Patent GB-314762-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for checking cash and other transactions
IPC: G06C27/00
Filed: 1927-12-29
Abstract: 314,762. Klein, M., and Hart-Albin Co. Dec. 29, 1927. Checking receipts; printing-machines; drawer mechanism.-The sale of an article is recorded by utilizing the price ticket thereof, a portion of this ticket being severed and stitched to a voucher which is then discharged to a selected compartment for filing. To perform an operation the clerk inserts the ticket at 68, Fig. 2, positions an arm 123 along a quadrant according to his number and the character of the transaction, depresses the knob 130 to start the motor and then pushes in a key 233, to connect the motor shaft with the operating mechanism of the machine. The ticket is thereupon cut and the, price portion affixed by a staple to a paper strip 69, a consecutive number and the clerk's number etc. are printed upon the slip and this is severed to form with the attached ticket a check, which is then flipped into one of a number of compartments in a drum 106, positioned by the setting movement of the arm 123. A cash drawer selected by this same setting movement is also unlocked by the operation of the machine. Motor drive. The motor circuit is closed by the depression of the setting-handle 130, Fig. 3, through contact members 125, 126, and the armature shaft 4 drives through worm gearing a toothed wheel 9, engageable by a pawl 8, Fig. 8, mounted on a disc 7, secured to a shaft 6, serving to operate the various cams and other mechanisms of the machine. The pawl 8, is controlled by an arm 10, itself controlled by a ratchet wheel 12, turned by operation of the starting-key 233. At. the end of a cycle the pawl 8 is automatically thrown out by the arm 10 to stop the drive, but the motor continues to run until its circuit is broken at 125, 126, when the drawers have all been closed. Printing-mechanism. Consecutive number type-wheels 36, Fig. 5, actuated by a cam 43, Fig. 3, on the shaft 21, geared with the shaft 6, and a clerks type-wheel 138 set to denote the clerk and the kind of transaction, are arranged above the paper-strip 69, fed by a rotating sector 26<1> in conjunction with a spring-urged roll 71<a>. Impression is effected by a duplex platen 33 supported by a spring 34, and controlled for operation by a cam 28 on the driven shaft 20. The platen also impresses the paper against dating wheels set by finger wheels 243, 245 to print the date on the next succeeding voucher. Ink-ribbon mechanism. The ribbon 90, Fig. 5, passes beneath all the type-wheels, and is wound between spools 88, 89, Fig. 6, adapted to be driven by one or other end of a bar 98, Fig. 7, slidingly mounted on a lever 99 pivoted on an arm 93 rocked by a cam 96. When the ribbon has been fully wound in one direction the resistance to drive causes the pawl bar 98 to shift with respect to the lever 99 to position its other end for driving the empty spool to reverse the ribbon feed. Stapling mechanism. As shown in Figs. 20 and 23, a head carries a forming tool 55, a driving tool 57, and a ticket-severing blade 61, controlled respectively by cams 58, 59 and 60 on the driven shaft 62. The wire 49 is drawn intermittently by ieed rollers 47, 48 between spring-controlled straightening pegs 51, and enters the head just above the shaping anvil 56. This is pivotally mounted and spring-controlled so that when the forming tool 55 has descended to cut the wire and shape the staple, the following descent of the driving tools pushes the anvil to the rear out of its path to allow the staple to be driven through the ticket and strip and be crushed in the groove 66. The blade 61 may have a characteristic form to produce a distinguishing edge on the ticket portion. In a modification the head is provided with a sliding spring-controlled tray to receive a customer's identification printing. plate to print information on the check such as his name and address, account number and credit limit. The tray is interlocked with the starting key 233 by means of the lever 232, Fig. 20, to prevent operation of the machine with the tray out of normal position. Discharging and receiving check. After the stapling and printing operations have been performed and the voucher strip fed forward, the knife 26 controlled by a cam 23, Fig. 3, rises to sever the check against the fixed blade 27, Fig. 2 whereupon a spring-controlled sector 74, is freed to flip the check through an opening 111, Fig. 17, into the receiving drum 106. The sector is carried by a disc 81 adapted to be held by a pawl 79, engaging the notch 80, but when the check has been severed the continued rise of the knife frame disengages the pawl by means of a bar 78. The drum 106, for receiving the checks is shown as containing six compartments, each of which has a spring-controlled arm 112 to clamp the checks down as they enter the compartment through the opening 111. The arm extends outside the drum in the form of a finger 115, Fig. 6 adapted to be engaged by a roller 119, carried by an arm 120. controlled by the knife-frame 27<1>, and a pin 241 on the disc 81, so as to raise the arm to admit the check and then release it to hold the check down. The drum 106 is locked when positioned, by a lever 140, cam-operated. from the main shaft 6. Drawer mechanism. The movement of the clerk's handle 123 turns a differentially perforated drum 149, Fig. 6, to control the selection of one of a series of rods 146, pins on which underlie locking pawls 168, Fig. 8, for the various drawers. In the operation of the machine a frame 145 normally holding the rods down against the action of their springs is raised to permit entry of one rod into the drum and free the corresponding drawer. Opening of the drawer gives an audible signal by a trip 173 (Fig. 11) on the back of the drawer, cocking and then releasing a hammer 174. The drawers are each urged to open position by a spring-actuated lever 153, Fig. 10, pivoted with lost motion on a spring-controlled shaft 151, having a lug engaging with a slot in the hub of the lever. When a drawer is freed therefore the shaft turns through an angle and returns only when all the drawers have been shut. The restoration of the shaft is utilized to free the driving and retaining pawls from the drum 165, Fig. 8, denoting the number of cycles of operation performed by the machine with the drawer open, and also to break the motor switch at 125, 126, Fig. 3. Paper, etc. supply. The lowest drawer contains envelopes, paper, etc., and is opened at every operation. Below this drawer is a roll' 187, Fig. 12, of wrapping-paper having a guard 192 normally preventing removal of paper. When the drawer opens, a pivoted flap 210 releases an arm 206, so that a shaft 196 under the action of a spring 198, may turn to swing the guard downwards when the handle 202 is tripped. The return of the drawer is essential to the stopping of the motor by reason of a rod 207 connecting arm 206 with a spring-controlled lever mounted on shaft 151 in the same manner as the drawer levers 153.