Improvements in and relating to Money Tills.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Dec., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 27th Sept, 1895-Accepted, 21st Dec., 1895
Improvements in and relating to Money Tills.
1, CHARLES BAUER, of 11 Comerford Road, Brockley, London, Engineet
do hereby declare the nature of this my mvention to be as follows
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This invention relates to improvements in and relating to money tills and the
main objects of my invention are:-
(1.) In an autographic voucher till to dispense with the carbon paper, inking
riband or other equivalent and thereby also dispense with the mechanism hitherto
necessary to support and move such carbon paper or equivalent.
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(2.) To obviate the necessity of the salesman tearing on cutting off the vouchers.
(3.) To provide check tills with the improved
check action hereafter
described and
(4) To provide voucher ulls with sunple mechanism for feeding forward n
certain length of paper at each operation of the money drawer.
The hrst part of my invention relates to an autographic voucher till, that
1, money check till hitherto having three strips of paper or equivalents uz.
a voucher paper strip, a record paper strip and an interposed carbon paper stip,
inking riband or other equivalent the arrangement of the three papers being such
that the amount of the purchase or other matter which the salesman writes on
the uppermost paper, is transferied, by the interposed carbon paper or equivalent,
ou to the lowermost paper. The object of this first part of my invention is to
dispose with the said interposed carbon paper, uking band or other equivalent
aud consequently to also dispense with the whole of the mechanism hitherto
Decessary for supporting and moving said carbon paper or equivalent.
In order to attain the said object, I employ only two paper stips viz. a voucher
stip and a record stup. Said two strips are disposed and supported within the
till case in any suitable manner and the requisite motion is imparted to both
said stups by any suitable mechanisin and I prefer said strips to be automatically
moved then respective necessary distances by the mere operation of the money
drawer although I wish it to be understood that I do not confine my invention to
Either
this as aid strips may be moved by the moving of a crank or otherwise.
the voucher stup or the record stip may be aanged to be uppermost
and said papers may travel in any desired direction or directions, and for the
purpose of transferring the figures or other matters (which are written or otherwise
marked by the salesman on the upper strip) from the upper stup on to the lower
strip cover of coat the under side of said upper strip with any suitable transfer
medium or substance. I do not conuine myself to any particular trausfer medium
or substance as there are many which may with advantage be employed, I have
however found that lamp black is very suitable, being cheap and easily applied.
Black lead is also about as good and suitable.
The said transfer medium is preferably applied to the strip before the latter is
put into the till and if the record strip be uppermost I prefer to coat the whole of
the underside of said record strip, inasmuch as said strip moves only a com-
paratively short distance for each transaction, if, however, the voucher stup be
uppermost, I prefer to coat only those parts or portions of the underside of said
voucher strip, the corresponding parts or portions of the upper side of which
voucher strip will be written upon or otherwise marked by the salesman.
By the means above described the separate carbon strip, inking riband or other

page_text: equivalent transfer strip which has hitherto always been necessary and used in
autographic voucher tille, is dispensed with, thereby obviating the trouble and
expense of renewing said transfer strip when worn out, and the whole of the
mechanism which has bitherto been necessary for carrying and moving sand
transfer strip is also thereby rendered unnecessary and is therefore dispensed with.
The second part of my invention also relates to voucher tills and the object of
this part of my invention is to obviate the necessity of the salesman tearing or
utting off the voucher by hand. This object I attain b preferably pivotally
mounting a suitable cutter at a convenient part of and preferably within the till,
and cutter being connected to the drawer by any suitable mechanism the arrange-
ment of the whole being such that when the drawer is operated the paper or other
strips are moved their respective proper distances and the cutter is also moved so
As to automatically cut off the voucher.
The third part of my invention relates to an improved "check action" that 15,
mechanism for preventing the money drawer from being reopened (after said
drawei has been opened and the closing movement begun), until said drawer has
been first fully closed. In cairying this part of my invention into practice
I pivotally attach a pawl to the side of the money drawer which pawl normally
engages with a suitably constructed rack with which the case is provided the
arrangement being such that when the pawl is in engagement with the rack the
sand drawer cannot be opened I also pivotally attach a gravity catch to the side
of the diawei which is adapted to engage with and retain the pawl when said pawl
has been raised a sufficient distance, out of engagement with its rack. At a
convenient position in close proximity to said giavity catch, I fix a function bar
with which the giavity catch is in frictional engagement when the drawer is
partially or fully open, the arrangement of the parts being such that when the
diawei is being opened, the gravity catch is retained in engagement with the pawl,
the moment however, that the closing movement of the drawer is begun said
catch is thrown o swung out of engagement with the pawl, which pawl falls by
gravity into engagement with the rack so that in this position the drawer can only
be closed and not pulled open. For the purpose of enabling the drawer to be gain
opened after it has been fully closed 1 cut away or bend a portion of the friction
bai so as to allow the gravity catch to swing into contact with the pawl, I also
provide the rack with a comparatively long tooth or pin the arrangement bein
such that the pawl is lifted up at about the same time that the gravity catch drop,
thereby binging said pawl and catch into engagement so that said pawl 1º held
out of engagement with its lack.
If the operation of the money drawer be utilized for moving one or more papers,
ot a money exhibitor or cuttei o the like,-in which event the drawer must be
opened to at least a certain distance in order to fully operate either of all the
above-I prefer to provide the said money drawer with a second pawl and rack the
length of which second rack is about the same as the distance to which the ditwer
must be opened, and the aangement of said second pawl and rack is such
that the drawer inust be opened to a certain distance (in order that the panl shall
be clear of its lack) before it can be closed.
The fourth part of my invention relates to voucher tills and the object of this
part of my invention is to ensure that a certain length of the voucher paper 1 ted
forward at each operation of the drawer, crank or the like. In order to attam this
object perforate the voucher strip at certain distances apart, said distances being
equal to the length of the voucher when delivered to the customer. At a suitable
position within the till case I provide a series of suitably mounted fingers of the
like which are adapted to enter the perforations in the voucher strip and feed
forward a certain length of said voucher strip at each operation of the money
diawei, crank or the like, the said fingers receiving their necessary motion from
the operation of the drawer, crank or the like by means of any suitable mechanism.
I wish it to be understood that, with the exception of my improved check¸ntion
herembefore described, I do not confine myself to use any particular mechamısı

page_text: for operating the different parts as it will be readily understood that the same
result may be attained by various means and mechanism.
Dated this 27th day of December 1894.
Improvements in and relating to Money T18.
I, CHARLES BAUER of 11 Comerford Road Blockley, London, Engineer, 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 improvements in and relating to money tills and the
main objects of my invention are:-
(1) In an autographic voucher till to dispense with the carbon paper, mking
riband or other equivalent, and thereby also render unnecessary the mechanısın
means for supporting-and if necessary moving-said carbon paper or
equivalent
or
(2) To obviate the necessity of the salesman tearing or cutting off the
vouchers.
(3) To provide money tills with an improved "check action" as will be
hereinafter described; and
(4) To provide voucher tills with simple mechanism for ensuring that equal
lengths of voucher paper are fed forward.
In order to attain the first object of my invention I employ only two strips of
paper z. a voucher strip and a record strip, which two strips aie disposed and
supported within the till case in any suitable manner, and the requisite motion may
be imparted to both said strips by any suitable mechanism. I prefer said strips to
be automatically moved their respective necessary distances by the inere operation
of the money drawer, as 18 usual in this class of machunça, although said strips may
be arranged to be moved by the operation of a crank, handle or otherwise Either
the voucher stup on the record strip may be auanged to be uppermost, and said
paper may travel in any desired dnection or directions. The strip which is
arranged uppermost is coated on its underside with crayon, charcoal, lamp blacl,
blacklead of any other suitable transfer medium, so that the waiting or other
mark of the salesman on the said upper stip will be transferred on to the
lower strip.
If the record strip be arranged uppermost I preferably coat the whole of it
underside, as sand record strip is moved only a short distance at each operation, but
if the voucher strip be arranged uppermost, I prefer to coat only those portions of
its underside, the corresponding portions of the upper side of which voucher strip
will be written upou or otherwise marked by the salesman.
I wish it to be understood that I may employ any suitable transfer medium for
the purpose above described and 1 do not confine my invention to the employment
of any or all those herein stated. Further, Enid transfer medium inay be applied
either wet or dry to the paper, and the machine, or other means for applying
said transfer medium may be any, which in practice is found to be best suited.
By my improvements above described, the separate cat bon strip, inking riband
01 other equivalent, which has hitherto been used in autographic vouchet tills, is
dispensed with, thereby obviating the trouble and expense of renewing of inking
said separate transfer stup or equivalent, and the whole of the parts and mechanisti
which have been necessary for supporting, and, in some cases, moring, sand
transfer stip or equivalent, is rendered unnecessy and is therefore dispensed
with.
If more than one voucher strip or equivalent be required I may employ more

page_text: than one, each of the strips, except the lowermost strip, being wholly or partially
coated on its underside with transfer material or medium as and for the purposes
descubed.
In order to obviate the necessity of the salesınan tearing or cutting off the
voucher by hand after each operation of the money diawer, I provide a cutter such
as A, shown in side elevation in Fig. 1 of the annexed drawings. Said cutter is
pivotally supported at a by the case and is actuated at each operation of the money
drawer by means of a spring catch or equivalent B fixed to a suitable part of said
diawet, the arrangement being such that when the voucher strip V has been moved
a sufficient distance by the operation of the drawer, the catch B comes in contact
with the underside of the shank a' or other part of the cutter A, said cutter A is
aised and enters a groove a" in the upper part of the case and thereby severs the
voucher V. I prefer the cutter A aud groove a" to be serrated, which renders the
cutting much easier.
My improved check action" consists of a pivotally supported pawl E (Fig. 2)
carried by the drawer D, which pawl normally engages with a fixed rack F
(as shewn in dotted lines) and thereby prevents the drawer D being pulled open-
e. in the direction of the arrow-while allowing said drawer to be closed, as will
be readily understood by reference to the drawing.
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For the purpose of raising said pawl E out of engagement with the rack F
(as shewn in full lines) I fix a pin or stud G to about the inner end of said rack F,
which pin causes the pawl E to be raised or swung out of engagement with
the rack F-as shown in dot and dash lines-when the drawer is closed, and for the
purpose of retaining said pawl in its raised position and out of engagement with its
rack F while the drawor is being opened, I provide a pivotally supported gravity
catch H. Said catch II is also supported by the diawer D and is formed at
its lower end with a hook or equivalent so that, when the pawl E has been raised, in
the manner descubed, the hook of said gravity catch I will engage with a pin or
shouldci Eon said pawl E and thereby retain said pawl in its raised position while
the drawer is being opened. To the side of the case I fix a friction bar J having
its the end bent or cut away as shewn at 1. Said friction bai is in frictional
engagement with the shauk portion of the gravity catch-or said shank portion may
be formed with a shoulder A, for this purpose, as shewn-while the diawer is being
opened, thus ensuring the engagement of the hook with the pin E' on the pawl E
as above descubed. The moment that the closing movement of the drawer is
begun, the frictional contact of the gravity catch with the friction bai causes the
hook to be thrown out of engagement with the pawl E, as shewn in dotted lines,
thereby allowing said pawl to fall by gravity iuto engagement with the inck F and
thus prevent the drawer being further opcuod until it has been first fully closed.
The portion of the friction bai which is bent or cut below the main portion of said
friction bar, is for the purpose of allowing the gravity catch to fall into engagemont
with the pawl E when the drawer has been closed, as 18 shewn i dot and dash lines.
By the mit ans above described the diawer may be opened to any desued partial or
to its full extent the moment however that the closing movement of said drawer 13
begun, the pawl is automatically brought into engagement with its rack, thereby
preventing said drawer being pulled fuit har open until it has been first fully closed
and the pawl raised out of engagement with its rack as described.
In order to ensure that equal lengths of the voucher paper are fed forward
at each operation of the money drawer-which is almost essential if the voucher
paper is painted on before being put in the till-I provide a drum or equivalent K
(shown in side elevation in Fig. 3) having a suitable number of fingers or
equivalents & hxed to its periphery, which fingers are adapted to enter correspond-
ingly spaced apertures with which I provide-for this purpose-the voucher
strip V. Tho drum K is also provided with a suitable number of ratchet teeth
with which a spring actuated pawly engages, said pawl p being supported by a
For the
leve P which is pivotally carried by the spindle of the dium K
purpose of imparting motion to the drum K when the diawer 18 operated, I provide

page_text: said drawer with a spring catch such as L which engages with and moves
the lever P when the drawer is moved in one direction but passes said lover when
the drawer is moved in the opposite direction, the lever P being prevented from.
moving in said opposite direction by means of a stop p'. When the lever P is
moved by the catch L, the pawl p carries the drum with it, said lover P returning
to its normal position by the action of gravity. By this means the voucher V is
carried forward a certain length at each operation of the drawer. For the purpose
of ensuring that the voucher paper remains in engagement with the fingers k I inay
provide rollers or equivalents M which are arranged or spaced so as to permit the
said fingers to pass between them, about as shown in Fig 34.
I wish it to be understood that I may employ different mechanism for moving the
drum K and fingers & than that shown, without departing from my invention, and
also, that said drum may be caused to revolve either by the opening or by the
closing of the money drawer, or instead of being actuated by the operation of the
drawer, a crank, lever on other equivalent may be employed.
For the purpose of ensuring that the drum K and consequently the voucher V
nie not carried too far-say, when the drawer or equivalent has been violently
operated--I provide a rod S which is pivotally supported at s and which is formed
o provided with a tooth s', the length and shape of said rod being such, that
immediately after the lever I has begun to be moved by the entch L, said catch L
also engages with and raises the lower end of the rod S, the aulangement being
such, that when said lower end of the rod S has beeu 1aised as described, the
tooth will act as a stop with which the next or following series of fingers & will
come in contact when the required or necessary distance has been traversed by the
drum K. I may also provide a stop to prevent the 1od S falling or swinging lower
than necessary. I do not confine myself to the exact shape and arrangement of
the 1od S as shewn, and instead of the stop s' acting against the fingers k, I may
provide said dium with separate pins, notches, teeth or other equivalents-say at
the side of said drum--with which said stop s¹ engages in the mauner above
described.
I may also provide the lever P with a rod U, which rod is connected at the
opposite end to a lever W carried on a spindle w, which spindle also carries the
drum w upon which the record strip 18 wound after the record has been made
thereon.
One end of said drum is provided with a ratchet wheel X with which a
feed puwl and a stop pawl a engage, the auangement being such, that at each
morement of the level P, as heremabove described, the record strip will be wound
a short length on the dium w¹.
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Instead of the fingers A being comparatively thick, as shown, and being adapted
to enter apertures made in the voucher strip as above described, said fingers & may
be very thin, and the voucher paper may be used without being provided with the
apertures or perforations referred to, the fingers being in this event adapted to
pierce the voucher paper as the dium is being revolved and the paper fed forward,
and if desired said fingers may be arrangod on the periphery of the dium K in such
a manner that the voucher paper becomes perforated or intermittently sht across its
whole width as said paper is fed for ward on the drum, thereby leudering the
cutting on tearing off of the vouchers much more easy. The fingers k may be
either like the points of needles projecting from the periphery of the drum so as to
perforate the paper or said fingers may resemble comparatively short knife edges
so as to intermittently slit said paper. By these meaus the voucher strip cannot
slip on the dium thus ensuring that equal lengths are fed forward.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim 18-
1. In a voucher till a recording strip having its under side coated with a transfer
material of medium for the purposes and substantially as described.
2. In a voucher till, a voucher strin having the whole or portions of its underside

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'coated, with 'a transfer material or medium for the purposes and substantially as
described.
3. In a voucher till, a pivotally supported cutter, adapted to sever the voucher
paper, said cutter being arranged to be automatically operated by the mere
operation of the drawer, crank or other equivalent employed for moving the papers,
by means of a catch such as B substantially as described and illustrated.
4. In a check till, the combination with a rack F and pin G of a pawl E having
a pin E, a gravity catch H having a hook or equivalent, sand gravity catch being
adapted, when tho dianer is being opened, to be in frictional contact with a
fiction bat or equivalent J all for the purposes and substantially as described and
illustrated..
5. In a check till a gravity catch Il having a hook, and a shoulder or
equivalent for the purposes and substantially as described and illustrated.
6. In a voucher till, a drum K having fingers & for the purposes and substantially
as described and illustrated.
7 lu a voucher till the combination of a perforated voucher strip a drum K
having fingers k and rollers M all for the purposes and substantially as described
and illustrated.
8. In a voucher till, the combination of a voucher stup having perforations and
a record strip, one of which strips is wholly or partially coated on its underside with
transfer material or medium, a dium Khaving fingers A, and rollers M all for
the purposes and substantially as described and illustiated
9 In a voucher till, the combination with a drum K having fingers k, said drum
and fingers being adapted to cally the voucher strip, of a rod S having a tooth or
stop said rod being arranged for the purposes and substantially as described and
illustrated.
10 In a voucher till, the combination of a drum K having fingers k and ratchet
teeth a lever P having a pawl piollers M a rod S having a tooth or stop s' a
spring catch L. 1od U lever W pivotally supported by the spindle w and cariying
a pawl, a drum to having a ratchet wheel X a pawl a' and a stop p' all for the
purposes and substantially as described and illustrated.
11. An autographic voucher till basing two strips of paper or equivalent of
which the upper stup 18 coated on its underside with transfer material or medium
for the purposes and substantially as set forth.
12. An autographic voucher till having a number of paper or other strips all of
which strips except the lowermost strip are wholly or partially coated on their
undersides for the purposes and substantially as set forth.
13 In a voucher till, a drum K having fingers k adapted to pierce the voucher
paper, substantially as and for the purposes described.
14 In a voucher till, a voucher strip V perforated or intermittently slit across
its width whilst in the machine or till by means of fingers or the like A on the
periphery of a drun or equivalent K for the purposes and substantially as
set forth.
15 An autographic voucher till, having two paper strips the upper one of which
stripe is capable of transferring wilting or other maiks made ou it on to the lower
strip without the interposition or other employment of a separate carbon strip,
inking riband or other separate means for transfering said writing or maiks,
substantially in the manner and for the purposes set forth.
Dated this 27th day of September 1895
CHARLES BAUER,
Applicant.