Improvements in or relating to Cash Registers or Check Tills.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 31st Dec., 1898-Accepted, 27th May, 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Cash Registers or Check Tills.
I, WILLIAM FREDERICK BOCKHOFF, a citizen of the United States of America,
residing at 15, Woodruff Place, City of Indianapolis, County of Marion, State of
Indiana, Salesagent, do hereby declare the nature of my invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertamed
in and by the following statement..
This invention relates to the use of a plurality of drawers in a cash register or
similar machine that is provided with a series of individual keys or other means
for operating the registering, indicating, printing or other parts of the machine,
the releasing or unlocking means attached to said drawers being so arranged and
connected with the individual keys or equivalent means, that when a certain one
of said keys is operated a certain one of said drawers will be released or opened
The purpose of this invention is to enable persons using a machine containing
it to have the use of a separate cash drawer for each clerk or for the purpose of
separating the cash received by different persons or for different purposes This
furnishes an additional check upon mistakes over the checks provided in machines
heretofore, such as the registering, indicating and printing mechanisms, as it
points out who made the mustake
To properly perform its function the invention should be so connected up with
the parts of the machine that the individual cash drawer will not be released and
unlocked until after the transaction has been registered, indicated or printed or
all of these things have occuned This is to prevent any partial recording of
the transaction as it is preferable that the machine should perform all its functions
elative to the transaction before the cash drawer is opened
While this invention is in no wise limited to any special make or kind of cash
register or indicating machine and while I desire by this patent to cover the use
of said invention in all sorts of machines of the character mentioned, I show it in
connection with a practical type of cash register that has been in general use
among merchants.
The full nature of my invention will more fully appear from the accompanying
drawings and the description and claims following
In the drawings Fig 1 is a front elevation of the left hand end of the mechanism
of a machine such as those above referred to, with the caseing removed Fig. 2
is a rear elevation of the same portion of the machine in similar condition
Fig 3 is a vertical section approximately on the line A-A of Fig 1, showing
also the cash drawers beneath, the machine being set at zero Fig. 4 is the same
as Fig 3 excepting the key has been operated and the parts are shown in their
מ
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page_text: operated position Fig 5 is a rear elevation of the series of cash drawers beneath
the machine proper Fig 6 is a plan view of the 1od and fingers that release the
drawers Fig 7 is the side elevation of the latch at the rear end of the drawers,
which is released Fig S is a side elevation of the parts that elevate the drawer
ieleasing iod Fig 9 is an end elevation of the right hand end of the machine.
Fig 10 is a detail of the private lock Fig 11 18 a detailed view of said locking
mechanism operated. Fig 12 18 a detail of one of the sectors and the latch
between it and the oscillatory shaft Fig 13 is a detail of one of the detent-plates
which co-operates with the keys Figs 14 and 15 are details of one of the plates
which hold the latch of an actuator out of operation when no key, of the bank
corresponding to that actuator has been operated
Inasmuch as the novelty of my invention resides entirely in the means for
releasing a certain diawer when the machine is operated or a certain key operated,
and a combination therewith of such means so aanged as to cause the drawer
to be released only after the registering, indicating and printing mechanisms
have been operated And since a well known form of cash registering machine
18 shown herein in combination with my invention, I shall not describe the details
of construction of said registering, indicating and printing mechanisms In fact
my invention may be combined with any other kind of registering, indicating
and printing mechanisms in cash registers besides that herein shown
The indicating or registering mechanism is enclosed in a suitable case and the
machine may be provided with one or more banks of keys as desired but such
machines usually contain several banks of keys having nine in each bank The
left hand bank, or at least one bank of keys, is marked with letters or any other
characters that may be utilized to represent and distinguish different clerks or
different kinds of transactions, as may be needed in the conduct of any particular
business.
By "character key" in the specification and claims hereof is meant any key,
button, lever, dial or other means for piedetermining, controlling or limiting the
action of the registering, indicating, printing or other mechanism in cash
registers
The main driving shaft of the machine is revoluble shaft 1 that 18 operated by
the gear 76 mounted thereon and the gear 69 mounted on the shaft 74 that is
actuated by a ciank 57 at the night hand end, see Fig 9 By suutable con-
necting gear mechanism said shaft 1 actuates the registering, indicating and
printing mechanisms
The limit of movement of said registering. indicating and printing mechanisms
18 predetermined by the kevs and the mechanism connecting the operation of
the keys with that of said mechanisms, as shown in Figs 3 and 4 That shown
is an old mechanism in general use in cash registers at the present time and will
not be described in detail Means also in common use are provided, as shown in
Figs. 9 and 10, for preventing the forward movement of the handle 57 that actuates
the main shaft 1 except when a key of the machine has been operated completely.
A private lock 55 18 shown in said figures for operating said locking means with-
out the operation of a character key When it is operated the handle and main
shaft 1 can be rotated but its only effect will be to return the indicating wheels
and type carrier wheels to zero and to release some drawer, as will be hereafter
explained. A printing attachment of a form in general use 18 also shown in
Figs. 1 and 2
Turning now to my invention I provide beneath the machine a series of cash
drawers 15 enclosed within a suitable casing 16 provided with proper lateral
guides 17 and having back pieces 18 extending across at the rear of the casing.
Any suitable drawer mechanism will answer the purpose here. What I have
shown is locked or latched to the stationary bars 18 by the latch 20 pivotally
mounted on the bracket 21 secured to the rear end of the diawer The latch 20
is inclined at its outer end and provided with a tooth or detent 22 so that the

page_text: latch will enter the opening in the catch plate 23 that is secured to the rear cross
bar 18. This arrangement is shown in Figs. 3 and 4. At the extreme end of the
latch a tongue 24 is provided for engagement by the releasing device that
elevates the end of the latch so that its tooth or detent will be disengaged from
the catch plate 23. The latch 20 is held down by the spring 25 to be seen in
Fig. 7. When a drawer is released it is propelled by the flat semi-eliptical
spring 46 that is secured to the inner face of the rear cross bar 18 and has its free
ends in such position as to engage loosely the rear end of the drawers Any other
well known means for locking and unlocking and propelling outward the said
drawers may be adopted.
I have shown here nine drawers, that is, one for each character key in the left
hand bank. The key and drawers are similarly lettered or marked, so that one
drawer will be associated with one key However, in any desired case two keys
or more may open one drawer while other keys will open other drawers.
The main feature of my invention hes in the ability of a particular clerk or
when registering a particular transaction to open a particular drawer without
unlocking the rest, and that in order to open such particular drawer it is necessary
to operate a particular key and that when said particular key is operated and the
registering mechanism is operated the indicator will show what particular key
was operated and the printing or adding device will also record the same. By
this means a certain clerk will open only a certain drawer as the indicator or re-
cording mechaniam shows which drawer has been opened
At
To this end various simple means for connecting the keys with the locking
mechanism for the drawers in such manner that a certain drawer can be opened
only upon the operation of a certain key may be adopted. The means which I
have used and here show is as follows: At the rear of the machine I provide
what I call a diawei releasing rod 26 This is a vertically extended 10d that
passes from the machine above through the top supporting it down behind the
series of drawers, as is to be seen in Figs 3 and 5. It is so mounted as to be
vertically reciprocable somewhat and also rotatable, as will be seen later
intervals along said rod releasing fingers 27 are secured One of these fingers
18 provided for each drawer and 18 long enough when turned into position, that is,
when extended directly toward the drawer, to move under the rear end of the latch 20
and the tongue 24 secured therein After such finger has been moved into the
position just mentioned, further operation of the machine, by the means hereafter
mentioned, elevates the rod 26 and hence the finger 27, thus causing said finger
to elevate the rear end of the latch 20 until its tooth disengages the catch plate 23,
whereupon the spring 46 propels the drawer outward.
The series of fingers 27 are arranged sufficiently far out of line with each other,
as seen in Figs 5 and 6, that only one of said fingers at any one time would be
in a position to unlock a drawer, as the latches on the drawers are placed in a row
one above the other, in the machine here shown directly in front of the rod 26, as
seen in Fig 5. Therefore, each cash diawer has a finger 27 corresponding with
it and the connection with the character keys with this rod 26 18 such as to rotate
Baid rod sufficiently fai when a certain key is pushed that the finger 27 18 in
position to unlock the drawer that corresponds to the key pushed When the
rod 26 18 thereafter elevated, therefore, it is clear that in the machine shown no
drawer will be opened by the operation of a certain character hey excepting the
one drawer corresponding with it
I show here the following means for rotating the rod 26 and thus setting the
releasing device in such position as to unlock only the drawer desired Said
rod 26 extends through a bracket or bearing piece 28 in the lower part of the
machine to be seen in Figs 3 and 4 It is supported thereon by pin 29 that
extends through a slotted collar 30. Above said collar there is a bevel pinion 31
mounted in such manner as to permit the rod 26 to slide through it but not to
rotate independent of the bevel gear The rod 26 18 10tated by means of the
bevel gear. 31 being actuated by the segmental gear 32 that is mounted on the

page_text: shaft 33, most plainly shown in Fig. 2. Said shaft 16 rotatably mounted in the
frame pieces 34 and 35 of the machine The segmental gear is actuated by the
arm 36 that 18 rigidly secured to the shaft 33 at one end and at the other end 18
pivotally connected with the link 37 that extends through the machine and 18
pivotally secured to the sector When a certain key is operated the sector 6
moves a certain distance, the distance depending upon the key operated The
lowest key in the series moves said sector but a short distance while the succeeding
keys as you pass upward rotates the sector proportionately further By means
of the link 37, arm 36, shaft 33, and segmental gear 32, said segmental gear
would be actuated or moved in the same proportion as the sector 6, the two moving
together. The segmental gear 32 18 placed as shown in Fig 3 when the machine
18 at zero. When the second key from the bottom is actuated, as seen in Fig. 4,
the sector 6 and the segmental gear will move into position as shown in said
figure. And when the topmost character key is actuated said sector 6 and
segmental gear 32 will reach their limit of movement
Therefore, it is obvious that by properly setting the connection between the
releasing rod 26 and the segmental gear 32 said 10d 26 will be rotated or turned a
distance proportionate with the movement of the segmental gear 32 and the
sector 6, whereby upon the operation of any character key the releasing
mechanism that I have described will be set so as to unlock the corresponding
diawer
After the releasing device has been set as specified, the drawer is unlocked, as
has been stated, by the vertical movement of the rod 26. This is accomplished
in the machine I have shown as follows Upon the main driving shaft 1 I secure
a cam 38, shown in the dotted lines in Fig 3, and more fully in Fig 8 A
lifting bar 39 has a hook 40 on its upper end and rides loosely upon the driving
shaft 1 and adjacent to said cam It has a laterally extending pin 41 that s
engaged by the said cam The lower end of the lifting bar 39 is loosely pivoted
to the upper end of the releasing bar 26 The cam arrangement here 18 80
mounted on said shaft 1 that it will lift the bar 39 near the end of the operation
of the machine, that is, after the registering, indicating and printing or recording
mechanisms have been operated Of course it can be set to lift said bai at any
other time. However, when said bar 39 is lifted it is obvious that the 101 26 18
also elevated, the slot in the collar 30 permitting the pin 29 to move upward from
the position shown in Fig 3 to the position shown in Fig 4 This upward move-
ment of the releasing bar 26 releases the diawer under whose latch the coure-
sponding finger 27 is set at the time by means of the operation of the corresponding
character key
"
The releasing bar has on it in addition to the fingers 27 corresponding with the
character keys and set out of line with each other, a series of zero or "at home
fingers 45. There is one of these for each diawer and they are in line with each
other, one above the other, being formed as shown in Fig. 6, integral with the
other finger corresponding with the character key but diverging so that said
zero keys will extend so that they will be one beneath the other.
"
In the class of machines described, after every operation of the machine it
turns to zero or at home"
At such times the zero or at home " fingers 45 on
the releasing rod are all beneath the latches of the drawers, as seen in Fig. 3,
which shows the machine
at home"
In this class of machines also the machine
is inoperative and remains so unless a key is operated
For the purpose of preventing forward movement of the operating handle 57,
except at such times as one or more keys of the machine have been pressed in-
ward and caught by their respective detents, I provide a lock which normally
holds the handle from forward movement, but automatically releases it upon the
depression of any key, and for the purpose of preventing depression of any of the
keys after the handle has been started in its forward movement to indicate and
register the values of a key or keys previously depressed I provide a lock which
automatically locks all of the unoperated keys as soon as the operating handle is

page_text: started in its forward movement. I also provide a lock for preventing movement
of the operating handle when any key has been pressed inward a short distance,
but not far enough to have its notch caught by its operating detent These locks
may be now described. Extending entirely across the machine at some distance
above the central shaft 5 18 a rock shaft 60, Fig. 9 Fast upon the right hand end
of this shaft, is a rearwardly-extending arm 59 whose upwardly-bent rear end
bears against the periphery of a cam-disk B3 fast upon the gear 69 or shaft 74,
to which the operating-handle 57 is secured. The disk B3 has a portion of its
periphery cut away, as shown, at its lower forward sido in Fig 9. When the
arm 69 and disk B3 are in the position shown in Fig 9, it will be seen that the
engagement of the rear end of the aim 59 with the shoulder at the rear aide of the
cut-away portion of the disk B3 will prevent any forward movement of the
handle 57 Also fast upon the rock shaft 60 beside the aim 59, is a forwardly
extending arm C¹, Fig. 9 In the front end of the am C¹ is a recess or mouth
forming two jaws, an upper and lower one Extending between these jaws is a
lug C2, projecting laterally from the side of the detent-plate 13, which co-operates
with the night hand bank of keys The upper edge of the lug C2 normally bears
against or is in close proximity to the beveled underside of the upper jaw of the
arm C1, as shown, so that when the detent-plate 13 18 moved upward and rear-
ward by the depression of any key in the set, the lug C2 will throw up the front
end of the aim C, and thereby rock the shaft 60 and throw down the rear end of
the arm 59 The movement thus given to the aim and arm 59 18 sufficient to
disengage the rear end of the latter from the straight on abrupt portion of the
shoulder at the rear side of the recess in the disk B3, so that the handle 57 can
then be turned forward, the beveled or rounded portion of the shoulders still
further depressing the end of the aim 59 as it passes by it There are four of the
arme C¹ secured upon the rock shaft 60, one beside each detent-plate 13, as seen
in Fig 1, and each of the latter has a lug C2 projecting into the recess in the
front end of its corresponding aim C1
It results from this that whenever any one of the detent plates 13 18 moved
upward and rearward by the depression of a key in the set with which it co-
operates its lug C2, engaging its aim C', will rock the shaft 60 and cause the
arm 59 to release the disk B3 and handle 57 Each of the lugs C2 has a hole
or recess in its inner side, and the lower jaw of each of the arms C is provided
wuh upwardly projecting pin C As before stated, the forward movement of
the handle 57 and disk B3, after the arm 59 has been disengaged from the
abrupt portion of the shoulder of the disk, still further depresses the arm 59,
and consequently further elevates the front end of the arm C This will cause
the pins C3 to enter the holes in the lugs C2 of the plates 13 which have not
been moved by the depression of the key and will cause the pins C3 to move up
in front of the lugs of those plates which have been moved by the depression of
the kev, in each case positively locking the plate 13 from any movement, and
thereby preventing the depression of any more keys in any of the banks Thus,
if the key in the dollar bank 18 depressed and none in the cent bank, shown in
Fig. 9, the pin C in the latter figure will, when the handle 57 18 started for- .
ward, enter the hole in the lug C2, while the pin C3 on the aim co-operating
with the detent-plate of the dollar set of keys will move in front of the lug C2
on that plate, as will be readily understood'
It will be noticed that the lower side of the recess in the front end of the
arm C¹ is provided with a shoulder near its rear side, rendering the recess
nariower at its rear end, the purpose of which is as follows When any key is
pushed inward, it will at first throw the detent-plate upward and rearward fui
enough to cause the lug C2 to enter this rear narrow portion of the recess
This will positively lock the arm C₁ from any movement up or down so that even
though the rear end of the arm 57 has been disengaged from the abrupt portion
of the shoulder on the disk B3, yet the handle is still locked from movement,
because the beveled portion of the shoulder can not ride over and depress the

page_text: end of the arm 59 in the manner before explained When, however, the operated
key has been pushed in far enough to engage its notch with its co-operating
detent, the detent-plate is pulled slightly backward by its springs and the lug 02
withdrawn from the narrower part of the recess, whereupon the front end of the
arm ¹ can be moved farther upward and the operating-handle turned forward,
as before explained. A spring C4, connected to the aim C, tends to pull its
front end downward and throw up the rear end of the arm 59 As the handle 57
completes its revolution the rear end of the arm 59 enters the cut-out space in
the disc B3, and just as the handle reaches its initial position the shoulder
at the rear side of said space is brought against the end of the arm, and the
handle 18 locked as before. A pawl C5, engaging the teeth of the gear 69
prevents movement of it and the handle 57 in a backward duection
The machine can not be operated until the sliding plate 13 18 elevated so as
to cause its lower end 47 to disengage the notch 48 in the locking plate 19
On the further side of this locking plate 49, as shown in Figs 3 and 4, a lug 50
is shown in dotted lines, that, while the locking plate is in the position shown
in Fig. 3, the machine being at home, holds the latch 8 and consequently the
sector 6 so that they can not be operated. The locking plate 49 18 mounted at
its outer end by the pin 51 that extends through a slot in said plate and at
the other end on the shaft 5 that extends likewise through a slot in said plate
When the lower end 47 of the plate 13 disengages said locking plate 49, the
spring 52 at the rear end of said plate withdraws it and, since the lug 50 is
on said locking plate, it 18 consequently crowded out of engagement with the
latch 8, thus permitting said latch and consequently the sector, to be operated
The disk 9 in the first part of the operation is turned downward so that the
pin 53 in it, shown in dotted lines, is moved downward from behind the lug 50
so that said lock and consequently the locking plate 49 may be withdrawn rear-
ward by the spring 52 In the latter part of the operation of the machine the
oscillating
turns in a positive direction and said disk 9
moves back into the position shown in Fig. 3 In this movement the
pin 53 as it moves upward engages the inclined lug 50 and forces the locking
plate 49 forward into the position it occupies in Fig 3, where it can be engaged
in its notch 48 by the lower end 47 of the plate 13 when said plate has been
released. Then the plate 13 will continue to hold the plate 49 in a locking
position until another key is operated
shaft
It is observed that in this machine the means which unlocks or releases the
drawer upon the operation of the corresponding character key also prevents
the opening of the other drawers. This result follows from the use of a common
means for releasing all the drawers, yet it is so actuated by the separate con-
nections with the character keys that one character key will open a certain
drawer and another key another drawer The common means shown in this
case is the shaft 33, the segmental gear 32 thereon, the 10d 26 and the gear 31
thereon for rotating said rod 26, the main shaft 1, the cam 38 thereon, lifting
bar 39 and hook 40. It is clear that every operation whereby any drawer is
released must employ this one common means which is named, regardless of
the character key that is actuated The result is that, in the machine shown,
only one drawer can he opened in any one operation of the machine and no other
drawer can be opened at the same time If one should operate two or more of
the character keys substantially at the same time, one only, the first one to
engage a notch, would operate through the mechanism connecting it with the
drawers to open its corresponding drawer The operation of the other keys would
have no effect as there is only one common means through which the drawers
can be reached and a separate operation of that common means is required to
open each drawer, unless it 18 when the proprietor's key is used as is hereinafter
explained, but in this latter case the machine is not in its normal operative
position So, too, it 18 seen that after the registering, indicating or printing
mechanisms have been operated and the drawer opened, no other drawer can be

page_text: opened until another operation of the registering, indicating and printing
mechanism. Also it is seen that the indicating wheel containing the same letter
or names as the character keys indicate to the public what drawer is opened as
well as which character key has been operated.
The use of a common means for releasing the drawers and actuating the
mechanism for printing the character employed by a certain clerk or to repre-
sent a certain department after the key for such character has been operated,
prevents one from opening any drawer or diawers without recording the par-
ticular drawer opened Fuitheimore with applicant's employment of a common
means for actuating or diving the registering mechanism and the drawer
releasing mechanism after a drawer 19 opened no other drawer can be opened
without the registration, regardless of the means for opening the partícula
drawer This 18 true also of the indicating and printing mechanisms
Instead of each clerk or department having one drawer for his or its use it
18 obvious that each could have two or more diawers, that is, the single drawer
duplicated, so that when the character key 18 operated all of the drawers corre-
sponding with such character key will be opened while the others will remain
closed
To operate said locking means without the operation of a character hey, a
puvate key lock 55 is provided in the right hand end of the machine to icceive
a private key 56 Said private or proprietor's or zero key, when operated,
actuates the locking mechanisms above referred to so that the handle and main
shaft can be rotated, thereby returning the indicating wheels and type carriel-
wheels to zero, where they will remain as no character key is operated, so
that "o" will be printed In such operation the drawer releasing rod 26 will
be elevated as in other operations of the machine, and since the zero fingers 45
are all at the time beneath the latches on the drawers, all of the drawers will be
unlocked and thrown open, unless they are otherwise secured In such vero
operation of the machine the sector and therefore the means that usually
oscillate the rod 26 do not operate, and since said rod is left in its zero position,
the veio fingers remain beneath the drawer latches, as above explained As 19
seen in Fig. 10 the private key when operated will engage the notch 58 and
throw the lever 59 This lever 18 secured on the shaft 60 that extends through
the machine to the locking mechanism above described in connection with the
bank of character keys Such locking, however, is needed only for the parts
actuated by the character keys Therefore the series of drawers cannot be
opened without the previous operation of the printing and indicating mechanisms
bringing them to zero, whereby they will print and indicate "o,' as evidence
that the drawers have been opened by the proprietor's key, so as to disclose the
fact if opened by the wrong person
In the operation of the machine it will be noticed that any number of diawers
may be open at the same time, but that only one diawer can be opened upon
each operation of the machine
By the term "operation of the machine" used in the claims, it is intended
to mean that there will be a completion of the function of the particular
machine for the particular transaction, between the opening of one drawer and
the opening of any other drawer
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is..
1 A cash register including a plurality of drawers with means for holding
them closed, and means requiring an operation of the machine for releasing any
drawer desired
2 A cash register including a plurality of drawers, means for predetermining
which drawer shall be opened, and means dependent upon the fuither operation
of the machine for opening said drawer.

page_text: 3 A cash register including a plurality of diawers, a drawer releasing
mechanism common to all drawers, and means for predetermining which drawer
shall be opened when the drawer releasing mechanism is operated
4 A cash register including a plurality of drawers, means for holding them
closed, and means requiring an operation of the machine for releasing any
desired drawer and so arranged that no other drawer may be released except upon
another operation of the machine
5 A cash register including a plurality of drawers, means for holding them
closed, and means requiring an operation of the machine for each diawer
released, the arrangement being such that more than one diawer may be open
at one time
6 A cash register including a plurality of drawers, an indicating mechanism,
means for predetermining which drawer shall be opened, means for operating the
indicating mechanism, and means dependent upon the further operation of the
machine for opening said drawer.
7 A cash register including a plurality of drawers, a registering mechanism,
means for predetermining which drawer shall be opened, means for operating
the registering mechanism, and means dependent upon the further operation
of the machine for opening said drawer
8 A cash register including a plurality of drawers, a printing 01 recording
mechanism, means for predetermining which drawer shall be opened, means for
operating the printing or recording mechanism, and means dependent upon a
further operation of the machine for opening said drawer
9 A cash register including a plurality of drawers, an indicating, registering,
and printing or recording mechanism, means for predetermining which drawer
shall be opened, means for operating the indicating, registering, and punting
or recording mechanism, and means dependent upon the further operation of
the machine for opening said drawer
10 A cash register including a plurality of drawers, a plurality of character
keys for predetermining which drawer shall be opened, and means dependent
upon the further operation of the machine for opening said drawei
11 A cash register including an indicating mechanism, a plurality of diawers,
a plurality of character keys for predetermining which drawer shall be opened,
means for operating the indicating mechanism, and means dependent upon the
further operation of the machine for opening said drawer
12. A cash register including a registering mechanism, a plurality of drawers,
a plurality of character keys for predetermining which drawer shall be opened,
means for operating the registering mechanism, and means dependent upon the
further operation of the machine for opening said drawers
13. A cash register including a printing or recording mechanism, a plurality
of diawers, a plurality of character keys for predetermining which drawer shall
be opened, means for operating said printing or recording mechanism, and
means dependent upon the further operation of the machine for opening said
drawer
14 A cash register including an indicating, registering, and printing or
recording mechanism, a plurality of character keys for predetermining which
drawer shall be opened, and means dependent upon the further operation of the
machine for operating said indicating, registering and printing or recording
mechanism and for opening said drawer
15. A cash register including a plurality of drawers with means for holding
them closed, and a common means governed by the operation of the machine
for releasing any drawer desired
16. A cash register including a plurality of drawers, a plurality of corre-
sponding character keys, and means common to said drawers for unlocking any
drawer desired upon the operation of the corresponding character key
17 A cash register including a plurality of drawers, a plurality of correspond-
1

page_text: ing character keys, means for printing or recording the name of each character
key and its corresponding drawer, and a common means for actuating such
printing or recording mechanism and releasing the drawer
18 A cash register including a registering mechanism, a plurality of diaweis
with suitable locking means, means for releasing said diawer, a common means
for actuating the registering mechanism and such diawei releasing means, and
means for so setting such drawer releasing means that when it is operated it
will release any drawer desired.
19. A cash register mcluding an indicating mechanism, a plurality of diawers
with suitable locking means, means for releasing said diaweis, a common means
for actuating the indicating mechanism and such diawer releasing means, and
means for so setting such drawer releasing means that when it is operated it
will release any drawer desired.
20. A cash register including a punting or recording mechanism, a plurality
of diawers with a suitable locking means, means for releasing said diawer, a
common means for actuating the pinting or recording mechanism and such
drawer releasing means, and means for so setting such diawer releasing means
that when it is opened it will release any diawe desired
21 A cash register including a registering, indicating and printing or record-
ing mechanism, a plurality of drawers with suitable looking means, means for
releasing said drawer, a common means for actuating the registering, indicating
and punting or recording mechanism and such diawer releasing means, and
means for so setting such drawer releasing means that when it is operated it will
release any drawer desued
22. A cash register including a printing or recording mechanism, a plurality
of diaweis, a plurality of coresponding character keys, and means depending
upon the operation of the corresponding key for unlocking any drawer deaned,
after the operation of the printing or recording mechanism and preventing the
opening of the other diawers until after another operation of the printing or
recording mechanism
23 A cash register including a registering, indicating and printing or record-
ing mechanism, a plurality of drawers, a plurality of corresponding character
keys, and means depending upon the operation of the corresponding key for
unlocking any drawer desued, after the operation of the registering, indicating
and printing or recording mechanism and preventing the opening of the other
daweis until after another operation of the registering, indicating and printing or
recording mechanism
24 A cash register including a plurality of diaweis, a plurality of coire-
sponding character keys, a device for releasing said diaweis, means for setting
it to unlock a particular drawer upon the operation of a corresponding key, and
means for actuating said releasing device after said key
opeiated
25. A cash register including a plurality of drawers, a plurality of con-
sponding character keys, a device for releasing said diaweis, means for setting
it to unlock a particular drawer when the corresponding key is operated, and
means for so connecting the releasing device with the diving shaft of the
machine that said releasing device will be actuated near the end of the operation
of the machine.
26 A cash register including a pluuality of individual drawers, suitable catches
or locks for the drawers, a releasing device for unlocking a single drawer in one
operation, a plurality of character keys, and means for setting the releasing
device to unlock a particular diawer, when the corresponding key is operated
27 A cash register including a plurality of drawers, locking means for each
drawer, a rotatable releasing iod adjacent to said locking means, a
releasing fingers secured to such 1od out of line with each other, means for
rotating such rod to a certain extent when the key is operated and means for
vertically moving said iod after it 18 80 10tated
series of

page_text: 28 A cash register including a plurality of drawers one below the other, a
latch secured to their rear end that is released by vertical movement. A vertically
movable rotatable releasing rod mounted behind the diaweis in proximity to
the drawer latches, a series of releasing fingers secured on such rod out of line
with each other, means for turning such iod to a certain extent when a key 18
operated to set it for unlocking a certain drawer, and means for elevating such
1od at each operation of the machine.
29 A cash register including a plurality of drawers, a stationary fiame piece
behind each drawer, a catch secured thereto, a latch secured to the drawer to
engage the catch and lock the drawer, a spring acting between the diawer and
the fame piece to propel the drawer open when released, a rotatable releasing
1od extending behind the drawers, fingers secured to said rod out of line with
each other to engage and release the latches, means for tuining said rod suffi-
ciently far upon the operation of a certain key to cause a finger thereon to open a
certain diawei and means for lifting the releasing rod after it is turned
30 A cash register including a plurality of drawers, a plurality of character
keys, a rotatable rod provided with fingers to open the drawer corresponding to
the kev operated when turned sufficiently far, and means controlled by said
character keys to turn said releasing rod to varying extents depending upon the
particular character key operated.
31. A cash register including a plurality of diawers, a plurality of corre-
sponding character keys, a rod provided with fingers that will release a certain
diawer when the rod is 1otated to a certain extent and when moved vertically,
a bevel gear mounted in the shaft in the framework that meshes with the bevel
gear, means for 1otating the shaft on which said segmental gear is mounted
to a certain extent depending upon the character key operated and means for
vertically moving said rod.
32. A cash register including a plurality of drawers, a plurality of corre-
sponding character keys, and a rotatable 1od for releasing a certain drawer
when 1otated to a certain extent, a bevel gear mounted on said rod, a segmental
geal meshing therewith and secured to a shaft, mounted loosely in the frame-
work, an arm secured on said shaft, an oscillatory sector for driving the various
parts of the machine and adapted to move a certain distance depending upon the
particular character key operated, a link pivotally connected with said sector
at one end and at its other end to the arm secured to the shaft, substantially as
set forth
33 A cash register including a series of drawers having catches for holding
them closed, a longitudinally movable rod provided with fingers thereon to
engage and release the drawer when the rod is so moved, a driving shaft for the
machine and means for longitudinally moving the said rod at each rotation of
saul shaft sufficiently far to release said drawers.
34 A cash register including a series of drawers one beneath the other having
catches to hold the drawers closed, a vertically movable releasing rod provided
with fingers that extend under all the latches on said drawers, a driving shaft
in the machine, a cam mounted thereon, a link riding on said shaft and pivotally
connected to said releasing rod, and pin secured to said link where it will be
engaged by the cam and thereby elevate said releasing rod so that the fingers
thereon will disengage the latches on the drawers
35 A cash register including a series of diawers, a series of corresponding
character keys, a vertically movable rotatable releasing rod, fingers extending
therefrom and adapted when elevated to unlock a certain drawer when a certain
key 18 operated, a bevel gear mounted on said rod, a segmental gear meshing
therewith and secured to an oscillatory shaft mounted in the framework, means
for oscillating said shaft whose extent of movement depends upon the character
kev operated, a driving shaft, a cam thereon, a link supported on said driving
shaft at one end and pivotally connected with the releasing rod at the other, and

page_text: a pin extending from said link where it will be engaged by the cam after said
eleasing rod has been rotated to set it for unlocking the particular diawei
Dated this Twelfth day of December 1898
Witnesses™
WILLIAM FREDERICK BOCKHOFF.
VERGIL II LOCKWOOD, Indianopolis, Ind
ROBT D HAWKINS, Indianopolis, Ind