An Improved Cash Register and Check Till.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd May, 1898--Accepted, 25th June, 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Cash Register and Check Till.
I, ADOLF FRIEDRICH GERDES, of Wallstrasse, 69, Berlin, Germany, Merchant,
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:―
The present invention relates to improvements in and connected with cash
controlling apparatuses and has for its object to dispense with the cash con-
trolling apparatuses having been in use hitherto, as being too complicated and too
expensive.
To enable my invention to be more readily understood, reference is made to
the accompanying drawing in which:
Fig. 1 illustrates a front elevation of the cash controlling apparatus,
Fig. 2 a horizontal section along the line a-, Fig. 1, of the improved apparatus
and
Fig. 3 a sectional detail view of the paper block to be used with the said
apparatus.
In carrying out my invention I provide a box or casing a being semi-circular
in its horizontal section as it may be seen from Fig. 2. This casing a is mounted
upon a cash collecting box having a slot for introducing the coins into the
said box. The front wall of the casing a has been removed and displaced by a
frame c, Fig. 2, pivoted at 2 and locked or fixed at f to the casing a in any con-
venient manner. The frame e serves for carrying the paper blocks d, the object
of the latter being to afford the necessary controlling of the amount of cash,
which has been already introduced into the collecting box b, as it will be more
clearly explained in the following. The paper blocks consist of a series of leaves
being continuously numbered and marked with prices. The fixing of the paper
blocks to the frame may be made in any suitable manner, preferably in the way
as shown by Fig. 3. For this purpose the frame c is provided with brackets
forming guides into which the back piece carrying the paper leaves by
means of a metal border or the like, is introduced.
The cash controlling takes place in such a manner that a certain number of
leaves the amount of which, that is to say the prices marked upon the said
number of leaves and added together, is equal to the purchase price is torn off
the paper block and handed over to the purchaser as a receipt for the purchase
price. As the paper leaves of each block are numbered continuously and in
order to state the contents of the collecting box bit will be found only necessary
to multiply the number of the paper leaves already torn off with the prices marked
on the same whereby the result will indicate the contents of the collecting box b.
The back of the paper leaves as well as the back of the casing a may be used
preferably as a room for advertisements and the like.

page_text: 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, A cash controlling apparatus characterized by the arrangement of paper
blocks d fixed to a frame and consisting of a series of leaves being numbered
continuously and provided with prices.
2, Cash controlling apparatus of the kind characterized by Claim 1 in which
the frame c carrying the paper blocks is forming the front wall of a casing a
being semi-circular in its horizontal section and mounted upon a cash collecting
box b.
Dated this 30th day of April 1898.
ADOLF FRIEDRICH GERDES.