A New or Improved Apparatus for Controlling, Receipting, and Registering Paid Invoices and the like.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Nov., 1896-Accepted. 26th June, 1897
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Apparatus for Controlling, Receipting, and
Registering Paid Invoices and the like.
1 HERMANN KOVTE of Wahlershausen near Wilhelmshöhe in the Empire of
Germany, Manufacturer of Machinery, 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 a new or improved apparatus, designed to considerably
facilitate and simplify the keeping of cash accounts in as much as my invention
renders it unnecessary to at once enter-the amounts received in payment of invoice
bills and the like into the respective account books.
For this purpose the said documents are provided with an end piece or strip, also
bearing the name of the buyer as well as the amount of the invoice, which is
intended to be separated from the invoice proper by a cutting device arranged
within the apparatus while the invoice is being receipted simultaneously, by means
of a stamping contrivance which is automatically supplied with suitable ink or
other coloring medium, and the number of invoices receipted is being registered.
It may therefore be postponed to a more convenient time to enter the
particulars inscribed in the slips or strips thus cut off into the respective account
books.
In order that my invention may be more fully understood, I have appended
hereto one sheet of drawings marked with letters of reference indicating like or
corresponding parts in the various figures.
Fig. 1 is a side view of the apparatus.
Fig. 2 a front view, the face board and several parts being left out, and
Figs. 3 & 4 illustrate details.
Upon the bottom board of the casing A (Figs. 1 & 2) a U shaped lever d
pivotting at c is mounted, adapted to be operated by means of rod
moveably connected with rear arm d' of said lever.
which is
The centre parts of the other two arms d' of lever d are separately connected
by means of jointed rods b with a saw-like knife a the back of which is placed in
recesses provided in clamp bar e, the latter being supported by rods b, which are
acted upon by helical springs surrounding them.
The clamp bar e is provided at both side ends with pins g extending within a
channel arranged in the side boards of the apparatus, whereby said bar is securely
guided in its up and down niotion. The matrix h provided above the knife a has
at its sides india-rubber flanges i intended to prevent the sliding of the invoice,
pressed between knife and matrix, when the controlling or registering slip is to be
cut off.
The extremity of arm d' of lever d is connected by a jointed rod b¹ with the
receipting stamp k, above which a coloring box k, turnable on pin ³ provided in
its bottom portion, is arranged so as to cause the said stamp to be automatically
provided with ink, the turnable coloring box settling down on the letters of the
stamp when the latter is lowered, and is turned aside when the stamp is being
raised.
The registering contrivance consists of the drum m, provided on its inner
periphery with ratchet teeth and on its outer periphery with numbers, the lever n

page_text: and pawl o (Figs. 3 and 4). The two latter parts are mounted on one of the
rods c, forming the pivot of lever d, while drum m rests loosely on bar e.
In order that the drum m should not revolve, unless the rack and pawl con-
trivance is put into operation, a cap spring p presses it against a stop block q
which above the drum, carries the indicator hand's.
In using the apparatus, the lever d of which is, when at rest, in the position
shown by a dotted line in Fig. 1, the paid invoice is being inserted between
matrix and knife a in such manner as to place the slip which is to be cut off
above the box r provided within the apparatus, the rod is then pushed down
causing the knife a and stamp k to be pressed against the invoice Fig. 1, whereby
the controlling slip is cut off and the invoice impressed with the receipting stamp.
The descent of rod 7 simultaneously turns the plugs cone of which moves forward
the click o, resting against one of the ratchet teeth on the inner periphery of
drum m, by the distance of one tooth corresponding exactly with the distance
separating one ring of numbers on the outside periphery of drum m from the next
following one.
The number of controlling slips found in box r and easily removeable therefrom,.
consequently tallies exactly with the number on drum m indicated by hand s,
supposing the drum were placed at zero when the registering was to begin.
Having now particularly described the nature of my said invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is :-
1. Apparatus for controlling, receipting and registering paid invoices essentially
consisting of a U shaped lever one arm of which is connected with a push rod
the other arm supporting a saw-like knife placed opposite a matrix bordered with
rubber bands, and an automatically inked receipting stamp, the fulcrum of said
lever being formed by pins or plugs, one of which serves to operate a registering
contrivance, substantially as set forth and illustrated in the drawings.
2. In an apparatus forming the subject of Claim 1 a registering contrivance
consisting of a ratchet and pawl device (n, o) connected with one of the fulcrum
pins of the lever d, and a drum, having rack teeth on its inner and numbers on its
outside periphery, pressed against a stop block by a spring while a indicator
hand secured to said stop block serves to register the number of invoices
receipted, substantially as herein before described and illustrated in the accom-
panying drawings.
3. In an apparatus forming the subject of Claim 1, the application of a coloring
box or pad near the receipting stamp, said coloring pad folding into the said
receipting stamp owing to the latter being lowered and thus automatically effecting
its coloring or inking, while on the rising of the stamp the pad is again placed
upright substantially as set forth and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 7th day of November 1896.
HUGHES, ELI, & HUGHES,
Agents for Applicant.