Patent GB-190310917-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Cash Registers
Inventor: PIERCE RAY VAUGHN
Filed: 1903-05-13
Granted: 1903-06-25
Abstract: 10,917. Lake, H. H., [Pierce, R. V.]. May 13. Receipts, checking and recording.- Relates to a cash register of the kind in which the operator moves a series of exposed actuating or setting levers along lines of numerals upon the front face of the register to set certain interior segments into operative relation with pinions connected with the registering-wheels, and thereafter by moving an exposed crank or handle places the pinions in direct engagement with the segments to return the segments to their normal position and cause the registering-wheels to be operated. The register is provided with means worked simultaneously with the register mechanism for printing and delivering a check bearing a word denoting the sale department, the initial of the salesman, the amount of the sale, an advertisement, the consecutive number of the check and the date of the sale, and with means for printing upon a detail strip remaining in the machine the department name, the salesman's initial, and the amount of the sale. The register is shown in central vertical longitudinal section in Fig. 4, in end elevation in Fig. 6, and in vertical longitudinal sections in Figs. 10 and 11. The segments 53 are controlled by the actuating-handles 52, and the rack-bars 112 rotate the amount-printing wheels 96 through the gear-wheels 103 when the exposed operating crank-handle is at rest, but when the crank-handle is in motion, the rack-bars do not interfere with the rotation of the printing-frame 90. A series of four concentric shafts having the driving-wheels 117 to engage with the racks 112 and gear-wheels to engage the segmental racks 144 carried by the band-levers 52, is provided. The sale indicating cylinders 60, the racks 65, the locking segments 69, for the handles 52, the dogs 70 engaging the segments 69, and the sliding shaft 71 grooved to allow the dogs to vibrate and the segment 69 to pass over them are of ordinary or wellknown construction. The crankhandle for effecting registration, indication, and printing, is connected to the shaft 82 which has a crank and connecting-rod connection with the operating-shaft 51. The rotary printing-frame 90, shown in Figs. 17 and 20, is mounted on the shaft 91 and receives its rotary motion from the shaft 82. It comprises the amount wheels 96, each capable of independent movement on the shaft 104, the consecutive numbering-wheels 97 for printing the serial number of the sale, the dating-wheels 98, 99, 100, the department printing-wheel 101 and the initial printing-wheel 102. The pawls 105 for the gear-wheels 103 connected with the amount wheels 96 are all in one integral casting, mounted upon the pin 106 and having an arm 107 with the stud 108 projecting laterally through the slot 109 in the plate 94 of the frame 90. The stud 108 co-operates with the hub 110, Fig. 6, to lock the pawls against motion and to lock the amount wheels during the rotation of the frame 90. The pawl frame 146 for the gearwheels 117 locks the machine if the actuating hand - levers 52 are not arrested in a correct position. At each rotation of the frame 90, the pawl 158 is given one thrust, to present a new number on the wheels 97, by means of the arm 165 being carried against the stationary pin 169, Fig. 11. The wheels 97 are set to zero in a well-known manner. The dating-wheels 98, 99, 100 are set by hand and are locked together by the pin 174. The department wheel 101 on the shaft 200 and the initial wheel 102 are manually operated by the projecting handles 208, 209, the segments 206, 207 of which mesh with the wheels 301, 302, normally in gear with the wheels 201, 203 for the printing- wheels 101, 102. When the frame 90 rotates, the wheels 201, 203 are carried from the intermediate wheels 301, 302. The segments 206, 207 also operate the department and initial indicating cylinders 216, 218, the matter on which is so disposed that it reads from both front and back of the register. A lever 239 and pin 244 compel the operator to expose the indications fairly and not to stop at a mid-point, by preventing the movement of the shaft 91 and the printing-frame 90. The transverse plate 245 prints au advertisement on the check strip 246. The supporting-frame and feeding-mechanism for the detail strip 247 are shown in Fig. 33. The strip 247 is wound upon the receiving-roller 255, the feeding being accomplished by the pawl 267 and the ratchet-wheel 265. The pin 270 of the lever 268 is engaged to drive the pawl 267, there being two upward throws or two feeding movements with each operation of the machine. The printing on the detail strip is performed during the movement of the strip over the impression roller 278 and when the latter has been tilted inwardly to press the paper against the type of the printing-frame 90. During the rotation of the frame, the type is carried against the roller 281 to be inked, and inking is also performed by the roller 349 carried by the arm 350 on the shaft 351. The frame 251 is pivoted on the rod 287, and is tilted by the arms 294 making contact with the toepiece 283. The check strip 246 passes between guide and feed rolls to the cutter bar 305 and below the knife 306 to the delivery opening in the register. The printing on the strip is performed while the strip is passing below the impression roller 304. The gear-wheel 319 of the printing- frame rotates a gear-wheel and the roller 303. When the strip 246 is feeding, the projections 320, 321, 322, 323 maintain the roller 300 in its lower position against the strip at a time when the type wheels and the advertisement plate are in the act of printing. The impression roller 304 may be held out of its operative position. The plate 338 is actuated to move the lever 336 and the knife 306 once during the rotation of the frame 90 by the arm 341. The check strip passes over the rod 307, which has annular shoulders and is part of a pivoted frame. This prevents the printing from being blurred.