US1044482A - Cash-register. - Google Patents

Description

R. BREAUN.

CASH REGISTER.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 2a, 1908.

WM/6 05. I v

RICHARD BRAUN, or KARLSRUHE. GERMANY, risers M "178 NATIONAL CASH CASH-REGISTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov, 19, 1912.

Application filed May 28, 1908. Seriet 436 355.

at Karlsruhe, in the German Empire, have invented new and useful Improvements in and Relating to Cash-Registers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to cash registers and has for its main object the provision of mechanism for giving an additional check on the operator thereby compelling correct operations of the machine. Machines of this type have been provided with indicating devices which indicate the amount of transactionsentered therein and this indicating mechanism is undoubtedly of value, but it sometimes happens that purchasers are not where they can see the indication so that the value of this feature is sometimes lost.

The present invention aims to compel the purchaser to come to the cash register and obtain his change or his receipt and thereby in effect compels him to see that the amount registered and indicated is correct. To this and there has been provided in connection with a machine of a well known type, an additional set of indicators shown as at the side of the machine, and directly adjacent and over these auxiliary indicators is a substantiallyhorizontal tray on which it is intended the money for change or the receipt shall be placed by the operator. The money tray has a transparent portion tl'irough which the auxiliary indicators may be seen, so that the purchaser when taking up his change cannot help seeing the indicators directly below the change, and will thereby notice if the amount registered and indicated differs from the amount which he has ")aid. 1 With these and incidental objects in view, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations of parts, the essential elements of which are set forth in appended claims, and a preferred form of embodiment of which is hereinafter described with reference to the drawings which accompany and form part of the specification.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the H.137 chine showing the attachment ap lied thereto. Fig. 2 is a vertical section 0 the re 'ster. 1

e auxiliary device is shownin connection with a machine of awell known type,

fast to the said indicators.

but it will he understood that this is merely for illustzation and that the utility of the invention is not limited to this type of 1nachine.

In the drawings the cash register a is provided with a casing c at the side thereof forming a receptacle and the top of which 7) is the cash or money tray. As shown this tray is substantially horizontal though the center is slightly depressed whereby the money will be retained thereon.

As usual in cash registers, main indicators f are provided, adapted to be moved in any desired way from manipulative devices such as the levers shown in the drawings, through racks '1 gearing with pinions'n which are Beside each gear at and rigidly connected thereto are gears g which are really chain pulleys and over which chains m run. These chains are connected with chain pulleys is at the lower ends thereof, these latter pulleys being fast on nested sleeves '2 etc, which surround a rod Z carried by bearings it. On the other end. of the nested sleeves 2", etc, are the auxiliary indicators d shown as cylinders or wheels and having numbers on their peripheries.

It will be seen that through the gearing just described the auxiliary indicators (Z will at all times exhibit through the opening 6 of the money tray 6 the precise amount indicated by the main indicators f, so that each purchaseis shown by the auxiliary indicators as well as by the main indicators, the chain and chain pulleys together with the nested sleeves forming positive and permanent connections from driven gears to the auxiliary indicators (Z. Of course, other gearing may readily be employed but the type shown, including sprocket wheels and chains, is effective;

From this description it will be seen that the object first stated is well attained. by this construction. The auxiliary indicators d at each operation of the machine indicate the amount of the purchase, and the customer to obtain his change or receipt must come to the register and take his change or receipt from the-mone tray, but it will be impossible for him to 0 so without observing the auxiliary indicators through the transparent portion of the coin tray. Therefore the operator will be very careful to register the correct amount and will not psi dare attempt to register an amount smaller than that actually paid.

I claim-- 1. Ina cash register, the combination with a set of auxiliary indicators, and a money tray having a window through which saicl auxiliary indicators may be viewed, of a set of main indicators, and positive permanent connections between the two sets of indicators.

2. In a cash register, the combination with a set of auxiliary indicators and a money tray having a window through which said auxiliary indicators may be viewed, of a set of main indicators, with means for positioning said main indicators, and posi dicators.

In a cash register, the combination with i a set of auxiliary indicators, and a money tray having a substantially horizontal trans 1 parent portion through which said auxiliary l indicators may be viewed, of a set of main indicators, means for positioning said main indicators, and positive gear connections:

i. In a cash register, the combination:

with a set of auxiliary indicators, and nested sleeves to which said indicators are masses fast, of a money tray having a substantially horizontal transparent portion through which said auxiliary indicators may be viewed, a set of main indicators, gears movable therewith, and means positively and. permanently connecting said gears to said nested sleeves.

In a cash register, the combination with a. set of auxiliary indicators, of a money tray having a transparent portion through which said indicators may be viewed, and-permanent connections from said indicators to movable parts of the cash register.

6. In a cash register, the combination with a set of main indicators, and sprocket wheels fast thereto, of a of auxiliary-indicators. nested sleeves fast to said auX- iliary indicators, a sprocket wheel mounted on each nested sleeve, means connecting said main indicator sprocket wheels to' the nested sleeve sprocket wheels, and a money tray having a transparent portion through which said auxiliary indicators may be viewed.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two witnesses.

RICHARD BRAUN.

.Vitnesses OTTO Sorxrarsxx, H121); men SCILXPNER.

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