US700748A - Combined mechanical cashier and register. - Google Patents

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No. 700,748. Patented May 27, I902. I. S. DEMENT.

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ISAAC S. DEMENT, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGN- MENTS, TO AMERICAN MECHANICAL CASHIER COMPANY, A CORPORA- TION OF NEW JERSEY.

COMBINED MECHANICAL CASHIER AND REGISTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 700,748, dated May 27, 1902. Application filed October 5, 1900- gelifll 1 (N modem To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ISAAC S. DEMENT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Combined Mechanical Cashier and Register, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to a machine adapted to receive sums of money, whether in coins or bills, convey them to a point or points where they will be secure from theft and accessible, if desired, for making change, register and add the amount of a purchase, and deliver to the purchaser the proper change. General features of both the cashier and register portion of the machine were described in Letters Patent granted to myself and Charles F. Bassett February 7, 1899, No. 618,932, and features of the preferred form of register employed by me were illustrated in an application for Letters Patent filed by me March 9, 1900, serially numbered 7,972.

In the present application I set forth and claim novel details of construction involved in uniting the cashier and register in a single instrument, but in some respects capable of application to other machines than a combined cashier and register.

In the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, Figure 1 is ascotional elevation of my machine, the section being taken in a plane from front to rear of the machine. Fig. 2 is a partly-sectional front elevation thereof. Fig. 3 is a partial right-hand sectional elevation. Fig. 4 is a similar view, parts being broken away so as to show the mechanism at the left-hand side of the machine. Fig. 5 is a detail view, to an enlarged scale, of the selecting mechanism with parts in normal position. Fig. 6 is a similar View of the same mechanism, showing the position of the parts at one point of op eration of the machine. Figs. 7 and 8 are partial sectional side elevations to illustrate the action of parts of the resetting and locking mechanism. Fig. 9 is a partial front elevation taken at the left-hand end of the machine with the case removed. Fig. 10 is a sectional elevation of a coin-wheel and its controller-wheel. Fig. 11 is a front view of a coin-wheel. Figs. 12, 13, and 14 are detail views of the detachable handle connections. Figs. 15 and 16 are detail front and side views of the ejector-levers and operating parts. Fig. 17 is a detail side view of the five-dollar-andtwenty-five-cent permutating devices. Fig. 18 is a detail end view of the five-dollar-andtwenty-five-cent extra permutating-shafts, showing how the wings on said shafts support the tumblers. Fig. 19 is a detail end view showing how the resetting-bar operates the extra permutating-shafts. Fig. 20 is a detail view of the numeralkey-unlocking mechanism. Fig. 21 is a detail plan view of the same. Fig. 22 is a detail View of the rackbar-returning mechanism. Fig. 23 is a detail front view of the five-dollar-and-twentyfive-cent permutating devices. Fig. 2 1 is a detail view of the connection between the two parts of the indicator-controllin g shaft. Fig. 25 is a detail View of the clutch-pinions. Fig. 26 is a top plan of the auxiliary tumbler-shafts or operating-sleeves. Fig. 27 is a detail View of a portion of the permutating mechanism. Fig. 28 is a detail sectional View of the clutchgears. Fig. 29 is a detail section on the line a a, Fig. 26.

1 is the fixed frame of the machine, having suitable shape to support the different moving parts of the machine hereinafter described.

2 is a suitable casing having in its lower part openings for cash-drawers, (not shown,) a discharge-opening (not shown) for the printed ticket, at 6 a series of openings for the insertion of bills and coins of various denominations, at 7 a trough immediately in front of and below said openings to receive bills and coin ejected through said openings for the purpose of making change, at 8 a glass panel through which the money in the cashwheels can be viewed,at 10 an opening through which the register may be viewed, and at 11 openings for viewing the indicator-wheels.

12 13 are a series of cash-receiving wheels mounted loosely upon shaft 14, the wheels 12 being each made of two plates having radially-curved or corrugated portions, which being presented toward each other form pockets 15, wherein may be slipped a bill after it has been properly crumpledinto sufficiently-small dimensions. Sufficient space is left between the plates to form circumferential openings in the pockets, through which the ejecting devices hereinafter described may work.

The bill-receiving wheels 12 just described are substantially such as shown in the Dement and Bassett patent above referred to, except that as shown here I prefer to draw together the bottoms of the pockets, so as to make them of cup shape, closed except for the ejector-slot.

The coin-receiving wheels 13 I have somewhat improved in the way of simplicity and uniformity of construction. Each coin-wheel is made up of two plates, having stamped out of them ledges 16 for the reception of coins. Midway between the two plates of a single Wheel is arranged a stop-plate 17, recessed, as shown at 18, to receive and assist in holding in place the coin. The plates in each wheel and the ledges and recesses thereon are so spaced as to allow on each wheel for a particular coin or number of coins which that wheel is to take.

The drawings illustrate a machine having wheels for containing coins and bills of any denomination between one cent and twenty dollars. The money receiving and ejecting openings or slots 6 coincide with the several cash-wheels and are of size and shape corresponding to the particular piece of money which is to be inserted and ejected through them. The coin-slots are, as shown, preferably arranged in a slant, so that the coin is inserted through the same in a slanting position, so as to occupy one of the recesses 18 in the stop-plate, rest at one edge on a ledge 16 on one side of the cash-wheel, and lie immediately below the next higher ledge on the other side of the same wheel. This arrangement shortens up the machine lengthwise by making the coin-wheels narrower, and yet arranges the coin so it can be surely struck and ejected by the ejector-arms. In front of the cash-Wheels 12 13 are a series of wheels, called by me controller-wheels 19, mounted loosely on their shaft 20. The controller-wheels are substantially the same as those shown in the prior patent referred to. They are notched at 21 and have teeth 22,the said notches and teeth having three functions-411st, to engage the cash-wheels; second, to engage the lockingpawls, and, third, to engage the controllers hereinafter described. The teeth of the wheels 19,which correspond to the coin-wheels 13, directly engage the ledges 16 on one side of the same, while the teeth of the wheels 19, which correspond to the bill-receiving wheels 12, have ledges 23, which engage the corrugat-ions of the bill-receiving wheels 12. The space between the notches 21 of the controller-wheels corresponds to the length of the cash-wheel receptacle for that particular controller-wheel, so that by moving a controllerwheel. the space of one toot-h 22 its corresponding cash-wheel will be rotated the length of a cash-receptacle. A series of pawls 24 are pivoted loosely 011 a shaft 27 and are each provided with a downwardly-extending tooth 25 to engage the notches 21 in the controllerwheel, such engagement being insured by the action of gravity or springs. On one side each pawl 24 is provided with a laterally-extending lug 46 and a laterally and forwardly extending elongated lip 26, both adapted to engage with a lip 45 of the controller, hereinafter referred to, said lip 45 riding over the lip 26 and under the lug 46, which are far enough apart to enable the lip 45 to pass between them. Lip 26 is long enough to bridge one or more of the notches 21. On its other side the pawl 24 has a lateral project-ion 92, adapted to be engaged by resetting means hereinafter described.

29 represents a series of levers,denominated by me controllers, one for each controller wheel, and pivoted upon the controller-wheel shaft 20. Each controller has at its.upper end a key 30, hearing a number corresponding to the denomination of the piece of money which is to be carried by the cash-wheel cor responding to that particular controller and lying immediately in rear thereof. The controllers have a pivot or are broken at 31, and the upper or loose member has a for ward-projecting arm 32, bearing a lip 33, adapted to engage the notches of the controller-wheels.

34 34 are a series of sliding bars, called by me controller-bars, guided at bottom by a slotted guide-plate 35 and at top by engagement of their jaws 36 with the controller-shaft 20. They are held normallyin upper position by springs 37. Each controller-bar has a forward extension 38, with which engages a lip 39 on a forward-extending arm 40 of a controller 29. The upward pressure of spring 37 therefore through bar 34, forward extension 38, lip 39, and arm 40 holds the controller normally in its upper position, (represented in Fig. 1,) in which position it is stopped by the engagement of its rearwardlyprojecting stop-arm 41 with the pawl-shaft 27. The two members of controllers 29 are held and returned to normal position in line with one another by a spring 42, attached at one end to the stop-arm 41 and at the other to a lip 43 on the rearwardly-extending arm 44 of the upper hinged member of the controller. The limit of motion of such upper hinged member of the controller under the influence of spring 42 is reached when the lip 43 comes in contact with the stop-arm 41. The second lip of rearward arm 44 engages under a curved lug 46 of pawl 24-.

\Vhen the operator seizing a key 30 draws it forward and downward, the spring 42 will yield to allow the upper portion of the controller-lever to pivot upon the lower portion, and this pivotal motion bringing the lip 45 in engagement with the lug 46 of the pawl 24 will lift the tooth of said pawl from engage- IIO ment with the controller-wheel notch, freeing the controller-wheel. Immediately thereupon the lip 33 of the forward arm 32 of said pivoted portion of the controller-lever will engage in a notch of the controller-wheel, and the continued forward and downward motion of the controller will rotate said wheel. As the controller-lever lip 45 passes out from under the lug 46 it will allow the pawl 24 to drop back against the controller-wheel and engage by its tooth 25 in the next succeeding notch of said wheel, thus arresting and limiting the motion of the wheel. The forward and down ward motion of the controller has, by means of the arm 40, lip 39, and forward extension 38, forced down the controller-bar 84 against the resistance of spring 37. WVhen, therefore, the controller-wheel has been arrested, as already described, by the pawl 24 and the controller-key is released, the spring 42 will restore the upper portion of the controllerlever to normal position with respect to the lower portion of such lever, withdrawing its lip 33 from engagement with the controller- Wheel, and the spring 37 will then throw the controller lever back to normal position, where it is arrested by the engagement of stoparm 41 with the pawl-shaft 27. During its return movement of the controller-lever the forward-extending lip 26 of the pawl 24, extending under the path of lip 45, prevents the accidental engagement of the lip with any notch of the controller-wheel. The long lip 26 also prevents the disengagement of the controller from the controller-wheel until it has completed its stroke and the wheel been moved one complete tooth, making it necessary to operate the controller properly-that is, a full strokeas if that is not done the controller will neither return nor bring the controllerwheel back with it.

The abovedescribed motion of the controller and controller-wheel has by reason of the engagement of said wheel with a cashwheel 12 or 13 rotated said wheel in the dition shown by the arrow in Fig. 1 through an angle equal to the space occupied by one of the cash-receptacles in said wheel. Therefore if a piece of money be placed in its proper wheel and the controller-key be operated as just described wheel 12 or 13 will be rotated so as to bring the pocket or receptacle in which the said piece of money has just been placed up away from the opening 6 in the case and safely secure such piece of money from removal from the machine until by a subsequent operation of the machine it shall become necessary in the making of change.

In the operation of my machine, as will appear more fully hereainfter, it is always the last-inserted piece of money in any cash-wheel which is withdrawn for making change in case that particular wheel is drawn on for making change. If the bills of a certain denomination accumulate in any particular wheel more rapidly than they are used for making change, the surplus bills are removed by ejecting-levers 47, connected to and operated by the controller-bars 34, as described in the said Dement and Bassett patent, and falls to the cash drawer or drawers in the lower part of the case. The surplus coins are discharged by gravity. A curved plate 13 prevents the premature discharge of coins or bills. As in the said Dement and Bassett patent a series of plates, called by me operating-plates 48, are fixed on the controllerwheel shaft 20 and have lugs 49 49, of which one or the other engages a projection 50 of the corresponding sliding plate 51, called by me a selector-slide, for reasons which will be hereinafter apparent. It willbe seen that the projections or lugs 49 project under lip 50 of the projections 50 of the selector-slides 51 when engaged by the latter. (See Fig. 6.) Therefore when the support afforded to the selector-slide by the purchase or numeral key is removed the said slide will nevertheless be held up by the engagement of parts 49 50 and the unlocking and resetting operations hereinafter described may be effected with out awaiting the completion of the change making operation. The shaft 20, and there fore the operating-plates 48, have in the present instance an oscillating movement, as in the said Dement and Bassett patent; but whereas in said patent this movement is accomplished by an oscillating movement of the main lover or handle of the machinel now prefer to accomplish the oscillating movement automatically by the following mechanism: 52 is the main lever or handle of the machine,carried by a short shaft 53, journaled in the end (preferably the left end) frame of the machine. It is here shown (see Fig. 12) as attached to said shaft removably by having a square end 54 engaging a square seat in the end of said shaft. The thumb-screw 55 carries a cam-shaped member 56, which is shaped like square end 54, so as to enter said seat along with said square end, but on being turned forty-five degrees it projects at the corners beyond the sides of the square end, so as to engage a slot 57, slightly inclined to the axis of shaft 53, so that by being turned it will serve to bind it andhold the handle in place. With this construction the handle may be removed to prevent malicious or accidental interference with the machine. Loosely mounted upon the shaft 53 is an eccentric 58, carrying a spring-pawl 59, engaging a notched hub or collar on shaft 53. When the handle is moved in the direction of the arrow, F1 g. 4, it will turn with it the eccentric 58, and it will move freely in the opposite direction, the pawl sliding over the notched collar without moving the eccentrio or any other parts of the mechanism, and thus the operative action of the handle is only in one direction. The motion of the eccentric 58 is transmitted by rod 61 to an oscillating arm or lever 62, fixed to the shaft 14 of the cash-wheels, and by said arm is transmitted through rod 63 to an oscillating arm 64, Fig. 7 rigid on the controller-wheel shaft 20. It

roar/4e will be seen that a continuous rotary motion of the handle 52 will be by this means transformed into an oscillating motion of the shaft 20, and therefore of the operating-plates 48, fixed to said shaft. As in the said Dement and Bassett patent the change-making ejector-levers are mounted on an oscillating shaft 66. I now construct these levers, however, with astirrup-shaped portion 67, (see Fig. 15,) embracing said shaft and so arranged that the stirrups, as shown, act as spacers for the several levers. The levers are held by spring 68 in their retracted position, (shown in Fig. 16,) where they are stopped by the impingement of lug or spline 69 on said shaft with the side of the slotted bearing 70 of said shaft, Fig. 16. The spring 68 is attached at one end to the stationary frame of the machine and at the other end to an arm 71, which is made of sheet metal and is light enough to spring laterally and has an inclined surface at 72. 73 is an arm on the right-hand end of the controller-shaft 20 and vibrating with its laterally-projecting pin 74C in the path of the outer end of spring-arm 71. It will now be seen that when the controller-shaft 20 is oscillated by the means described the arm 73 will be likewise oscillated and its pin 74 will pass down over the incline 72, the spring-arm yielding to allow the same to pass. The pin then engages under the spring-arm. The return motion of the arm 73, with its pin 74, will lift the spring-arm 71, thus oscillating the ejectorshaft 66 and throwing forward the ejectors 65, so as to eject any change which is in the pockets or receptacles of the cash-wheels immediately opposite the change-making openings 6. The pin 74 then passes above the springarm 71 as the hand-lever 52 reaches the end of its movement, allowing the ejectors to drop back to their normal position under the in linence of gravity and the spring 68.

The main lever or operating-handle 52 is normally held or prevented from motion in the direction of the arrow, Fig. 1,by engagement behind a bolt or pin 75, having a thumbpiece 76 at its outer end and a spring 77, which holds it normally in its outer position to engage behind said lever At 78 the bolt is grooved or shouldered to receive a lockingarm 79 on a vertically-sliding tumbler 80, which is guided at the bottom in the stationary guide-plate 81 and at top by the ejectorshaft 66. A spring 82, attached at one end to the shaft 66 and at the other end to said tumbler, holds said tumbler normally up,with its arm 79 in engagement with the lockinggroove '78, so as to prevent the pushing in of the bolt and the unlocking of the handle 52.

At 83, Figs. 8 and 9, is a bell-crank lever, pivoted on any suitable support in the machine-for example, upon the shaft 84 of the permutator plates or wings 85, Fig. at, which are of the same arrangement and construction in the present machine as in the said Dement and Bassett patent. One of thepushbars or tumblers 86, operated by the units row of the purchase-keyboard in the manner set forth in the said patent, is arranged to engage the upwardly-projecting arm of the said bell-crank lever 88, so that when the said push-bar is thrown to the rear by the operation of anyone of the units-keys the said bellcrank lever will be oscillated, drawing down the tumbler and releasing the bolt 75, so that it may be pressed in to free the operating handle or lever 52. It is thus necessary that the final or operating row of the purchase-keyboard be operated before the handle 52 can be moved to discharge any change from the machine, and it will appear hereinafter that by the use of other locking devices the said units-row of keys can be only operated after certain other necessary preliminary operations are performed.

The sliding bars 87, to which the sliding plates 51 (called by me selector-slides are attached, are operated from the push-bars or tumblers 86 substantially as in the said Doment and Bassett patent. In that patent, however, a construction was described in which the slides 51 were employed to lift the locking-pawls 24 of the controller-wheels. This construction involves the subjection of the units purchase keys and their connecting parts to considerable strain, where by reason of the special combination involved in mak ing certain particular quantities of change a number of bars 87 are lifted by the depression of a single purchase-key. In the present construction I have transferred this strain to the operating-handle by means of the fol lowing structure: Upon the upward extension 50 of the slide 51, which carries the lug 50", e11- gaging the lateral teeth 90 of the controllerwheels in the manner shown in the said Dement and Bassett patent, I mount a bell-crank lever 91, having a pendent arm in the path of the forward operating-plate lug 4:9 and a horizontal arm under a lateral projection 92 of pawl 24:. When, therefore, the operating plate is oscillated by the movement of the handle 52, its forward lug 49, impinging on the pendent arm of the bell-crank 91, will shift the horizontal arm of said bell-crank, and this motion will be transferred to the locking pawl 2-1: on any controller wheel whose selector-slide 51 has been raised so as to bring the said bell-crank up into proximity with its locking-pawl.

The keys 93 of the purchase or numeral keyboard are substantially such as shown in the said Dement and Bassctt patent, except that I have added at 94: a row of special or department keys, which are arranged to control the unlocking of the purchase or numeral keys.

In my aforesaid prior application, as well as in the present case, I have shown in addition to the locking-bar 95 for each row of keys a single locking-plate 96, common to all of the rows of keys-that is to say, all of the vertical key rods or shanks 97 pass through slots in said lock-plate 96. The rods 97 of the department-keys, however, have a cam surface or incline 98, which by engagement with the end of the slot in the lock-plate 96 will, when a department-key is depressed, force said lock-plate forward, and thus free the shoulders 99 of the numeral-keys from engagement with the front edges of their slots in said plate, so that the numeral-keys may be depressed. Fig. 1 is a sectional view in the plane of the numeral-keys, and Fig. 20 a partial view in the plane of the departmentkeys. This shifting motion of thelock-plate 96 is also utilized to free the keyboard mechanism from the indicator mechanism in the way describedin my said application. Therefore when a department-key is depressed and the lock-plate 96 is thereby shifted the purchase or numeral keys are released, the indicator-wheels are by their springs returned to normal position, and the keyboard mechanism is in readiness for being acted upon to produce the next movement of the indicator-wheels.

The department-key rods 97 have lateral shoulders or projections 100, engaging a lockplate 101, which slides on the plate 90 and which when notches 102 in said plate 101 are brought under said shoulders 100 will free the department-keys and enable any of them to be depressed. The shifting of this lockingplate 101 preliminary to the operation of a department-key is provided for by forming at the rear end of said plate 101 a vertical arm 108, which engages between two wings or lugs 104 on the permutator-shaft 84:. Thus the train of unlocking movements is as follows: A cash or controller key 30 being depressed will rock the said shaft 84 in the manner described in the Dement and Bassett patent by the impingement of the corresponding controller-bar 34 upon its corresponding permutator plate or wing 85, thus rocking the wings 104C and shifting the department-keylocking plate 101. A department-key may now be operated, shifting the locking-plate 96 so as to release the indicator from the keyboard mechanism and at the same time unlock the purchase or numeral keys, any one or more of which may now be depressed, so as to set the keyboard mechanism in the manner shown in my said application for subsequent acting upon the register and set and operate the keyboard push'bars or tumblers 86, so as to set the proper selector-slides in position to engage the controller-wheels of those cashwheels which are to deliver change, as more fully shown and described in the said Dement and Bassett patent. This rocking of the permutator-shaft has also, in the manner already described, unlocked the bolt of the hand-lever 52, which may now be drawn forward to shift the cash-whee1s from which change is to be discharged, unlock and reset the keys of the purchase or numeral keyboard reengage the indicator with the keyboard mechanism and operate the indicator to the new position, eject cash. from any of the wheels containing cash in pockets lying adjacent to the receiving-trough, and relock all the parts in normal position.

The resetting operation just mentioned is principally performed by the resetting-bar 105, which is guided in the frame 106 of the keyboard and engaged by the lower end or arm of a lever 107 of the first order, pivoted on the ejector-shaft 66 and having its upward-extending arm slotted at 108 to engage the pin 109 of an arm 110 on the rocking controller-shaft 20. The slot 108 is concentric with the controller-shaft at its upper portion and straight atits lower portion, so that during the first quarter-movement of the handle 52 the lever 107 will not be moved, but when the pin 109 reaches the lower straight portion of the slot 108 the lever 107 will be forced to the rear atits upper end and forward at its lower end, thus forcing forward theresetting-lmr 105. The movement of the lever through the third quarter will throw the lever 107 and resetting-bar 105 back to normal position. The said forward movement of the resetting-bar causes said bar to perform four functions or resetting operations. The forward end of the bar impinges upon a rocking yoke 111, which restores to normal position the keyboard-tumblers in the manner shown in the Dement and Bassett patent. Just prior to this operation an inclined shoulder 112 strikes the rounded upper end of an arm 113 of a shaft 114:, which has a long wing 115 engaging behind the upturned rear ends 116 of the down lock-bars 95, and thus by rocking said shaft shifts the plates 95 rearwardly, disengaging the keys of the purchase-keyboard and allowing any of the same that are depressed to spring back to normal position by the action of their individual springs 117. Springs 118, attached to each bar 95, restore the same to normal position when the shaft 114: is released by the return motion of the resetting-bar. The third resetting function of the bar 105 is per formed by a tooth or shoulder 119, which engages a wing 120, fixed to the permutatorshaft, throwing it forward and restoring the permutators to their normal position. The fourth resetting function of the resetting-bar is performed by the rear tooth 121, (see Figs. 19 and 23,) which engages any one of the teeth 122 of wheels 123 124 which happens to be ele= vated, so as to be engaged by the said tooth.

The shafts 125 120, carrying the Wheels 123 and 12;, (corresponding to the shafts S S of the Dement and Bassett patent,) are extra permutating-shafts required in working with United States moneyby the presence of the five and twenty-five denominations, which are a departure from the decimal order of the rest of the coinage and which are most conveniently arranged for by the use of these additional permutators. The shaft 125 extends from side to side of the machine and carries win gs 127 in position to engage certain of the IIO push-bars or tumblers S0 and toothed wheel 128 to be operated by the twenty-five cent controller-bar 34 and the toothed Wheel 123, cooperating, as just explained, with the resetting-bar 105, while the shaftl26 is in the form of a sleeve upon the reduced left-hand portion of the shaft 125 and carries wings 129 for operating certain of the push-bars or tumblers 86, a toothed wheel 130, adapted to be operated by the five-dollar controller-bar 31-, similarly to the operation of the wheel 128, (see Fig. 17,) and the toothed wheel 124: for coacting with the resetting-bar, as explained. Springs 131, fixed at a suitable point on the frame of the machine and bearing upon cam projections 132 on wheels 123 121, hold and restore said wheels and their shafts to any position to which they are turned either by the controller-bars 34 or the resetting-bar 105. Whenever the resetting-bar is forced forward, it will, as before stated, engage any one of the teeth 122 whichlies in its path and turn the wheels 123 124 sufficiently to bring or restore the teeth of wheels 128 130 so that one tooth on each of said wheels lies in the path of its corresponding controller-bar, and when on the depression of the controllerbar either of the wheels 128 130 is moved the corresponding wheel 123 124c is turned so as to bring one of its teeth 122 in position to be struck by the wing or tooth 121 of the resetting-bar when the handle is operated as described. This automatic mechanism takes the place of the hand resetting mechanism for the five and twenty-five shafts described in the Dement and Bassett patent. V

The function of the wheel 128 is to turn the shaft 125 so as to bring one or the other of the wings 127 into positon to raise the corresponding selector, these two wings being at right angles. Normally one of these wings is in position to raise the corresponding selector, while the other wing is flatwise, this being the condition, say, for regular decimal operationon the principle of cancellation; but if the twenty-five cent controller-bar is operated itinvolves a departure from the regular decimal system, and it becomes necessary to change the operation of the selectors to provide for the delivery of the proper change under these circumstances. In other words,the machine is normally set for operation with the regular succession of decimal amountsten cents, fifty cents, &c.and if an amount, such as twenty-five cents, is introduced that is not a multiple of the next lower denomination a shifting of the selectors is required to give the proper change.

In the Dement and Bassett patent the lower shafts M M which control the permutating or auxiliary push-bars, are superimposed. In my present construction I mount upon the frame in line three sets of sleeves or shafts 133, the first one controlled by the tens-keys, the second one by the hundreds keys, and the third by the thousands-keys. The keyboard being preferably narrower than the set of push-bars, I find it desirable to connect the thousands shafts or sleeves 133 with their corresponding key-rods by extending them or a core therein through the hundreds sleeve or shaft, connecting such key or shaft by pins 134:, passing through slots in the hundreds-sleeves.

In the construction of the tumbler and permutating part of this machine certain of the push-bars 86 are normally held up by their auxiliary tumblers 135 and must be depressed for some of the change-making operations of the'machine. In the said Dement and Bassett patent it was explained that for those push-bars or tumblers which are normally depressed the auxiliary tumblers or push-bars have an incline, which,sliding upon the upper rear edge or plate of the frame when such auxiliary tumblers are pushed forward, will cause the elevation of the corresponding push-bar or tumbler. It remains to add that in my present machine I cause an exactly reverse movement of the normal elevated push-bars or tumblers by forming upon their auxiliary tumblers an incline 136, Fig. 27, in exactly reverse direction to the incline on the other auxiliary tumblers, so that the' pressing forward of such auxiliary tumblers will cause the depression instead of the elevation of their corresponding push-bars S6.

The canceling operation of the hundreds-tumblers by the O-tens keys through a winged plate 137 is substantially the same in this case as in the Dementand Bassett patent In the form of machine shown in the present application the O-thousands key is adummykey having no function, and the cancellation of tumblers in the thousands row by the O-hundreds key is effected by connecting to said O-hundreds key one of the shafts or sleeves 133 of the row operated by the thousands-keys. (See Fig. 2G.)

In this case I do not enter into details of description of the specific register and indicator mechanism employed on my present machine, the same being reserved for another application. I have, however, shown and will fully describe so much of the register indicating and recording mechanism as is involved in the combination of the same with a mechanical cashier. It will be understood that the purpose of this part of the machine is to cause operation of a recording, registering, or indicating instrument or all of these by the same operation which moves the cashier mechanism, so that a temporary or permanent indication or record of each operation of the cashier will be made. In my aforesaid application I have described the general nature of the register or indicating devices which employ spring-rotated shafts or cylinders controlled by extensions of the purchase key-rods and spirally-arranged stop-pins on said shafts or cylinders, pinions and rackbars controlled by said shafts, and indicatorshafts having detachable connection with said controlling-shafts and carrying the indicator-

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