-Improved Apparatus for Checking Receipts, applicable more especially to Cash Registers.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Jan., 1895-Accepted, 6th Apr., 1895
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
-Improved Apparatus for Checking Receipts, applicable more
especially to Cash Registers.
I, REGINALD HADDAN, of the Firm of Herbert Haddan and Co., of 18 Bucking-
ham Street, Strand, W.C., London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention a communication to me from abroad by National Cash Register
Company, of Dayton, State of Ohio, United States of America, and in what
manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
The invention is intended for use in connection with cash registers and indicators
and in the drawings is shown applied to such a machine and arranged to co-operate
with the cash drawer thereof, but it may be used independently of such machine or
in combination with any other suitable mechanism. Its novelty will be hereinafter
set forth and particularly pointed out in the claims.
In the accompanying drawings
Figure 1 is a perspective view of a cash register and indicator of familiar form
having the coin-displayer attached to it;
Figure 2 an enlarged vertical section through the display receptacle ;
Figure 3 a front elevation;
Figure 4 an elevation of the right side of the displayer with the side of its
casing removed, and the parts in normal position ;
Fig. 5 a similar view to Fig. 4 with the parts in a different position and
Figure 6 a detail view illustrating the means for operating the displayer by the
money-drawer of the cash register.
The same letters of reference are used to indicate identical parts in all the
figures.
The casing of the displayer consists of a flanged plate A and flat plate A' adapted
to fit against and be secured to the side of the cash register and inclose the
operating parts of the displayer, and a display receptacle B secured upon the left
hand side of the plate A and having its front and rear sides composed of glass
plates C. The upper and lower ends of the display receptacle are open, the lower
end terminating in a chute D extending through the plate A² and through the side
of the casing of the cash register into position to deliver the coins into the money-
drawer thereof, while the upper end of the receptacle, of the shape shown in
Figure 2, is adapted to be opened and closed by the vibrating curved plate or
lid E. Within the display receptacle are mounted a series of pivoted plates or
sleeves F having studs or pins upon their outer ends fitted in bearings in the outer
wall of the receptacle, and similar pins G upon their inner ends extending
through the main plate of the casing A, Figures 4 and 5. In the present instance
there are four of the pivoted shelves F and the pins G of the three upper ones
have fast upon their right hand ends, within the casing A, levers H having
weighted front ends adapted to rest upon stop-pins I and yieldingly hold said
shelves in approximately horizontal position. These weighted levers are provided
upon their rear sides with studs J which are adapted to co-operate with spring.
pressed pawls or trips K mounted in a longitudinal slot in a vertically reciprocating
operating bar L (approximately square in cross-section) confined in guide-
ways M-M. The normal position of said bar is shown in Figure 4, and when
it is moved downward to its limit of movement, Figure 5 the lower one of the
three trips K will first contact with the stud upon the lower one of the three
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weighted levers H and rock its front end upward and tilt the corresponding shelf F
to release any coin that may be resting upon it. After this lower trip has cleared
the stud upon the lower lever the next trip above will actuate the middle lever in
the same manner to tilt its shelf and release any coin resting upon it, and after the
trip has cleared this and the shelf returned to horizontal position the upper trip
will tilt the upper shelf. The lower one of the four shelves, instead of being
operated in the same manner as the upper three, has fast upon its pivot pin G a
pinion or segment N to which is connected a coiled spring O tending to hold the
lower shelf in horizontal position. The segment N meshes with a segment P upon
the left hand end of a short lever Q whose right hand end stands in the path of
a projection R upon the reciprocating operating bar L. When said bar is in its
upper normal position said projection holds the right hand end of the lever Q
elevated and the lower shelf F tilted to vertical position. As soon as the bar L
begins to move downward the spring O will throw the shelf to horizontal position,
before the lower one of the three trips K tilts the shelf above it.
The pivotal supporting rod or pin of the vibrating lid E has fast upon its right
hand end inside the casing A a lever R¹. A coiled spring S connected to the left
hand end of said lever tends to throw the lid to open position. Fast upon the
right band end of said lever is a pendent arm T provided at its lower end with a
stud U which, wheu the bar is slid to its lowermost position and the lower end of
the arm T swung to the left by the spring S, Figure 5, stands in the path of the
upper end of the bar L. The latter is so shaped that when it moves upward the
engagement of its upper end with the stud U will swing the lower end of the arm T
rearward until the stud passes behind the bar, whereupon the latter will move on
upward in front of the stud and hold the parts in such tilted position with the
lid E closed. In this manner the lid is closed at each upward movement of
the operating bar and locked thereby in such position until the bar moves downward
to its limit of movement.
In the present instance the bar L is made heavy enough to drop by gravity,
when released, and operate the various parts, but it might of course be made
lighter and be operated by a spring. So, too, the levers H might be yieldingly
held in and returned to normal position by springs instead of having their front
ends weighted as described.
The lower end of the bar L has its forward edge serrated and provided with
iwo projecting studs V W to co-operate with a toothed pawl X and spring
latch Y to compel complete strokes of the bar in opposite directions in the
usual inanner.
The bar L may be actuated in any suitable manner according to the relation in
which the coin-displayer is used. In the present instance, as before stated, it is
actuated by the money-drawer of the cash register. To that end the lower end
of the bar has projecting from it a stud Z, Figure 3, extending through a vertical
slot in the side of the casing of the cash register into the path of the front end
of a lever A' pivoted at its rear end to the side frame of the machine, Figure 6.
This lever is provided upon its inner side near its front end with a stud B which
co-operates with an inclined plate C' secured upon the side of the money-drawer D'.
When the drawer is pushed inward to closed position the plate C¹ rides under the
stud B and lifts the front end of the lever A¹, thereby lifting the operating bar L
of the coin-displayer and so long as the drawer remains in its closed position the
bar is held in the upper position shown in Figure 4 of the drawings. When the
machine is operated and the drawer released and thrown open in the usual manner
the plate C is withdrawn from the stud B¹, permitting the front end of the lever A¹
and the operating bar L to drop and tilt the shelves of the coin-displayer and open
the lid at its upper end in the manner described. Inasmuch as the lid at the top
of the displayer is locked in closed position so long as the operating bar remains in
its upper normal position, and inasmuch as the bar is held in this upper position
by the drawer so long as the latter remains closed, it follows that the lid of the
displayer can not be opened without operating some key of the machine and

page_text: eleasing and opening the money-drawer, and no coin can therefore
to the displayer until a key is so operated and the drawer released and opened.
From the foregoing description it will be understood that while the drawer
emains closed the three upper shelves of the displayer remain in approximately
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orizontal position and support the coins which may be resting upon them, while
he lower shelf stands in vertical position with no coin supported by it.
rawer is opened the lower shelf first moves to horizontal position, and then the
ext or second shelf is tilted to drop its coin upon the lower shelf. As soon as
uch coin is dropped the shelf resumes its horizontal position and then the third
helf is tilted, dropping its coin upon the second shelf, and then resuming horizontal
osition again, and then the fourth shelf is tilted, dropping its coin upon the third
shelf and resuming horizontal position, and then, after all of the shelves have been
thus tilted, the lid at the upper end of the displayer is opened by its spring, ready
for a new coin to be dropped into the receptacle and rest upon the upper shelf
thereof. When the drawer is closed the lower shelf will be tilted to vertical
position and the coin which has been resting upon it dropped into the chute D and
delivered by the latter into the money-drawer.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:
1. In a coin-receptacle, the combination of a display-receptacle, a series of tilting
shelves arranged therein, one above another, a vertically reciprocating operating
rod, and a series of trips actuated by said rod and co-operating with the shelves to
tilt them in succession from the lower to the upper ones, substantially as described.
2. In a coin-displayer, the combination of a display-receptacle, a series of
tilting shelves therein, one above another, a series of levers movable with the
shelves, and a vertically reciprocating operating rod carrying a series of trips
co-operating with the respective levers to tilt the shelves in succession from the
lower to the upper one, substantially as described.
3. In a coin-displayer, the combination of a display-receptacle, a series of tilting
shelves therein, one above another, a series of weighted levers movable with the
respective shelves and operating to yieldingly hold them in normal position, a
reciprocating operating bar, and a series of spring-pressed trips carried thereby and
co-operating with the respective levers to tilt the shelves in succession from the
lower to the upper one, substantially as described.
4. In a coin-displayer, the combination of a display-receptacle, a series of tilting
shelves therein, one above another, a reciprocating operating bar carrying a series
of trips co-operating respectively with all but the lowermost one of the shelves to
tilt them in succession from the bottom upward as the bar moves in one direction,
and means intermediate the bar and the lowermost shelf for causing it to tilt said
shelf at its movement in the opposite direction, substantially as described.
5. In a coin displayer, the combination of a display receptacle, a series of tilting
shelves therein, one above another, means for yieldingly holding all of said shelves
excepting the lowermost one in approximately horizontal position, and means for
5 holding the lowermost shelf in inclining or vertical position, and a reciprocating
operating bar and intermediate devices for tilting the lowermost shelf at the move-
ment of the bar in one direction and for tilting the remaining shelves in succession
from the bottom upward at the movement of the bar in the opposite direction,
substantially as described.
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6. In a coin-displayer, the combination of a display-receptacle having a movable
lid, a series of tilting shelves within the receptacle, one above another, a recipro-
cating operating bar and connections for tilting said shelves in succession from the
bottom upward at the movement of the bar in one direction, and means intermediate
the bar and lid for closing the latter at the movement of the bar in the opposite
55 direction, substantially as described.
7. In a coin-displayer, the combination of a display-receptacle having a movable

page_text: lid, a spring tending to throw the lid open, a series of tilting shelves within the
receptacle, one 'above another, a reciprocating operating bar and connections for
tilting the shelves in succession from the bottom upward at the movement of the
bar in one direction, and means intermediate the bar and lid for permitting the
spring to open the lid at the end of such operating movement of the bar and to
cause the bar to close the lid at its movement in the opposite direction, substantially
as described.
8. In a coin-displayer, the combination of a display-receptacle having a movable
lid, a spring for throwing the same open, a series of tilting shelves within the
receptacle, one above another, all of said shelves excepting the lowermost one
normally standing in position to support a coin, a reciprocating operating bar and
connections for tilting all of the shelves except the lowermost one in succession
from the bottom upward during the movement of the bar in one direction and
permitting the lid to open and the lowermost shelf to move to position to support a
coin, and means intermediate the lid and lowermost shelf and the operating bar for
causing the latter to close the lid and tilt said shelf to release its coin at the
movement of the bar in the opposite direction, substantially as described.
9. The combination, with a cash register having a money-drawer, of a coin-
displayer having series of tilting shelves arranged within its display receptacle, one
above another, and means intermediate the money-drawer and said shelves for
tilting the latter in succession from the bottom upward at the movement of the
drawer, substantially as described.
10. The combination, with a cash register having a money-drawer, of a coin-
displayer having a series of tilting shelves arranged within its display receptacle,
one above another, all of said shelves excepting the lowermost one normally resting
in position to support a coin, and means intermediate the money-drawer and said
shelves for causing the lowermost shelf to move to position to support a coin, and
for tilting the shelves above it in succession, at the opening of the drawer, and
means for tilting the lowermost shelf to release its coin at the closing of the
drawer, substantially as described.
11. The combination, with a cash register having a money-drawer, of a coin-
displayer having a series of tilting shelves arranged within it, one above another, and a
movable lid, and means intermediate the money-drawer and said shelves and lid for
tilting said shelves in succession at the opening of the drawer and closing said lid
at the closing of the drawer, substantially as described.
12. The combination, with a cash register having a money-drawer, of a coin-
displayer having a displayer-receptacle containing a series of tilting shelves, cne
above another, and having a movable lid, a spring tending to throw said lid open,
and means intermediate the drawer and said shelves and lid for closing the
lid at the closing of the drawer, and for permitting the spring to open it and for
tilting the shelves in succession at the opening of the drawer, substantially as
described.
13. The combination, with a cash register having a money-drawer, of a coin-
displayer having a display receptacle containing a series of tilting shelves, one
above another, all of said shelves excepting the lowermost one normally resting in
position to support a coin, and means intermediate said drawer and shelves for
moving the lowermost shelf to position to support a coin and successively tilting
the shelves above it at the opening of the drawer, and for tilting the lowermost
shelf to release its coin at the closing of the drawer, substantially as described.
14. The combination, with a cash register having a money-drawer, of a coin-
displayer having a display receptacle containing a series of tilting shelves, one
above another, and all except the lowermost one normally resting in position to support
coin, a movable lid for said receptacle, and means intermediate the money-drawer
and said shelves and lid for moving the lowermost shelf to supporting position,
successively tilting the shelves above it and opening the lid, at the opening of the
drawer, and for tilting the lowermost shelf and closing the lid at the closing of the
drawer, substantially as described.

page_text: 15. The combination, with a cash register having a money-drawer, of a coin
displayer having a display receptacle containing a series of tilting shelves, one
above another, all of said shelves excepting the lowermost one normally resting in
position to support a coin, means tending to move the lowermost shelf to supporting
position, and means intermediate the money-drawer and said shelves for permitting
the lowermost shelf to be moved to supporting position and successively tripping
the shelves above it to the opening of the drawer, and for tilting the lowermost
shelf to release its coin at the closing of the drawer, substantially as described.
16. The combination, with a cash register having a money-drawer, of a coin-
displayer having a display-receptacle containing a series of tilting shelves, one
above another, and having a movable lid, all of said shelves except the lowermost
one normally resting in position to support a coin, a spring tending to move the
lowermost shelf to supporting position and another spring tending to open the lid,
a reciprocating operating bar actuated by the money-drawer, a projection upon the
bar operating to hold the lowermost shelf in tilted position while the money-drawer
is closed and to permit its spring to move it to supporting position when the
money-drawer is opened, means intermediate said bar and the lid for closing said
lid at the closing of the drawer and permitting its spring to open it at the opening
of the drawer, and means actuated by the bar to successively tilt all of the shelves
excepting the lowermost one at the opening of the drawer, substantially as
described.
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