Patent GB-190003490-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in a Combined Change Maker, Cash Register and Indicator.
Inventor: MCANENY MICHAEL
Filed: 1900-02-22
Granted: 1900-09-22
Abstract: 3490. McAneny, M., and Frambach, H. A. Feb. 22. Tills; money-delivering apparatus.-Fig. 1 shows a section of the whole apparatus, and Figs. 8, 11, and 18 show details to a larger scale. Change from a dollar tendered is delivered from piles of the different denominations in wells by means of slides 9 which are operated by keys 16 of the purchase values acting through rocking combining rakes 12, and are returned by a spring 20 pulling a full rake 18. Complete movement in both directions is ensured by a toothed sector o turning with the full rake under a reversible pawl p. All the idle combining-rakes 12 are temporarily locked by a toothed rocking-bar w, which drops to engage arms 13<a> on their shafts 13 after losing the support of an arm 17<a> on the shaft 17 of the full rake. A key and ejecting-slide are also provided for delivering dollars so that change for two dollars can be given. If the exact amount of the purchase is given by the buyer, no change being required, a horizontal key 37 is pressed in to rock a rake 23 which draws ail the ejecting-tongues clear of the coins. A plate A rocking on a shaft B locks the rake by engaging arms C, and is tripped out of engagement by a pin on the dollar slide 40, described below. The two prongs 22<a> of this rake which engage the tongues for ejecting 25 and 50 cent pieces are carried by sleeves 25, 26 respectively, the latter of which can be operated singly by a separate key 35 if 50 cents is tendered instead of a dollar, and the pair together by a third key 36 between the others if 75 cents is tendered. The middle key acts thus because it is jointed to a crank arm 27 which extends from the sleeve 25 in front of the 50-cent key lever and behind the 0- cent key lever. Five cents change from other sums is ejected from a special well by a slide which is only operated when a lug 9<h>, Fig. 8, on it is engaged by the bent end 41<a> of a finger 41 that always moves with a special prong 42 of the full rake 18. Normally the finger is kept above the lug by a cranked pivoted prop 46<a>, 48, but the key 37 which renders all the ordinary slides useless serves also as a lever 34<a> to lower the prop and let the finger act. Another slide 40 for ejecting dollars is kept out of action by a gravity key 43, 46. The receipts are totalized and indicated as follows :-An arm 49 on each combining-rake thrusts a separate shoe 51 at the end of a rod 50 against a rocking bail 52, 53, and a toothed sector 57 rocking with the bail turns a loose pinion 58 on a shaft 59 bearing a counting-wheel 65. A pawl 62 carried by the pinion runs back over ratchet face teeth 63 on the counting-wheel, while a pawl 96, Fig. 18, engaging a second ratchet-wheel 94 prevents the shaft from turning. A spiral spring 91 between the pinion and a fixed arm 88 is consequently put in tension, and drives when the operating-key is released. Overdriving is prevented by a pawl 95 which swings with the toothed sector and engages a third ratchet-wheel 93 when the sector is in its initial position. An uncertain feed of the ratchet-wheel caused by the pinion and pawl not having a dead-beat action is prevented by an auxiliary pawl f, which is connected by a link h with a spring joint k to a bell-crank on the resetting-rake 18. The feed is determined according to the value of the key by the length of the open part of the shoe, the stroke of each shoe being the same and being limited by a tongue 99 pivoted on a shaft 100. The corresponding amount of the purchase is indicated by a tablet 109 at the top of the rod 105 rising from a bell crank 102, which the shoe drives before it to the edge of a rocking locking-plate 107. The tablet last raised may be let drop without operating a key, by the use of a rod d accessible through a lid 112 to disengage the locking- plate. The tongues 99 normally rest upon the toes of the shoes, and the bail 52 passes under those idle ones which correspond to shorter movements. A spring buffer in the shoe allows the registration to be complete before the indication is effected. An arm M on the full rake 18 operates the hammer J of a gong H.