tills and
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Dec., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 11th Sept., 1895-Accepted, 12th Oct., 1895
OCTAVIA MARY ANN DAVIDSON 224 Queen's Road Dalston London East
Costume Designer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be, as
follows:-
This invention relates to the construction of a novel and simple apparatus for
cash tills and the like. I construct my apparatus in the following manner:
First I mount a piece of glass in a frame of metal or other suitable material and
fix it between two standards.
Secondly I pivot or joint one or more glazed frames to the first fixed frame, so
that they swing free on their pivots, and to each of the swinging frames a rod is
attached in such a manner that, when a button or similar contrivance is pressed the
loose frame is opened and the contents fall into a drawer or other receptacle. At
the lower part of frames a projecting piece is arranged to support the coins or other
substances.
Dated this 11th day of December 1894.
OCTAVIA MARY ANN DAVIDSON.
1, OCTAVIA MARY ANN DAVIDSON, of 224, Queen's Road, Dalston, in the
County of London, 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 cash tills of the kind in which the coins are visible for
a time after being inserted and to that class of such till in which the coins are
supported between two plates of glass.
In tills of this class the space or passage between the glasses is necessarily of
such size that the thickest coins when new will pass through it freely, the
consequence being that frequently two coins get one behind the other with the
result that one coin is thereby wholly or partially obscured and that sometimes
the coins become jammed so that they will not drop into the money receptacle.
Now the object of my invention is to overcome this objection and for this
purpose I provide for releasing the coins by enlarging the space or passage from
back to front by moving one of the said glass plates, and as an extra precaution I
sometimes divide the said space into a series of sections corresponding with the
different coins.
In carrying out my invention 1 provide above the usual cash drawer or
receptacle a vertical glazed frame of metal or other suitable material and to the
top of the same I pivot a second frame, the free edge of which is provided with an
inclined projecting lip which closes the opening at the bottom of the space between
the frames thereby preventing the coins from dropping into the drawer or
recentacle

page_text: For enabling the coins to drop into the drawer or receptacle I provide a knob or
button which, by suitable mechanism hereinafter described, on being depressed
moves the swinging frame. I preferably provide a bell or gong adapted to be
sounded each time the knob or button is depressed.
To enable my invention to be fully understood I will describe the same by
reference to the accompanying drawing, in which :-
Figure 1 is a front elevation of my improved till:
Figure 2 is a horizontal section on the line 2-2 of Figure 1:
Figure 3 is a vertical section on the line 3-3 of Figure 1, and,
Figure 4 is a horizontal section seen from below on the line 4-4 of Figure 3.
a is the body of the till and 6 the drawer or receptacle for the reception of coins
inserted in the same. c is the vertical fixed frame which is glazed and d is the
swinging frame provided with a sheet of glass and pivoted at e, e to the fixed
frame c. As shewn in the drawing the glazing of the fixed frame is represented as
composed of a series of glass strips placed at distances from the glass of the frame d
to suit the coins to be introduced into the different passages or chutes, but when it
is not required to separate the coins the glazing may be composed of a single sheet
of glass.
C
The space between the two glazed frames c and d is left open at the top for
the insertion of the coins and is provided with vertical partitions g, 9 dividing the
said space into so many passages or chutes for the coins, the said passages being
made of different widths, as shewn, so as to suit the different thicknesses of the
various coins. is the projecting inclined lip provided at the lower end of the
swinging frame d the said lip closing the coin chutes when in its normal position.
i is the button or knob adapted to open the coin chutes to allow the coins to
drop into the drawer or receptacle 6 when required.
The mechanism for actuating the swinging frame d by depressing the knob or
button is as follows:-To the lower end of the knob or button is pivoted a bell-
crank lever j, j which is also pivoted to a bracket fixed to the body a of the till
so that when the knob i is depressed the free end j¹ of the bell-crank lever is
caused to move outwards, that is to say, towards the knob i. The end on moving
backwards strikes against a projection on a slide m supported in the bracket k
and connected at one end with a pin n attached to the bottom of the swinging
framed so that the above described movement of the bell-crank lever j, j¹ causes
the bottom of the swinging framed to move in the direction of the arrow, Figure 3,
whereby the coins fall from the passages into the drawer or till b.
o is a spring adapted to force the swinging frame d and the knob i back to their
normal positions when pressure is removed from the latter. is a spring hook or
claw pivoted to the slide m and adapted, when the latter is moved by the
lever, to engage with the tooth q thereby actuating the hammer and
sounding the bells each time the knob i is depressed. t, t are shelves or racks for
change.
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 cash till having a glazed passage or chute between the coin slot and the
cash receptacle arranging one side of the said chute in such a manner that it can
be moved away from the other side of the chute substantially as, and for the
purpose, described.
2. In a cash till having a glazed passage or passages between the coin slot and
the cash receptacle pivoting one side of the said passage or passages to the other
side in such a manner that it can be moved away from the other side substantially
as, and for the purpose, described.
3. In a cash till of the kind described providing the lower edge of the movable or
swinging side of the passage or passages with an inclined projecting lip adapted to

page_text: close the same when in its normal position substantially as described and illustrated
in the accompanying drawing.
4. The improved cash till herein before described and illustrated in the
accompanying drawing.
Dated the 11th do of Santember 1805
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.