US593704A - Cash-drawer - Google Patents

Description

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A. B. TOMLIN.

CASH DRAWER.

No. 593,704. Patented Nov. 16,1897.

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ALBERT B. TOMLIN, OF FORT COLLINS, COLORADO.

CASH-DRAWER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 593,704, dated November 16, 1897.

Application filed March 20, 1896. $erial No. 584,077. (No model.)

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Be it known that I, ALBERT B. TOMLIN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Fort Collins, in the county of Larimer and State Colorado, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cash-Drawers; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in cash-drawers; and it has for its object, among others, to provide a simple and cheap construction of cashdrawer by which an alarm will be given when the drawer is opened by an authorized person and also an alarm when an attempt is made to open the same by maliciously-inclined individuals. The two alarms, however, are different in their tone, so as to be readily distinguishable one from the other, so that the proprietor or other party in the establishment can readily tell whether the drawer is being tampered with or not. The locking mechanism is of any well-known form of construction, the drawer being adapted to be released by manipulation of the keys set to a combination in the usual way. The additional (or What I term the burglar alarm mechanism) is adapted to be set into operation and an alarm sounded Whenever an attempt is made to open the drawer by tampering with any of the other keys, the drawer being arranged to have a sufficient movement bypulling upon any of the other keys to sound the alarm without releasing the locking mechanism. Ihave provided also in connection with this alarm .a registering mechanism adapted to be actuated at each opening and closing of the drawer. I have provided the drawer at one side, upon the upper face thereof, or, rather, of the casing of the drawer, with a receptacle for the pad or tablet or check-book and a hinged holder therefor, whereby the whole may be conveniently arranged.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will hereinafter appear, and the novel features thereof will be particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

The invention is clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings, which, with the letters of reference marked thereon, form a part of this specification, and in which Figure 1 is an elevation of myimprovement. Fig. 2 is a vertical section from front to rear. Fig. 31s a plan view with the top removed and portions broken away. Fig. 4 is a detail showing the connection between the two registering mechanisms. Fig. 5 is a detail of one of the bell mechanisms. Fig. 6 is a sectional detail showing the block and its trip. Fig. 7 is a detail in elevation of the bell-crank lever.

Like letters of reference indicate like parts in the several views.

Referring no to the details of the drawings by letter, A designates the drawer, mounted to move in suitable guides within the casing A, the interior construction of the drawer being of any desired character and said drawerbeing provided with lockin g and releasing mechanism of any approved or Well-known form of construction, B being the keys and O the connections between the same and the locking-tumblers O, mounted for operation through openings in the case 0 in the usual manner. D is a plate pivotally mounted to the rear of and adapted to be held up by the tumblers to which the combination is set. This plate has upon its upper side the inclined lugs (1-, adapted to engage a pivoted trip d on the under side of the upper portion of the case and beneath which the drawer is adapted to move. The pivot of this plate is carried by the vertically disposed pivoted or rocking frame E, which is normally held forward by a spring E bearing thereagainst.

F. is the bell-hammer, E the bell, and E a spring acting on a hammer to force it against the bell when free so to do. The bell-hammer has a tail or extension 6, which is adapted to be engaged by the rocking frame when an attempt is made to move the drawer without actuating the proper keys to which the combination is set. The plate D is held by the tumblers, but when the proper tumblers are actuated the plate falls and the drawer may be pulled forward without sounding an alarm. Any attempt, however, to open the drawer by manipulation of the keys other than those to which the combination is set results in the sounding of an alarm. The

drawer is stopped in its forward movement after moving a short distance, so as to prevent access to the contents of the drawer. The drawer may be set to different combinations in the usual manner.

I is a bell mounted on the upper face of the bottom of the case above which the drawer moves. F is its hammer pivotally mounted on a pivotfand having an extension or tailf.

F is a spring acting on the hammer to normally force the same against the bell when free to do so.

G is a block secured to the under side of the bottom of the drawer, near its rear end, at one corner, and pivotally mounted on this block is a trip 9, having a beveled portion 9. When the drawer is forced in, this trip rides over the tail or extension of this bell-hammer, and when the drawer is pulled forward, as the proper keys are manipulated to release the combination, this trip engages the extensien of the hammer and moves it on its pivot until the trip has passed the same, when the spring forces the hammer against the bell and sounds an alarm. This bell is of a decidedlydifferent tone from that sounded by the manipulation of the keys other than the combination with which it is set, so as to be readily distinguished therefrom, so that the proprietor or other persons in the store or establislr ment may readily tell when the drawer is bein g tampered with. This latter alarm is not sounded when the attempt is made to open the drawer by 1naliciously-inclined persons, for the reason that when so actuated the drawerhas not suflicient movement to actuate the bell-hammer.

The registering mechanism is as follows: II is a bell-crank lever pivotally mounted, as at 7b, to the left-hand side of the case above the partition ll, beneath which the drawer works, and one arm of said lever extends down through a slot in the part II in the path of the drawer, so that as the drawer is closed it engages this arm and actuates the lever on its pivot. A step 7L2 is provided to engage the other arm to limit its movement, and a spring 11 secured to the vertical arm and to some fixed part, serves to normally hold the lever with its depending arm passed through the slot. I is a red connected at one end to the upper end of the vertical arm of this lever, and its other end extending forward through suitable guides is bent at a right angle, as at i, and is adapted to engage in the notches j of the vertical flange J of the rotating disk J, mounted on a suitable pivotj and mounted for free movement, so that each actuation of the bell-crank lever II causes the said disk to be moved one notch by reason of the engagement therewith of the bent end of the red I. Extending upward from this disk is a tubular portion K, through which the pivot passes and into the upper end of which is a disk K, having numerals about its edge corresponding in number to the notches 0f the vertical flange of the lower disk and which are adapted to be seen through an aperture in the top of the casing. This disk J has upon one side a lateral lug or flange L, as shown.

M is a three-sided plate embracing the flanged disk J and has pivetally mounted, as at m, between its ends the arm M, having cennectcd thereto one end of the rod N, which moves through suitable guides, and its other end bent at a right angle, as seen at n, and adapted to engage the notches e on the vertical flange 0 of the disk 0, which has at its lower edge the eutwaidly-extending flange 0, which is provided with numerals corre spending to those of the vertical flange of the disk and in position to be seen through the opening 91 in the top of the case, the bent end of the red N resting upon these notches and serving to move the disk as the rod is actuated.

\Vith the parts constructed and arranged. as above described the operation will be ap parent. When the drawer is closed, it cngages the depending arm of the bell-crank lever and forces the same upward against the tension of its spring. As the draweris pulled forward the depending arm is forced dewir Ward by reason of its spring and into the path of the drawer. "When the drawer is again pushed inward, it engages this depend ing arm and forces the same upward, threw ing the red I forward and causing its bent end to engage a notch or teeth of the vertical flange of the disk J and move the same one notch on its pivot. This continues at each movement of the drawer until the disk has been moved eleven notches, when the lug thereon engages one of the parallel arms of the frame M and moves it on its pivot, so that the bent end of the red N engages a notch in the vertical flange of the disk 0, moves it one notch, and in the further movement of the disk J the frame M is moved back to its normal position by the engagement of the lug on the disk with the other arm thereof. Thus at each actuation of the drawer the disk J is moved on its pivot one notch, as will be readily understood.

I is a receptacle for tablets, papers, or the like at one side of the case, and. this is pre vided with a hinged cover I to the rear end of which is hinged the plate P which serves as a holder for the pads or sheets of paper or other articles to be written upon.

Modifications in details maybe resorted to without departing from the spirit of the invention or sacrificing any of its advantages.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is- 1. An automatic registering device for a cash-drawer, comprising a notched dislct, a bell-crank lever disposed above the drawer and mounted for actuation by the movement of the latter, a red connected with said bellcrank lever and having a portion adapted to engage the notches on said disk, and an independent disk movable with the first-men- I GO IIO

tioned one and bearing numerals upon its face, a pivoted frame, and a lug on the firstmentioned disk adapted to actuate said frame, and a right-angled connection between said frame and the second disk, and two independent alarms of distinguishable sound, one

of which is mounted for actuation by the withdrawal of the drawer, substantially as described.

2. The combination with a cash-drawer, of a locking mechanism, two independent alarms, each distinguishable from the other, and a registering mechanism, all actuated by the movement of the drawer, substantially as described.

3. An automatic registering device for a cash-drawer, comprising a notched disk, a bell-crank lever disposed above the drawer ALBERT B. TOMLIN.

Witnesses:

J. HENRY KEYSER, LOUIS G. RANDALL,

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