US1047751A - Cash-register. - Google Patents

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J. P. cLEAL. CASH REGISTER.

I urmomron FILED mm: 13, 9 1,047,751. Patented Dec.17,1912.

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J. P. GLEAL.

.GASH REGISTER.

APPLICATION PI'LBD JUNE 18, 1906.

1,047,751 Patented Dec. 17,1912,

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Patented Dec. 17,1912

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witnzooeo I -'J. P. OLEAL.

CASH REGISTER. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 1a, 1906.

Patentd Dec. 17, 1912 4 SHEETS-SHEET 4 Qwilmemo.

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means 2. CLEAL, or TORONTO, oN'rAnIo, CANADA, assmuonro THE NATIONAL CASH- ancrsrnr. COMPANY, or DAYTON, OHIO, A conrone'rxon or OHIQ, grnconronernn CASH-REGISTER.

To all whom 711 may concern: Be it known thatI, Josnrn P. CLEAL, a citizen ofthe United States, residing at Toronto, in the Province of Ontario, Canada, have invented certain new and useful Im- PIOVQlTlClltS in Cash-Registers, of which I declare the following to be a full, clear, and

.15 copy being filed and the other copy being given to the customer who thereupon takes the purchase away with him or her. This system in practice is fairly. satisfactory in. cases where the customer does not i desire,

the bundle delivei 'ed by the store but-"in cases where a delivery is to be made as'by wagon, opportunityis given to the clerks to defraud the proprietor. This duplicate slip system is also used in connection with a :5 well known type of cash register in which the machine prints the amount of the sale in two places on a slip which is then severed into, two parts, one of. which is retained inthe machine as a voucherfthe other being ejected and serving as a receipt. In the use of such'machines in. connection with a salefor immediate delivery the amount received must be added 111 on the machine -1n order to print on the slip, Without which thebundle will not be wrapped. In the case of a sale with future-delivery an operation of the machine is made and the sale slip at tached to the bundle which is then taken to a room to be wrapped, and in such cases 40 some means of authorizing the Wrapping and sendingiout of the package must be provided. I

My invention aims to provlde means for authorizing such wrapping and delivery.

and to this end I employ a delivery slip, or

Specification of Letters Intent.

Patented Dre 0.17, 1912.

Application filed. June 1a, 1906. Serial no. 322,251.

to the bund le, and will be understood as authorizing its delivery. Inparticular this invention aims to improve the machine, shown in ariplication bearing Serial Number 160,416, filed June 6, 1903,, by Thomas Carroll. The; machine.

shown in said application is designed to make two printing impressions 011 a sale slip, one art ofZt-he sllp being retained in the, mac ine after the impression is made and" the other part being taken from the.

' machine after'print-ing.

For use in connection'with future delivery sales I provide ailonger bundle ticket. 01265 delivery slip than the usual sale slip and means are provided for marking this slip with a record of any desired matter e. g.

the word Paid and the date. Thcjmachine includes an extra printing device so located as not to operate on the usual sale slip as s'uch'slip' is not long enough to reach the extra printing device'bu when a longer bundle ticket is inserted in t e machine the above stated additionalimpression will be made.

With these and incidental objects inview, the invention consists incertain novel features of construction and combinationof parts, the essential elements of which are set forth in appended claims and a preferred form of embodiment of which is hereinafter specifically described with reference to the drawings which accompany and form 'partof this specification.

. .Of said drawings: Figure 1 is a section through the machine. Fig. 1 is a detail view of the testing device. Fig. 2 is an elevation of one end of the machine showing the operating device for the auxiliary printer. Fig. 2 is a detail view of the auxiliary printer in normal position. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the auxiliary printer in printing. position. Fig. 3 is a View of the operating mechanism shown in Fig. 2 in a partially operated position. I ig; 4 is an elevation of the printer setting devices.' Fig. 5 is a sectional view of same takenv approximately-On line 55 of Fig. 45. Figs. 6 and 7 arerespectively side and edge views of a Geneva stop mechanism for operating tl1e-auxiliary printer.

"the anti-friction roller rides.

ira The machine to which I have shown my invention as adapted, is designed for use especially inlconimercial establishments in which it is desired to stamp 21. sales slip for each transaction cntered in the machine.

The machine in general comprises a plurality of setting levers one for each denomination which are dillerentially adjustable over a scale. The adjustment of these to position a set of printing wheels. Mechanism is provided for supporting a sale slip and for giving the slip an impression of the amount from the printing wheels. The slip is then fed farther into the machine and a. second impression made on another part of the slip. A knife serves to sever the part bearing the first im 'n'cssion which is retained in the machine and the part bearing the second impression is then fed back out of the machine. I have added to this mcchanisn'x an auxiliary printing device bearing a, number or the date or any desired matter and this printingdevice is normally disconnected from the main operating mechanism of the machine. A testing device is provided which at each operation is moved to a position adja ent the slip carrying table. It a long bundle slip is in position on the table the testing device will be stopped and will serve to connect the operating d wice to the auxiliary printing mechanism. If however no such long slip has been placed on the table the auxiliary printing mechanism will not he so connected and will remain inoperative.

Referring to 4c and it will there be seen that the mechanism includes a series of levers 10 hich are moved about a shaft 11 carried by'ihc main frame of the machine. These levers 10 are connected either through the shaft 11 or through a series of nested sleeves 12 surroumling the shaft to segments 13 carrying racks 141:. These racks 1t mesh with the piuions lo and these pinions 15 are connected through a series of nested sleeves ltl to the printing wheels 17. These printing wheels 17 are also shown in Fig. l and the mechanism for taking an impression. therefrom may also be seen in this figure. A slip carrying table 18 is journaled on a rod 19 and has a depending projection 20 at the lower end of which is an antifriction roller 21. The main operating shaftot the machine carries a plurality of cam disks, one of which, indicated by a Illlll'lltftl 23 has cam groove B l in which A second cam disk also carried by shaft has a cam grcu'n'e 26 in which rides an a11ti-friction roller 27 carried by a bell crank lever 28. This bell erauic lever 28 is journaled on a rod 29 and has connected to at its upper end a bar 30 carrying a rack; This rack meshes with a pinion 31 which serves to ro-- tate a feed roller 32. It should be noted 'cated generally by the numeral 51.

that the pinion 31 and the roller 32 are carried on a shaft which is mounted in the slip table frame. A roller 33 is also mounted in this frame serving to maintain the rack 30 in mesh with the pinion A frame 3e is journaled on the pivot 19 of the slip frame and is normally drawn downward atthe left hand by a spring35. This frame carries a friction feed roller 36.

ltwill be clear from the above construction that. when shaft 22 is rotated the cam groove 24: will serve t orock the slip ta blc 18 around its pivot 19 andthrow the slip against the type wheels 17, this being accomplished by the high part 37 of the groove 24:. In the further rotation of the shaft the slip ta-- blewill drop slightly but not enough to withdraw the feed roller from contact with the feed roller 36. The cam groove 26 in the cam disk 25 is so shaped that at this time the friction roller 21 will be rocked upwardly thereby retracting the rack bar 30. This retraction evidently will rotate the feed roller and feed the slip to the left as shown in Fig. l. A second impression is then taken on theslip due to the high part 38 of the cam groove 24 and thereafter the feed roller 32 is revcrscly rotated to feed the slip out of the machine. During the last part of the rotation of the shaft the slip table is rocked to its normal downward position. A, movable knife ll cooperates with a stationary knife 42 to sever the voucher from the sales slip, this voucher then drops into a receptacle i The operation as thus far described is that of the machine now on the market. and I will now pass to a description ot the improvements which 1 have applied thereto:

Mounted on the shaft 22 for 'rolation therewith is a gear wheel t7 shown in Figs. 2 and O. 7 gear wheel 48 of an equal number or teeth for half of its width. As shown in Figs. 6 and 7 part of the teeth are only halt the width of the remaining part, this cutaway portion being-indiratcd by'the numeral 49..

Directly above the gear 1 8 is a pinion 5O This gear wheel meshes w th a the trcth of which are of one hall"; the width of the teeth'ot gear 4-8 and the pinion is so positioned as to be directly over the cut:- away portion if). It will be evident that the pinion 50 will rotate as long as the wide teeth of gear *8 are in mesh therewith but will cease rotation when the cuta 'ay portion ll) reaches the teeth ol pinion 5. To lock pinion 50 in position while the cutaway portion 45) passing thereunder l have provided a Geneva stop arrangement indipoints of the stop are adapted to be released. when the usual depression 52 passes time under and to be reloched when the depression 53 reaches the pinion. The pinion 30 is arranged to be given a complete rotation The having extensions56 and 57. These. exten SlOnS are adapted respectively to-engage and operate trictio-n rollers 58 and 59. The

, roller 58 is earri'ed'by a slide v6O which is supported and guided by a :larger slide 61 this larger slide also carrying the roller 59. .A rod 62- is connected at its upper end.

to the slide 60 and passes through a-hole 1n the slide 61 ending in a knob 62 under said plate. I also provide a slide .64 on which fastened a projection 65.. The slide 60 iscpnnected through the pin and slot connection best shown in Fig. 1 to an arm 66 mounted on a sleeve 67 on the shaft 68. At ihe other'end of this sleeve is an arm 69 (see Fig. 2) which is connected by a pin to I an arm 70. A spring 71 surrounds the arms 69 and 70 and serves to maintain a lug 72 on the latter in contact with the arm 69. Arms 69 and 70 and the slide 60 operating them constitute what I have termed atesting device 1n. as much as the slide is raised at each operation thereby depressing the arms until the projection 73 'may pass through a slot 74 in an extension of the slide table. A pivoted arm 77 is journaled on the pin which supports the anti-friction roller 59 and which is carried by the slide roller 58.

61. This arm 77 has a projection 78 adapted under certain conditions to contact with the lug 65 on the slide 645. The slide (itis com nected bya pin and slgt connection to a arm 79 shown in Figs. 2 and 2 which arm is carried by the shaftf68 previously referred to. At the other end of the shaft 68 is an arm 80 carrying an auxiliary printing device 81". This printing device is nor-- madly in the position shown in Fig. 2.

The operation of these parts is as follows: It will be remembered that the shaft 543carrying the peculiarly shaped arm is given a complete rotation during the first half of every operation of the machine. Fig. 2-,.

shows the normal position 0t this arm 55 an l it will. be seen that the extension 56 of said arm is in position to engage and elevate theslide through the anti-friction The elevation of the slide 60 will evidently rock the testing device 69 and 70 around the shaft 68 and will finally bring the projection 7 3 into contact with the long bundle slip or it no slip has been placed in the machine willniove thcprojeetion 73 through the slot 74. hen the slide 60 is raised the rod'62 is of course raised with it and this serves to elevate the slide 61,. as

the lug 62 is-.under said slide. When the slide '31 has been slightly elevated the extension 57 of the arm 5;. will engage under the anti-friction roller 59 of the slide 61.. During the further rotation of arm'55 both slides will be driven directly from this arm until the position shown in Fig. 3 is nearly reached. At this time the forward or operating edge of the extension 56 passes ,from under the anti-friction roller 58 and this is timed to occur just when the projection 73 of the testing device reaches the plane of the slip tabl If theslip has been inserted the testing d evice will -be stopped but this will stop only the: slide 60 andwill not stop the slide 61 as the slide 61 is at this time inde. pendently driven by the projection 57. The further motion 0 arm .55 will therefore continue to elevate the slide 61 and the arm 77 mounted on this slide will engage-the anti-friction roller 58 with its upper edge. This upper edge is oblique as will be seen and sois well adapted to rock around its pivot at 59 to the position shown in Fig. 3. This rocking is against the tension of the smallspring 81 and serves to bring the projection 78 under the lug 65 carriedby the slide 64:." It will be remembe'i'ed that this slide is connected to the printing device81 and it will beevident that when the projection 78 engages 65' that the further eleva tion of slide 61 will carry slide 64 up with it and thereby cause the printing dev ce to be depressed to the position shown in Fig. 2 to make an impression on the bundle ticket. If however no slip has. been placed on the table the projection 73 will not be stopped but will be allowed to pass some distance into the slot 74. Thislast part of the elevation of slide 60 *will be caused by the spring tensioned bythe slide 61 in its upward 1no-' tion. When the slide 60 hasmoved to its highest position it will be-stopp'ed' in a posi: tion slightly elevated above that in which it came torest when the slip had been inserted and in such case the camming of arm 77 j will not take place until its projection 7 Shas passed above the lug 65 on the slide 64 so that in this case no, operation ofthe auxil- ."by which phrase it is meant to cover broadly any style of printing or recording devices either member of which is brought-into contact with the other. i

The spring 71 surrounding the testing device is for the purpose of preventing punc-- turing of the slip by the projection 73.

-82 which surrounds rod 62" and which is" well puncture the slip, Vith the provision of the spring however betweenthe arms 69 and 70 the arms may bendat their common pivot and I thereby prevent the chance of such puncturing of the slip.

The auxiliary printing device is inkedby a mechanism shown best in Figs. 2* and 2 Journaled on the pm 91 which 13 carried by the arm 99 suppoited by a main piece 93 is an arm 9% carrying an ink pad. 95. The length of the arm is such that the pad will ink the type of the printing device 81. Connected to the arm 94- is a second arm 96 Wl'llCll depends in front of an anti-friction roller 97 carried on-the supporting arm 80. The arm 94: has also a projection 98 which is adapted to be engaged by-a latch 99, this latch being pivoted at 100 and drawn normally in one direction by a spring 101. The latch 90 has an arm 102 pro ecting at right angles therefrom over the anti-friction roller 97. \Vhen the arm is rocked around its pivot 68 the anti-triti't'ion roller 97 will engage the depending arm 96 and rock the inking arm S t to the position shown in Fig, 2". The arm is hold in this position by the latch 99 which under the tension of its spring 101 mores in front of the projection 98 of the arm lit. When the arm 80 returns to its normal vertical position the anti-friction roller 97 will engage theright angle extension 102 of the latch 99 and rock it against the tension of the spring 101 around its piv t 100. This will withdraw the latch 99 from in trout ol the projection 98 and the spring 'lOl will then depress the ink pad carrying the arm 94- to the position shown in Fig. 2".

While the torm oi mechanism here shown and described is admirablyadapted to fulfil -the objects primarily stated, it is to be understood that it. not intended to confine the invention to the one form of embodiment herein disclosed, for it is susceptible of ()lllllfit'llllltlll. in various forms all coming withinf the scope of the claims which follow.

'hat is claimed is as 't'ollmvs:

l. in a machine of the class described the combination with an operating mechamim, ot' a printing couple normally disconnected from the. operating nn-chanism, and means controlled by he pr'e.-ence of an article to be marked in connecting a part. of said printing couple to the operating mechanism. 9. To a machine of the class described. the combination with an operating mechanism,

of a printing'derice and connections normally disconnected from said operating .marked. and means operating or the testing device has been so stopped tor,

marked for connecting said movable part to said printin device connections.

4. In a machine of the class described, the combination wit-him o ierating mechanism, of a stamping means a apted to be operated from said mechanism, but normally disconnected therefrom a testin. device and means controlled thereby for connecting said stamping means operatively to said operating mechanism.

. 5. In a machine of the claSS described, the combination with a printing mechanism, and an operating mechanism arranged to operate said printing mechanism at each operation of the machine, of an auxiliary printing mechanism normally.disconnected from said operating mechanism, and means controlled by the presence of an article to be marked for connecting said auxiliary mechanism for operation by the operating mechanism.

6; In a machine of the class described, the combination with an operating mechanism, and a printing mechanism operated thereby, of an auxiliary printing mechanism normally out of operative connection with said operating mechanism, and means having its operation determined by the resence'ot' an article to be'marlced, for establishing a con ncction between said operating mechani 4.x and said auxiliary printing" device.

. 7. In a machine of the class described, the combination with an operating; mechan m,

and printing mechanism operated thereby,

of an auxiliary printing mechanism normally out of operative connection with said operating mechanism, a testing device, and means controlled thereby for establishing an operative connection between said ,opera ting mechanism and said auxiliary printin mechanism.

8. In a machine of the class described, the

combination with cooperating mechan' and printing mechanism controlled thereby. of an auxiliary printing mechanis mally' out of operative connection v operatingmechanism, a testing; a. .L. adapted to be. stopped by the article to b when connecting the auxiliary printing mechanism to the operating mechan1sm.-

f). In amachine of the class described, the

combination with a stamping devit e, of n.

operating mechanism therefor, anoL men controlled bythe presence of an article 'tb be marked for connecting the stamping de-; vice to the operating mec anism.

'10.; Inlet,- machine of t e' ;-.cla'ss described, the combination with anil-operating mocha: nism, and a regular printing mechanismiacftuated by said operating mechanism "atjeaehactuation thereof, of an auxiliary printing mechanism, devices actuated from said operating mechanism, but normally discol'nxected therefrom for operating said auxiliary printing mechanism, a device for testing the presence or absence of an article to be". marked, and means controlled by said testing device for connecting said operating mechanism to-said auxiliary printing mechanism. I 1- 11. In a machine of the classdescribed the combination with a stamping'device, o

means for operating samev normallyi disconnected from'said stamping device, and

means for connecting said operating means to said stamping device, 'controlledby the article to'be marked. s

12. In a machine of the class described, the combinationwith a printing mechanism, of an operating mechanism therefor, va stamping device normally disconnected from said operating mechanism, and means controlled by the article to be marked for conmeeting said stamping device to said operating mechanism. I

13. In a machine of the class described, the. combination of a stamping device, of an operatin mechanism normally disconnected there .rom,..a testing device given an excursion at' each operation and arranged to be stoppedby the article to be marked,'and means controlled by saidtestingdevice ands operative only, when' the .same .has been stopped, for "connecting said operating mechanism to said stamping device.

14. In afm'achine of the class described,

" the combination with an operating mechanism, of a printing couple normally disconnected troin the" operating mechanism, a testing de'vhie and means controlled by the testing device for connecting apart of said printing couple to'the operating mechanism.

15. In a machine of the class ,described, the combination with an operating mechanism, and a stamping device arranged to be operated thereby, of means for connecting and disconnecting said stamping device from said operating mechanism, and a testing devicecontrolling said connecting and 16. In a machine of the class described, the combination'with an operating mechan sm, of a printing couple normally dis-con nected from the operating mechanism, a flexible testing device and means controlled by the testing device for connecting a part (of said printing couple to the operating mechanis 17. In a machine of the class described, *the combination with a stamping device, and

an actuating slide therefor, an operating slide, a testing device, and means controlled by'said-testing device-for producing and destraying an operative relation between said operating and actuating slides.

18'."In,a macl ine of the class described. the combination with 'a pivoted; stamping device, of a pivoted inking device therefor, having provisions allowing its movement by said stamping device, means for latching the inking device after it has been moved, and provisions carried .by the stamping device for tripping the latching means. 19. In-a machine of'the class described, the combination with an operating mechw 'nis m, and a stamping mechanism constructed to be actuated by said operating mechanism but, normally disconnected therefrom, a testingv device actuated by said operating mechanism, and given a constant excursion thereby if? unobstructed, and means con l-tlrolled'by said testing device when ol'istruct' ed only for connecting said operating and stamping mechanisms.

20. In a machine of the class described, the combination with an operating mechanism, a testing device actuat d thereby, a stamp and actuating devices therefor, and'means controlled by the testing device for bringing the actuating devices for the stamp into position to be engaged by the operating mechanism.

21. In a machine of the class described, the combination with an operating mechanism, a'testing device actuated thereby, a stamp and actuating devices therefor, and means'controlled by the testing device for bringing 'the actuating'devices for the stamp into a position to be engagedby the operating mechanism, thesaid means allowing a movement of the stamp actuating devices independent of thetesting device. g

:22- In amachine of the class described, thenomloination with an operating mech an'is'm a testing device actuated thereby, a stamp actuating devices for said stamp carried- 'h v the testing device and having an independent movementthereon, and means controlled by the operating mechanism for first ope ting the-testing and actuating devices tgther and then the latter devices indepe de'ntly. 23. n a machine of the class described, the combination with a. type carrier, of a second ,type carrier, a movable table for sup .portlng, a slip, and an operating mechanism for moving'the table to take an impression upon} the slip from one of the type carriers and fonmoving the other type carrier to impress a character upon the slip.

24. In amachine of the class described, the combination with a type carrier, of a second type carrier, a. movable tableior sup porting a slip, an operating mechanism for moving the table to take an impression upon the slip from one of the type carriers, and means controlled by the presence of the slip for connecting the other type carrier to the operating mechanism soas to move the last mentioned type carrier to impress a character upon the slip.

25. In a machine of the class described, the combination with a plurality of type carriers, a movable table for supporting a slip, an operating mechanism for moving the table to take an impression.upon the slip from one of the type carriers, and a testing device operated by the operating mechanism and working in conjunction with the slip for connecting another of the type carriers tothe operating mechanism so that the latter type carrier may be actuated thereby, to impress a character upon the slip.

' 26. In a machine of the class described, the combination with an operating mechanism, of a printing couple the members of which are normally separated, means for bringing the members of the couple together to impress upon a slip any suitable data, the said means being normally disconnected from the operating mechanism, and a device operated bythe operating mechanism for testing the presence of the slip, which device controls the connection to the operating mechansm of the means for bringing the members of the couple together.

27. In a machine of the class described, the combination with an operating mechanism, of a printing couple the members of which are nm-mally separated, a device ac-' tuated by the operating mechanism for testing the presence of an article to be marked by the printing couple, and means connected to the testing device and movable independently thereof by the operating mecha nism for bringing the members of the printing couple together when the article is present so as to mark said article.

28. In a cash register, the 'COI'IlbllltttlOD. with a main printing device, of an auxiliary printing device in, close proximity thereto, both printing devices adapted to print upon a paper slip of suflicient length to be engaged thereby, and Ineans for disabling the auxiliary printing device when themachine is operated in connection with a slip of insutiicicnt length.

In a machineof the class described, the combination with a main printing mechanism, of an auxiliary printing mechanism, and means, controlled by the length of the article to be printed upon, for operably connecting the auxiliary printing mechanism with the main printing mechanism.

30. Ina machine of the class described, the combination with a main printing mechanism, of an auxiliary printing mechanism, and means controlled by the position of the strip to be printed upon by themain printing mechanism, for determining whether the auxiliary printing mechanism will be operated.

31. In a machine of the class described, the combination with a main printing mechanism and an auxiliary printing mechanism, adapted to simultaneously print respectively upon the two ends of a slip, or" means for feeding the slip so that the main printing mechanism may print intermediate .the previously iirinted parts of the slip, the auxiliaryprinting mechanism rendered inoperative by the feeding inci ement of the slip.

In testimony whereof I atiix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

' JOSEPH P. CLR \l'i. \Vitnesses N. \VEARLE, D. S. Town.

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