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E. N. POOTE 82: J. J. RANGE. CASH REGISTERING AND INDIGATING MACHINE.

No. 479,357. Patented July 19, 1892.

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Patented July 19, 1892.

UNITED STATES ATENT ()FFICE.

EDW'ARD N. FOOTE AND JOHN J. RANGE, OF NORTHAMPTON, MASSACHU- SETTS, ASSIGNORS TO THE BOSTON CASH REGISTER COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

CASH REGISTERING AND INDICATING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 479,357, dated July 19, 1892. Application filed April 13, 1892. Serial No. 428,987. (No model.)

To ctZZ whom it may concern: The invention further consists in the pro- Be it known that we, EDWARD N. FOOTE vision, in combination, of parts substantially and JOHN J. RANGE, citizens of the United as just above recited; also, of a special me- States, residingat Northampton,in the county dium of connection between the keys of the 5 of Hampshire and State of Massachusetts, highest bank and the support-bar for the inhave invented new and useful Improvements dicators thereof. 111 Cash RegisterlngandIndicating Machines, The invention further consists in the conof which the following is a specification. structions and combinations of parts, all sub- This invention relates to improvements in stantially as will hereinafter more fully and I0 cash registering and indicatin machines in artioularl 1 a. pear and he s )ecificall Y )ointo .l I r l which there are two or more banks or sets of ed out in the claims. register-operatingkey-levers withindicating- In the drawings, Figure l is a rear pertags, respectively, therefor, each adapted on spective view of the cash registering and inthe registering movement of the key-lever to dicating machine with some parts broken I5 be projected and supported inv the position away foraclearer illustration, all of the parts for observation and indication. being indicated as in their normal positions,

Thepresentimprovementmoreparticularly the ii'idicating-tags being therefore seen in pertains to the devices which coact with the their lower positions. Fig. 2 is a perspective indicating-tags for the proper maintenance view of the principal devices which form parts 20 thereof in their indicating positions and for of or are intimately related to this invention otherwise permitting them to duly assume and in many respects similar to Fig. 1, but their non-indicating positions. showing one of the keys depressed and the The main objectof the invention is to procommon rock-bar and the cam actuated therevide meansin acash-registeringmachinehavby in a changed position. Fig. 3 is apartial 25 ing two or more banks of keys whereby there plan and partial horizontal sectional view of can be but one indicating-tag of each of the the indicating devices for the middle bank of separate banks of keys held in the indicating keys. Fig. 4 is a rear elevation and partial position at a given time. vertical sectional view of the same, taken on The invention consists in the combination, the line 4 4, Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a rear elevation 30 in a cash-registering machine having two or of p arts in detailto be hereinafter more parmore banks of keys and indicating-tags, reticularly referred to,in connection with which So spectively, therefor, of support -bars corre- Fig. 6 will be understood as beingan enlarged sponding to each bank of keys having porhorizontal section on line 6 (5, Fig. 5. tions for engagement with the indicatinge will premise by the observation that 35 tags and said bars having sliding engagethe novel devices of this invention will, on

ments one relative to the other, whereby the reference to the drawings, be readily seen or sliding movement in one direction of the bar understood as embodyingthe threepeculiarlyfor a higher bank will draw the bars for the articulated support-bars A, A and A for the other banks, but whereby the sliding movespindles of the indicator-tags a a of the sev- 40 ments of the bar of a lower bank may be ineral banks of keys, the slide-cam G, connectdependent of the bar of the next higher bank, ed to the common rocker-bar 13, which effects and means for effecting on the depression of and permits on a movement of the rockerthe key of any bank the sliding movement of bar endwise-sliding positively-forced movethe support-bar fortheindicators of thehighments forward and then spring-retracted 45 est bank and a special medium of connection movements back of all of the said supportbctween the keys of each of the banks below bars, and the cam bars or levers b b I), having, the highest bank for effecting the sliding through theirengagements in substance with movement of the indicator-support bar, rethe keys of the banks for which they are respectively, for that bank. spectively provided and also with the support-bars, respectively, for such banks, capa bilities as special operators for the particular support-bars.

Proceeding to describe the mechanism more in detail, as it is exemplified in the form of machine shown in the present drawings, there are three banks or groups C, 0 and (3 of cash register and indicator operating keys or key-levers mounted in a usual manner and having arms rearwardly extended to and below and for engagement with the spindles or posts of the indicator-tags a, all as usual, the tags being guided for free vertical movements.

By reason of mechanism which has already become known in this class of cash-registering machines onlyone key of a bank may have working or return movements at a given time.

Each of the tag-spindles has intermediately thereof a laterally-extended lug a having its upper side inclined, as shown. The supportbars A A A are mounted for sliding movements horizontally in planes just back of and at right angles to the vertical play of the tagspindles and have, as is already well known in this class of devices and operative relative to the indicator-supporting spindle-lugs, the members or lugs d done for each of thetagspindle lugs a Each of these bars, as any lever of a bank to which it is applied is operated and the tag raised, has such a sliding movement as to carry all of its supporting lugs or members d out of the vertical lines coincident with the tag-spindle lugs (L (in which vertical lines of coincidence the bar-lugs dare normally maintained,) so that during the upward movement of thetag-spindle its lug may pass the corresponding supporting-lug therefor of the bar to assume a position above it. The bar then and just before the complete depression of the key-lever has a sudden retracting motion to secure the maintenance of the indicator in its elevated position for observation.

It will be noted that the support-bars NA have their left-hand ends slotted, as seen at c and c and the right-hand end portions of support-bars A A for the lower and middle banks have rigid pins or studs 6' and 6 which engage the slotted ends, respectively, of the support-bars of the next higherbanks. Each of the three support-bars has a retractingspring f,f and f therefor, so that each bar is adapted to remain normally in a leftward position as the machine is viewed from the rear, as here illustrated, all so that the pins e and 6 will remain at the left of the slots 0 and 0 The rocker-shaft B is understood as being common to and ranging transversely beneath all of the banks of keys to relieve its rocking motion upon the working of any key-lever of either of the banks through well-known mediums of connection, which in this instance may be briefly stated as follows: The usual tilting or rocker plates D, D and D are provided, respectively, for and as common to the several banks of keys, the said rocker-plates being of course independent of each other.

The workingofanykey of abankwill tiltarocker-plate for that bank. Each rocker-plate has the slotted link g, 9 or g connected thereto and each respectively to the crank-arm h, 71 or 71, of the said common rocker-shaft B. Thus the connection between the rocker-plates and the common rocker-shaft is such that when a key of any one bank is depressed and held depressed, resulting in the rocking of the shaft in one direction and there holding it, a key of each of the other banks and its rockerplate may have its working and also its return movement without affecting the rockershaft. The said rocker-shaft B has such a connection with the support-bar for the highest bank as to insure the movement of that support-bar and by reason of the character of connection between them of all of the support-bars on the operation of any key-lever of either of the banks. This is by means of the crank-arm 'i extended downwardly from the common rocker-shaft B and having its end in engagement with the aforementioned bar G, which latter is provided with the inclined lug orcam j, that has its course of movement rearwardly as the crank-arm i is swung for impingement against and past the extremity k of the lever It. This lever is pivotally supported in an upright position, its upper end having an engagement with the slide-bar of the highest bank. The lower extremity 7:; of the lever is and the camj, which impinges thereon, are both arranged in planes obliquely to the line of rearward movement of the cam-bar G, so that as the cam j rearwardly moves it has the forcing impingement upon the lever 7r; to swing it, thereby securing the sliding movement of the support-bar A in the direction to carry it and all the other bars out of supporting position for any of the tags which may be raised. The conclusion of the rearward movement of the bar G (coincident with the complete depression of the key-lever which operates it) carries the cam j rearwardly beyond and out of engagement with the lower extremity of lever 70, which is then permitted to be swung into its normal position by reason of the retracting force of the springs applied on the support-bars. The

bar G on its return or forward movement is permitted to have a lateral movement against its retracting-springj in order to permit the cam j to pass the lower extremity of the lever with which said cam has its operative engagement only on its rearward movement.

Each of the support-bars A, A and A has the upper end of a lever 'm in engagement therewith, said levers being arranged in upright positions and intermediately pivoted on the framing of the machine, there being between theirlower ends and the rocker-plates D D D the above-mentioned cam-provided levers b b b, for eifectin g on the tilting,respectively, of said plates, in conjunction with any of the keys of the banks for which they are IIO applied, the swinging of the levers and sliding of the individual support-bars each without effect upon the one for the next higher bank.

As shown, each rocker-plate has the stud g projected from its end and at a point which is rearward of the pivotal support of the rock er-plate,said stud engaging the slotted forward arm of the cam-provided lever. Each of said levers has its rear end to swing adjacent the front face of the lever m, which corresponds thereto, being at such extremity provided with the thin oblique cam g, which in its downward movementimpinges upon the inclined portion 0 on the upright lever to effect the swinging of the lever and sliding of the support-bar from out of its tag-supporting position. The full swing of each of the levers Z) carries the cam on its end below and free from the member 0 of the lever m, so that the lever on and the support-bar which has been moved therebyout of the tag-su pporting position may resume such position for the support of the tag last elevated and which corresponds with the key which causes the operation of said parts. In the return movement of the camended lever b there are slight lateral movements between the cam g and the part 0, so that the lever may resume its normal position without any effect upon the support-bar.

In the drawings we have shown that the lever is mounted on the pivot-stud N, which has a movement laterally of the plane of swing of the lever against the spring I). (See Fig. 5.) As the cam portion 1) swings upwardly from its position below the member 0 it is outwardly forced against the pressure of the spring 0 to be permitted to pass the part 0.

The device just referred to and illustrated is one of several forms of movably-mounted cams, which exertsin its course of movement in one direction a forcing action on the part to be moved, but which in its returning movement is capable of receding or giving, whereby it is permitted to pass by the member which it had previously engaged for forcing action without effect thereon, and therefore other forms of the referred-to devices, assumed to be well known in mechanics in analogous situations, may be substituted for the form particularly shown, the novelty in this invention residing not so much in the details of construction of the individual appliance as in the embodiment in series of appliances having the required capabilities as set forth in a cashregistering machine for the required purpose or ultimate result.

The utility and advantages of the improved devices will become apparent by the follow ing explanation in connection with a description of the operations: Assuming the ma chine embodying the invention comprises, for instance, as shown, three banks of keys and the clerk desires to record a sale amounting to one dollar and twenty-five cents, he first depresses the one-dollar key in the highest bank 0 effecting the rocking of the shaft B and swinging of lever 7c and the endwise movement of the support-bar A which of course also draws cndwise from their supporting positions the bars A and A, and consequently indicators of either or all of the banks, which may have remained raised in indication of a preceding sale, will have the supports therefor removed and they will fall. The indicator for one dollar having been completely elevated, the support-bar A snaps back into supporting position therefor, the other bars being permitted, also, to resume their supporting positions. Still holding the key-lever down, the twenty-cent key of the middle bank is depressed and the twenty-cent tag corresponding thereto is elevated to its position for observation, the support-bar A having its endwise-sliding movement (without effect, however, upon the bar A to permit of the passage of the tag-spindle lug a to pass above the top of the supporting member (Z of the support-bar A at which time the bar A is by its springf caused to be moved back to its normal and supporting position. Now still holding down either the one-dollar key or the twenty-cent key, or both, so that the rocker-shaft B may not resumeits normal position, (for if it were permitted to so resume on the next depression of any key all three of the support-bars would be moved out of supporting positions for the already-raised tags, which are in partial indication of the amount being recorded and indicated,) the live-cent key of the lowest bank C is depressed, causing elevation of five-cent tag and sliding movement only of the bar A, and for passage by it of spindle-lugof five-cent tag and final support by said bar of that tag, and then on permitting the keys to resume their normal positions the amount registered will stand indicated by three elevated tags. Now assuming that the one-dollar tag is elevated and also the twenty cent tag, should the operator wrongfully manipulate any of the other of the keys of the lower bank while the one-dollar key is down each successive operation of the middle-bank key will effect a corresponding sliding movement of the support bar therefor, so that only one tag may remain up and that corresponding to the last-depressed key. It will be noted, however, as incidental to the construction that higher-bank keys each time effect the endwise drawing from the supporting position of the bars for the lower banks, and therefore it becomes necessaryin making a registration to operate the higherbank keys first.

It may be thought without close scrutiny and thorough consideration of the mechanism that a special support-bar-operating device for the bar of the highest bank is unnecessary, inasmuch as by the operation of the key of any bank the medium of connection comprising the lever insures the sliding movement of that bar A but it will be understood by the following exemplification that the special operating devicesuch as constituted by parts Z2 0 m-for the support-bar A is IIO necessary to the highest degree of efficiency in the carrying out of the aim of this invention. Thus assuming the latter-mentioned medium of connection removed and the middle-bank key operated and held down, on then operating keys of the highest bank one after the other there will be nothing to effect corresponding successive movements of the support-bar A and tag after tag might be elevated and so remain,the lugs thereof forcing themselves past the supporting-lugs (Z of the said bar.

Ve claim 1. A cash-register having two or more banks of keys and indicating tags respectively therefor having support-stops, support-bars having supporting portions for the engagement with the indicator-stops, and the several bars having sliding engagements one relative to the other, whereby the sliding movement of a bar for one of the higher banks will draw the bars for the other banks, but whereby the slidiugmovement of the bar of a lower bank may be independent of the bar of the next higher bank, and means for effecting on the depression of the key of any bank a sliding movement of the highest support-bar and a special medium of connection between the keys of each of the banks below the highest bank and the support-bar therefor for effecting on the working of a lowerbank key the sliding movement of the support-bar for such bank, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

2. A cash-register having two or more banks of keys and indicating-tags respectively therefor having support-stops, support-bars having portions for supporting engagement with the indicator-stops, and the several bars having sliding engagements one relative to the other, whereby the sliding movement of a bar for one of the higher banks will draw the bars for the otherbanks, but whereby the sliding movement of the bar of a lower bank may be independent of the bar of the next higher bank, and means for effecting on the depression of the key of any bank a sliding movement of the highest support-bar, and special mediums of connection between the keys of the highest bank and its support-bar and between the keys of the lower banks and their support-bars for effecting the sliding movements of the bars, respectively, of such banks, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

3. In a cashindicating machine, in combination, two or more sets of movable indicators, support-bars arranged for supporting engagement respectively with the said sets of indicators and having sliding engagements with each other, whereby one may move out of its indicator-supporting position and draw the one next thereto, but whereby the latter on moving out of its indicator-supporting position will be without effect on the first-named bar, substantially as described.

4. In a cash registering and indicating machine, in combination,two or more banks of keys and sets of movable indicators therefor and support-bars respectively for the said indicators, having sliding engagements the one relative to the other, whereby the sliding movement of a bar for a higher bank will draw the bar of the lower bank, but whereby the sliding movement of the bar of a lower bank may be independent of the bar of the higher bank, means for moving the support-bar for one of said banks on the operation of any key of either bank, a separate lever connected to the support-bar for each bank, and an actuating-cam for each of said levers and each cam adapted to be moved by the operation of any key of one of the said banks, substantially as described.

5. In a cash registering and indicating machine, the combinatiomwith two or more banks of keys and indicators respectively therefor, of separate support-bars for engagement with the indicator-stops of the several banks, having sliding engagements theonewith the other, substantially as described, the rock-bar-common to and having an engagement, substantially as described, with the key-levers of all of the banks, and a medium of connection between the said rock-bar and the support-bar of one of the banks of keys, the separate rocker-plates for the several banks of key-levers, levers pivot-ally mounted and connected, respectively, with the support-bars, and other levers having cams therein to exert forcing actions on said first-named levers and connected for their swinging movements to said rocker plates, substantially as described.

6. The combination,inacash registeringand indicating machine having two or more banks of key-levers with sets of indicators respectively therefor and support-bars for the in dicators, having engagements the one relative to the other, whereby the sliding movements of higher bank bars will draw lower -bank bars, but whereby the movement of the lower bank bars may be independent of the higherbank bars, of levers m, intermediately pivotally supported, each having an abutment portionth ereon, pivoted levers b b, intermediately pivoted to have their extremities swing in proximity with said abutment portion and each having the oblique cam g thereon and said levers mounted for a slight movement laterally of their planes of swinging movement, and mediums of connection between said levers and the keys of the differentbanks, substantially as and for the purpose described.

EDVARD N. FOOTE. JOHN J. RANGE. \Vitnesses:

WM. S. BnLLows, K. I. CLEMONS.

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