US398979A - Cash indicator and register - Google Patents

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(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 1. W. G. SGHIOKNER & L. K. MARTY.

(JASH INDICATOR AND REGISTER.

Patented Mar. 5, 1889..

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(No Model.)' 2 SheetsSheet 2. W. G. SOHIOKNER & L'. K. MARTY.

CASH INDICATOR AND REGISTER.

No. 398,979. Patented Mar. 5, 1889.

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WILLIAM G. SCHICKNER AND LOUIS K. MARTY, OF CINCINNATI, Olilt).

CASH INDICATOR AND REGISTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Eatent No. 398,979, dated March 5, 1889.

Application filed October 22, 1888.

T0 coZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, TILLIAM G. SCHICK- NER and LOUIS K. lllARTY, both citizens of the United States of America, residing at Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cash Indicators and Registers, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

Our invention relates to the peculiar form of cash indicators and registers seen in the patents granted to William G. Schickner, September 21, 1886, No. 9,522, and to William G. Schickner and Erneste Rothlisberger, January 10, 1888, No. 376,262, the details of the present improvements being hereinafter more fully described and pointed out in the claims.

In the annexed drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical section of a cash indicator and register embodying our improvements, the variouskeys of the same being shownin their normal positions and the money-drawer be-- ing closed and locked. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section of a portion of the indicator, taken at the line of the preceding illustration, the primary registering-disks being omitted and their positions indicated by dotted lines. Fig. 3 is a rear elevation of aportion of the indicator. Fig. ais an enlarged section show ing the rest-bar supported by the trip of one of the keys.

A represents the case of the indicator; a, the lid of the same; a a, the windows at which the elevated tablets are exposed, and B the money-drawer, which drawer is situated below a partition, 0, of said case. Secured within this case are side plates, D D, supporting the principal operative parts of the indicator, said plates being connected by guides d cl, which confine the operating-keys to a circular or curved path. These keys, of which as many may be employed as circumstances suggest, are all alike, except a slight difference in length between the upper and lower banks, and on this account adescription of one key is sufficient. Referring, therefore, to Fig. 1, it will be noticed that the Serial No. 288,840. (No model.)

with a button, 0, while the inner or concealed end of said key takes the shape of a camlifter, c. Furthermore, this bent key is armed with a pawl, F, that is maintained in its normal position by spring, f, said pawl being adapted to engage with theratchet-teeth of a primary registering-disk, G, mounted upon a shaft, g, and having a spur, g, that drives a wheel, H, journaled upon a shaft, 72 Wheel H drives the secondary registering-disk 1, journaled upon the shaft a, retrograde turning of this disk being prevented b y the engagement with its ratchet-teeth of one end, j, of a spring, J, the opposite cnd j, of the latter being engaged with the ratchet-teeth of the primary disk G. This double-ended spring J j 7" is carried by a fixed bar, K, and is held in place by a screw, 7.1, which serves, also, to regulate thepressure of a supplementary pring, L, whose extremities bear upon said spring J in the manner shown.

M is a stop on the key; N, an inclined trip; 0, a shoulder, and P a spur, which latter projects from the under side of said key and near its cam-lifter c.

e" is a pin or collar of the key, between which and the guide (1 a retracting-sprin Q, is located for the purpose of restoring saic key to its normal position. The upper-bank key E is provided with a precisely similar arrangement of button 6, cam-lifter, pawl, stop m, trip 12, shoulder 0, spur, collar, and retracting-spring. Pivoted to the side plates, 7* r, are swinging levers R R, whose free ends are united by a rest-bar, S, which may be presset down by springs 19 s, bearing upon said levers.

T are the tablets, the stems of which, i, are confined to a vertical path by guides d d" of the main frame, each stein being provided with a toe, f, resting upon a cam-lifter, c, of a key. Pivoted to the side plates at u u are bell-cranks U U, the upper arms of which carry a lockbar, V, from the mid-lcngth of which a gravitating or drop catch, ll", depends, the upper portion of this catch being slotted longitudinally at to and its lower end being chamfered off, so as to ride freely over the notch 19 of drawer l3.

V is a spring whose pressure pulls down the catch \V, therebybringing the upper arms of the bell-cranks U U in contact with the out of contact with the end of said drawer.

These rollers are journaled in the lower arms of the bell-cranks.

1*"r are stops that limit the upward swing of said bell-cranks.

Our improved cash indicator and register is operated in the following manner: In the normal condition of the machine the stress of the various springs Q retracts all the keys E E and brings their stops M m in contact with the guide (Z, as seen in Figs. 1 and 2, thereby dropping the stems t and preventing the tablets T being exposed at the windows a a, which retraction of the keys throws their pawls F out of gear with the primary registering-disks G. Furthermore, in this condition of the machine the spurs P are a limited distance below the lock-bar V, which bar is maintained in the position seen in Fig. 1 by the downward pull of spring V on the catch V, the pins in! arresting the bell-cranks U U and preventing a too great descent of said catch. It is therefore apparent that the money-drawer B is now locked by said catch, the rollersX X being swung back so far as to permit the complete closing of said drawer. Again, in this normal condition of the machine the springs s .9 force down the swinging levers R R and cause the rest-bar S to bear upon all the keys at a point somewhat in advance of their shoulders 0; but the instant either one of the upper or lower bank of keys is struck all the operative parts of the register assume new positions. Assuming, then, that the lower-bank key E has been struck with sufficient force, it is evident the bearings 61 d will so guide said key as to make it describe a curved or circular path within the case, the result of this movement being to depress the exposed end of the key and compel a corresponding elevation of its concealed end, which act causes the cam e to lift the stem-toe i alittle higher than is necessary, and thus expose the tablet T at the windows a a". This advance movement of the key brings the pawl F in gear with the teeth of disk G and turns the latter a distance of one ratchet, and after said disk has been turned a sufficient number of times to make an entire revolution its spur g turns the secondary registering-disk I the distance of a single ratchet. Furthermore, this movement of the key brings the spur P in contact with the lock-bar V, thus overcoming the stress of spring V and swinging the bellcranks U U back as far as the stops o r will permit, which swinging of said cranks not only elevates the catch W above the notch b,'but forces the rollers X X against the drawer B, thereby initiating the opening of the latter. hen the cranks U U are in contact with the stop-pins o '1), the rest-bar S bears upon the inclined trip N, as seen in Fig. 4; but the moment pressure is removed from the button 6 the spring Q retracts the key and the spring V'-- pulls down the rod V and again brings the bell-cranks in contact with the stop-pins tr. The tablet T is accordingly dropped a limited distance-say about a half-inch or so and then remains exposed in its proper position, further descent of the tablet-stem t being prevented by the engagement of the rest-bar S behind the shoulder 0. Furthermore, this limited retraction of the key throws the pawl F out of gear with the ratchet-tooth it was previously engaged with and brings it in position. to engage with the succeding tooth of disk G. By this arrangement, if the same key should be operated a second time before it isreleased by the rest-bar S, said key will thereby turn the registering-disk G the distance of another ratchet. Therefore .said bar will retain the tablet in this exposed position until another key is struck with sufficient force to cause a repetition of the above-described movements. If then the upper-bank key E should be struck, so as to be completely advanced, its inclined bearing n will about reach the position indicated by the dotted line a in Fig. 4C, and as this position is in front of the shoulder 0 of key E it is evident said bearing will force the rest-bar S away from said shoulder and allow said key E to instantly assume its normally-retracted place within the machine.

It will thus be seen that the inclined bearing N or 02 serves as a trip that instantly disengages the rest-bar S from the shoulder O of one key when another key is subsequently operated.

Having shown how the second'key causes the tablet of the first key to drop, it is unnecessary to go into the details of the further action of said second key, as said actions differ in no respect from the movements previously described.

The machine may be provided with any approved form of bell and striker, and as the bar S, rod V, catch TV, and spring V are set in motion every time a key is struck either of these devices S, V, W, or V maybe arranged to operate the hammer of the striker.

In the modification of our invention seen in Fig. 2 the pushing-springs Q have been omitted and pulling-springs Q inserted in their place, one end of these springs Q being attached to the guide (1, while the other ends thereof are secured to the respective keys, so asto drag them back to their normal positions.

In Fig. 4 the shoulder O is made bythe angular bend of a plate-spring, 0, thereby indicating that the device 0 may be a yielding instead of a rigid projection from the key.

In some cases the disk G may have two or more spurs to operate the wheel H at every half, third, or other regular fractional revolution of said disk, one of these additional spurs being seen at g" in Fig. 1.

We claim as our invention 1. The combination, in a cash indicator and register, of a bent key suitably guided within the case and having means for operating a registeringclisk, said key being provided with a trip and rigid shoulder, which shoulder is caught by a rest-bar when a tablet is exposed, as herein described.

2. In a cash indicator and register, the bent key E, suitably guided within the case and having a pawl, F, trip N, and rigid shoulder O, in combination with the rest-bar S, and tablet T, said rest-bar being provided with levers R R pivoted to the side plates, '7' a", and the pawl F being adapted to engage with the teeth of the registering-disk G, for the purpose described.

3. The combination, in a cash indicator and v register, of the bent key E, having a pawl, F, trip N, shoulder O, retracting-spring Q, and spur P, the bar V, connecting the pivoted bellcranks U u U u, the drop-catch WV 20, suspended from said bar, the spring V, that re tracts said catch, the tablet-stein Z, operated by said key E, and a registering-disk, G, actuated by said pawl F, as herein described.

at. The combination, in a cash indicator and register, of primary and secondary registerin g-disks haying ratchet-teeth,a double-ended spring, J j j, engaged with said teeth, a supplementary spring, L, bearing upon the spring J jj, and an adjusting-screw, 7c, tapped into the supporting-bar K, as herein described.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

*ILLIAM G. SCHICKNER. LOUIS K. MARTY. XV itnesses:

JAMES H. LAYMAN, SABIL. S. CARPENTER.

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