Improved Means for Facilitating the Checking of Cash Received.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Aug., 1891-Accepted, 3rd Oct., 1891
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Improved Means for Facilitating the Checking of Cash Received.
JAMES PARKER 10 Queens Grove Road, Chingford Essex Brassworker 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:
I use a convenient sized and shaped box, fitted with a till or drawer having the
usual cash receivers.
On the top of this box I secure two inclined boards mounted upon a platform
capable of being partly rotated, and held upon the lower box by a centre pin.
On each of the said inclined boards I arrange a glass shutter or slide having an
opening or slot of sufficient size to enable the person using the till to enter the
amount of cash received upon a slip, the said slip being uncoiled from a drum &
caused to pass in front of the said opening automatically by the action of partly or
half turning the top of the till or inclined upper part towards the customer each
time a payment is made.
The till drawer I further connect with a counter or register to show the number
of times it has been opened, and is provided with a bell in the usual way:
The operation of the till is as follows-The amount of cash received having
been entered upon the aforementioned slips, through the opening in the glass, the
inclined part or top of the till is moved half round, so as to bring the said entry to
the notice of the customer, and in the act of turning the said upper part half round
the drawer of the till is unlocked so that the money can be placed therein or change
given, but only one opening of the drawer is possible each time, and the drawer
must be perfectly closed before another movement of the top part can be made.
The slips upon which the amounts are entered I cause to be moved a sufficient
space to allow of another entry by the act of turning the said upper part half
round. I also use balls as a bearing between the upper and lower part to reduce
friction.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1, Sheet 1. a is a box fitted with till drawer b. care inclined boards
secured to the upper part of the box 6 by the centre pin e, fare rollers or marbles
to facilitate the turning of the inclined upper part upon the box a.
c are the
inclined boards having glass shutters behind which are the drums i, opposite the
openings in the glass the paper slips coiled upon the drums i being partly
uncoiled each time of moving the upper part of the till by the action of the lower
drums, these drums being moved by the pawl gear 1 coming into contact with the
stop m each time of movement of the said upper part upon the lower box a.
till drawer carries a pin n which normally projects upwards through the slot o
into a circular groove o in the upper table o² thus locking the drawer b and
permitting of the free rotation of the table o², two radial grooves o³ are also cut in
the table o to meet the groove o' in such positions that when either of the openings j
is facing the operator, the slot o and groove o³ coincide and the pin n is free to
traverse therein, thus permitting the withdrawal of the drawer b.
Fig. 2 is a plan having upper or inclined part removed.
Fig. 3 is an elevation and
Fig. 4 is a plan of the same.
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page_text: 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.
1st. The arrangement of a partly rotating framework moving over or across the
cash till or drawer, having cash sheets mounted upon drums, such cash sheets being
alternately shewn to the customer substantially as described.
2nd. The arrangement of drums carrying a tape or slips under the desk part so
that each said drum is moved automatically by the partial rotating movement of
the upper part of such tills substantially as described.
3rd. The arrangement substantially as described to prevent more than one
opening of the till drawer in the same direction without moving the upper part of
the cash check again.
JAMES PARKER.