US480122A - Cash register and indicator - Google Patents

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H. G. O'NEILL. CASH REGISTER AND INDICATOR.

No. 480,122. Patented Aug. 2, 1892.

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No. 480,122. Patented Aug. 2, 1892.

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HENRY G. ONEILL, OELOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, ASSIGNOR TO THE STANDARD REGISTER COMPANY, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

CASH REGISTER AND INDICATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 480,122, dated August 2, 1892.

Application filed November 3, 1891. Serial No. 410,743. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.- machincs having a greater number of keys,

Be it known that I, HENRY G. ONEILL, a as the principle of construction would be the subject of the Queen of Great Britain, and a same. residentof Louisville, in the county of Jeffer- The letter A designates the key-levers,

5 son and State of Kentucky, have invented which are pivoted at a and provided with a certain new and useful Improvements in transverse pressure-bail B, common to all, Cash-Registers; and I do declare the followwhich is actuated by a spring bto cause these ing to be a full, clear, and exact description key-levers to return to their normal positions of the invention, such as will enable others after action. Each key-lever is provided with IO skilled in the art to which it appertains to an arc rack O,in the form of an arm, extendmake and use the same, reference being had ing therefrom in the vertical plane at or near to the accompanying drawings, and to letits end. The are rack is radially centered at ters of reference marked thereon, which form the axes of the key-lever, as indicated, and is a part of this specification. designed to engage a fluted shaft, toothed 15 Figure] of the drawingsis avertical section cylinder, or roller D, which extends transtaken on line w .90, Fig. 3. Fig. 2 is a top plan versely and is common to all the keys. The view, partly in section. Fig. 3 is a front elenumber of teeth in the arc rack of each keyvation with the key-levers in section. Fig. 4 lever corresponds to the denomination or is a top plan detail view of the tinted roller, value of the key, one tooth being provided 2o adding-wheels, and gear. for the five-cent key, two teeth for the ten- This invention has relation to cash-registers cent key, (be. In the illustration the ten teeth or accounting-machines anditconsists in the of the fifty-cent key are shown on its arc construction and novel combination ofdevices rack. \Vhen the key is depressed, its rackconstituting mechanism whereby the cash arm engages and turns the fluted roller or 25 transactionsofsuchmachines maybe summed shaft through an arc correspondirg to the up,as hereinafter shown and described. number of teeth in the rack of the key oper- The invention particularly relates to that ated. class of machines shown and described in my Loosely journaled at the end of the fluted application filed October 31, 1891, Serial No. roller or shaft is a toothed wheel E, which has o 4:10,515, differing therefrom in the following apawl-and-ratchet connection with said fluted particulars. In the said application the addroller or shaft in order that it shall turn with ing-wheels are arranged in series, periphery said roller or shaft when the latter is operated to periphery, the first of the series having a by any key-lever, but will not be revolved bevel gear-wheel actuated directly by a fluted backward by the reverse movement of said 35 shaft operated upon by the key-levers, each roller or shaft when the key-lever is returnwheel having aspnr or spurs operating upon ing toits normal position. Theioothed wheel the succeeding wheel to effect the carrying. E is in engagement with the idle-wheels c In the present application adding-wl'ieels and e, whereof the latter engages the pinion are arranged on a common shaft in parallel g of the first adding-wheel Got the series, and

0 order and are provided with a series of carrywhen any key is operated its are rack will ing-pinions on a separate shaft. The moveactuate the fluted shaft or roller, and thereby ment of the key-levers is transferred to the turn the gearing and the adding-wheel Gsufadding-wheels through the fluted shaft, a seliciently to cause its value to be added to the ries of idler-wheels in gear with a pinion on amount indicated by the series of adding- 5 45 the adding-wheel shaft, and through the carwheels. The adding-wheelGis marked around rying devices. its periphery with the figures0ant 5alter- In the accompanying drawingslhave illusnately at regular intervals and is provided trated the invention in connection with a with a carrying-pinion g'in rear, said pinion simple machine having ten keys marked for being jonrnaled on a bail-frame K and hav- 11:0

50 five cents, ten cents, 850., up to sixty cents; ing sulticient breadth to engage the teeth of but it is obvious that it may be employed in the next wheel when the 5-mark has passed the reading position. The other addingwheels H of the series are marked around their peripheries with the figures I to 9 and O at regular intervals, and are each provided with a carrying-pinion h to engage the pinion of the next wheel when the 9-mark has passed its reading position.

The train of gearing will provide sufficient friction to prevent any backward turning of the toothed Wheel E at the end of the fluted shaft or roller. Nevertheless, the adding- Wheels may be readily moved whenever it is desired to reduce the set to 0that is to say, to bring all said wheels into position with their O-marks in the reading position. In preparing for this reduction the angular bailframe K, which carries the carrying-pinions, is turned backward, disengaging these pinions and bringing the stop bail-bar K against the peripheries of the adding-wheels in position to engage their stop-pins 70, which serve to stop their movements when their O-marks are brought to the reading position. The stop-bail branch of the angular frame is then moved away from the adding-wheels, and this action brings the carrying-pinions to their position of engagement with said wheels.

This adding mechanism is of compact character and may be readily employed in connection with indicating or display apparatus and key-regulating devices of various kinds.

I have illustrated indicating values at I and key-regulating devices at J and V; but as these form separate inventions, for which I have made other applications for patents,it is unnecessary to enter into any detailed explanation of the same in this specification.

Having described this invention, what I claim, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, 1s-

1. In a cash-register and accounting-machine, the combination, with the key-levers and their are racks having, respectively, teeth corresponding in number to the required action of the key and the fluted shaft or roller operated upon by said teeth and having thereon a loose toothed wheel connected thereto by a pawl and ratchet so arranged that said wheel is carried with the shaft during the forward movement of the latter, but is held stationary during its backward movement, of the series of adding-wheels arranged upon ashaft parallel with said fluted roll and alongside thereof, the pinion thereon, the carrying devices, and the idler-wheels for transmitting the movement of said shaft to the adding-wh eel shaft, substantially as specified.

2. In a cash-register and accounting-machine havinga fluted shaft or roll acted upon by an arc rack on the key-levers and carrying a pinion loosely thereon and connected thereto by a pawl-and-ratchet device so arranged that said wheel is revolved with the shaft during its forward movement, but permits the shaft to turn loosely thereon duringits backward movement, the combination therewith of the adding-wheels arranged side by side upon a shaft and alongside thereof parallel with said fluted shaft, the idler-wheels in gear with said loose wheel and with the pinion of the first adding-wheel, and the series of carrying-pinions for the adding-wheels, said pinions being journaled on a movable frame, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

HENRY G. ONEILL.

Witnesses:

PHILIP C. MAsI, CHAS. L. TAYLOR.

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