US618035A - Cash-recorder - Google Patents

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No. 6|s,o35. y Patenten 1an. i7, |899.

I A. c.' HuuGH.

CASH RECURDER.

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CASH RECORDER'.

(Application led Mar. 16, 1898.)

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N0. 6|8,035. Patented lan. I7, |899. 'A. C. HUGH.

CASH RECORDER. Y

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE-- AZEL o. noueitor'soU'rnfBUTLER,NEW'vonn,Assionon Torun ngoncn CASH RECORDER COMPANY, QF vTNDAN- ORCHARD, MASSACHUSETTS.

CASH-RECORDER.

srncrrrcnfrroiv 'forming pm of Lettersrratent No. eiegoss, dated January 17, 189e. Appncaion ined nach is, 189s. seria No. 74,-o52. (no man.)

To aZZ whom, it iii/ty concern: feeding mechanism. Fig. 9 isya detail `of a Be it known that I, A ZEL C. IIOU'GH, of pawl-earrierand ratchet cooperating with the South Butler, county of Vayne, State of New feeding mechanism. Fig. l0 is a detail show;4 York,haveinvented an Improvementin Cashing part of the drum, the pawl for actuating 5 Recorders,of wl fch the following description, t it, and the means for feeding the-carbon strip: 55

in eonnec ings, is a specification, like letters andnumerhe easing orframe A; thedrawer C thereals on the drawings representing like parts.. in; the lid or cover i3, suitably hinged to the This invention has for its object to improve casing at one end ;v the bolt J for locking the 1o cash-recorders whereby as each sale is made drawer, it being under the control of an 'arm' 6o and recorded there will beldelivered automat- K; a rocking frame, Il, controlled as to its ically a ticket or check showing the amount of -movement through suitable finger-keys E,

the sale and the card of thev .person or .firm which, if manipulated properly, enable the.

carrying on the business, the delivery of this salesman by pushing on the bolt t to swing* 15 ticket or cheek to the customerenablinghiln the frame H to the left, viewing Fig. 2, to-`65 to see the entry which-has just been made by thereby cause its pawll to engage and aetuthe clerk with relation to his purchase. ate a ratchet-tooth wheel attached to a drum I have chosen to show`my improvements vD, upon which the sales-strip is wound as lit, embodied withacash--reeorderof the class repis being used, said ratchet-wheel being prezo resented in United States Patent No. 534,795, vented from moving backwardly by reason ofl 7o dated February 26, 1895,. In that patent the 'a suitable detent d; the lever @adapted to sales-entry is made on a movable sales-strip haveitsshort armdepressed bypressure of the being wound on a drum, the pencil of' the hand of the salesman on the plate M, suitably salesman directly 'marking the sales-strip; l hinged orpivoted upon the top of the lid at m',

z5 but herein l have provided the machine with, the said plate M having a slit, as fm, parallel 7 5 a carbon or other blackL tape or web, over with the edge of aspringlplate fm2, said spring vwhich the sales-stripis fed, the ticketor cheek normally bearing upon the top of the salesstrp being fed under the said carbon tape strip as the same is being fed through' the or web and being movable, preferably, tra'nsmachine; the uprights mfmf, supporting suit-' v 3o v'eiselytto said sales-strip, the said ticket or able pointed journals to sustain the roll of 8o cheek strip showing on it the entry made by lpaperfurnishing the sales=strip and marked the clerk on the sales-strip, the ticket orcheck 3X; and the alarm mechanism,A (marked E,)

strip being fed intermittingly after each sale which' is actuated whenever' an unauthorized I and cut or torn oit after each entry or sale' person in attempting to open the drawerk I 35' and handed to the customer. should fail to manipulate the proper inger- 85 Figure l. is a top or plan view of a eash-rekeys; the metallic plate Q', secured to the eerder embodying my invention. Fig.-2 is a under side of the cover and having pivoted longitudinal section in the line ,l `ig'. b. Fig. to its end anotched or ratchet-tooth pawl S,

23 is a top or plan view of the recorder, the lid said pawl cooperating with a pin or projec- I o or cover being removed and the sales-strip tion of the lever Q, are and inaybe all sub- 9`o being broken oii to show the carbon or other stantially as fully shown and described in web under it crossing the ticket or check an earlier patent granted to me,l No 534,795', strip. Fig. 4 is a section of Fig, 3 in the line dated February 2G, l89 5,`andinapending apa". Fig.' 5 is an enlarged detail of the printplication, Serial No. 667,412, l'ed January 4 5 ing mechanism cooperating with the ticket 21, 1808. The finger-keys E are the same as 95 or check strip. Fig. (i is an enlarged detail in United States `Patent No. 486,1 O7dated lof the feeding mechanism coopera-ting with November l5, 1892. y the ticket or check strip. Figs.y 7 and v8 are 'To adapt the apparatus substantially such details of theratchet mechanism foroperating as hereinbefore referred to to delivering a 5o the printing mechanism' in unison with the ticket or check having recorded upon it the roo tion with the accompanying draw- Fig ll is a detail in the section fc3, Fig. l0.

sale just made by the salesman, I have added to the hereinbefore-described apparatns'the mechanism which will now be described.

I have erected upon the usual plate or platioxirn' A an upright or stand o, it constitutingp said rolls.

The journal oi the roll o4 has bevehgear n?, which is engaged and driven by abevelgear o, fast on a short sleeve d, having iixedupon it aratchetwvheel al, said sleeve'snr rounding the upper end of a shaft et, having attached to it a circular disk or paivl carrier al?, provided with a pawi om, acted upon by a spring d,

The shaft al, carrying the disk cr pawl carrier al?, is stepped in a suitable bearing am (sce Fig. 2) and provided with a pinion a, 'it also carrying near said paWi-carrier a bevel-pinion a The pinion L17 is engaged by the teeth of rack-bar alf", itted to slide in suitable gnideways d20, attached to the inner side of the casing A, (see Fig. 4,) said rack bar having at its inner end a snita-ble'projeetion or heel a, which is extended downwardly, said heel being struck by a plate or projection (L22, attached to and carried by the drawer, said plate meeting said heel and drawing the rack inwardly as the drawer is being closed, the inward movement of said rack in enga gement with the teeth of the pinion a rotating the shaft U15, and with it the pawl-carrier am, having the pawl am, causing said pawl in engagement with the ratchet ci? to turn the sleeve a, and with it the bevelgenre, and 'actuate the feeding-wheels n3 and a4 to feed the ticket or check strip between said rolls, said strip having been previously marked with the sale just made.

During the operation of closing the drawer the bevel-pinion nengages and rotates a bevel-pinion 7J, fast on the end of a shaft b',

` supported in suitable bearings 52213, said shaft being extended loosely through a sleeve having at one end a bevel-pinion b* and at its opposite end a disk or plate h4, provided with -a pawl h5, acted upon by a suitable spring h6,

said shaft outside of said disk having fast on it acarn if, having a notch 715, the bevel-pinionl h" engaging a bevel-gear L, fast on the shaftr of a type cylinder or wheel b. ItV will of course be understood that the type lmay oe changed to indicate any desired words or business or firm 'owning the cash-recorder. This type-carrying cylinder has attached to it firmly at its opposite end a pinion 67, Which engages a'pinion 0S, (see Fig. 5,) attached to a bed-roll h", (see dotted lines, Fig. 4,) which supports' the ticket or check strip referred to, said check-strip, in the form of a roll, being mounted on a suitable axle bm, supported 'shown in Fig. i1.

in a shield bl?, connected to and extended from the framework of the machine. The type in this present instance is supposed to bc inked by a hand appliance, and the ink is properly laid by or through the action of a roll c, (shown chiefly by dott-ed lines in Fig. land tnlllines in Fig. 3,) the journals ol said roll beingacted upon by a snit-able spring, as against the type-cylinder.

The ticket or ehe-ci; strip passes undcrr-niitable rolls $2 and si, which in a measure act as guide-rolls, 'the roll il preventing the printed strip from rising and coming in nont-art a scc- Vond time with the typo-cylinder.

Frein the foregoing it will be nnderstooifl that when the draive" is cit-sed the feed-rolls and the print' cylinder are both moved simultaneously,the printingrylinder printing Upon the strip the legend required-vit., the naine of the hrm and class et business or goods, ibc--ieaving a suitable space in receive the market the salesman to indicato the anionnt of the sale.

tl`he. stroke imparted to the drawer and the motion imparted to the shaft/a and the printing-cylinder are sov proportioned that the to press it printed portions 'will always come properly` under -the carbon or other ribbon d', which overlaps the guide shelf or support d' and the strip a?, lying thereon, so that the pencil of the salesman, when writing upon the salesstrip EX to indicate the amount the sale, Will, through the carbon` marl: the ticliet or check strip in a like ina-nner, the feed of the check-strip always being ,inst enough to leave a' ticket or check showing the sale ljust made protruding beyond the feed-rolls all ready to be torn oit and delivered to the customer, as

The carbon ribbon d is laken from a suit-- able roii or cylinder, as d, sustained in suit able bars d3, two of said bars beingarrztnged parallel to each other, and said ribbon is Wound npon a suitable shai't or roller dl, also supported between said bars, said roll r hay4 ing fast on it a ratchet-tooth wheel d, (see Figs. l0 and 11,) which is engaged by a pawl (ZG, carried bya paivl-earrierd^`, shown as a lever having its hub mounted upon `the end of the said shaft di, the 'pawl-carrier being retained in position en said end by ineans o a washer G and a screw 'T'. The pawlcarrier has a little lip or linger which is extended down to one side of the dru11i-actuating pawl H', and said drum-actintting pawl has a lump or cam 10, which, whenever the pawl il is moved to turn the drum, acts upon the pawl carrier (Z7 and lifts it, causing its pawl d, in engagementwith the ratchet-wheelfiltro move the said shaft d, and so gradually and slowly wind upon it the carbon ribbon dl, taking it from the roll d2. The detent d coperaties with said ratchet-wheel to prevent any retrograde movement. Then the drawer is closed and the ticket or oheelr strip has been fed through ready to be torn olii, a printed porltion. of said printed or check strip is left in IIC propel' position under the carbon ribbon, so that the pencil of the operator, inserted through the slot m,'may make a mark upon said strip between the words Cash check and, say, the words Bought of. (See Fig. 2.)

When the proper finger-keys E of the ap` paratus have been depressed so that'the operator by his thumbwnvthelfrodk isf-reeV to rack-bar a is pushed backby or through the contact of the drawer with the heel 121, and` at the Sametime the strong spiral spring f 3 is.

stretched, and consequently when thedrawer is started outwardly byits spring the spiral sprin gf 3 act-s on the rackand causes it to follow the drawer, the said rack during the outward movement ofthe drawer turning the shaft a and its attached disk or pawl-.carrier and pawl, the latter revolving or clicking around vthe teeth vof the ratchet ao,leaving"the'shaft a, however, at rest. During this rotation of the shaft a15 by the opening drawer the rod or `shaft b is also rotated by or through the bevel-gears a and b,- but at such time the shaft b turns loosely in the sleeve carrying thevbevel-gear b, and the plate h4 and the cam h7 turns under the pawl h5 in the direction of the arrow on said cam,-(see Fig. 7,) and conseqnently the disk h* and the pawl and the bevel-gear remain at rest and the type-cylinder is not moved'; but as the drawer is being closed, or as"sloon as the projection a, carried by the drawer, meets the heel am, the drawer being then partially closed, the motion of the shaft b is started, butin the opposite direction, so that the shoulder hs of the cam immediately meets the point of the pawl h5, and thereafter the disk hs, .plate h4, and the bevel-gear b4 are moved with the shaft b', and the printing-cylinder and feeding-rolls a? a are -rotated for the proper distance. Herein. the pointed journal or bearing n, entering the roll of paper forming the salesstrip, (see the left-hand side of theroll vin Fig. 3,) is represented'as carried by a rod n', mounted in an elbow-lever H29, substantially such as described in my application, Serial No. 534,795, dated February 26, 1897, said elbow-lever having cooperating with it a suitable ratchet, as n4, (see Fig. 2,) the action of which is fully described in said application.

So far as I am aware I am the first to employ in a sales-recorder using a sales-strip which is operated automatically by the movement of the drawerafter the same has been unlocked a ticket or check strip, the latter being arranged transversely with relation to the'sales-strip and being operated automatically during a movement of the drawer, so that blank spaces of the ticket or check strip may be always kept in proper relation to the blank spaces of the sales-stri p when an entry is to be made through the intervention of a suitable carbon or other ribbon.

This invention is notlimited' to the exact construction shown for the automatic feeding mechanism for the ticket check strip or to the exact means for actuating the same so long as the said actuating means -is under the control of the drawer in its movements.

It will be understood that the feeding mechanism for the ticket or check strip must have imparted to it a 'uniform feed movement in order that a printed part of the strip may always4 be put and left in the proper position under the carbon ribbon, so that the entry made by the salesman on the sales-strip may appear properly on the check-strip at the proper point, and it will also be remembered that the ticket or check strip is moved by the closing of the drawer. Now to insure this like movement of the ticket or check strip each time thatthe drawer is closed the drawer must always be opened to a certain point before it can be again closed, so that the `proper extent of closing movement may be had to properly' actuate the ticket or check strip mechanism. rTo provide for this, I have addedto the rack-bar au a toothed block nand on .the uidewaya.20 I have provided a lockingpawl n it being pivoted and free to swing between two stops t, one at each side, as shown bestinFi 2. Thepawlnnormallyhangsnear the frongend of the block n2 when the drawer is fully closed and locked. As the drawer is opened the block n2 meets and lifts the lpawl n3, S0 that said pawl rides with its point on the tooth at the top ofthe block, and consequently the drawer cannot be closed-until aft-er the block n2 has passed fully beyond the said pawl. As the drawer is closed after hat"- ing been opened to put into it thev cash of a sale, the inner end of the block n2 again meets the pawl n3, but this time at its opposite side, lifting the pawl and again putting the toothed top of the block n2 so that should the operator open the drawer the rack a could not pull or draw under the action of the spring f3. In thisfway it will be understood that the drawer must be fuily closed and the projection (L22 thereon must have, through the heel (L21, moved the rack n.19 fully to the left before the rack-it having been started tothe left, Fig. 2, by the drawer-can be again moved to the right by the spring f When the drawer has lbeen fully closed., the block 'n.2 passes from under the pawl n3, letting it again drop, as in Fig. 2. )Nere it not for this block and pawl irregular movements might be given to the ticket or check strip which would thoroughly disorganize the operation of the cash-recorder.

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

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l. In a sales-recorder, a drawer, locking means to hold the said drawer closed, a spring to open the drawer, when the lookin g means has been actuated, means to control and move a sales-strip on the opening of the drawer, means to sustain a ticket or check strip, a carbon sheet or web, and automatic means to move said ticket or check strip transversely with relation to said sales-strip, whereby a blank portion of said ticket orcheck strip may be insured opposite a blank portion of vsaid sales-strip preparatory to making an entry thereon, in order that the salesman when making an entry on the sales-strip may duplicate the entry upon the ticket or check strip,`

the latter being delivered from the recorder, substantially as described.

2. In a sales-recorder, a case having a movable drawer, means to control. and feed a salesstrip preparatory to openin g said drawer, and independent means operated by said drawer to thereafter automatically control andvfeet a ticket or check strip transversely to said sales-stripI substantially as described.

3. In a sales-recorder, means to sustain and feed a sales-strip, means Ato support and feed4 aticket or check strip transversely with relation to said sales-stri p, feeding-rolls to grip said ticket or check strip, a drawer, and automatically-operated means controlled as to its action by said drawer to automatically start said rolls into operation to feed saidy ticket or check stri p transversely to said salesstrip, substantially as described. I

Ll. in a sales-recorder, means to sustain and feed .a sales-strip, a drawer, means controlled by the opening of said drawer to actuate said sales-strip, means to supporta ticket or check strip, two sets of feediiig-rolls to grip said ticket or check strip at opposite edges of said sales-strip, automatically operated means under the control of said drawer to start said feeding-rolls into operation to feed said ticket or check strip transversely to said feed-strip, substantially as described.

5. In a salesrecorder, the following instrumenta-lities, viz: a drawer, means to lock the same, means to control and feed a sales-strip when the said drawer is unlocked and being opened, means to sustain and feed a ticket or check strip transversely to said sales-strip, means to automatically feed said ticket or check strip transversely to 'said sales-strip, and a 'printing mechanism to print said ticket or check strip intermittingly, the said print-V ing mechanism and feeding mechanism for the check-strip being controlled as to their time ot' operation by the drawer, substantially as described.

f3. In a sales-recorder, means to support and feed a sales-strip; means to support and feed a check-strip, and means to support a carbon sheet or web, combined with means to actuate said check-strip, a drawer, and means intermediate said drawer and the means for actuating the check-strip to feed the latter transversely with relation to the movement of the sales-strip, substantially as described.

7. ln a sales-recorder, inea-ns to control and feed a sales-strip; and means to control and feed ticket or check strip; combined with a drawer; a rack adapted to be actuated by the closing ofthe drawer; and means intermediate said rack and the feeding mechanism for said ticket or check strip to feed the latter as the drawer is being closed, substantially as described.

S. In a Salesrecorder, means to control and feed a sales-strip; means to control and feed a ticket or check strip; and a printing mechanism to print upon said ticket or check strip; combined with a drawer and rack adapted to be moved in one direction by the closing of said drawer; and means intermediate said rack and said ticket or check strip; feeding mechanism and printing mechanism to effect the movement of said ticket or check strip mechanism and said printing mechanism while the drawer is being closed, substan tially described.

9. In a sales-recorder, means to support a ticket' or check strip, means to feed said strip transversely with relation to a 'sales-strip; a drawer; a rack moved by saidl drawer as the latter is being closed; a' spring to move said rack when the drawer is being opened, and means intermediate said rack and said ticket or check strip feeding mechanism to operate -the' same to feed the said ticketorcheck strip only when the drawer is being closed, substantially as described. y

l0. In a sales-recorder, means to support a ticket or check strip; means to feed said strip transversely with relation `t0 a sales-strip; a printing mechanism; a drawer; a rack moved by said drawer as the latter is being closed; a spring to move said rack when the drawer is being opened; and means intermediate said rack and said ticket or check strip feeding mechanism to operate the same to feed the said ticket or check strip only when the drawer is being closed, and means intermediste the means for actuating the feeding mechanism when the drawer is being closed and the said feeding mechanism, to turn the printing mechanism as the drawer is being closed, substantially as described.

1l. In a salesaecorder, a. support for a ticket or check strip; a drum to receive upon it a sales-strip; a pawl having a cam projection; means to operate said pawl to turn said drum; a carbon ribbon or sheet, means to sustain and move said carbon ribbon or sheet with relation to said `ticket orchcck strip, and a pawl, controlled by the cam for actuating the said drum to wind the said carbon IOO ribbon as the same is being used, nubstan-l .tially as described.

l2. The upright shaft a having a bevelgear and a pinion; a rack under the control of a drawer and engaging said pinion to move said shaft; a printing device having a bevelf gear and cross-shaft fast upon it; a bevelgear in engagement with the said upright shaft having lixed to ita notched plate; combined with a sleeve through which said crossshaft 'is extended, said sleeve having a pawlcarrier and pawl adapted to be engaged by the said notched plate, the gear on said sleeve engaging a suitable gearing for actuating the printing mechanism, substantially as described.

13. In a casu-recording'mechanisni',^a^eed1 ing mechanism to feed a ticket or cheek strip, a drawer; a rack actuated in one direction by said drawer and in the opposite direction by a spring; means intermediate said rack and said ticket 'or check strip having mechanism to actuate `the same vas the drawer is closed; combined with a toothed block and a pawl,

said pawl coperating therewith to restrain the closing of the drawer until after the latter has been opened to a predetermined position and thereafter restraining the backward movement of the rack, until after said drawer shall have been fully closed, wherebya defi- "to operate said'ticket or check strip and feedn rolls, and means intermediate said drawer and the means for feeding the check-strip to aotuate the check-strip-feeding mechanism as the drawer is closed, substantially as de scribed.

In testimony whereof -I have signed my name to this specication in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

AZEL c. neuen.

Witnesses: I

I-I. P. HANDLEY, F. E. CURTIS.

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