US151181A - Improvement in commercial registers - Google Patents

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C. D. WEEKS.

Commercial Registers.

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UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

CALEB D. \VEEKS, OF NEW YORK, N.

IMPROVEMENT IN COMMERCIAL REGISTERS.

Specification formingpart of Letters Patent No. 151,181, dated May 19, 1874; application filed February 26, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CALEB D. W'nnns, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Commercial Register; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a front, and Fig. 2 is a sectional, elevation of recorder. Fig. 3 is a rear elevation and view of counter. Fig. 4 is a perspective view offend-tube, slide, and case attached together. Fig. 5 is a longitudinal sectional elevation of the case and slide.

The invention relates toan automatic detective or means whereby the various amounts of cash received for sales of goods by clerks or cashiers in mercantile houses, restaurants, or analogous places may be duly recorded, registered, or checked o'lf asthey occur, the same being done without increase of clerical force.

The invention will first be fully described, and then pointed out in the claim. 7

A represents a counter, under which is ar ranged, marked, or notated knobs or buttons a, connected, by cords or other flexible devices, with rods 1) of the slides B, arranged in a case, 0, in rear of the counter. These slides B consist of a rectangular tube closed at both ends, and having corresponding apertures b b on parallel sides, but not opposite to each other. These slides B move in a guide-tube, G, which is open at both ends,

and has opposite side openings 0 0 directly under supply-chambers l), which are located over the receiving-chambers G that empty into a conducting-tube, E, that leads into a lock-box, F. One of the knobs is connected with a cord, 0 that operates a tilting bottom, g, of the receiving-chambers Gr, while the other, 11 acts upon the slides 13. Each of the supply-chambers is provided with a spiral channel -way leading from top to bottom.

thereof, which serves to bring the balls gradually, and one at a time, directly to the opening in the slide B, and also forms a safe guard against the balls being extracted from the chamber at the top thereof. These sup ply-chambers are filled with ball-counters suitably marked, as, for example, with the numbers 5,10, 15, 25, 50, &e.; or, in lieu of these marks, the amounts may be determined by different colored balls, the green in dicating, say, five cents, the yellow ten, the blue fifteen, and so on. These amounts will, of course, be formed to suit the business in which the register is to be employed.

The operation is as 'follows: It, for instance, a clerk has sold something to the one ball, while the supply-chambers D have a transverse area sufliciently small to prevent one ball from passing another, and to compel their delivery one by one. YVhen the slide B is moved by force, applied to one of the knobs or buttons, the bottom hole is brought over a chamber, Gr, while the end of supplychambers D is covered. A ball is then dropped into one of the chambers (i, while as soon as the slide is retracted by its spring the upper hole is brought under a supply-chamber, D, to receive another ball in readiness for future use.

I propose to use, in connection with the knob, a gong so connected that every time a knob is pulled it will sound an alarm.

At the end of the day the cash in the money-drawer should correspond with the counters in the lock-box.

This will not only be a very effective check upon the transactions of the clerks, but the mode of settlement, being understood and anticipated, will. deter them from yielding to tcn'iptation.

Having thus described my invention, what conducting tube E, tilting bottom g, cords I claim is b b, and lock-box F, all combined as and for The commercial register herein described, the purpose specified.

consistin essentially of a series of supply- 1 T T chamber; 1), each having a spiral ehanncl- CAL UL LERb' way extending from top to bottom thereof, a 'itnesses:

series of oppositely-perforated guide-tubes, O. SEDGWIGK,

(i. slide-tubes 13, reeeiving-chambers G, the '1. 13. MOSIIER.

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