Improvements in Appliances used for Checking and Recording the Amount of Cash Received or Taken.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Dec., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 10th Oct., 1893-Accepted, 16th Dec., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Appliances used for Checking and Recording the
Amount of Cash Received or Taken.
I, CHRISTOPHER WYNDHAM WILSON, of Rigmaden Park, Kirkby Lonsdale,
Westmoreland Gentleman do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in connection with the cash register
described in Specification No. 218 dated Jan. 5th 1891 & consists in attaching to
the said machine a set of index wheels facing the customer which are operated by
the horizontal movement of the bars carrying the type.
This is conveniently effected by attaching to the said bars, racks, working
pinions which may have one or more sets of supplementary toothed wheels, bands
or the like to convey the motion to any desirable position.
In order however that the motion of the bars at the left side may operate the
drums or index wheels on the customers left hand (which as the customer is turned
facing the operator really means exactly the reverse side) 1 arrange each drum
so that it is mounted on or attached to, a sleeve connected with the corresponding
toothed wheel and rack or type bar; the different drums being worked by their
respective pinions by a special sleeve spindle arrangement so that one can work
independently of the other although all rotation is around a common axis.
Where desirable I may attach a bell sounded by a suitable hammer, which is
operated by the platen movement, and a roll of paper preferably perforated at
intervals for detaching short lengths may be made to work across the machine
forming receipts in place of stamping each separate invoice.
To facilitate the manipulation of the machine the travelling type bars may be
notched on the upper edge for the better action of the fingers. The ink ribbon
feeding gear may be fitted with a swivelling lever and links on the printing key to
change the driving pawl and thereby reverse the motion.
Dated this 16th day of September 1892.
CHRIST. W. WILSON.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Appliances used for Checking and Recording the
Amount of Cash Received or Taken.
I, CHRISTOPHER WYNDHAM WILSON, of Rigmaden Park, Kirkby Lonsdale,
Westmoreland, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
My present invention relates to improvements in connection with the cash
register described in my former Specification dated January 5, 1891, No. 218;
and consists in attaching to the said machine a set of index wheels facing the
customer, which wheels are operated by the horizontal movement of the bars
carrying the type.
This is conveniently effected by attaching toothed racks to the type sets
mentioned in my said former Specification, such type sets consisting of bars
capable of receiving longitudinal motion. These racks gear into pinions, which
may be caused to actuate one or more set or sets of supplementary toothed wheels,
or bands or equivalent devices to convey the motion so as to indicate the amount
of the cash transaction in any required position.

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In order that the motions of the bars on (say) the operator's left hand, may be
caused to operate the drums or index wheels on the customer's left hand, (which, as
the customer faces the operator, really means exactly the reverse side) I arrange
each drum so that it is mounted on or attached to a sleeve connected with the
corresponding toothed wheel and rack or type bar; the different drums being
worked by their respective pinions, by a special sleeve spindle arrangement, so
that each one can work independently of the others, although all rotation is around
a common centre.
Where desirable I may attach a bell, to be sounded by a suitable hammer,
operated by the movement of the platen, and a roll of paper, preferably perforated
at intervals, for detachment in short lengths, may be fitted to work across the
machine, as shown in Figs. 4 and 5 of No. 218", such detached papers forming
receipts in place of stamping each separate invoice.
To facilitate the manipulation of the machine, the travelling type bars may be
notched on their upper edges, for the better action of the fingers. The ink ribbon
feeding gear may be fitted with a pivoted lever and links or connecting rods, so
arranged as to change the driving pawl and thereby reverse the motion.
And in order that my said invention may be particularly described and ascer-
tained, reference is hereby made to the accompanying drawings, in which similar
letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.
Fig. 1 is a longitudinal elevation.
Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation at right angles to Fig. 1.
Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional elevation and
Fig. 4 is a plan.
a is a case enclosing the index wheels or drums. is a glazed aperture or
window, formed in the case a, to enable the customer to see the amount indicated.
bbare toothed racks attached to the type bars, for operating the pinions c.
In Fig. 2 the index wheels, and sleeves connecting the index wheels with their
respective pinions, are shown alternately black and white, for greater clearness.
Thus it will be seen that the index wheel ƒ (Fig. 2) is connected, by means of a
sleeve, with the toothed wheel 9, which is rotated, through the wheels d and c,
from the rack h; thus conveying the motion of the toothed rack to the opposite
index wheel, as required. The other wheels and pinions are operated in a similar
manner, as will be readily understood from the drawings, whereby the sum arranged
by the operator at w is read by the customer through the window at a.
Referring to Figs. 1 and 4, the pawl p works in the ratchet wheel on the ink
drum k, and passes through a slot in the connecting link l. The same arrange-
ment is fitted on each side of the machine, and the links and are pivoted,
(one at each end) to the bar m; the latter being pivoted at n. When the pawl p¹
has been working on the roller ¹ (Fig. 4) so as to cause the roller k¹ to become
full of ink ribbon, that end of the bar m which is farthest from the link ", is shifted
from the operator towards the machine, thus engaging the pawl p with its ratchet
wheel, and disengaging the pawl p¹. The effect of this is that the ribbon is drawn
across the platen r in the reverse direction.
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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
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1. In appliances used for checking and recording the amount of cash received or
taken, of the description aforesaid, the combination therewith of toothed racks bb,
attached to the type bars, for operating toothed gearing in connection with index
wheels and pinions mounted upon sleeves, substantially as and for the purposes
herein before described and illustrated by the drawings.
2. In appliances as aforesaid, the combination therewith of ratchet wheels k and k³,
fast on the axles of the ink drums; pawls ppl connected by links with a double
ended lever or bar m, having its fulcrum at n, substantially as and for the purposes
herein before described and illustrated by the drawings.

page_text: 3. The general construction, arrangement and combination of the several and
respective parts, together forming my invention of improvements in appliances
used for checking and recording the amount of cash received or taken, substantially
as herein before described and illustrated by the drawings.
طيمد
סון
1000
GEO.
DOWNING,
8, Quality Court, London, W.C., Agent.