US851344A - Cash-carrier apparatus. - Google Patents

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No. 851,344. PATENTED APR. 23, 1907;

D. E. CHISM.

CASH CARRIER APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 28,1906.

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No. 851,344. PATENTED APR. 23, 1907.

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CASH CARRIER APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 28, 1906.

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' in. 851,344. PATENTBD APR. 23, 1907.

- D. R. GHISM.

CASH CARRIER APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 28, 1906.

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D. E. CHISM.

CASH CARRIER APPARATUS.

APPLIOATION FILED MAY 28, 1906,

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No. 851,844. PATENTED APR. 23, 1907.

' D. E. CHISM.

CASH CARRIER APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 28, 1906.

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DAVID E. CHIS, OFSTAFFORD SPRINGS, CONNECTICUT.

CASH-CARRIER APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

latenteo April 23, 1907.

Application filed May 28,1906. Serial No 319,111.

To all whom/it may concern:

Be it known that 1, 'DAVID E. CHISM, a citi zen of the United States of America, and a resident of Stafford S rings, in the county of Tolland and State Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cash-Carr'ier Apparatuses, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Thisinvention relates to im rovements in cashcarrier apparatuses of a" 1nd 1n which the cash box is supported and guided along suitable trackways therefor, and propelled by an endless cable, and is generally for the improvement of a cash carrier having the characteristics shown and described in Letters Patent of the United States granted to 'Chamberlain, Chism and Cooper, Nov. -5,

and to me, granted May 1901, No. 685,740, to Chamberlain and Chism granted August 8, 1905, No. 796,808, 22, 1906, No. 820,955,-the type of cash box employed being shown in Letters Patent granted tome March 15, 1904,.

The ob'ects of the invention are: to impiove the construction of the suppbrting ackets or fixtures for the cable guiding Wheels at the home stationfwhercby the j mounting of such fixtures for any given number of pairs of sending and receiving trackways and cable guiding wheels corresponding thereto may be set up and maintained in an easy, practical and accurate manner, and whereby such fixtures at the home station will have a sightly appearance; and in con nection with such home station fixtures, the improved cable guards are provided adjacent the cable guiding wheels or sheaves; and the terminals of the receiving trackways are made so that a cash box. coming thereto from a clerk station will be retained thercat withp out liability of accidental displacement, al-

though the receiving track terminals are constructed in such a manncras to permit, easily, the purposed taking out of the cash box; to provide appliances and means of connection whereby tubular portions of the track may I 'vided at the opposite sides of the slot way so.

that thecash ox will run along without liability of transverse swaying p otion .so that the engagement between the cash box head and the cable may not be disturbed, and so that the cash box in coming to a switch therefor will be, with greater certainty, in its roper position to receive the engagement, liy the switching tongue, with the switch tongue engaging portion of the box; to improve the construction of the comparatively short branch track section included at a track station with respect to the provisions'whereby the cash box coming thereto is retained against displacement, and yet is capable of being positively withdrawn by the clerk, so that the clerk: stations may be made u without regard 0 rights and lofts wierebv they may be installed in any situation still leaving it possible, and fully as convenient, for the clerk to withdraw the cash box from one side as from the other; to improve the corner,constructions,that is the ortions of the cash carrier apparatus rovic ed for the support of a comparatively arge cable guiding wheel, such supporting constructions having the form of scctionally made castings, which when assembled and united form supports for the journal axle of the wheel and tubular trackway sections at right angles and adjacent the wheel with a suitably positioned slotway in such tubular track sections for the accommodation and free running of the neck of the cash box; and generally to improve and simplify the constructions and the making of them to conform to mechanicaland workmanlike principles. And to these ends the invention consists in constructions and formations of parts, and combinations and arrangements of parts all substantially as hereinafter fully described and set forth in the claims.

The present improvements are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in \Vl)l0l1,-

Figure lis a side elevation of the portion of the cash carrier apparatus including the home station at which the cash containing boxes are received, and from which they are sent, a corner construction in one double line of track, and a clerk station connected by a branch with one of the sending trackways. Fig. 2 is a side e evation on a larger scale showing the supporting structure in stacked form for two pairs of trackways and for the cable guiding sheaves orwhcels' near but forwardly of the rear ends of the trackways.

Fig. 3 is a rear end view of one-of the sending trackways showing an indicating number tlIQrf0If. Fig. .4 isaplan vieivof the under around which the endless carrier cables are side of the rear end portion of one'of the receiving trackways. Fig. 5 is a side elevation of the parts shown in Fig. 2, and as seen at right angles thereto,'and as viewed from the forward thereof, the trackways being shown in cross section and one pair thereof being of a modified construction. Fig. 6 is a plan view of Fig. 2. Fig 7 is a perspective view showinga portion of a pair of rod formed trackways, and the device for uniting two rods of one of the tracks Fig. 8 is a side elevation of intermediate portions of sending and return tracks together with a clerk station connected with and branched from the sending trackway. Fig. 9 is a plan view of the under side. ofthe portions of the several trackways shown in Fig. 8. Fig. 10 is a cross sectional view as taken on the line 1010, Fig. 8, and including a bracket in elevation and understood as having its position remote from the branch. Fig. 11 is a cross sectionalview, on a larger scale, as taken imlinel111,Fig. 8. Fig. 12is a perspective viewshowing the sectionally made and separable parts of a corner construction in separated relations. Fig. 13 is an elevation as seen at the right hand end of Fig. 12, the. arts being in their assembled relations. igs. l4 and'15 are somewhat similar end views to be hereinafter referred to. "Similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all'of the views.

In the drawings,-A represents a cashiers or home station comprising a suitable deskor table a secured on which is ,a base plate 5 having formed as one therewith, or attached thereto, a post or round standard (Z which is entirely firm in its anchorage to the table.

B and C, and B 'and C are two pairs of trackway terminals, those B and B being for the sending trackways and the terminals C and C are for the return or receiving trackways, all thereof tern'iinating at thehome station A, the ends of the sending trackways being in the same vertical line, while the extremities of the receiving trackways are extended beyond the ends. ol the sending trackways.v

D an l D each represent a double bracket frame lor the support. of the two pairs of trackway terminals, for the sheaves 1U, 11, 12, and 13 which have their locations slightly I forward f the rear ends of the tracks and guided, and also for the support of the adustable cable guards 20, 21, 22 and 23. lflach bracket frame I) or l)" comprises three axially aligned hubs or collars 15, 16 and 17, for sliding [it about the post (1, more or less Q ol such apcrturod hubs being penetrated by set screws 18 whereby the l'rames are 1 bound to the post and hold so that they may j neither be displaced from their properly adjustcd positions vertically or rotationally.

The yokes e and f of each bracket frame are set at opposite. sides of the axis of the boss, and one above the other, as most clearly represented in Figs. 5 and 6,the bottom member of the upper yoke being at or about the level of the top member of the lower yoke, the intermediate apertured hub 16 forming connection or strengthening brace between the two yokes.

The sheaves or guide wheels 10, 11, 12, and 13, are mounted for rotation on axes oblique to the trackway lines, are arranged with peripheral portions thereof in proximity or coincident with the lines of run of the cables within or along the trackways, and are slotted to guide the cord from and into lines Etransversely offset from the traokway lines whereby the trackway terminals may have their locations rearwardly beyond the positions of the said guide wheels.

The positioning and oblique arrangement of the guide wheels has been illustrated and described in my former patent of May 22, 1906, but in that patent the stack of track ,and sheave supports was built up by each relatively upper support having connection with, and sustained by, the next one therebelow; but in the present case these supports are fitted about and have set screw connec-' tions adjustable with a common, n'ei'erably cylindrical, post, and while generally one set of bracket frames will be superimposed on another, the frames may be mounted as oecasion may sometimes require, or render more at ivantagcous, with the bottom of one consia'ierably above the top of another.

"I he upper portions 10 of the several yokes c and f are horizontally HlOliOd for the connection thereat oi the plates L5, oi the cable guards 20, 21, etc., the inclimition oi the lower wheel Him 12 of the several sets o'l guide wheels being such that there. is .no

tendency for the (able to run o'll' only at one. 'eoge of the. wheel, single guards only being provided -For such wheels, while the other wheels 11 and 13 being mounted for rotation in vertical planes (oblique, however, to a vertical plane longitudinally and median of the several trackways), and therc being liability that the cable. might runfofi' at either ed e of the wheels, the cable gulards 21 and 23 are. made with double guard members, as more. clearly shown in Figs. 2 and 5, and 'the memher or members oi" each oi the guards is integrally formed with its attachment plate 25 which has screw holes 26, as, for receiving, with screw llll'ttd engagements therein, the confining screws, the shanks of which are exteinieai throu h the slots 27 ZULI the to) members I!) o'l' the yokes, while the heads ol" fiillJ screws are lirnaly set against the sides of the yoke members. 7

By loosening the set screws and slightly sliding the guards, the latter may have their most suitable positions in proximity to, but

mont members 32, 32, 'bei,ng provided through which confining screws 33 may be assoc Wl tli enqa ements into the trackwav v r .l

terminals.

F represents the cabledriv'ing drum at the homo station, the same being supported for rotation in suitable bearingsunder the desk or table a; and G represents, one of the endless cables the same passing from around the drum upwardly around the guide wheel 1]., thence through. an opening in the top of the track terminal B and outwardly proceeding to the other end of the cash carrier system having-its return course back along the re- ,ceivin vtrackwav and assing throu h an b a F opening in the upper part of the terminal C around the guide wheel and back around the driving drum F; and the cable G-'-.similarly pas'ses from the drum u wardly through thetable around the guide "w ieel 13 to within the terminal B of the upper sending-trackway, returning through and emerging irom the terminal 0 thence around theguide wheel 12 and back to the driving drum F.

The cash box H has the longitudinally extending thin neck 38 between its body and its a )proximately cylindrical head 39. which has t c longitudinal sinuous channel 83 therein for engagement with the cable in the manner heretofore commonly practiced, and as set forth in the aforementioned patents.

The terminals of the portionsof the trackwaysC and C located at the'homo station,

supported as described, and extending rear wardly beyond the rear ends of the sending trackway terminals are made as represented inFigS. 2 and 4, that is the terminal is somewhat onlarged'at its rear end, has a rear end wall 4-0, a transverse aperture -12 thercthrough, an o ening 43at its bottom, the rear portion 4-1 of which is of an obtuse \l-shapc while the under longitudinal slotway 45 of the tubular track terminal C or C leads to, and ends at, the aperture 43, and at its unction therewith it is rearwardly divergent, as shown at 46.

41. represents a butler of rubber or other suitable material at the rear end wall 4.0. The cash Lox returning to the home station ;'as propelled thereto by the cable, will, after leaving the cable at the point adjacent the guide wheel, proceed by momentum through the rearwardly extended part of the track terminal, and will be arrested by contact against the buil'eral'i and will remain in the osition as represented in the lower right liand portion of Sheet 2 of the drawings in readiness to be removed.

- The removal of the cash box will be by manually imparting thereto a sidowisc swinging movement and then rearwardly sliding movement while the box may be Withdrawn The trackway terminals B, B, and 0, C are preferably made in the form of tubular castings, and the trackways forwardlyin'continuation thereof may be of the well known tubular under-slotted form, as represented at B C in Fig. 1 and the lower portions of Figs. 2 and 5, or the traekways may be of the double rod or rail form, as represented at B and C at the upper portions of Figs. 2 and 5, and in Figs. 6 and 7. v

In some cases the tubular form of trackway is to be preferred, but in others where: lessened cdst is a consideration, the rod form may be used.

l/Vhere the tubular under-slotted trackways are employed the ends thereof in connection with the terminals, as B and C, are telescoped into the forward end portions of the terminals, as shown, and held by friction. or additionally by having burrs or teats 47 which may be crowded or snapped into sockets 48 in thetcrminal sections, as shown in Fig. 2, and also substantially as shown, in a coupled intermediate portion of the return trackway shown in Fig. 8 in which latter View the teats or lurrs 47 produced by indenting or outwardly forcing the metal of the tulcing, have engagements in the small perforations or sockets 48 in the sleeve coupling 50 which is employedfor uniting two sections of the tubular track. I

The track terminals may most advantageously be made in the form of castings to be sidewise adjoined and held together by the connecting screws 51, passed through upstanding and matching ear pieces 52-and by the attachment .pieces 32 and confining screws 33 of the yokes of thebracket frames.

Where paired,- parallel track rods are'employed their extremities are overlapped along the under sides of thetuLular terminal castings at oppositesides of the slotway', such castings having formations adapted thereto and are retained by nearly circular clips55' which emt race the terminal castings and are conne ted to therods by pins or rivets 56.

At i'll'orent places along the length of the rod-formed trackway two pairs of tracks are united by tie brackctd 57 made with parallel separated horizontal attachment lugs 58 which are pinned or rivctcd to thetrack rods, and the rods ofa given double track are, furthermore, united at suitable intervals by nearly circular or arched ties 59, which are also, by suitable connections as pins, rivets or screws, attached to the rods. r

J represents a branch of the sending trackway for a clerk station. the 'same-havin in its under side: an opening 60 for the w thdrawal of the cash -box. A pair of frames 62, 62-, are pivotally mounted 'on a pivot rod 63 of upstanding ear lugs (54 formed on orattached to the upper portion of the branch trackway, a spiral spring being coiled around the pivot while the opposite extremh ties thereof have yielding hearings on the opposite frames to keep them normally in their closed positions.-and that is, with the inner surfaces of their bar like members within the opposite edges of the opening 60 but still somewhat separated as shown in Fig. 9 and by full lines in Fig. 11, to leave free way for the cash box lltt'k, but to support the cash box head.

The cash box coming into the branch may,

by being grasped by the hand and positioned with the ends of its head 39 within the ends of the opening 60, be drawn downwardly and out from the branch trackway, the (losing devices 62, 6'2, yielding indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. 11; and with the clerk station branch provided with a device of this cha 'acter, it is immaterial at which side of the branch the person stands, and portions of cash carriers including clerk stations may be made up in large numbers without reference to right or left hand positions in inst allation, and for as great conveniepce of use in right hand stations as in left hand stations.

An exampleof a corner construction is shown in perspective in Fig. 12, the const ituent parts thereof being shown in separated rclat ions. This particular corner is well known as a lower vertical plumbcorner, and the parts which support the ct'nnparatively large cable guiding wheel L have portions ot' the trackways connected thereto generally at right angles to each other, as well known, and to some extent indi ated in Fig. '1. This corner onstruction is shown as consisting of scparatcd complcmcntal sections comprising opporitc quadrant :zl port ions and 70", and endwise continued partially tubular port ions 72, 72, in which the curved rettions are merged, such sections 72 and 72 For each section being straight as to their lengths and right angulrr to cat-h other. and the c have formed as one, or (Ulltitl ted therewith. the axle. supporting brat cs 72- and 73 obliquely arranged relatively to the anguhtrly di po cd end portions of the said rtt tions. The scctions are preferably made as astings. and the oblique brat cs are integrally cast with the portions 7t), 7;, etc, :1 nd they are outwardly oll'rct, as indicated at T4 to give ample space betwecn them for the cable guiding wheel, the hub of which is ('t l\ itlttfz1l )l elongated. as shown. 75 rcprc cnts thc axle supported by, andallixcd to the braces, and on which the cable guiding wheel loosely rotates. Said angnhirly dirposcd end port ions 72, 72 of the separable castings have edgcwiso located matching perforated car lugs or members To, 77, through which ta tcnings, as rivets or screws, are employed for rigidly uniting the sections of the corner mnstruction. The

can be made, may be comprised in the aforementioned braces, as clearly indicated by the drawings. 1

In some cases where the corner constructions are for top plumb corners or horizontal corners where the slotway 45 or opening *for the neck of the cash box is at the side of the wheel, and transverse to the plane of rotation of the wheel instead of coincident or parallel therewith, as possible for a lower vertical cornor, the corner constructionsmaybe made up of three sectional castings, 70, 70, and 70 cross sectionally indicated in Fig. 15.

bottom slotway is, as shown in several of the figures, made with o posite parallel continuous lon itudinally epending lips to give increased height of the opposite Walls of the slotway whereby the flat neck of a cash box may be engaged along wider portions of its opposite surfaces, and whereby conse-. quently the box in its traveling movement side to side; and the cash box by being eonstrained to run more evenly will be without tendency to loosen its engagement with the propulsion cable, and, as more especially im portant, will on its approach to aswitch be maintained in its proper position to impinge against. the switch therefor, that its course it is intended to go.

I claim 1. In a cash carrier apparatusthe combination with a post, a plurality of bracketframes supported one above another by said )ost, track terminals, su ported by said racket frames, and ab c-guiglirg-wheels supported by said frames, and located adjacent to intermediate portions of said track terminals. 5 X 2. In a cash carrier apparatus the combination with a cylindrica post,'a plurality of lirackct-l'ramcs, each having an apertured hub, such hubs of the several bracket frames embracing the post, one above another, and set screws engaged through said-hubs and binding them to the post, track-terminals supported by said bracket frames, and cableguiding-whcels supported by said frames,

tions ot said track terminals.

3. In a cash carrier apparatus the combination with a post, a plurality of brackettramcs each comprising integrally formed upper and lower, and oppositely located yokcs, and having at their inner edges the \'(lil('t\ll axially aligned apertured hubs, and the binding screws therefor, said frames, by means of their said hubs embracing, and

post, track terminals, supported by said bracket frames, and cab c-"tndm wheels member 77, by means of which attachments The trackway tubing having the median and h. aucd adjacent to intermediate porbcing secured, one above another on said" will have lessened possibility of swaying from Y may be diverted to the clerk station to which Supported bysaid frames, and located adj a- "cent-to intermediate portions of saidtrack terminals'.

; 4.-In.a cash'carrier apparatus the combi- --na-tion wittt a post, a plurality of bracket- -frames eaclrfor a pair of traekway terminals iii SuppOItGCl one above another-by said post,

and located adjacent to'interniediate portions of said track terminals.

5. In a cash carrier apparatus the combination with a post, a plurality of bracket frames each for a pair of trackway terminals supported one above another by said post, and each comprising upper and lower yokes one edgewise oilsetfroin the other, the bottom member of one yoke being at the same level with .the top of the other yoke, and having between'thein the apertu'red hub 16 and the upper and lower yokes being provided with the apertured hubs 17 and 15 which with the one 16 are vertically axially aligned, and set screws for binding said hubs to the post, track terminals, supported in pairs respectively by said bracket frames, an d cableguiding-wheels supported by said frames, and located adjacent to intermediate portions of said track terminals.

6. In a cash carrier apparatusa tubular terminal ortion of a receivin or return trackway aving an underneath Iongitudin al slotway, a rear end stop, a side opening, and a bottom recess merging in the side 0 )ening and with t-he forward end of which the slot connects,

7. Ina cash carrier apparatus a tubular terminal ortion of a receiving or return trackway aving an underneath longitudinal I slotway, a rear endvstop, opposite side openings, and a recess merging in the side 0 ening and with the forward end of which t e slot connects. I

8. In a cash carrier apparatus a tubular terminal portion of a trackway having an underneath longitudinal slotway, a rear end stop consisting of a yielding butler and having a side opening and a widened bottom recess merging in the side opening and with the forward end' of wliichthe slotway connects.

9. In a-cash carrier apparatus a tubular terminal portion of a traeku'ay having an under longitudinal slotway, a rear end stop, a side opening, and a widened bottom reeess merging in the side 0 cning and, the boundaries of theslotway eing divergent at the. junctionof such slotway with the said bottom: recess.

It). In a cash;carrier apparatus a tubular terminal portion of a trackway having an under longitudinal slotway, opposite side openings, and a widened bottom recess merging in theside opening and, the boundaries of the slotway being diver'ent at the junction of such slotway with t c said bottom recess, and said trackway having, a. bottom ortion to the rear of said bottom recess whic is of a forwardly directed V shape.

11. In a cash carrier apparatus, the combination with atubular terminal portion of a trackway having an underneath longitudinal slotway, a rear end stop, aside'opening, and a widened bottom recess mer in the side opening and with the forwar end of which ing a body, a horizontal longitudinally ranging substantially cylindrical head, and a flat longitudinally ranging neck connecting the body and head.

12. In a cash carrier apparatus, the combination with a tubular portion of a trackway having an under longitudinal slotway, a rear end stop including a butter, and having opposite side openings, and a widened bottom recess, the boundaries of the slotway being divergent at the junction of such slotway with the said bottom recess, and said trackway terminal having a bottom ortion to the rear of said bottom recess which is of a forwardly directed V shape, of a cash box comprising a body, a horizontal longitudinally ran ing substantially cylindrical head, and a flat ongitudinally ranging neck connecting the body and head.

13, In 'a cash carrier apparatus, the combination with a tubular metallic trackway having an underside continuous longitudinal slotway and having the metal at the. opposite sides of the slotwav down turned, ini nu'ting increased height of wall surface for the slot,

bular trackway, and a cash box comprising an approximately cylindrical longitudinally grooved head,for dis iosition in the trackway and to be engaged by the eable,a body below the head, and a thin vertical longitudithe widened walls of the slotway.

14. In a cash carrier apparatus, the combination with a clerk station branch trackway of underslotted, tubular, form, and having a widened aperture at its bottom intersected by the sl ot,-oi': oppositely located devices for contracting the width of said a ertui'e, normally having their edges approae iod but separated from each other at opposite sides of the line of slotway,.and adapted to yield oppositely and outwardly.

15. In a cash carrier apparatus, the combination with a clerk station branch trackway of -underslotted, tubular, form, and having in an intern'iediiite portion thereof a widened aperture at its bottom intersected E by the slot,-oi" oppositely located frames l pivot ally mounted on tlietrackway and comi prising members ex. iidiiig partially across,

the slotway connects, of a cash box comprisof a propulsion cable running within the tunally ranging neck connecting the body with the head and adapted for guidance between f Y r 851,344

for a cash carrier apparatus, separable com pleinental sections comprising opposite uadrantal portions, and endwise continue partially tubular portions into Which the curved and for contracting the said aperture, and a spring for-yieldingly maintaining said frames in their approached relations.

16. In a cash carrier apparatus, the com bination with a clerk station trackway of tubular, underslotted, form, and having in an intermediate portion thereof a Wid ened aperture at its bottom intersected by said slot, and having at its upper'portion at the location of said aperture upstanding ear lugs, of oppositely located curved frames pivotally connected to said ear lugs and comprising lower bar-like members having their positions normally across and for contracting, l the said aperture, and a spring for imparting a yielding closing pressure to said frames.

17. In a guide-Wheel corner-construction ence of two subscribing Witnesses,

DAVID E. CHISM.

Witnesses WM. S. BnLLows,

G. R. DRISCOLL.

Signed by me at Springfield, Mass, in pressections are merged, having their lengths an-

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