Patent GB-144373-A (GB)
Abstract: 144,373. Haddan, A. J. H., (National Cash Register Co.). March 7, 1919. Column-printing arrangements.-In, a cash register primarily for recording the amounts of money deposited and withdrawn by individuals in connexion with a bank or similar institution, the type-carriers for printing cash items are slidably shifted under the control of transaction keys to print in either the deposit or withdrawal column. The invention is described in connexion with the system wherein deposit and withdrawal items are printed on depositors' books and cards as described in Specification 144,538. The key-set independently-operated type of machine employed is that set forth in Specifications 8119/15, 100,569, [Class 106 (i), Calculating &c.], and 100,568, particularly as regards the keyboard, differential and totalizing mechanisms. Referring to Fig. 5, the record strip 405 from a roll 406 passes round a platen-roller 408 to a storage roller 410, and is printed upon by type-wheels on a shaft 285. Similar type-wheels for printing on the depositors' book and card placed on a carriage 467 are arranged on a shaft 291 supported in a pivoted frame 292. The item and depositors' number type-wheels 282, 281 and 290. 289. and the total, and transaction-denoting wheels 283, 284 are actuated from racks 320 by gear wheels 295, 301 connected by nested sleeves on the common shaft 298 from racks 320. The item type-wheels 290 for printing on the depositors' book and card are slidable on their shaft to print withdrawals in a different column from deposits, this movement being effected as follows. The rack 321, Fig. 10, corresponding to the transaction keys has a cam slot 526 which, in the case of withdrawals raises through a link 521, Fig. 6, a roller 528 on a link 520 into a. slot 529 in a reciprocating slide 530. By means of cams on the shaft 364 this slide is given a to-and-fro movement at each operation of the machine, so that if the roller 528 is in the slot 529 the link 520 is moved, and through the toothed sectors 517, 516 partly rotates a cam track 514 engaged bv a roller 512, Fig. 12, carried by a slide connected with the type-wheels 290. The adjustment of these wheels takes place after they have been disengaged from their actuating wheels 295 to bring them into printing line. This disengaging movement is effected by a cam 491, Fig. 6, acting through rollers 489, 490 on the frame in which the shaft 291 is suspended, the cam itself being oscillated by levers and a .link 497 from cams on the shaft 364. The Specification refers, as regards the impression mechanism, to Specification 144.543. Alining for impression.-An alining yoke 350, Fig. 6, co-operates with the common gear wheels 295 under the action of further cams upon the shaft 364. and alinement of the type-wheels on the shaft '291 when away from the gear wheels 295 is ensured by a fixed alining plate 539, Fig. 5. Index setting-arrangements.-The type-wheels on the shafts 285, 291 include dating-wheels 280, 288, Fig. 11, which are set by means of common gear-wheels 398 mounted at the ends of nested sleeves 400, Fig. 15. Collars with milled flanges 403 are connected with these sleeves by a tongue and slot device which allows any particular flange to be pulled forward to isolate it from the others during manipulation.