Patent GB-190404304-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Cash Registers and Tills.
Filed: 1904-02-20
Granted: 1905-01-19
Abstract: 4304. National Cash Register Co., [National Cash Register Co.]. Feb. 20. Receipts, checking and recording.- A cash register and till having a single cash-drawer divided into two or more compartments, for two or more independent clerks, and more particularly of the type described in Specification No. 4543, A.D. 1903, but fitted with two or more independent counters, is provided with covers for the compartments of the cash receptacle, as shown in Fig. 3, and with means operated by the movements of the covers for controlling the accounting-devices. Fig. 2 shows the machine in vertical section, and Fig. 6 shows the latch devices for the different counters and for the main operating yoke 8, which may be operated by the lever 87, or by a crank-handle, when it is not desired to return the operative parts to their normal positions by the movement of the cash-drawer. Each sliding cover 12, 13 is locked normally over its compartment by a spring-pressed plunger 15, and each plunger 15 is controlled by an operating button or head, flush with the bottom and located at the front edge of the drawer. When the cash-drawer is opened, it is necessary for one or other of the lids 12, 13 to be opened, in order to release the proper counter and special indicator, before registering or indicating any amount. Rack-and-pawl mechanism ensures that the cashdrawer opens fully, and also that the slide opened must be fully opened. When an amount-key 7 is operated, one of the segments 34 is forced rearward, whereby its arm 33 engages the rod 32, rocks the lever 31, and releases the cash-drawer. The amount-keys remain latched in their inner positions, and the latch plunger 30 of the drawer remains elevated, until the machine has been operated. The release or "no sale" key 39 also releases the cash-drawer. A distinguishing alarm is sounded upon the opening of a lid 12, 13 by the bell 62. The construction of the pawls 70 and the bevelled projection 72 is such as to prevent the operation of any lever 66 except that which pertains to a particular slide. The arm 81 of the main yoke 8 is first released by the rocking of either one of the levers 66 and is finally released by the depression of the special release key 84. When the release key is actuated to move the locking-lever 82, the main yoke 8 is released and drops until the operating-lever 5<a> engages the roller 80. The lever 87 is provided with a segmental rack which co-operates with a pendant pawl to compel complete movements of the lever 87 and the yoke 8 in both directions. The levers 75 which control the independent counters are utilized to set the special indicator 54 and a special type-carrier. To effect this, the pendent hooked links 98, shown in Fig. 5, rock the segment 94 to set the indicator to different extents upon the dropping of a lever 75, by reason of the hooks 99 being of different lengths. The indicator pawls 51, after being disengaged from the ratchet-wheels 52, are subquently engaged with the wheels, after the indicators are set, to hold the indicators in their set positions while the operating parts return to their normal positions. To prevent the simultaneous opening of the two lids 12, 13, any suitable form of interfering device may be employed. A wedge-shaped tumbler 125 and notches 126 in the slides is shown. If a clerk opens the cash-drawer and his own compartment, and closes the drawer without operating the release key, the indicators all remain at zero or " no sale," and the latch of that clerk is left depressed so that with the next actuation of the machine the registration or addition also takes place on the counter of the first clerk.