US998602A - Cash-register. - Google Patents

Description

J. P. GLEAL.

CASH REGISTER. nruonmm rILnn mm '11:, 1906.

998,602. Patented July 25, 1911.

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J. P. CLEAL.

CASH REGISTER.

APPLICATION IILBD mm: 1a, 1906,

Patented July 25, 1911. 3 unmann- 2.

J. P. CLEAL.

CASH REGISTER.

APPLIGATIOK FILEDJUHE 1B, 1906.

Patented July 25, 1911.

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;Josnien Pl CLEAL, oi ToRoN'ro onTABI-d cnnitjii ilisieiionuo THE narrower. Gise- 1-, REGISTER COMPANYLOFDAYTON, 01 a ooitronlupron o'r onto, (-mconronncnnn i; IN 1906.)

fij ve invented certain new and .useful -Improv'ernents in Gash-Registers of which I deelarethe following to be a full, clear, and ciao-t description. v A

This invention relates to improWements in cash registers, and more particularly (to, that class of machines in which a certain number qfiliiltlll lpltt q operations of themachine constatute a cycle of operations for correlated,

transactions. 1 Y i an 'KMachinesof this character may hav'eva rious purposes in the cashregister art, one

.exainple' of such machines being the so-called vflost aiid Se'lli1ig Price machine, in which the machine is first completely operated to 2 take an accounting of the cost price and then completely 0 erated again to take an accounting of t e sel lin price. y 7

infants to providesuch improved forms of devices inzconnection with machines. of this;

' jtype, as to automaticallyinsure theltsepa- 'Iate acconntingzorgroupmg of thesevarlous correlated transactions upon a continued s'i ltcessiqn of operations ofithe machine; also i ,5? t n Marauder-devices whereby when'the ma chine standsat anjntermediate stage in any one (of these cy'icles qfgoperations, certain normal; functions of the machineiwill, he or -'ill have been disabled so as to indicate tdthe operator'or to the purchaser that the noi niffil cycleiof operations has not been 1 completed, w

the inp'entionconsists in certain novel fea- 40 tunes ofconstructionsand combinations of parts, the essential:element;s;,of'wli1ch are set forth in appendedclaims and a preferred form of embodiment of whlh, is hereinafter is in plain View rth these incidental objects view;

CAS -REGISTER.

Specification of Letters Patent. Imtmitefl J i1] y 25,,1 911.

Application filed June I! 1506. Serial No. 322,252.

It, is to he understmid that insome of these views it has been nece sary to (unit certain parts of'the machine for the sake of clearness, t i I provements are apolied in its general'fmun of construction is now ell known in the art, being of thc type shown in patent: to Thomas Carney No. -1t97,86() dated May 22 l893,'and No. 683,877 dated Oct. 1, 19 01., and certain, of the devices herein. connected with the mechanism for preventing operationof thetotalizer, are similar to'tliose shown-in patent to J.'P. Gleal, No. 773,060, dated October25, 1904, to all of which'pat- ,ents reference-111215 be had for a moredetaileddescripti0n.- I

Fol-the purpose of" a better understanding of the description to foilmv, it ma v be stated; that the specific form-'bfdncans adopted .in thepresent instancefor securing V i the general "hroad'rresu'lts: above outlined. l It is thepurppse othepresent improvecomprises a machine having two independent 'totalizers. \Vllltll areioperated uponbv a automatic shifting device, 'after' the first operation of the keyshas effected the actuation of one of thesetotalizers, the next sncceeding operation of thekevs acts upon the other totalizer, and then the followingopera tionacts-up-On the first-"total izer, and so on, thus shifting from the use of one totalizer to theother, sothat the firstctotali'zer could he used toregister the cost prioe of goods sold and the second totalizer could be used for registering the'selling price of the goods sold and thus the first totalizer would give aItota-l of the cost price of all of the good sold during any particular period and the second totalizer would giveithe total amount of the selling" price "for ,the same PBIIOd. Further, since it is extremely necessary and desirable" that the rnaehine should" not. he leftat an'iintermediate"stage in its cycle of operations, that is, that iitshould becom pletely operated twice ed as to register upon both'tot'a-lizers and then leave; the mach ne in condition so that upon the next operat on of the macl'iin'evthe first; otali zer willrf he prepacectfor opet'atiommr thusnn mistake canaloe;made byg'gettmgithe cost; rice-ion the swag ltifijtal'iaelr',;i:tghe"indicator ash; n efcltw n'isni is so Jam that-they ndiog tonsiw ll n k zb a p s dtca iitwt ai hfla emptete The type of machine to which these imseries ofaniount keys; and by means of an d e-1eoi gope ieu 'utieaPathatpta mhave mos the end of one operation, the cash drawer is arranged so that it will be, released only at the end of each second operation, so that if the machine is only given one complete operation, the machine will obviously restin such condition as to show immediately that the necessary cycle of operations has not been complete Described in general terms the machine may be said to comprise a plurality of operating keys 10 journaled on the main rod 11, and which keys carry at their rear ends standards 12 adapted to engage and actuate se ents carrying racks' 13, shown in Fig. 1. TEE-e, are four denominations of keys and two sets ofscgment racks 13, each set com-' prising a rack for each denomination, the racks of corresponding denominations are connected to move together so that upon the depression of any key one rack in each set will move a distance depending on the key depressed. The keys 10 are also adapted to en age and elevate the usual indicators 16.

n this type of machine the totalizers are ada ted to be separately engaged and operateti by the segment racks 13 only one set of operating ke s being employed. To determine on whic 1 totalizer registration shall take place, there is provided a push key 18 (see Figs. 1 and 2) which when moved rear wardly serves through the link 19 to shift laterally bar 20, this bar controls the movement of plungers 21, one for each totalizer. When the push key 18 has been depressed it is desirable to maintain the operative relation then created until the end of the opera tion of the machine and for this purpose means are arranged for locking the laterally shifting bar 20 in its adjusted position. This means is shown in Fig. 4 and comprises the bell crank lever 26 )ivoted at 27 to the shifting bar .20; the projection 28 and the lug 29 are also provided on the said lever 26. When the bar 20 is moved to the right in Fig. 4 the lug 29 will under the influence of sprin 30 drop over the edge of the stationary locking plate 31. This will evidently maintain bar 20 in its shifted position. To provide for releasing this lever 26 from the locking plate 31, at theend of the operation a bar 32 is employed shown in section in Fig. 4 and also showri' in Fig. 5, which is pivoted at 33 to the usual key coupler 34.

When the coupler is elevated the lever 32 will be rocked downwardly it having been previously moved laterally by the movement of the projection 28 of the lever 26 which is of course carried laterally with the shifting bar 20. A spring 35 serves to return the lever 32 to its normal position and this will take place as soon as said lever is depressed by the movement of the coupler. Vhen the coupler returns to normal position, the lever 32 will be elevated and will then be directly under the projection 28. The last part of the motion of lever 32 will therefore raise'lever 26 withdrawing its lug 29 from the locking plate 31 and thereby permitting shift bar 20 to return to its normal osition. 1

W lat may be called a complete operation of this machine really comprises two operations of one or more of the keys. In connection with the registration of the cost amount the amount is entered on the left hand totalizer and this is provided for by a depressionof push key 18. The selling price amount is to be entered on the right hand totalizer and this does not require a depression of push key 18. In order to compel this alteration of operation of totalizers or as it may be termed the cyclic succession of operations, means for locking the operating mechanism at alternate partia'l operations are supplied and to compel a depression of the push key 18 at such partial operations means are desirable for locking the operating mechanism, said means to be released when the push key is depressed. This locking means is shown in F ig. 2 and comprises a vertical bar 39, rigidly attached to the push kev 18, carrying a roller 40. This roller is adapted to engage and rotate the lever 41 jmrnaled on the rod 42 and rigid with leve. 41 is an escapement 43, comprising pallets M and 45 Connected to the coupler 34 by a pin and slot connection 47 is a double reciprocating rack 48 adapted as is usual in this type of machine to give at each reciprocation a complete rotation to a shaft 49 through a connecting pinion 50 rigid with the shaft. Also tightly mounted on the shaft is a gear wheel 51 meshing with a gear 52 of twice the number of teeth of gear 51. This .gear 52 has .mounted thereon a locking plate 53 which is more or lessnearly semi circular in shape. In the normal position of the mechanism, one edge of the plate 53'engages pallet 44 of the escapement 43, and the mechanism is therefore locked. When however the push key 18 is moved rearward-1y, the escapement 43 is rocked to carry pallet 44 away from plate 53 and the keys 10 ma then be operated. At the end of the that operation of the keys the push key 18 is released by the return of,lever 32 as previously described and this permits the escapement 43 to rock back to normal position, the pallet 45 will thereby be moved out of the path of plate 53 so that the second operation does not require a depression of the push key 18.

It will be seen that the mechanism described provides for the function above stated. That is, alternate operations of the steam 'iifttt'elllile srebmjielleel to be entered on tho fiiearis'f -tire efi t pltfyed "for preventing the tween the two being limited by a pin 66. 5Tb? are" ""tif'lever' 61 carries a pin. 67 "7 fiiitrh *W'ill raised under'the' lever 68 con- 11 52 tfd ttiftl t iisiitl indicator support .69.

p vi6i1=o'-;iertt tiqnand the forward serving "lel i; iiiti eel-position the indicatorcoriesfiohlingt'o thtihtierated key. When the I push k v 18 is movedrearwardly the lever W0 fl'ktill fi'siohsffil "63 'and' serves to raise pin 67 feeweettev "tr ttttdet the hook 70 ot the i'gih'fifil fi ei't" he indicator support; 69 is i i H9511 fititlre top the arm 68 Will ts '8 tttrbetore stated. This will m rt'ttitie st itrttt tottt witr ttttiee be" ttimeteor one tti fiel opemfion tr the mam enttts t mcmsewttt t entertlie selling price smelt-ternmsse tmtalizet thtt intittttt ,ttfitflfio lggmv'ilfiii eohzrse be: peflni-tteel to mit s?! I T931- werdly and the forwardly'm itsftop ":The B .ottaisttttiettrw 1 tese-ttttt=ttt obstruction to the movement of ,arm tlSas thefpusl t lgey 1S 1s not and m fut-t tml ot he clepresseil'gt this ptu'tottlw oper ttionl To anniplelat tregisti' itti on of 'sllitr tg r lensing tl e'eash out st Toni,"

"f0r\ \'ard end of lever 83 ill-evidently Llepress the reznrwtird entl and ntry the pig,

jeetio'n 840M of t heptithof the 11151 95 of the 85 coitpler so that the le'rer t l \vi-lljtot he nr ried with theeonplert hrough its strok e. qtkt the secondpartialoperation wheii tl efiifiltt key 18is notideprossetl-the projec ion;s-r-itr 1 lever83 will be engaged-l3 tlleflc'otldltii :itficl 9% the rear end sid lei'er ra'isecT-Tliis serves to crry pin 86 over'the luQ'ST on the pawl 88. This pawl is pivoteclj at Sf fo'ii the lever 90 said lever being rigidly mol'lh'tet at; v the shaft; 91. "The pawlSS -is 1-essed"i1f1 -in 9 direction by the spring f -l against thepin 93 mounted on lever 90. Also riigirl jvith shaft 91 (see Fig. 3.) is a n armQlkyhihfih (lireetly over a pin tlfiniountetl on a ltwjei' D6. r This lever is pivoted one-pin 'QZ-n'ndZtit it rearward end is provided with a irojeefiion 98 acli' gted to engage the 'teet h o tifh'lieel 99. "is' wheel serves to prevent the ear h drawer from moving outwardly. At flthe second palfifi l operation of the machine le- 195 ver 83 will beraised ivitli'the co'uplerespr viously stated and this will Carry pin"'86 mounted on said lever "over thepriiieetibn 87 of the pn ivl'88; thefpttwl will theinhiove in under the fai'n'ttfi un'cler't'he impttlsept fits 410 spring "'lvhetfflre lever 83 is C ttIllQCl downwardly rt'ithtli'e key omtPlei'ittie iWSG will engage the "Projection titt'fiincl rock the lever 90"hroimdits fiaivotron slia ft Wardlyextending! tirml 193 ad t-ed to? km eniyglfidjby t1 he-Veled tirmtmt mounted on; the coupler: iThistmechanEism..coinplfi the, completion of tin operation-ghefore the; drawer ea n'tbe latchedin its rearward 'iposition. When the 'ii eotlpll, returns'tdnormal 139 position, the beveled edge of arm 104 will engage the extension 103 of pawl 101 and move it away from lever 96. This lever will then be rocked under the impulse of its 5 spring 105 thereby lowerin the rear end of said lever into the path of t e teeth of wheel 99. The drawer may then be moved to its closed positionand locked therein.

It is old in the art to have a cost and selling price machine in which amounts .are alternately registered first upon one counter and then upon another, such for example as shown in patent to J. P. Gleal No. 693,498,

dated Feb. 18, 1902 and in this patent it is provide'means for compelling an o oration of such a manipulative device at a ternate o eratio'ns; that'is: it is broadly new in maclaims of this character 'to incorporate there in means for causing successive operations of the operating mechanism 'to automatically operate accounting "devices in cyclic succession according to a certain predetermined order, whether these accounting de vices be registers or printing devices.

While the form of mechanism here shown and described is admirably adapted to fulfil the objects primarily 'stated, it is to be understood that. it is not intended to confine the invention to the one form of embodiment herein disclosed, for it is susceptible of embodiment in various forms all coming within the $00 e of the claims which fol ow.

What is claimed is as follows: i

1. In a cash register, the combination with two totalizers, of an o crating mechanism. common thereto, a pusl-i 'key for selecting one totalizer for operation, and means reuiring its depression at alternate operagions of the machine;

2. In a cash registenthe combination with an operating mechanism of two totalizers se a'rately operable thereby, a push key for d termining which totalizer shall be operated and means. preventing its depression at alternate operations of the machine.

3. In a cash register, the combination with an operating mechanism, of a plurality of totalizers, a device for locking said operating mechanism after alternate operations, and a push key for selecting a totalizer and releasing said locking device.

4. In a cash register, the combination with independent accounting devices, of means compelling them to be (narrated alternately on successive operations.

5. In a cash register, the combination is h an operating mechanism, of manipulative means arranged to be actuated according to 7c the transaction to be entered, accounting devices, and means compelling a segregation of successive and correlated transactions on separate accounting devices.

6. In a cash register, the combination with a plurality of totalizers, and a common amount determining meanstherefor, of an operating mechanism, and means compelling a succession of operations of said operatin mechanism to operate first one totalizer an then another.

7. In a cash register, the combination with two independent accounting devices, and a common operatin'g mechanlsm therefor, of means compelling operations of the operating mechanism to cause an operation of said accounting devices alternately.

8. In a cash register, the combination with a plurality of totalizers, and a series of operatin keys common thereto, of means for 99 compe ling successive operations of said keys to cause an operation of the totalizers in cyclic succession.

9. In a cash register the combination with two independent totalizers, and an indicating device for indicating the amounts added on the totalizers, of a series of operating keys, means compelling successive opera tions of said keys to operate alternately, first on one totalizer and then on another, and means to likewise alternately prevent and permit the exposure of the indicating device on the corresponding alternate operations of the totalizers.

10. In a cash register, the combination with a main operating meohanism,'acash receptacle, and means normally locking said receptacle, of mechanism for releasing said receptacle locking means, and-devices for connecting said releasing means to said'opcrating mechanism at alternate operations only of said operating mechanism.

11. In a cash register, the combination with a main operating mechanism, a cash receptacle, and means normally locking said receptacle, of mechanism connecting said operating mechanism, and constructed to release said locking means, a manipulative device for disabling said connecting mechanism, and means compellin actuation of said manipulative device at a ternate operations of said operating mechanism.

12. In a cash register, the combination with an operating mechanism,acash drawer. and a drawer release, of means controlled by said operating mechanism for intermittently operating said drawer release upon a succession of single operations of the operating mechanism.

13. In a cash register, the; combination With an indiczfing device, and means for setting the same, a cash drawer. and an operating mechanism means for alternatel; preventing and permitting the exposurc oi said "indicating device upon a (Ullillliltfti inc cession of operations of the machine: and means for causing the operating mechanism to release the cash drawer only upon opera tions in which the indicating device is ca posed.

14. In a cash register, the combination with a plurality of accminting devices, an indicating device. a cash drawer, and. an operating mechanism: of .n'ieans "for compel ling successive operatit-ms of said operating mechanism to operate said accounting devices in a certain predetermined sequence; means for also causing said operating mechanism to alternately prevent and permit the exposure of said indicating device; and means for likewise causing said operating mechanism to release said cash drawer only When said indicating device is exposed.

15. In a cash register, the combination with an operating mechanism arranged to be given two operations in a complete cycle of use, of a cash safe and means for releasing same only on the second operation of the operating mechanism 16. In a cash register. the combination with an operating mechanism, of a plurality of accounting devices common thereto, means for establishing an operative connection between said operating mechanism and. theaccounting devices separately, and means for compelling a shift of the operative conneotion atsucccssive operations from one accounting device to a second.

17. In a cash register the combination With a plurality of accounting devices and an operating mechanism common thereto, of means for compelling successive operations of said mechanism to operate different accounting devices' 18. In a cash register, the combination with a plurality of accounting devices for retaining an entry of correlated transactions, of an operating mechanism common to said devices for separately actuating them,,means for controlling the operative connection between said operating mechanism and aparticular accounting device, and means compelling an actuation of said controlling means at alternate operations.

19. In a cash register, the combination with an operating mechanism, andaccounting devices operated thereby, of means for locking said mechanisn'l. tI'tIlflDlptllflllVG device for releasing said ldcking means. and

means under the control of said manipuhn.

tive device for obstructing said operating me chanism at an intermediate stage of its movement until said manipulative device is restored to its normal position.

20'. In a cash register, the comblnation we one accounting device to another. 'alnil illiraiiis chine.

in a cash register. the combination with a plurality of accounting devices for retaining an entry of correlated transactions oi an operating mechanism common to said devices for separately actuating them, means for controlling the operative connection between said operating mechanism and a particular accounting device. and means preventing an actuation of said controlling means at alternate ope ations.

:22. [n a cash register. the combination with an operating mechanism. of accounting devices arranged to be separately controlled therefrom, means for shifting the control by the operating mechanism 't'rom one accountlog device to another and means to prevent an operation of said shifting means at alternate operations of the machine.

23. Ina cash. register the combination with accounting devices and an operatin mechanism common thereto for causing an operation of said accounting devices separately, means for regulating the operative relationof the operating mechanism to the require an adjustment of said regulating means at alternate operations.

24. In a cash register. the combination with an operating mechanism, of a plurality of accounting devices, a device for selecting a desired accounting device for operation, means controlled therebv for unlocking the operating mechanism, and means preventing the operation of said selecting device at the succeeding operation of the machine.

25. In a machine of the class described, the combination with totalizers. and an operating mechanism therefor including keys, of means tending to and normally locking said operating mechanism, a. manipulative device for releasing said locking means, and devices for preventing the relocking of said operating mechanism until two operations thereof have been made.

the combination with accounting devices, and an operating mechanism therefor including keys, of means normally locking said operating mechanism, a manipulative device for moving said locking means to releasing position, means permitting restoration of said manipulative device to normal position during a first operation of said operating mechanism. and means for restoring said locking means to locking position during a second operation of said operating mechanism.

separate accounting devices, and means to 26. In a machine of the class described,

.27. In a machine of the class described, E erativerelgtion between the operating mechthe combinatlon with accounting devices, anlsm and the accounting devices. 10 and an operating mechanism therefor, of In testlmox y whereof I uffix my signature means automatically locking said operating in the presen e of two witnesses.

a mechanism only after two operations there- JOSEPH P. CLEAL.

of, a manipulative device for releasing said \Vitnesges: locking means, and connections whereby W. A, CLARK, said manipulative device determines the op- ANNIE BELL.

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