Patent GB-190409978-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Cash Registers.
Inventor: HIBBERD CHARLES
Filed: 1904-04-30
Granted: 1905-04-13
Abstract: 9978. Hibberd, C. April 30. Receipts, checking and recording; counting-apparatus.-A cash register comprising (1) coin-sorting means, (2) changegiving means, (3) key-set counters, and totalizers, and (4) indicating tablets or tickets, also set by the key action, is shown in Figs. 1 and 4. The case a<3> encloses the mechanisms, and the hinged front or lid a<4> is provided with two coin-slots, one for copper and silver, the other for gold. Beneath the principal platform a<2> is the drawer b, in which are arranged the coin receptacles or boxes c. (1) The coinsorting device is arranged beneath the part a<3> and above the drawer b. It consists of the inclined shoot or trough d, Fig. 5, the front and back walls of which are inclined, or of gradually decreasing height. The shoot has a number of transverse coin-slots d<4>, corresponding to the money boxes, and adjacent to the slots are curved guides d<5> to catch particular coins as they roll down the plane. The shoot or trough d is built upon the base-plate d<8>, which slides into position in the machine, and rests with its coin - slots slightly out of alignment with the slots in the main platform a<2>. The separator for the gold coins is attached to the base-plate d<8> by its base-plate f<7> Halfsovereigns fall through a slot in the floor f<2>, rolling to the hopper f<5> and the slot in the base-plate for delivery to a money box, while sovereigns, owing to their size, roll down the inclines f<2>, f<2x> to the hopper f<5x>. (2) Coins, for change, are extracted by means of the sliding pushers b<4>, which engage the lowest coins in the tubular receptacles c<1> of the money boxes. To ascertain whether the receptacles contain coins, the money drawer has slots in it, the boxes c have vertical slots c<3>, and the receptacles c<1> have corresponding rows of perforations c<3x>. (3) The register keys g operate their counter wheels or drums i by the engagement of the drivers g<15> with the toothed wheels i<2>. Check pawls prevent any backward movement of the drums. The wheels or drums are numbered with multiples of the key units, and when the highest amount indicated upon the periphery of a wheel is registered, that sum is transferred to the totalizing or adding plate or. bar m<1> traversing the window. The plates or bars m<1> are provided at the back with racks, adapted to be engaged by the teeth or projections i<5> of the drums i. A rack with suitably spaced ratchet teeth holds the adding plate in its raised position. To set these totalizing or adding plates to zero, a rod is shifted laterally, thereby disengaging spring pawls from the holding racks and allowing the plates to fall. To set the counter wheels i, Fig. 19, to zero, the driving pawls g<15>and the check pawls i<3> are thrown out of action by the tripping bar k, which extends across the machine, and the wheels i are then turned backwards by a key on the square end j<1> of the shaft j, until the studs i<4> on the toothed wheels i' of the counter wheels engage with the pawls or stops l. The drums i have frictional contact with the shaft j by means, of the segmental friction plates j<6x> on the tubular arms j<6>. (4) On the depression of a key lever g, a tablet or ticket g<5> is raised and exposed by the raising of the ticket bar g<4>. This bar g<4> is engaged by the flange h<1> of the releasing-bar h, which in its swing engages the bar g<4> with the guide-bar g<6>. A second swing of the releasing-bar causes the tooth g<4x> of the bar g' to be released from the guide-bar g<6>, and the ticket-rod g<4> to drop back upon the end of the key lever. The releasing-bar h is engaged by the tapering end of the vertical releasing-rod g<12>.