US515481A

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Publication number: US515481A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1894-02-27
Anticipated expiration: 1911-02-27

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W. P. PUTNAM. CASH REGISTER AND INDICATOR. No. 515,481. Patented Feb. 2'7, 1894. A' 1 El a WITNEESES= (No Model.) 2 Sheets-Shet 2. W. P. PUTNAM.

CASH REGISTER AND INDICATOR.

No. 516,481. Patented Feb. 27, 1894.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

W'ENDELL P. PUTNAM, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, ASSIGNOR TO HANNAH GRIFFITHS, OF SAME PLACE.

CASH REGISTER AND INDICATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 515,481, dated February 27, 1894.

Application filed October 11,1892. Serial No. 448,510. (No model.)

T at whom it may concern: the front of the machine and have knobs or Be it known that I, WENDELL P. P'UTNAM, keys, Z), on their upper ends bearing numa citizen of the United States, residing at Balbers of dilterent denomination. These pushtimore city, in the State of Maryland, have rods are held up by spiral springs, d, fitting 55 invented certain new and useful Improveupon them at their lower ends and bearing ments in (lash-Registers, of which the followagainst a plate, 0, fastened within the casing. ing is a specification. Stop-pins, 6, limit the upward movement of This invention relates to an improvement the rods by coming against the cover-plate, in cash-registers and has for its object to pro- A of the machine. Each of the push-rods, 6o [0 videasirnple and inexpensive machine which F, has a laterally-projecting upward-inclined will satisfy all ordinary requirements of such pin, f, and the levers, B, B, have end-por- Em apparatus. tions, g, extending alongside the push-rods, The invention is illustrated in the accomrespectively, below the inclined pins. It will panying drawings, in whichnow be seen that upon depressing one of the 65 Figure 1 shows a longitudinal section of the rods, F, its inclined pin, f, will push aside the machine. Fig. 2 shows a top or plan view end, 9, of one of. the levers, and thereby with the cover-plate of the casing removed throw the opposite end of said lever inward and two of the indicating levers in the indiand expose its indicator through the opencating position. Fig. 3 shows a front-end ingsinthe casing-extension, A. The notches, 7o

view with the end of the outside casing ret, which appear in the levers are to prevent moved. Fig. e shows a rear-end view with their movement being limited by contact the casing open and two indicators showing; with the push-rods behind them. The push- Fig. 5, an enlarged detail view of end-porrods are prevented from turning by the entions of the registering board; Fig. 6, a de gagement of projections on the plate, 0, in

25 tail of a device for restoring the indicating lespline-grooves, s, in said rods.

vers to their normal condition. The push-rods are numbered to correspond The letter, A, designates an outside casing with the indicator-plates on the horizontal which incloses the operating parts of the malevers. That is, the key on a push-rod will chine. A series of horizontal levers are arbear the same number as the indicator-plate 8o 0 ranged in the upper part of this casing; these on the lever with which said push-rod co-acts. levers are in two sets, 13 and, B, one set be- It an amount to be indicated is the sum of ing on each side of alongitudinal central line two key-numbers both keys are depressed through the machine, and both said sets pivand both corresponding indicator-plates oted separately to a block, 0, which is slotted show side-by-side through the openings in 3 5 to receive each lever and hold them apart at the casing, but the two indicator-plates must this point. The twoisets of levers diverge as be from the two diiterent sets and not both they extend rearwardly and fit through a from the same set. Each indicator-plate guide-and-separator plate, D,which has a slot bears the same number on each side so that for each lever. The rear ends of the levers it may be read from both the front and back 0 4o carry upward-projecting indicator-plates or of the machine. The showing in Figs. 3 and cards, E, E, 011 each side of which are in- 4 is to be read as 85, the sum of the two scribed numbers denoting different amounts. numbers which appear.

The casing, A, has an upward extension, A, It will be obvious that with such an arwhich incloses said indicator-plates and is rangement as here described purchases rang provided with an opening, a, in the front and ing from the smallest up to a considerable back through which any one of the indicatoramount may be registered by the use of complates, or any two of them belonging to difierparatively few keys.

ent sets, may appear when the levers carry- The means employed to restore the levers ing them are operated. to their normal position comprise a vertical 10c 50 Anumber of vertical push-rods, F, equal to spreadenplate, J, pivoted at its middle bethe number of levers, B, B, are mounted at tween the two sets of levers, a crank-arm, 7L,

on the pivot of said plate, a push-rod, G, jointed to said crank-arm and having a knob, 1', on the outer side of the casing, a spring, j, connecting the crank-arm with a stationary part of the machine, and a stop-pin, 7a, to hold the spreader-plate normally in a line longitudinal of the machine. It will now be seen that upon pushing in the knob, 2', the spreader-plate will be thrown cross-wise of the machine and thereby spread apart the levers and restore them to their normal position. The spring, j, returns the spreader-plate to its normal position where it stands against the stop-pin, k. This spreader may be readily operated from the front of the machine just before a purchase is to be registered.

The registering mechanism is arranged as follows:A board, H, is mounted on an incline in the casing below the indicating mechanism above described, and this board has a number of parallel longitudinal grooves, Z, in its upper side. The key-board rods, F, engage notches in the lowest end of said inclined board and one of said rods is at the end of each groove. Each rod has a pocket, m, into which the groove leads, and said pocket has an inclined lower side. Another board, I, rests below the first-named board on slides, 42, and is on the opposite inclina-' tion its highest end having notches which fit around the rods, F, immediately below the lowest end of the top-board, H. This underboard, I, has longitudinal grooves, 0, corresponding with those in the top-board and directly under the same. Shot, p, is placed in the grooves of the top-board and the forward one of each line of shot will occupy the pocket in the rod at the end of the groove containing said line of shot. Upon depressing the rod this one shot in its pocket is carried down opposite the corresponding groove in the under-board, I, and falls out of the pocket into the said groove down which it rolls to the lower closed end. Thus every time a key is depressed to indicate a purchase a shot is carried to a groove in the lower board and deposited therein. The said board has graduated marks, q, between its grooves, and when the register is to be read, the board is removed and the amount of purchases will be found registered by the lines of shot in the several grooves standing at certain graduation-marks. Stops, r, are provided on the key-board rods to prevent said rods moving down too far and carrying the shot below the register-board, I.

It is evident myinvention may be embodied in difierent form than that here shown. The grooves, Z, and, 0, which contain the registering shot, 19, may be properly covered to prevent the escape of the shot.

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

1. In a cash-register, the combination of an outside casing having an opening; two sets of levers pivoted so as to move in a horizontal plane and carrying indicating figures,those on one set of levers being at one side of the opening in the casing and those on the other set of levers being at the opposite side of said opening; key-pieces co-acting with said levers whereby any two indicating figures of dlfierent sets may be moved to a position where they both show through the opening in the casing; a pivoted spreader-plate between the two sets of levers; a push-rod to operate said plate; and a spring to restore it to its normal position.

2. In a cash-register, the combination of a casing; two sets of levers each lever carrying an indicating figure, and all the l'evers of each set having a common pivot and the indlcating figures of one set being normally at one side and those of the other set being normally at the opposite side; a sliding key-rod provided with an incline co-act-ing with each lever; and a spreader device located between the two sets of lovers to restore them to then normal position. v

3. In a cash register, the combination of a number of inclined ways; a number of corresponding ways below the first-named ways and inclined in the opposite direction; and

vertically-sliding depressible key-rods, one of which stands across the ends of each two of the inclined ways, one of one set and the other of the other set of such inclined ways, and each rod having a pocket at the lowest end of the upper way which pocket receives rolling objects singly from such upper way and may transmit such objects to the high end of the way below by the depression of the key-rod.

4. In a cash register, the combination of an outside casing having an opening; horizontal levers carrying vertical indicating figures arranged to show through the opening in the casing; a number of inclined ways; a number of corresponding ways below the first-named ways and inclined in the opposite direction; and vertically-sliding depressible key-rods one of which stands across the ends of each two of the inclined ways,- -one of one set and the other of the other set of such ways,- and each rod having a pocket which receives rolling objects singly from said upper way and may transmit such objects to the high end of the way below by the depression of the rod;- said rod also having an incline to act on one of the horizontal indicating levers substantially as described.

5. In a cash register having a casing provided with an opening, the combination of two sets of horizontal levers pivoted in the casing and bearing indicating figures adapted to show through the said opening; key-rods vertically movable and each having an inclined pin adapted when the key-rod is depressed, to move one of the horizontal levers and thus cause one of the indicating figures to show through the opening in the casing; springs to return the key-pieces to their normal position after they have been depressed; a spreaderplate pivoted between the two sets of levers; and means for operating the said spreader plate to restore the horizontal levers to normal position after they have been moved therefrom, substantially as described.

6. In acash register, the combination of the casing having an opening; two sets of horizontal levers pivoted intermediate their ends in the casing and bearing indicating figures on one end aranged to show through said opening in the casing; key-rods alongside the ends of the horizontal levers opposite the ends on which the indicating figures are located, and having inclines whereby upon depressing a key-rod its incline moves one of the In testimony whereof I affix my signature in 2 5 the presence of two witnesses.

WENDELL P. PUTNAM. Witnesses:

J NO. T. MADDOX, F. PARKER DAVIS.