US1080162A - Cash-register. - Google Patents

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- 4 WITNESSES 7" mm ELME E. ppm/v My BY 4 gnaw ,qr'r'vv E. E. PATTEN.

CASH REGISTER. APPLIOATION FILED Jun 21, 1912.

1,08Q,1 62. Patented Dec. 2, 1913.

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\ g INYENTOR E. E. PATTEN.

CASH REGISTER.

APPLICATION FILED JUIE 21, 1912.

Patented Dec.2, 1913.

'I SHBETHHEET 2.

INYENTOR ELMEI? E. H TTc/v BY Qmqm, /n

B.E.PAT TEN.

CASH REGISTER.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 21, 1912.

Patented Dec. 2, 1913.

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Q Q INVENTOR Emm E. PflTTEN WMF ELME/f E. PHTTEN m? BY %IIJM7TTIX E. E. PATTEN.

CASH REGISTER.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 21, 1912.

1,080,162, I Patented Dec. 2, 1913.

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Mrlvssszs INVEN TOE E. E. PATTEN.

CASH REGISTER.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 21, 1912.

Patentd Dec.2,191 3.

7 SHEETS-SHEET 6.

INYENTOR v ELMEIT E. PflTTEN I 8) fi TT'K' WITNESSES E. E. PATTEN.

CASH REGISTER.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 21, 1912.

Patented Dec. 2, 1913.

7 SHEETS-SHEET 7.

umran erases Parana? ELMER n. PATTEN, or sr. LOUIS, MISSOURI, Assmnon r0 s'r. Lou s casn BEGI$E COMPANY, or ST. LOUIS, xrssormr, A q aronar on pg g ssonnr CASH-BEGfiTEQ.

Specification of Lettersgatent.

Pat nted nee-2,1913- Application filed I une 21, 1912. Serial No. 704,995.

tail showing the centering Ipawl and rack for the operating handle. p 'g. 2 is a side view showing particularly the printing mechanism. Fig. 2 1s a detail showing part of the re-setting mechanism. Fig. 3 is a front view partly in section. Fig. 4 is a detail showing the disposal of the dollar tabs. Fig. 5 is .a detail showing the locking mechanism for the dollar tabs. "Fig. 6 is a detail showing the indicating tabs. Fig. 7 is a detail showing in perspective the weighted bail member and the engagement thereof by the rearward extension of the operating lever. Fig. 8 is a detail in vertical section showing the relative disposal of the registering plates and actuating members therefor. Fig. 9 is a detail showing the five-cent registering mechanism.

detail showing the five-cent registering mechanism in another operation. Fig. 11 is a detail showing the dimes registering mechanism. Fig. 12 is a detail showing totalizer wheels during the re-setting operation. Fig. 13 is a detail showing totalizer wheels in normal position and illustrat-' ing the carrying. echanism. Fi 14 is a .detail showing e mechanism or rocking the register frame. Fig. 15 is a detail showin the same in one stage of its operation. ig. 16 is a fragmentary detail of the record strip. Fig. 17 is a detail showing the operating means, indicating means, and registenoperating means of the dollar recording mechanism. Fig. 18 is a detail of the same" as viewed from the front of the machine.

This invention relates to a new and useful improvement in cash registers, the object being to construct a machine .ofthe character described in such manner that there are Fig. 9 is a detail thereof in perspective. Fig. 10 is a comparatively'few parts and therefore the machine may be cheaply manufactured.

One feature of my improved machine is the utilization of a'single lever, whichis universally mounted so as to swing horizontally to positions to difl'erentially control the lifting plates and .the tabs, and then move vertically to lift the tabs and the lifting plates and through the latter to introduce the amountbindicated by the tab in the register. Printing mechanism is also utilized to record the number indicated in the register. The machine herein described constitutes in certain respects improvements on the various forms of devices illustrated and described in the patents to Bartlett, No. 470,463, Sebastian, No. 512,753, and my copending application for improvements in cash registers filed September 2, -1 911,'S erial No. 647,321.

Another feature of my. invention is the novel construction .of the ,dollars' indicatng, registering and recording mechanism.

I have not shown in the accompanying drawings the cash .drawer or the means for controlling the same, but such is intended to be used and maybe .of any well known or approved construction.

In the drawings: 1 indicates the side frames, 2 is a front plate having notches at its upper forward edge, said notches being formed with flaring openings for the purpose of centering the handle, 3 is a cross frame extending transversely. between the side frames and located about'the center of the machine, 4 is a curved cross piece located at the rear .of the machine and forming a track plate for the horizontally swing- -"ing plate, and 5 are transversely disposed guide plates formed with openings in which the shanks of the tabs are mounted and guided vertically. F

6 i the operating handle pivotally mounted at 7 to .a horizontally swinging. plate 8 trunnioned in the cross framej3. This plate extends rearwardlyand coiiperates with the track bar 4, said plate having an upward extension provided with a stop lug 9 for arresting the upward movement of the rear end of the handle, said upwardextension r v v also providing .a support for a guide screw 10 on which is mounted an L-shaped link 11. This link isslotted for 006 eration with the screw '10, and its upper orwardlyiextending horizontal. portion is designed tov lift the tabs by engaging the lower end thereof. Plate 8 is also provided with a forwardly extending portion 8 for limiting the upward movement of the stepped plates as hereinafter described. Link 11 is pivotally connected at its lower end to the rear end of handle 6, and whenever the forward end of handle 6 is pressed downward, the rear end will be raised, and through the medium of the link '11 an appropriate tab will be lifted.

12 indicates the tabs, each of which has a head portion containing appropriate numbers and a slotted shank portion, the guide plate 5 being provided with tongues 5 which project into the slotto guide the tabs and plate 13 has portions projecting between the 'tabs and overlying the ends of tongues 5 and operating to prevent the tabs being disengaged from said tongues. The tongues, operating in the slots of the tabs, limit the movements of the tabs and retain them securely in place. Each of the tabs has a lateral projection 12, which, when a'tab is lifted, forces a latch plate 13 laterally against the tension of a spring 14, said latch plate being returned to normal position by said spring under the lateral projection 12 50 of the lifted tab, whereby said tab is held in its elevated osition. The latch plate 13 is provided with openings or slots through which the shanks of all of the tabs pass, and in this manner when one tab is lifted the latch plate is shifted tending to release the elevated tab and then to sustain the lifted tab. (lo-incident with the lifting of the tab, the weighted bail 15, which is mov able with the handle 6, lifts a rod 16 pivotally connected thereto, so that a tappet 17 on the upper end of said rod will engage a projection 18 on the latch plate, and move said latch plate laterally so as to release any elevated tab. This tappet is 'so constructed that on its upward movement it will have a camming action on the latch plate to release the tab, but on its downward movement said tappet will rock on its pivot and not shift the latch plate, but permit the same to remain in its normal position in which the lifted tab is sustained.

The weighted bail, before referred to, is

shown in Fig. 7, and is pivoted on an axis co-incident with the pivotal point of the handle 6 on the horizontally swinging plate -8. I prefer to use this weighted bail rather than to employ a spring to return the handle 6 to normal position, because I am thus enabled to utilize the weighted bail as a medium for actuating certain parts of the machine.

Whenever the handle 6 is swung to an appropriate point and its forward end depressed, therear end of said handle will be raised and will, through the medium of the projection 6*, engage and operate the five-' cent lifting plate 19, pivotally mounted on a cross shaft 20. (See Fig. 8.) The plate 19 is provided with a series of notches in its lower edge and whenever the handle 6. enters one of these notchesfthe plate 19 will not be operated, but when the handle engages one of the projections on the plate, the plate will be lifted so as to rock an arm extending upwardly from its forward end. This arm carries a T-shaped lever 21, whose forward member has a pin 22, which pin cooperates with a .05 plate 23, loosely mounted on the shaft 2 1 on which the adding wheels are mounted. The plate 23 has an a ex 23 which is designed to be shifted a ove or below the arc of movement of the pin 22. Assuming that the plate 23 is in zero position, the position to which it has been moved in Fig. 10 the apex projection thereof will be above the are of movement of the pin 22, and when the plate 19 is lifted to move the in 22 forwardly, said pin will engage on ttie underside of the apex and be cammed downwardly until it engages the shoulder on the underside of the plate 23,

when it will rock said plate and cause the numeral 5 on the flange thereof to appear in the sight opening. In this operation nothing has been introduced into any of the adding wheels. If the handle 6 is now moved to register any number not containing 5, the plate 19 will not be lifted and consequently the position of plate 23 will not be disturbed. If, however, a number containing 5 is registered, the plate 19 is lifted, and due to the new position of the apex of plate 23, in 22 will now ride on the upper cam surf tice of the apex until it engages the shoulder at the upper side of plate 23, when it will rock said plate and restore it to normal positionso that zero will appear in the sight opening. The plate 23 is thus rocked to and fro at every operation of the handle in the registration'of a numbercontaining 5 in the units column. A detent 25 cooperates with notches in the front edge of plate 23 to hold the plate in its shifted position, said detent being held against the plate by means of a spring 26. The T-shaped lever 21, before referred to, is held in normal position by means of a spring 27, and its downward extension is preferably provided with a bent end, as shown in Fig. 1, which is adapted, when the pin 22 is riding on the upper edge of the apex, to engage a tripping bell crank lever 28, as shown in Fig. 10. When the pin 22 rides on the lower edge of the apex to move the plate 23 so that 5 will be displayed through the sight opening, the downward extension of the T-shaped lever 21 will be depressed below the tripping bell crank 28, so that the same will not be tripped. When, however, the pin 22 rides on the upper edge of the apex, the tripping engagement with the ratchet'wheel 52" cbnjoined to the dimes addin wheel 52, by

means of the tripping bel crank 28, as shownin Fig. 9, and hence, when the bar 30 is raised,.it will not engage or operate; the

' is moved to display zero'throu'gh t e sight .leaset apex-mini,e the tripping bell crank will re: carrying pate and place the same control of the dimes wheel so that when said carrying late is lifted the dimes wheel will be'rotate'd a; distance of one tooth;

Means for lifting the plate 30-consists of a. slotted bar 31 guided bysuitable rods, and whose upper end lies under .a projection 32' on the plate 30. A rocking plate 33 carry ing pins 34 and 35,'is swung on its shaft by means of a pinion 36 conjoined to said plate, which pinion meshes with a segment 37 pivoted-to the left hand frame plate 1. This segment 37 has a rearward slotted extension 38, in which operates a roller 39 carried by the weighted bails, heretofore referredto. In this manner, at every operation, of the handle, the pin: 34 is rocked so as to belocated under the plate 31, after which the lower end of plate 31 is moved over. the pinso that on the reverse movement of. the pin, as when the forward end of handle-6 is being raised, the pin will lift the plate and then pass from under the end thereof, permitting the platetc drop to its normal po sition. The lifting of the plate'effects the carrying, providing the carrying plates have been tripped, and are in control of their respective adding wheels. 7 1

' Means for rocking the bars 31 consists of j a rod 40carried by the frame plates 41 of the adding mechanism, which frame plates are pivoted at 42 in brackets extending up from the casting 3. These frame plates have a rearwardly extending portion 43, which is designed to rest upon the cross shaft 20, when the frame plates are rocked, and are provided with a-shoulder43 designed to rest upon an offset 37? when in normal position to prevent the rocking of frame 41 by accidental pressure. I

44 indioates a roller carried by'one of the frame plates, which roller coiip'erateswith; atrack extension 45, conjoinedato the ar'ln of segment 38, said track extension 0 "r-z ating with a switching.-plate46,*"held against the underside thereof by means-pf aspring 47. As the segment 37 is rocked -forwardly,

the track extension 45 rides over the roller 44, which roller depresses the switching gplate 46, until the curved extension 48 engages the roller so as to hold the roller in its forward position, while the handle 6 is depressed. Asthe handle fi rises, the

'go perated to the exclusion ofthe lifting plate, and the above mechanism is F roller 44 rides against the end of the switching plate from under the extension 48, and over the track extension 45until it reaches its position in front of said track extension when the roller will drop to its normal position. This rocking of the frame plate ilifting plates, and when the handle is inthis POSltlOl'l, no registration is effected. When,

' however, the handle is moved to register gfive-cents', the five-cent lifting plateis dimes operated in the manner described. When .the handle is moved to the next notch to j register tencents, the dimes lifting plate is operated to the exclusion of the fivemechanism now about to be described.

The dimes lifting plate is indicated at 50' in Figs. I and 8, and consists of a shouldered or stepped. plate, with whose lower edge cooperates the part of handle 6 behind extension 6, heretofore referred to, and with whose upper edge coiiperates the extensiorr 8*, also referred to heretofore. The dimes lifting plate is pivoted on the rod 20,'and has a segment 51 conjoined to it, which segment is designed to cooperate with a pinion 52 loosely mounted on the shaft 24. This pinion has the ratchet wheel 52 and the dimes indicator wheels 52* conjoined to it, the. ratchet wheel 52' being under control of the'carrying plate 30, heretofor'e described. When the dimes lifting plate is lifted'difi'erent-ially, according to the position of the handle 6,'the segment 51 is rocked forward a number of teeth, proportionate to the position of the handle, and, as before described, the initial depression of the handle 6 will rock the frame 7 plates 41 in which the shaft 24 is mounted, soas to cause the pinion 52 on said shaft to mesh with the segment 51, whereby the numher is registered in the adding mechanism. One revolution of the dimes adding wheel 52 will operate the dollars adding wheel, which is the next adjacent adding wheel of higher order, the carrying from the dimes adding wheel to the dollars adding wheel being effected by means of a cam 53, which cooperates with a tripping bellcrank 54 in control of a carrying plate 55, substantially I like carrying plate 30, heretofore described,

i41- causes the rock shaft 40 to rock forcent lifting plate, and will operate certain and operated or lifted in the same manner except in this instance the pm 35 lifts the operating plate and pin 35 is located; slightly behind the pin 34, so that if the five-cent plate 23 has been operated to a position where 1 is to be carried into the dimes wheel, the dimes wheel will be operated by the carrying mechanism in advance of the operation of the dollars wheel by said mechanism. The purpose of this is to-enable the carrying mechanism to operate on the wheel of higher order after its cont-rolling wheel of lower order has been operated. For instance, if 1.95 was indicated by the adding mechanism and 5c registered the plate 23 would be moved to indicate zero through the sight opening, dimes wheel would have 1 carried thereinto so that it would indicate zero instead'of 9 through the sightopening, and subsequently but in the same operation of the machine, the dollars wheel would have 1 carried thereinto so that it would indicate 2 instead of 1 through the sight opening. Whenever the handle (3 is moved to register 15 or any number above fifteen containing 5 in the units column, both the five-cent and dimes lifting plates are operated simultaneously.

From the dollars wheel up, the carrying mechanism is of the well knownfGeneva type and it is believed to be unnecessary to describe the same in detail here. I prefer to employ this form of carrying mechanism in the higher order of dollars wheels, be-

cause the same is positive, compact and simple in operation. Briefly, this Geneva form of carrying mechanism consists of an indicating wheel of lower order to which is conjoined a disk 60 havin a notch or recess at one point in its perip lery, as shown in Fig. 13, opposite which is a single tooth 61 conjoined to said disk, which tooth is designed to mesh with and operate a pinion 62, mounted on asupplemental shaft. This.

pinion meshes with a pinion 63 conjoined to the indicating disk of next higher order, and the pinion 62 is also conjoined to a disk 64 having concave portions in its periphery which normally engage the periphery of the disk 60, but when the single tooth .61 oper ates the pinion 62, the point between'two concave portions on the periphery of disk 64 enters the recess in disk 60 and the disk 64 and its conjoined pinion 62 are thus advanced the distance of one tooth. After such advance, the disk 64 is locked against rotation by the disk 60, until the disk 60 has made another revolution.

Y Thedollars indicating and registering mechanism is best illustrated in Figs. 17 and 18 wherein indicates a handle pivoted at 71, and having a projection 72 to engage one of a series of notches in a plate 7 3. 74 indicates a flat spring carried by the handle 70, whose free end bears against the plate sethe latter near the drawing this plate has four notches and it is therefore possible to register any number of dollars up to four in conjunction with dimes and cents, which latter are controlled by the operating handle 6. It is obvious, however, that the plate 73 may have a greater number of notches so as to increase the range or capacity of the machine. A link 76 is connected to the arm 70 of a lever 7 0 which is rocked by handle 70 by virtue of the engagement therewith of a projection 70 carried by lever 70, and to a lever77 fixed to a rod 78, and designed to rock said rod from said handle 70. The rod 78 has also fixed to it a rock arm 79 which has a slot and pin connection with a segment 80 mounted on shaft 20. Thus, when the dollars handle is moved to engage any one of the notches in plate 73, segment 80 will be correspondingly positioned, and when the handle 6 is depressed it will rock the frame plate 41 so as to engage the pinion 80*.0n the units dollar wheel with the segment 80, and immediately thereafter release the handle 70 so that the springs connected to the parts controlled thereby will restore the handle and said parts to normal position, and in so doing operate the units dollan wheel. The means for releasing the handle 70 consists of an arm 81 secured to the weighted bail frame and extending forwardly alongside the handle 70, (see Fig. 18), whereby, when said arm 81 is depresse it will engage acam face on the handle 70, and move the same outwardly so that the projection 72 will be disengaged from a notch in the plate 73. The cam face on handle 70 is preferably formed by bending the handle as shown. The spring for returning the parts to normal position and registering dollars in the adding mechanism are indfcated at 82 and 83, the former being located near the printing mechanism, and dollars tablets. The shaft 78 carries an arm 84 having its lower end bent to engage an arm 85, which latter is connected at its lower end to a plate 86 guided to move horizontally on the side frame plate 1. Plate 86 is provided with guiding lugs in which a tab setting bar 87 is mounted for vertical movement. 88 indicates a comb plate mounted on shaft 20 and having a lateral extension 89 extending in a horizontal slot in the vertically movable bar 87. The roller heretofore described as being mounted on the weighted bail piece for operating the segment 37 is here utilized to operate the comb plate 88 by cooperating with a cam slot in the lower edge of said plate, as shown in Fig. 17. When the roller plate- When the comb plate is lifted, its

' projection 89 will lift the bar 87, and when the parts are in normal position the bar 87 is in front of the shanks of the dollar tablets, so that none of said tablets will be raised.

.However, when the handle 70 is operated,

and the shaft 78 is rocked, the arm 85 will move the frame 86 and position the bar 87 7' under one of the dollar tablets, so that when the handle'fi is depressed, the bar 87 will lift the appropriate dollar tablet and hold the same elevated until the latch plate is re leasedto sustain said tablet in its elevated position. While the comb plate is thus elevated, the shaft 78 may be returned to normal position to register the indicated dollars in the units dollar wheel, and such registration occurs before the handle 6 is returned .to normal position. It is for this reason that the' arm 84 which positions the arm 85 ismade independentl movable in one direction. To maintain t e proper relation between the bar 87 and the elevated dollar tab.- lets, I provide the plate 86 with a lateral extension 86 which is designed-to enter between the teeth of the comb plate, whereby the 'proper relation between the parts is maintained until. the comb plate is depressed.

The latch plate Wlll release the dollars tablets ina manner heretofore described,- with respect to the other tablets.w i The. means for; restoring the adding wheels consists of ahan'd disk 90 mounted on the end of shaft 24 on the op osite end of" .which shaft is a cam disk 91 see Fig. 12).

This cam disk, 91 cotiperates with a pin 92 on the side of a frame in which the shaft carrying the pinion 62 and disks 64 is mounted. Frame 93 which carries pin 92 is mounted to swing on a rod 94:, and when the pin1592 min the notch in the cam disk 91, spring 95'. forces the pinion 62 and 63- into mesh, as shown in ig. 13, in which meshed position of the pinions detent springs 96 are outof engagement with the teeth of pinion 63. f A detent spring 97 also engages each disk 64 to "hold the same-in proper 'osition when he frame 93 is rocked. en t e shaft 24 is rotated in a counterclook-wise-directiomas shown in Fig. 13,

the pinion 62 and disk 64 will be rocked out of engagement with their associate parts,

and the spring 96 will be moved into engagement with thepinion 63, permitting 'theirrestoration and preventing accidental displacement thereof. 'At the same time a notched disk 98 on the shaft 24 adjacent the hand wheel 90 (see Figs. 2 and 2) will rock forward a 1ever199 so as to cause a pin 100 on the rear end thereof to engage and rock a lever 101 on the shaft 20. The lower end of this lever will be moved over a projection 102, extending fromthe weighted bail, and in' this manner the handle 6 can not be operated when the disk 90 is in other than normal position. The rocking forward of lever 99, also causes a lateral projection 103 thereon to engage and rock forward a bail-like frame 104, which frame is caused to move the carrying pawl plates 30 away from their respective ratchets. At the same time a projection 105 on lever 99 rocks forward a bell crank lever 106 which is normally'held rearward by a spring 107, into position so that its upper end will lie under a pin 98, on the disk 98, so that in the rota- ;Jti'on of said disk when it has made slightly more than one complete revolution, it will be brought to a position of rest, by the engagement of pin 98 with the upper --end of lever 106. The upper end of this lever 106 is preferablvprovided with a shoulder, as shown, so that when the notch in disk 98 permits the lever 99. to rock rearwardly, whereby the projection 105 is moved away from lever 106 said lever 106 will be free to move rearwardly under the impelling action of its spring so that its upper end will be beyond the .arc of movement of pin 98*. The purpose of this construction is to enable the operator to re-set the adding wheels to zero without exercising any care relative to the position of the adding wheels, which might be necessary if the operator was forced to observe when zeros appeared through the sight opening. By positively arresting the shaft 24 when the adding wheels are moved slightly beyond zero positionnotifies the operator that the wheels have been re-set, and upon releasing the hand wheel, the detent springs will return all of the adding wheels to their exact zero position and at the same time the lever 106 e released so that its upper end will be out of engagement with the pin'98, thus positioning the restoring mechanism for another operation. The shaft 24 is provided with a longitudinal groove for engagement with re-sett-ing pawls carried by the several adding wheels in a' manner well known in thisart' and which need not be described in detail here as the same is shown in a companion application filed by me September 2, 1911, Serial Number 647,321. The plate 23 is likewise adapted to be restored to the 0 position by this re-setting mechanism, as the bail 104, when rocked forward by lever 99, engages the lever 28 and rocks its upper arm against the depending lug 23 on the indicator disk of the fivecent register plate,.and swings said disk and plate to the position.

In order to prevent the dollars handle from being operated while the handle 6 is depressed, I provide the extension 81 with ill Ill

a downward extension at its frontend which carries a pin 81, and when the handle 6 is depressed this pin will he inlfront of an extension on the dollars handle and prevent the same from being operated. This pin is also useful in the event that the springs which are intended to restore the dollars mechanism to normal position fail to act, in restoring the dollars handle 70 by engaging the upper face of the extension 7 0 and positively moving the dollars handle back to normal position.

The printing mechanism is controlled by a segment 110, movable with the plate 8, and having a rack which engages a p1I11OI1 111 mounted on a shaft 112. The outer end of this shaft carries a printing wheel 113, having type on its periphery which are positioned over a platen 114 by the horlzontal swinging movement of plate 8. The weighted bail, before referred to, has a pm 115 extending laterally through a slot in a swinging plate 116, which carrles a pivoted tappet 117 at its lower end (see Fig. 2). This tappet cooperates with a bent extension on frame 118 which carries the platen 114. As the handle 6 is depressed, the tappet 117 depresses the frame 118 against the action of its spring 119, and as the tappet 117 moves upwardly 1n the arc of its circle, it will release the frame 118, as the handle 6 reaches its lowermost position and permit the spring 119 to force the platen up against the type positioned in the printing line. As the handle r ses the tappet'117 will be raised so as to swlng behind the inward extension on frame 118, in readiness for another operation. Frame 118 is connected by a link 120 to a rocking frame 121 pivoted on' the shaft 112, which rocking frame carries an inking roller 122, held against the type on the periphery of disk 113by means of a spring 123. As the platen is drawn down, or retracted to deliver a type impression blow, the. inklng roller is caused to moveunder the type in the printing line so that they will receive a deposit of ink thereon so as to make a legible impression. The type are locked in their printing line by means of a lever 124 having an end slightly eccentric to the arc movement of the pin 115, whereby, as the handle 6 is depressed the lever 124 is rocked so as to cause a yielding detent 125 on its forward end to engage a centering wheel 126 conjoined to the rinting disk 113 and lock said printing disk in position.

The dollars handle positions a printing segment 1 28 loosely pivoted on the shaft 112 and having type on the lower edge of its periphery which are designed to be brought into printing line, be inked and receive the laten impression in a manner similar to tl fat described with reference to type on disk 113. This dollar printing disk 128 also has-centering notches in its' upper periphery to" cooperate with the center1 detent 125. The dollars printing disk is operated by a link 129 connected by an arm 130 to the shaft 78. The spring 82, heretofore referred to, tends to hold the-dollars disk forwardly, so that none of its rinting type are in printing line, but w en the dollars handle is advanced to the first notch for the purpose of registering one dollar on the machine, an appropriate printing character on the dollars disk is positioned in the printing line, This link 129 where it engages the dollars printing disk, is preferably slotted, so that said link will permit shaft 78 to move to normal position before other "parts of the machine are restored home. 1

I claim:

1. In'a device of the class described, an operating handle, a rock' frame operated thereby, a register frame, a register mounted therein, carrying mechanism cooperating with said register, a pivoted lever operated from said rock frame, and means on said pivoted lever for rocking said register frame and operating said carrying mechanism.

2. In a machine of the class described, a plurality of decimal indicating tabs, a plurality of integer indicating tabs, register mechanism, an operating handle ada td to actuate said decimal and integer ta s and said register, a lifting bar with which said handle cooperates for selectively operating said integer tabs, and means for positioninlg said lifting bar relative to said integer ta s.

3. In a device of the class described, regis ter mechanism, decimal indicating tabs, integer indicating tabs, an operating handle for introducin numbers into said register and for o crating said integer and decimal tabs, a li ing bar for selectively cotiperating with said integer tabs, a segment adapted to engage said registering mechanism, and manually manipulative means for simultaneously positioning said lifting bar relative to said tabs and said segment rela-.

tive to said registering mechanism.

4.- In a device of the class described, registering mechanism including a pinion for introducing numbers thereinto, a shaft, a. spring adapted to rotate said shaft, means for actuating said pinion from said shaft, means for positioning said pinion actuating means relative to said pinion against the influence of said spring, and means for engaging said pinion with its actuating means.

5. In a device of the class describedfa plurality of indicating tabs, a lifting bar adapted to selectively engage said tabs, a shaft, a spring adapted to rotate said shaft, and means for operating said shaft to said liftand means for releasing said actuating means. I

7 In a device of the class described, a segment provided with printin type, a revoluble member on wh1ch said segment is 1 mounted, a spring adapted to rotate said revoluble member, means for positioning said segment againstthe influence of said spring, means for printing from said type, and means for releasing said segment to permit its return to normal position after the printing operation. Q

8. Ina device of the class described,-register mechanism, indicator tabs, a typecarrying member, means adapted -to cooperate selectively with ating, said tabs, means adapted to be differentially positioned relative to the register mechanism for actuating said register mechanism, a common means for positioning said two last mentioned means and said typecarrying member, and means for operating the parts mentioned to lift the tabs and insert amounts into the register mechanism.

9. In a device of the class described, a lifting plate, registering mechanism including a movable plate, and means for swinging said plate reversely on its pivot by move- -ment of said lifting plate to introduce an amount into the register at each swinging of the plate. I p 10. In a device of the class described, an operating handle, register mechanism including an accumulator wheel, a plate, a carrying-pawl for introducing amounts into said wheel, means for reversely swinging said plate at alternate operations thereof,

and means for tripping said carrying pawl upon alternate movements of said plate.

11. In a device of the class described, an operating handle, register mechanism including an accumulator wheel, an oscillating plate and a carrying pawl for introducing amounts into said accumulator wheel, means for swinging said plate in opposite directions at alternate operations thereof, and means controlled by the position of said plate and adapted to trip said carrying pawl to cause the introduction of an amount into said accumulator wheel upon alternate operations of said plate.

12. In a device of the class described, a frame, a plurality of indicator tabs mounted therein, an operating handle mounted in said the tabs for actuframe for horizontal and verticals-.p'wfital movement, and a link pivoted to the end of saidhandle and adapted to engage said tabs selectively to o e'rate them.

13. In a dev ce of the class described, a frame, a plurality of indicator'tabs mounted therein, a plate pivoted therein for horizontal movement, an operating handle pivoted on said plate for vertical movement, and a link carried by said plate and operable by to operate them.

14. In a device of the class described, an operating handle, a register, means selectively operable by said handle for introducing amounts into said register, pawls for carrylng from one denomination of said register to a higher, and a segment operable by said handle and adapted'to 'rock said register into cooperation with the means for introducing amounts thereinto and to oper ate said carrying pawls.

15. In a device of the class described, an

operating handle, a register, selectively H operable means for introducing amounts nto said-register, carrying pawls for carrying from one denomination of said register to a higher, a segment operable by said handle provided with means for rocking said register into and out of cooperation with said selectively operable means, and means operated independently by said segment for operating the carrying pawls.

-16. In a device of the class described, a frame an ofperating handle mounted therein, a rock1ng rame operable by said handle, a pivoted register frame, a pivoted segment operated by said rocking frame, and means earned by said segment adapted to rock said register frame in the opposite directions on its pivot.

.17. In a device of the class described, a frame, an operating handle mounted therein, a pivoted register frame, a roller mounted thereon, a pivoted segment operable by said handle and adapted to cotiperate with said roller, and means carried by said pivoted segment adapted to guide said roller.

18. In a device of the class described, an operating handle,'a pivoted register frame, a pivoted member, an element carried by said register frame with which said pivoted member cooperates, and means carried by said pivoted member for guiding said ele ment radially of said pivoted member.

19. In a device of the class described in combination with operating mechanism, a lifting plate, a register including a carrying pawl and a tripping member therefor, a pivoted plate, means carried by said lifting plate for operating said pivoted plate, and including a member adapted to trip said tripping member on alternate operations of said lifting plate.

20. In a device of the class described, the

said handle and adapted to engage said tabs combination with an operating handle, decimal indicating mechanism, decimal printing type and decimal register operating mechanism selectively operated thereby, of integer printing type and integer indicating and register operating mechan sm, means for selectively positioning said integer indicating mechanism, register operating mechanism and type, and means operable by said handle for operating said integer indicating mechanism and registering mechanism and for printing from said integer type.

21. In a cash register, the comb nation of an operating handle, a lifting plate operable by said handle, a register mechanism including an accumulator wheel, a pivoted plate and carrying mechanism, means operable by said lifting plate for swinging said pivoted plate in reverse directions around its pivot upon alternate operations of said lifting plate, means for operating said carrying mechanism from said operating handle, and means operable by saii lifting plate for tripping said carrying echa-nism so that amounts will be introduced into said accumulator wheel upon alternate operations of said lifting plate.

22. In a cash register, a frame, and slotted lifting indicator tabs mounted for sliding movement therein; the mounting for said tabs comprising a member provided with tongue portions which extend into the slots of the tabs, and a plate adapted to engage all of said tabs to prevent their disengagement from said tongues.

23. In a cash register, a frame, indicator tabs siidingly mounted therein, said indicator tabs being provided with slots corresponding in length: to the extent of the sliding movement of the tabs, the mounting for said tabs comprising a plate provided with slots in which said tabs slide and having tongues projecting into sai slots and engagin in the slots of the tabs, and a member line to prevent the disengagement of said tabs from said tongues; the said tongues operating tolimit the sliding movement of said tabs.

24. In a cash register, a frame, and slotted indicator tabs mounted for sliding movement in said frame, the mounting for said tabs comprising a slotted plate having tongue portions adapted to engage in the slots of the tabs, and a plate adapted to engage all of said tabs to prevent their disengagement from said tongue portions, the tongue portions operating to limit the sliding movement of said tabs.

25 In a cash register, the combination of a rocking register frame carrying register mechanism, means for inserting amounts into the register mechanism, carrying pawls for carrying from one denomination of said register to another, an operating handle differentially operable for introducing different amounts into the register mechanism, and means operable by said handle for successively actuating said carrying pawls.

26. In a cash register, a rocking register frame carrying register mechanism, an operating handle for operating the machine, bars for operating the carrying mechanism of the register, an actuating means for actuating said bars, and means for rocking said register frame whereby said bars are positioned to be actuated by said actuating mechanism.

27. In a cash register, the combination of a rocking register frame, register mechanism carried thereby,'members for operating the carrying .portions of said register mechanism, a rocking plate for actuating said members, an operating handle, and mechanism operable by said handle for oper ating said rocking plate and for rocking said register frame to permit said rocking plate becoming effective upon said members.

28. In a cash register, the combination of an accumulator, means for inserting amounts thereinto, said means including a rocking bail, said accumulator including a re-setting mechanism, and a lever operable by portions of said re-setting mechanism and adapted to engage said bail to lock it against movement.

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature in the presence of two witnesses,

this llth day of June, 1912.

ELMER E. PATTEN. Witnesses:

M. P. SMITH, C. S. BUTLER.

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