Improvements relating to Apparatus for Cash Registering and other analogous Purposes.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Sept., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 27th June, 1894-Accepted, 22nd Sept., 1894!
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to Apparatus for Cash Registering and other
analogous Purposes.
I, WILLIAM HENRY ROBSON of 27 Ceylon Road, West Kensington, London,
Inventors' Model Maker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention may be used in conjunction with any arrangement where it is
applicable but being specially applicable to Patent No. 17307 of 1892 granted to
Charles Scott Snell I proceed to explain it in connection therewith. In the first
part of my invention 1 provide a spool or bobbin Fig. 1. for receiving a roll of
paper used for keeping a record of the amount received. A. is a tube with flange
attached. C. is a similar tube and flange the tube C being of such a size that it
will slide inside tube A. I provide a spring E. E. preferably made by splitting the
piece from the side of the tube, the end being bent and forming one or more points.
This arrangement is used by first placing a roll of paper or other suitable material
on the tube A. the tube C is then inserted forcing the points of spring E. E. into
the paper, thereby preventing the paper turning on the spool or bobbin, the spring
also acting to keep the two tubes tightly together. The flanges keep the roll of
paper from becoming disarranged. The whole is then placed on a pin provided in
the machine for that purpose.
The second part of my invention is applicable to the sliding table used for forcing
out the tickets. This arrangement will be understood by reference to Fig. 2.
which shows the sliding table at present in use. On the underside of this table I
provide a tumbler or pawl A. working on a centre B. When this sliding table is
in its normal position this pawl is hanging in a vertical position as shown in full
lines in Fig. 2 but when the table is moved along this pawl engages in a ratchet C.
which I provide on the main framework of the machine or other suitable place. It
will be readily seen that if the sliding table is moved along any distance it cannot
get back again until it has travelled the whole distance, that is, till the pawl has
reached the end of the ratchet, when the pawl is then free to drop again into its
normal position, and the table can then travel back again, the pawl in this
movement simply riding over the teeth of the ratchet. This arrangement prevents
any tampering with the machine, as the manipulator is bound to take a full stroke
with the actuating lever before he can possibly bring it back again to its normal
position.
The third part of my invention relates to the mechanism for feeding the inking
ribbon Fig. 3. On the sides of the arms or pawls A¹ A' I provide pro-
jections B D. On the edges of the reversing tumbler C₁ C I also provide pins
or other suitable projections. When in their normal position the arms A¹ A are
resting against the ratchet wheels. It will now be seen that when the reversing
tumbler has been forced over to the left the projection B' rests against C₁ thereby
forcing A' away from the ratchet and allowing A' to drop against the opposite
ratchet so that when the arms are given their vertical motion A moves the ratchet
against which it rests, and vice versa, when the reversing tumbler is forced over to
the right the arm A³ is forced out by C' allowing A¹ to move the ratchet against
which it rests.

page_text: Improvements relating to Apparatus for Cash Registering and other
analogous Purposes.
I, WILLIAM HENRY ROBSON of 27 Ceylon Road, West Kensington, London,
Inventors' Model Maker, 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 may be used in conjunction with any arrangement where it is
applicable but being specially applicable to Patent No. 17307 of 1892 granted to
Charles Scott Snell I proceed to explain it in connection therewith.
I refer to the drawing lodged with my Provisional Specification.
In the first part of my invention I provide a spool or bobbin Fig. 1. for receiving
a roll of paper used for keeping a record of the amount received. A. is a tube with
flange attached. C. is a similar tube and flange the tube C being of such a size
that it will slide inside tube A. I provide a spring E. E. preferably made by
splitting the piece from the side of the tube, the end being bent and forming one or
more points. This arrangement is used by first placing a roll of paper or other
suitable material on the tube A. the tube C. is then inserted forcing the points of
spring E. E. into the paper, thereby preventing the paper turning on the spool or
bobbin, the spring also acting to keep the two tubes tightly together. The flanges
keep the roll of paper from becoming disarranged. The whole is then placed on a
pin provided in the machine for that purpose.
The second part of my invention is applicable to the sliding table used for
forcing out the tickets. This arrangement will be understood by reference to
Fig. 2. which shows the sliding table at present in use. On the under-side of this table
I provide a tumbler or pawl A. working on a centre B. When this sliding table is in
its normal position this pawl is hanging in a vertical position as shown in full lines in
Fig. 2. but when the table is moved along this pawl engages in a ratchet C. which
I provide on the main framework of the machine or other suitable place. It will
be readily seen that if the sliding table is moved along any distance it cannot get
back again until it has travelled the whole distance, that is, till the pawl has
reached the end of the ratchet, when the pawl is then free to drop again into its
normal position, and the table can then travel back again, the pawl in this
movement simply riding over the teeth of the ratchet. This arrangement prevents
any tampering with the machine, as the manipulator is bound to take a full stroke
with the actuating lever before he can possibly bring it back again to its normal
position.
The third part of my invention relates to the mechanism for feeding the inking
ribbon Fig. 3. when such is used in place of the usual form of inking with rollers.
On the sides of the arms or pawls A' A' I provide projections B' B². On the
edges of the reversing tumbler C¹ C. I also provide pins or other suitable
projections. When in their normal position the arms A¹ A³ are resting against the
ratchet wheels. It will now be seen that when the reversing tumbler has been
forced over to the left the projection B₁ rests against C¹ thereby forcing A' away
from the ratchet and allowing A' to drop against the opposite ratchet so that
when the arms are given their vertical motion A² moves the ratchet against which
it rests, and vice versa, when the reversing tumbler is forced over to the right the
arm A is forced out by C' allowing A¹ to move the ratchet against which
it rests.

page_text: 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. The use of a spool or bobbin for the reception of a roll of paper or other
record material as explained in the first part of the foregoing.
2. The combination of parts as explained in the second part of the foregoing for
preventing a person tampering with the machine by taking less than the full stroke
of the actuating lever.
3. The addition to and combination of parts over and above what is provided for
in the Specification of the before mentioned Patent granted to Charles Scott Snell
No. 17307 of 1892.
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J. E. EVANS-JACKSON & Co.,
45, Holborn Viaduct, London, Agents for the Applicant.