Improvements in or relating to Apparatus for Checking, Recording, and Indicating the Amounts of Cash Received, Taken, or Paid, such Apparatus being also applicable to other analogous purposes.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Sept., 1892-Accepted, 17th Dec., 1892
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Apparatus for Checking, Recording,
and Indicating the Amounts of Cash Received, Taken, or Paid,
such Apparatus being also applicable to other analogous
purposes.
I, CHARLES SCOTT SNELL of Culver Park, Saltash, Cornwall, Engineer, 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:-
This invention relates to improvements in apparatus for checking, recording, and
indicating the amounts of cash received, taken or paid, such as is described in the
Specification of Letters Patent granted to Sidney Firth the Eleventh day of
September A.D. 1886 No. 11585 and also in the Specification of Letters Patent
granted to John Blakey and Sidney Firth the Twenty-third day of October A.D. 1889,
No. 16734.
According to my invention means are provided whereby (1) The actuating
handle causes the apparatus to print and deliver a ticket or receipt, print the
recording slip, sound a bell, and open the cash drawer by means of only about th
of a revolution. (2) The record of the amount taken is shown at the back of the
apparatus simultaneously with that shown at the front, by means of two sets of
discs and segments with numbers engraved thereon. (3) There is a special
arrangement for the inking tape viz.-by means of two bobbins to which the
inking tape is attached free to revolve on the same spindle and an intermittent
rotary motion imparted to them by two flat side springs attached to the frame of
the printing mechanism; the inking tape may be made to traverse suitable guide
rollers and pass under the type discs. Each bobbin is provided with ratchet
teeth on one flange. A ratchet arrangement provided with two flat guides which
press lightly on the inking tape on the bobbins singly, and governed by a balance
weight automatically engages and disengages the bobbins separately so that when
the inking tape has filled one bobbin its traversing motion is reversed till the other
one is filled, when the reversal again takes place.
I will now describe my apparatus. A. is the outer case provided with a door in
which is a slot for the delivery of the tickets printed, from which slot they are
ejected by means of mechanism hereinafter explained. The case A. is also provided
with a cash drawer A¹ which is automatically opened as hereinafter described.
Mounted on the case A. is the frame of the apparatus B. on the base of which in
suitable bearings is mounted the driving shaft C. to which is firmly attached the
actuating handle C. On the shaft C. is fixed the lever D. slotted at D' through
which a pin D2 is passed, which carries or holds in position the connecting rod E.
whilst it also allows it a free motion. The other end of the connecting rod E. is
connected with the frame of the printing mechanism a. and an adjustable nut allows
it to be regulated.
Also mounted on the base of the frame B. in suitable bearings on a spindle is the
lever F. to which is joined at the centre and standing at right angles to it the
lever F which is slotted at the end F2 so as to allow it to engage with the pin F³
of the ejector slide G. The adjustable bolt X. attaches the lever D. at D³ to the
lever F. at F by means of ball joints. Attached to the opposite end of the lever F.
at F is a coil spring F the other end of which is attached to the frame B. by means
of a hook.
A rod H. passes through the lever D. and the base of the frame B. and engages
the cash drawer A' when required to be closed and disengages it, when an upward
motion is imparted to it by the lever D. A coil spring is fitted to the back of

page_text: the cash drawer A¹ and is compressed by the cash drawer being closed and
engaged by the rod H. When the cash drawer is disengaged by an upward
motion of the rod H. imparted to it by the lever D. the spring forces the cash
drawer A¹ open.
A bell I. is fixed to the frame B. and provided with a hammer fixed to the
tappet arrangement I¹ which is actuated by a motion imparted to it by the lever D.
on the driving shaft C.
The printing mechanism or press consists of frame a. sliding on guide rods
(upright) b. b. and mounted on coil springs c. c.
In bearings on the frame a. are spindles carrying the discs and segments ddddd
and discs and segments e e e e e on the peripheries of which are engraved or other-
wise marked numbers, one row of which can only be seen at a time, and so.
arranged that they can be viewed from the back as well as the front of the
apparatus.
Likewise mounted on the frame a. in bearings on spindles are the type discs fffff
provided with suitable type and arranged for printing the ticket or receipt and also
the type discs 99 999 provided with similar type arranged for printing the recording
slip.
The necessary rotary motion is imparted to the discs and segments d dddd and
the discs and segments e e e e e by the handles hhhhh which are firmly fixed to the
toothed wheels iiiii which gear into pinions d' d' d' d' d' attached to the discs and
segments d d d d d and pinions e¹e'e' e¹ e' attached to the discs and segments eeeee.
The toothed wheels iiiii also gear into pinions f f f f f attached to the
ticket printing type discs fffff and into pinions ggggg' attached to the record-
ing slip type discs 99999. By this means the type discs and exhibiting discs and
segments are moved simultaneously.
Attached to the front of the frame a. is a guide plate a¹ with numbers corre-
sponding to those on the type and exhibiting discs engraved thereon. In this plate
are slots through which the handles hhhhh are passed and guided. To prevent
them altering their position after being set at a particular number, a series of notches
are arranged one opposite each number into which the handles hhhhh adjust
themselves.
On the frame B. is fixed an entablature on which is mounted a magazine to
hold the tickets to be printed. The entablature also carries the ejector slide G.
on to which the tickets successively fall. The slide is provided with a raised
lip sufficiently high to seize the bottom ticket and carry it forward to a position
under the printing discs fff ƒ ƒ• The necessary motion is imparted to the
slide G. by the lever F¹ which is connected at F with a pin F3 of the ejector
slide G. the lever F1 being actuated by the lever D. attached to the driving
shaft C.
The recording slip is wound in a roll on a stud J. It then passes directly under
the type discs 99999 and on to a roller J' which is provided with pins suitable for
holding it.
The necessary intermittent rotary motion is imparted to the roller J2 by a rubber
band driven by a roller which is provided with a ratchet wheel J' into the teeth of
which a spring pawl Q attached to frame a. is made to engage. The inking tape is
wound on the bobbin M. which is provided with ratchet teeth on one flange M³ and
is free to revolve on stud L. fixed to frame B. It is then passed over suitable
guide rollers and under the type discs, returned and fastened to the bobbin K.
which is also provided with ratchet teeth on one flange K' and free to revolve on
stud L.
.
A ratchet arrangement N, is mounted directly over the bobbins K and M.
provided with two pawls N' and N2 two flat guides N³ N₁. An adjustable
balance weight O. which is mounted on the upright rod O¹, is also fixed to the
arrangement N.
Two flat springs P¹ & P2 are fixed to the frame a. and pressed on to the sides K'
of the bobbin K. and M₁ of the bobbin M.

page_text: When the actuating handle C¹ is forced down it causes the shaft C. to move the
lever D. and by means of the connecting rod E. draws down the printing mechanism
on to the ticket and recording slip. The lever D. on the shaft C. also actuates the
tappet motion I' which rings the bell I. It also by means of the lever D. and the
rod H. releases the cash drawer A¹ which is then forced out by the spring before
mentioned. It also actuates the ejector slide G. which by means of its backward
motion caused by the spring Fe forces the ticket under the type discs and delivers
it through the slot in the door before mentioned by means of the lever F1 engaging
with the pin F and lever F. which is connected by the bolt X. to the lever D. on
the shaft C.
The motion imparted to the printing mechanism causes the spring pawl Q which
is attached to the frame a. to actuate the roller J2 by means of the ratchet wheel J'
and so cause the recording slip to travel.
By the same motion of the printing mechanism the two flat springs P' & P' which
are fixed to the frame a. actuate the bobbins K and M. By the ratchet arrange-
ment N. a pawl N₁ fixed thereto engages the bobbin K. and ensures an intermittent
rotary motion being imparted to it by the flat spring P¹ which winds the inking
tape on to itself and from the bobbin M. When the bobbin K. is filled the
guide N riding thereon causes the balance weight to alter its position and by this
means the bobbin K. is released and the bobbin M. engaged in a similar manner
as was the bobbin K. by the pawl N². The bobbin M. now engaged receives an
intermittent rotary motion from the other flat spring P2 and winds the tape on to
itself and from K.
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 :-
In an apparatus for checking, recording, and indicating the amounts of cash
received, taken or paid, or for other analogous purposes-
(1) The improved motion substantially as above described enabling by means of
only about th of a revolution of the actuating handle the ticket or receipt to be
printed and delivered, the record slip to be printed, the bell sounded, and the cash
drawer opened simultaneously.
(2) A double set of discs and segments with numbers engraved thereon showing
the amount taken at the back of the apparatus simultaneously with that shown at
the front substantially as above subscribed.
(3) An arrangement for winding and reversing the inking tape upon two bobbins
which are engaged and disengaged automatically by means of a ratchet with two
flat guides governed by a balance weight substantially as above described.
Dated this 27th day of September 1892.
J. E. EVANS-JACKSON & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.