Patent GB-191413269-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Cash Registers or Accounting Machines.
Filed: 1914-05-29
Granted: 1915-05-31
Abstract: 13,269. National Cash Register Co., Banwell, H. C., and Phillips, F., [National Cash Register Co.]. May 29. Cash registers with operating-means; autographic cash recorders; totalizing-counters; item-printing mechanism; voucher-issuing.- Relates to stylus-set lever-operated machines which, in addition to registering items upon a totalizing-counter, print upon a voucher strip and upon a record strip the item, a settable identifying-number, for instance a purchaser's ledger number for each item, and also the date and the character of the transaction. The printed records and vouchers are severed and the record slips stored in a receptacle. Fig. 1 shows the ledger-number slides 5, transactioncharacter slide 4, and the item-value slides 3, each of which is in one with detent-teeth 11, Fig. 3, a voucher-strip type-bar 16, and a record-strip type-bar 20. The tens-of-shillings type-bar 6<b>, Fig. 7, has but one type on each bar, the slide set being either the units-ofshillings slide 3<a>, or the tens-of-shillings slide 3<b>, according to whether the amount is under or over ten shillings. In the latter case, the auxiliary rack-bar 135 is moved through unit distance by a pawl 137 and lug 138, the connexion being then broken by a cam-slot 140, and a locking-catch 144 being provided. The voucher-strip 17 is fed transversely from a reel 22, Fig. 4, beneath an inking-roller 38 between an electro roller 23 for fixed matter and impression roller 24, beneath the types 16 on the rack-bars and above a platen to a severing- knife 26, the required movements being derived from the main cam shaft 34, Fig. 3. The electro roller, which effects the feeding in conjunction with the impression roller, is mounted in spring slide-frames 40, guided on pins 41 and adapted for lifting to disable the feed or insert the strip by cams 45<a> upon a handle 44. An inking-ribbon 46 is wound to and fro between spools 47, 49 by means of a bell-crank 58, oscillated by connexions 66, 64 from a, subsidiary operating-shaft 330 and carrying two triangular pawls 57, adapted to engage a toothed wheel 51, and a companion wheel for rotating the spools in one direction or the other, provision being made for automatic reversal. The record-strip 75 passes longitudinally over its own platen 79 and beneath a second transverse inking-ribbon 80, to an autographic table 90, and between an electro roller and an impression roller to a severing-mechanism 103, the detached portion dropping through a slot 123 into a receptacle 120 supported on a plate 121 within the frame, a door 122 being provided for its insertion &c., and a lock with bolt 126 for securing it, the bolt when shot operating through parts 127, 128, 129, 130 to open a closing-plate for the receptacle slot 123, and vice versa. Counters for the operations of this plate and also for the number of times the lid of the machine is raised may be provided. Restoration of set slide-bars is effected by means of a cross-bar 300, passing through slots 10 therein and operated by forked side-levers 301. Engagement with the racks 11 of the totalizing- counter 13 upon a shaft 160, Fig. 10, is effected by the rocking movement of a supporting-frame 162, by means of a cam-groove 167 and roller 168, from the main operating-shaft 34, preceded by the displacement of a locking-member 171 brought about by the first movement of an engaging-link 173. Alining-pawls and detents for the rack-bars are normally pressed lightly upwards by springs 12<f>, but upon engagement are locked bv a cam-actuated lever. The ' Charge ' or ' Paid out ' positions of the transaction slide are arranged to disable a shaft 166 upon which the totalizer-engaging cam-plate 165 is fixed, for which purpose an arm 221 is rocked to lift the engaging link 173 sufficiently to free a slot 174 therein from a pin 175 on the camplate, at the same time placing a stop in front of a projection upon the shaft 166.