An Improved Sight Payment Cash Receiver and Indicator for Counter use.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 14th June, 1898-Accepted, 6th Aug., 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Sight Payment Cash Receiver and Indicator for
Counter use.
I, FRANCIS PARER, of Smelter's Hotel, Queenstown, in the Colony of Tasmania,
temporarily residing at the Exchange Hotel, corner of Swanston and Little
Collins Streets, Melbourne, in the Colony of Victoria, Licensed Victualler, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is
to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement:-
This invention relates to those classes of cash receivers and indicators which
are intended for use on counters in shops, hotels, and the like.
Its object is to dispense with the complicated and expensive mechanism at
present in use in cash registers and indicators for checking or recording and
indicating the amounts paid into the machine.
According to my invention the amount of cach sale is indicated by the cash
itself being exposed to view whilst the total takings pass into a drawer or com-
partment which is under the sole control of the proprietor or other authorised
person, a separate drawer or compartment being provided to contain the necessary
supply of change.
By this means it is obvious that employees cannot become acquainted with
the amount of the takings, or handle the cash after it has been placed in the
receiver.
Mechanism is provided whereby a bell or gong may be sounded each time
that a coin is placed in the machine as well as whenever the change drawer is
opened.
An arrangement of pivoted shelves is fitted within a transparent receptacle
which is in full view of the customer and into which the amount of the customer's
purchase is placed. These pivoted shelves are connected to a plunger which
actuates the gong so that the salesman is forced to depress said plunger and
thus sound the gong before he can place the coin in the transparent receptacle.
In order that the invention may be clearly understood I will describe it by
reference to the accompanying drawings, in which,-
Figure 1 represents a front elevation partly in section of my improved sight
payment cash receiver and indicator for counter use.
Figure 2 is a vertical transverse section on line 2-2 Figure 1.
Figure 3 is a part horizontal section and part plan of the transparent recép-
tacle into which the amount of the customer's purchase is placed by the salesman.
Figure 4 is a plan of the gong sounding mechanism.
Figures 5 and 6 are respectively a front elevation and a plan of part of one
of the pivoted shelves used in the transparent receptacle.
B
Figure 7 is a view showing a slight modification of one part of the mechanism.
A represents the transparent receptacle into which the amount of the customer's
purchase has to be placed by the salesman. From this receptacle a passage.
leads to a drawer C which is secured by a lock or otherwise so that it cannot
be opened except by the proprietor or other authorised person. D represents
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page_text: a drawer which can be opened by the salesman and which contains a given
supply of change in different compartments. A vertically sliding plunger E is
mounted in some convenient position as for instance alongside the transparent
coin receptacle A. This plunger is normally held in its raised position by a spiral
spring e whose strength can be regulated by means of an adjustable nut e
upon said plunger. The lower end of this latter is slotted or bifurcated and is
fitted with an anti-friction roller f arranged to engage with the under side of
a metal bar F within the change drawer D.
The forward end of this bar is cut away as shown at f¹ to form an inclined
surface which when the drawer D) is closed allows the plunger to rise into its
normal position but when opened said incline draws down said plunger and in
doing so causes a projecting ping to engage with a pawl gland so operate the
pivoted spring hammer lever g2 of the gong or bell g³.
Inside the transparent receptacle A are arranged three pivoted shelves H, H³, H²
one underneath the other as illustrated. These pivoted shelves are connected
by links with the plunger E in such a way that when said plunger is in its
raised or normal position the top and bottom shelves will be closed and the
middle one open.
A small bolt I may be used for securing the plunger E in either its raised
or lowered position. When secured in its raised position it prevents the change
drawer from being opened. When secured in its lowered position it allows the
change drawer to be used as an ordinary till without causing the gong to sound
each time. A hinged flap or door J fitted with a lock and key is provided for
the purpose of allowing access to this bolt I when it is desired to secure the
plunger E.
Instead of operating the plunger direct from the bar F in the drawer D
it can be connected as illustrated in Figure 7 to a lever having an anti-friction
roller at its end bearing upon the upper edge of said bar said upper edge being
formed with an incline corresponding with that used on the lower edge in the
previous arrangement.
Upon a sale being effected or the change drawer opened the gong or bell g
is sounded, the plunger E is depressed and the top and bottom shelves H H
turned into their open positions whilst the middle one H¹ is closed. The amount
of the purchase money is then dropped into the transparent receptacle A and
falls on to the shelf H¹ in full view of the customer.
When the plunger is released it returns to its normal position and opens
the middle shelf Hi thereby allowing the coin or coins to drop on to the bottom
shelf H2 where it remains in view of the customer until another payment is
made or the change drawer opened when the plunger is again depressed and the
bottom shelf H2 opened so as to allow said coin or coins to fall into the locked
drawer, and so on as each succeeding payment is made.
It will be evident that my improved cash receiver and indicator forms an
efficient check on the salesman as the amount of the purchase must be placed in
the machine in full view of the customer and subsequently falls into a locked
drawer which is not under the control of the salesman so that no registration of 4
the takings is required as once the cash is inserted in the machine it cannot be
afterwards tampered with by an employee. The only cash to which the salesman
has access is the change drawer and he is responsible that the amount therein
remains the same.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said 5
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is:
First: The herein described sight payment cash receiver and indicator for
counter use consisting of the various parts constructed arranged and operating
substantially as and for the purposes specified and as illustrated in the accom- 5
panying drawings.

page_text: Second: In a sight payment cash receiver and indicator for counter use a
transparent receptacle (such as A) communicating with a locked cash drawer in
combination with an independent change drawer (such as D) substantially as and
for the purposes specified and as illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Third: In a sight payment cash receiver and indicator for counter use a
transparent receptacle (such as A) fitted with three pivoted shelves (such as H
HH) connected to and operated by a plunger (such as E) substantially as
and for the purposes specified and as illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Fourth In a sight payment cash receiver and indicator for counter use a
vertically sliding plunger (such as E) arranged to sound a gong on being depressed
in combination with a bar (such as F) across the change drawer said bar having.
an incline (such as f¹) to release the plunger when said drawer is closed sub-
stantially as herein described and explained and as illustrated in the accom-
panying drawings.
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FRANCIS PARER,
By Reginald W. Barker,
Applicant's Agent, Vulcan House, 56, Ludgate Hill, London, E.C.