Patent GB-344457-A (GB)
Abstract: 344,457. Checking receipts. NATIONAL CASH REGISTER CO., Dayton, Ohio, U.S.A.- (Assignees of Shipley, B. M.; 2021, Catalpa Drive, Dayton, Ohio, U.S.A.) Dec. 6, 1929, No. 37533. Convention date March 7. [Class 106 (i).] Cash regisiers ; printing on inserted material.-In a cash register or similar accounting machine having means for severing a portion of a record slip and depositing the severed portion into a receptacle, independent means are provided for stacking the severed portions into the receptacle, such means being operated through a greater distance than the severing device. The receptacle is provided with an adjustable partition to vary the area of the receiving compartment in accordance with the size of the severed portions, and means are provided to retain the severed portions within the receptacle. As shown, the invention is applied to a machine of the type described in Specification 195,073, [Class 106 (i), Calculating &c.]. A slip 38 is manually inserted into the machine, receives duplicate impressions from type-wheels 32 and has its inner end or stub severed by knives 42, 49. The knife 49 is carried by a lever 51 and is operated by a cam 59 to which it is connected through pitman 62, bell-crank lever 64 and pin-and-slot 72. The co-operating knife 42 is held in contact with the knife 49 by a compression spring 55 and is provided with an upward extension 58 bearing against an inoperative part of the knife 49 to minimize wearing of the cutting edge. The severed stubs are packed into a compartment 90, 93 of a receptacle R by means of a plate 75 carried by rockable arms 76. The plate 75 is moved downwardly, slowly at first, by the downward movement of the knife 49 with the underside of which it is in contact. The last part of the downward movement is more rapid and is derived from an extension of the arm 73 of the bell-crank lever 64, co-operating with a pin 80 on one arm 76. The plate is returned by a spring 79 connecting the arms 76 to an extension of the lever 51. The stubs are retained in the compartment by fingers 81, 82 that are rocked outwardly out of the path of the stubs during stacking operations. The fingers are rigid with shafts 83, 91 from which project arms 99, 102 connected by a spring-urged link 98. This link is moved to the right during stacking by an elbow lever 114 that is pivoted to the arm 63 of the bell-crank lever 64 and is provided on its arm 113 with a stud 112 normally engaging a shoulder 115 on the link. At the end of a stacking operation, the link is released to return the fingers to operative position by the engagement of a projection 116 on the elbow lever with a fixed stud 117. The width of the compartment 90, 93 may be varied to accommodate stubs of different sizes by adjusting a partition 93, for which purpose a number of securing holes 86, 87 are provided in the base and sides of the receptacle. For stubs of largest size, the partition is removed, and an auxiliary stacking plate 121 and retaining fingers 94 become operative. The base of the compartment is formed of two telescopically connected angle plates 124, 125 that are urged apart by a spring 135 into frictional contact with the sides of the compartment, the arrangement being such that the base is forced downwardly as the stubs accumulate. The machine is locked, when the compartment is filled, by means described in Specification 345,621.