Improvements in Money Tills to Indicate and Register Cash Paid.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Feb., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 8th Nov., 1893-Accepted, 8th Feb., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Money Tills to Indicate and Register Cash Paid.
PETER GASKELL, 29 Aston Lane, Perry Barr, Birmingham, out of business
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
To a telescopic shaft with three tubes I affix pointers which are moved in front
of a dial plate the dial having the divisions of a shilling from a halfpenny on the
outer circle the inner circles having the divisions of a sovering in shillings & any
number of pounds convenient. The pointers being moved to the figures to show
the amount of a sale. At the other ends of the tubes I attach the works to record
the taking & to total up the sums of gold silver & copper. To ensure each
amount being recorded I make the drawer only to open after the pointers have been
operated.
The shaft which brings the pointers back to zero has an arm on the front end for
that purpose and at the other end has a cam fixed on it which operates a lever
When the pointers are
raising or depressing the bolt which locks the drawer.
brought up to zero they are made to register the last sale and on the new sale being
shown the bolt is raised unlocking the drawer and the action of the drawer being
closed causes the bolt to drop and secure itself.
Each of the three tubular shafts carrying the pointers over the dial plate have at
their other ends pinion wheels attached. These pinions are made to rotate on a
fixed stud and by means of ratchets are caused to rotate one way only and by
means of a dial show the number of teeth they advance, and as these correspond
with the divisions of the front dial it shows the amount taken on that corresponding
circle.
Multiplying wheels are attached to carry the amounts to any desired
enumeration.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Money Tills to Indicate and Register Cash Paid.
I, PETER GASKELL, of 29 Aston Lane, Perry Barr, Birmingham, out of
business, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement :-
The object of my invention is to construct an improved form and arrangement of
mechanism for indicating and registering amounts of money received.
My invention consists of an enclosed case containing wheelwork and registering
dials. One or two external dial or dials is or are fitted thereto, one dial being
under the care of the operator, and the other dial being exposed to the person
paying the money. Both these external dials are similarly engraved or marked
with figures, iudicating pounds, shillings, pence and halfpence. Farthings may
also be included, if required. Three indicating hands are fitted to each external
dial, in such a manner that, when the operator moves the hands relating to one
dial plate, the corresponding hands of the other dial plate are simultaneously
moved, so as to indicate to the purchaser a precisely similar amount to that
indicated upon the operator's dial plate. The internal dials are similarly operated,

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and caused to register by means of ratchets and pawls, whereby the internal
mechanism is rendered non-reversible, and the amounts are accumulated by way of
addition.
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And in order that my said invention may be particularly described and ascer-
tained, reference is hereby made to the accompanying drawings, in which similar
letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.
Fig. 1 is an elevation of the apparatus, showing the operator's dial face a with
the figures and hands.
Fig. 2 is a side view, with the outer case removed.
Fig. 3 is an elevation, drawn to a larger scale, showing the arrangement of the
wheels relating to pence and halfpence, attached to the plate g.
Fig. 4 is an elevation, showing the arrangement of the wheels relating to shillings,
"attached to the plate h.
Fig. 5 is an elevation, showing the arrangement of the wheels relating to pounds,
attached to the plate
The purchasers dial is similarly engraved to that used by the operator..
The pence index hand is fast on a short sleeve which carries with it the toothed
wheel k. This toothed wheel is in gear with the toothed wheel A, the latter being
fast on the spindle o, which spindle passes through the sleeve spindles q and s, and
carries the pence index hand c¹.
The shillings index hand d is fast on the sleeve spindle p which carries with it
the toothed wheel k², in gear with the toothed wheel k³, the latter being fast on the
sleeve spindle g, passing through the sleeve spindles and carrying the shillings
index hand d¹.
The pounds index hand e is fast on the inner spindler, and carries with it the
small spindle and the toothed wheel k*, in gear with the toothed wheel 4*, the
latter being fast on the spindle s, which carries the pounds index hand e'.
By means of the toothed wheels k, k', k², k³, k, and k³, fast on their respective
spindles, the several index hands are simultaneously moved in either direction; as
required.
The double armed lever is fitted loosely upon the spindle r¹. is a pin fitted
to one end off. is a stop fitted to the plate a. By means of the lever the
.whole of the hands can be brought back to zero, resting against the stop f³, as
shown in Fig. 2.
tis a disc fast. on the pence spindle, t' is a disc fast on the shillings spindle, and
is a disc fast on the pounds spindle. nn¹ n' are three ratchet wheels loose on
their respective spindles. Pawls are fitted to the discs t, t', and t2, which drive the
ratchet wheels n n n in a forward direction only. mm² m² are three toothed
wheels formed in one with the ratchet wheels n n' n' and rotating therewith. The
wheels'm m' m² are prevented from turning backwards by means of pawls u u",
attached to the plates g, h, i..
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By these means the wheels m, m³, m', are capable of being turned only in a
forward direction, and therefore they are used for the purpose of registering the
amounts received, in combination with counting and indicating apparatus of any
suitable kind.; the following being one method of registering the amounts
received.
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vis a toothed wheel in gear with m. »² and ‹³ are ratchet wheels, the teeth
being in contrary directions, and fitted with pawls 3 and The wheels and v
are each fitted with a pin y. Index hands are also fitted to the dials, which hands
can be set to zero, or any other figure on the dials.
When the hand c. is moved forward, the wheels m n and vare simultaneously
'moved. When the pin y rises to the wheel o, it moves that wheel to the extent
of one tooth, and when the pin'y on the wheel o rises to the wheel »; it moves that
wheel to the extent of one tooth. All backward movement" is prevented: by the
pawls, and therefore the amount of peace and halfpence' remains recorded upon the
several dials, in a manner, well understood in counting apparatus
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When the hand'd is moved forward, the wheels wo wo and to with their dials, are

page_text: operated in a similar manner, recording the number of shillings. And when the
hande is moved forward, the wheel x and x', with their dials, are operated in a
similar manner, recording the number of pounds.
The mechanism may be arranged to record either by the forward movements of
the hands as shown, or by the backward movements.
In some cases I fit the dials a and b at right angles to each other, and connect
the spindles by means of bevel gearing.
The movements of the lever f may be used to sound a bell, or to unlock the till
drawer, if required.
I sometimes use one face only, and form the internal mechanism with one set of
telescopic spindles instead of two; the counting mechanism being similarly operated
as herein before described.
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 :-
1. In a self-registering money till, the combination of two sets of concentric
spindles, mounted in connection with two dial faces, and geared together so as to
produce contrary rotary motions of the several spindles carrying index hands, so
that the payer and the payee may have similarly indicated amounts exposed to
view simultaneously, substantially as herein before described and illustrated by the
drawings.
2. In a self-registering money till having two sets of concentric spindles geared
together, the combination, with one of such sets of spindles, of a suitable counting
and registering apparatus, checked by ratchets and pawls, substantially as and for
the purposes herein before described and illustrated by the drawings.
3. In a self-registering money-till, having one set of concentric spindles and one
face, the combination therewith of a suitable counting and registering apparatus,
substantially as herein before described and illustrated by the drawings.
4. The general construction, combination and arrangement of the several and
respective parts together forming my invention of improvements in self-registering
money tills, substantially as herein before described and illustrated by the
drawings.
GEO.
DOWNING,
8, Quality Court, London, W.C., Agent.
Daten och November 1800.
GEO. DOWNING,
8, Quality Court, London, W.C., Agent.