US1843990A - Cash register - Google Patents

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US1843990A
US1843990A US368750A US36875029A US1843990A US 1843990 A US1843990 A US 1843990A US 368750 A US368750 A US 368750A US 36875029 A US36875029 A US 36875029A US 1843990 A US1843990 A US 1843990A
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Bernis M Shipley
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07G—REGISTERING THE RECEIPT OF CASH, VALUABLES, OR TOKENS
    • G07G1/00—Cash registers
    • G07G1/0018—Constructional details, e.g. of drawer, printing means, input means
    • G07G1/0027—Details of drawer or money-box
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    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06C—DIGITAL COMPUTERS IN WHICH ALL THE COMPUTATION IS EFFECTED MECHANICALLY
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    • G06C11/02—Output mechanisms with visual indication, e.g. counter drum

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  • This invention relates to cash registers and like machines, and has more particular reference to improvements in cash drawer controlled locking mechanisms for such machines.
  • the invention is illustrated as applied to a machine of the type disclosed in applications for Letters Patent of the United States, Serial Nos; 608,281; 687,305 and 182,371; filed December 21, 1922, January 19, 1924, and April 9, 1927, respectively, by B. M. Shipley, relating to improvements on that type of machinefound in United StatesLetters Patent to Shipley, No. 1,619,796, March 1, 1927; No. 1,602,596, October 12, 1926; and No. 1,648,999, November 15, 1927.
  • One object or this invention is to provide a. machine of the type indicated, with novel means'to lock the machine against another operation until the cash drawer, which was rendered accessible by the preceding operation, is closed.
  • Another object is to provide novel means to manually disable the cash drawer-controlled machine look.
  • a further object is to provide novel means operated by a n'ianipulative device to open the cash erawer when the manipulative device is IOClCQCl to one of its positions, and free for operation a cash drawer-controlled machine lock when the manipulative device is shifted to another of its positions.
  • the invention consists of certain novel fea tures of construction and combinations of parts, the essential elements of which are set forth in appended claims and a preferred form or embodiment of which is hereinafter described with reference to the drawings which accompany and form a part of this specification.
  • Fig. 1 is a view in left elevation, showing the cash drawer mechanism and the locking device for the machine release mechanism.
  • Ff is a fragmentary detail View of the mechanism for arresting the parts in their home positions at the end of an operation oi the machine.
  • Fig. 3 is a fragmentary detail view of the 1929. Serial No. 368,750.
  • manipulative device and the means by which the manipulative device, when shifted in one direction, releases the cash drawer.
  • Fig. 4 is a fragmentary detail view of the manipulative device and the mechanism whereby the manipulative device, when shifted to another of its positions, trees the drawer-controlled machine lock for operation.
  • Fig. 5 is a skeletonized view in rear elevation of the machine, showing the mechanism embodying the present invention.
  • the machine in connection with which the present invention is adapted to be used includes aplurality of groups of keys for entering amounts to be registered, indicator mechanism to indicate the amounts and the totals thereof, a plurality of totalizers upon which to accumulate the various amounts entered into the machine, and printing mechanism adapted to issue a printed receipt of the transaction.
  • a money receptacle as a cash drawer, is normally latched in inaccessible position, and is adapted to be automatically unlatched and rendered accessible upon operation of the machine. Means is also provided to enable the operator to manually unlatch the cash drawer when the machine is in a state of rest, the drawer becoming accessible after being unlatched.
  • the machine is normally locked against idle operation, and is adapted to be released for operation by depression of the usual m0- tor or machine release bar, whereupon a strong spring operates a release mechanism to enable the machine to be operated.
  • the drawer-releasing mechanism and machinereleasing mechanisms are old in the abovenamed Shipley applications, the present invention relating in part to the provision of a device under the control of the cash drawer to prevent the action of the releasing mechanism when the cash drawer stands in its accessible position. The action of moving the cash drawer to its inaccessible position operates this device to permit the subsequent r lease of the machine for operation.
  • the machine in combination with which the present invention is adapted to be used, is released for operation by rocking a release shaft 10, journal'ed in frames 43 and 44, and which is the well known release shaft fully disclosed in the above referred to Shipley applications and patents.
  • the shaft is normally held against rotation in counterclockwise direction by a manually-controlled obstruction (not shown, but which is the pawl 35 of Shipley, No. 1,602,596). ⁇ Vhen the obstruction is displaced, a spring, not shown, but which is the spring 26 of Shipley, No.
  • 1,602,596 rocks the release shaft 10 counter-clockwise, as viewed in Fig.- 1,- and lowers a link 11 connecting an arm 12, fast on the release shaft 10, and an arm 13 of a bell crank 14 journaled on a shaft 15 supported in the machine frames 43 and 44.
  • the link 11, as it shifts in the direction of its length. rocks the bell crank 14 counter-clockwise to displace the remaining arm 16 of the bell crank from beneath a stud 17 on one arm of a clutch control detent 18 journaled on a stud 2O projecting from machine frame 43.
  • a spring 21 rocks the detent 18 counter-clockwise to shift a nose 22 on the lever out of the v path of a block 23 on the driven member 24 of the well known clutch mechanism.
  • the clutch member 24 rotates to connect any suitable driving means (not shown) with a drive pinion 25 journaled on a stud 26, projecting from the frame 43, in a manner well known in the art, and which is fully illustrated and described in the above-named Shipley applications, and in U. S. Letters Patent to Kettering and Chryst, No. 1,144,418, June 29, 1915.
  • the drive pinion 25, through a train of gears, rotates theshaft 15 and a drive shaft 27 journaled in frames 43 and 44, through one complete rotation in counter-clockwise direction to operate'the machine.
  • a stud 2 8 (Fig. 2) on a disk 29, fast on the shaft 15, wipes along a curved edge formed on the adjacent arm of the detent 18 to rock the detent clockwise and reposition the nose 22 in
  • the block, upon contact with the nose 22, is arrested withits driven clutch member 24, whereupon the clutch members become disconnected when the parts arrive in their home positions.
  • mechanism not shown, but found in the Shipley applications, and the Shipley Patent, No. 1,648,999, operates to rock the shaft 10 and the bell crank 14 clockwise to return the arm 16 to its effective position beneath the stud 17, where it remalns until the shaft 10 is again operated to release the machine for the next operation.
  • the cash drawer 30 (Fig. 1) is suitably supported in a cabinet, only a fragment of which is shown in Fig. 1, and when the cash drawer is released during an operation of the machine, a spring 46 compressed be tween the cabinet 45 and the rear wall of the cash drawer, propels it from. the cabinet to a position accessible to the operator. The operator upon completing the transaction, returns the drawer to its inaccessible position within the cabinet, manually compressing the propelling spring 46 as he does so.
  • a retaining plunger 31 slidable vertically through a hollow boss 38 on the base 32 of the machine, extends through an aperture (not shown) in a hasp 33 attached to the rear wall of the cash drawer 30, and serves to normally latch the drawer in its inaccessible position against the tension of the propelling spring 46.
  • the bell crank 41 (Fig. 1) of the machineoperated drawer releasing mechanism is shown, pivoted on a cross rod 42 extending it between the side frames 43, 44 of the machine, one arm of the bell crank fitting within a kerf formed in the upper end of the plunger 31 to which the arm is loosely connected by a pin passing through the kerfed end of the plunger and through a slot 51 in the arm of the bell crank.
  • a spring 47 connected to the remaining arm of the bell crank 41 tends to retain the bell crank in idle position at the limit of its counter-clockwise travel (Fig. 1) with its arm in contact with an abutment 49 on the base 32.
  • the bell crank 41 when rocked clockwise, operates to withdraw the plunger 31 against the tension of the spring 34 from the hasp 33, thus freeing the drawer 30 to the action of its propelling spring 46, which slides the drawer to its accessible position, the plunger being returned to its projected position in the path of return of the hasp 33 at the end of the operation of the machine.
  • the operator after depositing the cash in the drawer, or making change, returns the drawer to its closed position, and the hasp L one convenient means to efiect this 33 upon the return of the drawer to closed position, contacts the beveled end of the plunger and cams it upwardly to enable the hasp'to pass beneath it.
  • the drawer nearly reaches its limit of inward movement, it brings the aperture inthe hasp, beneath the beveled end of the plunger 31, whereupon the spring 34 projects the plunger into such aperture to lock the drawer in closed position.
  • the downward movement of plunger 31 is limited by a collar 37 fast thereon, resting on the boss 38. r
  • the cash drawer may be released manually by the following described means, when it is necessary to gain access thereto, and it it it not desirable to operate the cash register.
  • a shaft 59 (Figs. 1 and 5) journaled in a lateral ear on the cross frame 55 and in the side frame 43 and a printer side frame 61, carries an operating crank 58 at its outer end.
  • a lifter arm 62 is fast on the inner end of the shaft 59 and extends beneath a projection or stud 63 on the upper end of a depending link 52, the lowerend of which is pivoted to one arm of the drawer-releasing bell crank 41.
  • a studfl53 projecting from a bracket 54 fast on a cross frame 55 extending between the machine side frames 43444 extends through a guide slot 56 in the link 52.
  • the operator rocks the crank 58 and shaft 59 counter-clockwise, as viewed in Fig. 1, to rotate the lifter arm 62 (Figs. 3 and 5) in the same direction, which raises the link 52 to rock the bell crank 41 clockwise, thereby withdrawing the plunger 31 to release the cash drawer to the action of its propelling spring 46, as above described.
  • a three-armed lever 70 journaled on a rod 71 supported in a flange 72 (Fig. 5) extending upwardly from the base 32 and in a boss, not shown, also projecting upwardly from the base of the machine, tends to rock counter-clockwise under the influence of a spring 73 compressed between the base 32 and a forwardly extending arm 74 of the lever 7 O.
  • the spring 73 constantly urges the lever to rotate, but it is normally prevented from doing so by a downwardly extending arm 75 resting against the rear wall of the cash drawer 30.
  • a link 76 connects a rearwardly extending arm 77 of the lever 70 with one arm of a bell crank 79 pivoted on a shaft 80 journaled in the machine side frames 43 and 44.
  • the release shaft 10 and its arm 12 rock clockwise to raise the release link 11, and as the stud 85 clears the end of the slide 81, the spring 73 is free to rock the lever 7 0 counterclockwise (the drawer 30 being out of contact with the arm 75 of the lever 70) to draw the linl: 76 downwardly and rock the bell crank 79 to thrust the locking slide 81 owards the right to position the endthereof beneath the stud 85.
  • the release link 11 cannot again be lowered to release the machine for operation, and so long as the cash drawer 30 remains in its accessible position, the locking bolt 81 remains effective to'prevent the release of the machine for another operation.
  • the normal position of the manipulative crank 58 is determined by the requirements of the particular user, but for the purposes of this invention, it will be considered that the normal position of the crank 58 is that shown in Fig. 4, wherein the latch 90 is held in idle position to enable the drawer-controlled machine lockto function at each operation of the machine, the plunger litter arm 62 (Fig. 3) being withdrawn from the projection 63 on the link 52.
  • crank 58 If, in either adjustment of the crank 58, it becomes desirable to release the drawerlockin g plunger 31 to enable the spring 46 to render the drawer accessible, without operating the machine, the operator will rock the crank 58 farther to the right from the position shown in Fig. 3, to cause the lifter arm 62 to draw the link 52 upwardly and with it the plunger 31, after which the crank 58 is automatically restored to the position shown in Fig. 1, by the spring 34, through the link 52, stud 63 and arm 62.
  • the crank 58 may be manually moved to the position shown in Fig. 4.
  • the crank is held ineither of its two positions by a friction spring- 95 (Fig. 4) on the shaft 59, between the hub on the crank 58 and a friction plate 96 secured to a block 97 on the frame 61.
  • the pin 50 and slot 51 permits relative movement of the plunger 31 and the bell crank 4:1.

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US368750A US1843990A (en) 1929-06-06 1929-06-06 Cash register
AT126255D AT126255B (de) 1929-06-06 1930-05-24 Schubladensperrung für Registrierkassen.
DE1930521157D DE521157C (de) 1929-06-06 1930-05-24 Schubkastensperrung fuer Registrierkassen und aehnliche Maschinen
FR696304D FR696304A (fr) 1929-06-06 1930-05-30 Dispositifs de blocage du tiroir-caisse pour caisses enregistreuses et machines analogues
GB16990/30A GB356159A (en) 1929-06-06 1930-06-02 Improvements in or relating to cash registers and similar machines

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