US1153360A - Multiple cash-register. - Google Patents

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EDWARD J'. VON PEIN, OF DAYTON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE NATIONAL CASH REGISTER COMPANY, OF DAYTON, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO, (INCORPORATED IN 1906.)

MULTIPLE CASH-REGISTER Specification of Letters Patent. Pat ted Sept. 14, 1915.

Application filed September 2, 1911. Serial No. 64?,366.

. In accounting machines as heretofore constructed mechanism has been provided,

which cooperates with certain manipulative devices for rendering a checkissuing mechanism operative, but the great objection to accounting machines so constructed is that it is impossible to place the check lssumg mechanism under thecontrol of any of the other manipulative devices of the machine without reconstructing the machine.

It is a principal object of this invention to provide such machines with mechanism, which at the will of the operator, may be so adjusted as to render operative the check issuing mechanism as an accompaniment to v the entering in the machine of any one of a the impressions.

plurality of transactions.

Another object of this invention is to provide an impression mechanism whereby duplicate impressions can be made upon' a check and the check perforated between This impression mechanism may be provided with a knife for severing the check strip into checks, which knife is rendered inoperative when the first impression is taken upon any check.

In a great many accounting 'machines now upon the market a record strip is provided upon which is recorded the various entries in the machine, but in many instances this record strip is inaccessible to the operator and he cannot enter memoranda thereon.

It is a further object of this invention to provide such machines with a movable frame carrying the platen over which the record strip passes, which frame is normally in position to have entered upon the record strip any suitable memoranda, but is adapted then to be moved into position to have recorded in alinement with the Written memorandum, the entry made in the machine. j Another object of this invention is to provide an operating mechanism under the control of separate and independent manipulative devices, which manipulative devices require certain sequences of operation.

Another object of this invention is to provide a plurality of independent means for controlling the extent of movement of a differentially movable element, which means are constructed so that when one of said means is positioned to control the differentially movable element, the rest of said tures of construction and combinations of parts, the essential elements of which are set forth in appended claims, and a pre ferred' form of embodiment of which is hereinafter shown w;itl1- .-.refe1'ence to the drawings which accompany and form part of this specification.

Figure l is a side elevation of a machine of the type shown in Patent No. 938,527 granted Nov. 2, 1909, to E. J. Von Pein and to which the various improvements embodying this invention have been applied. Fig. 2 is an elevation of the machine, showing the recording mechanism and looking in the opposite direction from that of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is anenlarged view of one of the actuating pawls of the ink ribbon feeding mechanism and its companion segmental plate. Fig. 4 is a central transverse sectional view of the machine. Fig. 5 is a view similar to Fig. 4C but looking in the opposite direction. Fig. 6 is a partial rear elevation showing the mechanism for setting the drawer releasing plunger and also the adjustable devices for controlling the check issuing mechanism. Fig. 7 is a partial front elevation showing one bank of keys and an adjustable lever which controls a plurality of accounting devices. Fig. 8 is an enlarged side elevation of the check issuing mechanism. Fig. 9 1s a top plan view of the impressionmechanism. Fig. 10 is a side elevation of the gearing for the operating mechamsm. Fig.

11 is a partial top plan view of the oscillatory frame upon which the record strip is mounted and operating mechanism therefor. Fig. 12 is a detail view of the mechanism for oscillating the frame carrying the record strip. Fig. 13 is a detail view of the mechanism for moving the frame carrying the record strip against the typezcarriers for the purpose of taking an impression therefrom. Fig. 14 is a partial side elevation and F ig.- 15 a front elevation of the adjustable lever for positioning the accounting devices or totalizers. Fig. 16 is a detail view of a link which forms a part'of the mechanism for controlling the check issuing device. Figs. 17, 18 and 19 are detail views of the locking plates, which cooperate with the bank of special keys. Fig. 20 is a diagram showing the interlocking lever positions and clerks keys.

Described in general terms the machine comprises a plurality of accounting devices,

' such as totalizers, any one of which may be brought into cooperative relation with a set of actuators by an adjustable element, these actuators being controlled by manipulative devices or keys. A s ecial bank of keys is provided with suitab e interlocking mechanism between the bank and the adjustable element or lever, so that when certain accounting devices are brought into cooperative relation with the actuators, certain of the keys are released, while others remain locked, and when'the other accountmg devices are brought into cooperative relation with the actuators, the keys that were locked formerly become unlocked and the keys that were formerly unlocked became locked. In-certain positions of the adjustable lever a differentially movable element w1ll be controlled thereby, while in other positions this element will be controlled by the special keys. This diflerential element is suitably connected to digit carriers, such 4i as an indicator and a type wheel, and also to a plunger which is positioned by the movement of said element for the purpose of releasing or exposing any one of a plurallty of cash receptacles.

After one of the totalizers or accounting devices is brought into cooperative relation with the actuators and the proper keys depressed, an operating handle is turned to enter the transaction in the totalizer which has beenpreviously positioned by said operating lever. This operating handle is locked and is released only by the operat on of the adjustable lever and the depresslon ofone of the special keys.

Suitable indicators are provided for indicat ng the kind and the amount of the transaction entered in the accountin device or totalizer. Aflrecording mecha'msm is also provlde d, which mechanism comprises a record strip and a check strip, upon each of which are recorded the transaction entered in the positioned totalizer. The record stri is normally in position to have entere thereon a memorandum of the transaction to be entered in the totalizer and the frame carrying the record strip 1s oscillated at the operation of the machine, into a position adjacent the type carriers of the recording mechanism, so that by the further operation of the machine the entry entered in a totalizer will be recorded upon the record strip. The check strip is arranged to have duplicate impressions made thereon and to be perforated between these impressions, after which the check will be severed from the remaining portion of the check strip. This check issulng mechanism is constructed to be disabled or enabled at the will of the proprietor by the adjustment of certainmanipu ative devices which are accessible to the proprietor or some authorized person.

A brief outline of the parts of the patented machine which cooperate with the present improvements will be given, and for a further description of the machine, reference may be had to the before mentioned patent to Von Pein, also to the Cleal and Reinhard patent issued April 13, 1897, No. 580,378.

The keys 1 (Fig. 4) of each bank of keys are latched in their depressed positions by means of a detent 2 and a retaining bar 3. Each bank of keys controls the differential movement of a segment 4, which is loosely mounted upon a rock shaft 5, and is driven by a cam 6 secured to that rock shaft. The segment of each bank of keys meshes with an intermediate gear 8, which is secured to one of a series of nested'sleeves 9 that sur- 14, the latter being secured in the side frames 15'of the machine. Each of the segments 4 is provided with a stud 16, which plays in an elongated slot 17 formed in an arm 18, the lower end of which is connected to one of a series of sleeves 19 that surround a shaft 20. These sleeves extend toward the right hand side of the machine and are provided with seg-' ments, not shown, which adjust type carriers 21 (Figs. 2 and 7) as is Well known in the art and fully explained in an application of E. J. Von Pein, No. 498,548, filed May.26,1909.

A lever 22 (Fig. 1), which is adjustable to a plurality of positions, is loosely mounted upon the rock shaft 5 and has a seg-.

mental gear portion 24,,which meshes with frame The segment 25 has attached thereto a larger segmental rack plate 27,

which mesheswith a pinion 28 secured to guided atits upper and lower ends, the up-L a drum 29, carrying a plurality of totalizersor accounting devices 30. This drum 29 is mounted in a frame 31, which is suitably per end thereof being provided with a roller 32, which projects into a cam slot 33 in a 36 formed in a disk 37 secured'to a shaft 38, 1 which is one of the main operating shafts ofthe machine and receives a-complete rotation at each operation of the machine.

Y The shape of the cam groove 36 is such that at each operation the frame 31 carrying the totalizer drum 29 will be elevated; carrying the totalizer into engagement with the. ac-

' tuators 11, asis well known in the art.

The lever 22 at its upper end has pivotally mounted thereon. a pinch lever 39 (Figs. 1 and'14) which is of a bell crank formation.- The horizontal portion of this bell crank lever 39 normally rests upon the'upper end of a slide 40 which is connected to the lever 22 by parallel links 41. This slide 40 is provided with the inverted L-shaped block 42 (Fig. 15), the horizontal portion of' which rests upon the outer edge of a plate 43 (Fig. 1), which plate 1s carried by arms 44 that in turn are suitably pivoted to one of the side frames 15 of; the machine, and

which arms at their free ends are connected" by slot and pin connection 45 and 46 respectively. The uppermost one of the arms 44 is secured to a shaft 47 which at its inner end has secured thereto a rearwardly ex tending arm'48 (Fig. 5), the free, end of said arm 48, being adjacent, when the machineis at rest, to a notch 49 formed in a disk 50 secured to the shaft 38.v The arm 48 and the parts connected therewith are held in the position shown in Figs. 1 and 5 by a spring 51, which is connected to the arm 48 and to one of the frames 15. From this description it will beseen that upon the operation of pinch lever 39, the slide 40 will be depressed, by which movement the arms 44 will be rocked through intervention of the plate 43. The rocking of the uppermost arm' 44.will carry the free end of the arm 48 into the notch49 of the disk 50 and there by prevent the rotation of the shaft 38 until the arm is returned to its normal position by therelease of the pinch lever. If an at tempt is made to operate-the pinch lever 39 during the rotation of theshaft 38, the free end of the arm 38 will contact with the periphery of the disk 50 and prevent the operation of the pinch lever. The upper-edge pf the horizontal portion of the block 42 normally rests in notches 52 in a plate 53, which is secured to the lett hand side frame 15. So as to prevent the accidental displacement-of the lever 22 and the totalizers positioned by said lever.

Interlocking mechanism.'1he machineis provided with nine totalizers 30 carried by the drum 29 whereby any one of the totalizers may be moved into operative relation with the actuating segments 11 by an adjustment of the lever 22. Totalizers brought into coiiper ative relation with the actuating dated with individual totalizers in the-reg-" ister. This machine is so constructed that entries made by these extra clerks may be entered on a single totalizer, though separate clerks keys are provided for three such extra clerks.

The diagrammatic Fig. 20 shows the general scheme of interlocking devices between the" clerks keys and the lever posiindicated by circles having letters inside them and the lever positions are indicated by squares also having designating characters. It willbe seen that the five upper lever positions have the same character as the five upper keys.

-tions. In this figure the keys of Fig. 7 are The lines connecting certain of the lever positions with certain of the keys are intended to indicate the interlocks between the lever positions and the keys. That is, any lever position and any key which are connected by a line on this figure may be operated together, but the remaining lever positions and keys cannot be so operated. For example, key A may be operated in connection with lever position .charged but cannot be operated in connection with the"extra lever position. The cash key maybe operated in connection with any of the five upper lever positions but not with any of the four lower lever positions. It may be noted that. the braces connecting the three lower lever positions are intended to indicate that thesethree positions are similar, that is, that any of the clerks keys A to P may be operated in connection with anyone of the three lower lever positions. It will be understood that themain object of this interlocking construction is to obtain a complete indication and printed record of the transaction: If the lever mightbe set to one of the five clerks positions and one of the five clerks upper keys was pressed there would be no ob ect in printing and indicating one of the two ice things. Howevenby providing a cash key in the clerks bank and interlocking it with the five upper positions of the lever a double indication and printing may be obtained. That is, for example, if a charge transaction is made by any one of the clerks, the lever is set to the charge position and the proper clerks key depressed. This will cause printing and indicating of both the kind of transaction and the clerk making it. There is provided a single differential element operating the clerks indicator and type carrier and this is constructed to be controlled under certain conditions by both the adjustable lever 22 and the clerks keys. In the five upper positions of the lever it controls the movement of the difi'erential element, but the three lower clerks keys also control movement of this element. Therefore if one of'these clerks keys,,L, M or P is operated, the di-fi'erential element will cause the printing and indicating of the clerks letter. On the other hand if the cash key is operated in connection with one of the five upper lever positions, then the differential element is controlled by the lever positions and again prints the proper clerks letter. It will be noted from a study of Fig. 20 that any one of the clerks keys L to P inclusive may be operated in connection with the extra totalizer position or with any one or" the three special transaction totalizer positions. That is, for a cash transaction made by these extra clerks the extra totalizer would be added toand the indicator and the printing device would show that a cash sale had been made by one of these three extra clerks. If a special transaction is made by one of these three clerks the lever 22 is moved to bring the corresponding totalizer into position for operation. If one of the regular clerks A to K makes a cash sale he sets the lever 22 to his position and presses the cash key ofthe clerks bank. Thus the item is added on his particular totalizer and the indicator and the printing device show that the particularclerk made a cash sale. If one of the regular clerks A to K enters a special transaction in the machine he will press the corresponding one of the five upper clerks keys and set the lever 22 to the proper one of the three lower positions. It will readily be seen from Fig. .20 that these separate examples are all possible with the interlocking devices of the diagram and that these devices prevent misoperationof the lever The construction for accomplishing thls looking out of the vari- I and the clerks keys.

ous keys depending upon the accounting device in operative relation with the actuators will now be described.

The shaft 26 which is secured to the segmental rack plate 25, which meshes with the segmental portion 24 of the adjustable lever 22 has secured thereto between the said lever and the bank of special keys, a plate 54 having a cam groove 55 therein, as shown in Figs 5 and 7. Extending into this cam the horizontal groove 55 is a roller 57 on This bell crank arm 56 of abell crank lever,

lever is pivoted upon a shaft 58 suitably cular portions of different radii from the center of the shaft upon which the cam plate is mounted, and these portions of the cam are connected by an inclined; portion, as

fully shown in Fig. 5. When any onejof the five regular clerks accounting devices is positioned to be actuated, the roller 57 plays in the circular portion of the cam groove 55 of less radius and the offset .60 of the bell crank will occupy the position shown in section in Figs. 17, 18 and 19, relative to locking plates 61, 62 and 63, in which position .the plates 62 and 63 will be prevented from being elevated because of the offset 60 resting in notches 6dand 65 of the plates 62 and 63, respectively. Key pins 66 of all of the clerks keys actuate the plate 62, while only the five keys assigned to the regular clerks actuate the plate 63.- The key pin 66 of the cash key is the only one actuating the plate 61. In the sixth position of the lever from the top the inclined portion of the cam groove 55 will, engage with the roller 57 of the bell crank, slightly rocking said bell crank and thus carrying the ofiset 60 into the position shown by the full lines in Figs. 17, 18 and'19. It will be seen that in this position of the bell crank the offset 60 will lock the lates 61 and 63 which are actuated by the ve upper clerks keys and the cash key, leaving the plate 62 which coiiperates with the three lowermost clerks keys free to be operated. When, the

lever is moved into any of its three lower positions, the roller 57 passes into that por tion of the cam groove having the greaterall of the clerks keys and plate 63 which cooperates with the five uppermost clerks keys free to be elevated; These plates 61, 62 and 63are attached to one of the machine frames 15 by pins 67, which extend through slots 68 of said plates, as shown in Fig. 5.,

From this description in connection with diagrammatic Fig. 20, it will be seen that when the leverlis in any one of its five upperositions all of the clerks keys are locked caving only the cash 'ke free to be erated; while said lever is in its sixth tion, the three lowermost of the clerks osieys,

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I f that is L, M and P are free to be operated,

' while the cash key and the five uppermost of the lever 22and the depression of one of the keys of the special bank. The construction to accomplish this function will now be described.

' The operating mechanism consists of an operating handle 69 (see Fig. 10), which has attached thereto a pinion 70, meshing with a gear 71 suitably mounted upon the machine frame. This gear 71 meshes with a gear 72, which in turn meshes with a gear 73 of the same diameter, and which is secured to the shaft 38. This gear 73 has attached thereto a smaller gear 74' which meshes with a similar gear 75, the latter gear being secured to a shaft 76 of the printing mechanism, hereinafter described. The above described gearingis so proportioned that two rotations of the crank handle 69 will give the shafts 38 and 76 one complete rotation.

Attached to the gear 72 is a plate77 having an abrupt locking edge 78, with which a locking shoulder 79 of a lever 80 engages.

' This lever 80 is secured to a rock shaft 81 which extends .through the machine and is supported by the. frames 15. This shaft 81 nearits left hand end (see Fig. '5} has secured thereto 'a downwardly extending arm 82 which carries a wiper or by pass pawl 83, the forward edge of which contacts with a projection SeteXtending from the previously described. lock lever 48.- When thislatter lever is rocked in a clockof the rock shaft 81. This rocking ofthe shaft 81 and the arm 82 by the spring 85 will be limited by an arm 86, secured to shaft 81 (Fig. 4), the forward end of which will contact with a projection 87 extending from the detent 2 coiiperating with the special bankof keys. This movement' of the rock shaft 81 is not suflicient to carry the shoulder 79 (Fig. 10) out of the path of the locking shoulder 78 of the plate 77 and consequently the machine remains locked until one of the keys of the special bankis operated. Upon the depression of any one of keys. Exten of the keys that is in operative condition the detent 2 will be moved in a clockwise 'direction'and thereby carry the projection 87 above a notch 88 formed nearthe forward edge of the arm 86 which is secured to the rock shaft 81. When this projection passesabove the notch 88 the spring 85 will I rock the lever 80 and the shaft 81 to which it" is secured so that the locking shoulder 79 of said lever will pass clear of the locking shoulder 78 of-the plate77...

If a wrong key has been depressed it may be released (Fig. 10) hy the rocking of a centrally pivoted lever 89; Thislever 89 is pivoted to the right hand side frame and carries atitsupper end a pin 90,- while the lower end is provided With aslot 91 into which projects a pin 92 extending'from a re- 1 lease lever 93 securedto the right hand end of the shaft 58. This shaft 58 (Fig. 4) has extending upwardly therefrom a pin 95 aC- jacent to the retaining bar 3 of each bank laterally from each re taining bar 3 is apln 96 with which the pin 95 engages when the release lever 93 is depressed and thereby moves the retaining bar forwardly against the-tension of its 97 so as to permit the return of the detent 2 to its normal position. .j,';' This movement/of the release lever 93 will, previous to the forward movementof. the retaining bar 3, 4

rock the-lever 89 (FigQlO) a clockwise direction and thepin 90 extending from the the forward extension 98 of the lever 80' and return lever 80 to its normal locking position. After the parts have been returned to the position above; described, the pinch lever 39 and thepropeflr; kiay iie operated, a ain releasmg' e 00 ever 80 sothati the crank handle is than free to be operated. The gear 73 has project from a stud 99 which, near the-end .o the rotationiof said gear, will contact with the. under side of the lock lever'80 and return said lever to its normal position, as shown in Fig. 10. This return of the lock lever 80 will rock t shaft 81so that the.pawl 83 Carried 3 81 (Fig. 5-) will pass to the rearf-of the projection 8t of the lock lever48, in which tion the arm lever 39 is again Operated/ I The slide 61 (Figs. 5 and 17) operated by the cash key has projecting therefrom a upper end of this leverwill contact with there stud 100 which, when'the cash key is f opera passes beneath a forwardly cx- 101 which is secured to the rock shaft 47 andlprevents the of said shaft by the operatin of the pinchv leverj-l i The slide 62, which is operated by all of the? clerkskeys, passes over an extension 102' of the lock lever 48 when any ione ofthe clerks? keys is depresedand thereby prevents the movement of said lever bythe 39 39 after one of the clerks keys is depressed.

y it is impossible to operate the pinch lever after either a cash or a clerks key has beendepressed, consequently it -is necessary to operate the pinch leverprevious to the depression of one of thespecial keys in order to release the operating mechanism. It is also impossible to operate a clerks key or the cash key until the pinch lever 39 is released, as the extension 102 on plate 18 would be in the path of the sliding plate 62 and the arm 101 in the path of the lug 100 'on plate 61.

Dflerential mechanism.A difi'erentially movable element 'is arranged to be controlled by either the adjustable lever 22 or the clerks keys. It is believed that this construction is new and it is desired to claim it broadly. When the lever 22 is in one of its positions in which all of the clerks keys are locked. it is necessary to control the differential element by said lever, and as previously stated the operating mechanism being controlled by the lever and the depression of one of the keys of the special bank, it becomes necessary to provide the machine with a key in addition to the clerks keys, so that when the clerks keys are locked this additional key may be operated in conjunction with pinch lever 39 for the purpose of releasing the opera ing mechanism. For this reason the cash key is provided, and is located at the bottom of the bank of special keys. 'When the lever is in any one of its positions in which any of the clerks keys are unlocked, these keys then control the difierentiall movable element and in this position of the lever the cash key is automatically locked from operation, as previously described.

In the formshown the diflerential element which is controlled by the lever and the clerks keys is one of the segments a and this segment has mounted thereon a rocking stud 103 to one end of which is secured a plate 104 (Fig. 4) while its other end carries a similar plate 105 (Fig. 5) The plate 10 1 has pivoted thereto a spring operated trip pawl 106, and the plate 105 has a similar pawl 107. When the segment 4 or differential element is under the control of the clerks keys the pawl 106 will contact with the inner end of the depressed keys and rock the plate 104 and stud 103 so as to discon nect a slide 108 suitably mounted upon the segment 4 from engagement with a shoulder 109 of the plate 6, as is well known and fully described in the aforementioned Cleal and Reinhard patent.

The slide 10 carried by the adjustable lever 22 has at its lower end a lateral ex.- tension 110, (Figs. 7, 1s and 15), which extension is provided with a pin 111 that enters into a recess in one of the horizontal 15) carried by the plate 105 (Fig. 5) so that arms of a zigzag pawl 112, which pawl is pivotally mounted as at113 to an offset 11 of a segment 115, this ofiset being for the purpose of connecting the adjustable lever 22 and he segment 115. When the adjustable lever is in any one of its five uppermost positions, in which position all of the clerks keys are locked, the upper horizontal arm of the zigzag pawl 112 (Figs. 7 and is in position to intercept the pawl 107 when pawl 107 contactsv with the upper horizontal arm of the zigzag pawl 112 the slide 108 (Fig. 4:) will be disconnected from the shoulder 109 of the operating plate 6 in the same manner as if the pawl 106 of the plate 104 had contacted with the inner end of one of the clerks keys. When the lever is in any of the three lower. positions, the upper horizontal arm of the zigzag pawl 112 will not intercept the pawl 107 carried by the plate 105, because of the fact that while the pawl is traveling in the three lower positions it will be held depressed by a roller 116 mounted on said pawl engaging with the cam portion 117 of a plate 118, which is supported at its lower end by the rock shaft 58 and at its upper end by a stud 119, projecting from the left hand side frame. Asthe cash key is used only in releasing the operating mechanism when the lever is in any one of its five uppermost positions, and as said key does not in any ini said plate 120 and rock the pawl and hold it in its rocked position while traveling beneath the cash key, so that the latter when depressed will not intercept said pawl.

The segment 115 which is connected to the adjustable lever 22 has projecting therefrom (Fig. 5) a pin which is similar to the pins 16 projecting from the segments 1, and this pin plays in the slot 17 ofone of the arms 18, which arm is connected to the shaft 20. The object of this is to set a type carrier for recording the special transactions charge, received on account and paid out. In the six upper positions of the lever the type carrier controlled by this lever will be positioned to print a character 12 attached to an indicator 13 and positions the said indicator 13 in the same manner as do the differentially movable segments 4.

In some of the claims the term digit ed so that when certain keys are depressed or the adjustable lever moved to certain positions, the check issuing mechanism will be rendered operative. The great objection to such mechanismhas been that after they are installed the proprietor often desires to render the check issuing mechanism operative when other transactions take place than those for which the machine was originally constructed, but this has been, as far as known, impossible without reconstructing the machine. It is a principal object of this invention to provide mechanism which may be adjusted at the will of the proprietor or other authorized persons so that upon the recording of any transaction the check issuing mechanism may be enabled or disabled. This is accomplished by the following described mechanism. The segment 115,which is secured to the adjustable lever 22, meshes with a gear 122 (Fig. 5) which is secured to a rock shaft 123. This shaft has secured thereto a disk 124 (Fig. 6), which disk is provided with adjustable pins 125. These pins are screwed into a disk 124 and may be detached at will through a suitable opening formed in the back of the cabinet (not shown), and which opening is normally covered and locked so that access to the pins 125 can be had only by the proprietor or some authorized person. When it is desired to issue a check upon all the transactions entered in the machine, the disk is provided with as many pins as there are positions of the lever and in this manner one of these pins, no matter what position the lever is in, will contact with a link 126 as at 127 (Figs. 5 and 16) and hold'an extension 128, formed at the-lower end of said link,-beneath a stud or pin 129, against the tension of a spring 130, the ends of the latter being secured to the link 126 and. to one of the frames 15. The pin 129 projects from an arm 131 suitably secured to a shaft 132. This shaft is divided and the two parts thereof are connected by a yoke 133 (Fig. 4) so as to permit the passage ofa drawer release plunger 134, v

hereinafter described.

To prevent the pins 125 from contacting with the projection 127 of the link 126, while the disk 124 is being rotated by the movement of the adjustable lever 22, a pin 125 is provided which extends from the locking arm 48 into a slot 126 formed in the link 126 (Figs. 2 and 16). It will be recalled that in order to move the lever 22, it is necessary to operate the pinch lever 39, by which movement the locking lever 48 will be moved in a clockwise direction (Fig. 2). By this movement of the lever 48, the pin 125 will contact with the inclined edge of the slot 126 and thereby hold the projection 127 of the link 126 away from the pin 125 while the adjustable lever is being positioned. I

Shaft 132 extends to the right hand'side of the machine (Fig. 8) and has extending downwardly therefrom an arm 135,which' arm is connected by a link 136 to an arm 137 secured to a stud shaft 138 suitably mounted in the printer frame. This stub shaft is provided with an eccentric portion 139 which carries a feed roller 140 of the check issuing mechanism. This roller 140 is provided with a gear 141 which meshes with a similar gear 142. with another gear 143 of the same diameter and this gear in turn meshes with a gear 144 secured to the previously described shaft 76. Also secured to this shaft 76 is a feed roller 145 which coacts with a similar feed roller This latter gear meshes 146 to which is secured a gear 147 that meshes with the gear 144. The feed roller 146 and gear 147 are mounted upon an eccentric 148 on a stub shaft 149, which is suitably mounted in the printer frame. Se-

cured to the stub shaft 149 is an arm 150 which is connected to a centrally pivoted lever 151 by a link 152. The lower end of the centrally pivoted lever 151 is'connected 'to the arm 137 which is secured to the stub shaft 138 carrying the feed roller 140. The

feed roller coacts 'with a similar feed roller 153 to which is securedthe gear 142 and these feed rollers 140 and 153 and the feed rollers and 146 arenormally out of operative relation so that no check will be issued if the machine should be operated with the rollers inthis positionl Upon the operation of the machine, with one of the pins 125 contacting with the portion 123 of the link 126, the said link will beelevated upon the very beginning of theoperation of and arm 137 in a similar direction, which movement of the shaft 138 will, through the eccentric p0rtion 139 of said carry th 0 9 feed roller 140 into co'ciperative relation with the feed roller 153. This movement of the shaft 132 will also rock the lever 151 in a clockwise direction, which lever will, through the link 152, rock the shaft 149 so that the eccentric portion 148 of said shaft will carry the feed roller 146 into operative relation with the feed roller 145. A disk suitably secured to the shaft 76 has an annular projection 1561 formed with an opening 157. As this adjusting movement of the various feed rollers occurs at the very beginning of the operation of the machine, a roller 156 will pass through this 0 ening 157 and hold said rollers in their a justed positions until the end of the operation of the machine, near which the various parts will be returned to their normal positions, shown in Fig. 8, by a spring 158, the ends of which are secured to the arm 137 and to the printer frame.

v With the rollers inoperative position, the

check strip 159 will be fed by said rollers through a suitable opening in a stationary knife 160 and over a platen 161 to have an impression taken thereon from the type carriers 21. This platen iscarried in a frame 162, to which is connected the forward end of a lever 163, which at its rear end is ivoted as at 164 to the printer frame. rojecting from about the center of this lever 163 is a roller 165 which plays in.a cam groove 166 formed in a disk carried by the inner end of the lower feed roller 140. The

shape of the cam groove 166 is such that frame 162 carrying the platen 161 will be given two movements of different extents at each operation of the machine. 167 is carried by the frame 162 and this knife is arranged to coact with the stationary knife to sever the strip 159 into checks.

If, upon some transactions, it is not desired to issue a check the pins 125, which c6- operate with the link 126 when these particular transaction totalizers are in operative relation with the actuators 11 will be detached from the disk 124, so that the lower end of the link 126 will move rearwardly with the projection 128 out of operative relation with the pin 129. Upon the operation of the machine with the link in this condition the shaft 132 will not be rocked, and consequently the feed rollers will not be brought into operative relation with each other,'so that no check will be issued upon this operation. In other words the eccentrics 139 and 148 are not rotated to move the rollers 140 and 146 into contact with their respective opposing rollers 153 and 145. However, the teeth on the gears carried by these pairs of rollers are long enough to remain in engagement in this inoperative position so that both of the rollers 140 and 146 are rotated, but as the center about which .roller 140 rotates is lower at this time, the

A knife izers or accounting devices for keepin sop-- arately the transactions of the di erent clerks, it is also desirable to keep separately a detail record of the various amounts that go to make up the totals of each of the clerks totalizers and a novel form of mechanism for accomplishing this function is provided. This mechanism comprises duplicate impression means and a device for perforating the check .strip between the impressions so that a part of the check strip may be retained by the clerk, while the rest of the said strip may be given to the customer as a receipt for the purchase.

As previously stated, the cam groove 166 imparts two movements of different extents to the platen carrying frame 162, the purpose of which is to enable the platen 161 to take the first impression from the typegfwithout severing the check. The platen 161 has four sides and each side is rovided with a rubber impression block 16 This laten moved farthest from the center of the platen' will contact with the type carrlers 21 and take an impression upon the check strip, which has previously been fed over the impression block. This movement imparted to the platen carrying frame 162 is not sufiicient to permit the knife 167 carried by the frame 162 to sever the check. Upon the lowering of the platen frame after the taking of this first impression, one of the teeth of the ratchet wheel 168 will engage with the pawl 169, and cause said pawl to rotate the platen so as to bring one of the rubber impression blocks 167, that is nearest to the point of rotation of said platen, into position to take an impression from the type carriers when the platen carrying frame 162 is elevated the second time. Upon the elevation of the platen 167 while in this position the knife 167 will sever the check strip 159, aiid upon the return of the platen carrying frame the, said platen 161 will again be partially rotated bringing the lower block,

' free end thereof and remove the check from the machine.

An inverted L-shaped plate 170 (see Fig. 9) is carried by the frame 162, which plate acts as a support for the outer. end of the platen 161. The feed rollers are so constructed that at the time the platen 161 is elevated to take an impression from the check strip, the said strip willnot be fed but will be fed before and between the taking of impressions. A plate 171 having a serrated edge is embodied in the feed roller 153 and is located in such a position relative to the feeding of the check thatthe check will be perforated by the plate 171 between the impressions takenthereon. It will be seen that in the constructionshown the check issued by the machine is perforated at the previous operation of the machine, but it is to be understood the invention is not limited to such a timing and manner of perforating the check. One feed roller' of each pair may be equipped with suitable electro-plates for the purpose of printing any suitable adver tisements upon the front and the back of the check. An ink roller 172 is shown for inking the electro-plates of the lowerpair of feed rollers, and this roller is'supported by a chute 173 through which the check strip 159 passes, it being understood that a similar ink roller, not shown, is also provided for the upper pair of feed rollers.

Autographic detail strip mecitanism.lt

is often desirable in accounting machines having recording mechanism to employ a wide record strip so that a memorandum may be written opposite the recorded transaction, but in a number of machines now upon the market the record strip is fed above the type carriers and the record is made on the under side of said strip, in

which case the strip is inaccessible to have memoranda made thereon. it is one of the objects of this invention to provide mechanism for rendering such a strip accessible,

and this mechanism will now be described. v A'fram'e 17 4: (Fig. 2) is rotatably mounted as at 175 to a sliding plate 176 (Fig. 12).

The frame 174. carries a supply roll 177,

from which a record strip 178 is led over a platen 179 mounted in the frame 17% and thence to a storageroll 180 also mounted in said frame. A pinion 181 is mounted on nisaseol forked at its lower end and straddles a collar mounted upon the shaft 76, and near'its forked end this pitman is provided with'a roller 188 which projects into .a cam groove 189 formed in a disk 190 securedtothe shaft 76.

The plate 176 is slidably mounted within guides 191 which are suitably attached to the printer frame (Fig. 13),. and has rojecting therefrom a roller 192 which pro1ects through a suitable opening in the printer frame and-into an elongated slot 193 formed in the forward end of an arm 194, which Extending downwardly from the arm 185 .is a pitman 187, which is has the same pivotal point as the arm 186 I but is on the opposite side of .the printer,

frame. This arm 194 has attached-thereto one end, of a pitman 195, the lower end-of i which is forked and straddles a collar" s cured to the shaft 76- A roller 196 extend.

ing from the lower end of the pitman195 1 .projects into a cam groove 198 formed in a disk 199 which is secured to the" aforesaid shaft 76. The platen 17 9 stands normally below anopening 200 in the casing 201 for the printing mechanism, through which opening any suitable memoranda may be.

made upon the record strip 198. The shape of the cam groove 189 in the disk 190 is such that shortly after. the beginning of the op-- eration of the machine, the rack plate 182 will be elevated, by which movement the frame17d carrying the platen 179 will be rotated. This frame 17 1 will be rotated far enough by the rack182' so as to, bring the platen 17 9 directly above the characters of the type carriers 21 that are in printing position. During this rotation of the platen carrying frame 174:, the plate 176 in which said frame is 'rotatably mounted, will be gradually lowered by its .cam disk 199 and after the platen 17 9 has been positioned relav tive to the type carriers 21, the cam disk 199 will further lower the platen carrying frame pawl 205 that is held 111 engagement with the teeth of ratchet wheel 206 by a spring 207. Frey from the upper end of this plate 15 a ller 208, which extends through (I. opening 209 the frame 17% and into plate 211, which is securely attached to' the printer frame. The shape of thefcam slot 210 is such that as theplaten carrying frame 174 is rotated, theplate 204 will be moved longitudinally uponguide pins 203 so that the pawl 205 will engage one ofthe teeth of the, ratchet wheel 206 and rotates said ratchet and the storage roller 180, to which it is secured, as-theplaten frame 174 is 110-" tated. A spring pressed retaining pawl 212 aw if-the bell crank 218, which is pivoted upon pivotally mounted upon the frame 174 engages the teeth of the ratchet 206 andthe'reg' y holds the storage roll-180i'njits advanced I I ,I. i 1. Upon the printer casing v2O1fbelow the opening 200 therein is mounte d aglass plate 213 through which may be seen a number of items previously recorded upon the record strip 178.

lnlcing' ribbon reversing me0ham'sm.-A

ribbon is used to take'impressions from'the type carriers 21 and a novel form of mechamsm for automatically reversing the feed of the ribbon'is employed, which mechanism will now be described. I

The 'ribbon 214 is fed from a roller 215 to a roller 216 and after the supply has been exhausted from the first mentioned roller,

the feed of theribbon is .automatically re versed so as to return it to roller 215. The

ribbon 214 passes from the roller 215 around the type carriers 21, it being guided by pins .2l7'supported by the printer frame, and

' tending arm of the bell crank 218 is thence to the roller 216. Abell crank lever 218 is mounted upon a stud 219, which supports the roller 215. The downwardly expro-- --vided with a stud 220 (Figs. 2 and 10),

which enters a recess 221 formed the lower endof a lever 222 which is centrally pivoted to oneof the side frames of the ma chine. The upper end of the lever 222 carries a roller 223, which plays in a cam groove 224 formed in a plate 225, which is secured v to the intermediate gear 71. This gear is given a half rotation at each operation of the machine and consequently the cam groove 224 is formed of two portions which areidentical, so that the lever 222 will be reciprocated an invariable extent at each operation of the machine. As the lever 222 is reciprocated, thebell crank 218 will first berockedin a clockwise direction and then returned to normal position. The free end of the horizontal arm of the bell crank 218 is connected to the lower end of aslide 226, the upper end of which is pivoted to an arm 227, which in turn is pivoted to a stud 228 carryin the upper'ink ribbon roller 216. The sli e 226 has pivoted thereto pawls 229 and 230, which are arranged to cooperate r spectively with ratchet wheels 231 and 232, i connected ollers 215, and 226, and upon the same'pivotal points as the pawls 229 and 230, are rack plates 233 and 234 respectively. These-rack plates are connected by a segmental pinion 235, which is also pivoted upon the slide 226. Pivoted upon. an arm 2 36 otslide226 is a rackfiplate 227, which late meshes with the segmental pinion 235.

- hejpinion 235' and plate 237 have extensionseas and 23.9 respectively to which are connected the ends 'of'a sprin 240.

referring to Fig. 2, it Will be seen that the stud 219 of the lower ink roller 215, is

' posed between said extensions and the awls .229 and 230, and thereby tend norma ly to force the said pawls toward theratchets 231 and 232. The feed pawls and'the companion segmental plates with which theyare pivotally mounted to the slide 226 have mill cuts as at 243 (Fig. 3) which limits the movement of the pawls relative to the segmental plate with which it coiiperates, when said pawls are out of engagement with the ratchet wheels. Arms 243 and 244 are mounted upon the studs 219 and 228 respectively, and are connected by ,a coil spring 245. The

'free ends of these arms 243 and 244 coact re-.

spectively with the rolls of'ink ribbon 216 and 215. These arms 243 and 244 have projections 246 and 247 respectively. As the ribbon is fed from the roller 216 on to the roller 215, the arm'244 will be gradually rocked in a clockwise direction, as the diameter of the roller 215 increases, while the arm 243 will be rocked in a similar dire'ction by the spring 245, as the diameter of the 0 roller 216 decreases. When the ribbon from the roller 216 is nearly exhausted the rojection .246 of the arm 243 will passa ove an offset 248. of the segmental plate 237, as said segmental plate is carried to its lowermost position upon the rocking of the bell crank 218 by the lever 222. Upon-the return movement of the slide 226 and segment plate 237, the offset 248 will contact with the under side of the projection 246 of the arm 243 and thereby rock said segmental,

plate 237. This rocking of the plate 237 will rock the pinion 235 in a clockwise direction until the line between the extensions 238 and 239 of the pinion 235,and the plate 237 respectively, to which theends .o the spring 240 are attached passes below the line joining the pivotal points of the pinion 235 and the plate 237, in which position they will be held icy the said spring 136'

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