Improvements in Money-tills.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 24th July, 1893
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Apr., 1894-Accepted, 21st July, 1894
Improvements in Money-tills.
I, FRIEDRICH EDUARD LEONHARD FRUCHT, of Lüneburg, in the Empire of
Germany, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to a money-till which is designed to entirely obviate the
necessity for the seller of taking up or handling the money paid by the buyer and
to reduce to a minimum the work necessary for receiving the money.
For this purpose the money is placed upon a receiving surface of the till, from
which, on opening a drawer containing the change, it is automatically removed
into the till. The opening movement of this drawer serves at the same time for
displacing a strip of paper, which serves for noting down the amounts received, a
certain distance. The opening of the drawer containing the change and therefore
the operation of the whole till can take place only after a device by which the
change drawer is locked has been released, which is effected by pressing down a
plate used as a support for the hand when noting down the amounts.
The money paid by the buyer is laid by the latter upon a receiving surface
formed by the upper side of a triangular drum. This drum is supported by means
of a continuous shaft in standards of the box and is prevented from turning by a
If desired the sides of the drum,
spring acting upon a triangle on the said shaft.
may be fluted.
One end of the shaft of the drum carries a toothed wheel engaging with another
wheel the shaft of which is provided with a pin wheel. In order to still further
secure the drum in its position of rest or to lock the same a bar arranged on the
drawer containing the change engages with suitable recesses in the drum.
While the buyer lays the money upon the drum the seller writes the amount on
a strip of paper and raises at the same time a bar by turning a lever downwards,
and releases the drawer so that the latter may now be opened. On pulling out the
drawer the strip of paper is first pushed or drawn forward a certain distance, so
that the number just written passes below a glass plate in the corner of the box
while by the back-movement of the aforesaid bar on the drawer for the change
the drun is released. Then a catch which is also fixed to the drawer and may if
desired be made in one piece with the said bar takes behind a hook of a cup
adapted to turn between the middle standards and tilts this cup so that the money
thereon drops into the box. After the cup has returned to its position of rest a
pawl arranged on a prolonged side of the drawer actuates the above-mentioned pin
wheel so that the drum will turn through an angle of 120 degrees and convey the
money placed on the same into the cup. Shortly before the second side of the
drum takes up its horizontal position the edge between the second and third sides
strikes against the cup in order to loosen by the consequent shaking any coins
which may not have slid down before.
After taking the amount of the change from the drawer in which the coins are
arranged according to their value in rows between bars the form of which
corresponds to that of the respective coins, the drawer is closed again. Then the
pawl slides from below the pin wheel and the catch from below the hook, the bar
on the drawer for the change fixes the drum and the bar sliding along on the
lateral wall of the drawer locks the drawer again by falling into a hole.
The strip of paper for noting down the amounts passes from a roller over a
table which serves as a support during the writing, then round a guide roller and
an actuating roller which is appropriately roughened to the winding-up roller, the
last-mentioned two rollers being connected with each other by toothed wheels.
The forward movement of the strip of paper is effected by a spring hook which,

page_text: on the drawer being opened, takes behind the ratchet wheel of the actuating roller
so as to turn this wheel a certain number of teeth, thereby turning also the roller
itself a certain distance so that after the amount has been noted down the strip of
paper which may be kept stretched by a spring arranged in any suitable manner,
will be moved forward at a uniform rate.
The roller on which the strip of paper is wound, is loose upon its shaft and is
carried away by the latter solely by the friction produced by a spring arranged on
a spur wheel upon the front of the said roller. This arrangement has for its
object to enable the latter roller to be automatically disengaged and to be stopped
as soon as the strip of paper has been moved forward a certain distance, as
otherwise the forward movement would gradually increase with the greater
thickness of the roll of paper wound upon the said roller.
Dated this 24th day of July 1893.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Money-tills.
I, FRIEDRICH EDUARD LEONHARD FRUCHT, of Lüneburg, in the Empire of
Germany, Merchant, 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 :-
My invention relates to a money-till which is designed to entirely obviate the
necessity for the seller of taking up or handling the money paid by the buyer and
thus to reduce to a minimum the work necessary for receiving the money.
For this purpose the money is placed upon a receiving surface of the till, from
which, on opening a drawer containing the change, it is automatically removed into
the till. The opening movement of the drawer serves at the same time for
displacing a strip of paper, which serves for noting down the amounts received, a
certain distance. The opening of the drawer containing the change and therefore
the operation of the whole till can take place only after a device by which the
change drawer is locked has been released, which is effected by pressing down a
plate used as a support for the hand when noting down the amounts.
I attain these objects by the mechanism and arrangement of parts illustrated in
the accompanying drawing, in which:
Figure 1 is a top-view of the money-till (the change drawer being somewhat
drawn out);
Figure 2 is a top-view of the money-till of which the cover plate is assumed to
be removed;
Figures 3, 4 and
are vertical sections on the lines a-x, y-y and z-z,
respectively of Figure 2, and
Figure 6 is a vertical section on the line of Figure 1.
The money paid by the buyer is laid by the latter upon a receiving surface
which is formed by the upper side of a prism such as a triangular drum a.
This
drum is supported by means of a continuous shaft a' in standards T of the box A
and is prevented from turning by a spring acting upon a triangle b on the shaft a',
い
Figures 2, 3 and 4. If desired the sides of the drum a may be fluted, as
represented by Figures 1 and 4.
One end of the shaft a' carries a toothed wheel a² engaging with another
wheel the shaft c¹ of which is provided with a pin-wheel c. In order to still
further secure the drum a in its position of rest or to lock the same a bard,
Figures 2, 5 and 6, arranged on the drawer S containing the change engages with
suitable recesses of the drum a.
While the buyer lays the money upon the drum a the seller writes the amount

page_text: on a strip of paper P and raises at the same time the bar e' by turning a lever e
downwards, from the position shown in Figure 5 to that shown in Figure 6, and
releases the drawer S so that the latter may now be opened. On pulling out the
drawer (Figure 6) the strip of paper is first pushed or drawn forward a certain
distance, as hereinafter described, so that the number representing the amount to
be paid by the buyer just written passes below a glass plate G in the cover A¹ of
the box, while by the back-movement of the bar d the drum a is released. Then a
catch, Figures 2 and 5, which is also fixed to the drawer S and may if desired be
made in one piece with the bar d engages a hook f' of the cup g adapted to turn
between the middle standard T and tilts this cup so that the money thereon drops
into the box A. After the cup g has returned from the position, Figure 6, to its
position of rest, Figure 5, a pawl h arranged on a prolonged side S' of the drawer S
actuates the above-mentioned pin-wheel, so that the drum a will turn through an
angle of 120° and convey the money placed thereon into the cup g. Shortly before
the face 2, Figure 3, of the drum takes up its horizontal position the edge between
the faces 1 and 3, strikes against the cup in order to loosen by the consequent
shaking any coins which may not have slid down before.
After taking the amount of the change to be handed over to the buyer from the
drawer S in which the coins are arranged according to their value in rows between
bars s, Figures 3 and 5, the size of which corresponds to that of the respective
coins, the drawer S is closed again. Then the pawl h slides below the pin-wheel c
and the catch from below the hook f¹, the bar d locks the drum a and the bar e¹
sliding along on the lateral wall S' of the drawer S locks the drawer again by
falling into the recess e².
The strip of paper P for noting down the amounts passes from the roller i over
a table k, Figures 1, 5, and 6, which serves as a support during the writing, then
round a guide roller / and an actuating roller m, which is preferably roughened to
the winding-up roller n, the last mentioned two rollers being connected with cach
other by toothed wheels m' and n'. The forward movement of the strip of paper P
is effected in such a manner, that on the drawer S being opened a spring hook e,
Figures 5 and 6, fastened to the prolonged wall S' of the drawer engages with the
ratchet wheel m² of the actuating roller m so as to turn this wheel a certain
number of teeth, thereby turning also the roller itself a certain distance, so that
after the amount has been noted down the strip of paper, which may be kept
stretched by a spring arranged in any suitable manner, will be moved forward at a
uniform rate.
The roller n on which the strip of paper P is wound, is loose upon its shaft and
is turned by the friction produced by a spring q arranged on the spur wheel n'
upon the front of the roller n. It should be observed that the spur wheel n¹
secured to the shaft of the roller n is turned by the spur-wheel m² always about a
certain distance and the shaft of the roller n also turns through the same distance.
Otherwise the roller n itself, which is moved indirectly from the wheel n¹ by the
spring g, only turns in proportion as a strip of paper is delivered by the first
roller m.
This delivery being always the same, but the paper-roll increasing in
size, the turning of the roll n is retarded, while the speed of its shaft remains
unaltered. In this way the forward movement of the paper P remains the same
with the greater thickness of the roll of paper wound upon the roller n.
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 is :-
1. A money till in which on opening a drawer (S) containing the change, a
strip of paper (P) serving for noting down the amounts cashed is displaced a
certain distance, a prismatic drum (a) for receiving on its upper surface the money
paid is disengaged, a cup (9) adapted to receive the money from the said drum is
caused to tilt, and, after the said cup has returned to its position of rest, the said
drum is turned so as to convey the money placed thereon into the cup (9) and to

page_text: present its following side in line with the cover of the till for receiving the money
next paid in, whereupon on closing the change drawer (S) this, as well as the said
drum, is locked again, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
2. In a money till the combination of a drawer (S) containing the change, with
a strip of paper adapted to be moved forward by means of a hook o, a ratchet
wheel upon an actuating roller m, and a winding up roller n, a prismatic drum a
locked by a bar on the said drawer and being caused to turn through a certain
angle by means of a pin-wheel c and a pawlh connected to the said drawer, a
tilting cup actuated by a catch on the drawer and by the said drum a, and
a lever e to which is attached a bar e' for locking the drawer in its closed position,
substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
Dated this 23rd day of April 1894
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.