Improved Check Money Till or Apparatus for Recording and Delivering Receipts of Money Transactions in Shops.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Jan., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 29th Oct., 1889-Accepted, 11th Jan., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Check Money Till or Apparatus for Recording and
Delivering Receipts of Money Transactions in Shops.
ROBERT WILLIAM HEARNDEN Ironmonger 18 Gabriel's Hill Maidstone Kent
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Improved Money Til:-My invention consists in the arrangement of parts,
whereby the single action of opening or drawing out the drawer two bands of
paper are drawn across or over a zinc or suitable table, one above and one below
a strip of carbon material.
The rollers by my arrangement are set in action by a tooth wheel equally divided
by pins in its periphery, these pins are caught in the act of drawing out the till by two
gravity clicks and cause the wheel to rotate a definite distance, this in turn acts
upon a pinion fixed on the roller-causing a single revolution of the same.
The top band is carried forward and out on the front part of the till the amount
having been previously written upon the same.
The under band (or record) is rolled underneath by a pinion & quadrant-
the latter being weighted and carrying a gravity click-the same being caught and
the quadrant raised by the simple act of opening the drawer.
An Electric recorder may be fitted to the above to record the number of times the
till has been opened and the length of time it remained so at each transaction. This
latter may be fixed in Office, Counting house or any distance from where the till may
be fixed.
Dated this 30th day of January 1889
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Check Money 'Till or Apparatus for Recording and
Delivering Receipts of Money Transactions in Shops.
ROBERT WILLIAM HEARNDEN 18 Gabriels Hill Maidstone Kent Ironmonger 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 consists of a box of any convenient size with drawer to slide arranged
to receive cash The box is divided into two parts-the lower part containing the
drawer fitted with click stud & cam to actuate the mechanism contained in the upper
division, the purpose of the said mechanism being to keep a record and deliver a
receipt identical to such record of any transaction in relation to such till as described
in iny provisional specification dated January 30 1889 No. 1627.
In order that my invention may be understood I append sheet of drawings:-
Fig. 1. Represents a plan of apparatus viewed from above with cover A. A. shewn
in drawing transparent, A' is a hinged plate which rises and falls as hereafter
described, A" opening in binge plate, where the transaction is recorded. A shews
the depressor of the said hinge plate. B shews the upper gripping roller by which
the bands are drawn forward, B" pinion fixed on B. with cogwheel O. shewing pins C¹
on its periphery; E represents à saw edge separator fitted with parrellel inotion
and E" depressor of same.
The zinc plate or table over which the bands travel is shewn at G with carbon
strip rollers H. H. on either side, the carbon band is shewn running between the
two paper bands in a line with zinc table; the two rolls of paper J and Jare
shewn in position, J represents the band on which the record is made and J¹ the band

page_text: to form tickets or receipts; The roller J receives the record and is fitted with
pinion ratchet and pawl K and maintained in action by a quadrant I toothed on one
side and weighted on the opposite side, the latter carrying a click L', the click is
caught on opening the drawer by stud on drawer Fig. 3 L, the weighted end is
raised & subsequently falls according to the amount of slack (record) delivered.
Fig. 2 represents side elevation of same M represents side of box and M' side of
drawer. The lever N pivoted on M is effected by opening the drawer by the cam N',
-immediately the drawer is opened the lever travels to bottom of cam N¹ which raises
out of action the depressors A and E simultaneously; the lever in following the
course of cam and groove returns on closing drawer along switch plates N" and N¹",
the object of this course is to maintain the depression of E" and Al after once
releiving same in each transaction.
Fig. O shews bracket with tension spring carrying bottom gripping roller B';
Fig. 3 represents the opposite side of till with drawer partially drawn out, shewing
the method by which the drawer actuates the rollers by wheel C., the quadrant Land
lever N; the gravity click P is shewn taking one of the pins C on wheel (which
moves it one sixth of a revolution; the stud L is shewn taking the click L'; the
dotted lever N is now shewn at bottom of cam with depressors A and E"
raised.
The modus operandi is as follows.-The rolls of paper are placed in position and
carried forward over table G between the gripping rollers B. Bl. The upper band
is carried forward & out; the bottom one under to receiver J. The drawer is
closed and cover locked the first transaction is written on paper through opening A";
the drawer is opened, the lever N falls and releases hinge plate and separator, the
rollers are set in motion by click on drawer catching Pin C on wheel C; the
quadrant I is raised by stud L₁ and immediately falls to wind up record Ju; on
returning the drawer the lever depresses the plate A¹ & separator E at the same
time leaving blank paper under opening A" for next transaction.
Having now particularly described the nature of my invention and in what
manner the same is performed, 1 wish it to be understood that I am aware that various
devices have hitherto been introduced in connection with checking tills and I make no
claim thereto as a feature of novelty.
But I declare that I do claim,
I An improved till that checks and delivers a copy of the record of a transaction,
substantially as herein set forth and shown in accompanying drawings.
2. In a cash checking till the adaptation thereto of devices C. C.
3. In a cash checking till the adaptation of devices E E for separating the tickets
as herein set forth.
4. In a cash checking till the devices L L' for winding up the record as herein
set forth.
5. In a cash checking till the devices N N¹ for the purposes herein set forth.
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ROBERT WILLIAM HEARN DEN,
18, Gabriels Hill, Maidstone.