US541247A

US541247A - William murphy

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Publication number: US541247A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1895-06-18
Anticipated expiration: 1912-06-18

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2 Sheets-Sheet 1. W. MURPHY.

DATING AND NUMBERING DEVICE.

No. 541,247. Patented June 18,1895.

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W. MURPHY.

DATING AND NUMBERING DEVIGE.

,No. 541,247. Patented June 18,1895.

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TVILLIAM MURPHY, OF DAYTON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE NATIONAL CASH REGISTER COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

DATING AND NUMBERlNG DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 541,247, dated June 18, 1895.

Application filed April 20, 1895. Serial No. 546,455- (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.- der; Fig. 6, a longitudinal section on the line Be it known that I, WILLIAM MURPHY, a 5 of Fig. 5; Fig. 7, a view corresponding to citizen of the United States, residing at Day- Fig.1 with a modified arrangement of the reton,in the countyof Montgomery,in the State setting means for the numheringwheels; Fig. 5 5 of Ohio,have invented a certain newand use- 8, a view corresponding to Fig. 5, showing the fol Improvementin Dating and Oonsecutivemodified arrangement of parts in Fig. 7; Fig. Numbering Devices for Cash-Registers and 9, a detail side elevation of one of the numother Machines, of which the following is the boring-wheels, showing its pawl which co-opdescription, reference being had to the accrates with the notch in the shaft at the re- 1o companying drawings, forming part of this setting operation; Fig.10, a plan view and specification. cross-section of the shaft upon which the nu m- My invention relates more particularly to boring and dating wheels are mounted, and dating and numbering devices such as those Fig. 11 a sample of a check printed by acashshown and described in Patent No. 483,511, register equipped with this numbering and t5 to Cook, and there shown applied to a cash dating device.

register and indicator, and operating to date The same letters of reference are used to and consecutively number the checks printed indicate identical parts in all the figures. by and issued from the machine. Similar A represents a hollow cylinder having its dating and numbering devices applied to opposite ends closed byheadsB O. The head 20 similar machines have been shown and de- B has formed upon it a journal D, Fig. 2, by scribed in subsequent patents. which the left-hand end of the cylinder is My present invention consists in the comsupported in its bearings, while the opposite biuation with such dating and numbering dchead of the cylinder has projecting from it a vices of a novel means for resetting the numjournal E having fitted over it a gear T se- 25 bering wheels to zero and adjusting the datcured to and hearing against the head 0, by ing wheels to print different dates. Inaswhich and suitable intermediate gears, not much as the dating and numbering devices shown, the cylinder is geared to the driving may be employed for other purposes and in shaft by which it is rotated. At one side the connection with other machines than the shell of the cylinder is cut away or provided 3o ones heretofore referred to, and inasmuch as with a longitudinal opening extendingits full myinvention may be readily understood withlength, under which opening within the cylout illustration and description of the cash inder, upon a shaft Gr journaled at its opporegister or other machine, my drawings and site ends in the heads of the cylinder, are specification will be confined to an illnstramounted the numbering and dating wheels, 5 tion and description of the numbering and whose peripheries, owing to the size of the dating devices alone, with my invention apwheels and their arrangement eccentrically plied to them. within the cylinder, project through the open- In said drawings, Figure l is a perspective ing above referred to, into position to coview of the rotary cylinder containing the operate with a suitable impression roller to 4o numbering and dating wheels and provided effect the printing of their numbers and with the attachment for resetting and adjustcharacters upon a paper strip passed between ing such wheels; Fig. 2, a View of the leftthem and such roller. hand end of the cylinder shown in Fig.1; The consecutive numbering wheels H, as Fig. 3, a corresponding view with the head of seen in Fig. 5, are mounted upon the left- 5 45 the cylinder removed to expose the parts withhand end of the shaft Gin the left hand end in the cylinder; Fig. i, a View of the fixed of the cylinder, while the dating wheels are plate containing the cam-groove by which the mounted upon the right hand portion of the pawl-carrier of the consccutive-numbering shaft, in the right hand end of the cylinder. wheels is actuated in the rotations of the cyl- The dating wheels consist of a month wheel I00 0 inder; Fig. 5, a plan view of the wheels and I, bearing type letters representing abbreco-operating devices removed from the cylinviations of the names of the twelve months,

and two day wheels I I of which the wheel 1 may be said to be the units wheel and the wheel I the tens wheel. The wheel I bears 'type numbers representing the nine digits,

secured upon its left hand side a ratchet wheel J, with which ratchets co-operates the four-toothed pawl K pivoted to a pawl-carrier L hung upon the left-hand end of'the shaft G,

Fig. 3. A suitable spring presses the pawl K toward the ratchets J. As is common in devices of this character each ratchet, except that of the fourth orlefthand wheel, has one notch of greater depth than the others, and these deep notches of the respective ratchets also vary in depth, increasing from that in the ratchet of the second wheel from the left to that in the ratchet upon the right hand one, the latter being the deepestof the three. The four teeth of the pawl K also vary in length and position, as shown, with the result that at each vibration of the pawl-carrier the primary or right hand wheel of the set will be advanced one number and when it has completed one revolution its deep notch will be brought beneath the cooperating finger of the pawl K, so that at the next actuation of the pawl its second tooth will be permitted to engage the ratchet of the second wheel and advance the latter one number, and when the second wheel has been turned a complete revolution by ten revolutions of the first wheel the second tooth of the pawl will drop into the deep notch of the ratchet of the second wheel and the third tooth of the pawl be thus permitted to engage the ratchet of the third wheel. WVhen the third wheel has been turned acomplete revolution the fourth tooth of the pawl will be permitted to engage the ratchet of the fourth wheel to advance the latter one number; so that at each revolution of each wheel the next higher wheel in the set will be advanced one number, as is common. The pawl-carrier L has pivoted to it one end of a link M, shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2, which link has its opposite end provided with the stud N projecting through a slot in the cylinder head B, Fig. 2. The outer end of this stud fits in acam groove 0 in a fixed plate P, Fig. 4, secured in position adjacent the cylinder head B. At each rotation of the cylinder the travel of the stud N in the cam groove 0 will cause the stud to be reciprocated back and forth in its slot in the cylinder-head and the pawl-carrier and pawl vibrated to actuate the numbering wheels H in the manner above described.

In addition to the printing of-the numbers and dates, the cylinder A may have secured upon its periphery electrotypes for printing any desired matter, such as the business card of theestablishment in which the'device is used, so that a printed check such as that shown in Fig. 11, for instance, may be produced.

The numbering and dating devices above described are substantially the same as those shown in the Cook and subsequent patents heretofore referred to, and my invention consists in the novel application of means for returning the numbering wheels to zero and settingthedatingwheels. Extendingthrough the tubular journal E at the right hand end of the cylinder is a shaft Q which has fast upon its extreme lef -hand end a gear wheel R which meshes with a gear wheel S fast upon the shaft G upon which the dating and numberingwheels are mounted. Surrounding the shaft Q is a sleeve T upon whose extreme left hand is secured a gear wheel U which meshes with a gear wheel fast upon the side of the month wheel I of the dating wheels. Surrounding the sleeve T is a sleeve V having fast upon its left-hand end a gear wheel 7 meshing with a gear wheel fast upon the side of the dating wheel I, while surrounding the sleeve V is a third sleeve X having fast upon its left-hand end a gear Y meshing with a gear upon the dating wheel 1' This outer sleeve X is supported and has its bearing in the opposite ends or heads of the tubular or hollow journal E before described, and this sleeve constitutes the support and bearing for the sleeves and shaft within it. The shaft Q and the respective sleeves have secured upon their right hand ends thumb-pieces Z, Z, Z and Z by which the shaft and sleeves may be turned. These thumb-pieces are pro vided with suitable numbers and characters which co-operate with some suitable indicating point, such as the pin a projecting from the end of the journal E, Fig. 1, by which the position of the numbering and dating wheels may be indicated by the position of the thumb-pieces, so that when the thumb-piece Z, for instance, is turned until the letters indicating a given month are brought to such indicating position it will be known that the month printing wheel I has been turned in the cylinder to bring the type-letters representing such month to printing position; and in the same manner by turning the thumbpieces Z and Z the printing wheels I and 1 may be set to print any desired day of the month.

When the thumb-piece Z is turned a complete revolution theshaft G upon which the numbering and dating wheels are mounted will be turned a complete revolution. This will not affect the dating wheels, since they are free to turn, or permit the shaft to turn, independently in either direction, but there are interposed between the numbering wheels H and the shaft G suitable devices for causing the shaft to pick up the wheels when it is turned in one direction and carry them to zero or initial position. To this end the left hand end of the shaft, upon which said numbering-wheels are mounted, is provided with a longitudinal groove, as seen in Figs. 9 and 10, while each numbering wheel 11 has pivoted to its side a pawl A spring-pressed against the shaft and co-operating with the notch therein. When the shaft is turned in the direction of the arrow in Fig. 9 each wheel II will be picked up by it as its notch comes under the pawl of said wheel, so that by a complete revolution of the shaft all the wheels will be returned to initial position.

The numbering wheels H are yieldingly held in the positions to which they are moved by their actuating pawl, and accidental displacement of them prevented, by means of spring-pressed holding-pawls A engaging the ratchets J of the wheels, Fig. 3, while the dating wheels are held from accidental displacement by spring-fingers projecting from and formed of a sheet metal plate A secured to the surface of the cylinder A at the lower edge of the opening therein, said fingers extending down beside the wheels and bearing against the gears upon the sides of the wheels, Fig. 7.

In the manner and by the means above described the consecutive numbering wheels may be readily reset to initial position by turning the thumb-piece Z, while by turning the thumb-pieces Z, Z ,and Z the date wheels may be set to print any date desired.

In Figs. 7 and 8 a modified arrangement of the parts is shown, in which the right hand end of the shaft Gr is extended through the right hand end of the cylinder and through the journal E and has fast upon it a thumbpiece B by which it may be turned to reset the wheels. The devices for setting the dating wheels remain substantially the same as in the construction first described, as seen in Fig. 8. In said Fig. 8 the different months are, in the present instance, indicated upon the thumb-piece Z by numbers, instead of p by abbreviations of their names, as may be done in Figs. 1 and 5 if desired.

Having thus fully described myinvention, I claiml. In a numbering and dating device, the combination of a rotary cylinder, a shaft eccentrically mounted therein, a series of consecutive-numbering wheels mounted upon said shaft and projecting through an opening in the cylinder, means for actuating said wheels at the rotations of the cylinder, means intermediate said wheels and the shaft for causing the latter to reset the wheels when turned in one direction, a series of dating wheels mounted upon the same shaft beside the numbering wheels, and means for independently turning the shaft and dating wheels to reset the numbering wheels and adjust the dating wheels, substantially as described.

2. In a numbering and dating device, the combination of a rotary cylinder, a shaft eccentrically mounted therein, a series of consecutive-numbering wheels mounted upon said shaft and projecting through an opening in the cylinder, means for actuating said wheels at the rotations of the cylinder, means intermediate said wheels and the shaft for causing the latter to reset the wheels when turned in one direction, a series of dating wheels mounted upon the same shaft beside the numbering wheels, means for turning the shaft to reset the numbering wheels, a series of concentric sleeves mounted in one end of the cylinder, their inner ends being geared to the respective dating wheels and their outer ends projecting outside the cylinder, and a series of thumb-pieces upon the outer ends of said sleeves, substantially as and for the purpose described.

3. In a numbering and dating device, the combination of a rotary cylinder, a shaft eccentrically mounted therein, a series of consecutive-numbering wheels mounted upon said shaft and projecting through an opening in the cylinder, means for actuating said wheels at the rotations of the cylinder, means intermediate said wheels and the shaft for causing the latter to reset the wheels when turned in one direction, a series of dating wheels mounted upon the same shaft beside the numbering wheels, a shaft and a series of concentric sleeves surrounding the same, journaled in one end of the cylinder, the inner end of the shaft being geared to the shaft upon which the numbering and dating wheels are mounted and the inner ends of the concentric sleeves being geared to the respective dating wheels, and the outer ends of the shaft and sleeves projecting outward through the end of the cylinder, and a series of thumbpieces secured upon the outer ends of the shaft and sleeves for turning the same, substantially as and for the purpose described.

4. In a dating and numbering device, the combination of the cylinder A having the enlarged journal E at one end, the shaft G eccentrically mounted in the cylinder, the numbering and dating wheels arranged upon said shaft, means for actuating the numbering wheels at the rotations of the cylinder, and means intermediate said wheels and the shaft for causing the shaft to reset the wheels when turned in one direction, the shaft Qand concentric sleeves T V X extending through and mounted in the journal E of the cylinder, the inner end of the shaft Q being geared to the shaft Gr and the inner ends of the sleeves being geared to the respective dating wheels, and the thumb-pieces fast upon the outer ends of the shaft and sleeves for turning them to reset the numbering wheels and adjust the dating wheels, substantially as described.

5. In a numbering and dating device, the combination of the rotary cylinder A, the shaft G concentrically mounted therein, the numbering wheels H and the dating wheels located upon said shaft, the pawl-carrier L hung upon said shaft beside the numbering wheels, the pawls K carried thereby and cooperating with the ratchets of the wheels, the link M connected at one end to the pawl-carrier and provided at its other with the stud N turning the shaft G and the dating wheels, projecting through the slot in the cylinder substa-ntiallyas and forthepurposedescribed head, the plate P containing the cam groove O co-operating with the stud N, means inter- WILLIAM MURPHY. 5 mediate the shaft G and wheels H for causing Witnesses:

the shaft to reset the wheels when it is turned ALVAN MAOAULEY,

in one direction, and means for independently J. GILMORE FLETCHER.