Improvements in Money Boxes or Tills for Receiving and Checking Payments.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Feb., 1894-Accepted, 24th Mar., 1894
Improvements in Money Boxes or Tills for Receiving and Checking
Payments.
I, VICTOR WITH of Horsens, in the Kingdom of Denmark, 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 refers to money boxes or tills whereby is attained that the
payments of the purchaser as well as the written notification thereof may be easily
visible to and counted by both the customer and the attendant. The money is then
carried to a closed drawer whilst all money given to the customer in the way of
change is obtained from a drawer which is open to the attendant. By this means
When the money is
an effectual control of the attendant or attendants is obtained.
made up, for instance, every evening, the amount which is contained in the closed
drawer should agree with the total of the notifications plus the amount used for
giving change, which latter is taken as aforesaid from the amount in the open
drawer.
On the accompanying sheet of drawings
Figure 1 shews a money box or till of this description in vertical longitudinal
section and
Figure 2 is a half plan thereof with the upper frame B removed.
The apparatus consists of a box A open at the top which is covered with a
frame Bat one end of which is mounted a glass pane C, otherwise the rest of the
space in the frame is open, so that the customers can see the money given and the
notification of the amount of the purchase which is written by the attendant on a
check consisting of a slip of paper or the like placed on an endless ribbon F
running over two rollers G¹ and G. When the money and the slip with the
notification thereof have been put on the ribbon F the latter is moved by means of
a handle H outside of the apparatus by the attendant in such manner that the
money and the slip pass under the glass pane C until both pass over the roller G²
and the money falls into the closed drawer I. The handle H is firmly secured to
a sliding block which is arranged to slide in a slot lined with metal plates in the
side of the box A. On the sliding block J is a jointed detent or pawl K provided
with a spring L which pawl takes into an endless Vaucanson band chain with bail
shaped links or other suitable chain M gearing with corresponding sprocket
wheels N on the spindles of the rollers G¹ and G². The pawl K is so formed that
it slides over the links of the chain when the sliding block J is by means of the
handle H moved forward, but it takes into the links when the sliding block J is
pulled back so that the rollers G' and G2 are thereby turned and thus move the
endless band F in the direction of the arrow. The chain is further prevented from
moving while the handle H is being moved forward by means of a suitable pawl or
detent set in the opposite direction to K but not shewn. A partial transverse
division P is fixed to the sides of the box underneath the cudless band and serves.
to support the upper part thereof. The roller G¹ is by its spindle firmly mounted
in bearings in the side walls of the box A but it may be easily made capable of
being withdrawn for allowing of the removal and replacement of the rollers. The
bearings of the roller G2 on the other hand are formed of gudgeon blocks Q which
are made capable of sliding in or between guides S in the side walls of the box A.
On each block Q is a screwed bolt T which goes through a hole in division wall V
and each bolt is provided with a nut t. By screwing up these nuts t the desired
tension can be given to the endless band, and if the nuts are quite unscrewed and

page_text: removed the roller G2 together with its bearing blocks Q can be taken out of the
apparatus. Between the division wall V and the outer wall of the box is a suitably
formed incline Y to direct the falling money and paper slips. The back side in
the box A is arranged like a door Z which latter is made with hinges R to fall
down, when the money is to be made up and can again be shut and fastened to the
frame B when the money is made up. Underneath the aforesaid space in the
box A; in which are the rollers G₁ and G' together with the drawer I, a second
space may be made in the box for the before-mentioned drawer X from which
change is taken and this drawer is accessible to the attendant.
In order to facilitate the giving of change to the customer, the handle H may
have fixed or attachable thereto a tray in which the money is put and then
forwarded to the customer when the attendant pushes the handle forward.
To prevent the attendant from abstracting the money and checks from the
endless band under the glass C a roller brush or india rubber roller U may be
mounted under the frame B. This roller U revolves freely by contact with the
endless band and consequently does not hinder the money and checks from passing
behind on the said band as it moves, but motion of the roller in the opposite
direction is prevented by means of a ratchet and ratchet wheel which is however
not shown or in any other convenient manner. The drawers I and X are preferably
in duplicate so that when one set is removed by the principal or other authorized
person for the purpose of making up the accounts the other set may be put in place
and the working of the till continue without intermission.
The sliding block J is provided with a projector or a striker / which comes in
contact with and sounds a bell or gong D every time the said block passes the
middle of the apparatus.
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. A money box or till in which the money of the customer which is inserted and
the check corresponding to the amount of the purchase are put on to an endless
band F'and thereby carried under a glass pane C where the money and check are
visible and yet inaccessible to both the customer and attendant and on the further
movement of the endless band drop into a drawer 1 in an enclosed space underneath
as described and shown.
2. In a money box or till as firstly claimed the employment of an endless
Vaucanson or other suitable open linked chain M which goes over corresponding
sprocket wheels N on the spindles of rollers G and G2 which carry the endless
band F, in combination with a pawl K acted on by a spring which pawl is mounted
on the internal sliding block J having a handle H outside for effecting the move-
ment of the endless belt F in one direction only as described and shown.
3. The employment in the apparatus as firstly claimed of a roller brush or india
rubber roller U capable of revolving in one direction only for shutting off that
space in the apparatus in which the money and check on the endless band are to be
inaccessible as described and shown.
4. The employment in an apparatus as firstly claimed, of a bell or gong D which
is sounded every time the sliding block J passes the middle of the apparatus as
described.
5. The construction of apparatus shown on the drawing.
February 1894.
JENSEN & SON,
77, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agents.