Improvements in and relating to Apparatus for Recording Mercantile Business Sales or other Transactions.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of App tion,
1907
Complete Specification Left, 20th Sept., 1898-Accepted, 12th Nov., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 20th Sept., 1898-Accepted, 12th Nov., 1898
Improvements in and relating to Apparatus for Recording Mercantile
Business Sales or other Transactions.
A communication from abroad by THE HOUGH CASH RECORDER COMPANY, of
Indian Orchard, in the County of Hampden, Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
United States of America, Merchants.
I, ALFRED GEORGE BROOKES, of 55 & 56, Chancery Lane, in the County of
London, Chartered Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
This invention is an improvement on the sales recorder described in the Specifica-
tion of Letters Patent granted to Azel Clarence Hough, dated May 13th 1892,
No. 21920.
That patent shows a sales strip which is fed forward intermittingly after each
entry thereon by or through the action of a rotating drum on which the strip
is wound as it is used, said drum receiving its movement intermittingly by a pawl
which is actuated from the so called drawer locking mechanism which is manipu-
lated by the salesman after each entry on the strip and preparatory to opening
the drawer.
In an apparatus of this kind it is a matter of great importance that each strip
be thoroughly utilized, and that the greatest number of entries be put upon it,
and that the said entries be placed uniformly on the strip, but, in practice, by
the use of the. mechanism described in said patent, it has been found that the
movement of the drum is not uniform and it frequently happens that the strip
is moved too far, due to momentum of the drum, so that a part of the strip is.
wasted.
When the entries are widely separated it is more difficult to foot them up when
the strip is removed.
One object of this invention is, therefore, to prevent any movement of the
strip due to overrunning of the feeding movement or the action of the feeding
mechanism or drum, and to provide against this, the recorder is provided with a
locking device under the control of the pawl for moving the drum, the said pawl,
the instant that it completes its forward or acting stroke, moving the said locking
device to positively engage and hold the drum so that it cannot move at all due
to momentum, and in this way the movement of the strip is always just the same
distance, and the entries. are made uniformly close together without any undue
waste of paper between.
The locking device shown engages a second set of ratchet teeth at one end of the
feeding drum.
There is also provided a novel tension device for controlling the delivery or
unwinding of the strip as the roll of strip material varies in diameter.

page_text: It sometimes happens that the salesman by inadvertence will start to open the
drawer, forgetting to make the entry of his sales on the sales strip, and to provide
for this emergency so that the salesman cannot open the drawer if he has not
made his entry without his attention being called to the omission of making the
entry, the frame, containing the slit through which the salesman makes the entry
on the strip has been mounted, so that it may yield vertically to the pressure of
the hand of the salesman in making the entry, and this pressure and depression
of the frame is necessary before the drawer can be opened, for the frame as it
descends acts upon a lever or device which, so long as the frame referred to remains
in its elevated position, serves to restrain the movement of the frame of the drawer
locking mechanism.
The movement of the drawer locking mechanism also causes the movement
of the pawl employed to rotate the drum or feeding mechanism of the strip.
A casing has a hinge or movable lid or top with an opening at its base, for the
reception of a cash drawer provided with any usual or proper spaces for the recep-
tion of coins or bills, a horizontal partition in the casing covering said drawer
when closed.
The lid or top has an opening over which is located a movable open centred
frame, having at one end two ears which fit over and turn freely on a suitable
rod sustained by other ears of a stand connected to the underside of the lid by
screws, said rod forming a pivot for the said frame.
The rod receives about it a strong spiral spring, one end of which acts against
said stand and the other end against another rod connected to and extended across
the underside of the frame, said spring acting normally with sufficient force to
keep the opposite end of the said frame elevated the extent of upward movement
of said frame being determined by a headed stud depending from the free end of
the frame and contacting with a suitable plate secured to the lid.
The underside of the frame has suitable ribs against which rests the ends of
a glass or other transparent plate one edge of said plate resting against lugs,
thus defining the position of said edge, it constituting one side of the entry slot
through which the salesman introduces a pencil to write upon the strip.
A suitable card, printed at its upper side, may be interposed between the rod
and the transparent plate.
The said frame has a downturned crosslip to which is connected by suitable
screws a spring pressure plate which bears upon the top of the strip lying on the
drum, the free end of said plate defining in this instance the upper side of the
entry slot.
The strip to receive the sales entries, is put into the machine in the form of
a roll, and the end of the strip is connected in any suitable manner to the drum,
and as the strip is used it is fed by and wound on the drum, the drum constituting
also a table to support the strip.
The said frame has an attached hand rest..
A stand is secured to the underside of the lid by screws and this stand has a
fulcrum for a lever, the free end of which is notched to rest against the bar forming
part of the drawer locking means, said lever acting to lock said bar when the
frame is elevated, but the salesman, when making an entry through the entry
slot, depresses by the weight of his hand on the plate the short end of the lever,
thus lifting the end of the lever from the bar, and as the bar is lifted a pin con-
nected therewith passes from the lowermost notch of a spring controlled dog and
engages a notch of said dog, so that said lever is held up away from the bar, and
thereafter, by manipulating the finger keys in proper manner, the bar may be
moved to effect the unlocking and opening of the drawer and the feeding move-
ment of the drum, and in such movement of the bar, the bar strikes the
lower end of the dog and moves its notch away from the pin, again
letting the long end of the lever drop so that it may catch behind
the bar when it again arrives in its normal position.
If the salesman has not made his entry on the strip, and attempts to open the

page_text: drawer, he cannot do so, and this will at once remind him that his entry has not
been made, and he will then make his entry, thus removing the locking device
from the bar.
This provision provides against the carelessness of the salesman.
A platform supports a metallic frame carrying the working parts and a shaft of
the drum.
The drum consists of two spiders, connected with the shaft, a tin or sheet metal
surface uniting the two spiders.
The one spider has in this instance two sets of ratchet teeth.
The teeth are engaged by a push pawl pivoted on a bar, pivotally mounted on
studs in arms of a stand secured to the interior of the casing.
The bar has a backwardly extended arm which enters a notch in one side of
a bolt, guided in an ear and by the partition the lower end of said bolt normally
entering a notch in the drawer and keeping it closed against its opening spring
suitably arranged behind the drawer in the case.
When the bolt is lifted from the notch by the movement of the bar, the spring
throws the drawer open, and the lower end of the bolt rides on the track, while
the drawer is being opened, but when it is again closed the bolt drops by gravity
the notch in the side of the bolt being of sufficient length to permit this, but when
the drawer is locked the upper side of the arm stands close to the upper end of the
notch of the bolt.
The opposite end of the bar carries a finger which, as the frame is turned in a
direction to cause the pawl to act on a tooth and turn the drum one step, meets
one end of a dog pivotted on a hammer carrier, causing said carrier to be moved to
actuate its hammer, the latter, as the finger passes the dog, striking a gong one
blow, which simply indicates that the drawer has been opened by a person authorized
to do so.
The bar has jointed to it a push rod surrounded by a spring, the rod being
extended outwardly through a rest, said rod having a suitable collar and an
enlarged end.
The inner end of the spring acts against a depending ear, and said spring
normally acts to keep the rod pressed to the left, with the collar against the rest.
When the locking keys, are moved to place the projections carried thereby all
below the path of movement of the har, then the salesman, by pushing against
the enlarged end, throws the bar forward or toward the drum, causing the pawl to
move the drum and causing the bolt to be lifted and unlock the drawer.
When the bar starts forward the free end of the pawl in engagement with the
tooth turns the drum or feeding device one step, and just as the pawl is completing
its effective stroke a projection on said pawl meets the arm of a drum locking
device, say a three armed locking lever pivotted, and immediately elevates the
arm of said lever, so that it engages a tooth, instantly checking any tendency of
the drum to move, due to momentum.
As the pawl is retracted by a spring, a spring acting on the arm of the three
armed lever, immediately removes the acting end from the tooth engaged by it.
leaving the drum unlocked.
The arms, support loosely a rod having an extended end, and in case an un
authorized person operates a key-lever not in the combination, a projection of
said key-lever meets an arm connected with said rod, and turns it so that the arm
is left free to be moved by the escapement wheel of a normally wound motor,
causing the hammer thereof to strike a series of sharp blows on the gong, thus
calling attention to the fact that the person manipulating the recorder is un-
authorized.
Each key lever has a finger cooperating with it, and the fingers, cooperating with
the key levers which are to be moved to effect the unlocking of the drawer, are
turned down, so that the projections cannot strike them.
A detent cooperating with teeth, acts to prevent retrograde movement of the
drum.

page_text: The roll or strip of paper is supported at its ends on conical pointed journals,
one journal being fixed in a stand, while the other journal is movable in a stand
The journal is extended or prolonged through an elbow lever, the lowermost
arm of said lever being extended toward the roll of paper, where it is acted upon
by a weighted latch lever the lower end of said latch being notched.
The journal has a shoulder against which acts one end of a spiral spring, the
opposite end of the spring resting against the lever, and this lever may be turned
to compress the spring more or less, and consequently force the journal closer
and closer into the strip or roll, to produce greater friction, and the lever latch
will hold it in the position in whicli it may be put.
In this way, the tension on the roll of paper may be regulated so that it may be
delivered to the drum under tension and avoid the formation of slack.
The partition of the recorder carries a bill file.
The casing lid has an opening covered by a minor lid having a down-turned
arm extended through a slot in the casing of the lid, so that as the door is opened
said arm strikes a dog pivotted on a hammer carrying lever, in turn pivotted,
and turns said lever, causing the hammer to strike a suitable spring or other
equivalent sounding device, to call attention to the fact that the door has been
opened.
The pivot for the lever is carried by a stand held in place on the lid by suitable
screws, a spring acting against the lever, and a spring acting on the dog.
The opening of the door actuates the striker, but in closing the door the arm
passes the dog and does not operate the hammer.
The frame has a projection or ear which normally stands above the short arm
of the lever.
The key levers, the bar, and the bolt, constitute what may be designated as the
drawer locking mechanism.
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WM. BROOKES & SON,
55/56, Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicant.
Improvements-in-and relating to Apparatus for Recording Mercantile
→ Business Sales or other Transactions.
A communication from abroad by THE HOUGH CASI RECORDER COMPANY," of
Indian Orchard, in the County of Hampden, Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
United States of America, Merchants.
I, ALFRED GEORGE BROOKES, of 55/56, Chancery Lane, in the County of
London, Chartered Patent Agent, 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 is an improvement on the sales recorder described in the Specifica-
tion of Letters Patent granted to Azel Clarence Hough dated May 13th 1892
No. 21920.
-
That patent shows a sales strip which is fed forward intermittingly after each
entry thereon by or through the action of a rotating drum on which the strip
is wound as it is used, said drum receiving its movement intermittingly by a-pawl
which is actuated from the so called drawer locking mechanism which is manipa-
lated by the salesman after each entry on the strip and preparatory to opening
the drawer.
In an apparatus of this kind it is a matter of great importance that each strip

page_text: be thoroughly utilized, and that the greatest number of entries be put upon it,
and that the said entries be placed uniformly on the strip; but, in practice, by
the use of the mechanism described in said patent, it has been found that the
movement of the drum is not uniform and it frequently happens that the strip
is moved too far, due to momentum of the drum, so that a part of the strip is
wasted.
When the entries are widely separated it is more difficult to foot them up when
the strip is removed.
One object of this invention is, therefore to prevent any movement of the
strip due to overrunning of the feeding movement or the action of the feeding
mechanism or drum and to provide against this the recorder is provided with a
locking device under the control of the pawl for moving the drum, the said pawl,
the instant that it completes its forward or acting stroke, moving the said locking
device to positively engage and hold the drum so that it cannot move at all by
momentum, and in this way the movement of the strip is always just the same
distance, and the entries are made uniformly close together without any undue
waste of paper between.
The locking device shown engages a second set of ratchet teeth at one end of the
feeding drum.
There is also provided a novel tension device for controlling the delivery or
unwinding of the strip as the roll of strip material varies in diameter.
It sometimes happens that the salesman by inadvertence will start to open the
drawer, forgetting to make the entry of his sales on the sales strip, and to provide
for this emergency so that the salesman cannot open the drawer if he has not
made his entry without his attention being called to the omission of making the
entry, the frame, containing the slit through which the salesman makes the entry
on the strip has been mounted so that it may yield vertically to the pressure of
the hand of the salesman in making the entry, and this pressure and depression
of the frame is necessary before the drawer can be opened, for the frame as it
descends acts upon a lever or device which, so long as the frame referred to remains
in its elevated position, serves to restrain the movement of the frame of the drawer
locking mechanism.
The movement of the drawer locking mechanism also causes the movement
of the pawl employed to rotate the drum or feeding mechanism of the strip.
Fig. 1, in top view, shows a sales recorder embodying the invention to be herein
described.
Fig. 2 is a sectional detail of the locking mechanism and movable bar forming
a part thereof.
Fig. 2 shows in perspective the bar e which is represented in section in Fig. 2.
Fig. 3 is a view of the underside of the lid or top of the case.
Fig. 4 is a section through the lid, in the dotted line x, Fig. 3, and through the
case in the dotted line, Fig. 5.
Fig. 4 shows the latch lever detached.
Fig. 5 is a view looking down into the recorder, the lid being removed, the
strip used in the recorder being in position on the drum.
Fig. 6 is a partial sectional enlarged detail looking at the recorder from the
right of the dotted line ³, Fig. 1, the drum being omitted.
The casing A having a hinge or movable lid or top A¹, has an opening at its base.
see Fig. 4, for the reception of a cash drawer A2, it being provided with any usual
or proper spaces for the reception of coins or bills, a horizontal partition A³ in
the casing covering said drawer when closed.
The lid or top has an opening at A4, see Fig. 4, over which is located a movable
open centred frame B, having at one end two ears b which fit over and turn freely
on a suitable rod b¹ sustained by ears 63 of a stand b³ connected to the underside of
the lid by screws 6*, said rod forming a pivot for the frame B.
The rod b¹ receives about it a strong spiral spring 64, one end of which acts
against said stand and the other end against a rod 65, connected to and extended

page_text: across the underside of the frame, said spring acting normally with sufficient force
to keep the opposite end of the said frame elevated as shown in Fig. 4, the extent
of upward movement of said frame being determined by a headed stud 66 depending
from the free end of the frame and contacting with a suitable plate b secured to
the lid.
The underside of the frame has suitable ribs 68 against which rests the ends of
a glass or other transparent plate 69, one edge of said plate resting against lugs 10
thus defining the position of said edge, it constituting one side of the entry slot 12
through which the salesman introduces a pencil to write upon the strip S, shown
in Fig. 5.
A suitable card as 613, printed at its upper side and represented in Fig. 1, may be
interposed between the rod 65 and the transparent plate.
The frame B has a downturned cross lip to which is connected by suitable
screws a spring pressure plate 615, which bears upon the top of the strip ving
on the drum C¹ the free end of said plate defining in this instance the side of the
entry slot 612, opposite to the like edge of 69.
The strip S, to receive the sales entries, is put into the machine in the form of
a roll, and the end of the strip is connected in any suitable manner to the drum.
and as the strip is used it is fed by and wound on the drum, the drum constituting
also a table to support the strip.
The frame B has an attached hand rest 616 held in place by screws 617.
A stand c¹, see Fig. 3, is secured to the underside of the lid by screws c, and
this stand has a fulcrum c² for a lever c³, the free end of which is notched to rest
against the bar c6, (Fig. 4) to be described, forming part of the drawer locking
means, said lever acting to lock said bar when the spring supported manually.
operated frame B is elevated as represented in Fig. 6, but the salesman when
making an entry through the entry slot, depresses, by the weight of his hand on
the plate 61 attached to said frame, the short end of the lever, thus lifting the
opposite end of said lever from the bar cf, so that a pin c* connected with said lever
will pass from the lowermost notch of a spring controlled dog pivotted at 40
and acted upon by a spring 41, and engage the notch 2 of said dog, so that said
Jever will be caught and held up away from the bar c, so that when the finger
keys have been manipulated in the predetermined manner, the said bar may
by pressure on the rod f be moved to effect the unlocking of the drawer, such
-movement of the bar throwing forward the pawl e, so that it in engagement with
the tooth of the series of teeth 5 of the drum, will move said drum, and in this
movement of the bar c6 it strikes the lower end of the dog and turns it about its
pivot, thus removing its notch from the pin c³, thus leaving the long end of the
lever free to drop, so that it may again engage and lock the bar c6 in place as
the latter arrives in its normal position represented in Fig. 6.
.
If the salesman has not made his entry on the strip, and attempts to open the
drawer, he cannot do so, and this will at once remind him that his entry has not
been made, and he will then make his entry, thus removing the locking device ³
from the bar 6.
This provision provides against the carelessness of the salesman.
The platform A supports a metallic frame D carrying the working parts and the
shaft of the drum C¹.
The drum consists of two spiders D³, D³, connected with the shaft D¹, a tin or
sheet metal surface uniting the two spiders.
the
The spider D2 has in this instance two sets of ratchet teeth 5, 6.
The teeth 5 are engaged by the push pawl e pivotted at e¹ on the bar
shape of which is best shown in Fig. 24, it being pivotally mounted on studs 7, 8,
in arms e, e³, of a stand e, secured to the interior of the casing.
The bar has a backwardly extended arm e³, see Figs. 2 and 4, which enters
a notch in one side of a bolt e, guided in an ear e and by the partition A³, the
lower end of said bolt normally entering a notch 9 in the drawer A² and keeping it

page_text: closed. against its opening spring a suitably arranged behind the drawer in the
case.
When the bolt is lifted from the notch by the movement of the bar c6, the
spring throws the drawer open, and the lower end of the bolt rides on the track 12,
while the drawer is being opened, but when it is again closed the bolt drops by
gravity, the notch in the side of the bolt being of sufficient length to permit this,
but when the drawer is locked, the upper side of the arm stands close to the
upper end of the notch of the bolt.
The opposite end of the bar e carries a finger es which, as the frame is turned in
a direction to cause the pawl e to act on a tooth 5, and turn the drum one step,
meets one end of a dog e pivotted at e¹0 on a hammer carrier e¹³, pivotted at e¹³,
causing said carrier to be moved to actuate its hammer e, the latter, as the
finger passes the dog e, striking the gong elō one blow, which simply indicates
that the drawer has been opened.
The bar has jointed to it at 13 a push rod f surrounded by a spring 14,
the rod being extended outwardly through a rest f¹, said rod having a suitable
collar 15 and an enlarged end f².
The inner end of the spring 14 acts against a depending ear 16, and said spring
normally acts to keep the rod f pressed to the left, Fig. 2, with the collar 15 against
the rest f¹.
When the locking keys 20, pivotted at 20* and common to said patent, are moved
to place the projections g¹ carried thereby all below the path of movement of the
bar c, then the salesman, by pushing against the enlarged end 2, throws the
bar forward or toward the drum, causing the pawl e to move the drum and
causing the bolt e to be lifted and unlock the drawer.
When the bar 6 is moved forward by pressure of the rod f, the free end of the
pawl e, attached to said bar and having its end in engagement with one of the series
of teeth 5, acts to turn the drum or feeding device one step, and just as the pawl
is completing its effective forward or feeding stroke, a projection 42 thereon, meets
the arm 41, of a drum locking device herein shown as a three armed lever pivotted
at h2, and immediately elevates the end 40 of said lever so that it engages one of
the series of teeth 6, thus instantly checking any tendency of the drum to move,
by momentum.
As the bar.c and pawle are retracted by the spring 14, on the rod f, the
spring 45 acting on the arm 44 of the three armed lever h', immediately removes
the end 40 of said lever from the tooth of the series of teeth 6 just engaged by it,
thus leaving the drum unlocked and the pawl e in its normal inoperative position.
The arms e², and e³, support loosely a rod g having an extended end g*, and in
case a key lever not in the combination, is operated, a projection 35 of said key
lever meets an arm g adjustably connected with said rod g, by a suitable set
screw g³, and turns said rod so that the arm g* connected therewith may be turned,
its free end being lowered from the position shown in Fig. 6, so that the loop or
connection 26 leading therefrom to the lever 36 carrying the escapement is left
free to be moved through the movement of the escapement wheel 920, actuated by
a normally wound motor, thus causing the hammer e¹ to be actuated to strike a
series of sharp blows on the gong e, thereby calling attention to the drawer.
The user of the recorder having determined which particular key levers he desires
to use in the combination to effect the opening of the drawer without ringing the
gong e, will, loosen the set screw g³ and will turn the fingers g on the shaft g,
so that said fingers will be, out of the range of movement of the pins 35 carried by
those key levers, the remaining fingers being left in their elevated. position
as represented by dotted lines in Fig. 2, so that when any one of the fingers of the
key levers above it is depressed the pin 35 carried by it will strike the corresponding
finger g'.
Fig. 2 shows two of the fingers 94, one in full and the other in dotted lines
above it.

page_text: A detent h, cooperating with teeth 5, acts to prevent retrograde movement of
the drum.
My correspondents believe themselves the first to provide the drum or feeding
mechanism for manipulating the strip of a cash recorder with means whereby the
feeding movement of the strip or of the drum may be instantly checked at the
end of its predetermined stroke, thus preventing any overrunning of the feeding
movement, and hence this invention is not limited to the exact device or lever.
shown as constituting the drum locking mechanism.
The roll or strip of paper is supported at its ends on conical pointed journals 50
and 51, the journal 50 being fixed in a stand 52, while the journal 51 is movable
in a stand 53, see Fig. 4.
The journal 51 is extended or prolonged, as shown in Fig. 5, through an elbow
lever 54 pivotted at 55, the lowermost arm of said lever being extended toward
the roll of paper, where it is acted upon by a weighted latch lever 56 pivotted
at 57 on the stand 53, the lower end of said latch being notched, as shown in
Fig. 4.
The journal 51 has a shoulder 58 against which acts one end of a spiral spring 56*,
the opposite end of the spring resting against the lever 54, and this lever may be
turned to compress the spring more or less, and consequently force the journal 51
closer and closer into the strip or roll, to produce greater friction, and the lever
latch 56 will hold it in the position in which it may be put.
In this way, the tension on the roll of paper may be regulated, so that it may be
delivered to the drum under tension and avoid the formation of slack.
The partition A³ of the recorder carries a bill file shown as a pin m.
The lid A¹ has an opening m¹ covered by a lid m², having a downturned arm m
extended through a slot m in the casing of the lid, so that as the door m² is
opened said arm strikes a dog m" pivotted at m³ on a hammer carrying lever m³,
in turn pivotted at m³, and turns said lever, causing the hammer m to strike
a suitable spring m2 or other equivalent sounding device, to call attention to the
fact that the door has been opened.
The pivot m³ for the lever m³ is carried by a stand m¹³, held in place on the lid
by suitable screws, a spring m" acting against the lever m³, and a spring 60 acting
on the dog mo.
The opening of the door m² actuates the striker m10, but in closing the door the
arm m passes the dog mo and does not operate the hammer m10.
The frame B has a projection or ear 20 which normally stands above the short
arm of the lever c³.
The key levers, the bar c6 and the bolt e, constitute what is designated in the
claims as the drawer locking mechanism.
The casing A has erected on it a table A10 having any usual or suitable mat of
rubber or other material on which may be laid the money or change.
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 in a sales recorder or recorder for like transactions utilizing a con-
tinuous strip, of a strip feeding drum or device, a pawl to engage said drum and
move it to feed ine said strip a definite distance, a locking device controlled by said
pawl and acuated thereby to immediately lock said drum or device at the end of
the forward or feeding stroke of the pawl, to thereby prevent any overrunning of
the feeding movement, substantially as described.
2. The use in a sales recorder or recorder for like transactions utilizing a
continuous strip, of a strip feeding drum or device, having at its end two sets of
ratchet teeth, the teeth of one set being pointed opposite those of the other set,
a pawl to engage one set of said ratchet teeth to move the drum or device a
definite distance, and a locking device to engage a tooth of the other set of teeth
to immediately lock said drum or device in place at the end of its positive or

page_text: forward feeding movement, to thereby prevent any
movement, substantially as described.
3. The use in a sales recorder or recorder for like transactions utilizing a con-
tinuous strip, of a strip feeding drum or device presenting two sets of ratchet teeth,
a pawl to engage one of said sets of ratchet teeth to move said drum or device to
feed the strip, a locking device composed of a lever having an end adapted to engage
the other set of said ratchet teeth, said locking device being under the control of
said pawl, whereby said pawl as it completes its forward or feeding stroke in
actuating said drum or device, starts into action the said locking device causing
it to instantly stop any further feeding motion of said drum or device, substantially
as described.
4. In use in a sales recorder or recorder for like transactions, utilizing a con-
tinuous strip, of a strip feeding drum or device presenting two sets of ratchet
teeth, a pawl to engage one of said sets of ratchet teeth to move said drum or
device to feed the strip, a locking device composed of a lever having an end adapted
to engage the other set of said ratchet teeth, said locking device being under the
control of said pawl, whereby said pawl as it completes its forward or feeding stroke
in actuating said drum or device, starts into action the said locking device causing
it to instantly stop any further feeding motion of said drum or device, and a spring
to effect the disengagement of said locking device from the teeth with which it
cooperates as the feeding pawl arrives in its normal position, substantially as
described.
5. The use, in a sales recorder or recorder for like transactions, employing a
continuous sales strip, of a casing, a drawer, drawer locking mechanism containing
a movable bar having an attached rod by which to move it when the keys of the
locking mechanism permit it, a strip feeding drum provided with two sets of ratchet
teeth a pawl pivotted on said bar and adapted to engage one set of said teeth;
means to move said pawl to actuate said drum, and a lever normally disengaged
from the other set of said ratchet teeth but adapted to be operated by the said
pawl substantially at the end of its actuating stroke, to cause said lever to act and
engage a tooth of the second set of ratchet teeth and positively check any over-
running of said drum, substantially as described.
6. The use in a sales recorder or recorder for like transactions, of a case provided
with a closed top or lid having an entry opening or slot through which to make an
entry on a continuous sales strip, a drum to feed said strip, said drum having a
series of ratchet teeth, a pawl cooperating with one series of said teeth to move
said drum intermittingly to feed said strip for each new entry thereon, a locking
device cooperating with the other set of teeth of said drum and controlled by the
said pawl to instantly engage the teeth with which it operates and stop the rotation
of the drum after the same has been moved forward positively for a defined distance
and the pawl for so moving the drum has come to rest thereby obviating the
overrunning of the motion of the drum and the waste of sales strip, substantially
as described.
7. In a sales recorder or recorder for like transactions presenting a case pro-
vided with a top or lid having an entry opening and containing a continuous sales
strip, the use of a spring-supported manually-operated frame having a recording
opening, and a hand rest; a drawer, a drawer locking mechanism containing a
movable bar; a lever located between the bar of said drawer locking mechanism
and said spring-supported frame, and being moved to release said bar by the
depression of said frame by the hand of the salesman in making an entry on the
sales strip; a drum adapted to feed the strip, said drum being moved by a suitable
pawl operatively connected to said bar; and a drum locking mechanism adapted to
be thrown into operative engagement with and instantly check the motion of said
drum after the pawl referred to has completed its feeding stroke, thereby preventing
any overrunning of the motion of the drum and waste of strip, substantially as
described.
8. The use, in a sales recorder or recorder for like transactions employing a con-

page_text: tinuous strip, of a drum to feed said strip; journals to receive and support the strip
in roll form; a lever to move one of said journals against the end of said roll,
to produce more or less friction on said roll; a spring interposed between said lever
and a shoulder of said journal, and a latch to hold said lever in adjusted position,
to thereby control the pressure of the journal on said roll, and to prevent the
formation of slack in the strip, substantially as described.
9. The construction or arrangement in combination of the parts of an apparatus
for recording mercantile business or other transactions so as to ensure economy of
time and trouble with accuracy and certainty of operation, substantially as and for
the purposes herein before set forth and as' shewn by the drawings.
Dated the 19th day of September 1898.
WM. BROOKES & SON,
55 & 50, Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicant.