US1068760A - Electrical cash-controlling apparatus. - Google Patents

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A. GODEFROID.

ELECTRICAL CASH CCNTRCLLINC APPARATUS.

APPLIGATION FILED OOT.10, 191.1.

Patented July 29, 1913.

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A. GODEFROID.

ELECTRICAL CASH CONTROLLING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED 001210, 1911.-

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A. GODEFROID.

ELECTRICAL CASH GONTROLLING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED 00110, 1911.

1,068,760. Patented July 29, 1913.

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A. GODEPROID. ELECTRICAL CASH CONTROLLING APPARATUS.

. 'APFLICATICN FILED 0CT.10. 1911. 1,068,760. Patented July 29, 1913.

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A. GODBFROID. ELEGTRIGAL CASH GONTROLLING APPARATUS.

APPLIOATION FILED ooT.1o. 1911.

1,068,760. l Patented July 29, 1913.

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ELECTRICAL CASH-CONTROLLING- APPARATUS.

v Application led October 10, 1911.

To all whom t may concern Be it'known that I, ARMAND GODEFROID, a citizen of the Empire of Germany, residing at Berlin, in the Empire of Germany, have invented a new and useful Electrical Cash- Controlling Apparatus, of which .the following is a s eciication.

My invention relates to improvements in electrical cash controlling apparatus comprising a cash transportin band, a cash receipting device and a cas registering device; and the objects of my improvement are, first, to provide a single operating device adapted to occupy three different positions, so that it can couple the receipting device and the registering device together in the middle position and either of them in either extreme position with the electrometor, and, second, to provide a rocking counting board for receiving the cash and means operated from the mechanism for turning upward the counting board, so as to drop the cash onthe cash'l transport-ing band. The operating device comprises two handlevers, which may be operated simultaneously or separately for producing certain effects to be hereinafter described.

Other, improvements will be hereinafter set forth and pointed out in the claims.

I will now proceed to describe my invention with reference to the accompanying drawing, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of the entire ap aratus, Fig. 2 is a perspective rear view' o the same on a reduced scale, Fig. 3 is a plan view of the entire apparatus, the cover being removed and parts being broken away, Fig. 4 is a vertical section on an enlarged scale through the line C-D in Fig. 3, seen in the direction of the arrows, and shows in a side view the electromotor, the driving gear and the operating device, Fig. 5 is a plan view yof the same, parts being shown in section, Fig. 6 is a vertical section on an'enlarged scale through the line A-"B in Fig. 3, seen in the direction of the arrows, ands'hows the mechanism for rocking the counting board, also feeding a Writing device and a counter, a partI of the frame being broken away, Fig.- 7 1s a plan view of the same, Fig. 8 is a side v-iew of the cash transporting band and a vertical section through a part of the'drawer, Fig. 9 is a.

rear view of the operating device, Fig. 10 is a side view of the same, and Fig. 411 1s a Specieation of Letters Patent.

Patented July 29, 1913.

Serial No. 653,923.

vertical section similar to Fig. 4, from which the electromotor is omitted. Fig. 12 is a side view of the cash receip-ting and registering ydevices (71, 72, 73) and Fig. 13 is a plan view of the printing roll and its operative connections, the cover and the number wheel of the registering device being removed and `arts being broken away.

Similar c aracters of reference referto similar parts throughout the several views.

Within the casing 1 is disposed an electromotor 3, in the circuit of which is in* serted a spring-contact 4 having a contact spring above rovided with a thumb 5'of ebonite, saponite, or the like, on Which a lever 7 rests, that loosely turns on a pin 8v and is supported by an adjustable spring 6. The contact parts 4 are fastened to a wooden block 9, the contact spring being separated from the other part by an intermediate piece 10 of insulating material. The closing'of the spring-contact 4 can be effected in two manners. Either it is effected by means of a key 11 the rod 12 of which is pivotally connected with an arm 13 on a shaft 14 carrying at the other end a second arm 15, whose free end bears from above against the free end of the lever 7. The shaft 14 is mounted to rock in bearings on a frame 16 in the casing, so that on depressing the key 11 the two arms turn downward and the contact spring is pressed on the lower part 4. The free end of the lever 7 is made to j by screws 24, 24 engaging in its slots 25, 25,

so that the plate 23 can slide to and fro on the plate 21. The plate 23 is at its two lower corners provided with arms 26, 26, the frceends of which engage in grooves 27, 27 of clutch members 28, 28 for a purpose to be mentioned later on. 0n thc plate 21 is furthor disposed a pin 31, on which tw'o handlcvers 29, 3() are mounted to rock in such a manner, that the smaller lever 29 can engage in the space of the larger, forked lever 30 and can move through this space. The smaller hand-lever 29 is widened at its lower end so as to form two oppositecams 32, 32 and is provided withy a recess 32 diverging downward, in which the small roller 2O of the rod 19 normally engages. The fo-rked hand-lever 30 carries a roller 33, which during the motion of the'lever can strike eit-her of two pins 34, 34, whereby the plate 23 is shifted on the yplate 21. On one side of the guide 17 a bent lever 35 with arms of different size lis mounted to rock and serves as a lock. The longer` arm of this lever engages in the path 4of a.' pin 36 (Fig. 5), which 1s disposed on one ofthe driving disks of the main shaft and serves a purpose to be mentioned later on. The shorter arm of the lever 35 is at its upper free end cut out, whereby a sort of nose is formed. In the half of the movable plate 23 corresponding to the bent lever 35 several tooth spaces 37 arey provided at they lower edge, while the stationary plate 21 is provided with a recess 38 corres onding to these tooth spaces. The upper end of the short arm of the lever 35 is adapted to engage in any tooth s ace 37 and thus to revent the plate 23 om shifting on the plJate 21.

The driving of the main shaft 42 is effeeted from the motor shaft by means of'a worm 39 anda worm wheel 40, which is loose on the main shaft 42. The worm wheel 40 is on one side protectedfrom shifting by a loose collar 41 with a set-screw and forms on the other side one member of a friction clutch, the other member 43-of which is fastened upon the main shaft 42. On both sides of the worm Wheelv and the friction clutch ythe said two clutch'members 28, 28 are disposed onv the main shaft 42 and are in any known manner prevented from turning thereon.- As already mentioned, the arms 26 of the p1ate23 engage in the grooves 27, 27 of these two clutch members. The latter carry ,pins 44, 44, which can engage in holes of the other clutch members 45, 45 that are loose on both ends of the main shaft 42 while being prevented from longitudinal motion and are made in one with pinions 46 and 47 respectively. The pinion 47 on one end of the main shaft meshes with a gear wheel (not shown) of the cash receipting device to be mentioned later on. The pinion 46 on the other end of the main shaft mesheswith a gearwheel 48 fastened on the shaft 49a of the driving roll 49 for the cash transporting band 50 (Fig. 8). Theratio of the pinion 46 and the gear Wheel 48 is so selected, that during every complete revolution of the main shaft 42 the shaft 49a makes but one quarter of a revolution. The two rolls 49, 52 of the endless band 50 are mounted to turn in a frame 51 and have each in the middle a neck ,53, in whichlteeth 54 are provided, that are adaptedto engage in corresponding holes 55 f a strip 57 of leather or the like fastened to the inside of the transport band 50. The .late

ter is on the outside provided with several cross bars covered with suitable material, whereby the transport band is divided into sections. Above the driving roll 49 is disposed the device for dropping the coins. This device consists of a counting board 60, which is corrugated in the dropping direction and is mounted to rock with its shaft 59 (Fig. 6) in the frame 51. Its front edge is adapted to normally engage closely beneath the corresponding edge of a glass plate '82 covering the transport band 50. At the rea-r edge on the right in Fig. 3 the counting board 60 is pivotally connected with a lever 61, which is cranked, so as to engage through the frame 51 to without and to be parallel with the frame wall. This outer part of the ylever 61 is forked and the fork 62 is guided by the s haft 498L (Fig. 7) of the roll 49 engaging 1n its slot. Close to the fork 62 a cam disk 63 (Figs. 6 and h7) having four cams is fastened on the shaft 49a and a roller 64 mounted on the forked lever 61, 62 is made to normally engage in any space of this cam disk 63, whereby the counting board 60 is held in its normal position shown in full lines in Fig. 6. y At the right end of the shaft 49a in Fig. 7 is fastened a star wheel 65 having semicircular recesses in its four spaces. Into. any of these recesses a roller 66 is made to normally engage (which roller is disposed on the free end of the rear arm of a two-armed lever 67 mounted to rock at the frame of the writing or registering device of any known construction. The free end of the front arm of the lever 67 carries a pawl 68, which engages in the too-th spaces of a ratchet wheel 69 for feeding the paper 'strip of the above registering device, the paper strip passing from a'roll 78 over the table 79 under the opening 74 in Fig. 1 to another roll 80. The rear arm of the lever 67 is pivotally connected by a rod 70 with a crank 81a on a crankshaft 81 (Fig. 7) of a known automatic registering device 75.

The disposition of the several registering devices can be clearly seen from Fig. 1, the cash receipting and registering device being on the left and the cash registering device on the right. The receipt forms are inserted one after the other in lan upper opening 71, pass between the rolls of a printing and registering device of any known construction situated under the plate 72 and moved at every rotation by the pinion 47 while being printed and registered, and issue from the lower opening 73. The amountpaid in is y written through an opening 74 in the cover on the paper strip mentioned above, after which this paper strip is fed one tooth forward beneath a glass plate 82 and atvthe same time the payment effected is automatically registered by the device 75 which is moved' at every rotation by the star wheel 65 fastened'on the shaft49, thetwo levers 67 and 70, the ycrank 81, the crank shaft 81 and a ratchet device of any known type arranged at the outer end of the shaft 81.

The pinion 47 meshes with a gear-wheel 83 fastened 'o'n the shaft of the printing roll 84 which co-acts with a counter-roll 85 and prints 'the dates and the words Payment received l onto the receipt forms. Between the gear-wheel 83 and the printing roll 84 a cam '86, is fastened on the shaft of the printing roll 84. rThis cam co-ac'ts with a lever 87 adapted tovbe rocked once only for every complete revolution of the .printing roll '84.

'The free end of the 'lever 87 is provided with 'a slo't in which the pin of a springeheld lever 88 engages. This lever 88 is fixed on a short shaft V88* having a spring-held pawl 89 'which en agesy in a ratchet wheel 90 pro vided 'wit cash-'keeper or it may be kept: closed, as may' be preferred.

The operation of the apparatus is as follows: When any'amount is to be paid in and at Ithe same timea 'receipt is to be given out,

Y then the coins are'placedon the corrugated counting board 60, the amount is written down on the paper strip through'the open ing 74, and the two levers 29 and 30 are moved into their middle position, so that the rod 19 (Figs. 9 and 10) does not depress the lever 7.Y Thereupon the'key 11 is depressed, so that by means of the lever 7 the upper part ofthe spring contact 4 is pressed on the lower `lpart for closing the circuit of the electromotor 3 and consequently the motor is started. For the named middle position'of the two hand-levers'29, 30 the movable- clutch members 28, 28 occupy such a position, that their pins 44, 44 simultaneously engage in the holes of the two other clutch members 45, 4.5, so that the motor 3 by means of the main shaft 42 simultaneously turns the twopinions 46 and 47. In consequence of this 'the pinion 47 on the lower end of the lmain shaft 42 in Fig. 5 will drive the cash receipting device, [While the other pinion 46 ,on the upper end of the main shaft 42 in Fig. 5 will by` means of the gear Wheel 48 drive the shaft 49a for moving the coin ten teeth and fixed on the shaft' of the `first number disk of the counting device 72. By means of thelevers 87, 88 and of 3 lthe pawl 89 the ratchet wheel makes but one tenth of a revolution during every complete i revolution of the printing roll 84. In this- -manner the 'number of times that a receipt:

transporting band 50. The cam disk 63 fastened on this shaft 49EL will turn through an angle of 90o for first turning by means of the lever 61 the counting board 60 upward into the position indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 6 and thus dropping the coins during the first part of the turn, then returning the counting board into its initial position. As already mentioned above, the cam disk 63 makes but one quarter of a revolut-ion on every complete revolution of the main shaft 42. Simultaneously with the rocking motion of the counting board 60 and the feed of the coin transporting band 50 also the registering device 75 is operated from the star wheel 65 on vthe shaft 49'd1 for registering the payment. During the turn o-f this star wheel 65 throughan angle of 90O the llever 67 is 'rocked for feeding by means 'of the pawl 68 the paper strip forward and thus moving the last writingon it beneath the glass plate 82 and at the same time by means of the rod 70 and the crank 81a the automatic registering device is fed one figure forward.

By depressing the key 11 the armature of the electromotor is set to rotate rapidly, but this great speed is for the main shaft 42 reduced by the worm gearing 39, 40. Obviously after the encashment and feed of the coin transporting bandI and of the registering devices the whole, mechanism will require to be stopped. For this purpose the vfollowing arrangement is made: The friction clutchgfmember 43 disposed above the lever 7 is provided with a notch 78 (Fig. 11) in which a `pin 79 provi-fV :d on the lever 7 can engage. From an examination of Fig. 11 it will beA evident, that on depressing the key 11 the pin 79 will withdraw fromthe' notch 78 of the member 45 and thus permit the armature of the electromotor to rotate.' During the revolution of the main shaft 42 the circumference of the member 443 will press on the pin 79 and thuskeep the spring contact 4 closed, until under the action of the spring 6 the pin 79 engages in the notch 73 and" strikes its radial face, whereby the friction member 43 is stopped and therewith also the whole mechanism. As the spring contact 4 is opened, no current passes through the electromotor 3, so. that its armature is easily andsoon stopped, the wo-rm wheel 40 turning on the main shaft 42 and being braked -by the friction clutch 40, 43.

When only the cash receipting device is to be actuated, after the payment, the two hand- levers 29, 30 are both .turned from their middle position to theleft in Fig. 3,- that is to the right eXtremepSition indicated by dotted lines ink Fig. 9, so that the roller 33 on the handdever 30 strikin the right pin 34 inv/Fig. 9 will thereby shi t the plate 23 to `the left inrr Fig. 3. VThe consequence of this is, that by the two arms 26, 26 of the plate 23 the two clutch members 28, 28 will be equally shifted to the left in Fig. 3, so that the pins 44 of the right clutch member 28 in Fig. 3 withdraw from the holes of the corresponding other member 45, while the pins 44 of the left clutch member 28 engage more deeply into the holes of the corresponding other member made in one with the pinion 47. Of course the pins 44, 44 require to have such a length, that for the middle position of the plate 23 the pins 44, 44 of the two clutch members 28, 28 still engage in the holes of the corresponding other members 45, 45, while in either position of the plate 23 one clutch 28, 45 remains engaged, and the other clutch is disengaged. Evidently by shifting the plate 23 to the left in Fig. 3 and discngaging the right clutch 28, 45 also the spring-pressed lever 7 will be depressed by the lower cam of the hand-lever 29 depressing the roller.

2O and therewith the spring-pressed rod 19, whereby the circuit of the electromotor 3 is closed. Then the cash receipting device on the left alone will be actuated lin the mannerv as described above, while the coin transporting band and the cash registering device on the right remain stopped. On releasing the small hand-lever 29 the rod 19 will under. the action of the spring 18 recoil upward and return the hand-lever`29 to its middle position by reason of the special shape of the two cams 32 on the lever 29. In consequence of this the spring-pressed lever 7 'will be released by the rod '19, so that the spring-contact 4 will be opened on the pin 79 engaging in the notch 78 of the friction member 43 after the completion of o-ne revolution o-f the main shaft 42. When, on thecontrary, it is desired to register only the encashment without giving out any receipt,'then the two hand- levers 29, 30 are turned to theright in Fig. 3 (to the left in Fig. 9), so that the left clutch 28, 45 is disengaged and the right one alone is engaged. In this case the plate 23 will be shifted to the right by the roller 33 on the hand-lever 30 striking thel other pin 34 (on the left in Fig. 9), so that by the two arms 26, 26 the twoV clutch members 28, 28 are shifted to the right for producing the effect mentioned. At the same time the hand-lever 29 will by its other cam 32 have depressed the rodl 19 by means of the roller 20 and thus closed the circuit of the electromotor 3, so

' that the counting board 60, the coin transporting band 50, the recording and registering devices on the right' alone will be actuated in the manner described above, while the devices on the left remain stopped.

It is obvious, that the single operations, that is thereceipting alone on the one hand and the encashment and registering alone von the .other hand can be repeated several times without simultaneously adjusting the two hand-levers 29, 30.` It is only necessary to turn the large hand-lever 30 into the respective extreme position and to leave the \s1nall hand-lever 29 in its normal, z'. e. middle position, whereupon by depressing the key 1l the electromotor is started for driving the respective devices.

In order to prevent any disengagement of the respective clutch and any stoppage of the motion before the main shaft 42 has co-mpleted its revolution, the-said lock 35 is provided on the guide 17 on the plate 21. During the standstill of the machine the long" arm of the lever 35 bears on the stop 36(0n the friction clutch member 43 in a position indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 10, so that its short arm is kept out of reach of the edge of the plate 23 which latter therefore canbe shifted at pleasure. When the main shaft 42 commences its revolution the stop 36 on the member 43 will release the long arm of the lever 35, which therefore drops, so that its short arm engages in the opposite `toot-h space of the plate 23 and consequently the latter is prevented from moving, until the can be varied in many respects without departing from the spirit of my invention.

1 claim:

1. In a. cash controlling apparatus, Lthe combination with an electromotor, of a main shaft adapted to be driven from said electromotor, a `cut-out, a circuit including said electromotor and said cut-out, a cash receipting device, a cash registeringdevice, a single operating device adapted to move from oneeXtreme position to another eX- treme position adapted to operate said cutout and to simultaneously couple said main shaft with said receipting device in one eX- treme position and with said registering device in the other extreme position and with both of these devices in the middle position, means for permitting said main shaft to complete one revolution only, and means for circuit including said electromotor and said cut-out, a cash receipting device, a cash registering device, two pinions loose on said main shaft and adapted to drive separat-ely said reeeipting devlce and said registering device, two clutches longitudinally movable on said main shaft, a shifter guided in said frame and adapted to simultaneously operate said two clutches, said two clutches being adapted to engage said two pinions simulsaid lever, a pin on said frame, a hand-leverrocking on said pin and adapted to shift said' shifter, and a second hand-lever rocking on said pin and adapted to depress said rod in either eXtreme position.

3. In a cash controlling apparatus, the combination with a frame, of a main shaft in said frame, means for driving said main shaft, a cash receipting device, a cash registering device, two pinions loose! on said main shaft and adapted to drive separately said receipting device and said registering device, two clutches longitudinally movable on said main shaft, a shifter guided in said frame andadapted to simultaneously operate said two clutches, said two clutches being adapted to engage ,said two pinions si.- multaneously for the middle position of said shifter and one of them only for -either eX- treme position, a circuit including a cut-out, allever adapted to close said cut-out, a keyoperated mechanism adapted to depress said lever, a rod ,longitudinally guided in said frame and adapted to depress said lever, a

pin on said frame, a hand-lever rocking on l said pin and adapted toV shift said shifter, and a second hand-lever rocking on said pin and adapted to depress said rod in either eXtreme position.

4. In a cash controlling apparatus, the combination with an electromotor, of a frame, a main shaft in said frame, a worm wheel loose on said main shaft, a worm on the armature shaft of said electromotor adapted to mesh with said worm wheel, a friction clutch of which oney member is connected with said worm wheel and the other member with said main shaft andphas in its circumference a notch and on one4 side a pin, i

a cutout, a circuit including said electromo-torv and said cut-out, a cash receipting device, a cash registering device, two pinions loose on said main shaft and adapted to drive separately said receipting device and said registering device, two clutches longitudinally movable on said main shaft, a shifter guided in said frame and adapted to simultaneously operate said two clutches,

said two clutches being adapted to engage said two pinions simultaneously for the middleposition of said shifter and one of them only for either extreme position, a lever adapted to close said cut-.out and having a stop adapted to be depressed by the circumference of the other member of said friction clutch and to engage in its not-ch, l

lever, a pin on said frame, a hand-lever rocking on said pin and adapted to shift said shifter, a second hand-lever rocking on said pin and adapted to depress said rod in either extreme position, said shifter having tooth spaces, and a lock rocking on said frame and adapted to be normally held in one position by the pin of the other member of said friction clutch and on being released to engage in any tooth space of said shifter for locking the latter. WE

5. In a cash controlling apparatus, the combination with a frame, of a cash transporting band, a shaft in said frame adapted to drive said cash transporting band, a cam Q1disk on said shaft having several cams and spaces, a counting board mounted in said ARMAND GODEFROID.

Witnesses HENRY HASPER,

WOLDEMAR HAUPT.

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