Improvements in Combined Cash Register, Change-maker, Change-deliverer and Purchase-check-discharging Machine.

摘要

16,517. Spear, E. H. Aug. 15, 1904, [date applied for under Patents Act, 1901]. Coins, separating; money-delivering apparatus.- Relates to a key-set, key-operated cash-register which delivers metal checks to the value of a coin inserted, or checks and change, or change, registers the total value of checks delivered, indicates the value of checks delivered at each operation and the value of the coin inserted, and detects and discharges counterfeit coin, at the same time locking the machine. The invention mainly consists of improvements on the machine described in Specification No. 16,577, A.D. 1903, in the following respects, namely (1) the check indicator rods and their actuation by the keys, and unlocking by the coin inserted, (2) the cash receiving and separating mechanism, (3) the change-making mechanism operated by the keys and controlled by the coin inserted and the registering-mechanism, and (4) the coin and check tubes with "empty" indicators and keylever locking mechanism. The general operation of the machine is as follows :-When a coin is inserted, the entrance slot is closed thereby, the cash slide is drawn forward so as to operate finger mechanism for unlocking key-levers, up to the value of the inserted coin and for testing the coin as in the previous case, and for ejecting the coin if counterfeit ; the key lever for the check desired is then depressed, operating ejector mechanism which is controlled by the second coin-feeling mechanism, and also by the comb-selecting mechanism actuated by the keys. This second coin-feeling mechanism indicates the value of the coin inserted as in the previous case, and the comb mechanism registers the checks delivered. (1) The plates 272 for locking the keys normally engage studs 274 on the lift rods for the indicator until the operation of the cash slide 247, Figs. 27 and 28, causes the attached lever 245 to engage the stud 237n, Fig. 30, of the link-work shown, so as to bring the finger 237 against the coin inserted in the coin shoot 230, thus causing the finger 237a to actuate the detecting and deflecting mechanism, as in the previous case quoted, and to engage one of the levers 285, Fig. 3, and thus release the corresponding locking plate or plates, the operation of several keys simultaneously being prevented by the locking-disks 224. The indicator 184 for the inserted coin is operated as before by the ejector coin control rack 139, which moves the finger 146 to engage the coin when resting on the offsets 243, Fig. 27, of the holding-arm 242. (2) In the cash receiving and separating mechanism, the linkage 237, 237a, Fig. 30, is employed to give greater play to the finger 237a to operate the keylever unlocking-device and the weighing and ejecting mechanism for counterfeits. The deflected coin in passing out locks the machine by deflecting a swinging arm 311, Fig. 27, which extends over the top of the coin shoot 230 and is pivoted at 312, the end 313 of the arm being adapted to lower a lever 314 in the path of the change-making controlling-finger 146. Unlocking is effected by the release key-lever, the indicator lift rod of which has a stud engaging a slot 322, Fig. 4, in the rear arm of a lever 318, pivoted on the spindle 160 of the key-lever locking-plates, the other arm of which is adapted to engage a projection 317 on the counterfeit locking-lever 314 so as to return it to normal position. The lever arm 233 for closing the lower shoot 231 is pivoted thereto, and is actuated by the holding-arm 242. The entrance is closed after the insertion of a coin by a plate 251, carried by a rocking lever 249 having a rear extension 250 which holds the cash-slide lever 245 locked against actuation until the inserted coin meets the projection 252. The cash-slide lever 245 then being brought forward is held by a rack 258 until released by an arm 259, Fig. 27, integral therewith, engaging a stud on the pinion 142, Fig. 4, when the key-lever is depressed, the holding-arm being then carried back by the spring 254 and forcing the cash slide lever 245 back. An arm 148 on the pinion 142 ensures the return of the holding-arm 242 if the spring 254 fails to act. Should the cash slide be held when the key is depressed, the rack 258 operates the levers 267, 264 so as to open the recess 262 in the cash-slide lever and allow the holding-arm 242 to retire therein. (3) The changemaking and ejecting mechanism consists of a series of combs 120, 121, 122, 123, Fig. 16, the teeth of which actuated by the key-levers cause forks to adjust the pendant levers 100, 101, 102', 104, 105, Fig. 13, according to the check desired. The combs are returned to normal position by cams 138 carried by the frame 93, 95. The levers are pressed forward to operate the ejectors by inclined planes 98, carried in the rocking frame 93, 94, 95, meeting the bent rod 116, which is secured to the swinging plate 111 through which the pendant levers pass. Full stroke of the keys is assured by a double pawl 228, carried by the arm 93 engaging a fixed rack 226. The coin control of the pendant levers is effected by a link 150 from the finger mechanism 146, which lifts the frame on which the levers are pivoted to a height corresponding to the diameter of the coin inserted. (4) The check-containing tubes are formed integral with the hinged front half of the coin tubes, and alternating with them, and are each fitted with an "empty" indicator, consisting of a bent lever 339, Fig. 31, pivoted to the front of the tube and having a projection 339', which is adapted to fall into the tube when the latter is empty and to display a sign 341 through an aperture in the casing. To lock the key-levers when the cash tubes are empty or nearly so, a prolongation 245a of the cash-slide lever 245 is adapted to move the lever 326 against a spring 329, which is attached to a separate lever 328, which then tends to press a piece 330 into the coin tube against the action of a spring 332, so that, when the tube is empty, the piece 330 yielding allows a lever 333 pivoted to the coin plate 26 to move a transverse arm over the key-levers and lock them. The tubes may be filled through a number of shoots 342, attached to the casing 7 inside, and accessible through a locked cover 71, which does not give access to the rest of the machine. The rack-bar 139 of the coin-controlling mechanism for the ejectors may be adapted to ring a bell at each operation of a key. The check ejectors have rearwardly-extending rods working between the coin tubes, and all the ejectors have downwardly-projecting lugs 92, Fig. 3, so as to be returned to normal position by the yoke 229 carried by the arms 94, 95. The coins and checks are delivered into the conical upper part 299 of a receptacle extending below all the tubes, the lower part 300 being normally closed by a plate 302, adapted to be pushed back against the action of a spring 304 by the hand of the operator.