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J. E. REYNOLDS.

CASH REGISTER.

Patented Nov. 26, 1889.

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JOHN E. REYNOLDS, OF

DAYTON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO PERRE PATENT OFFICE.

E. GUSLER, OF SAME PLACE.

CASH-R EGISTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 416,125, dated November 26, 1889.

Application filed July 11, 1889.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN E. REYNOLDS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Dayton, in the county of Montgomery and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cash-Registers; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full,

clear, and exact description of the invention,

which will enable others skilled in the art to to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to improvements in cash-registers, the several features of which will befullyhereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

The objects of my invention are to indicate on exposed dials by revolving hands the amount of a single purchase and to have said amount remain exposed until a subsequent purchase, when, automatically, by striking a bar, a bell is rung, and interior dials having fixed pointers indicate the sum of any number of purchases, so that the amount of' the latest purchase and the sum-total of purchases are always in view. I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, (two sheets,) in which Figure 1 is a transverse horizontal section of the cash-register on line at 00, Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a front view of the machine with portions cut away. Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical sec tion of the same on line y y, Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a transverse section of the clutch-coupling on line if t, Fig. 3.

Like letters and numbers designate like parts throughout the several views.

A is a wooden case having an opening or window at the top and aforward extension at the bottom,in which is held the drawer A. This drawer is used to deposit the money and is held locked by the spring-catch 18, which is attached to the side of the said drawer. The pulley 14 is attached to the back of the case, pulley 15 to the lower back corner, and

pulley 16 is attached to the bottom near the front of the case. The cord 19 is attached to the inner end of the drawer and is passed over the several pulleys, and to its upper end Serial No. 317,206. (No model.)

is attached the weight 13. These parts are identical on both sides of the drawer and serve to carry the drawer partly out from the case when the catch is disengaged. The disengaging-rod 12 is held in supports 9 and 20, central in the case and near the front. A knob is attached to the top, and when it is struck by the hand it depresses the spring 18, thereby releasing the drawer. A pin is put in the disengaging-rod beneath the top of the case, and this rests 011 the spiral spring 8 and arrests the upward movement of said rod by striking against the inner surface of said case. The lower end of said spiral spring 6 bears against the guiding-lug of the support 9. To a rear projection of this support is attached the bell 10, and at the lower end is pivoted the clapper 11. This is operated by I a pin held in the disengaging-rod, and as this is depresssed the bell is rung. Lower down on the disengaging-rod are two pins, which. give motion as the same is depressed to the pawls at and 5. (See Fig. 2.)

In bearings in the case are supported the broken shafts L L,which are connected by the coupling-clutch of partsE and O. The former is connected to the rear portion of said shaft and the latter to the forward portion. The part 0 enters the part E, and within the former part is a recess in its face occupied by the clutch 21, which is backed by a spiral spring, and this clutch carries the rear portion of the shaft only to the left. The ratchetwheels 6 and 7 are rigidly attached to the two shafts, and to the pins 5 and r of the bar M are fastened the inner ends of the coiled springs 3, the outer ends being fastened to said ratchet-wheels. The bar M is supported on the post N, attached to the bottom of the 0 case. To the studs on the front wall of the case are pivoted the pawls 4 and 5, and these engage their respective wheels and prevent any movement of the shafts to the left while they are in engagement. These pawls may 5 depend for their movement on their gravity alone or may be backed by spiral springs.

On the front of the case are attached the dials B B, concentric to the shafts, and these are numbered from 1 to 100, having a uniform 10o spacing about their peripheries. On the shafts outside of the dials are the hands O O,

g the dial J or computation-wheel.

and external to these are the knobs D D. The knobs are for the purpose of turning said hands and the parts rigidly attached to the rear ends of the broken shafts. The ratchet wheels have notches exactly corresponding to the divisions on the dials. The coiled springs 3 hold the hands 0 0' against their respective arresting-lugs 'u and v on the dials. To the rear portions of the broken shafts the two dials B B are rigidly attached. These are identical with the front dials as to the divisions, but have the order of the numbering reversed, as shown at Fig. O C are pointers attached to the top of the case and extend over the edges of said dials. On the shaft, to the rear of dial B is attached the spur-wheel F, and this wheel engages the spur-wheel G, held on a hub attached to the rear central portion of the case. These wheels have each one hundred teeth. H is a wheel attached to the rear of the dial B on the shaft, and has only the one tooth 23,which engages the teeth on the contiguous wheel G. Directly over the left shaft the bracket K, to which is pivoted the dial J, on the periphcry of which are ten notches, the radial faces of which have numbers of from 100 to 1,000. This is rotated from left to right by the pin 22 on the rear of dial B The fixed dial 'B indicates amounts in cents, the fixed dial B dollars, and the rotating dial J hundreds of dollars. The rotating dial or computation-wheel B indicates the sum-total of cents, and B in dollars. The posit-i011 of these wheels is indicated .by the pointers C 0 The former also indicates the position of In the normal positions the hands are at zero and the pointers likewise, and the operation is thus: Turn the knob D until the hand points to 50 on the dial B. The pawl 5 will engage a corresponding notch, and the hand will remain in a fixed position. Press down the disengaging-rod l2, and the ratchet-wheel 0 being released, through the recoil of the coiled spring 3, and the agency of the coupliug-clutch the computation-wheel is carried to the left until the pointer C is directly over 50 of said wheel. The downward movement of rod 12 rings the bell and frees the money-drawer, so that it is carried out, that the money may be deposited. Move the hand again to 50 and release the pawl, as before, and the wheel ll will have made one revolution, carrying the computation-Wheel B one mark to the left of the pointer 0, indicating 100, or one dollar, when the pointer C will be again over Zero. Then the comp utation-wheel B has th u s been partially rotated successively until a revolution is complete, the 100-mark of wheel J will be under the pointer 0, thus indicating one hundred dollars, or ten thousand cents. If it were desired to record ten dollars, the hand 0 is turned to the right to 10. Then when the pawl 4 is released the amount would be indicated by the computation-wheel having its number 10 under the pointer C Thus the several sums are registered, and the total is seen by looking through the window \V of the case and observing the numbers under the two pointers over the face of the three computation-W11eels, and if care is taken the sum of money in the drawer would exactly correspond to that amount indicated on said wheels.

Having fully described my invention,what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination of case A, having cashdrawer A, with dial l3, fixedly attached to the frontof said case concentric to the shaft, shaft L, with hand C attached,ratchet-wheel 7, with pawl 5 to engage said ratchet-wheel, coiled spring 3, the ends of which are united to said case and said ratchet-wheel, the couplingclutch, which carries the rear portion of said shaft only to the left, the disengagingrod 12, the computation-wheel B and pointer C, whereby are registered all amounts less than one dollar, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination of case A,having suit-able bearings for the shafts, the broken shafts L L, the latter having hand C attached, dial B on the front of said case, ratchet-wheel 7, with pawl 5- to engage said ratchet-wheel, coiled spring 3, the ends of which are united to said case and said ratchet-wheel, the coupling-clutch, computation-wheel B pointer C, the one-cogged wheel I'I, eog-wheels G and F, and computation-wheel 13 with pointer C whereby are registered all amounts from one cent to one hundred dollars, substantially as set forth.

3. In a cash-register, the combination of the case A, having the numbered dial B attached to the front of said case, broken shaft L, to which is attached the hand 0, ratchet-wheel 6, and pawl at, to engage the same and to hold the hand to where it is placed on said dial, coiled spring 3, with ends attached to said case and to said ratchet-wheel, coupling-clutch, computation-wheel 13 with pin 22, computation-wheel J, with numbers on its face and with pointer C across its face, and the disengaging-rod 12, whereby are registered hundreds of dollars, substantially as set forth.

4. The combination of the coiled spring attached at its respective ends to the case and the ratchet-wheel, said ratchet-wheel, with its pawl pivoted to the case to hold the hand at a given point on the dial, the coupling-clutch, and the disengaging-rod to release said pawl, whereby through the resiliency of said spring and the grip of said clutch the amount is indicated by the hands G on their respective dials as hand 0 is stopped at pin '0 or zero.

5. The combination of the case A, having dials l3 l3 rigidly attached to its front, the broken shafts L L, with hands 0 O to sweep over 7 the faces of said dials, ratchet-wheels 6 and 7, with pawls 4: and 5 to engage their respective wheels and rigidly hold them until disengaged, the coiled springs 3, with their ITO ends united to said ratchet-wheels and to said case, the coupling-clutches of parts 0, with catch 21 held therein, and part E, engaged by said catch when mot-ion is given to the left by the resiliency of said springs, computation-Wheels B B with numbers marked upon their faces, the Wheel H, with the c0g23, cog-Wheels G and F, pin 22 of said computation-wheel B the computation-Wheel J moved by said pin,tl1e pointers 0 C and the disen- 1o gaging-rod 12, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

JOHN E. REYNOLDS.

VVitn esses:

B. PIOKERING, SUMNER T. SMITH.

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