Patent GB-276357-A (GB)
Abstract: 276,357. Soc. Itatiana Registratori (S. I. R.). Aug. 20, 1926, [Convention date]. Cash registers with item-printing mechanism; voucher-issuing.-In cash registers and accounting machines having means for printing on a record-strip and on inserted material, and for printing and issuing a ticket, control means are provided for the ticket printing and issuing means whereby they can be rendered inoperative, operative for a single operation of. the machine, or continuously operative. The record-strip printing means can be rendered inoperative, and the ticket-printing means is rendered inoperative on the insertion of a sheet to receive an impression. The device may be removed as a whole, being secured to the cash register by bolts 2. Record-strip. The record-strip r is wound from a reel 7 to a reel 8 on a plate 4 pivoted on a spindle 6, and passes around a roller 9 mounted on a plate 140 pivoted to the plate 4. A lever 24 is rocked bv a cam 144 on the main shaft 110 of the machine and its upper end engages an arm 16 to move the plate 4 about its pivot and rotate the roller 9 by the engagement of a pawl 11 with a ratchet-wheel 10. The strip is thug pressed on to an ink-ribbon i passing around type wheels 3. The arm 16 can be turned by a knob 15 so that it is not engaged by the lever 24, no impression being made on the strip r. The knob 15 also turns a lever 18 to release a hook 19 from a groove in the spindle 6 so that the plate 4 can be romoved from the machine. Type. The type wheels 3 and date and number wheels 182 are carried by a removable casing 180, a face 181 of which may be adapted for printing descriptive matter. The wheels 3 are aligned by a toothed arm 28 actuated by a lever 281 from a cam 284 and pawls 23, 25 similarly actuated feed the ink-ribbon i. Ink is supplied by a roller 26. Two sets of numerals enable the wheels to print simultaneously on the strip and the ticket or document. Voucher-issuing. Tickets are severed from a strip t by a knife 313 carried by a platen 35, the strip being passed through a guide 34 under the printing device 180. The knife is adjusted by an eccentric spindle mounted in the platen and locked by a nut bearing on a conical sleeve. The strip and the severed ticket are fed by rollers 33, 36 respectively when rollers 68, 69 are caused to bear on them. This feed is rendered operative when control keys 61, 62, 112, 113, 114 are depressed to actuate an arm 56 either directly or through an arm 115 and a pin 116. The arm 56 rocks a shaft 111 through a lever 83 and this movement is transmitted by a lever 81 to a lever 82, the upper end of which is removed from the path of an extension 79<1> of a pawl 79. This pawl being freed is removed by a spring 99 from the path of levers 72, 73, and these levers are raised by cams 78, 117 and springs 75, 75<1> to depress the rollers 68, 69. The feed is rendered inoperative when a document is inserted in the guide 34, the document preventing a plunger 104 connected by levers to the pawl 79 from rising to free the pawl. The lever 82 is held depressed by a tooth 85 until this tooth is moved out of engagement by a lever 92 actuated by a cam 95. Hammer-impression mechanism. The platen 35 is actuated from a cam 44 on the main shaft 110 through a lever 41 when a stud 47 on a lever 46 carried by the lever 41 is in position below a projection 40 on the platen. The lever 46 is moved by a lever 48 actuated by a projection 52 on a lever 53 connected to a lever 55 on the shaft 111, so that the platen is inoperative until one of the control keys is depressed. The key C2 remains depressed until released by a key 63, and renders the ticket-printing device continuously operative.