Patent GB-495070-A (GB)
Abstract: 495,070. Autographic recorders. LAMSON PARAGON SUPPLY CO., Ltd., and GARWOOD, V. W. May 5, 1937, No. 12845. [Class 106 (i)] In an autographic cash recorder having a number of cash drawers, drawer selection and machine release is effected by marking or pressing on a form in writing position, subsequent operation of the machine serving to issue the form and release the selected drawer. The machine may be operated by a crank handle or motor. The machine described is provided with an autographic recording device 1 of known construction mounted on a housing 2 containing four slidable cash drawers 3. The operating crank-shaft 19 is normally locked, but is released upon the depression of one of four drawer-selecting plungers 5, the upper ends of which project through and lie flush with the upper surface of the platen 6 immediately beneath clerk's identifying spaces A ... D on the uppermost form, Fig. 4. After filling in and signing a form, the clerk selects his drawer by applying his pencil to the appropriate space A ... D. The form is then perforated and the selected plunger depressed to release the operating shaft, during the subsequent rotation of which the forms are advanced and the selected drawer released. The depressed plunger is retained by a rockable detent 15 the lower flange 13 of which engages over a tooth 11 while an upper flange 12 co-operates with a shoulder 9 to limit the extent of depression. The upper flange also co-operates with teeth 10 on the undepressed plungers to lock them against depression. Rocking of the detent by any one of the plungers also removes a stop 17 on an arm 16 from the path of a projection 22 on a disc 20 fast on the operating shaft, whereby the latter is released. For drawer-selection, the movement of the depressed selecting plunger 5 is transmitted to the associated one of a series of lower plungers 27, whereby a lever 31 is lowered to release a slide 29 that is thereupon moved by a spring 52 transversely of the machine until arrested by abutment with the depressed plunger 27. In this position of the slide, a pivoted extension 36 thereof is situated over that one of a series of drawer-release keys 39 that is associated with the latch 47 of the selected drawer. Upon the rotation of the operating shaft, a cam-operated tappet 25 depresses the extension 36 and key 39 to permit the drawer to be opened either manually or by the usual spring 4. Towards the end of the operation, a stud 21 on the disc 20 wipes over a cam-edge 18 of the arm 16 to rock the detent and release the depressed selecting plunger 5. The associated lower plunger is, however, retained in depressed condition by the engagement of its flange 27a beneath the slide until the latter is restored by the closing of the drawer. For this purpose, the slide is connected by a chain to a drum 56, in turn connected through free-wheel devices and chaingearing to pinions 54 in mesh with slidable racks 53 situated adjacent each drawer. As a drawer is closed, a stop 63 thereon propels the associated rack to restore the slide and release the plunger 27. In addition to the locking means controlled by the drawer-selecting plungers, manually releasable locking means may be applied to the main shaft. If the machine is to be electrically operated, the drawer-selecting plungers are replaced by contacts.