Patent GB-203762-A (GB)
Abstract: 203,762. Haddan, A. J. H., (National Cash Register Co.). June 9,1922. Cash registers with operating-means; printing totals; machines with several item-value totalizers.-Relates to totalizer control and total-taking mechanisms for cash register and like machines of the kind described in Specifications 191,350 and 191,351, and comprises the adaptation of such machines for dealing with deposit and withdrawal transactions for use in banks, savings banks, and like establishments. For this purpose two of the three totalizer lines are used for accumulating the outgoing and incoming transactions made by the " tellers " operating the machine, and for segregating the amounts of negotiable papers, cash, interests, total deposits, total withdrawals, and so on; means being provided of the kind described in Specification 204,001 for printing in separate columns the withdrawal, deposit, and total items, entries being also made on slips and pass books by printing means of a known kind. The third totalizer line is used under control of the keys of a balance bank; the " balance " and " deposit " keys 6, 8, Fig. 1, shifting it to additive position, the " withdrawal " key 9 to subtractive position. The keys of the machine are mounted and operable similarly to those described in Specification 191,346, except as regards the balance key bank. The latter keys operate a detent plate 46, Fig. 4, to rock an arm 48 carrying a pin 50 to actuate the release mechanism, as in the Specification referred to. The " release " key 7, however, has no co-operating pin 20 on a second swinging plate 14 and hence does not remove the zero stop pawl 22 so that the corresponding differential mechanism is not actuated. The total control lever 5 has functions as described in Specification 191,351, and when set to print totals and sub-totals of the " tellers' " totalizers, the amount, transaction, and balance bank keys are locked out by means of a shaft 92, Fig. 2, rocking a rod 94 to block the movement of the levers 17 supporting the detent plates 14 of the amount keys. Suitable interlocks disable the other banks. The rod 94 is given a further movement as the drivers for the differential actuators are moved up a second time during the printing so as to release the zero stops and allow the selected totalizers to effect the setting. For each " teller " an additive and subtractive key is provided, in different colours, and for these and all the keys in the transaction bank except the " old balance " and " new balance " keys appropriate totalizers in the two additive lines are set for actuation. The two latter keys control the printing of a special sign. The totalizer corresponding to the zero position of the differential element of this bank is employed to accumulate the amount when no key on this bank is set. Fig. 1 shows diagrammatically the arrangement of the keyboard and the manner of operating. For a deposit transaction the " old balance " key in the transaction bank and the " balance " key in the balance bank are first of all depressed to put the old balance on the balance totalizer, and print the transaction on the detail strip. The teller then inserts the pass book and deposit slip in the machine and sets the amount of deposit on the amount keys, depressing his own receiving key and the " deposit " key in each of the remaining two banks. The machine then prints the total amount of deposit in its column in the key book and on the detail strip, adding it on the teller's receiving totalizer, the total deposit totalizer, and on the balance totalizer to make the new balance, the deposit slip being ejected from the machine prior to printing on the pass book. The deposit slip is replaced in the machine and the total control lever is moved to the balance position and the " new balance " and " balance " keys are depressed. The new balance is thereby printed in the appropriate column in the pass book and on the deposit slip and the balance totalizer is cleared and the total control lever reset. Having removed the pass book the teller sets the deposit amount on the amount keys and depresses the " cash " and " release " keys so as to add the amount only on the cash totalizer. A corresponding operation for withdrawals is described.