IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR CHECKING THE RECEPTION OF SUMS OF MONEY AT THE MOMENT OF THEIR COLLECTION
Year: 1879

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Eugenio de Zuccato, of 15, Charterhouse Street, Holborn
Viaduct, in the City of London, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR CHECKING THE RECEPTION OF
SUMS OF MONEY AT THE MOMENT OF THEIR COLLECTION."
Sealed the 28th November 1879, and dated the 9th June 1879.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Eugenio de Zuccato at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 9th June 1879.
EUGENIO DE ZUCCATO, of 15, Charterhouse Street, Holborn Viaduct, in the City
of London. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR CHECKING
THE RECEPTION OF SUMS OF MONEY AT THE MOMENT OF THEIR COLLECTION."
The object of my Invention is to 'check by the methodical use of the apparatus
hereinafter described the reception of sums of money, especially when their respec-
tive amount differ from one another, to finally show their total addition, and to
protect the payer from being overcharged. My apparatus may be either portable
or fixed; it may be convenient to make it in the shape of an ordinary watch or
clock, though it may be constructed of a different form; in any case it is actuated
by a person who being entrusted with the collection of moneys moves or slides a
handle or a button, which by means of suitable mechanical arrangement causes a
bell or a gong to ring immediately before the reception of the amount, and figures
or marks to appear on one of the faces of the apparatus. Such marks or figures
represent the exact amount which is going to be paid, and are shown to the payer,
who thus can see at a glance both that he pays the right amount and that such an
amount is duly registered. My apparatus, when undisturbed and at rest, is inade
to show on its face a zero or a blank. The amounts received, or better, their corre-
sponding numbers, are registered or added together at the back of the apparatus by
means of suitable mechanism, similar in its component parts to that used in watches
or clocks, which mechanism, when actuated upon in the manner above described,
that is, by the movement or sliding of the handle or button, causes one or several
indexes or hands to advance upon a properly divided dial or dials a number of
divisions corresponding to the number which has appeared upon the face of the
apparatus. My apparatus is enclosed in a box or case so constructed that the indexes
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page_text: or hands cannot be made to retrogradate unless the case or box is unlocked, or a
seal prefixed unbroken.
The following is the description of the mechanical construction of a suitable
apparatus, though I by no means confine myself to it :-
Two discs are mounted parallel to each other upon three pillars of equal length.
Near the eircumference of one of the discs there is a hole in which figures, say
from 1 to 6, are made to appear one at a time by means of a lever of a suitable
form, which is pivotted in the centre underneath the aforesaid disc. The figures
are engraved on the surface of the lever immediately underneath the hole herein-
before mentioned. Attached to the lever in a suitable position there is a little pillar
bearing a spring, which presses upon a small cam loosely screwed on the top of the
pillar underneath there are also two cogwheels, a large and a small one, attached
by suitable arrangement between the three pillars to the other disc. The large
cogwheel, which has, say, 24 teeth, is made to advance a tooth at a time by means
of the small car, supported by the lever hereinbefore described. On the surface of
the large cogwheel a small piece of metal is made to protrude, which causes the
small cogwheel, which is composed, say, of ten teeth, to move a tooth at each complete
revolution of the large cogwheel. The pivots of the two cogwheels go through the
disc which supports them, and upon their pivots are mounted two hands. The pivot
of the large cogwheel is in the centre of the disc. Upon the circumference of the
disc herein before mentioned are engraved two dials suitably divided, each having
for their centre one of the pivots of the two cogwheels. The dial, which has in the
centre the pivot of the large cogwheel, is divided in 24 parts. The one having in
its centre the pivot of the small cogwheel is divided into ten parts. The number of
divisions in both dials corresponding to the number of teeth of the cogwheel the
pivot of which forms its centre. Underneath the lever hereinbefore mentioned, in a
suitable position, is also attached a piece of metal of suitable shape, which when
the lever begins to move causes a spring, to which a small hammer is attached, to
be lifted and strike a small gong, which is mounted in a suitable position inside the
apparatus.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Eugenio de Zuccato in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 6th
December 1879.
EUGENIO DE ZUCCATO, of No. 15, Charterhouse Street, Holborn Viaduct, in the
City of London. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR
CHECKING THE RECEPTION OF SUMS OF MONEY AT THE MOMENT OF their
COLLECTION."
The object of my Invention is to check by the methodical use of the apparatus
hereinafter described the reception of sums of money, especially when their respec-
tive amounts differ from one another, to finally show their total addition, and to
protect the payer from being overcharged. My apparatus may be either portable
or fixed; it may be convenient to make it in the shape of an ordinary watch or
clock, though it may be constructed of a different form; in any case it is actuated
by a person who being entrusted with the collection of monies moves or slides a
handle or a button, which by means of suitable mechanical arrangements causes a
bell or a gong to ring immediately before the reception of the amount, and figures
or marks to appear on one of the faces of the apparatus. Such marks or figures
represent the exact amount which is going to be paid, and are shown to the payer,
who thus can see at a glance both that he pays the right amount, and that such
an amount is duly registered.
The apparatus, when undisturbed and at rest, is made to show on its face a zero
or a blank.
The amounts received, or better, their corresponding numbers, are registered or
added together at the back of the apparatus by means of suitable mechanisın similar
in its component parts to that used in watches or clocks, which mechanism, when
actuated upon in the manner above described, that is, by the movement or sliding
of the handle or button, causes one or several indexes or hands to advance upon a
properly arranged dial or dials a number of divisions corresponding to the number
which has appeared upon the face of the apparatus.
The apparatus is enclosed in a box or case so constructed that the indexes or hands
cannot be made to retrograde unless the case or box is unlocked or a seal prefixed
broken.
The following is the description of the mechanical construction of a suitable
apparatus, though I by no means confine myself to it :-
Two discs are mounted parallel to each other upon three pillars of equal length.
Near the circumference of one of the discs there is a hole in which figures, say from
one to six, are made to appear one at a time by means of a lever of a suitable form,
which is pivotted in the centre underneath the aforesaid disc; the figures are
engraved on the surface of the lever immediately underneath the hole hereinbefore
mentioned. Attached to the lever in a suitable position there is a little pillar
bearing a spring, which presses upon a small can loosely screwed on the top of the
pillar. There are also two cog-wheels, a large and a small one, attached by suitable
arrangement between the three pillars to the other disc. The large cogwheel, which
has, say, 24 teeth, is made to advance a tooth at a time by means of the small cam
supported by the lever hereinbefore described. On the surface of the large cog-
wheel a small piece of metal is made to protrude, which causes the small cog-wheel,
which is composed, say, of 10 teeth, to move a tooth at each complete revolution of
the large cog-wheel. The pivots of the two cog-wheels go through the discs which
supports them, and upon their points are mounted two hands. The pivot of the
large cogwheel is in the centre of the disc. Upon the circumference of the disc
herein before mentioned are engraved two dials suitably divided, each having for
their centre one of the pivots of the two cog-wheels. The dial which has in the
centre the pivot of the large cog-wheel is divided into 24 parts. The one having
in its centre the pivot of the small cog-wheel is divided into 10 parts, the number

page_text: of divisions in both dials corresponding to the number of the teeth of the two cog-
wheels, the pivot of which forms its centre. Undeneath the lever hereinbefore
mentioned, in a suitable position, is also attached a piece of metal of suitable shape,
which when the lever begins to move causes a spring, to which a small hammer is
attached, to be lifted and strike a small gong, which is mounted in a suitable position
inside the apparatus.
If it is desirable to know the number of amounts collected, an extra dial may be
added, geared in conjunction with and actuated by the same hand lever which gives
the prime movement to the other parts of the apparatus. Having thus described
the nature of my Invention, 1 wish it to be understood that my claim is for,-
A method of registering sums of money received by means of dials or numbers
worked by the movement of a slide or lever shewing,―
1. The amount of undivided sums.
2. The aggregate amount.
The said dials or numbers being connected by ordinary mechanism (well known 1
to clock makers & others) with the said slide or lever.
In witness whereof, I, the said Eugenio de Zuccato, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Sixth of December, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred & seventy nine.
(L.S.) EUG. DE ZUCCATO.
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