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H. BRADT & J.. KINDLEBERGER. CASH REGISTER.

No. 601,428. Patented M21129, 1898.

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CASH REGISTER.

No. 601,423. Patented Mar. 29,1898.

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No. 601,423. Patented Mar. 29,1898.

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HORACE BRADT AND JEFFERSON KINDLEBERGER, OF SAN DIEGO, CALI- FORNIA, ASSIGNORS OF ONE-HALF TO JOSEPH XV. SEFTON, OF SAME PLACE.

CASH-REGISTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 601 ,423, dated March 29, 1898.

Application filed S t b 1, 1896. Serial No. 604,548. (No model.)

To all whom) it may concern.-

Be it known that we, HORACE BRADT and JEFFERSON KINDLEBERGER, of San Diego, in the county of San Diego and State of California, have invented a new and Improved Cash-Register, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to cash-registers of the class designed to register the amount of sales and to add said amounts, so that the total amount maybe ascertained at the close of the day or at any time desired.

The object of this invention is to provide a machine of this character, very simple in its construction, having but few parts, and therefore not liable to easily get out of order, which registers the amount of each and every key operated singly or in combination, and also displays an indicator to disclose to the purchaser that the proper amount has been deposited.

Afurther object is to provide means whereby the machine will register the number of times that the lid of its casing shall have been opened and also the number of times the cash-drawer shall have been opened.

A further object is to provide a duplicating memorandum-slip in connection with the easing of the machine.

WVe will describe a cash-register embodying our invention, and then point out the novel features in the appended claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings,forming a part of this specification in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of a cash-register embodying our invention. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a vertical section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 5. Fig. 41 is a vertical section on the line 4 4 of Fig. 5. Fig. 5 is a horizontal section on the line 5 5 of Fig. 3. Fig. 6 is a detail showingashaft-holding device employed, and Fig. 7 shows a portion of the yoke-plate and key-lever guide employed.

The invention comprises a casing 1, of any suitable material, having a compartment in its lower portion, in which operates a cashdrawer 2. This cash-drawer is mounted to move 011 side wheels 3, journaled on the illner side of the casing 1, and also on a wheel 4, journaled to a latch 5, extended rearward from the central portion of the back of the drawer. This wheel at is peripherally grooved to engage a track arranged in the bottom of the drawer. This grooved wheel and track will serve to guide the drawer to its engagement with a pivoted locking-latch 6. The adjacent faces of the parts 5 and 6 are provided with locking-shoulders to engage one with the other, and forward of those lookingshoulders the said parts are inclined or made cam shape, so that when the drawer is forced into its compartment the part 5 will force the pivoted latch 6 upward until its shoulder shall have passed the shoulder of the part 5, whereupon the latch will drop down and lock the drawer.

The casing 1 is provided with ahinged cover 7, which closes the top and front of said casing. This lid 7 has its top portion inclined downward and forward, substantially in the form of a desk. Preferably we combine with the said lid a duplicating memorandum-strip. As here shown, the top of the lid is provided with a guide-frame 8, through which an original strip 9 or a duplicating-strip 10 may pass. These strips 9 and 10 extend through a slotopening in the lid 7 from a roller 11, having journaled bearings in hangers 12, depending from the inner side of the top of the casing. These bearings are preferably made in hooked form or open at one side, so that the roller may be inserted or removed at will.

Passing transversely across and between the strips 9 and 10 is acarbon-sheet 13, having its ends secured,respectively,to a deliveryroller and a take-up roller, one of which is shown in Fig. 3, both of said rollers having journal-bearings in lugs extended downward from the inner side of the lid. The said carhon-paper extends upward through a slotopening at one side of the guide-frame 8 and downwardly through a slot-openin g in the opposite side to its engagement with the take up roller, these slot-openings being plainly shown in. Fig. 1. The ends of the several strips maybe secured to their respective rollers in any desired nianner such, for instance, as applying a suitable adhesive to them.

WVe have here provided and shown means for making one copy of an original memorandum; but it is obvious that more or less sheets may be employed without departing from the spirit of our invention. The ends of the strips 9 and 10 project through an opening at the lower end of the frame S that is, after making a desired memorandum on the strip within the said frame 8 the said memorandum may be drawn out and torn off, leaving a blank space within the frame for a subsequent memorandum.

WVe will 110w describe means for recording the amount of sales, the number of times the cash-drawer shall have been opened, and the number of times the lid shall have been opened. Within the casing 1 are journaled shafts 14 and 15, parallel one with the other. These shafts are preferably journaled in metal side plates 16, comprising a frame arranged within the casing 1. On the shaft 14 is mounted to rotate relatively thereto a series of peripherally-numbered disks 17, and on the shaft 15 are mounted to rotate a series of peripherally-numbered disks 18. A disk 18 is designed to be rotated by a disk 17, as will be hereinafter described. For convenience we may designate the disks 17 as receiving-disks and the disks 18 as depositdisks. The several disks of a shaft are mounted to rotate one independently of the other, and each disk 17 is provided with ratchetteeth 19, adapted to be engaged by a pawl 20, pivotally connected to a key-lever 21, and each disk 18 is provided with radial teeth 22, adapted to be engaged successively at each complete rotation of its operating-disk 17 by means of a lug 23, extended outward from said disk 17. Therefore it will be seen that at every complete rotation of a disk 17 its disk 18 will be rotated through one space. The several disks 18 are provided at one side with an outwardly-projecting lug 24, adapted to engage with a swinging stop-plate 25, pivoted in the frame 16.

When the several lugs 24 are in engagement with said stop-plate 25, theirzero-marks will be uppermost or disclosed. The several disks when it is desired to set them to zero may be rotated with their shafts. As here shown, the shafts 14 and 15 are at one end extended outward through the frame 16 and are made angular to receive a suitable turning-key. The shafts are each provided with a ratchet-wheel 26, engaged by pivoted dogs 27. By removing the frame and its supported parts from the casing 1 the said shafts may be rotated in one direction by means of a key and the dogs engaging with the ratchetwheels will prevent a reverse movement of the shafts as the several disks are independently rotated. The disks of course will have a frictional engagement with the shafts sufficient to cause them to rotate with the shafts.

The several key levers extend outward through slot-openings in the front portion of the casing and are provided with numbered finger-pieces in the usual manner. These several key-levers are mounted to rock 011 a shaft 28, supported in the frame 16. A pawl extends from each key-lever and is designed to engage with the ratchet-teeth 19 of the disk 17 These several pawls 20 at their upper ends rest upon and are designed to move over a rod 28,which is preferably adjustable in a vertical direction to cause said pawls to engage more or less with the ratchet-teeth. As here shown, the rod 28 has its ends adjustably mounted in slotted bearings 29, secured to the inside of the side piece of the frame 16.

It is designed that the drawer 2 shall be released and forced to an open position upon the operation of each key-lever, and also that the operation of each key-lever shall force a numbered target or indicator into View. For this purpose each key-lever engages with the inside of a yoke-bar 30, having downwardlyextended fingers between the adjacent fingers of which a key-lever will pass. This bar 30 has arms 31 extending forward at its ends, and said arms are pivotally connected with the side plates of the frame 16. From the drawer-locking latch 6 a pivoted rod 32 extends upward and is engaged with an arm 33, extended upward and forward from the central portion of the bar 30. Therefore it will be seen that an operative motion of any one of the lovers will move the bar 30 upward and consequently draw the latch 6 out of engagement with the part 5 on the drawer,and a spring 34, attached at one end to the inner side of the casing 1 and bearing at its free end against the part 5, will start the drawer outward. The several pawls 20 are pressed into yielding engagement with the ratchet-teeth of the disk 17 by means of a swinging plate 35, arranged within the frame 16.

It is designed that every time the drawer 2 is opened an alarm shall be sounded. For this purpose we extend a bar 36 upward from an arm 31 of the bar 30 and into engagement with a spring-rod 37, attached at one end to a lug extended from an end piece of the frame 16 and having at its opposite end a hammer designed to strike a gong 38, secured in said frame.

Coacting with each key 21 is a target or indicator 39. These targets or indicators are provided on opposite sides with the desired numerals, which may be seen when a target is in its upper position through the glass walls 40 of a casing 41, mounted on the top of the casing 1 and in which said targets are vertically movable. Each target has a stem portion 42, extended downward through an openin g in the top of the casing 1 and through openings in guide-bars 43, secured in the frame 16. At its lower en (1 each stem 42 has a rearwardlyextended too 44, adapted to engage on the upper side of the end of the key-lever and having sufficient length to project beyond the end of said key-lever, as plainly indicated in Fig. 3. These projected ends of the toes 44 are designed to be engaged on their under sides with a holding-plate 45, pivoted in the frame 16. This holding-plate 45 may move forward to its engagement position by its own weight, or it may be provided, as here shown, with a counterbalance or weight 46, which is shown as arranged near its central portion.

An arm 47 extends rearward and downward from the yoke-bar 30, and at its lower end this arm 47 is provided with an adjustable tappet 48, made in the form of a screw e11- gaging in a tapped hole in the arm and designed to engage with the plate 45 during an upward movement of the yoke-bar 30 that is, when a key-lever is operated it will elevate a target 39, and during the upward movement the tappet 48, by striking against the plate 45 and continuing its movement thereon, will move said plate rearward out of engagement with the toe portion of a target stem previously raised. This previouslyraised target will consequently fall by gravity, and as the toe portion of the one being raised passes above the plate 45 the said plate will rock back to its supported position and engage said toe, thus holding the target in its upper position, and the key-lever upon being released will return to its normal position with its inner end engaging on a rest-bar 49, arranged in the frame 16. To make the op eration clear, it may be stated that the quick impulse given to a key throws its target with such force that its toe is raised sufliciently above the plate to allow time for the plate to fall back into place and receive the toe when lowered. The plate 45 may be adjusted in relation to its engagement with the toe por tions by means of a cam 50, secured to the inner side of the frame 16.

It is designed that the number of times the lid 7 shall be opened and closed shall be registered. As here shown, extended rearward and downward from the hinged edge of the lid 7 and at one end of said lid is an arm 51, having a pivot at its end extended loosely through a slot in a lever 52, fulcrumed on an upright 53, extending from the bottom of the casing 1. At its end below its fulcrum-point the said lever 52 has pivoted to it a pawl 54, similar to the pawls 20 heretofore described and operating in connection with the disks 17 and 18 in the manner above described. It is obvious that when the said lid 7 is opened the lever 52 will be rocked to draw the pawl 54 rearward, and when the lid is again closed the lever will be rocked to move the pawl 54 forward, and consequently rotate the disk 17.

We also provide means for registering the number of times of opening the cash-drawer andsounding an alarm when it is desired'to open said drawer without operating one of the key-levers 21. As here shown, this means consists of a drawer-releasing lever 55, extended outward through the front of the casing 1 and having a suitable finger-piece at its outer end, the inner end of the said lever 55 being pivoted to a stud 56, extended from an arm 31 of the yoke-bar 30. A pawl 57 is pivoted on the lever 55 or on the pivot connecting said lever with the stud 56, and this pawl 57 engages with the ratchet-teeth of a disk similar to those above described. By this construction it will be seen that by pulling downward on the outer end of the lever 55 the registering mechanism will be operated by means of the pawl 57, and this operation of the lever 55 will move the yoke-bar 30 upward in the manner above described, sounding an alarm and at the same time releasing the drawer-locking mechanism. This operation will also raise a target indicating No sale.

As the pawl 57 has connection with the arm 31 of the yoke-bar 30, it is obvious that the drawer-opening recorder will be operated upon the operation of any one of the keys.

As the operation of the several parts has been set forth in connection with the description of such parts, it is not deemed necessary to recapitulate the several operations.

In the construction of our machine we find it convenient to connect therewith or place,

on the upper portion of the cabinet a time mechanism, as indicated in Fig. 1.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. In a cash-register, a casing, a hinged cover therefor, forming a writing-table and having a slot-opening in its rear portion, a frame on the top of said cover and having guide-pieces in line with the ends of said slotopening, hangers arranged within the casin g rearward of the slot-opening and having outwardly-opening bearings at the lower ends for receiving the journals of a memorandumstrip roller, perforated lugs on the under side of the cover at opposite sides of the frame on said cover, rollers mounted to rotate in said lugs, and carbon-strips having their ends secured to the rollers, the said carbon-strips be ing passed through slot'openings at the sides of the frame, substantially as specified.

In a cash-register, a casing, a shaft mounted to rotate in said casing, receivingdisks mounted to rotate on said shaft, a ratchet-and-pawl mechanism operated from a key-lever for rotating said disks,another shaft mounted to rotate in said casing,deposit-disks mounted to rotate on said last-named shaft, means for operating the last-named disks from the first-named disks, lugs extended from each of the deposit-disks, a stop-plate automatically swinging for engaging the said lugs, and means for locking the two shafts from backward rotation, the said means consisting of a ratchet-wheel on the extended end of each shaft and pivoted dogs engaging therewith, substantially as specified.

3. A cash-register, comprising a series of numbered disks mounted to rotate independ ently on a shaft, a series of disks mounted to rotate independently 011 another shaft, the said last-named disks being forward of and operated by the first-named disks, key-levers fulcrumed in the casing of the cash-register, pawls pivotally connected to the key-levers and adapted to engage with ratchet-teeth attached to the first-named disks, a verticallyadjustable rod for supporting the free ends of said pawls, a gravity swinging plate engaging with all the pawls for holding said pawls yieldingly downward, a yoke-bar engaging with all the keys, a bar extended upward from one arm of the yoke-bar, a springrod engaged by the upwardly-extended rod and carrying a hammer and a bell to be struck by the hammer, substantially as specified.

4. A cash-register, comprising a series of numbered disks mounted to rotate independently 011 a shaft, a series of disks mounted to rotate independently on another shaft, the said last-named disks being forward of and operated by the first-named disks, key-levers fulcrumed in the casing of the cash-register, pawls pivotally connected to the key-levers and adapted to engage with ratchet-teeth attached to the first-named disks, a verticallyadjustable rod for supporting the free ends of said pawls, a gravity swinging plate engaging all of the pawls for holding said pawls yieldingly downward, a yoke-bar engaging with all the keys, an upwardly-extending bar operated by the yoke-bar, a spring-rod engaged by the last-named bar and carrying a hammer and a bell to be struck by said hammer, and targets operated by the keys, substantially as specified.

5. A cash-register, comprising a casing, a series of independently-rotating numbered disks therein, a key-lever for each of the said disks, targets or indicators having stem portions engaging the ends of the key-levers, the said stem portions at their lower ends having toe portions extended beyond the ends of the key-levers, a swinging supporting-plate for engaging said toes and holding the targets in line with the sight-opening, a yoke-bar operated by the key-levers, and a tappet carried by the yoke-bar for moving the swinging plate in one direction, substantially as specified.

6. A cash-register, comprising a casing, a drawer movable in the lower portion thereof, a locking-latch for said drawer, a lever fulcrumed in the casing, a yoke-bar to which the inner end of said lever is engaged, a connection between said yoke-bar and the locking mechanism of the drawer whereby the same may be released, and consisting of a pivoted rod extended upward and connected to an arm on the yoke, a pawl pivoted to said lever, and a registering-disk operated by said pawl, substantially as specified.

7. A cash-register, comprising a casing, a series of key-levers pivoted therein, registering-disks operated independently of said keylevers, a target for each key-lever, comprising a plate suitably numbered and a stem extended downward from the plate through guides in the casing, a toe portion on the lower end of said stem, adapted to engage with the upper side of the key-lever, a yoke -bar mounted to swing by an upward movement of either one of the key-levers, an arm extended rearward from said bar, an adjustable tappet on said arm, a supporting-plate pivotally mounted in the casing and adapted to engage its upper edge with the extended toe portion, and a weighted arm extended forward and downward from said plate, substantially as specified.

8. A cash'register, comprising a casing, a hinged lid therefor, an arm extended rearward and inward from the hinged edge of said lid, a fulcrumed lever in the casing, having a slot at its upper end through which a pin on said arm extends, a pawl pivoted to the lower end of said lever, and a registering-disk operated by the said pawl upon the closing of the lid, substantially as specified.

9. In a cash-register, the combination with a casing, a hinged lid therefor, and rotary disks, of an arm secured to the pivoted end of the lid and having a pivot at its end, a le- Ver fulcrumed in the casing between its ends and having its upper end slotted to receive the pivot-pin of the said arm, and a pawl pi"- oted to the lower end of the lever and en ing a ratchet-wheel carried by one of the said disks, substantially as described.

10. In a cash-register, the combination with rotary receiving-disks, and pawl-and-ratchet mechanisms operated from the key-levers for operating said disks, of rotary deposit-disks each provided with a lug projecting therefrom, and a swinging stop-plate adjacent to the deposit-disks and automatically en gaging the lugs of the said disks as the disks are rotated, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

11. In a cash-register, the combination with the key-levers, a series of numbered disks, and a ratchet-and-pawl mechanism for operating the disks from the key-levers, of a pivoted yoke-bar with which the rear ends of the key-levers engage to swing it on its pivot, a gong, a spring-hammer, and an arm carried by the yoke-bar and engaging the hammer to operate it, substantially as described.

12. In a cash-register, the combination with a casing, a drawer therein, the key-levers, a series of numbered disks, and a pawl-andratchet mechanism for operating the disks from the key-levers, of a pivoted yoke-bar with which the rear end of the key-levers engage to swing it upon its pivot, a pivoted latch for locking the drawer, an arm carried by the yoke-bar, and a rod having one end pivoted to the latch and its other end engaging the arm of the yoke-bar, substantially as described.

13. In a cash-register, the combination with a casing, a drawer therein, the key-levers, and a series of numbered disks operated by the key-levers, of a pivoted yoke having downwardly-proj ectin g fingers between which the rear ends of the key-levers project, said yokebar being provided with a forwardly and upwardly extending apertured arm, a pivoted latch for locking the drawer, and a rod having its lower end pivoted to the rod and its upper end projecting through the aperture of the arm of the yoke-bar and provided with a stop at its end, substantially as described.

14(- In a cash-register, the combination with a casing, a drawer therein, the key-levers, and a series of numbered wheels operated by the key-levers, of a pivoted yoke having-downwardly-projecting fingers between which the rear ends of the key-levers project, said yoke being provided with an upwardly and forwardly projecting arm, a pivoted latch for the drawer, a rod having one end secured to the latch and its other end engaging the arm of the yoke-bar, a spring-hammer, a gong, and a bar projecting upwardly from one of the arms of the yoke-bar and engaging the hammer, substantially as described.

15. In a cash-register, the combination with registering-disks, pivoted key-levers, and a pawl-and-ratchet mechanism for operating the disks from the key-levers, of a pivoted yoke with which the rear ends of the key-levers engage provided with a rearwardly-projecting arm having tappets, vertically-movable target-rods provided with toes at their lower ends with which the key-levers engage, a pivoted plate adapted to engage the toes of the target-rods, and means for disengaging the said plate from the toes of the target-rods from the yoke, substantially as described.

10. In a cash-register, the combination with a casing, a drawer therein, a latch for said drawer, numbered wheels operated by the key-levers, a pivoted yoke engaged by the key-levers, a connection between the latch of the drawer and said yoke, a gong; a hammer for the gong, and a connection between the hammer and the yoke, of a drawer-releasing lever pivoted on one arm of the said yoke, a ratchet-Wheel on the shaft of the numbered disk, and a pawl pivoted on the drawer-releasing lever and engaging the said ratchetwheel, substantially as described.

HORACE BRADT. JEFFERSON KINDLEBERGER. lVitnesses:

GEO. G. POTTER, R. Ii. YOUNG.

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