Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Jan., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 27th Sept., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 9th Nov., 1888
Intended for the purpose of doubly checking payments made by customers in
shops &c. For preventing disputes respecting coins tendered and assisting proprietors
of shops in calculating and checking their returns.
The construction is in shape of an ordinary desk with drawer to recieve money.
Above the drawer is arranged a continuous leather belt which passes round two
rollers, one at top and back part of desk and the other at front. Attached to the belt
are twenty recievers made of tin or other metal, and numbered consecutively from one
to twenty. Over the belt is fitted a glass cover and an open space for passing the
coin or coins to the recievers. Attached to one of the rollers is a cogwheel worked
by a lever and catch, and made to be moved forwards only. The lever is also con-
nected with a bolt which locks or unlocks the cash drawer. The coin or coins tendered
are placed in one of the recievers, and the lever being drawn forward enables the
drawer to be opened for change, and the lever being pushed back locks the drawer
and causes the reciever in which the coin is placed to be moved forward under the
glass and bring the next reciever into position for another transaction. The coins
being moved forward at each transaction exposes them to view until they are carried
over the roller at top of desk, when they pass from the recievers into the cash drawer
underneath.
The registering system comprises a double sheet of paper, one half being perforated
into one hundred parts which form small tickets, these tickets are numbered in
columns from one to twenty downwards and are arranged to correspond with the
numbers on recievers. The tickets are given to customers as a receipt for amount
paid and bears the same number as that of the reciever in which the coin is placed.
Price 8d

page_text: Carbon paper is used under the tickets through which an impression is made on the
second half sheet which is also numbered to correspond with ticket given to customer
and the reciever in which the coin is placed, the, various amounts are thus formed into
convenient columns for adding and the money in the cash drawer should correspond
exactly with the total. The whole of this construction forms a complete and con-
venient desk.
JOHN BAYLIS Mantle Street Wellington Somerset Grocers Assistant, 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 :-
Intended for the purpose of doubly checking payments made by customers in shops
and stores and other places where payments are made for preventing disputes respecting
coins tendered, and assisting proprietors of shops, stores, and other places where
payments are made in calculating their returns.
The outside case of the apparatus may be in the shape of an ordinary desk, or any
other suitable shape which will conveniently hold the mechanism hereinafter described.
In the desk there is a suitable money drawer or till, divided to hold various classes
or denominations of coins.
Over the till is placed an endless band, chain, tape, or other suitable appliance herein-
after called the endless band, which moves over two rollers or wheels hereinafter
called the rollers, placed at the extreme bends of the endless band.
Upon the endless band is fixed a series of receptacles, hereinafter called the coin
receptacles, each of these coin receptacles, may be divided into any number of com-
partiments suitable for holding coins of various values, the coin receptacles may be
made of any metal, or of porcelain china, or other suitable material that may be
suitable for the purpose of a coin receptacle.
The coin receptacles are numbered consecutively from one up to any desired number,
or in place of numbers, letters or any other suitable marks or signs may be used. Over
the coin receptacles, but quite distinct and free of the coin receptacles, is placed a
piece of clear glass through which anything that may be put into the coin receptacles
may be seen.
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Attached to either of the rollers is a toothed or a stepped wheel. Working inde-
pendently of this stepped wheel, is a lever hereinafter called the actuating lever:

page_text: Attached to this lever is a ratchet, click, or pawl, hereinafter called the ratchet. This
ratchet drops behind one of the steps of the stepped wheel whenever the actuating
lever is drawn back to its extreme limit.
Upon the actuating lever being given a forward motion the stepped wheel is moved
round a certain distance and being as before stated fixed to the roller causes the endless
band to move forward and consequently the coin receptacles attached to the endless
band.
Attached to the actuating lever is a small pin, this pin depresses another lever,
hereinafter called the Till lever, which has a projection upon one end, which fits into
a recess in the cash drawer. Upon the lever being pulled back, the end of the Till
lever which has a projection is raised and the cash drawer is now free to open.
Upon the actuating lever being pushed in a forward direction, the Till lover is free
and the end with the projection falls into a recess in the cash drawer and prevents tho
cash drawer from being opened.
A sheet hereinafter called the section sheet is employed and used with the cash till,
the section sheet is divided off into as many sections as there are coin receptacles,
and the numbers on the section sheet corresponds with the numbers on the coin
receptacles.
The numbered sections on the section sheet are by preference arranged so that the
numbers may run vertically, thus, the top number is No. 1 the one below it No. 2 and
so on, or letters or other signs or symbols may be employed instead of numbers, but
such signs and symbols must always correspond with those marked on the coin
receptacles, thus, any mark or set of figures written on space No. 2 of the section sheet
would correspond with the amount in No. 2 Box.
By preference the sections on the paper are divided by perforations in the same
manner as postage stamps are divided in the sheet.
Any writing upon any of these sections of the section paper will be transferred into
corresponding positions by means of carbon or other transfer paper into columns ruled
upon another sheet hereinafter called the check sheet. This check sheet which may,
or may not be perforated, by preference it is not perforated, thus supposing the section
sheet had in a vertical column 26 or any other number of sections, and each of these
sections had figures written on them, then by the use of carbon paper, the check sheet
should contain 26 entries of figures or any other number which was written upon the
perforated sheet. The accompanying drawing shows the combination of the apparatus
which employ by preference in carrying out my before described Invention ;-
Figure 1. shows a sectional elevation of the casing and mechanism therein affixed.
Figure 2. shows a plan of the mechanism and the casing containing it.
Figure 3. shows a plan of the caso closed and as it is seen ready for use.
Figure 4. is a diagram of the section sheet.
Figure 5, is a diagram of the check sheet.
A, is the actuating lever moving upon a centre pivot, attached to which is the
Ratchet B, which on each forward motion locks in a step of the stepped wheel C.
D, shows the roller over which the band M, moves carrying the coin receptacles F.
At the other end of the roller D and attached to it is a toothed wheel Z into which a
pawl Y falls and allows the toothed wheel to move forward only in the same direction
as the roller D moves.
This arrangement of toothed wheel and pawl prevents the roller from being moved
in any other direction than that given it by the actuating lever A.
At one end of the actuating lever is a pin P, which, upon pushing forward the
actuating lever A strikes against the Till lever S and raises the end G which has the
projection X, this releases the till drawer H and allows it to be pulled open, the act of
pulling open the till drawer pulls forward the pin K which actuates the lever Q and
causes it to sound the bell J. T, is a spring which pulls the lever into position again,
when the Till drawer H is closed. I is an inclined shoot that delivers the coins into
the till H, which is divided into horizontal divisions corresponding to those in the
coin receptacles F', F³, F³.

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Figure 4. represents the diagram of the section sheet, the dotted lines representing
the perforations in the same. The numbers shown are the numbers corresponding to
the numbered coin receptacles.
Figure 5. represents the check sheet and the numbered lines. correspond with the
numbered perforated sections on the section sheet, and the numbered coin receptacles,
thus, in section No. 19 on the section sheet Figure 4, will indicate that 5/- is in
the coin receptacle No. 19, and will also appear on the check sheet by reason of having
been transferred by means of carbon or other transfer paper to the check sheet when
the figure has been written on the section sheet, in Figure 1. R, is the piece of clear
glass hereinbefore referred to, which covers the coin receptacles and through which
the contents of the coin receptacles can be seen.
The method of working the Cash Till is as follows,-Upon a payment being made
the money is deposited through the small opening L, situated at the end of the glass R.
The person who takes the money enters the amount to be paid upon one of the
numbered sections in the perforated section sheet Figure 4, placing under such
numbered section a piece of carbon or other transfer paper, and under the carbon or
transfer paper the check sheet Figure 5. It is necessary that the same numbered
sections of the section sheet are directly over the same numbered lines on the check-
sheet. Any writing upon the section sheet Figure 4, will now be transferred to the
check sheet Figure 5, in the way commonly known as manifold copying.
The three sheets namely, the section sheet, the carbon or transfer paper, and the
check sheet, are made fast with suitable clips to the desk.
The section of the section sheet which has been written upon is torn off and given
to the customer as a receipt.
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In the event of change being given to the customer, the actuating lever is pushed
forward, this releases the cash drawer lever and enables the cash drawer to be pulled
open from which the change required in the transaction is taken, at the same time it
moves the coin receptacle away from under the opening in the desk to a position under
the glass when its contents can be seen, the same movement brings an empty coin
receptacle under the opening L ready for a fresh transaction.
The cash Drawer upon being closed, and the actuating lever on being pushed
forward allows the casli drawer lever to fall, thereby locking the cash drawer.
There is also an arrangement for a gong to strike when the cash drawer is opened,
and another gong of a different tone when the drawer is shut. This latter arrange-
ment would be done by reversing the action of the lever A or by a system of compound
levers.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention and
in what manner of the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is,
1. The use of the coin receptacles passing under a sheet of glass and one or more
of these coin receptacles being visible for a certain portion of time.
2. I claim, the combination of numbering of the said coin receptacles, the said
numbers of the coin receptacles corresponding to a numbered section in a sheet which
numbered section will again correspond to a line in another sheet substantially and for
the purpose herein described.
Dated this 25th day of September 1888
W. M. LLEWELLIN,
Agent for the Applicant.