-wheels are turned back to zero by a key applied to their common shaft through a keyhole 113, after they have been put into gear with the composing - wheels by a lever 139 which bears a cam piece 147 to act on a roller 148 on the rocking shaft of the adding- wheels. A pin 149 on the totalizing-lever, by descending a bevel 150 on the toothed sector 136 which sets the indicating-wheels to zero, raises it before the adding-wheels are put into gear with the composing-wheels, so that their subsequent reversal to zero is not impeded. The handle of the totalizing-lever projects through a slot 141, and the forepart of the lever forms a keyhole scutcheon 115 to prevent the key from being used till the wheels are in gear. A gravity pawl 143, engaging a shoulder 142 on the hub of the totalizing-lever, locks it in the new position till a cam 144, lifting the catch, disengages it, after which another cam 146 resets it if the key has been withdrawn. The whole operation restores the total to the adding- wheel!!, and leaves the indicating-wheels at zero. A link: 151 connects the totalizing hand-lever to a bell crank 152, which drives the ratchet feed of the record strip two teeth, so as to space the total from the last items. A lever wedge 2 justifies the composing-wheels, or, if it fails to do so, prevents operation of the machine by obstructing the lug 4 on the toggle shaft 29. If the record strip gets torn asunder, the stretching-frame 22 falls upon a long lever 167, and applies a detent 169 to a notch 165 in a disc 164 on the cam shaft.