Improvements in Cash Registering and Recording Appliances.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Dec., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 17th Sept., 1891-Accepted, 28th Nov., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cash Registering and Recording Appliances.
I JOHN SHAKESPEARE of 120 Snow Hill Dudley in the County of Worcester
Fruit Merchant do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention relates to the manner in which I construct and arrange indicating
or registering appliances for the prevention of fraud on tramways, omnibuses. shops,
and other places, where a large number of separate payments are made; or where
it is necessary to establish a check and record of all the payments occurring in any
vehicle or in any shop or establishment. I am also enabled to maintain a permanent
register of the receipts of any establishment, or upon any vehicle, by means of my
improvements, without the possibility of derangement or any tampering being
introduced.
In carrying my invention into effect when constructing a recorder and indicator
for use upon vehicles having the issue of tickets provided for as a certificate of
payment of the fare; I mount a roll of paper or other suitable material upon a
spindle of my apparatus and I cause the free end of the continuous ticket roll to
pass through a pair of rollers or guide pulleys, these rollers being adjusted by
springs or other yielding bearings to allow of the movement of the paper between
them being communicated to the circumferences of the rollers thereby causing
them to rotate upon their spindles, or within their spindle bearings. Sometimes I
cause these guide rollers, one or both of them, to be provided with stamps or
marking appliances for impressing or printing any desired device or other matter
upon the tickets that are to be issued.
I make the circumference of the ticket guide wheels some multiple of the length
of paper to be issued as a single ticket, so that for each revolution of the guide
rollers a certain known number of tickets will have been issued. Upon the roller
wheel spindle mount a toothed wheel or pinion which 1 cause to work into a
second wheel having a number of teeth thercon proportionate to the number upon
the guide roller pinion; the exact proportion between these wheels being regulated
when constructing my recorder to suit any particular requirement. Thus when
issuing penny tickets from the endless roll, I prefer to make the length of the
ticket issued at each time one third of the circumference of the roller wheel, so
that one revolution of this wheel will have been made upon three tickets being
sold. The wheel into which the roller wheel pinion gears I similarly prefer to
make with four times the number of teeth contained in the pinion, thus causing one
revolution of this second tooth wheel upon the issue of twelve tickets; that is when
one shilling has been received. From this second wheel I gear down by means of
suitably proportioned wheels and pinions, so that shillings, ten shillings, pounds,
ten pounds, and one hundred pounds may be indicated by the movements of the
corresponding wheels. Or I arrange the wheels in like manner to indicate any
desired sum or sums.
1 cause an index figure or pointer to be mounted upon the spindle of the second
motion wheel, that is to say upon the pence wheel. This pointer I arrange to
indicate upon a dial or face capable of being read by those giving and those
receiving tickets, and in order to prevent undue motion of the wheel and to obviate
any slipping back of the gearing when the index finger is moved back to zero, I
mount a ratchet wheel upon the spindle of the second toothed or pence indicating
wheel. This ratchet I secure to the peace wheel, and I allow these two wheels
when connected as one, to revolve loosely upon the spindle of the index or pointer
arm; upon the same spindle I also mount and fix rigidly to it, a wheel or disc for

page_text: carrying the ratchet pall and spring for determining the movement of the ratchet
wheel. Thus when the index or pointer is moved forward to indicate the payment
of one penny, then the ratchet wheel and its 'connected wheel 'move also in the same
direction although being loose upon the shaft or spindle, seeing that I provide a
collar or friction washer to press against the face of wheel and cause it to revolve
with the spindle; but when the index is moved backward 'the pall slips over the
ratchet teeth thus permitting the ratchet wheel to remain stationary. I further
ensure that this ratchet wheel shall not be rotated when the index is moved in a
backward direction by mounting a second pall or click to engage with the teeth of
the ratchet wheel, which second pall I prefer to attach to a spindle or pin carried
upon the inside of the dial.
I cause a gong or a bell to be sounded each time a ticket is issued by providing
a striking lever upon the end of the second or independent ratchet pall or click,
in such a manner that as one tooth upon the ratchet passes the pall, then one
blow is struck by the lever.
I also provide an operating lever catch to open a receptacle for the coins, so
that as each ticket is issued und, the ratchet wheel is rotated one tooth then the
operating lever is struck by the tail end of the index arm aud caused to release a
balance weight lever which opens the lid or cover of the receptacle for the
admission of the coin while the backward movement of the index arm permits of
the same operating lever being again carried into position by means of suitable
springs and inclined guiding stops which I arrange upon the case or other suitable
part of my collecting box.
I do not always employ my registering and cash recording apparatus for use
upon vehicles where tickets are to be issued but adopt the saine essential features
of a fixed ratchet wheel and a moving ratchet pall as hereinbefore described when
constructing a recording apparatus without the ticket roll.
Similarly I construct a recording and cash registering till for use in shops and
other similar establishments, witliout a ticket roll, but I lopt-the-same-essential-
features as hereinbefore described.
When constructing a shop till with my improvements applied, for registering
and recording I prefer to arrange a number of separate dials, visible alike to the
salesman and the-purchaser, or --sometimes make them duplicate one being in
front towards the purchaser and the other being towards the operator. In one
method of construction I arrange several dials in a row, each dial indicating any
determined or particular amount and being provided with a pointer worked by
gearing from the-first index hand-or operating pointer. In order to cause all the
indices to be read in one direction or conveniently in one way I arrange intermediate
or idle wheels between the different sets of wheels behind the different dials and
by this means, I am also enabled to space the indicating dials so as to be more
clearly and distinctly read. I mount upon cach separate set of wheels a ratchet
and pall as herein before described for the purpose of permitting the rotation of
the gearing and indicators in one direction only while the pointer or movable arm
is free to move in either direction at the will of the operator. By this system of
free movement of the indicator arm or pointer, I am enabled to make fresh
indications upon the receipt of each separate amount from any purchaser without
in any way interfering with the permanent record of the apparatus upon the other
dials, which recording or totaling dials may be hidden from view if desired.
1 construct a pocket cash recorder in one convenient form having the shape and
configuration of a watch and within this watch like case I mount a number of
dials and recording wheels actuated in the manner hereinbefore described with one
independent double motion pointer. I give the necessary movement to this pointer
or arm by means of a projecting knob or button working by means of bevil and
other suitable wheels on to the spindle of the pointer; or I cause the pointer to
be operated by means of a projecting end of a lever which I draw backwards and
forwards to give a step by step motion to the hand by means of a separate system
of ratchet and pall combination which I provide for this purpose.

page_text: I do not limit the application of my invention to any particular or peculiar form
of case to contain my improved system of gearing and recording dials but apply
the same essential features of movement and registration as hereinbefore described
to any particular or peculiar form of collecting box, till or other similar cabinet or
case, to suit any special requirement; and I construct my boxes and gearing of
metal or any other suitable material. And when applying my system of cash
recorders to large establishments I sometimes provide duplicate appliances to be
worked by any ordinary system of electrical motors and by ordinary electrical
fittings, for causing the movement of the public or salesmans cash register, to give
a like and equal movement to its duplicate register placed in the private room or
apartment of the principal of the establishment in order that an absolute or double
check may be ensured.
Dated this 16th day of December 1890.
MARKS & CLERK,
13; Temple Street, Birmingham, Agents for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cash Registering and Recording Appliances.
I, JOHN SHAKESPEARE, of 120 Snow Hill, Dudley, in the County of Worcester,
Fruit Merchant, 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 the manner in which I construct and arrange indicating
or registering appliances for the prevention of fraud and dishonesty in shops, ware-
houses, and other establishments where money payments have to be made or taken;
also for like use upon tramways, omnibuses and other vehicles, boats or conveyances
where tickets are given or fares are collected. I am also enabled to maintain a
permanent register or total record of the receipts or payments of any establishment
or conveyance where my registering machine or appliance is in use, without
disturbing the free movement and control of the operating portion of the mechanism
controlled by the attendant or operators using the register or machine.
In the accompanying five sheets of explanatory drawings I illustrate the
different types of recording machines constructed according to my present
invention.
On Sheet 1, Figure 1 is a front elevation of my shop or business cash
recording till or register, having the till or drawer portion cut through to more
clearly show the movement of the lid or cover B.
Figure 2 is a sectional end elevation of the same recorder.
Figure 3 is a detail elevation of the dials or totalling indicator faces.
Figure 4 and Figure 5 are details of the ratchet driving and escaping arrange-
ment which employ.
construct the case A, A' of my machine of any desired configuration but
preferably of rectangular form as shown, having two broad sides A, A'; one, A,
arranged in front to face the purchaser and one, A', arranged behind to face the
operator or salesman. Upon each of these faces or sides I mount two dials C, D
formed upon one plate or separately as may be desired; and I cause, one dial C to
be divided or marked to denote 12 pence by a complete revolution of the
finger E, and the other to denote say 20 shillings by a complete revolution made
by the indicating finger or pointer E placed upon the central spindle e' of this
dial.
I subdivide the circumference or face of the dials traversed by the pointers E, E¹
to permit of any desired indication being made by a corresponding movement of
the pointers. Thus when dividing the dial C and its exactly similar companion
dial which I arrange upon the front of the machine into 24 parts, the arrow or

page_text: pointer E with its corresponding front pointers passing from 0 to 1 will record
1 penny upon each of the similar dials.
Upon the spindle e of the first dial I mount between the side frames A, A¹ of
the case or box, a toothed wheel 1, which I cause to gear with and drive the
intermediate tooth wheel 2 mounted upon the spindle f, which spindle also carries
the exactly similar wheel 2* together with a ratchet wheel F and a small pinion 3.
The pinion 3 I make with say 8 teeth to work into the wheel 4 which I carry upon
the spindle having 160 teeth so that when the indicator pointer E has passed
completely round the dial C thus denoting 12 pence, the indicator or arrow
pointer has passed from 0 to 1 on the dial D thus recording on that dial the
amount passed over the other or first dial viz.-one shilling. From this same
arrangement also the totalling or recording gear wheels and spindles g, h, i, j, k
have been set in motion to indicate upon the smaller dials the gross amount passed
through the machine or register, so that an independent check is provided in
addition to the ordinary recording dials for displaying to the public the extent of
the money required from every transaction. I place the totalling dials with their
mechanism as indicated in Figure 1 and Figure 2 at the lower portion of my case,
so that when desired a separate private key or fastening may be provided to this
portion of the case thus covering the dials, in order that no attempt at tampering
may be suggested by the fact of the amount of money being registered by the
private dinis being seen by the operator. I arrange the pinions and wheels to
indicate upon the small dials any desired amount of cash and I proportion each pair
of wheels to suit any sum which I desire to record upon each dial.
The main driving wheel upon the spindle e, I cause to gear into any suitable size
intermediate wheel sufficiently large in diameter for permitting a ratchet or escape-
ment wheel F (Fig. 4 and 5) being mounted loosely upon the spindle f. The size
and number of teeth which I arrange upon this wheel I determine by the smallest
amount of money which I desire to make record-of-by-any-movement of the first
hand indicating finger E. Thus if I desire to register sums of half-pence as the
lowest single amount to be taken, I divide the dial C into 24 parts representing
half-pennies between each division, and give the ratchet wheel 1 24 teeth also for
the purpose of allowing half-pence to be denoted by the movement of the ratchet
pall, or catch G from one tooth to another. Or I vary the number of teeth or the
proportions of the wheels 1 and 2 to suit any desired minimum. amount, which it
may be required to indicate for any special or particular purpose.
In order to drive the ratchet wheel F, I mount or pin on to the inner face of the
wheel 2, a pall or click H, having a spring K behind it, so that although the
wheel 2 may be driven in either direction at will according as the pointer of hand
indicator E or E is moved, the ratchet wheel F can only move in one direction
seeing that it is held fast by the catch or pall G; the pall G being carried upon an
independent pivot or spindle L. The wheel 2* which corresponds in size and
number of teeth with the wheel 2 which is arranged upon the same spindle upon
the opposite side of the ratchet wheel, does not revolve together with 2, but is
secured to the ratchet F firmly, similarly, the driving pinion wheel 3 which
gears with the wheel 4 on the second large dial spindle is secured to the wheel 2.
So that by this arrangement of an escape upon the ratchet either of the hand
indicators E, E may be moved backwards to zero without producing a corre-
sponding backward movement of the recording dial pointers g, h, i, j, k, these
pointers being thus capable of a positive forward movement only. By the arrange-
ment of dials shown it is not possible for the pointer E to be moved to indicate
say 2 pence upon the first or penny dial C, without at the same time causing a
proportional movement of the pointer E' upon the second or shillings dial D.
Similarly although both dial wheels may be set in motion by the hand pointer of
either being moved, I cause the movement of each to be communicated to the
totalling or recording train of spindles g, h, i, j, k by means of the train inter-
mediate wheel 5 mounted upon the first train spindle . The arrangement and
proportionate sizes of the wheels which I employ in my train or private recording

page_text: wheels, I vary to suit any particular or special requirement, causing one dial to
indicate peunies, to any extent, and the connected wheels to transfer the movement
of the first wheel and to multiply the amount upon the other dials so as to record
12 pence, 20 shillings, 10 pounds, 100 pounds, 1000 pounds, and so on.
In connection with the movement of the first or the second pointers, I arrange a
bell M or an alarm gong to be struck by the hammer N which I actuate by a
lever O and spring catch P. The lever Ŏ being fixed upon the spindle e (and
sometimes a similar one also arranged upon the other pointer spindle e¹) working
into a spring catch P attached to the bell hammer lever n; so that when the
spindle is moved, the lever causes the hammer lever a to rise and to give a blow to
the bell M. At the same time that the bell is struck by the movement given to
the pointer hand, the till or drawer lid or cover B is opened so that the money
can be placed in the drawer and any change taken therefrom. The drawer cover
or lid B being pivoted upon a spindle and having a balance lever B2 carried
beneath the lid so that its free end or tail B may be caught and retained by the
catch lever or locking lever R mounted beneath the second dial spindle. This
lever RI release or lock by means of a lever R' secured to the second dial spindle e
in such a manner that when the slightest movement or indication is made upon the
first dial and the bell thereby struck by the hammer N, the cash drawer or till is
unfastened or opened.
The catch or ratchet wheel F which 1 place between my two dials permits of
the dial hands being carried back to zero after every indication, or after every
transaction has been displayed without interfering with the registering or
totalling train of wheels, but any movement beyond zero is prevented by the
stop X on the wheel 4 meeting the spring stop Y; which spring stop permits of a
free movement of the pointers in the recording direction to any extent, while
preventing any movement past zero in the contrary direction.
When it is desired to issue paper tickets or paper foils or checks with the
machine as before described, I mount a pair of rollers T, T' between the side
plates carrying the gearing of my machine, and 1 pass a roll of paper U between
these rollers and cause it to pass along a trough or tray V to be delivered at W
where the length corresponding to the purchase recorded upon the dial may be
torn off.
I cause the roll of paper to be divided in such a manner that the length
of any piece of paper passing the rollers, and thus also setting in motion the
gearing by the pinion wheel 6 which gears with the intermediate wheel driven
from the wheel 20, shall represent any determined indication of the counters. Thus
if my ticket or foil roller U is marked to denote each ticket as say one half-penny,
and a purchase of two pence is rendered, then there will be delivered a strip of
paper having four such divisions marked thereon; which strip being suitably
perforated may be readily removed as a check for the use of the purchaser or any
other purpose.
On Sheet 2, Figure 6 is an end elevation and Figure 7 is a sectional side
elevation showing my improved cash indicator and recorder arranged to be worked
or manipulated by fingers or pedals A, B, C, D, the detail elevations Figures 8,
9, 10, and 11 showing the form of teeth I employ to the wheels which I place upon
the main actuating spindle which spindle corresponds to the spindle ƒ of Figure 1
and Figure 2 before described.
I cause the pedals or finger levers to be mounted upon a pivot or spindle F, and
I place stops G beneath each pedal to prevent it from travelling too far in one
direction while similar stops at the opposite end of the lever support it and prevents
its movement too far in the other direction. Upon each lever or pedal I mount a
catch lever or finger pall a which engages and moves one tooth on the wheel e with
each movement or stroke of the pedal; while on the other shaped wheels
Figures 8, 9, 10, and 11 similar levers cause movements of one tooth at a time
or for each stroke of the particular lever to each wheel, to indicate varying amounts
proportionate to the divisions in the circumference of the wheel. Thus a wheel
having 24 teeth would cause a record of one half-penny to be made upon the first

page_text: or penny dial, with a movement of each stroke of the lever, while a wheel with
4 teeth would cause an indication of 3 pence, and a movement of one tooth of the
12 tooth wheel an indication of one penny at a time. The size and division of the
wheels arrange to suit any required amount that it is desired to register at a
single movement of one lever, and by moving one after another of these levers any 5
larger or additional amount may be indicated.
paint, mark or otherwise denote upon the pedal levers the amount each will
indicate upon the dial, and I arrange the same system of totalling and recording
wheels and private dials together with the bell and till arrangement as hereinbefore
described and as illustrated in Figure 1 and Figure 2.
When applying my improved cash recorder to register and record large amounts,
I arrange my wheels and dinls as shown on Sheet 3; Figure 12 being a front
elevation and Figure 13 a side elevation of the machine or recorder mechanism. In
this machine or apparatus I arrange smaller dials a, b, c, d, e, about the same centre
as the ordinary indicating dials, the large dials A, B, C, being for the information
of the purchaser and the smaller dials for the information of the proprietor as
recording or totalling dials quite free from the control of the attendant or operator.
In order to permit of the fingers of each dial having a separate movement, and to
allow of the large pointers A', B', C' being set back without the movement back-
wards also of the small recording hands a, b, c, d, e, I securely mount ratchet
wheels F, G, H, upon the hollow spindles of the small pointers, and also similar
ratchets k, l, upon the hollow spindles of the smaller pointers. By this arrange-
ment each large pointer can be moved forward and with it all the other small
pointers that are connected in front of it upon the higher indicating dials, in
addition to its own small pointer; and each large pointer or hand can be moved
backwards to zero, without carrying back also the other pointers or hands. Thus
the pointer B on the dial B will move forward the small pointers-b₁, c', ', e',
without moving the pointers on the dials A, a; and upon the pointer on B
being moved back from any indication to the zero on B the other pointers
previously set in motion by it will remain stationary. Thus by this second dial
system of working, a positive record is maintained of all the indications made upon
each dial together with the total or sum of all-such-indications.
By a suitable arrangement and proportioning of the various wheels and pinions
I am able to indicate up to any desired amount. Thus upon the dial A. I indicate
12 pence with divisions of half-pennies between each indication caused by the
ratchet Fhaving 24 teeth; the ratchet I fix securely to the hollow spindle A³ which
has running through it a shaft A2, the hollow shaft A³ has secured to it the sinall
recording hand or pointer a', and gives motion by the pinion A' to the intermediate
wheel and its pinion J to the wheel K mounted loosely upon the hollow shaft B
which shaft has secured to it the ratchet wheel G. This wheel G is driven by the
pall G when Krevolves. Upon the internal spindle B2 which runs through the
hollow shaft B³, I fix the pointer hand B', and upon the hollow shaft 13³ I fix
the small recording hand or pointer '; the pinion wheel L, secured on B³, I'gear
with M which is secured to the intermediate spindle m which spindle has secured to
it the wheel N for giving motion to the wheel o running loosely on the hollow
shaft c. The wheel o, I cause to drive the wheel, which has connected with it
the pinion 2 both being mounted on the intermediate shaft p; and the pinion 2
gearing into 3 on the recording dial spindle d, transmits its motion by the pinion 4
mounted on the same shaft, to the wheel 5 mounted on the recording spindle e.
Thus all movements of A, B, C, cause corresponding proportionate movements of
the recording hands a', b, c, d, e, in a forward direction only. The reverse move-
ment of any or all of the hands A', B', C', for the purpose of being set back to
zero on the dials is prevented from causing a reversal of the recording pointers a',
,, by the ratchet wheels F, k, l, and the hollow shafts A, B, c. These
ratchet wheels being mounted securely on the hollow shafts and being driven by
their palls F¹,,, mounted securely on the internal indicating spindles A3, B2, C².
For the purpose of preventing the movement of the hand A' and the hand Bi

page_text: when the hand-C¹ is moved, I securely mount ratchet wheels G, H, on the hollow
shafts B³, having palls G, H, which are connected to the wheels K and o, mounted
loosely on these hollow shafts so that when the large indicating hands are moved,
they cause the hands in front of them to be set in motion, but not those behind by
reason of the escapement of the pawls upon the ratchet wheels; I attach a stop F
to a stretcher spindle carried between the frames to prevent the pointer a¹
moving backward when pointer A' is being carried back to zero.
I sometimes arrange my improved indicating and recording mechanism in the
form of a watch for the purpose of pocket use and for convenience of recording
pérsonal expenditure as illustrated in Figures 14 and 15 in which A is the dial or
front face having a central pointer A' for indicating up to 60 pence by a com-
plete revolution, each division being for one penny. Upon the same dial face I
arrange smaller dials B, C, D, E having hands B, C, D, E' for indicating any
desired sum, the first dial B being for 12. pence, the second C 20 shillings, the
third D up to 10 pounds, and the fourth E up to 100 pounds. The forward
movement of all the pointers I. produce preferably by turning the knob F
which sets in motion the pinion G gearing into the intermediate wheel H which
drives the wheel K on the indicating spindle A2, from A the wheel K drives the
pinion L on m, and on this spindle L, 1 fix the ratchet M on the shaft m, this
ratchet I provide with a driving pall N and a catch or stop pall O. The
forward movement of the pointer A can thus be made to carry forward the
other recording hands as before described, but the backward movement of
the manipulating pointer or hand A¹ will not cause a like backward movement
of the other recording pointers B, C, D, E'.
Sometimes I arrange upon this watch like case a receptacle for containing
coins for collecting boxes for institutions to issue to their agents instead of the
ordinary boxes or cards at present in use, without any check or record of the money
being made when deposited. I divide the dials into any number of parts, and I,
proportion the gearing to suit any desired amount which is to be totalled, without
departing from the system of arrangement herein set forth, and I employ duplicate
sets of dials and like movements when desired for any particular purpose such as
receipts and expenditure.
When arranging my improved apparatus to record' definite sums as for ticket
purposes for admission to theatres and the like, where prices of 6d., one shilling,
1/6, 2-, 4-, or any other amount it may be desired to record, is arranged for, I
mount a series of frames A, B, C, D, E, in pairs, corresponding to the separate
sets of dials to be arranged, and between each frame I mount a pair of rollers F, F,
F, F, F, through which the tape or ticket roll end passes, the rolls being
mounted 'in any convénient position for feeding and delivering between each.
pair of plates. I perforate cach tape to suit one ticket, and I make the length
of this ticket thus passing through the rollers equal to the portion of the dial
or the dial itself upon which the record of one ticket is to be made. Upon the
spindle G of the roller F I mount a wheel H gearing into the wheel K.on:
the intermediate spindle k, and upon this intermediate spindle I mount a pinion k
gearing into the intermediate wheel I secured to the spindle L, driving also, by
the wheel L', the wheel M on the dial spindle M', and upon the dial spindle M¹ I
mount a pinion M², gearing into the wheel N on the dial spindle N, having a
pinion N driving 'the wheel O, on the dial spindle O'. Thus the indicating
pointers P, P, P are all set in motion by the drawing out of the tape from
between the rollers. A ratchet wheel R I mount upon the spindle G to prevent
the backward movement of the indicating pointers, should the rollers by any
means be moved backwards. Similarly from the roller spindle G I drive the
train of gearing as illustrated to set in motion the recording hands S, S', S², S
through a common spindle T to which all the other rollers gear, by suitable pro-
portioning of their wheels, so that a movement of the first or sixpenny roller
shall cause the shaft T to revolve only half the distance of that caused by the
passage of a ticket' through the oue shilling roller, and 'so on."
A.
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page_text: I mount a ratchet wheel U upon the shaft Gand upon the like roller shafts G*,
GG, G, to prevent any backward movement of the recording pointers with a
backward movement of the rollers; and I arrange similar sets of gearing with
dials and indicators to be controlled by each pair of rollers, similarly to that
herein described for one set of rollers, and I cause each roller series to record
the receipts for tickets of that class upon its own particular indicating dials
while at the same time causing a record to be inade upon the totalling dials.
I sometimes arrange a bell to be struck with the issue of each ticket similarly
to the manner hereinbefore described when constructing my improved till or cash
box; and arrange the trains of gearing at any desired angle upon the plates
for convenient reading of the same.
or
When arranging my improved mechanism for the issue of tickets for use upon
tramcars, vehicles, or boats shown in Figure 18, where a fixed amount is to be
paid for each ticket, I arrange a roll or tape A upon a spindle within the box
case B, and I cause the ticket end C to issue through an opening B
sometimes arranged with blades or teeth edges for permitting tickets to be
readily torn off when outside and I perforate the roll to suit the length of
ticket to be issued. I cause the paper to pass through two rollers D, D; and
upon the spindle of one roller I mount a pinion E gearing into a wheel F on
the recording spindle of the dial P, and by a pinion G on this spindle I com-
municate motion to the wheel H on the dial spindle of P'; and by suitable
wheels and pinions K, L, M, N, O, I actuate the spindles on the recording
dials P, P The proportion of the wheels which I adopt together with the
division of the dial faces I vary to suit any desired sum, always arranging that the
passage of one strip of paper or ticket through the rollers D, D', shall cause an
indication proportionate to its movement upon the first recording dial. And for
the purpose of audible notification of the passage of a ticket, I arrange a gong or
bell R to be struck by a lever or hammer S upon the revolution of a gapped
ratchet wheel T, which Lmount-upon-the-spindle-of-the-roller-D. Thus-if-the-
complete revolution of the roller D' is produced by the passage of one ticket, I
arrange that the gap shall be such as to cause the hammer to be raised and let
fall upon each complete revolution, or I modify the arrangement of gap to suit
any particular dial, or roller, or length of ticket which may be determined upon
for any particular purpose.
I do not limit myself to any particular shape or configuration of the case which
I employ for my ticket box indicator, pocket indicator, theatre indicator, or ordinary
counter or till indicator, but employ any convenient shape of case or cover with
-the dials arranged and divided in any manner which it may be necessary for
indicating any particular sum of money, or for use in any financial department or
system of coinage.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
:-
(1). The combination and arrangement of indicating and recording cash boxes
having independent manipulating or operating fingers or pointers, together with
private check, totalling or recording pointers operated by gearing substantially as
hereinbefore described, and as illustrated in Figures 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 in the accom-
panying drawings, and for the purposes set forth.
(2). The construction and arrangement of cash indicating machines and appliances
operated by the movement of a finger or pedal or system of fingers or systems of
pedals, wherein a ratchet and pawl are employed to prevent the backward move-
ment of independent recording hands or pointers when any backward movement is
made by the indicating or manipulating pointers, substantially as and for the
purposes set forth in the accompanying drawings.
(3). In cash box and till indicating machines and appliances, the application and
arrangement of a lock till lid and alarm controlled by the movement of the

page_text: indicating or manipulating pointer substantially as illustrated in Figures 1 and 2
of the accompanying drawings.
(4). In cash indicating machines and appliances, the application and arrangement
of a roll of paper for issue with the receipt of the money having rollers setting in
motion the indicating gearing of the machine or appliance upon the passage of the
ticket substantially as herein before described and as illustrated in Figures 1 and 2
of the accompanying drawings.
(5). In cash indicating machines and appliances for use at theatres, the com-
bination and arrangement of a number of rollers each having a separate train of
gearing for indicating the passage of tickets of varying amounts upon separate
discs, and each pair of rollers operating one common driving shaft such as T
for giving motion to a train of gearing connected with recording hands or
pointers such as S, substantially as and for the purposes set forth in Figures 16
& 17 of the accompanying drawings.
(6). The construction and arrangement of cash indicating machines and appliances
having a double set of dials arranged thereon, one dial being concentric with
another, and having indicating spindles running one within the other for operating
separate hands to indicate and record independently when actuated by one common
movement of the manipulating handle or pointer, substantially as and for the
purposes hereinbefore described, and as illustrated in Figures 12 and 13 of the
accompanying drawings.
(7). The construction and arrangement of a pocket indicating and cash recording
machine or appliance, substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore described
and illustrated in Figures 14 and 15 of the accompanying drawings.
(8). The construction and arrangement of cash indicating and ticket issuing
machines and appliances substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore
described and as set forth in Figure 18 of the accompanying drawings.
(9). In cash indicating and recording machines and appliances, the application
and arrangement of a slip ratchet and pawl for permitting of the slip of the wheels
when motion in one direction is intended for one pointer or a series of pointers
employed for indicating, without producing a like motion of the pointer or series of
pointers employed for recording.
(10). In cash indicating and recording machines and appliances, the application
and arrangement of a ratchet and pawl for enabling indication upon one dial to be
made without causing any movement of the pointer or pointers upon the dial or
dials behind it, while at the same time setting in motion the recording pointers and
those indicating pointers which are in front of it, substantially as hereinbefore
described, and as illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 16th day of September 1891.
MARKS & CLERK,
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, Agents for the Applicant.