IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR CHECKING AND RECORDING CASH TRANSACTIONS, PARTLY APPLICABLE ALSO TO THE PRINTING OF TICKETS AND TO SIMILAR USES
Year: 1878

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by George Robert Geldard at the Office of .
the Commissioners of Patents on the 20th April 1878.
GEORGE ROBERT GELDARD, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Grocer..
"IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR CHECKING AND RECORDING CASH TRANSACTIONS,
PARTLY APPLICABLE ALSO TO THE PRINTING OF TICKETS AND TO SIMILAR USES."
My Invention relates principally to a former Invention for which Her Majesty's.
Royal Letters Patent bearing date the Thirteenth day of July, in the year last.
ended, and numbered 2907, have been granted to me.
In the said former Invention an apparatus for obtaining a record of cash trans-.
actions was used in connection with a till. The transaction was recorded upon a
ticket which could be given to the customer, and also upon a riband which remained
for reference, and could be used to check the contents of the till. The said tickets.
were proposed to be printed upon a riband of paper which was fed forwards by
means of rollers, which were actuated by parts which effected the opening of the
till, and a ticket bearing a record of a transaction was severed from the said riband
when the till closed. In such apparatus a delicate adjustment of the parts for
feeding forwards the riband was required, as it was necessary that a length exactly
equal to the length of a ticket should be fed forwards at each operation.
One of the objects of my present Invention is to dispense with the necessity for
this delicate adjustment, and to this end I cause the feeding apparatus to print the
tickets. I cast, cut, or form on the circumference of one of the feeding rollers the
letters, signs, and marks suitable to the printing of a ticket; and I provide inking
apparatus to ink the surface of the said roller, so that each time the riband of paper
is fed forwards a ticket is printed, the record of the transaction having previously
been written upon the said riband.
In one arrangement the printing roller revolves between and in contact with
rollers covered with an elastic material, and one of the said rollers is supplied with
ink by a feeding roller which receives ink from a trough or hopper. The edges of
the mouth through which the ink is supplied or a plate forming one side of the
hopper is capable of adjustment nearer to or farther from the axis of the roller
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page_text: whereby the supply of ink is regulated. I prefer to make the said feeding roller of
steel. One or more rollers may interpose between the said feeding roller and the
printing roller.
In lieu of ink I may employ a band of material prepared with carbon or trans-
ferring substance, I may employ an ink containing glycerine.
I form the printing roller by bending a paper impression of the type into a
cylinder, and placing it around a core which is formed with suitable axles. The
melted alloy is then poured into the space between the said impression and core.
Other means than this may be adopted.
To facilitate the writing of the records in the proper places I cause the paper
riband to pass below an opening provided with cross wires or bars.
The printing apparatus may be employed in the printing of tickets, labels, and
for other similar purposes.