US560844A - Mechanism for registering and recording coins received - Google Patents

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P. E.' DANIELS. MECHANISM POR REGISTERING AND RECORDING COINS RECEIVED 4AND DELIVERED.

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No. 560,844. Patented May 26, 1896.

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PHILO E. DANIELS, OF OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO MICHAEL J. DONOIIOO, OF SAME PLACE.

IVIECHANISIVI FDR REGISTERING AND RECORDING COINS RECEIVED AND DELIVERED.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 560,844,` dated May 26, 1896. Application tiled September `28, 1895. l Serial No. 563,438. (No model.) l

T0 all whom t may concern.

Be it known that I, PHILo E. DANIELs, a citizen of the United States, residing at Oakland, in the county of Alameda and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cash and Change Registers; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of said invent-ion, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it most nearly appertains to make, use, and practice the same.

This invention relates to cash-registers, and has for its objects to producea record of all the transactions in cash and a history of each transaction; further, to provide visible devices whichwill tell at a glance the condition of the business being done in cash, and, further, to provide means for employing a checkbook system in conjunction with the register.

`\Vith these objects in View the invention consists in providing separate money-receptacles for each variety of the various coins in use, each of which has a loader and an extractor for taking one of the coins therefrom, which loaders and extractors have separate and independent registers to tell the number of times they have been operated.

It further consists in providing a universal locking device for all the extraetors, which locking device is provided with an individual register to record the number of times it has been operated, and which serves as a register To each of the foregoing (the extractors and lookin g device) are provided attachments to imprint upon paper or other suitable material marks distinctive in character or location, whereby a record is kept of the total number of sales and the history of each sale.

It further consists in providing intermediate registers which are operated by` both the loading and extracting devices to show a difference in the operations of each, the difference showing the sum total of sales at all times; and it further consists in providing receptacles for checks of the individual salesmen, which receptacles are unlocked` simultaneously with the unlocking of the extracting devices, which are, as above stated, provided with a register.

In the drawings, Figure l is a front elevation of the complete register constructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a cross-section of the same, showing in heavy lines the construction of the case. Fig. 2a is an enlarged detailed view in' plan, disclosing more particularly the latch D13 with its spring Dm. Fig. 3 is a detail View of the extractors and the recording devices connected therewith. Fig. 4t is a detail view of the locking devices. Fig. 5 is a detail View of the register for the locking device, showing in dotted lines the dials of the same. Figs. 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 are detail views of the registering mechanism for the loading and extracting devices. Fig. ll is a detail view of the loading devices, showing in section thecoin-slides thereof. Fig. l2 is a front View of the moneytubes in section. Fig. 13 is a detail view of a segment of the feed and line-printing roll. Fig. 14 is a detail view of the record-sheet, showing record-marks on the same.

For the purposes of the description of the present construction embodying this invention wewill Alet the letter X designate the case within which the operative parts of this invention are mounted. These operative parts we will designate in their assembled form. Thus the loading devices and their elements we will designate by the common letter A. The extracting devices and their elements will be designated by the common letter B. The locking devices and elements will be designated by the common letter C. The record-roll audits elements will be designated by the common letter D. The devices for showing the amount of the sales will be designated by the common letter E, and the remaining parts of the machine will each be given a separate distinguishingletter.

The loading devices herein employed, as

shown, consist in the tubes A', which are of the various sizes to suit the coins to be placed in them. be enlarged or diminished at will to take all or a part of the current coins in circulation by the adding of suitable tubes and the parts operating thereon. These tubes are detachable, resting in sockets on the carrying-bar A2, which extends across the case X from side to side directly back of the front plate.

The capacity of the machine may- IOO The tubes at the top are beveled, as shown, for the purpose of Eallowing the moneys to pass over the filled tubes and lead to the money box or boxes. Operating back and forth over the upper ends of these tubes are the slides A3. The slides rest on the iiat tables or platforms A4, which are solid where projected in front and skeletoned to leave an opening over the tubes inside the casing X. In the slides A3 are perforations A5 to receive the coins when the slides are drawn forward, so that the perforations rest over the solid tables A4 and to carry them back over the tubes to be deposited therein. To draw these slides back, the springs A9 are provided. These engage the inner ends of the rods A7 of the pull-buttons A8, by means of which the slides are drawn forward. These rods are mounted in suitable bearings, as shown in Fig. 11 of the drawings, and are provided with registering devices A9, to operate which they are provided with conical-shaped bosses A19. The rods A7 are connected rigidly to the slides, so that when the rods are drawn out the slides are projected forward to receive the coins. To guide the introduction of the coins more certainly and to seat them in the perforations A5 more surely, I provide the pivoted doors A11, which fly open on the slides being drawn forward, as shown at Fig. 11 of drawings. These doors may be actuated by the springs A12, as shown, orby weighted ends back of the pivotal connection. On the face of these doors are painted eharac ters indicative of the denomination of the moneys contained in their respective tubes. This serves as a guide to the purchaser, and thereby forms a check on the operator by directing the attention to the amount of money being placed in the machine, which must correspond to the amount which he gives to the salesman. These doors serve the further purpose of holding the coin in position during its introduction into the machine and compels it to operate the recording mechanism, as will be described farther on.

The extractors consist in slides B', which are mounted in guides formed in the central bench X', upon which the carrying-bar A2 rests. These slides are elongated and projected backward to carry the operating devices for the recording mechanism. There they pass under the tubes they are provided with perforations to receive the coins of the denomination which the tube they work upon are designed for in such manner that the bottom coin in each column rests in the perforations in the slides. By this means the coin is drawn forward out of the tube and machine with the slides. To draw the slides forward,

they are provided with the pull-buttons Hs at the forward end of the pull-rods B1, which are connected at the rear to the slides by means of the rods B5, slots being cut in the bench X to allow them to operate back and forth. The pull-rods B4 are drawn back by the springs -cesses F2 in the side of the bars.

B9, which maintain the perforations for the coins in the slides in position in line with the tubes. By means of this construction of the loading and extracting devices it will be observed that as the loading-slide carries the coins into the machine they are dropped into their respective tubes until the tube is filled. In this condition the coins will fall over the tubes, being allowed to do so by the beveled shape of the upper end of the tubes, as shown in drawings. This, however, will rarely occur except in the tubes of large denomination, where few are given out in change. ln the other tubes the extractors will, it is esti mated, take from the tubes about as many coins as are placed therein by the loaders.

As either the loader or the extractor on each tube is operated the small registers A9 and B9 are operated to turn the small pointers or hands on them one space forward. This is accomplished in each by the raising o'r lowering of the register-bars F, which extend from the extractor pull-rods to the loader pull-rods. The bars F are suitably mounted in guides on the front plate of the machine and are supported by the detent F', which has the head F2, wedge-shaped to fit in the V-shaped re- The head F2 rests in the upper or lower recess, according as the loader or extractor was last worked. To operate to shift the bars F, the pull-rods of the loader and extractor are provided with the bosses A19 and B18, the forward ends of which are conc-shaped to drive under the extension F1 in the one instance and over the extension F5 in the other instance, as the loader or extractor is operated, respectively. Mounted on the flat side of the bars F are the pawls A13 and E19 and also the pawls E2 and E2, all of which are adapted to engage the ratchet-wheels A15, B7, and E in the one or the other position of the bars F-that is to say, in a raised position or in a lowered position. At no one time do all the pawls engage. The purpose of this is to operate the ratchet-wheel E at every operation of either the loader or extractor, but in opposite directions for each.

Thus when the extractor has been operated the bar F is drawn down, as shown in the drawings' at Fig. 6, the head F2 of the detent Fl resting in the upper recess The drawing shows the position of the pawls as they appear when the extractor pull-bar is fully extended outward. The pawls E19 and E2 have moved the ratchet-wheels B7 and E around one tooth. In this position the detent-head F2 is raised partly on the inclined face of the recess. When now the extractor is carried inward and t-he boss B18 is removed from the path of the extension F5, the pressure of this detent-head on the inclined surface will raise the bar F slightly until the detent-head is seated. In doing this the pawls E2 and B19 will run back one tooth, ready for the next operation of the same kind. lf, however, the loader is now operated, the first part of the movement imparted to the bar F IOO IIO

by the extension of the cone-shaped end of the boss A10 under the extension F1 draws the bar Fgupward until the detent rests in the lower'recess, while the pawls B19 and E2 are drawn away from their ratchet-wheels, and the pawls A12and E2 are drawn to their wheels. In this position a continuance of the pull on the loader pull-bar brings the full thickness of the boss A10 under the extension F1 and causes the pawls A13 and E3 to rotate their wheels one tooth. In this latter rotation of the wheel E it will be observed that it was in the opposite direction of the first, whereby the total number of the registers in one direction is counteracted by the total number in the other.. Thus if the loader operates the wheel E in a forward direction seven times and the extractor operates it ve times in the reverse direction the total number in the forward direction will show as 2, which will indicate an excess of two coins of the denomination put in the tube over those taken out. The `registers A0, B0, and E1 are the same in construction and operation, so Iwill limit myself `to the' description of that on the extractor.

The ratchet-wheel B1 is provided with a p spindle B13, reaching forward outside the case X and provided with the hand or pointer B2. The spindle is suitably mounted in the casing and the stationary dial B2, which is set out from the case X to allow the dials B10 and B11 to move behind it. These latter dials are suitably figured on their surface, as shown, and the dial BJ has perforations on either side of the center to allow these figures to show through. The guring is from. O to 9 or ten equal divisions. Each of the dials B10 and B11 have on their backs star-wheels of ten teeth. The star of the dial B10 is larger iu diameter than that on dial B11, in order to engage the pin B12 on the main spindle B13 every full revolution of the said spindle. As it is thus turned the pin B11 on the lever B15 is raised out of the depression, in which it is shown in Fig. 9 of drawings, onto the edge of the dial B10. lVhen this end of the lever B15 is raised, the other end carrying the pawl B16 is depressed, carrying it down one tooth, which it engages. Then now the dial B10 has made a complete revolution, the pin B11 falls into the depression which it left, allowing the spring B1`1to bring the lever B15 to its original position, moving the dial B11 one tooth of its star-wheel, one division of its spacing, or the successive figure on the dial. ln this particular construction the ratchetwheel B7 is provided with one hundred teeth and the two star-wheels with ten teeth, whereby the capacity of the register is ten thousand, as will be seen.

Thus far it will `be observed that as the tubes are loaded the register A0 will register each coin as introduced, and as each coin isv taken from the tubes the extractor-registers will show the total number taken from each tube; and,further, as the loader and extractor on each tube operates the registers E1 on each tube in opposite directions they will show the amount of the diiference between the number of coins taken in and those taken out or the condition of the business being done` through the machine.

For the purpose of keeping a record of the business for office-recordslhave provided the roll of paper D', which is supported on the roller D2, mounted in bearings in the sides of the case X. The paper is ruled, as shown at Fig. let of the drawings, the line D3 :indicating where the record of the locking devices C are made, which record indicates the number of sales. The paper D is carried between the feed-rolls D1 and D5, which bear upon either side of the paper. The roll D1 is provided at its end with the ratchet-wheel D0, which is engaged by the pawl D7- of the feeding devices. The roll D5 is formed in a number of segments or sections, as shown, between which are spaces for the recording devices. 'lihese sections are provided with rows of puncturing-points D2, which, when they are rolled against the roller D1, cut the paper to form lines across the same.

The devices for forming the record on the paper consist of the triggers D0 and D10, the former recording the operations of the loaders and the latter the operations of the eXtractors. Each set has a head which is adapted to print or cut some distinctive character on the paper D. To accomplish this, they are pivotally mounted in suitable bearings on the cross-bar D11 and adapted to throw the printing-head forward against the paper. As shown in the drawings, the marks of the three recordingheads are shown, the locking device being indicated by the v,the extractor devices be- ,ing indicated by the and the loading devices by the 1. These, however, may be changed indefinitely.

The triggers D10, which are to record the operations of the extractors, are provided with the rear extensions D12, which normally trail on the slides B. The heads of these are thrown forward against the paper D by the latches D12, which are pivotally mounted on the slide B. These latches are so mounted as to hold rigidly in place when drawn forward un der the extension D12, which are thereby raised to throw the printing-heads forward. As the latches are returned they turn on their pivotal connections against the springs D121, and thereby pass the said extensions coming back. The springs D10 operate to throw the latches into position immediately after they i have passed the extensions D12, when the eX- tractor is drawn back.

`The triggers D9 are operated from the loader devices. To accomplish this, the upper ends of the triggers are attached to the rods D11, which are pivotally attached at the other end to the small fingers D15. The fingers D15 are mounted in guides on the front plate of the case X and are provided with the inclined end, which reaches up into a slot cut in the IOO IIO

slides A3, whereby the slide may be moved back and forth without engaging` the iingers. Thus when the perforations in the slides are not returned loaded .with a coin the finger is not depressed and no record made on the paper. This operates as a check on the salesman in the event of his attempting to take the money and make the proper register. This would immediately show by comparison of the loader-register and the record. When, however, the coin is placed properly inthe perforation, the return of the slide causes the coin to strike the inclined face of the finger D15 and depress the same. As the finger is depressed the end of the rod D11, to which it is attached, is depressed, causing the end attached to the trigger to move forward against the paper D and record the operation. Immediately the coin has passed over the linger D1s the spring D11i raises the same and restores the parts to their normal positions.

To prevent the making of two records in one spot, I have provided the roll D11 with the ratchet-wheel D6 and connected the same to a feed mechanism. The feed mechanism consists in the rod D17, the iin gers D18, and the arm D111, the rod D17 being pivotally mounted in bearings in the sides of the case X and provided rigidly with the fingers D18, which extend in the path of the latches D132- As the latches D13 are drawn forward, as above described, they extend under and lift the 1ingers, causing the rod D17 to rotate. This rotation of the rod throws the arm D11 back agai nst the strain of the spring D21 and causes the pawl D7 to rotate the ratchetavheel DG one tooth, which, being rigidly attached to the roll D1, causes it to partly rotate and draw the paper D down a slight distance. lVhen the latch D13 has passed entirely under the fingers D18, the spring D2O returns the arm D111 and pawl forward to normal positions and seats the fingers D18back on the slides ready for the next operation of this or any other slide.

Thus far I have described the parts and operation of the different registers and records when the parts are unlocked to allow for operation. The locks are only applied to the change-extractors and consist in the door C, which is hinged to the case X and extends upward behind all the pull-buttons B3 of the extractors. It is divided in the center to allow the door to swing down to either side of the pull-rod C2, by means of which it is operated. On either side of the division above referred to are the runners C3, under which normally rest the rollers O1 on the rod C2. The rod C2 is suitably mounted in bearings in the case X and is adapted to be drawn back and forth. Then drawn forth, the rollers C1 are drawn from under the runners C3 and the door C is allowed to drop. In this position the pullbuttons B3 of the extractors may be drawn forward, as described, and, further, the slots wherein the pull-buttons work are opened for the introduction of sales-checks, where the check-book system is used, into the boxes G.

To register and record the opening of the door C', I have provided the mechanism shown at Figs. 4 and 5 of drawings. The recording devices attached to the pull-rod C2 are similar in every respect to those of the extractors above described. The register in this device is mounted on the top of the case X. It consists in the rod C5, which is mounted in bearings on the case X and rests on the rod C2 on a friction-roller O11. The rod C2 is provided with the cone-shaped boss C7 to drive under the said roller and raise the rod, as in the registering devices above described. The registering is accomplished by this rising and falling of the rod C5.

The register consists of the dial C8, which is divided into one hundred divisions, which are numbered from l to 100. The hand or pointer C9 is mounted on the spindle C10, which is mounted in bearings in the case X and the dial C8. Inside the case the spindle is provided rigidly with the ratchet-wheel C11 and the small pinion C12. The pinion C12 has ten teeth and engages the cog-gear C13 of one hundred teeth, whereby ten turns of the pinion and ratchet-wheel with its hand or pointer cause one full revolution of the cog-gear C13. To this gear is secured the hand C11, which operates over the small dial C15 to mark the hundreds. To turn the ratchet C11, the rod C5 is provided at the top, directly behind the dial CS, with the iiat plate C111, mounted on an extension C1T of which is the pawl C18, to engage the teeth of the ratchet as the rod C5 is raised. To hold the ratchet is provided the safety-catch C19. Thus it will be seen that to operate the extractors to make change from the tubes the doors C have to be lowered from the path of the pull-buttons B3, and to do this the rod (l2 has to be drawn out, which operation is registered on the dials C8 and C15 and recorded on the paperD, as above described.

In its operation this cash-register is principally designed to be used in conjunction with what is known as the check-book system, wherein a duplicate check is made out, showing the cash transactions. These checks it is designed to number to correspond with the register-dial CS, which has to register the opening of the door C for the introduction of the checks into the boxes G. It will also be observed that the opening of this door has been recorded on the paper D, and if the extractors are operated to take moneys from the tubes this will show on the paper D', beside the record of such openin g of the door. This complete record should correspond with the duplicate check, which is dropped into the box G. This is equally true of the cash-registers, even where no change is made, for the reason that the check has to be deposited in the boxes. W'hile however, the check-book system is desired to IOO IIO

be used in conjunction with this cash-register, it may be dispensed with, the registers and the ,record being `a check on the salesman, as they must correspond.

In some instances I use an alarm-bell or the signal device in connection with the rod C2 to draw attention to the opening of the drawer.

Having thus described this invention, what I claim is l. In a cash-register such as described the combination of coin-receptacles each adapted to contain coins of certain denomination, loading devices to insert the coins in said receptacles from one end, extractors to take the coins from said receptacles at the other end, registering devices for each to show the operations of each, and registering devices operated from both the loading and extracting devices in opposite directions to show the excess of the number of operations of the one over the operations of the other substantially as described.

2. In a cash-register such as described the combination of coin-receptacles each adapted to contain coins of certain denominations, with loading devices to insert the coins in said receptacles from oneend, extractors to take the coins from said receptacles at the other end, registering devices for each receptacle operated from both the loading and extracting devices in opposite directions to show the excess of the number of operations of the one over the operations of other, substantially as described.

3. In a cash-register, the combination with coin-holding receptacles, of extractors adapted to separately remove a bottom coin from each receptacle, registering and recording mechanism therefor, pull-rods B4 for said extractors, havin g p ull-buttons B3, the pull-rods C2 also having pnll knobs or buttons, and the slotted pivoted doors adapted to stand in the path of the movement of said pull-buttons B3 and to be taken out of said path by the outward movement of said pull-rods C2, substantially as set forth.

4. In a cash-register, the combination, with coin-holdin g receptacles, of extractors adapted to separately remove a bottom coin from said receptacles, registering and recording mechanism therefor, pull-rods B4 for said extractors, having pull-buttons B3, the pull-rods C2 also having pull knobs or buttons, and the slotted, pivoted doors arranged in the path of the movement of said pull-buttons Bs and adapted to be taken out of said path by the outward movement of said pull-rods C2, said pull-rods C2 having rolls adapted to support said slotted doors in their normal position, substantially as set forth.

5. In a cash-register, the combination of coin-rec eptacles, loading-devices therefor, extractors to take the bottom coins from said coin-receptacles, the registering devices common to both said loading and extracting devices, comprising the sliding notched registering-bar, the pawl therefor, series of ratchets on the index-shafts of said registers, springpressed pawls carried by said registering-bar, two simultaneously engaging two of' said ratchets and other two simultaneously out of engagement with other of said ratchets, and pull or push rods adapted to respectively engage projections of said registering-bar, substantially as set forth.

6. In a cash-register, the combination of coin-receptacles, loading devices therefor, extractors for the removal of the coins from said coin-receptacles, a record-sheet, springheld marking devices engaging said recordsheet, a ratchet feeding device for said recordsheet, pawls engaging said ratchet feeding device, and slides carrying spring-pressed latches engaging said marking devices and actuating said pawls, said slides being connected to, and operated by, said extracting devices, substantially as specified.

7. In a cash-register, the combination of coin-receptacles, loading devices therefor, extractors for the removal of coins from said coin-receptacles, a record-sheet, spring-held marking devices engaging said record-sheet, a ratchet feeding device for said record-sheet, pawls engaging said ratchet feeding device, slides carrying spring-pressed latches engaging said marking devices, said slides being connected to, and operated by, said extracting devices, said pawls having fingers standing in the path of said latches, substantially as set forth.

8. In a cash-register, the combination of coin receptacles, loading devices therefor comprising coin-receiving slides, with the perforations or openings thereof normally resting over the imperforate portions of tables, a record-sheet and'mechanism for said recordsheet, the spring-pressed linger with its upper, beveled end arranged to project into the opening or perforation of the coincident coinreceiving slide, and a marking device to act upon said record-sheet, connected to said iinger, and devices adapted to actnate said coinreceiving slides, substantially as set forth.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 9th day of September, 1895.

PHILo E. DANiErs.

Vitnesses:

BALDWIN VALE, E. F. MURDocK.

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