US1921890A - Cash drawer manifolding device - Google Patents

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8, 1933. J. Q. SHERMAN ET AL ,890

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Patented Aug. 8, 1933 UNITED STATES 1,921,890 CASH DRAWER MANIFOLDING DEVICE John Q. Sherman and Albert W. Metzner, Dayton, Ohio, assignors,

by direct and mesne assignments, to The Standard Register Company Original application January 20, 1923, Serial No. 614,038. Divided and this application May 13. 1929. Serial No. 362,538

3 Claims.

This is a division of our copending application Serial No. 614,038. filed Jan. 20, 1923.

Our invention relates to manifolding machines, more particularly of the autographic type, and in the combination therewith of a cash drawer carrying cabinet, so arranged that the operation of the feeding mechanisms of the manifolder serves as a control for the opening of the cash drawer or drawers.

Our invention also relates to that form of manifclding device termed by us a closed cabinet" type, in which the manifolding mechanism is mounted in a frame, and the entire frame is covered by a cabinet which fits down over it, and is held in locked position thereon.

It is an object of our invention to provide, in connection with a cash drawer, a suitable release therefor operated by the paper feeding mechanism, and a supplementary lock-operated release for permitting the withdrawal of the cash drawer, through the use of a key, without causing the issuance of a form or forms by the paper feeding mechanism.

These objects and other advantages to be noted, we accomplish by that certain construction and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter more specifically pointed out and claimed.

In the drawing:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the complete device with the top cabinet broken away.

Figure 2 is a front and side view of the bracket used universally as an assembling fixture throughout our machine.

Figure 3 is a side elevation showing a detail of the cash drawer release lock on a larger scale.

Figure 4 is a detail side elevation showing the manifolding feed and cash drawer latch.

Figure 5 is a detail front elevation of the release for the cash drawer, showing the key controlled operating parts.

The machine is built with a cabinet having sides 1, a back 2, an open front 3 and a top 4. The base of the cabinet is made up separately and the various devices for guiding, supporting, and operating the cash drawer are mounted thereon prior to its introduction into the rest of the cabinet.

Shown in Figure 2 is a small bracket 5 having a base which is spot welded or riveted in place and an ear having a hole 6 to receive a rivet or screwf This clip or bracket is used throughout in mounting the various parts of the frame of our device.

The manifolding mechanism is mounted between two side frames 9, 9, which are held in place by means of a series of the brackets 5.

The mechanism side frames with all the mech anism installed therein are covered by the manifolder cabinet 14, which is closed at the Sides and ends'and open at the bottom. The top 15 of the manifolder cabinet has an opening 16 to expose paper from the rolls lla, which is passed up over a writing table or paper supporting plate 17..

Referring next to the paper feeding mechanism, it may be observed thatthe feed shaft 13 has mounted thereon a pair of pin wheels 30 which project their pins up through slots in the writing table, and engage in marginal apertures in the webs of paper used. This form of feed is optional, as other forms may be used, or modifications of those used may be provided.

The cash drawer release is operated very simply by a pin 13a, set into the feed shaft, between the two pin wheels. There is a plunger 37 mounted on a bracket 38, which is on a cross bar 38a which extends across between the side frames of the manifolding device, this plunger having a spring 39 sleeved thereon and being formed with a button 40 at its upper end. As the feed shaft is revolved the pin 13a thereon comes under the button and lifts it and thus lifts the plunger, letting it drop again, as soon as the said pin passes by.

The plunger extends down-through a hole in the top of the cash drawer cabinet, and engages behind a plate 41, set onthe top of the cash drawer at the back. This plate is bent down at 41a to act as a deflector to push the plunger up when the cash drawer is pushed in.

It will be evident that the plunger bracket, trip pin, and plunger engaging plate may be set where convenient to be out of the way of other operating parts.

The plunger is perfectly free to be raised at any time upon compression of its spring, and in this way we release the. cash drawer independent of the paper feed shaft.

We mount by means of a pair of the brackets 5, a lock case 42, on the inside of the cabinet, near the open end.

This lock case mounts a lock which is controlled by a key indicated in dotted lines at 43 (Fig. 3), and projects a bolt 44, when operated. Mounted on suitable guides on the inside of the cabinet side which is used, is a slide bar 45 pulled toward the lock bolt by means of a spring 46. The bolt when projected will push the bar rearwardly of the machine.

The bar has coupled to it at its inner end (Fig. 5) an arm H, which is mounted on a shaft 48. A pair of supporting plates 49 mounted on the under side of the cabinet top mount this shaft, which has a forked arm 50 at its inner end. This forked arm lies over a stud 50a on the spring plunger or drawer latch plun ger so that when the lock is operated and the shaft 48, thus rocked, the forked arm, will lift the latch plunger and release the drawer.

It will be evident that this drawer latch and release are quite simple and can be readily set and modified to take care of a wide range of sizes of cabinet and drawer device.

We appreciate that modifications in the structures above described may be made without departing from the invention therein, and have not attempted to do more than describe one set of devices as illustrations of the various points involved.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isi' 1. In a cash drawer manifolding device or the like, of the kind which comprises means for feeding a paper strip or the like, a cabinet and drawer, and a spring plunger serving as a latch to hold the drawer in the cabinet, operated by the feeding means for lifting the plunger to release the drawer, mechanism for releasing said drawer independently of said feeding means comprising a slide in the cabinet, a lock bolt adapted to move said slide, and permanent connections between the slide and the plunger, said slide and connections adapted to move freely with the lifting operation of the plunger and upon being thrust by said bolt to themselves lift the plunger, for the purpose described.

2. In a cash drawer manifolding device or the like of the kind which comprises means for of said feeding means comprising a slide bar,

a shaft, and connections between said shaft and said bar and said plunger respectively, said bar, shaft and connections adapted to move freely with the releasing operation of said plunger, and a lock affixed to said cabinet and having a bolt engaging said bar to move the bar in direction for releasing said plunger from said drawer when thrust outwardly by the operation of a key, saidbar being free of said bolt for movement with said plunger when the plunger is released by said feeding means.

3. An auxiliary drawer release for cash drawer manifolding registers and the like comprising a shaft, -an arm fixed on the shaft and having means to engage a drawer latch element, a second arm fixed on said shaft, a bar pivoted to this second arm, and a lock having a bolt abutting said bar to move said bar in one direction when the bolt is slid outward but leaving the bar free of the bolt when the bolt is slid inward.

JOHN Q. SHERMAN. ALBERT W. METZNER.

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