An Improved Cash Till.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Feb., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 17th Oct., 1892-Accepted, 26th Nov., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Cash Till.
JOHN WILLIAM RAYNER Thorne via Doncaster Ironmonger do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
Inside
A box consisting of a drawer and lid to open, and four sides. On the lid to be
an opening about three inches wide and three eighths of an inch across.
the box is placed two rollers one roller to hold a roll of paper, the other roller
placed at the end to be connected to a ratchet wheel operated by a moveable catch
which is fixed at nd of the drawer.
The paper on the front roller to pass from the roller over a rounded bar directly
under the opening in lid to the roller at end of the box. The amount taken is
written on the paper through the opening in lid. On opening the drawer to deposit
the cash the moveable catch on end of the drawer catches a tooth of the ratchet
wheel and moves forward the paper a sufficient distance to remove the writing
opposite the opening in lid out of sight.
A notch is cut in one side of the drawer, in this notch works one end of a lever
working on a pin fixed to side of case, to this lever is attached a spring. When
the drawer is partly closed the end of the lever falls into the notch in side of
drawer and by means of the spring pulls the drawer quite close, so that it cannot
be opened again without moving on the paper.
Dated this Seventeenth day of February 1892.
JOHN WILLIAM RAYNER.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Cash Till.
1, JOHN WILLIAM RAYNER, of Thorne, Doncaster, Ironmonger, 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 in cash tills relates to means to be employed for closing the
drawer automatically after it has been partially closed or otherwise.
In order that my improvements in cash tills may be clearly understood, I will
make reference to the accompanying sheets of drawings illustrative thereof,
wherein
Fig. 1 is cross section of a money till having my improved means for closing
the drawer applied thereto. A is the box containing paper B which is unwound
from roller C onto roller D. The paper is unwound from roller C each time the
drawer is opened by tumbling catch E on the rear of said drawer striking the
ratchet wheel F on winding-on roller D. The paper unwound as described passes
over fixed bar G, on which the amount of a purchase is written, but all this
arrangement with the exception of tumbling catch E is in general use and forms
no part of my invention.
The following is a description of my invention :-I make an opening H in the
upper edge of the drawer I and hinge a bar J on a fulcrum K, on which the said
bar is free to oscillate. This bar is pulled inward by the spiral spring L, therefore,
when the drawer is opened as shewn in Fig. 2 the lower point of the bar J which
is lodging in the opening H is drawn, through the action of the drawer, onto the
upper edge of the drawer and during the remaining outward movement of the
drawer, the point of the bar rides on the edge of the drawer, but on the said

page_text: drawer being closed and the opening H presented to the lower point of the bar, the
latter, the opening and the spiral spring pulls the drawer "home" and closes it
without any effort on the part of the attendant.
In Figs. 3 and 4 I shew a modification of the drawer closing mechanism, which
consists of a bar J and spring L as before, but a pin or stud M projecting from the
drawer I enters a slot N in the said bar J so that on the drawer being opened as
shewn in Fig. 4, the spring L is expanded or opened and as soon as the attendant
leave the drawer free, the spring will close it.
Figs. 5 and 6 shew another modification of drawer closing mechanism, in this
case I form a slot O in the drawer I and a corresponding slot P in the side of the
box or casing A. The lever arm J is made with a slot N in which is free to slide
up and down a bowl and stud R, one of the bowls entering the slot of the drawer
and the other bowl entering the slot in the side of the box.
When the drawer is in its normal condition the bowl R is lying in the bottom of
the recess O' and on the drawer being opened the cam in the said drawer draws the
bowl and lever arm J forward until the bowl R reaches the recess P¹ in the side of
the box when the spring I, acting on the lever causes the bowl R to run up from
recess into recess Pi in Fig. 6 which permits the bowl to ride in the horizontal
position of the slot O in the drawer, the recess P¹ meanwhile holding the bowl R
stationary, but on the drawer being closed and when the recess O₁ reaches the
bowl R, the latter then descends therein whereupon the spiral spring L pulls the
drawer "home" and closes it self-actingly.
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 :-
Firstly. In a money till having a slot formed in the top edge of the drawer, the
combination therewith of a hinged bar and spring as herein shewn and described.
Secondly. In a money till, the combination of a slotted hinged lever and spring,
the former being operated upon a stud projecting from the drawer as herein shewn
and described.
Thirdly. In a money till, the combination therewith of the tumbling catch E for
purposes specified and operated in the manner described.
Dated this 15th day of October 1892
TASKER & CROSSLEY,
Halifax, Agents.