US434255A

US434255A - Combined cash-registering and advertisement-displaying apparatus

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Publication number: US434255A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1890-08-12
Anticipated expiration: 1907-08-12

Description

(No Model.)

M. A. DREW.

COMBINED CASH REGISTERING AND ADVERTISEMENT DISPLAYING APPARATUS.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MANNING A. DRE\V, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

COMBINED CASH-REGISTERING AND ADVERTlSEMENT-DISPLAYING APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 434,255, dated August 12, 1890.

Application filed December 12, 1887. Serial No. 257,724. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MANNING A. DREW, of the city of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and.State of Massachusetts, have invented a certain new and useful Advertising Gash-Register, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of this invention is to provide an advertising caslrregister in which the movements of the registering mechanism serve to operate an advertisement-displayer.

In the drawings forming part of this specification the combination of this invention is illustrated in one form of arrangement and in connection with a cash-registering apparatus known as the National, and which is manufactured under patents controlled by the National Cash Register Com pan y, of Dayton, Ohio, and as the same appear substantially on the records of the United States Patent Office, to which reference is hereby had for more particular understanding thereof. Such parts only of the said apparatus are shown as are deemed necessary for illustrating the carrying out of the combination of this invention, and in this relation the part thereof selected and through which to comn1 unicate motion to the means of displaying the advertisements is a part through the movement of which the cash drawer is released to be opened. In this class of apparatus a series of keys are used, each suitably marked, and by the operation of each key a tablet correspondingly marked is displayed, and the registry of cash corresponding thereto is secured as well as the drawer set free to be opened.

Figure 1 is an elevation on a reduced scale of the rear of the cabinet of the cash-registerin g apparatus referred to and partially broken out. Fig. 2 is in part a vertical section and end View of the cabinet. Figs. 3 and 4C are enlarged views of a part of the mechanism for operating the advertisement devices from the operation of the cash-registering mechanism. Fig. 5 is avertical section of the casin g at its rear, showing the rear end of the cashdrawer and its operating mechanism.

In the drawings, A represents the cabinet of a cash-register of the class known as the National, and B is an upright bar at the rear thereof, having connection at its upper end with a lever C, and under the movement of said lever made to rise and fall, operating in its falling movement to release the holding mechanism of the cash-drawer D, which, released, is thrown open by the action of the spring E, all as well known in said National cash-registers, and shown and described in the Letters Patent under which they are manufactured, as before referred to. This mechanism constitutes no part of this invention, and the invention is to be in no manner limited thereto, and it is referred to only as a means of connection adopted for the purpose-of an illustration of the invention.

F is a fixed and horizontally-projected arm of the rising and falling upright B. This arm F has a horizontal lever-pawl G fulcrumed upon it so as to swing in a vertical plane and to have a rest and an abutment against the upper side of said arm F when force or resistance is applied to the under side of the toe end of the pawl and in an upward direction thereon. The toe of this pawl, as the pawl is carried by the upright, moves through and in a vertical plane of travel of the length of one side of a vertical and endless traveling chain H, passing at its opposite ends around horizontal rollers J, turning in suitable bearings of the cabinet and at the rear side thereof. K L are horizontal guide-rollers for said chain, to maintain'and insure its travel in the desired and stated relation as to the rising and falling movement of said upright B. The pawl-lever G, in its downward movement, carried by the upright B, engages said endless chain and moves it in conjunction therewith, and in its upward movement it slips over the chain and without effect thereon to move it, dropping of its own weight to its rest. By this means a step-by-step movement is imparted to the endless chain, in turn imparted to the rollers J, around which it passes, and thence to a belt of tablets M, linked one to the other in an endless form and passing around said rollers J, operated by the endless chain, as stated. Each tablet is to contain an advertisement or advertisements, all presented in the same direction under the step-by-step movement of the endless chain, as stated, and for being displayed in turn and one after another at the horizontal or slotted windows N in the back extension of the cabinet. By these means, all as above described, the advertisements, one after another, are displayed on a step-bystep movement of the mechanism secured from the fall of the upr ght B, actuated by the cash-registering mechanism to record, the Whole rendering the cash-registering apparatus serviceable and useful as a means for displaying advertisements without materially adding to the mechanism, and with the use simply of such mechanism as is necessary to directly move the advertisements, combined with a connection thereof with the mechanism of the cash-register.

The advertisement-tahlcts may be more or less in number. There may be one or more separate belts thereof having display-windows either separate for or common to those of each belt. Again, the tablets may be in a continuous strip in lieu of separate pieces linked together; also, the belts of tablets may be continued across and under and downward below the bottom of the cabinet, thus giving a greater number thereof, and, further, the tablets may be continued above the displaying windows for the cash-tablets and so con tinued, their inclosing casin g adapted for the display of the advertisements either at the front of the apparatus or at the back or at both front and back of the cabinet; and,again,other parts of the cash-registering mechanism may be used as the means of connection for actuating the tablets; and, again, the mechanism particularly described for operating the tablets may be arranged for its action thereon on its upward movement in lieu of its downward movement, as particularly specified, all modifications in' detail obvious on examination. This combination is .serviceable, useful, and beneficial, as it provides a means for the display of advertisements which can be made attractive, and one which would be readily observed and noticed by all parties within sight of the machine, and more especially those who by a purchase have been the direct cause of an operation of the cash-register, thus tending to render it more certain that the cash-tablet displayed shall be observed by the purchaser.

The National cash-register of itself constitntes no part of this invention, and the invention, as before stated, is not to be limited thereto for reasons given. Such a register,

however, has been found to be capable of a most ready adaptation of this invention, and for that as well as other reasons it has been selected.

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

1. The combination of a cash-register cabinet, a cash-registering mechanism disposed therein, an advertisement-displayer also disposed in said cabinet, and an actuator disposed between said cash-registering mechanism and displayerand connected with the cash-registering mechanism for actuating the displayer in unison with the movements of the registering mechanism.

2. The combination of a cash-register cabinet, a cash-registering mechanism therein, an advertisement-displayer composed of two rollers disposed in said cabinet, an endless band supported on said rollers and advertising-cards on said band, and an actuator disposed between the cash-registering mechanism and advertisement-displayer for operating the latter in unison with the movements of the former, said actuator consisting of an endless chain engaging said rollers, a reciprocating bar connected with the registering mechanism, and a pawl supported by said bar and engaging said chain.

3. The combination of a cash-register cabinet provided with windows, a cash-registering mechanism disposed in said cabinet, an advertisemerit-displayer composed of two rollers also disposed in said cabinet, an endless band supported on said rollers opposite said windows, and advertising-cards on said band, and an actuator disposed between the cash-registering mechanism and advertisement-displayer for operating the latter in unison with the movements of the former, said actuator consisting of an endless chain engaging said rollers, a reciprocating bar connected with the registering mechanism, and a pawl supported by said bar and engaging said chain.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

MANNING A. DREW.

Witnesses:

ALBERT W. BROWN, WM. P. PERRY.