Patent GB-389695-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to record-controlled statistical machines and cash registers
Filed: 1932-06-20
Abstract: 389,695. Statistical machines ; cash registers. TAUSCHEK, G., 56, Hauptstrasse, Weidling, near Vienna. June 20, 1932, No. 17449. Convention date, June 27, 1931. [Class 106 (i).] Totals, indicating ; statistical cards ; printing special marks.-A statistical machine or cash register is controlled by profiled records, the effective lengths of the profiles being proportional to the data represented. The :records consist of metal checks A, Fig. 13, preferably of sheet aluminium, having three sections A<1>, A<2>, A<3>, divided by slots A4, for representing dollars and two denominations of cents. To represent, say, five dollars twentyeight cents, the check is cut into two pieces B, C, Figs. 14 and 15, each piece representing that amount at the end of the tongues A<1>, A2, A3. Part C is wrapped up with the related article which has been sold and part B is used to control the apparatus shown in Figs. 3, 5, and 6. After the piece B has been placed in the magazine 23, a handle 13 is disengaged from its lock 17 and given one rotation. This gives one rotation to a tubular shaft 7 which carries various cams for driving the various parts of the machine in the correct sequence. First a cam 33 actuates a picker 24, 25 to feed the piece e B upwards through throat 201 to meet three slides 34. These slides have rack teeth 38 which are at this time out of mesh with the adding wheels 39, 40. It will be noted that the larger the digit represented by a tongue, Fig. 14, the shorter is the tongue, so that the slides 34 are raised by the piece B distances equal to the complement of the amount. The numeral wheels 40 are on a carrier 43 which is subsequently rotated about axis 44 by cam 50 so as to place the wheels 39 in mesh with the rack teeth 38. Pins 80 (one for each slide 34) are mounted in a common bar 79 on an arm controlled 'by a cam 86 on shaft 7 ; these pins are next moved upwards and carry the slides 34 with them until a lug 61 on each slide is arrested by a lug 60 on a correlated lever 54. This adds the amount to the counter, the total on which is visible through window 41. Pins 80 are projected by springs 81 a distance beyond the bar 79 equal to the pitch of the teeth on rack 38. This is for transfer purposes, as explained below. On the return motion of the parts, including the record B, the latter is stripped from picker 25 by a lug 94 on a spring 95 so that it falls down a delivery shoot 6, 61. When the picker 25 feeds the record B upwards. a rack 87 pivoted at 27 to the picker is pressed by a spring 88, Fig. 12, into mesh with a wheel 89. This wheel can rotate only in the direction indicated in Fig. 12 and carries a printing roller 92 which applies the date or other mark such as " Paid " upon the record B. 93 is an inking roller. Item indicating. Each of the three slides 34 carries a pin 62 pressed down by a spring 63. Above these pins are ten sets of plates 65, each set consisting of three plates for the three pins. The three plates of each set, Figs. 9, 10, and 11, have lugs 65c, 65e, 65d with the digit, say " 0," on reverse sides so that according to the plates raised by the pins 62, the mount of the transaction is visible to the salesman through window 67 and to the customer through window 68 ; windows 67, 68 being offset relatively to one another as shown in Fig. 5 and in accordance with the positions of the tabs 65c, 65d, 65e. The pins 62 engage tabs 65<11>, 651, 65a at the bottoms of the plates 65. In the positioning of the pins 62 by the slides 34 and the record B, the pins are positioned over steps 741 on a vertically sliding member 74 which is raised by a cam 78 on shaft 7. The raised plates areretained by a pawl 70. Transfer mechanism. A lever 54, pivoted to the fixed frame, for each slide 34, has a lug 60 to coact with the lugs 61 and also a lug 58 in the path of a lug 59 on the corresponding counter wheel. Each lug 60 is adapted to arrest the lug 61 of the next higher denomination when pins 80 move the slides 34 for adding. When the latter occurs, the pins 80 are compressed. Hence if a wheel passes from " 9 " to " 0 " the lug 59 cams the lug 58 down and lever 54 is rocked counterclockwise ; its lug 60 frees the next higher slide 34 and the latter is propelled one tooth more by the compressed spring 80 to add one to the next higher denomination. The shifted lever 54 is retained in this position by spring 57 and notches 56 until restored clockwise by a pin 53 on linkage actuated from the cam 50 which rocks the adding wheels in and out of mesh. Cutters. The record A, Fig. 13, is cut into the two pieces B, C, Figs. 14 and 15, by the tool shown in Fig. 16, the part H<1> coacting with the bifurcated end H to cut the sheet aluminium record along the lines a, Fig. 13. If desired the metal record may have further tongues, A<0>, A<9>, Fig. 17, for the salesman's number and article number. If the records at the end, say, of a day are sorted according to a particular salesman's number, then all this salesman's records are placed in the magazine 23, Fig. 3, and a total of his sales for that day is obtained by repeated turning of the handle 13. The handle may, for this purpose, be replaced by a suitable motor.