Improvements in and relating to Cash Tills.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Oct., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 7th July, 1893-Accepted, 26th Aug., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Cash Tills.
ALBERT ARMITAGE 23 Magdala Road Nottingham Butcher do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in cash tills of the kind known as Loft's
Patent Check Tills and which formed the subject of the invention described in
Specification No. 2153 A.D. 1875.
These tills as at present constructed consist of a box with a drawer for receiving
the cash and a travelling band of paper upon which the amount of cash placed in
the drawer may be marked, the paper being fed forward by a roller which is turned
every time the drawer is opened by suitable gearing actuated from a thumb piece
which also forms a catch for holding the drawer closed.
According to my invention the shaft actuating the paper roller is by means of
additional gearing arranged to give motion to one of a pair of rollers which are
placed parallel to each other and at right angles to the actuating shaft.
Stretched round the pair of rollers there is one or more flexible bands carrying a
number of cup like receptacles which are attached to the bands or to cross bars
mounted at intervals upon the same. These receptacles travel from one roller to
the other under a glass in the top of the box, and the cash placed in them is for a
time kept out of the cash drawer and exposed to view so that mistakes in giving
wrong change may be avoided or rectified.
I
propose mounting the cups upon the bands in rows, preferably placing three
cups in each row, and the motion given to the same every time the drawer is opened
is sufficient to cause one row of cups to empty the cash in them into a divided
drawer, by which means the gold silver and coppers may be kept separate.
There are openings in the glass over the cups for passing the money into the
same, and the paper is moved and a bell rung as in the present tills every time the
drawer is opened.
Dated this 12th day of October 1892.
W. H. POTTER, M.I.M.E.,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Cash Tills.
ALBERT ARMITAGE 23 Magdala Road Nottingham Butcher 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 relates to improvements in cash tills of the kind described in
Specification No. 2153 A.D. 1875 and known as Loft's and consists in adding to a
cash till of the usual kind a number of cups for receiving the cash paid. These
cups are suitably mounted and actuated and the cash in them is exposed to
view for a certain time, so that mistakes in giving change may be rectified or
avoided.
I have attached hereto one sheet of drawings illustrating my invention and refer
to the same in the following description.
Fig. 1. is a side elevation of my improved cash till with the side of the same
removed in order to show the working parts.
Fig. 2. is a plan of the same with the lid removed.

page_text: The box a is fitted as in Loft's till with a roll of paper b which is carried by an
axle fastened to the side of the box, and has a tension spring for keeping the
paper tight. The paper is led from the roll b under a guide ³ to a receiving
drum e which is mounted upon a fixed axle and has attached to it a worm wheel
which gears into, and is actuated by a worm c³ on a shaft d.
The shaft d at the front of the box is provided with a thumb piece d¹ for turning
the same, and with a ratchet wheel d² and pawls d³ for preventing it being turned
in the wrong direction. At the front of the box there are two plates d², one on the
box itself and the other on the cash drawere these plates being grooved to hold
the thumb piece d' in position when the cash drawer e is closed, & the thumb piece
turned to the position shown on the drawings, the thumb piece then acting as a
catch to prevent the drawer being opened without turning the thumb piece and thus
ringing the bell. At the inside back end of the box, the shaft d is fitted with a
cam which acts upon a spring hammer lever f¹ every time the shaft is moved
the cam and lever being arranged to ring the bell fevery time the drawer is
opened.
In carrying out my improvements I fix upon the shaft d a second worm g which
is geared by an intermediate wheel g' to a pinion g² on the shaft g3 which is carried
by bearings and go. Fastened upon the shaft g³ are two rollers y having outside
flanges which are shaped to act as drivers for the endless bands carrying the
cups, the drivers acting through cross bars which are attached to the bands
and to which the cups are fastened. The bands also pass round other pullies k
which are capable of rotating upon a fixed axle k¹ fixed at one end to the side of
the box and supported at the other by a link k² which also has a bearing on the
shaft g³. The front portion of the cash drawer e I divide into as many spaces as
there are cups in each row so that the cash which is separated before being placed
in the cups, remains separated in the drawer. The space at the back of the cash
drawer may be used for notes, invoices and similar purposes, and there is also a
smaller drawer l.
The lid m is provided with a piece of glass m' and a space m² for marking upon
the paper the amount to be paid in or out of the till. The lid is also fitted with
another piece of glass which extends over the cups /', and over the row h** the
glass is provided with as many openings as there are cups in each row.
When in operation and the cash drawer closed, the clerk or attendant first marks
upon the paper 62 the amount of cash to be placed in the till. The cash received is
then placed in the cups and the drawer opened for the change. The turning of the
thumb piece d' which must be done before the drawer can be opened, rings the
bell 2 and also advances the cups, until the openings in the glass above the cups is
between the cups instead of over them, so that it is impossible for the amount of
cash in the cups to be changed after the drawer has been opened. After the change
is taken out of the drawer the attendant closes the same and turns the thumb
piece d¹ to hold the drawer closed, the turning of the same advancing the cups until
the next row of them is under the openings in the glass. The cups with the cash
in them then advance nearer the cash drawer every time the latter is opened, until
they discharge their contents into the same after which they pass round until they
are again under the openings in the glass ready for receiving another payment, but
from the time the cash is placed in the cups until it is discharged into the drawer
they travel under the glass in the lid, and are therefore exposed to the view of the
attendant.
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. In cash tills of the kind referred to, the cups or receptacles for receiving the
cash arranged and actuated in substantially the manner shown and described in the
accompanying drawings and Specification.
2. In cash tills of the kind referred to the general arrangement of the
cups for

page_text: receiving the cash, conveying the same to the cash drawer, and the mechanism for
actuating the same as shown and described in the accompanying drawings and
Specification.
Dated this 6th day of Jule 1893
W. H. POTTER, Wh. Sc.,
Parliament Chambers, Upper Parliament Street, Nottingham,
Agent for the Applicant.