Patent GB-348199-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to cash registers
IPC: G06C7/10
Filed: 1929-11-14
Abstract: 348,199. Cash registers. HUBNER, G., 42, Zollnerstrasse, Dresden, Germany. Nov. 14, 1929, No. 34772. [Class 100 (iv).] Index type-wheel machines.-In a cash register having setting mechanism, indicating means for the amounts set, separate printing devices for recording the amounts on a record strip and on a receipt, and a totalizer for summing the amounts, and in which a portion of the indicating-means, the two printing devices and the totalizer are mounted on a swinging frame adapted to be displaced to impress the strip and receipt, the totalizer being connected to the setting mechanism subsequent to the printing operation, the setting devices are rotatably mounted on a hollow shaft that is carried by the swinging frame and surrounds the main shaft of the machine with sufficient clearance to allow its participation in the swinging of the frame. A hollow shaft 7, Fig. 3, is mounted in a swinging frame 6, Fig. 2, pivoted on a shaft 5, and is geared to a crank-operated main shaft 8. The frame 6 is rocked downwardly and then upwardly by an eccentric 16 also geared to the main shaft. The amount is set by denominational levers 21, each rigid with a disc 20, Figs. 3, 7, 8, 16, freely rotatable about the hollow shaft. The setting is facilitated by keys 80, Fig. 2, each controlling a notched bar 81, Fig. 16, that passes through arcuate slots 82 in the discs 20 and, when in operative position, serves as an abutment for a stop 85, Figs. 7 and 8, on the disc being set. Justifying pawls 96 co-operate with studs 97 resiliently to hold the discs in set position. The levers 21 are returned to zero position at the beginning of an operation by a bail 87, Fig. 31, that straddles the levers and is operated by a handle 88. The main shaft is locked at the end of an operation by a pawl 92 engaging a nose 93 on a disc 35 carried by the hollow shaft. The pawl 92 is disabled at the beginning of an operation by a pin 94 mounted on a lever 89 pivoted to the bail 87, the pin riding over the outer surface of the pawl and then camming it into ineffective position. Two indicators are provided, one for the customer and the other for the operator. The former comprises a number of drums 26, Fig. 3, each connected to the corresponding setting-disc through a pinion 27, toothed sector 28 and link 28a. The operator's indicator comprises a number of wheels 22, rotatable on a shaft 24 carried by the swinging frame 6, and geared directly to the setting-discs 20. An additional wheel is operated by the disc 70, Fig. 23, to indicate the kind of sale. Receipt and like material inserted through a slot 22a, Fig. 3, in the casing is impressed by type disposed around one-half of the periphery of the indicating wheels 22. A record strip 98 is similarly impressed by type 25 on the manually set discs 20. The two impressions are effected simultaneously by the downward movement of the swinging frame 6 by which the printing devices are carried. Ink-ribbon mechanism.-The ink-ribbon mechanism is carried by a frame 109, Fig. 3, pivoted on a shaft 102, and comprises a roller 112 from which the ribbon 110 is wound over the platens 103, 104 of the printing devices and on to a roller 111. Upon the release of the forward end of a frame 101 carrying the record strip and platens, the upper part of the casing may be rotated into the position shown in Fig. 29 to render the parts accessible.