US647211A - Cash-register. - Google Patents

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No. 647,2. Patented Apr. I0, I900.

M. G. WOOD.

CASH REGISTER.

(App lication filed Nov. 7, 1899.) (No Model.) 4 Sheets-Sheet Fig.1.

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M. G. WOOD.

CASH REGISTER.

(Application filed Niov. '7, 1899.)

Patenied Apr. I0, I900.

4 Sheets-Sheet 2.

(no Model.)

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No. 647,2". Patented Apr. l0, l900 M. G. WOOD.

CASH REGISTER.

(Application filed Nov. 7, 1899.)

4 Sheets-Sheet 3.

(No Model.)

Patented Apr. 10,; 1900.

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MARSHALL GEORGE TVOOD, OF BRIGHTON, ENGLAND.

CASH-REGISTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 647,211, dated April 10, 1900.

' Application filed November 7,1899. Serial No. 736,151. (No model.)

T0 in whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MARSHALL GEORGE WVOOD, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at 21 St. Jam ess street, Brighton, in the county of Sussex, England, have invented new and useful Improvements in Cash Registers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to cash-registerin g apparatus of the kind wherein the amounts of cash received from time to time are written upon a paper band, which when the apparatus is moved is caused to travel to such an extent as to bring a fresh portion of the band into position to be written upon and to move the portion of the band upon which a record was last writ-ten behind a glass screen, and to that class of such apparatus which is mounted upon an axis, so that it can be moved to enable the amount recorded upon the band by a shop assistant or other person to be inspected by a person paying the money, the objects of my invention being to simplify the construetion of such apparatus, to reduce the cost of production, and to render it more easy of manipulation than apparatus of the same class as heretofore constructed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure Us a side elevation of a cash-register having my improvements applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a sectional side elevation thereof with one end of the casingremoved. Fig. 3 isavertical section of the apparatus seen from the back, and Fig. at is a sectional plan of the apparatus.

The apparatus comprises a casing a, which is advantageously of the flattened oval shape shown and is provided with a window 1), partially covered by a glass screen 0 and laterally with a sleeve or socket cl, rotatably mounted upon an upright pillar or post. The pillar or post comprises a rod c, screwed at its lower end into a rabbeted foot or base e and at its upper end to a rabbeted flanged cap 6 The sleeve or socket d tits and turns on the rabbeted foot 6' and cap (2*, as clearly seen in Fig. 3. A springf (see Figs. 3 and 4) is arranged inside the socket cl to normally turn the easing into a position such that the aforesaid windowb is turned toward the purchaser, the said spring being coiled around the rod e and secured at one end to the said rod and at the'other end to the casing a. To enable access to be had to the-interior of the casing, it is provided at the back with a hinged door a, which is furnished with a lock a The paper band 9, upon which the amounts of cash received are to be written, is simply placed in the bottom of the casing in the form of a roll (see Fig. 2) and the end of the said band is drawn up to the top of the casing, passing over a tension-sprin g h and a table 2', behind the window I) and glass screen 0, and thence down and over a guide or feed roller j, and on to a receiving-drum 7a. This receiving-drum 7c is provided with lateral pivots or trunnions 7c which are passed into guide or bearing grooves Z 1, formed on the inside of the casing a, so that the drum can be inserted from the back of the apparatus and can rotate in the said guides. The feed-roller j is fitted on a spindle m, which is pivotally mounted in the casing a and sleeve d, as will be clearly seen on reference to Fig. 3. The said roller is also furnished with a rubber or other suitable facing j,and bears upon flanges 70 70 provided at each end of the drum 7.0, so

that when the roller j is rotated, as herein- I after desc'ribed,it revolves the receiving-drum it by frictional contact.

To operate the feed roller j, I advantageously secure a ratchet-wheel n to the portion of the spindle on between the roller j and one end of the casing a, and I provide a pawllever o, loosely mounted on the spindle m and carryinga pawl p,adapted to engage with the teeth of theratchet-wheel n. The said pawl-lever 0 also has a pin g at its upper end, which pin q projects through a curved slot 0" (the center from which it is described coinciding with the pivot of the pawl-lever) into the sleeve or socket d. A spring .9, which is attached to the lower end of the pawl-lever 0 and to the side of the casing Ct, tends to pull the pawl-lever into such a position that the pin q is at the other end of the slot to that shown in Fig. 2-that is to say, such that the pin occupies the position indicated at q. When, however, the casing a is in the position indicated in the drawings-that is to say,with the windowb facing the purchaser-- the said pawl-lever 0 has been turned against the action of the spring .9 into the position shown in the drawings, (most clearly in Fig. 2,) this being effected by a pin or tappet t,

which projects from the upright rod 6 and .into the path of the pin g, so as to hold back the pawl-lever o and prevent it from moving With the casing. With this arrangement when the casing, which is normally, as above described, held by the spring f with the window 1), containing the glass screen 0, facing the purchaser, is turned by the shop assistant or other person upon the vertical pillar, so that the window faces him inorder that he may write the amount of the purchase on the paper bandg, which is presented behind the said window I), the pin q is moved away from the stop-pin 25, so that the spring 8 can pull back the pawl-lever o, the pawl p during this movementinoperativelyslidingoverthe teeth of the ratchet-wheel 11. When, having registered the amount, the assistant allows the casing a to be returned to its normal position by the spring f, the pin q upon the pawl-lever 0 again comes into contact with the stoppin or tappet If, being therebyheld from turning with the casing CL, so that the pawl 19 turns the ratchet-Wheel through a predetermined distance corresponding to the extent to which the pin (1 is held from rotating. The feed-roller j is thereby turned and operates the drum 70, so as to wind the paper upon the said drum from the roll in the bottom of the casing a in the direction indicated by the arrows, Fig. 2. This movement of the paper brings the amount just registered uponthe paper band 9 by the shop assistant under the glass screen 0 in the window, leaving the paper under the uncovered portion of the windoW free for the next entry.

A stop-pin to is fixed to the upright rod 6 to limit the movement of the casing a in either direction, this being effected through the medium of the stop-piece o, whichis secured in the interior of the sleeve cl, the two ends of this piece o by coming into, contact with the stop pin t limiting the movement of the sleeve upon the upright pillar.

Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said in vention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is 1. In a cash-register, the combination with a support, of a casing pivotally mounted on said support, said casing being provided with a recording-aperture and a table below said aperture to support a recording-band, of a feeding-roller for said band within said casin g, a ratchet-wheel connected with said feedroller, an operating-lever, a pawl carried by said lever and engaging said ratchet-wheel and a stationary part secured to said support in position to be engaged by a part connected with said lever when-the casing is moved around. said support, substantially as described.

2. In a cash-register, the combination of an upright pillar or support, a casing pivotally mounted thereon, a paper-roll loosely held in the bottom of the casing, a receiving-drum pivotally mounted in the casing, a feed-roller pivotally mounted in the casing and arranged to frictionally drive the said drum and feed the paper in front of a window in the casing and on to the said drum, a ratchet-wheel rigidly secured to the feed-roller, a pawl-lever pivotally mounted in the casing and having a pawl engaging with the ratchet-wheel and a projecting pin adapted to engage with a fixed tappet or pin upon the upright pillar, substantially as hereinbefore described.

3. In a cash-register, the combination of an upright pillar or support, a casing pivotally mounted thereon, a paper-roll loosely held in the bottom of the casing, a receiving-drum pivotally mounted in the casing, a feed-roller pivotally mounted in the casing and arranged to frictionally drive the drum and feed the paper in front of a window in the casing and on to the drum, a. ratchet-wheel rigidly secured to the feed-roller, a pawl-lever pivotally mounted in the casing and having a pawl engaging with the ratchet-wheel and a projecting pin adapted to engage with a fixed tappet or pin upon the upright pillar, and a spring attached to the casing and the pawllever, substantially as, and for the purpose, hereinbefore described.

MARSHALL GEORGE WOOD.

Witnesses:

JOHN E. BoUsFIELn, O. G. REDFERN.

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