IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING CASH RECEIPTS AND ORDERS IN REFRESHMENT BARS AND LIKE PLACES
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Louis von Hoven, of Castle Street, Holborn, in the City
of London, Engineer, for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS
FOR CONTROLLING CASH RECEIPTS AND ORDERS IN REFRESHMENT BARS AND
LIKE PLACES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Louis von Hoven at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 20th August 1880.
LOUIS VON HOVEN, of Castle Street, Holborn, in the City of London, Engineer.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING CASH RECEIPTS AND ORDERS
IN REFRESHMENT BARS AND LIKE PLACES."
This Invention is for detail improvements upon that described in the Specification
of Letters Patent granted on the 21 day of June, in the year 1877, No. 2412.
The object of this present Invention is to fit within a box or receptacle a plate
provided with an aperture, and with a shoot or inclined portion provided with a
slot, through which, as also through said aperture, metal or like checks or markers
are permitted to fall on the movement of a draw out plate to indicate the amount
to be received from a customer by one check or marker, the duplicate check or
marker falling into a distinct receptacle kept under lock and key for future
reference.
The upper surface of the first mentioned plate has a bridge or shaped cross bar,
upon which each check or marker in succession lodges, and when the sliding plate
is drawn outwards the lowest check or marker is drawn forward by two projecting
lips, and is caused by its overbalanced weight to fall into the shoot and away
through the mouth, the next check or marker simultaneously falling on to the
bridge behind the two lips, that it may be pushed by the return action of the
sliding plate to overbalance itself and fall into the locked receptacle.
The draw out plate is capable of being returned to its first position by a spring,
and works between the plate first mentioned and a tubular or other guide pillar,
within which the checks or markers are arranged in a superposed manner that
they fall by gravitation on to the bridge or shaped cross piece.
Any number of these special construction of plates may be arranged side by side
or in other order, and the sizes of the apertures, inclines, and mouths may vary to
correspond with the sizes of the checks or markers to be used to represent different
amounts of money to be received; or they may be all of the same size but
representing different values.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, and of
an Order of the Lord Chancellor, filed by the said Louis von Hoven in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 25th February 1881.
LOUIS VON HOVEN, of Castle Street, Holborn, in the City of London, Engineer.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN "APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING CASH RECEIPTS AND ORDERS
IN REFRESHMENT BARS AND LIKE PLACES."
This Invention is for detail improvements upon that described in the Specification
of Letters Patent granted on the 21st day of June, in the year 1877, No. 2412.
The object of this present Invention is to fit within a box or receptacle a plate
provided with an aperture, and with a shoot or inclined portion provided with a
slot, through which, as also through said aperture, metal or like checks or markers
are permitted to fall on the movement of a draw out plate to indicate the amount
to be received from a customer by one check or marker, the duplicate check or
marker falling into a distinct receptacle kept under lock and. key for further
reference.
The upper surface of the first mentioned plate has a bridge or shaped cross bar,
upon which each check or marker in succession lodges, and when the sliding plate
is drawn outwards the lowest check or marker is drawn forward by two projecting
lips, and is caused by its overbalanced weight to fall into the shoot and away
through the mouth, the next check or marker simultaneously falling on to the
bridge behind the two lips that it may be pushed by the return action of the sliding
plate to overbalance itself and fall into a locked receptacle.
The draw out plate is capable of being returned to its first position by a spring,
and works between the plate first mentioned and a tubular or other guide pillar,
within which the checks or markers are arranged in a superposed manner that they
fall by gravitation on to a bridge or shaped cross piece.
Any number of these special construction of plates may be arranged side by side
or in other order, and the sizes of the apertures and inclines and mouths may vary
to correspond with the sizes of the checks or markers to be used to represent
different amounts of money to be received; or they may be all of the same size, but
representing different values.
My Invention will be understood by the annexed Drawings, in which Figure 1
is a sectional elevation of a cabinet containing my improved apparatus, as before
set forth; Figure 2 is a plan view through the line X, X, of Figure 1; Figures 3, 4,
and 5 are detail views; Figure 3 shows the fixed plate A with the shoot or
incline B for the reception and delivery of the checks or markers as they fall in
succession from the bridge C which forms a partition between the shoot B and the
back aperture D, through which other checks or markers representing the same
value as those for the shoot are caused to fall into the receptacle E arranged under-
neath for them, and in which they are retained under lock and key until the
checking of the markers and cash is conducted; Figure 4 represents my improved
fixed plate A with another plate F upon it; this plate F is retained in the back
position, as in this view, by the spring G, which spring is overcome on the
ring H being drawn outwards, and with it the plate F, as indicated at Figure 5.
The checks or markers are arranged in superposed order in the column I, several
of which may be arranged side by side, as in Figures 1 and 2, each column having
checks or markers of different values, that the rings may be pulled outwards
according to the amount of money received or to be paid to the person in charge of
goods supplied. For instance, suppose a customer purchases goods to the value of
fifteen pence, the attendant would draw the plate F from under the shilling column
of checks or markers, when one of the series of checks of that value, which bas

page_text: been resting upon the bridge C and within the circular opening of the plate F (this
opening being directly under the column) would fall into the shoot and down the
inclines to the outside of the apparatus; the attendant then lifts this check or
marker, and keeps it in his or her charge.
Pulling out the plate F in the manner just explained brings the back opening
in the plate F directly under the column, and another check or marker of the
same value falls into the said back opening, so that when the attendant lets go the
ring H the spring G causes the plate F to move back to its original position, and
in doing so to carry the check or marker over the back opening D in the fixed plate,
through which opening it falls into the receptacle E.
The attendant pulls the ring and plate F of the threepenny column of checks
or markers, and the same movement of two checks or markers happen, one going
to the outside of the apparatus and one into the receptacle for the purpose before
explained.
In summing up, say, the day's takings, the attendant is asked for the checks or
markers in his possession, and their several values are recorded into a total by
the person whose duty it is to attend thereto. This person then goes to the
apparatus and opens the drawer or receptacle, and in a similar manner checks the
amount represented by the several markers found therein, the total of which should
correspond with the total represented by those obtained from the attendant. The
person in charge then asks the cashier or receiver of the money the amount he or
she has in hand, which amount must tally with the totals shown by the two sets
of checks or markers previously taken. The checks or markers are then after
opening the front door K of the cabinet L placed in their respective tubes or
columns I and relocked, as also the receptacle E, to enable the cash takings of the
next day, or up to any given time, to be checked in a similar manner.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim,―
The fixed plate A with bridge C constructed and arranged as described and as
shown at Figure 3 of the annexed Drawings, and the application of said fixed plate
in conjunction with the moveable plate F in a cash recipt controlling or checking
cabinet, as set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Louis von Hoven, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and eighty one.
LOUIS VON HOVEN. (L.S.)