US1118144A - Cash-register. - Google Patents

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 24, 1914.

Applicationfiled October 14, 1908. Serial No. 457,705.

To all whom it may concern Be itknown that I, VVILLIAM H. MUzzY, aeitizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cash-Registers, of which I declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in cash registers and more particularly to machines of the type known as multiple totalizer registers, on which the accounts for different departments or difi'erent transactions such as cash, charge, received on account and paid out, may be kept. Heretofore the scope of usefulness of this class of machines has been confined to stores not having more than ten or twelve employees, or the'same number of departments, on account of the limited number of tota-lizers which were possible in such machines. Establishments doing a credit business with a large number of customers are put to considerable inconvenience and in a number of instances to financial loss by mistakes in totalizing the accounts of different customers with the present systems of handling accounts.

It is the principal object of this invention to provide practically an unlimited number of detachable record retaining devices upon which may be entered mechanically the sales of the different attendants, departments or the credit accounts of the different customers,'so that at a glance, the totals of the different salesmen, departments or credit accounts may be seen.

Another object of this invention is to provide an improved form of record retaining device.

Another object of this invention is to provide a cheap totalizer which may be filed away as a record.

A'further object is to provide a totalizer or :u'cumulator having no moving parts.

.With these and incidental objects in view, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combination of parts. the essential elements of which 'are set forth in appended claims and a preferred form of eu'ibodiment of which is hereinafter s iiccilimlly described with reference to the drawings which accompany and form part of this specification.

Of said drawings: Figure 1 repmsents a perspective view of the machine embodying the present invention with the lower portion broken away. Fig. 2 represents a central transverse section, partly broken away through the same. Fig. 3 represents an enlarged detail side elevation of the advancing and retracting mechanism for one of the punch actuated slides. Fig. 4 represents a rear elevation of the machine with the easing removed. Fig. 5 represents a horizontal section taken on the "line of Fig. 2, looking in the direction of the arrow. Fig. 6 represents a bottom plan view of the machine as shown in Fig. 2. Fig. 7 represents an enlarged detail rear elevation of the operating racks and cooperating mechanism.

Fig. 8 represents a detail side elevation of the operating gearing. Fig. 9 represents a detail side elevation of one of the gears shown in Fig. 8. Fig. 10 represents a top' .ing on the opposite side of the machine from that shown in Fig. 8. Fig. 1% represents a partial top plan view of the operating punches and the cams for shifting them laterally. Fig. 15 represents a partial 'top plan view of the sliding carriage and the drawer release mechanism controlled thereby. F i9. 16 represents a partial transverse section showing the independent cash receptacles and their releasing means. Fig. 17 represents a detail side elevation of the lock for the main operating shaft, which is controlled by the record retaining devices. Fig. 1T represents a view similar to Fig. 17 with the locking lever latched in an, inoperative position. Fig. 18 represents an enlarged detail vertical section of a pair of the punches and the sliding carriage. Fig. 19 represents an enlarged detail side elevation of a part of the 'transfer mechanism. Fig. 20 represents an enla ged front elevation of the laterally movable punches. Fig. 21 represents an enlarged longitudinal scction of one of the punch operating clutches. Fig. 222 represents an enlarged vertical section of the sliding car riagc and cscapcnicnt mechanism taken on line 22i'2 of Fig. 23. Fig. 23 represents an enlarged detail vertical section of the sliding carriage cscapcinent mechanism taken on line 23-23 of Fig. 21. Fig. 94 represents an enlarged side elevation of one of the rack bars partly broken away. Fig. 25 represents an enlarged side elevation of one of the transfer slides. Fig. 26 represents an enlarged side elevation of one of the punch actuated slides. Fig. :27 represents a detail perspective view of the casing for holding the record card. Fig. 28 represents a detail perspective view of one of the record cards. Fig. 29 represents a detail perspective view of the transfer levers and cooperating mechanism. Fig. 30 represents an ci'ilarged side elevation of a part of the operating gearing. Fig. 81 representsa top plan view of the gearing shown in 30; and Fi g. 32 represents a side elevation of the segment and cooperating gearing for returning the escapement carriage.

Generally described the invention comprises a of amount "determining devices in the form of adjustable levers which are moved along numerical scales formed upon the front of the cabinet until pointers carried by said levers are opposite the amount that is to be accounted. This movement of the levers sets the indicators through suitable intervening mechanism, to display the amount shown opposite the pointers and also connect punch operating means to the operating mechanism of the machine. A record retaining device in the form of a rectangular card of pas-.e board or thin metal and hearing a plurality of groups of numerals is inclosed in a casing having perforations correspending to the numerals upon the card, and placed upon a sliding carriage through an opening in thecabinet of the machine. This movement mloclis the operatingmechanism which is then started and first depresses a series of fingers into -the outer perforations of the casing so as to controlthe lateral adjustment of the punching devices. An escapenient mechanism is then operated to permit the carriage bearing the record retaining device to pass under the punches. These punches which represent cents, dimes, dollars and tens of dollars are arranged to be operated successively in order to simplify the transfer mechanism and are auton'iatically disconnected from the operating mechanism after entering upon the retaining device the amount shown by the indicators. is the carriage nears the end of its escapcment movement, thecasing carrying the record retaining device releases its corresponding cash drawer after which the operating mechanism returns the carriage and punching devices to their normal positions.

For convenience the det: 'led description of the parts has beendividcd and will he I gi enanider the various, headings which new Amount determining de vices.-'-Adjustable .evers 1 fastened at their inner ends to segmental rack plates 2 are provided at their outer ends, which project through slots 3 formed in the cabinet 4, with knobs 5 and pointers 6, the latter playing over numerical scales formed upon the front of the cabinet. The segnnmtal rack plates 2 are journaled upon a transverse shaft 7 and mesh with the lower ends of vertical rack bars 8, the upper ends of which mesh with pinions 9 secured to indicators 10. The bars 8 are provided at about their central portion with rack eeth ll, with which pinions 12 secured to totalizcer wheels 13' engage when the reg islering frame it is lowered by an operation of the machine as is shown and described in the 'latcnt granted to Thomas Carroll, Februar'v J, 190 No. 7514311. Pr jccting from each rack bar 55 are two pins 15, see Figs. 2%. 2. and 26, which enter slots 16 in a slide mounted a accnt to said bar. The pins engage the upper ends of the slots 16 and therebv carry the slide with-the h. r S in its upward nuivement. As each l 8 is it if) oar lowered by the upward movement 41f its lever l, a spring I? will. lower its companion slide 1'7. T hose slides are each provided at their rear edges with a v shaped notch 19 and ratchet teeth 20. Adjacent to each pair of slides 817 is a companion slide 21, also provided with a V shaped notch i and ratchet teeth Pivoted at the upper end of each slide 21 is an arm '24 which is provided with a triangular lug and an antifrictioneollt-i' 26. Then the slides 17 and are at Zero, the notches l5) and are in horizontal alinemcnt with the lug 25 resting in said notches.

The rack bars 8 are guided by tic bars 27 and .28 extcni'ling laterally across the machine, while the slides 21 are guided at their upper ends by pins projecting from the slides 17 into elongated slots 30 formed in said. slides '21, and at their lower ends hy hook projections 31 extending from the tie bar 28, see Fig. 2. Attached to the rack ears 8 are blocks 8 which are provided with V shaped notches 8 while the slides 21 have similar notches 21 with which spring pressed plungers 2S engage to temporarily hold said bars and slides in any position to which they are adjust l. Mounted loosely upon a shaft 32, l g L. l and '4", are a plurality of lovers 33 one for each of the arms 2- upper ends of which are arranged to drawn into contact with the rollers 26 car ed by said arms by springs 84. The lower ends of said levers are arraged to engage with rollers 35 mounted upon the ends of irregularly shaped levers

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