IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR CHECKING CASH TAKEN OVER RETAIL SHOP COUNTERS
Year: 1878

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alfred William Baker, Draper, West St., Weston-super-
Mare, Somerset, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR
CHECKING CASH TAKEN OVER RETAIL SHOP COUNTERS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alfred William Baker at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 17th May 1878.
ALFRED WILLIAM BAKER, Draper, West St., Weston-super-Mare, Somerset.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR CHECKING CASH TAKEN OVER RETAIL SHOP
COUNTERS."
My Invention is a box in the form of a desk with sloping front, to contain two
drawers (back & front), a balance between the two, the catch of the balance to
secure the front drawer when not used, and opened by a token, made of slate, upon
which the amount of cash to be taken shall be written, to be passed thro' a slot
or conductor from the top, which, passing thro', strikes the balance, opens the
drawer, and is deposited in the back drawer, which is secured by a lock &
kev.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Alfred William Baker in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 16th
November 1878.
ALFRED WILLIAM BAKER, of West Street, in the Town of Weston-super-Mare,
in the County of Somerset, Draper. "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR CHECKING
CASH TAKEN OVER RETAIL SHOP COUNTERS."
The Invention consists of a box in the form of a desk or otherwise, with a drawer
at each end, one to contain slate or metal tallies, and the other to contain
the cash.
The
The mechanism to work the same consists of a metal or other balance with a
pivot fixed to a partition in the box. One end of the balance has a hooked end
to secure the cash drawer from being opened without a tally being used.
other end has a sloping plate with a flat metal tube over it, so that when a tally is
put into the tube it falls upon the end of the balance and lifts the hook from the
cash drawor, and allows of its being opened.
When the cash drawer is pulled out, the sliding bar attached to it being drawn
from under the tally end of the balance, allows the balance to dip still more, and
deposit the tally in the tally drawer. These tallies are preferably made of slate, so
that the amount of cash to be put into the cash drawer may be written on with
slate pencil previous to their being dropped into the tube.
It will be thus evident that the amount total of the tallies must correspond
with the cash.
The tally drawer has a lock and key, so that the proprietor may lock the same
and retain the key until the check is taken.
The money drawer has compartiments for different kinds of coin. The cash
drawer cannot be opened without its being known.
The Invention can be used as a desk or under the counter, in the latter case the
tally drawer is placed under the cash drawer for the convenience of opening the
same.
The advantages of this Invention are that it checks all cash takings and occupies
as little time as an ordinary till.
This Invention can also be used in other ways, in which checks of cash takings
may be required, such as a wicket counter or table, in which case the tally tube
and balance would revolve with the pivot of the wicket, and the dropping of a
tally down the tube would by its weight on one end of the balance lift the other
over a stop and allow of the wicket being turned in a similar manner to the
opening of the cash drawer, the tally dropping into a locked drawer as previously
described. The stops would be at suitable distances on a fixed circular plate.
Fig. 1 is a longitudinal section of the apparatus; A is the cash drawer; B is
the tally drawer; C is the balance; D is the tally tube; a is the sliding bar; b³ is
the hook; c is the sloping plate.
Fig. 2 is a horizontal section or plan of the apparatus, tho lotters having the
same reference.
Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section of the apparatus when used under the counter,
the letters having the same reference.
Fig. 4 is a vertical section of the Invention applied to a wicket counter or
table, the letters having the same reference.
Fig. 5 is a plan of circular plate, shewing the stops d, d, d, d, with sliding bars
a², a³, a², a², for the tally end of the balanco to rest upon, until required to drop
the tally, in a similar manner as with the cash drawer.
Summary of my claim, an apparatus having a tally tube and a balance below it,
with a sloping plate at one end, acted upon by a tally dropped down the tube,
which by its weight lifts the other hooked end, and releases a cash drawer or

page_text: wicket, the tally dropping afterwards into a locked drawer beneath, as a means of
checking cash taken, all substantially as set forth..
In witness whereof, I, the said Alfred Willian Baker, have hereunto set
my hand and scal, this Fourteenth day of November, One thousand eight
hundred and seventy-eight.
ALFRED WILLIAM BAKER. (L.S.)