Improvements in Apparatus for Carrying or Conveying Cash, Small Parcels, and other Articles in Shops, Warehouses, and the like.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Apr., 1893-Accepted, 5th Aug., 1893
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Carrying or Conveying Cash, Small
Parcels, and other Articles in Shops, Warehouses, and the like.
I, GEORGE PETER KENNEY, of Crowner House, Court Street, Watertown,
in the County of Jefferson and State of New York, United States of America,
Manufacturer, 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 :-
My invention relates to cash carriers of the class in which a cord or wire is
drawn along and carries the cash-box with it, and particularly to the mechanism
for drawing or operating the movable cord.
My object is to produce a cash-carrier in which the cash-box carrying cord is
readily drawn in either direction for the purpose of transporting the cash-box, and
comprising an endless cord mounted upon suitable rotating drums, a train of
gearing connected to each drum, a ratchet gear and a lever engaging therewith
whereby the operation of a lever rotates the drum at that end of the line, means
being provided whereby said ratchet gear may be rotated either way, as desired,
and whereby when full momentum is imparted to a drum, it is automatically shifted
out of engagement with its actuating train of gearing; or can be held normally out
of such engagement.
My invention consists in the several novel features of construction and operation
hereinafter described.
In the accompanying drawings
Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved mechanism for operating the endless
cord.
Figure 2 is a side elevation of a complete cash-carrier with a set of operating
mechanism at each end.
Figure 3 is a side elevation showing a cash-carrier in which only one set of my
improved mechanism is employed.
Figure 4 is a plan drawn to an enlarged scale, showing a portion of my improved
mechanism.
Figures 5, 6 and 7 are different views illustrating details of construction.
A, is the frame, composed of vertical side bars, and a rail or rails connecting
them, adapted to be secured to or suspended from a ceiling, or otherwise mounted
to carry the mechanism.
A driving ratchet and gear 1 is mounted upon a shaft suitably journalled in the
frame, having gear-teeth cut upon its periphery and provided on its face with the
circular ratchets 2 and 3, the teeth of which are cut right and left hand.
This gear meshes with the pinion 5 and drives the gear 6, both of them being
secured upon a shaft journalled in the frame; the gear 6 meshes with and drives
the pinion 7 and gear 8, both secured upon a shaft journalled in the frame; the
gear 8 meshing with and driving the pinion 9, and drum 10, both being secured
upon the arbor 11 journalled in the frame.
This arbor 11 is provided with collars 12 and 13 detachably secured thereon in
any ordinary manner. This arbor is adapted to slide longitudinally in its bearings
to throw the pinion 9 out of, or into engagement with the gear 8, one-way com-
pressing the spring 14, bearing against the end of said arbor, and being thrown the
other way by said spring to bring said pinion and gear into engagement. This
whole train of gearing is for the purpose of multiplying the movement of the

page_text: ratchet gear, so that its partial rotation will create a rapid rotation of the drum;
and the number of gears and pinions in the train may be varied, as desired.
A lever 15 is pivoted upon the shaft of the ratchet gear and is provided with a
longitudinal slot-way, and 16 is a sliding dog, loose therein and provided upon its
lower end with oppositely faced ratchet teeth, to properly engage with the opposite
faced ratchet teeth upon the ratchets 2 and 3; and 6 is a rod connected to said dog
and extending down toward the end of the lever, here shown as a convenient means
for sliding said dog and its teeth out of engagement with one ratchet and into
engagement with the other, according to which ever way it is desired to rotate
the ratchet gear, and the drum.
The upper end of said lever is provided with an angular extension and an exten-
sible arm 17 mounted thereon, as by the slot and set screw 18, shown.
The inner face of this arm is provided with a wedging projection 19 so that
when the lever is swung the wedge will engage with the collar 13 upon the arbor 11
and move the arbor longitudinally, disengaging the pinion 9 from the gear 8 and
move the drum laterally also, as shown by dotted lines, and compressing the spring
so that when the wedge is removed by the reversal of the lever, it will re-act and
throw said pinion back into engagement with said gear.
The cash-box B is of any ordinary construction and adapted to be secured to and
suspended from the cord a. Also the rod bb connected to the dog 16 may operate
as a spring to retain its teeth in engagement.
By pulling down on the lever, the drum is rotated so as to draw the cord and
box from right to left; the box being on the lower portion of the cord.
To reverse the movement, the dog is shifted from one rack-bar to the other,
which will then rotate the mechanism in the opposite direction.
When the apparatus is not in use, the drum 10 and pinion 9 at each end or
station are held, by the projection or wedge 19, in such a position on the arbor 11
that the said pinion is out of gear with the toothed wheel 8. In order to operate
the apparatus from either station, the lever 15 at that station must be moved in the
reverse direction to that indicated by the arrow in Figure 1, so as to withdraw
the wedge 19 and permit the throwing into gear of the drum 10 by the spring 14.
If it is desired to move the carrier in one direction, the said lever is raised more or
less according to the distance through which the carrier has to be moved, and, the
dog 16 being in engagement with the ratchet 2 (or 3) as the case may be, the said
lever is moved forcibly downward. A single movement of the said lever suffices to
transmit the carrier from one station to the other. By putting the dog 16 in gear
with the other ratchet 3 (or 2) and moving it in the reverse direction, the carrier
may be transmitted in the reverse direction. After the apparatus has been
operated from either station, the operator is to move the lever 15 in such a manner
as to throw the drum 10 out of gear by means of the wedge 19.
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 cash-carrier comprising a frame, drums mounted upon arbors, a cord sup-
ported upon and passing around said drums, a pinion upon said arbors, a driving
gear provided with ratchets upon its face and a train of multiple gears between the
driving gear and said pinion, and a ratchet lever provided with a dog adapted
to engage with either of said ratchets, all in combination: substantially as set
forth.
2. A cash-carrier comprising a frame, drums mounted upon arbors, a cord sup-
ported upon and passing around said drums, a pinion upon said arbors, a driving
gear provided with ratchets upon its face, and a train of multiple gears between
the driving gears and said pinion, a ratchet lever provided with a dog adapted to
engage with either of said ratchets, and an arm extensibly connected to the top of

page_text: said lever and adapted to engage with said pinion to throw it out of its engage-
ment with the adjacent gears; all in combination as set forth.
Dated the 5th day of April 1893.
D. YOUNG & Co.,
11 & 12, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.