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C. B. MILLER.

MONEY DRAWER AND CASH ACCOUNT RECORDER. No. 360,456. PatentedApr. 5, 1887..

N4 PETERS, Photo-Limogrnpxwr. Washington. D,C,

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES B. MILLER, OF ITHACA, NEV YORK.

MONEY-DRAWER AND CASH-ACCOUNT RECORDER.

i 'SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 360,456, dated April 5, 1857.

Application filed March 1, 1886. Serial No. 193.592.

v.T0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES B. MILLER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ithaca, Tompkins county, New York, have invented an Improvedl Money-Drawer and Cash-Account Recorder, whereof the following isa specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is an elevation of the front end of my box containing my money-drawer; Fig. 2, a ground plan, the boX-covcrbeing removed; Fig. 3, an elevation seen from the left-hand side of Fig. 1, the left side of the box being removed. Fig. 4 is a partial view illustrating portions of the slide-rod, the middle partition, andthe left-hand wall of the moneydrawer and the angled catch that locks the money-drawer. Fig. 5 shows the end of the roller j and the attached paper-clamp; and Fig. 6 is designed to exhibit the glazed aperture of vthe cover to the register and the aperture in which the cash entries are made.

My invention relates to the operative machinery, and will be understood as I describe my invention.

In the figures, @is the box or inclosing-case, made deeper than the money-drawer b, and it has a hinged cover and lock, as seen by the key-hole d in Fig. 1. In thisbox so made is the money-drawer b, without outside lock or opening-knob. This drawer is seen in Fig. 2

.to be made with partitions f f any convenient number, for bank-bills or any other articles desirable to be put into the lower part of the drawer. These partitions do not reach to the top ofthe drawer, but leave a space above them, in which the loose coindrawer c is placed, which slides on the top of the partitions, aided or not by slideways on the sides of the drawer. This arrangement of the partitions and coindrawer has long been in common use, as has the bowl-shaped cavities ec, nine in number, for various coins of different values. At the rear of the money-drawer is the spring g, whose use is a common onein money-drawers, to thrust the drawer out when unlocked, that its contents may be reached; but I place the spring on the rod g', which has a head, g, on its front end and a ringcollar, g. This' collar g is too large to go through the hole made for the rod in the back end of the 'to unlock the money-drawer.

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drawer, and too small to go over the head g, hence the ring-collar pushes the moneydrawer out until the rod-head stops the action of the spring. By this construction I make a spring for the moneydrawcr little liable to get out of order, since its position and action are regulated by the rod, its head,and the ringcollar at the anterior end of the spring. A long middle partition, s, a little higher than the money-drawer, is at its left-hand side, (see Figs. 2 and 3,) the use ofwhich is to give support to the rollers of the paper record, to divide the money-drawer from the record, con- 'ine the money-drawer on its left-hand side,

and to support the locking device for the drawer.

Y The main operative part of my money-box is the long slide-rod c', that is shown in Fig. 3 to extend from the knob c, outside ofthe front end of the box to near thc rear end of the box. It is held in place in front bya metallic collar, (seen in Fig. 1,) and near its rear end by another support, against which a spring, 0*, acts by one of its ends, and at its other end, on the rod, by a fixed collar, as shown in Fig. The spring thrusts the rod and knob outward and forward at all times; but when the knob is pushed upon, and thus the rod is pushed inward, by the hand of the operator the spring is condensed and the machinery in the box is moved. The iirst action of this rod is The return of the rod to its anterior place permits the drawer to be. locked whenever the moneydrawer is pushed into the box. This is accomplished by a pin, a, (seen in Figs. 3 and 4,) projecting out from the rod. The action of this pin (seen clearly in Fig. 4) is that when the rod c is pushed inward the end of the right-angled catch a', which is close by the pin, is moved rearward, and that disengages the hook a" of the catch from the moneydrawer, and thus the spring f/ in rear ofthe drawer is allowed to thrust the money-drawer out of the box the distance of the impulse of the spring, which is sufficient to bring the coindrawer and front bill-partitioned spaces in view and reach. In Figs. 3 and 4 this angled catch is seen to be hinged to the partition s, and held by it. Aspring, a, throws the catch into its locking position whenever the money- IOO drawer is pushed into the box, thus locking the drawer; hence the drawer is locked when it is closed into the box, and is unlocked whenever the knob c is pushed upon. Farther on- Ward in the rearward extension ot' the rod c toward the back end of the box there is seen a stud, c, with a spring-click, c, attached to it, which click engages with the teeth of the ratchet j (seen in Fig. 3) of the roller j, on which the paper, after itreceives the cash entries, is wound. A pawl or pawls, K, are used to prevent backward motion of the roller j. By this means just described the movement of the paper of the record is effected.

The paper h is a long strip, made in width with suitable relation to the roller j and table i, as shown in Fig. 2, and is in quantity wound ou the shaft at h' in the front end of the partitioned-off record-space, as seen iu Figs. 2 and 3. By dotted lines it is shown to go, when unwound from the shaft h', to and under the spring-clamp z at the front end of the table i. Thence it goes over the table and under the other spring-clamp i', and thence down under the rollcrj, on which it is wound, this movement being by short successive gradations by the rod c and click c and ratchet y" and roller j.

. drawn away the paper can be put'under these strips. At all other times they make pressure on the paper.

The papertable t' is a flat piece of board with its ends beveled to suit the direction of the draft of the paper. Over it is the glazing r, through which the cash entries are visible for awhile, and over its front end is the inclined metal plate i", an open space being between the glass and the plate, in which space the cash entries are made. rlhe paper on this table is shown in Fig. 2 to have been ruled by longitudinal lines for various purposes-as, for example, the numbers given the employs of a mercantile establishment using my moneydrawer box for the articles and quantities sold,

the amountof cash received or paid out, or other entries made between the ruled lines, as the users of my box may see iit.

It will be seen in Fig. 3 that the bell-hammer rod is made to project out of the click lr, t0 have a ball-hammer on its end, and therefore strikes the bell at each time the click falls oft' of a tooth of the ratchet j of the roller j. The catch-hook u" is made at its front end wedge shape, so as to be self-acting when the drawer is closed into the box.

In Fig. 5 is shown the end of the roller j opposite to that shown in Fig. 3, and it is 1ntended to exhibit a plate, c, which extends across the face of the roller, held to the roller at each end by pivots '11', and operated by vsprings at each end of the roller and plate,

which springs are bedded in the roller, and it is easy to understand that by depressing'the side of the plate under which are the springs the other edge of the plate is elevated, so that the end ofthe record-paper can be put under the plate, when the released plate, by the springs, clamps the paper to the roller.

All parts of my improved money-drawer and recorder box essential to its comprehension are believed to be described.

Vhat I consider novel and claim is- 1. In an inclosed or cased money-drawer, the knob c and the slide-rod c, provided with a pin, a, lprojecting out of the slide-rod in the line of its length, which pin opens or unlocks the hook n of the lever w/ from the moneydrawer I), iu combination with the lever a', the drawer b, and the box or case c.

2. In a moneydrawer with easlraccount record inclosed in a ease or box, the ,knob c, slide-rod c', pine, angled lever a', its hook n, and the money-drawer b, in combination with the click c, ratchetj, roller j, pawl 7c, paper h, and the table 3. In a cash-record, the p ulling-knob c, sliderod c', directly connecting the knob to the click c', attached to the slide-rod, andthe click c", in combination with the ratchet j', the roller j, paper lz, table i', roller 7M, glazing i', metal plate i", and case or box a.

CHARLES B. MILLER.

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