Improvements in Means and Appliances for Checking and Recording the Payment and Receipt of Money and Analogous Operations.
Year: 1888

page_text: Improvements in Means and Appliances for Checking and Recording
the Payment and Receipt of Money and Analogous Operations.
We FREDERICK ALFRED MESSER and WALTER FULLER THORPE both of 8 Quality
Court, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Engineers do hereby declare
the nature of our said invention to be as follows:-
Our invention relates to improved mechanism and arrangements of the same, for
indicating, checking, and registering the payment and receipt of money, and
analogous operations.
The Indicating portion of our invention is so arranged, and the mechanism for
actuating the figures belonging to the various denominations is so constructed, that
any figure or set of figures, forming a sum in the sequence of any denomination (as
for example £1, or 19s., or 2d., or d.) can be so adjusted and placed, with regard
to the figures of other denominations, that every combination necessary to form a
perfect money sequence, within the extremes of the highest and. lowest values
determined upon, can be displayed. By this arrangement the figures representing
the amount of any transaction, always appear in their natural consecutive order and
symmetrical position; as, for example,. the following figures £3:14:54. In
carrying out our invention we arrange the figures on the faces of tablets, the
necessary motion being given to the same by the depression of keys or buttons, or
equivalent appliances. Further, in combination with the before mentioned part of
the apparatus, we arrange dials and pointers for respectively registering and totaling,
under their respective denominations, the various amounts of each transaction, or
we record, by printing, the amount of each transaction, on a ribbon of paper or
other suitable material.
With regard to the keys or buttons, which are arranged to project beyond the
case wherein the mechanism is enclosed, we prefer, for English money, to have a suffi-
cient number of these keys to represent the following denominations or values; namely,
From 1 to any other convenient number, to represent pounds; next 1 to 19, for
shillings; 1 to 11 for pence; and similar mechanism for each fraction of a penny,
namely,,, and . These values are marked upon their respective keys or upon
the case against their respective keys.

page_text: On the depression of any single key, the amount which that key represents, is
shown at an aperture or apertures, in the upper part of the case; at the same time a
bell or alarm is sounded, and the amount received and indicated, is recorded upon
a suitable dial, by preference so enclosed and protected by lock or other means that it
cannot be tampered with.
,
In the above example, where a key of one denomination only is operated upon,
the amount of cash to be indicated and recorded is necessarily only of one
denomination, namely, either of pounds, shillings, pence, or fractions of a penny, as,
for example £2 or 11s. or 8d. or d. When the amount of cash received is made
up of two or more denominations, two or more keys would be required to be
simultaneously depressed or kept depressed. For example, if the amount be made up
of pounds, shillings, and pence, anil fractions of a penny, four keys or buttons would
simultaneously be manipulated, and the figures representing the amount so received
would be shewn in their true consecutive order, at a suitable aperture or apertures
in the upper part of the case, as before mentioned.
In this arrangement of our invention, we mount or fix plates, cards, or tablets, on¨
the ends of the arms of oscillating or vibrating levers.
These plates have marked upon them the figures necessary to form the money
sequence it is desired to show.
When the machine is required to present one side to the operator and the other
side to the customer, we, in the shilling and pence tablets mark the figures on both
sides of the tablets; and in the pounds and fractions of a penny tablets, we arrange
two tablets for each figure (or figures) on the vertical arm of each tablet lever,
namely, one to show at one side of the machine and the other to show at the other
side.
The other arms of the tablet levers are in connection with the tail ends of the
before mentioned pivotted key levers; the whole of the levers being kept in position
by guides. Each tablet lever is provided in its vertical arm with a pin or other
suitable contrivance, which engages with one of a series of pawls, arranged in the
form of a comb. The latter are placed between the vertical arms of the vibrating
tablet levers, and are for the purpose of holding the tablet levers in position during
the time the tablets are exhibited.
of
This is performed by permitting the pawls to engage with the aforesaid pins,
on the upward stroke of the tablet levers, so that the latter are held in position for
exhibiting the tablets. On the depression of the key-levers the pawls are lifted out
gear, and the tablet levers are thus released and allowed to fall, or to be pulled
back, by the action of springs, to their normal position. It will thus be seen that,
on the next account being recorded; the depression of any one key or series of
keys causes by means of suitable mechanism hereinafter described all the pawls to
be raised or lifted out of gear and all the tablet lovers to be released, and to be
returned to their normal position.
The manner in which the pawls are actuated is as follows :-
On a spindle running the whole length of the Machine, levers are fixed, having at
their extremities a bar (or bars) which bar (or bars) rest upon the tail end of all
the key levers. Upon the spindle is a tappet lever which engages with a spring
catch mounted on a vertical rod; the upward motion of this rod, by means of levers,
raises the pawls sufficiently to allow the tablet levers to return to their normal
position. The before mentioned catch is so pivotted, and held in position by a
spring, that it allows the tappet lever to pass it on the return stroke of the tappet
lever.
As cach transaction is indicated or shown, it is, by suitable gearing, at the same
time recorded, by means of hands, or pointers, upon one or more dials, according to
the number of denominations.
On the face of each dial a suitable stop is formed for the purpose of facilitating
the hands or pointers being set or adjusted to zero. Also, as each denomination has
its respective dial, that which is indicated upon the dial of any one denomination is
the total of the indicated sums belonging to that particular denomination. The

page_text: hands or pointers of the dials are actuated by means of pawis an
working a train of wheel-work or gearing, suitably ratioed to the denomination of
the respective dials, in connection with levers having horizontal bars on their ends.
These bars have upon their upper edges graduated steps. or depressions, or pins or
adjustable screws, for the purpose of regulating the amount of stroke to be given
to the before mentioned ratchet wheels, and thence, through the wheel work, to
the pointers or hands of the dials. Thus the proportionate amount of motion is
given to the hands of the dials, in accordance with the sum to be registered.
These bars are (preferably) placed underneath the front portion of the levers,
which carry the keys or buttons; and, as these levers in their downward stroke
come in contact with the before mentioned graduated bars, or with the pins or
screws of the same, they drive the bars downwards the desired amount. These
graduate bus are carried upon one end of a pivotted lever or levers, the other end
of the lever or levers being connected in each case by means of a connecting rod,
rich a lever and connecting rod, to the pawl lever which actuates the wheel work,
for working the hands or pointers of the dials. A bell or gong or other suitable
form of alarm is caused to be sounded upon the depression of any one
more keys.
or
We sometimes release the tablet levers by an independent key or pull-knob,
In this latter
placed in connection with the before mentioned series of pawls.
arrangement the pawls are not arranged to move together, as in the first mentioned
arrangement, but are each separate from one another, so that each one is actuated
independently by its own tablet lever only. In this arrangement of pawls the keys
need not be simultaneously depressed but may be depressed one after the other. The
actuation of the releasing key or knob alone releases all the pawls, and, through
them, all the tablet levers at one time, and thereby allows the tablets, as in the
former case, to assume their normal position before another transaction is recorded.
During the latter part of the movement of the release key or pull, a bell, gong, or
alarm is sounded which gives notice that the amount of the last transaction then
being cleared from the indicating opening, or openings by this release key, has been
registered, and that the machine is in a condition to indicate and register a new
transaction. When this release key is used and sounds a bell, then the tablet keys
of the denominations need not sound à bell on 'being depressed.
In this latter case, where we use a releasing key, we sometimes, in lieu of recording
by dials and pointers, record by a printing arrangement, which registers, by printing
the various transactions on a continuous ribbon of paper, through the intervention
of another ribbon of carbonized paper or other suitably prepared material, placed
between it and type discs.
The carbonized paper after leaving the type disc, is received and wound upon a
reel, this wheel being rotated by a helical or other suitable spring, and fitted
with suitable multiplying gear to give the required number of revolutions to the
reel.
The printing arrangement consists of discs, in number corresponding with the
number of money denominations (in the present example four) for which the
machine is arranged. On the periphery of these discs are placed type figures or
numbers, agreeing with the figures or numbers, on the tablets; also in addition to
such figures, cach disc is arranged with a blank space or zero mark upon it.
Instead
These type-dises are actuated and set in any required position in the following
manner. [And that we may be more clearly understood we will describe the action
of one type disc alone, as the other discs are actuated in a similar manner.]
of attaching the connecting rod (which is actuated by the graduated bar) to the pawl
lever, as hereinbefore mentioned (when recording by dials) we attach one end of the
connecting rod to a toothed segment, the teeth of which gear into a pinion wheel fixed
to, or formed in one with a disc and loose on the spindle of the type disc. This disc
carries a pawl, which engages with a one toothed ratchet wheel, the latter being fixed
on the spindle upon which the type disc is mounted. Connected or fixed to this on

page_text: toothed ratchet wheel is another ratchet wheel, suitably divided according to the deno-
minations of the type disc with which it is connected. This latter ratchet wheel, with
its pawl, is for the purpose of retaining the said type disc in its proper position against
the action of a spring which returns the type disc to its normal or zero position. The
last mentioned pawl is disengaged from its ratchet wheel by the action of the release
key, and the type disc is returned to its blank or zero position. The movement of the
platen, necessary to give the impression for printing is obtained by the movement
of the releasing key or pull, this key or pull is connected to a sliding bar, which has
upon it a suitably shaped raised portion, which comes in contact with a roller attached
to the platen plunger, thereby raising the same and the platen during a certain part
of its stroke. The above mentioned roller of the platen plunger is pivotted and
arranged in such a manner that a lever catch pivotted to the before mentioned sliding
bar can tilt the roller out of the way of its raised portion, and thereby prevent the
raising of the platen on the return stroke of the bar. This sliding bar is arranged to
give, in a similar manner, by other raised portions on the same (through the inter-
vention of a pawl acting on a ratchet wheel attached to one of a pair of feed rollers,
and through which the paper passes) the necessary amount of movement to the papers,
as well as ringing a bell or alarm, and releasing the tablets as before mentioned. The
machine is sometimes provided with a suitable locking arrangement, for the purpose
of fixing the working parts, so as to prevent the machine being unauthoritatively
worked.
We also, in cases where we register by printing, arrange so that, when either of the
lengths of paper has run out, or become broken, the machine becomes locked, so that
it cannot be further worked, and this mechanism may also be made to sound a bell or
alarm, and actuate a warning indicator. This locking apparatus consists of a frictional
attachment to the two reels on which the papers are wound, whereby or either of
them being run out of paper, or on breaking of either of the papers, a spring is
released, and thereby allowed to act, so as to shoot a bolt into some part of the
mechanism of the machine that has motion, thus locking the machine, and preventing
its being further used while in that state.
We arrange the mechanism of the above locking apparatus in the following
manner
We attach a grooved pulley to each of the supply ribbon reels, so that the two rotate
together; namely, each reel and its accompanying grooved pulley.
A band or cord is passed partly round the two grooved pulleys, having its ends
fixed or attached to some part of the framing of the machine, while that portion of
the cord lying between the grooved pulleys is kept taut by a third or intermediate
pulley, which presses down the cord, so giving between it and those portions of the
grooved pulleys with which it is in contact, a certain amount of friction, but not
more friction than the strength of either of the papers will bear in their action of
rotating the pulleys, when being unwound from the same, by the motion of the feed
rollers of the printing mechanism before described. The intermediate pulley is on
one end of a bell crank lever, the other end of which lever forms a pawl, which
is by means of a spring, kept in gear with a ratchet wheel. This ratchet wheel
is fixed on a spindle, to which is also attached one end of a helical or other suitable
spring, the other end of the spring being fastened to the frame of the machine.
When the pawl is out of gear with the ratchet wheel, which takes place when
either of the papers is run out or accidently broken (for then the spring con-
nected to the bell crank lever can pull the pawl out of gear) then the spring attached
to the spindle rotates the same, and, in so doing, by means of a screw on the other
end of the spindle propels a bolt (provided with a telescopic spring end) forward into
some suitable moving portion of the mechanism preferably when at its position of
rest; or it is made to lock the same by actuating a movable or pivotted bar.
In lieu of the before mentioned locking gear, we also sometimes arrange an arm
or tablet, to cach length of paper, to be conspicuously displayed, to give notice
when either of the papers has nearly run out or broken.

page_text: This arrangement is as follows:-We fit upon one end of a rod an indicator, and on
the other end of the same rod a projection or arm sometimes fitted with a roller,
which rests against some portion of the paper in tension, namely, some part of the
paper between the reel and the feed rollers. The rod is also fitted with a spiral or
other form of spring which tends to project the indicator, but is prevented from so
doing by reason of the projection or arm on the rod being caught or held back by
the paper. When the paper is exhausted from the reels, or is broken, the projection.
or arin being then freed, the rod shoots forward, and the warning indicator is thrust
forward and displaced.
In lieu of this signal arrangement, a bell or gong may be sounded, or a combination
of both may be used. Suitable brake, or retaining apparatus, is applied, when
necessary, to the spindles and wheels to check recoil.

page_text: the Payment and Receipt of Money and Analogous Operations.
:
We FREDERICK ALFRED MESSER, and WALTER FULLER THORPE, both of
8 Quality Court, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Engineers, do hereby
declare the nature of our said invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement
Our invention relates to improved mechanism and arrangements of the same, for
indicating, checking, and registering the payment and receipt of money, and analogous
operations.
The indicating, portion of our invention is so arranged, and the mechanism for
actuating the figures belonging to the various denominations is so constructed, that
any figure or set of figures, forming a sum in the sequence of any denomination (as
for example £1, or 19s., or 2d., or d.) can be so adjusted and placed, with regard to
the figures of other denominations, that every combination necessary to form a perfect
money sequence, within the extremes of the highest and lowest values determined
upon, can be displayed. By this arrangement the figures representing the amount of
any transaction, always appear in their natural consecutive order and symmetrical
position; as, for example, the following figures £3: 14s.: 5d.
Our invention consists of a cash indicating and registering machine inclosed in a
suitable case, fitted with keys and tablets or their equivalents. We record the amounts
on dials, or by printing mechanism, fitted inside the case, such mechanism being
suitably governed and controlled by the operation of the keys.*
In carrying out our invention we arrange the figures on the faces of tablets, the
necessary motion being given to the same by the depression of keys or buttons, or
equivalent appliances. Further in combination with the before mentioned part of the
apparatus, we arrange dials and pointers for respectively registering and totalling,
under their respective denominations, the various amounts of each transaction; or we
record, by printing, the amount of each transaction on a ribbon of paper or other
suitable material, herein after called "ribbon."
With regard to the keys or buttons, which are arranged to project beyond the case
wherein the mechanism is enclosed, we prefer, for English money, to have a sufficient
number of these keys to represent the following denominations or values; namely―
From one to any other convenient number, to represent pounds, next 1 to 19, for
shillings; 1 to 11 for pence: and similar mechanism for each fraction of a penny,
namely,,, and . These values are marked upon their respective keys or upon the
case against their respective keys.
On the depression of any single key, the amount which that key represents, is shown
at an aperture or apertures, in the upper part of the case; at the same time a bell or
alarm is sounded, and the amount received and indicated, is recorded upon a suitable
dial, by preference so enclosed and protected by lock or other means that it cannot be
tampered with.
In the above example, where a key of one denomination only is operated upon, the

page_text: amount of cash to be indicated and recorded is necessarily only of one denomination,
namely, either of pounds, shillings, pence, or fractions of a penny, as for example,
£2, or 118., ord. or d. When the amount of cash received is made up of two or
more denominations, two or more keys would be required to be simultaneously
depressed or kept depressed, or they may be depressed consecutively if the first
manipulated keys are kept depressed until the whole of the keys required for the
transaction are down. When we use a release key or knob then the keeping down
together of the other keys is not necessary. The keys may then be depressed one
after the other and allowed to rise at once. For example, if the amount be made
up of pounds, shillings, and pence, and fractions of a penny, four keys or buttons
would simultaneously be manipulated, and the figures representing the amount so
received would be shown in their true consecutive order, at a suitable aperture or
apertures in the upper part of the case, as before mentioned.
And in order that our said invention may be particularly described and ascertained,
reference is hereby made to the accompanying drawings, in which similar letters of
reference indicate corresponding parts.
Fig. 1 is a front elevation, partly in section.
Fig. 2 is a side elevation, partly in section.
Fig. 3 is a plan, partly in section.
Fig. 4 is a section on the line 1-2 of Fig. 2.
Fig. 5 is an elevation showing the arrangement of the apparatus when a printed
record is required to be kept.
Fig. 6 is a side elevation of the last mentioned printing arrangement.
Fig. 7 is a plan of the sliding bar m¹ belonging to the release key.
Fig. 8 is a front elevation of our arrangement for automatically locking the machine,
when one or both of the ribbons is or are broken or exhausted.
Fig. 9 is a side elevation of the last mentioned locking apparatus.
Fig. 10 is a front elevation (partly in section) showing the alarm or signalling
apparatus, for indicating when the ribbons are broken or exhausted.
Fig. 11 is a side elevation of the last mentioned apparatus.
Fig. 12 is an elevation (partly in section) of our brake apparatus for checking the
momentum of certain parts of the apparatus.
Fig. 13 is a perspective view of a double tablet.
We mount or fix plates, cards, or tablets, a a' a² a³ (Figs. 1, 2 and 4) on the ends of
the arms of oscillating or vibrating levers b. These plates have marked upon them
the figures necessary to form the money sequence it is desired to show. When the
machine is required to present one side to the operator and the other side to the
customer, we in the shilling and pence tablets a¹ a mark the figures on both sides of
the tablets; and in the pounds and fractions of a penny tablets a and a³ we arrange
two tablets for each figure (or figures) on the vertical arm of each tablet lever b,
namely, one to show at one side of the machine, and the other to show at the other
side. Screens y and y are so placed as to hide from view the shilling and pence series.
of tablets, a' and a², when those tablets are out of use, or not indicating. For the
pounds and fractions of a penny tablets a and a³ the above described screens are not
required, as those tablets retreat behind the case of the machine.
The tablet with its appurtenances are shown in Fig. 1 as arranged for exposure on
one side only (namely the key board side) of the machine. When it is desired to
expose the amount on both sides of the machine (namely on one side for the customer,
and on the other side for the operator's observance, the sequence of figures in the
latter case appearing reversed,) then we place the screens y and y on both sides of the
series of shilling and pence tablets, so as to hide them from view (when not in use)
both from the front and the back of the machine. We also in this latter case make
the pound and fraction of a penny tablets in a double manner as shown in Fig. 13
connecting the two sides as shown; and we modify or remove a portion of the guide
slips y' so that they do not obstruct the movements of the double tablets when thus
constructed. We also prolong the tablets at the back part as shown, so that they never.
quite leave each other, and so form guides to one another.. The other arms of the

page_text: tablet levers are in connection with the tail ends e of the before mentioned pivotted
key levers c', the whole of the levers being kept in position by guides c². Each tablet
lever is provided in its vertical arm with a pine or other suitable contrivance, which
engages with one of a series of pawls d, arranged in the form of a comb. The pawls d
are placed between the vertical arms of the vibrating tablet levers, and are for the
purpose of holding the tablet levers in position during the time the tablets are
exhibited. This is performed by permitting the pawls d to engage with the aforesaid
pins c³, on the upward stroke of the tablet levers, so that the latter are held in position
for exhibiting the tablets. On the depression of the key levers c¹ the pawls d are
lifted out of gear, and the tablet levers are thus released and allowed to fall, or to be
pulled back, by the action of springs 62, to their normal position. It will thus be seen
that, on the next account being recorded, the depression of any one key or series of
keys causes by means of suitable mechanism hereinafter described-all the pawls d
to be raised or lifted out of gear, and all the tablet levers to be released, and to be
returned to their normal position. The manner in which the pawls d are actuated is
as follows-on a spindle e, running the whole length of the machine, levers e¹ are
fixed, having at their extremities a movable bar e² (or bars) which bar (or bars) rest
upon the tail ends c of all the key levers c¹. Upon the spindle e is a tappet lever e³.
which engages with a spring catch e mounted on a vertical rod e. The upward
motion of this rod, by means of levers e, raises the pawls & sufficiently to allow the
tablet levers to return to their normal position. The before mentioned catch et is so
pivotted, and held in position by a spring e, that it allows the tappet lever e³ to pass
it on the return stroke of the tappet lover. The return of the vertical rode to its
normal position is assured by the action of the spring e³.
As each transaction is indicated or shown, it is, by suitable gearing, at the same
time recorded by means of hands or pointers upon one or more dials according to
the number of denominations.. On the face of each dial a suitable stop f" is formed
for the purpose of facilitating the hands or pointers f being set or adjusted to zero.
This stop is so fashioned as to allow the hands to travel over it when moving in
the direction for registering, but catches or stops the hand when. turned back to
zero. Also, as each denomination has its respective dial, that which is indicated
upon the dial of any one denomination is the total of the indicated sums belonging
to that particular denomination: The hands or pointers of the dials f1 are actuated
by means of pawls g and ratchet wheels g', working a train of wheel-work or
gearing suitably ratioed to the denomination of the respective dials, in connection
with levers having horizonal bars on their ends as shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3.
The ratchet-wheels g₁ are provided with stationary or retaining pawls g. The
bars have upon their upper edges graduated steps or depressions, or pins or
adjustable screws for the purpose regulating the amount of stroke to be given
to the before mentioned ratchet wheels, and thence, through the wheel-work, to the
pointers or hands of the dials. Thus the proportionate amount of motion is given to
the hands of the dials, in accordance with the sums to be registered. These bars
are (preferably) placed underneath the front portion of the levers c¹ which carry the
keys or buttons ct, and as these levers in their downward stroke come in contact
with the before mentioned graduated bars ', or with the pins or screws of the same,
they drive the bars downwards the desired amount. The extreme limit of motion
of the levers is regulated in its upward stroke by the bar c, and by the bar c,
in its downward stroke. Also the upward movement of the graduated bars ¹ is
regulated by the stop piece / as shown in Figs. 2 and 3. These graduated bars
are carried upon one end of a pivotted lever or levers h, the other end of the
lever or levers being connected in each case (namely, of the four denominations) by
means of a connecting rod i (or with a lever and connecting rod i, as the case
may be) to the pawl lever 9 which actuates the wheel-work 92 for working the
hands or pointers f of the dials f¹. A bell or gong j (Figs. 1, 2 and 3) or other
suitable form of alarm is caused to be sounded upon the depression of any one or
more keys.
We sometimes release the tablet levers by an independent. key or pull knob k

page_text: (placed in connection with the before mentioned series of pawis a) as shown in
Fig. 6. In this latter arrangement (which will be hereinafter more fully described
when treating of the printing system of recording) the pawls d are not arranged
to move together, as in the first mentioned arrangement, but are each separate from
one another, so that each one is actuated independently by its own tablet lever
only. In this arrangement of pawls, the keys need not be simultaneously depressed
but may be depressed one after the other. The actuation of the releasing key or
knob alone releases all the pawls d, and, through them, all the tablet lovers at one
time, and thereby allows the tablets, as in the former case, to assume their normal
position before another transaction is recorded. During the latter part of the move-
ment of the release key or pull, a bell, gong, or alarm j is sounded which gives notice
that the amount of the last transaction then being cleared from the indicating opening
or openings by this release key, has been registered, and that the machine is in a
condition to indicate and register a new transaction. When this release key is used
and sounds a bell, then the tablet keys of the denominations need not sound a bell on
being depressed. In this latter case, where we use a releasing key we sometimes, in
lieu of recording by dials and pointers, record by a printing arrangement, which
registers by printing the various transactions on a continuous ribbon, through the
intervention of another ribbon of carbonized paper or other suitably prepared material,
placed between it and type discs. The carbonized ribbon after leaving the typo disc,
and passing between the feed rollers n, (Fig. 5) is received and wound upon a reel a,
this reel being rotated by a helical or other suitable spring el, and fitted with suitable
multiplying gear a² to give the required number of revolutions to the reel.
The printing arrangement consists of discs, in number corresponding with the
number of the money denominations (in the present example four) for which the
machine is arranged. On the periphery of these discs are placed type figures or
numbers, agreeing with the figures or numbers on the tablets; also, in addition to
such figures, each disc is arranged with a blank space or zero mark upon it. Theso
type discs are actuated and set in any required position in the following manner:
[And that we may be more clearly understood we will describe the action of one type
dise alone, as the other discs are actuated in a similar manner]. Instead of attaching
the connecting rod i (which is actuated by the graduated bar ) to the pawl lever g³
as hereinbefore mentioned (when recording by dials) we attach one end of the
connecting rod i to a toothed segment 1, the teeth of which gear into a pinion wheel 72
fixed to or formed in one with a disc 13, and loose on the spindle of the type disc l.
This disc carries a pawl, which engages with a one-toothed ratchet wheel 1, the
latter being fixed on the spindle upon which the type disc is mounted. Connected
or fixed to this one-toothed ratchet wheel 1, is another ratchet-wheel 1, suitably
divided according to the denominations of the type disc with which it is connected.
This latter ratchet-wheel 17, with its pawl 18, is for the purpose of retaining the type
Hsc in its proper position against the action of a spring 19, which returns the
type disc to its normal or zero position. The last mentioned pawl 78 is disengaged
from its ratchet wheel by the action of the release key k, and the type disc is
returned to its blank or zero position. This is performed in the following manner:
The shaft t carrying the pawl 18 has a lever t¹ fixed upon it. On the end of this lever
is jointed a rod 2 guided at the other end by the fixed bearing t³. The rod t has a
pulley t on the latter end of it, which is kept in contact with the sliding bar m² by
the downward action of the spring to on the rod t. When the sliding bar m² is being
moved forward by the action of drawing out the release key k, the raised portion
on the sliding bar m² raises the pulley, and the rod t², and so communicates the
motion to the pawl 18, raising it out of its ratchet wheel and allowing the type disc to
return to zero. The movement of the platen m, necessary to give the impression for
printing, is obtained by the movement of the releasing key or pull k. This key or
pull & is connected to a sliding bar m² which has upon it a suitably shaped raised
portion m² which comes in contact with a roller m³ attached to the platen plunger m³,
thereby raising the same and the platen m during a certain part of its stroke. The
above mentioned roller m³ of the platen plunger is pivotted and arranged in such a
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page_text: manner, namely, by being carried by links m, one of which has a projection m¹5
which engages with a lever catch m pivotted to the before mentioned sliding
bar m that it can tilt the roller m³ out of the way of its raised portion m², and
thereby prevent the raising of the platen m, on the return stroke of the bar m¹.
There is also a pressure roller m¹ beneath the sliding bar to relieve the strain on the
bar when printing. The sliding bar m¹ is arranged to impart, in a similar manner,
by other raised portions on the same (through the intervention of a pawl m acting.
on a ratchet wheel m¹³ attached to one of a pair of feed rollers n, and through which
the ribbon 2 passes) the necessary amount of movement to the ribbons as well as
ringing a bell or alarm, the latter being actuated by the pin 3 on the sliding bar m
striking the tail end of the lever as shown in Fig. 6, and releasing the tablets as
before mentioned.
We will now proceed more fully to describe these movements. The raised portion
or race m gives motion to the lever m and pawl ms by means of the connecting
rod m. This connecting rod m³ is jointed to the lever m' and is guided in the fixed
bearing m. The lower end of the rod has a roller m" on it which runs on the race
above mentioned, and is kept down on the same by the spring m12. The ratchet
wheel mis actuated by the pawl ms, and is fixed to the spindle of one of the feed
rollers n, and gives the proper motion to the same. The ratchet wheel m¹³ is provided
with a retaining pawl . The other feed roller is actuated by means of this motion
of the first mentioned roller by the toothed wheels n¹. The releasing of the tablets
by the sliding bar is performed as follows:-The raised portion o acts upon the end o¹
of the lever o², and this motion is conveyed by the short end o³ of the lever, to the
rod or bar of which is in contact with the tail end d¹ of all the pawls d. As before
mentioned these pawls are in this case all separate and independent of each other, and
loose upon the spindles 2 and 3. The levers o² and o³ are fixed to the spindle d².
The rods or bars of are so connected as to act in unison by means of the levers d¹
and d³.
.
The machine is sometimes provided with a suitable locking arrangement, for the
purpose of fixing the working parts, so as to prevent the machine being unauthorita-
tively worked as shown in Fig. 9. This we carry out by shooting the bolt u
of an ordinary lock u into a quadrant a fixed on the end of the shaft or
spindle e.
We also, in cases where we register by printing, arrange so that, when either of
the lengths of ribbon has run out, or become broken, the machine becomes locked,
so that it cannot be further worked, and this mechanism may also be made to sound
a bell or aların, and actuate a warning indicator. The alarm bell giving notice
when the paper is run out, is actuated by the projection ', on the nut z, coming in
contact with the tail end of the bell hammer lever . This causes the bell to be
struck by the hammer when the nut is moving in one direction, (namely, when
moving in the direction for locking).. The hammer is returned to its normal position
by the spring. To escape actuating the bell when the nut is being returned
for resetting the bell, the tail end 22 of the lever is provided with a rule joint and
spring to the same. This locking apparatus consists of a frictional attachment to
the two reels on which the ribbons are wound, whereby, on either of them being run
out of ribbon or on breaking of either of the ribbons, a spring, is released, and
thereby allowed to act, so as to shoot a bolt into some part of the mechanism of the
machine that has motion, thus locking the machine, and preventing its being further
used while in that state.
We arrange the mechanism of the above locking apparatus in the following
manner :- -We attach a grooved pulley p to each of the supply ribbon reels pl so
that the two rotate together; namely, each reel and its accompanying grooved pulley.
A band or cord p² is passed partly round the two grooved pulleys p, having its ends pa
fixed or attached by the intervention of a spring p" to some part of the framing of
the machine, while that portion of the cord lying between the grooved pulleys p P
is kept taut by a third or intermediate pulley p, which presses down the cord, so
giving between it and those portions of the grooved pulleys with which it is in

page_text: contact, a certain amount of friction, but not more friction than the strength of either
of the ribbons will bear in their action of rotating the pulleys, when being
unwound from the same, by the motion of the feed rollers n of the printing mechanism
before described. The intermediate pulley p¹ is on one end of a bell-crank lever p², the
other end of which lever forms a pawl p, which is, by means of the pull or drag on
the ribbous p kept in gear with a ratchet wheel p. This ratchet wheel is fixed
on a spindle 10, to which is also attached one end of a helical or other suitable
spring p, the other end of the spring being fastened to the frame p¹ of the machine.
When the pawl p' is out of gear with the ratchet wheel p, which takes place when
either of the ribbons is run out or accidentally broken (for then the spring på
connected to the bell crank lever p can pull the pawl p out of gear) then the
spring pattached to the spindle rotates the same, and, in so doing, by means of a
screw on the other end of the spindle po propels (through the interposition of a
bell crank lever p¹³) a bolt p (provided with a telescopic spring end p) forward into
some suitable moving portion of the mechanism, preferably when at its position
of rest; or it is made to lock the same by actuating a movable or pivotted bar.
In the present case it is shown arranged to shoot into a slot w in the sliding bar w
on that bar arriving at the end of its stroke. This bar receives motion from a lever w
fixed upon the before mentioned spindle e.
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The construction of the above mentioned telescopic end p is as follows:-The
internal spring p17 is more powerful in its action than the external spring p18. The
former acts between the telescopic end p¹ and the bolt p, and the external spring 18
between a fixed bearing 7" and the collar p on the telescopic end p-When the
internal spring 17 is under compression by the descent of the bolt p it has sufficient
power to drive down the telescopic end ps in opposition to the force exerted by the
external spring p18 until it shoots the same into the notch w or shoots it on to the
top of the bar w where it remains until by the motion of the bar the notch w in the
bar comes into position to receive the telescopic end.
In lieu of the before mentioned locking gear, we also sometimes arrange an arm or
tablet, to each length of ribbon, to be conspicuously displayed, to give notice when
either of the ribbons has nearly run out or broken. This arrangement is shown in
Fig. 10 and is as follows:-We fit upon one end of a rod ran indicator 1, and on
the other end of the same rod or on a lever in contact with the rod a
projection or arm 72, sometimes fitted with a roller, which rests against some
portion of the ribbon p in tension, namely, some part of the ribbon between
the reels p and the feed rollers n. The rod is also fitted with a spiral or
other form of spring, which tends to project the indicator 1, but is prevented
from so doing by reason of the projection or arm on the rod (or on
the lever ) being caught or held back by the ribbon. When the ribbon is exhausted
from the reels, or is broken, the projection or arm being then freed, the rod shoots
forward, and the warning indicator is thrust forward and displayed. In lieu of this
signal arrangement, a bell or gongs may be sounded, or a combination of both, as
shown in Figs. 10 and 11 may be used, suitable brake or retaining apparatus, is
applied, where necessary, to the spindles and wheels, to check recoil. This we
preferably construct as follows:-On the part to be checked-say, for example, a type
wheel we insert in the side of the same a pin v, which, on the wheel approaching
its position of rest, comes into contact with one arm of a bell-crank lever ², which
is pivotted to a carriage attached to some part of the framing of the machine. This
arm has more or less spring in it, and the pin v pressing against the same, propels
the brake surface of the other arm & of the bell crank lever e², firmly against a
portion of the surface of the type wheel.
The operating keys may be arranged in any convenient manner, and varied to suit
the purpose to which the apparatus is to be applied; but, in its application to English
money, we prefer to arrange the keys for the left hand in such a manner that the
"pounds" keys are placed centrally, so as to be within reach of the fingers of the left
hand, and the keys for the fractions of a penny are similarly placed for the right
hand, as shewn in Fig. 3.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said Inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. In combination with indicating and recording mechanism for the purposes
aforesaid the application and use of numbered tablets, mounted on levers or arms,
so arranged that, when operated by the keys, the amount is indicated in symmetrical
sequence, substantially as herein before described and illustrated by the drawings.
2. The combination with numbered tablets, capable of indicating money sequence
and analogous operations, of the arrangements of mechanism for operating the same,
substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated by the drawings.
3. The combination with apparatus as aforesaid; of the printing and recording
mechanism, for registering, printing and recording the amounts by means of ribbons
coiled upon suitable spindles, substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated
by the drawings.
4. The combination with numbered tablets capable of indicating money sequence
and analogous operations, of the mechanism for stopping the same on the running
out or breakage of the ribbons or either of them, substantially as hereinbefore described
and illustrated by the drawings.
5. In combination with the apparatus last mentioned, the mechanism for indicating
by tablet signal on the running out or breakage of the ribbons or either of them,
substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated by the drawings.
6. In combination with the apparatus last aforesaid, the application and use of the
alarm bell and appliances, substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated by
the drawings.
7. In combination with apparatus as aforesaid, the application and use of dials and
pointers for indicating and recording totals, substantially as hereinbefore described
and illustrated by the drawings.
8. In combination with apparatus as aforesaid, the application and use of the improved
method of arranging the keys relating to the "pounds" and fractions of a penny,
in a central position, substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated by the
drawings.
.9. The general arrangements, construction and combination of the several and
respective parts, constituting our invention of "Improvements in means and appliances
for checking and recording the payment and receipt of money, and analogous
operations, substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated by the drawings.
■INTOYS LITRY 10111DT RAAM
LINTOY'S LITION 10
GEO. DOWNING,
8, Quality Court, Chancery Lane, W.C.,
Agent for Applicants.