Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 4th July, 1888
Complete Specification Left, 29th Mar., 1839
Complete Specification Accepted, 18th May, 1889
L, SOPHUS RITTER of 48 Östergade Copenhagen Denmark Director of a Tourist
and Excursionist Agency do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
The object of my invention is to ensure an absolutely safe control of the money
paid in or out in all sorts of businesses, shops, sale rooms and the like, and especially
such where the user or operator is the cashier.
arms.
I provide on the desk a saucer wherein can turn a "mill" or boss with four radial
On the sancer is a sector shaped glass plate and upon this plate a cross bar
with central pivot, that enters a hole in the central boss of the "mill" and is pro-
vided with a spiral spring one end of which is fastened to the pivot and the other to
the interior of the boss which thus forms a fusee box. The central boss of the mill
is continued below in a spindle passing through the centre of the saucer and is formed
with a square at the end to fit a key or handle. On this spindle is also fixed a pawl
wheel having one fourth of its circumference without teeth. In the space between
the two arms which is always turned towards the public when the apparatus is in use
are provided two glass plates one a little above the other with an intervening space
for the coin to escape by. The money is placed by the customer upon the lower
glass plate and will because of the slanting position of that plate slide down through
the said intervening space and be covered by the upper glass plate. The cashier or
operator now turns the mill to the right whereby the money is swept along and falls
down through an opening in the saucer and into a locked drawer. The space between
two arms of the mill was by the first quarter turn brought opposite a slope, and while
the cashier with his left hand on the handle or key of the mill spindle keeps it in this
position he with his right hand brings the change money from change boxes wherein
the coins of equal denomination are kept in separate piles, out from between rails and
on to the slope whence the change coin or coins glide out into the space between the
two arms of the mill, whereupon the cashier lets the latter continues its course another
quarter of a turn, until the said space between the arms of the mill comes out opposite
to the customer, who now can take his change from the said space which during the
turn imparted to the mill was covered by the aforesaid sector shaped glass plate
but which now is open because opposite the part cut out of the said glass plate.
When the customer has taken his change, the cashier lets go the mill handle or
takes off the key whereupon the aforesaid spiral spring in the fusee box brings the

page_text: mill back into its original position and the apparatus is then ready for the next paying
in operation.
The change boxes have in the bottom small openings so that one coin at the time
may by the finger be pushed up and in between the rails which have such an over-
lapping form, that the coins cannot be removed from above. Over the aforesaid slope
is provided a square glass plate to prevent the cashier from removing the coins before
they drop out into the suncer. To keep this plate in place I may use two bars with
tongues. Over the spaces between two adjoining pairs of arms in the mill there is a
plate of metal to prevent the cashier from using tliese spaces for bringing the money
out therefrom and appropriate same.
The desk is provided with a screon in front and carried back at each side and the
front of the screen has a holo provided with wire netting to admit of free conversation
between the cashier and the customer without excluding the light. At each side of
this hole there nro glass panes, and the sides of the screen are also glazed. The cashier
is thus cut off from all communication with the customer except talking, and as he
must be inside to hold the mill in position he is prevented from touching or
appropriating the money, which is only accessible to the customer outside in front of
the apparatus and only remains there as long as the cashier holds the handle or key,
inasmuch as the fusee spring if he lets go the handle or takes off the key will act at
once and carry the money down the opening in the saucer and thence into the
receiving drawer.
The principal of the establishment every morning before business commences
provides the change drawers with the counted number of piled coins, locks these
drawers and simultaneously the cash receiving drawer by raising a hinged narrow
flap which drops when the receiving drawer is pulled out; to lock it it must he
raised to overlap the said drawers which cannot then be pulled out. The bolt of the
lock enters the edge of this flap.
The apparatus may also contain a drawer for changing bank notes. This drawer
is not locked with the other drawers which would be unnecessary as it only serves for
change and always contains the same amount of money. For extra safety the afore-
said pawl wheel is provided with pawl tooth which can he brought out of direct gear
with the pawl wheel by means of a polygonal key kept by the cashier. The pawl
wheel has no tooth on that fourth of its circumference which is just under the front
space of the mill in its normal position, so that the cashier is unable to stop the mill
at a stage when the money is accessible from without while it may be important to
stop it at another stage. For it is possible that a stranger getting hold of the key
for the mill spindle might use it for performing the customers' or the cashier's part
in order to appropriate money out of the change boxes, but the pawl would prevent
this, as it can only be disconnected from the pawl wheel by the polygonal key in
the cashiers possession and which he should deliver up to his principal every
evening.
The foregoing will show that this apparatus gives an absolutely safa control, as
its use presupposes the presence both of the cashier and the customer, and every
attempt of the former to bring the money out of the change boxes into the front of
the saucer for appropriating same is rendered impossible by the necessity of his
presence inside the apparatus, because the mill spring will be set acting whenever
the cashier leaves his place and lets go the handlo or key on the mill spindle and at
once brings the money back and through the opening in the saucor down into the
cash receiving drawer.

page_text: Improvements in Self Controlling Money Tills or Desks,
I SOPHUS RITTER of 48 Östergade Copenhagen, Denmark Director of a Tourist and
Excursionist Agency 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 object of my invention is to ensure an absolutely safe control of the money
paid in or out in all sorts of businesses, shops, sale rooms and the like and especially
such where the user or operator is the cashier.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings is part plan of an apparatus constructed
according to my invention, Figure 2 back elevation that is from the side of the cashier
or user Figure 3 a perspective view for also shewing the front and Figures 4, 5, 6, 7
and 8 details of the apparatus.
I provide on the desk a saucer b Figures 1 and 5 wherein can turn a mill a or boss
with four radial arms & s¹s and s. On the saucer is a sector shaped glass plato h
Figures 1 and 6 and upon this plate a cross bar c with central pivot Figure 4 that
enters a hole in the central boss of the "mill" and is provided with a spiral spring n
one end of which is fastened to the pivot and the other to the interior of the boss
which thus forms a fusee box. The central boss of the mill is continued below in a
spindle passing through the centre of the saucer 6 and is formed with
square at the
end to fit a key or handle m. On this spindle is also fixed a pawl wheel I having
one fourth of its circumference without teeth. In the space between the two arms s¹
and which is always turned towards the public when the apparatus is in use are
provided two glass plates and u one a little above the other with an intervening
space for the coin to escape by. The money is placed by the customer upon the lower
glass plate t and will because of the slanting position of that plate slide down through
the said intervening space and be covered by the upper glass plate u.
The cashier or
operator now turns the mill to the right whereby the money is swept along and falls
down through an opening Figure 5 in the saucer and into a locked drawer
Figures 2 and 8.
The space between two arms and 11 of the mill was by the first quarter_turn
brought opposite a slope i and while the cashier with his left hand on the handle or
key m of the mill spindle keeps it in this position he with his right hand brings the
change money from change boxes d and e wherein the coins of equal denomination
are kept in separate piles out from between rails f f f see Figures 1 and 7 and
onto the slope i whence the change coin or coins glide out into the space between the
two arms and 1 of the mill, whereupon the cashier lets the latter continue its
course another half of a turn, until the said space between the arms of the mill comes
out opposite to the customer who now can take his change from the said space which
during the turn imparted to the mill was covered by the aforesaid sector shaped
glass plate Figure 6 but which now is open because opposite the part cut out of the
said glass plate.
h

page_text: When the customer has taken his change the cashier lets go the mill hande or
takes off the key m whereupon the aforesaid spiral spring n in the fuser box o brings
the mill back into its original position and the apparatus is then ready for the next,
paying in operation.
The change boxes d and e have in the bottom small openings so that one coin at the
time may by the finger be pushed up and in between the rails 'f*ƒ³ which have
such an overlapping form that the coins cannot be removed from above. Over the
aforesaid slope is provided a square glass plate to prevent the cashier from removing
the coins before they drop ont into the saucer. To keep this plato in place I may use
two bars g Figure I with longues r. Over the spaces between two adjoining pairs of
arms & and sands and in the mill there is a plate of metal to provent the cashier
from using these spaces for bringing the monoy out therefrom and appropriating
same.
The desk is provided with a sereen in front and carried hack at each side and the
front of the screen has a hole provided with wire netting to admit of free con
versation between the cashier and the customer without excluding the light. At
each side of this hole there are glass panes and the sides of the screen are also
glaze. The cashier is thus cut off from all communication with the customer
except talking and as he must be inside to hold the mill in position he is prevented
from touching or appropriating the money, which is only accessible to the customer
ontside in front of the apparatus and only remains there as long as the cashier holds
the handle or key m inasmuch as the fusce spring n, if he lets go the handle or
takes off the key will net at once and carry the money down ibe opening k in the
saucer and thence into the receiving drawer r.
e
The principal of the establishment every morning before business commences
provides the change drawers d and with the counted number of piled coins, locks
these drawers and simultaneously the cash receiving drawer by raising a hinged
narrow flap which drops when the receiving drawer is pulled out to lock it it
must he raised to overlap the said drawers which cannot then be pulled out. The
bolt of the lock enters the edge of this flap .c.
The apparatus may also contain a drawer p for changing bank notes. This drawer
is not locked with the other drawers which would be unnecessary as it only serves for
change and always contains the same amount of money. For extra safety the afore-
said pawl wheel 7 is provided with pawl tooth y Figuro 5 which can be brought out
of direct gear with the pawl wheel by means of a polygonal key kept by the
cashier. The pawl wheel'y has no teeth on that fourth of its circumference which
is just under the front space between arms s' and " of the mill in its normal position,
so that the cashier is unable to stop the mill at a stage when the money is accessible
from without while it may be important to stop it at another stage. For it is
possible that a stranger getting hold of the key m for the mill spindle might use it
for performing the customer's or the cashier's part in order to appropriate money
out of the change boxes, but the pawl y would prevent this as it can only be discon-
nected from the pawl wheel by the polygonal key in the cashier's possession and
which he should deliver up to his principal overy evening.
The foregoing will shew that this apparatus gives an absolutely safo control as its
use presupposes the presence both of the cashier and the customer and every attempt
of the former to bring the money out of the change boxes into the front of the saucer
for appropriating summo is rendered impossible by the necessity of his presence inside
the apparatus because the mill spring will be set acting whenever the cashier leaves
his place and lets go the handle or key m on the mill spindle and at once brings the
money back and through the opening in the saucer down into the cash receiving
drawer 7.
Having thus particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed 1 declare that what I
claim is
First. A self controlling money till or desk in which the operator is at the same

page_text: time cashier and which can only act in his presence and that of the paying customer
and which consists of the following main parts viz. a mill which is worked by the
cashier is brought back to its normal position by a spring and is provided with means
for receiving the money paid in and conducting it into a locked cash box but in such
manner that the cashier cannot touch the money receptacles for change coins of same
value so constructed that the coins required for change by the operation of the
cashier are delivered so as to be accessible to the paying customer only; means for
simultaneously locking or securing the cash receptacle the change coin receptacles
and if desired a bank note change receptacle, and glazed front and side screens for
separating the cashier from the paying customer while permitting them to see and
talk to each other all combined and operating substantially as set forth.
Second. In a self controlling money till or desk the mill a with wings & sell
slanting plates and u the dish b with opening & which is covered by the notched
plate h and the fusee box o with spring n cross bar e pawl wheel 7 and pawl y with
key z substantially as set forth.
Third. The change drawers d and e for piles of the same coins in combination
with the grooved rails f¹ff the covering bars 9 with tongues and the slope i
with glass covering plate substantially as set forth.
Fourth. The combination of the change drawers d and e and the cash receiving
drawers and p with the hinged flap for locking and unlocking them simul-
taneously substantially as set forth.
Fifth. The construction of screen for enclosing the cashier in front and at the
sides substantially as set forth.
Sixth. The construction of self controlling money till shewn on the drawing.
Dated this 29th day of March 1889.
SOPHUS RITTER.
By Jensen & Son,
77, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Patent Agents.