Cash-register.

Application filed May 28, 1909. Serial No. 498,935.

To dll whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, William H. Muzzy, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cash-Registers, of which I declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in cash registers and more particularly to the recording mechanism for registers.

The principal object.of the invention is to provide an improved means for the taking of impressions upon a check and record strip of a cash register.

With this and incidental objects in view, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combination of parts, the essential elements of which are set forth in appended claims and a preferred form, of embodiment of which is hereinafter described with reference to the drawings which accompany and form part of this specification.

Of said drawings, Figure 1 is a central transverse section through a type of machine shown in the Patent No. 683,877, granted to Thomas Carney, October 1, 1901. Fig. 2 is an end view of the type of machine above mentioned showing the printing mechanism with the printer hood in section. Figs. 3 and 4 are views of the opposite sides of the check used in connection with the printing mechanism shown in Fig. 2.

This invention has been shown applied to a type of machine illustrated in the patent to Thomas Carney above mentioned, but it is to be understood that it may be, with equal facility, applied to other types of machines.

The operating keys 1 of the machine are centrally pivoted upon a transverse shaft 2, and. at their rear ends are provided with uprights 3. These keys, as is well known, are divided into banks and the uprights 3 of each bank are graduated and impart a differential movement to a registering frame 4. Each of these frames 4 is mounted upon a transverse shaft 5, and is provided with a segment 6, which meshes with a pinion 7. There are as many pinions 7 as there are banks of keys and each pinion is secured to the inner end of one of a series of nested sleeves 8, which surround a shaft 9, or to the shaft. To the outer ends of the sleeves and shaft are secured type wheels or car- 55 riers 10., hereinafter described.

A universal bar or coupler 11 is pivoted above and to the side frames 12 of the machine with the free end of said coupler resting upon the upper sides of the keys. Pro- 60 jecting from one side of the bar 11 is a pin 13, which plays in an elongated slot 14, formed approximately in the center of a double face rack bar 15. As any one of the keys 1 is operated, the coupler 11 will 65 be oscillated thereby through means of the pin 13 and slot 14 impart a reciprocatory movement to the rack 15. As this rack ascends, the teeth on one side of it will engage with a pinion 16 secured to a shaft 17, and 70 give the latter a half turn. As the rack reaches the limit of its upward movement, it will be shifted by a spring 18, as is well known, in the art, so that the teeth on the other side of said rack will engage the pinion 75 and continue the rotation of the shaft 17 as the rack descends.

Upon the rear ends of the keys 1 are mounted standards 19 which carry at their upper ends indicators 20 corresponding to 80 the denominations of the keys 1. Approximately in the center and extending rearwardly from the standards 19 are lugs 21, which pass above and are retained in their elevated positions by a supporting frame 85 22. upon the operation of any of the keys, this frame 22 being rocked in a manner well known and fully described in the previously mentioned patent.

The type carriers 10, as previously de-. 90 scribed, are secured to the outer ends of the sleeves 8 and shaft 9, and are provided with characters corresponding to the denominations upon the keys. Directly below the type carriers is a platen 23 mounted 95 in the forward end of an arm 24, which is pivoted to one of the side frames 12, at its rear end. This arm is provided with an offset 25, which is engaged by a cam 26 secured to the outer end of the rotary shaft 100 17, to depress the arm 24 carrying the platen 23 against the tension of a compression spring 27. When the high point of ” the cam 26 passes the offset 25, which is at the end of the down stroke of the key, the 105 spring 27 will quickly throw the arm 24

1,024,593 upwardly carrying the platen 23 into contact with the type carriers 10. Between the type carriers 10 and the platen 23 is a record strip 28, which passes from a supply 5 roll 29 around guide pins 30 and 31. to a storage roll 32, and an endless ink ribbon 33, which passes around an ink supply roll 34 and suitable guide rolls. The record strip is fed forward upon each operation of 10 the machine by mechanism operated from the key coupler and which in. turn feeds the inking ribbon through suitable intervening gearing, as fully described in the aforementioned patent.

The above described printing mechanism is inclosed in a hood 35, which is hinged to the side frame of the machine, and at its front is provided with a slot 36 through which a check 37 is arranged to be inserted.

The check 37, when inserted., is arranged to rest upon a ledge 38, extending forwardly and rear Avar clly from the front wall of the hood 35, and held there from accidental displacement by a leaf spring 39, secured to the inner side of the front Avail of the hood above the ledge 38. The check, at its lower end, as shown in Fig. 4, is coated Avith suitable transferring material 39, so that, Avhen inserted, in the machine, this 30 coated portion of the check will be directly above the platen 23, and between the record strip and the inking ribbon Avith the transferring material facing the record strip. The face of the check, as shown in Fig. 3, is provided with three short lines 40, which, when the check is inserted in the slot 36, are arranged to register with the upper edge of the front Avail of the hood forming the slot so as to act as an index as whether 40 the other encl of the check is in position to receive an impression from the type carriers. The check, as shown, is adapted to receive three impressions from the type carriers, but if it is desired to enter more trans45 actions upon the check, it is only necessary to add more index lines and extend the transferring material farther up the back of said check.

It Avill be seen from the above descrip50 tion, that when the machine is operated in the absence of the check, the entry will be made upon the record strip through the inking ribbon 33, but when the check is in the machine the entry will be made upon 55 the check through the inking ribbon and simultaneously upon the record strip through the carbon upon the back of the check.

In order to indicate upon the record, strip 60 Avhen the machine has been operated in the absence of the check, it is arranged to have the inking ribbon 33 of a different color than that of the carbon upon the back of the check, so that the entries made upon 65 the strip through the ribbon in the absence of the check will be of one color and the entries made through the carbonized check of another color.

While the form of mechanism herein shoAvn and described is admirably adapted 73 to fulfil the objects primarily stateci, it is to be understood that it is not intended to confine the invention to the one form of embodiment herein disclosed, for it is susceptible of embodiment in various, forms all 75 coming Avithin the scope of the claims which follow.