Patent GB-490284-A (GB)
Abstract: 490,284. Checking receipts. NATIONAL CASH REGISTER CO. Jan. 11, 1937, No. 768. Convention date, Feb. 1, 1936. [Class 106 (i)] In a machine for checking receipts, a single stroke of a manual operating means effects a number of prints on an inserted tag and severs and stores at least one of the printed portions, means being provided to disable the operating means in the absence of a tag. A tag, Fig. 3, attached to the article to be sold comprises a main part 50 and stub 51, each pre-printed with the price and other data relating to the article. When the article is sold, the tag, still attached to the article, is inserted through an opening 31, Fig. 1, of a machine casing and the machine operated by gripping a pair of hand levers 33, 34, whereupon, the word " PAID is embossed on the main part of the tag, a serial number is printed on the back of the main part and stub, and the stub is severed and delivered into a compartment 120. The effect of gripping the handles is to cause a lid 32 of the machine to move towards a frame 43, whereby a plunger 62 is depressed to advance duplicate sets of consecutivenumber type-wheels 52, 53, against which the tag is impressed by platens 80, 81 ; dies 82, 83 emboss the tag and knives 86, 121 sever the stub therefrom ; while the depression of a plunger 98 sounds a bell 92. Operation of the machine in the absence of a tag is normally prevented by a spring-urged pawl 110 pivoted to the frame 43 and engaging the edge of a slot in the lid. Insertion of the tag through the slot 31 into a shoot 88 rocks the pawl to release the lid. Access to the storage compartment 120 for the severed stubs may be obtained through a removable door normally locked to the casing. In a modification, Fig. 11, the machine is provided with two storage compartments accessible through normally locked doors 132, 133, the compartment to which the stub is to be delivered being selected by inserting the tag into one or other of two slots 130, 131. The machine is now provided with four sets of consecutive-numbering type-wheels all of which are advanced at each machine operation, duplicate sets of platens and dies being carried by the lid 32 which is freed upon the insertion of a tag into either slot. In a further modification, Fig. 13, the machine has four stub storage compartments and is mounted on a cash drawer casing. Associated with each compartment is a door 197, tag slot 146 and operating button 158, depression of which actuates an individual printing and embossing device, rendered operable by the insertion of the tag, and releases the associated drawer 210. Each printing and embossing device comprises a block 151, Fig. 14, connected to the main frame of the machine by a parallel-motion linkage and carrying platens &c., similar to those carried by the lid in the embodiment first-described. The depression of the operating button is communicated to the block through a lever 171, that is pivoted to the block and rocked into effective position beneath the stem of the button by the abutment of the inserted card with its lower arm. Movement of the block effects printing, embossing and severing of the tag and advances the consecutive-number type-wheels as in the first embodiment, and through the linkage shown raises a latch 214 to release the associated cash-drawer. In a still further modification, Fig. 16, the machine has two pairs of stub-storage compartments and a cash-drawer associated with each pair. An individual printing, embossing and severing mechanism is associated with each compartment, selectively operable by a single button 230 upon the insertion of a tag into the appropriate slot.