Improvements in and Apparatus for Recording and Checking the Receipts and Payments of Moneys, being especially applicable for use with Cash Tills and the like.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 8th May, 1889
Complete Specification Left, 8th Feb., 1890-Accepted, 22nd Mar., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and Apparatus for Recording and Checking the
Receipts and Payments of Moneys, being especially applicable
for use with Cash Tills and the like.
I, THOMAS MILNES FAVELL of Seabridge Hall, near Newcastle under Lyme, in the
County of Stafford, Engineer and Ironfounder, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows
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My present Invention relates to a novel device for checking and recording the
receipts and payments of monies, and has reference more particularly to that class of
money receiving apparatus known as check tills employed in connection with shops
transacting retail business. In carrying out my Invention, I employ an ordinary
containing case or box in one portion of which is disposed a drawer for depositing the
monies received, the remaining portion being utilized for containing the recording
and checking apparatus. This latter preferably comprises two bobbins or drums a roll
of paper which is fed from one to the other passing over a plate disposed in a slot or
opening formed in the lid of the box or till, the amount of each payment received
being successively recorded on said roll of paper which is advanced by the rotation of
one of the bobbins or drums previously to the opening of the drawer for depositing
therein the amount received as hereinafter fully described.
My Invention has for its object the more efficient and effectual working of the
recording apparatus whereby I am enabled to ensure that any attempt at fraud on the
part of the assistant depositing money in the till drawer may be detected by the
employer on the removal of the strip or band aforesaid.
Numerous devices have already been introduced prior to the date of my Invention
with a view to rotate the drum or bobbin and cause the paper to travel a proportionate
distance after the payment received has been recorded thereon. These attempts to
attain the object in view have however met with very indifferent results For instance,
one of the devices already introduced, consists of the following essential features
Attached to and working with the drum or bobbin on which is wound the paper upon
which the amounts received are recorded, is a toothed wheel, which is operated, for
causing the paper to travel, by a screw or worm mounted on a shaft arranged within
the casing of the box or till, said screw or worm engaging with the teeth of the
wheel when the shaft on which it is mounted, is rotated. This shaft in the arrange-
ment above referred to is rotated half round when the handle of same is partially
turned to allow the drawer to be opened, the other half turn completing the whole
revolution of the shaft being imparted on locking the drawer when same is closed.
From the foregoing it will be seen that under said arrangement the paper advances
both before and after the closing of the drawer, .e at each half revolution of the shaft
carrying the worm or screw Now, it has been found in practice that this arrange-
ment opens up an easy way of fraud, seeing that the figures showing the amount of
the payments can be put down before the drawer is closed as well as before it is
opened, and will still pass out of sight.
It is therefore with a view to overcome the disadvantage above pointed out that my
present Invention is devised, in accordance with which I so arrange the actuating
mechanism that I render it impossible for the figures to pass out of sight unless
written before the drawer is opened, and this I effect as follows:-
Upon the spindle carrying the drum or bobbin for receiving the roll of paper, 19
mounted a toothed wheel attached to and rotating in conjunction with said drum or
bobbin. The rotation of the toothed wheel and receiving bobbin or drum is effected
in the following manner -Keyed upon a shaft or spindle-extending throughout the

page_text: interior of the casing and terminating in a handle on the exterior thereof-1s a
continuous circular cam the half or any suitable proportion of which is at right angles
to the shaft or spindle on which it is mounted, the other portion being formed or
"set" at the required angle. This "set" portion of the cam working in the above
mentioned toothed wheel causes same, on the rotation of the shaft or spindle on which
the cam is mounted, to make one portion of a revolution, thereby compelling the
figures which have previously been written on the strip of paper, to advance, and thus
disappear from view. The "set" portion of the cam having completed its work the
other portion of the cam at right angles to the spindle now enters another tooth of
the wheel aforesaid, and not being "set," communicates no motion to the wheel, and,
if figures had been written after the first motion had been imparted to same, they
then would not pass out of sight but would remain exposed to view, and the figures
recording the next payment would have to be written over those last recorded, thereby
indicating, when the paper is removed, that an attempt at fraud had been made on the
part of the operator. It will also be evident that the major portion of the cam at
right angles to the spindle not only prevents the paper from being advanced in a
fraudulent manner as is common with apparatus at present in use, but also tends to
lock the wheel and prevent the return movement thereof.
Dated this Sixth day of May 1889
JAMES STEVENSON,
Gray's Inn Chambers, 20, High Holborn, W.C., Agent for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and Apparatus for Recording and Checking the
Receipts and Payments of Moneys, being especially applicable
for use with Cash Tills and the like.
I, THOMAS MILNES FAVELL of Seabridge Hall, near Newcastle under Lyme, in the
county of Stafford Engineer and Ironfounder 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, reference being also
had to the accompanying drawing in which :-
Figure 1 represents an elevation with a side removed Figure 2 a plan with the lid
detached of a check till of the type hereinafter referred to having my improvements
adapted thereto, Figure 3 being a side elevation shown detached and to enlarged scale
of an essential working part to be afterwards particularly described.
My present invention relates to a novel device for checking and recording the
receipts and payments_of_monies-and-has-reference more particularly to that-class-of
ironey receiving apparatus known as check tills employed in connection with shops
transacting retail business.
In carrying out my Invention, I employ an ordinary containing case or box A in
one portion of which is disposed a drawer B for despositing the monies received, the
remaining portion being utilized for containing the recording and checking apparatus.
This latter preferably comprises two hobbins or drums a, b mounted on spindles a', b¹,
a roll of paper d, which is fed from one (a) to the other (b) passing over or under a
plate e disposed in a slot or opening formed in the lid of the box or till, the amount
of each payment received being successively recorded on said roll of paper which is
advanced by the rotation of one of the bobbins or drums previously to the
opening of the drawer for depositing therein the amount received as hereinafter fully
described.
My Invention has for its object the more efficient and effectual working of the
recording apparatus whereby I am enabled to ensure that any attempt at fraud on
the part of the assistant depositing money in the till drawer may be detected by the
employer on the removal of the strip or band aforesaid
Numerous devices have already been introduced prior to the date of my Invention

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with a view to rotate the drum or bobbin and cause the paper to travel a proportionats
distance after the payment received has been recorded thercon. These attempts to
attain the object in view have however met with very indifferent results.
instance, one of the devices already introduced, consists of the following essential
features: Attached to and working with the drum or bobbin on which is wound the
paper upon which the amounts received are recorded, is a toothed wheel, which is
operated, for causing the paper to travel by a screw or worm mounted on a shaft
arranged within the casing of the box or till, said screw or worm engaging with the
teeth of the wheel when the shaft on which it is mounted, is rotated. This shaft, in
the arrangement above referred to, is rotated half round when the handle of same is
partially turned to allow the drawer to be opened, the other half turn, completing the
whole revolution of the shaft, being imparted on locking the drawer when same is
closed. From the foregoing it will be seen that under said arrangement the paper
advances both before and after the closing of the drawer, .e., at each half revolution
of the shaft carrying the worm or screw. Now, it has been found in practice that
this arrangement opens up an easy way of fraud, seeing that the figures showing the
amount of the payments can be put down before the drawer is closed as well as
before it is opened, and will still pass out of sight.
It is therefore with a view to overcome the disadvantage above pointed out that
iny present Invention is devised, in accordance with which I so arrange the actuating
mechanism that I render it impossible for the figures to pass out of sight
unless written before the drawer is opened, and thus I effect as follows:-
:-
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Upon the spindle carrying the drum or bobbin 6 for receiving the roll of
paper d on which the payments are recorded is mounted a toothed wheel C attached
to and rotated in conjunction with said drum or bobbin b. The rotation of the toothed
wheel C and receiving bobbin or drum b is effected in the following manner :-Keyed
upon a shaft or spindle D-extending throughout the interior of the casing and
terminating in a handle at the exterior thereof is a continuous circular cam E
Figure 3 the half or any suitable portion e of which is at right angles to the shaft
or spindle D on which it is mounted, the other portion e¹ being formed or
' set
the required angle. This "set" portion e' of the cam working in the above mentioned
toothed wheel C causes same, on the rotation of the shaft or spindle D on which the
cam is mounted, to make one portion of a revolution, thereby compelling the figures
which have previously been written on the strip of paper to advance, and thus
disappear from view. The "set" portion e¹ of the cam having completed its work
the other portion e of the cam at right angles to the spindle D now enters another
tooth of the wheel aforesaid, and, not being "set" communicates no motion to the
wheel, and, if figures had been written after the first motion had been imparted to
same they then would not pass out of sight but would remain exposed to view and
the figures recording the next payment would have to be written over those last
recorded, thereby indicating, when the paper is removed, that an attempt at fraud
had been made on the part of the operator. It will also be evident that the major
portion of the cam at right angles to the spindle not only prevents the paper from
being advanced in a fraudulent manner as is common with apparatus at present in
use, but also tends to lock the wheel and prevent the return movement thereof. To
prevent the shaft D being rotated in the opposite direction I mount thereon a
toothed wheel in the teeth of which engages a pawl f1 Figure 2. A spring at
back of the box or cam A might be employed for facilitating the opening of the
drawer B when released by the knob of the spindle D.
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 :-
In check tills of the type herein referred to the employment of a worm E having
one half or any suitable portion e thereof formed at right angles to the shaft or
spindle D on which it is mounted and the other half or remainder el set at the

page_text: required angle for ensuring a partial rotation of the toothed wheel C during a
portion only of the revolution of the spindle D substantially as set forth and shown
and for the purposes specified.
7 Dated this Eighth day of February 1890.
JAMES STEVENSON,
Gray's Inn Chambers, 20, High Holborn, London, W.C., Agent for Applicant.