US653626A - Combined change-maker, cash-register, and indicator. - Google Patents

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No. 653,626. Patented Julv l0, I900.

M. McANENY.

COMBINED CHANGE MAKER, cAsH REGISTER, AND INDICATOR.

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Ni'rnn STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MICHAEL MOANENY, OF DENVEB, COLORADO, AssIoNoR TO GEORGE R. DAVIS, OF OI-noAeO, ILLINOIS.

COMBINED CHANGE-MAKER, CASH-REGISTER, AND INDICATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 653,626, dated July 10, 1900.

Application filed September 18, 1899, Serial No. 730,914. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MICHAEL MCANENY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Denver, in the county of Arapahoe, State of Colorado, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Combined Change-Maker, Gash-Register, and Indicator; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figurel shows a perspective View of my machine;Fig. 2, a view of a vertical longitudinal section on line a; m of Fig. 4; Fig. 3, a view of a transverse section on line 2 y of Fig. 2; Fig. 4, a View of a horizontal longitudinal section on line a .2' of Fig. 2 with some of the parts broken away for the purpose Of showing the other parts below them; Fig. 5, a detail View, on an enlarged scale, partly in section and partly in side elevation, showing the mechanism for regulating the action of the extra five-cent feeding device, the parts being shown in position as when such device is notin operation; Fig. 6, a similar view showing the parts in position as when the extra five-cent feed device is in operation to feed out a coin; Fig. 7, a detail view showing a transverse section of the change-issuing mechanism, the section being on line w m of Fig 2; Fig. 8, a bottom plan View of the same; Fig 9, a detail perspective view showing portions of the coin issuing and register and indicator actuating mechanisms; Fig. 10, a detail view showing, partly in section and partly in side elevation, the registering and indicating mechanisms; Fig. 11, a similar view showing portions of the registering and indicatingmechanism with the parts in position as when a key has been moved through part of its throw to actuate the indicating and registering mechanisms; Fig. 12, a detail view, on an enlarged scale, showing in side elevation the registering mechanism; Fig. 13, a similar view of the same with the pinion,ratchet-wheel,and gearing for driving the worm-shaft removed; Fig. 14, a detail plan View of the means for rotating the register-pinion backward to cause registration; Fig. 15, a detail view, on an enlarged scale, showing the registering devices,

partly in section and partly in front elevation; Fig. 16, a plan view of the same; Fig.

17, a detail view showing, on an enlarged scale, in side elevation, the double-stop ratchets on the register-shaft with the back-motion stopping-pawl and forward-motion checking or brake pawl; Fig. 18, a similar view showing the register-shaft-driving ratchet-wheel, and Fig. 19 a detail plan view showing the relative arrangement of the indicator-rods and tablets thereon.

Letters of like name and kind refer to like parts in each of the figures.

The object of my invention has been to provide a machine for use in stores, restaurants, and the like which shall be a combined change-maker, cash-register and indicator, capable of not only registering and indicating the amounts of different purchases made, but of at the same time issuing the proper change to be returned to the customer when the amount given by the latter at the time of any purchase is greater than that required to be paid for such purchase; and with this end in view my invention consists in the machine and in the parts thereof construoted, arranged, and combined as hereinafter specified.

The special purpose which I have had in view in making my present invention has been to provide a machine which is not only capable of registering and indicating properly the amount of any purchase made by a customer, but is so arranged and constructed that where the customer pays in an amount greater than that necessary for a purchase the movement of a single key corresponding to the amount of the purchase will cause such amount to be registered and indicated, so that the customer can see the indication and observe that the indication corresponds with his purchase, and will also cause to be issued an amount of change to be returned to the customer equal to the dif ference between what he paid in and the purchase made.

It has also been my purpose to make the machine readily and quickly adjustable, so as to make change on different bases, according to the amounts paid in by the customers. With this purpose in view I have, as will ap- ,it can readily be adjusted to issue change equal to the difference between a payment and a purchase, whether the amount of such payment is two dollars, one dollar, fifty cents, or twenty-five cents.

It will be seen, further, that my machine is also capable of being quickly adjusted to issue a nickel or five-cent coin whenever such an amount is required, and can be easily manipulated to deliver the proper change for other than two dollars, one dollar, fifty-cent or twenty-five-cent payments, or in case the payment equals the purchase to simply indicate and register the amount of such purchase, whatever it may be, without operation of the change-issuing devices to cause the delivery of any change.

In the drawings, A A designate the two upright side plates of the casing of my machine, and A designates the upright front plate, extending across between side plates A A and having in it the opening A for the mouth of the change-delivering hopper, the opening A below A for the admission of the fingers of the hand placed to receive change from the hopper-mouth, and certain other openings for the passage of keys, to be hereinafter described. The casinghasalsoextendingacross within it the base-plate A for the support and guidance of the operative parts of the machine to be described, such base-plate being forwardly and upwardly inclined toward the front of the casing and the lower back plate A extending upwardly and rearwardly at an angle from the rear edge of base-plate A to the lower edge of the upright back plate A", which extending across between such plates AA covers the rear side of the machine above plate A The top of the casing consists of the top plate A inclined upward at a slight angle from a point near the front of the casing toward the rear of the latter, a door A hinged to the casing top plate at a point nearits rear end, a short upright part A, extending upward from a point just to the rear of the door A and provided with a sight opening A through which any raised indicator-tablet can be seen, such opening being fitted with a sheet of glass in the way usual in cash registers and indicators, and a curved part A, covering over the space between part A", the top of back plate A, and the raised rear portions of side plates A A.

While only the casing part A is shown as provided with a glass-closed indicator-display opening, it will be understood that a similar glass-closed opening can be provided in the upper part of the back plate A, as usual in cash registers and indicators. 1

The hinged door A which is for permitting access to, examination of, and resetting of the register mechanism, to be hereinafter described, is shown as provided with a turnbutt'on A forlocking the door shut;butitis to be understood that any other suitable locking means for securing the door to prevent unauthorized manipulation of the registering devices can be employed instead, as desired, without involving any departure from my present invention, which has nothing to do with the form of such locking device or the means for preventing or permitting access to the interior of the casing.

The casing of the machine, made up as described, is shown supported upon a base 13, containing a moving drawer B, of the usual construction, having receptacles b b for coins and compartments Z) I) b for bills or banknotes. This drawer is not necessary to and has nothing to do with the operative mechanism or the operation of my machine and can be dispensed with or changed as desired.

Extending across the frontof the machine above the upper edge of the front plate A is the change tray 0, having the seven upwardly-extending half-tubes or semicylindrical receptacles c c to receive and hold the different stacks of coins from which changeis to be issued by the machine. As shown, this tray, having its front edge resting upon the top of casing-plate A and the rear edge of its upper end resting upon the front part of top plate A is tilted slightly rearward, so that its coin-receiving receptacles c c are inclined rearwardly a sufficient amount to insure the respective stacks of coins resting securely in them without danger of falling or being tilted forward during use of the machine. This tray is detachably fastened in place in the casing by thumb-screws c c passing through the side plates A A of the casing and into lugs on or portions of the tray. As shown, such tray has seven of the coin-holding receptacles or half-tubes c 0, one of them-the one to the left of the series-being large enough to receive dollar-coins, the next one.

being adapted to receive half-dollars, and the next quarter-dollars. The two succeeding tubes or receptacles to the right of the quarter-dollar one are adapted to receive nickels or five-cent pieces, while the remaining two on the right of the series are adapted to receive and hold ten-cent pieces. At the lower ends of the half-tubes or coin-stack receptacles there are round openings 0 0 through the base-plate of the tray, each opening being of such size as to just admit the downward passage of a coin from the respective stack in the half-tube or receptacle above. Below each of the openings 0 there is a coinsupport to keep the lower coin in the stack above from dropping straight downward, such support standing at a distance below the lower end of the respective opening 0 equal to or slightly greater than the thickness of one of the coins in the respective stacks, so that While such support acts to sustain the stack of coins it will admit of the lowest coin in such stack being pushed forward off These coin-supports are formed of a series of plates 0 0, attached by screws 0 c to the base-plate of the tray 0, so as to leave narrow spaces 0 0 between them, each of such spaces being in line with a point below the center of one of the coin-openings 0 as shown best in Figs. 7 and 8. The front or outer edges of these plates are curved, so that their portions which project under the respective coin-openings present only crescent-shaped bearings for the coins to rest upon, so that only a short sliding movement is necessary to carry the respective coins off of their supports and cause them to fall down within the casin g into the hopper B which, extending across below the change-tray within the front of the easing, has its opposite sides in'clined inward toward each other, and the downwardly and forwardly inclined coin-delivering mouth or chute 19 extending outward through the opening A in the front-plate A of the casing.

As shown, (see Figs. 7 and 8,) the plates 0' C are secured to a portion of the base-plate of the change-tray which extends down below the planes of the bottoms of the coinopenings 0 0 such portion of the base-plate being provided with grooves 0 0 each corresponding in size with and being situated directly over one of the spaces c 0 between plates 0 C.

The front side of the change-tray C is preferably, though not necessarily, closed with a sheet of glass 0 through which the stacks of coins can be observed to see if they need replenishing at any time.

For feeding out the bottom coins from the several stacks in the change-tray I provide means which in their coin-engaging devices are like those set forth in my United States Patents Nos. 620,954 and 621,124, in that they consist of coin-engaging dogs pivoted upon reciprocating actuating'slides, so that their forward or outer ends can swing upward into coin-engaging position and having springs to hold such ends normally raised and means for limiting their upward swing, so that they can only stand high enough to engage and push outthe bottom coins of the respective stacks.

The device for feeding out a nickel or fivecent coin from that one of the five-cent cointubes which is next to'the tWenty-five-cent tube is made just like the feeding device shown in my said patents, in that it consists of a coin-dog D,whose front end is adapted to engage the rear side of the lowest coin in the stack,while its rear end is pivotally connected with the depressed part D of the actuatingslide D by a screw d, having its head situated in a recess d in the dog and its shank extending down through an opening in the bottom of the recess, which is made slightly larger than such shank, in order to allow swing of the dog up and down, and tapped into the depressed part of the slide. The upward swing of the dog is limited by the screw (Z on the dog passing through an opening in the slide and having its head adapted to engage the under side of such slide when the dog has been swung-upward to the limit of its movement. A spring (1 surrounding screw d and extending from the slide D up into a recess 01 in the dog, serves to hold the dog normally raised as far as the stop-screw (1 will let it go.

The coin engaging and feeding devices for the other coin tubes or receptacles differ from the one just described only in that the means for limiting the upward swing of each of the dogs is not merely a screw with its head below the respective actuating-slide, but is one with a stop-shoulder d to engage the slide and which below that shoulder has a head at, provided with a vertical slot 61 for a purpose to be described. The dog-carrying slides having, as in the case of the similar slides shown and described in my said other patents, the shoulders d d at the rear ends of their depressed parts to form abutmeuts for the rear ends of the coin-feeding dogs when the latter are in operation and are being caused to feed out coins by the movement of their respective slides are guided in ways a a in the base-plate A, the rear ends of the slides being held down in such ways, while left free to reciprocate therein, by the cross-plate a, secured to the base-plate, so as to extend across the same and overlap a portion of the slides seated in ways Ct a, as shown in Figs. 4, 5, 6, and 9. The coin-feeding dogs, being adapted to pass through the grooves c c and the spaces 0 0 between plates 0 0, are of such thickness only that they can be swung down against the stress of their raisingsprings,so that their upper sides willstand below the upper faces of plates 0 O, forming the coin-stack supports. With this construction all of the dogs when they have slid forward to feed out the respective coins and are returning cannot be hindered materially in their return by the engagement of the bottom coins of the stack, for under pressure of such coins the dogs yield, so that all the weight of the coin-stacks is supported by the plates 0 O, and the dogs can ride easily back under such stacks with only such friction against the coins as is due to the light upward stress of their springs. slotted extensions 61 connected with the other dogs, except the one for feeding coins from what I call the extra five-cent coin tube or receptacle-that is, the one nearest the twenty-five-cent tube or receptacle-such other dogs can be swung down before they are carried forward by their respective slides, so that their noses or coin-engaging ends will be below the lowest coins in the respective coin-engaging slides, and consequently will not feed out any'coins as the slides are moved forward. The purpose of this arrangement and construction will be described.

The extra five-cent slide for causing coins to be fed from the extra five-cent tube or receptacle has near its forward dog-carrying end a shoulder d, adapted to be engaged by' Bya downward pull on the i esaee the lug d on the supplemental slide D reciprocating beside the extra five-cent slide in a suitable way in base-plate -A The rear end of supplemental slide D is, like the corresponding end of slides D D guided under cross-plate a. To provide for holding its front end normally raised to lift its lug (1 above the plane of the shoulder d on the eX- tra five-cent slide, so that the supplemental slide can reciprocate Without actuating the latter, and at will letting the lug end of the supplemental slide down behind shoulder d so that forward sliding of the supplemental slide will cause a coin-feeding movement of the extra five-cent slide, I pivot in bearings e e on the under side of the base-plate A a rock-shaft E, having an arm E extending up through an opening in the base-plate, under the forward portionof the supplemental slide. A spring 6, attached to this rock-shaft and bearing against the base-plate, serves to keep the shaft normally turned to raise its arm E up under the supplemental slide, so as to support the forward lug-carrying end of the latter above the plane of the top of shoulder d9. On its other end the rock-shaft has a crank-arm E by which it may be rotated against the stress of its spring e to depress the arm E and allow the supplemental slide to drop into position to carry its lug (1 down behind shoulder d to cause the supplemental slide and extra five-cent slide to travel forward together as the supplemental slide is reciprocated toward the front of the machine. The means for moving the crankarm E to so rotate the rock-shaft E will be described hereinafter.

Guided beside the dollar-feeding slide is another reciprocating slide D for actuating the former very much as the extra five-cent slide is actuated by its supplemental slide, above described. This second supplemental slide, being guided in a suitable way in the base-plate and having its rearward end guided under and held down by the cross-plate a, has its front end free to be raised and lowered provided with a side lug d, adapted to engage a shoulder at on the dollar-slide when the slide end carrying it is down in the same plane with the dollar-slide, but to travel back and forth above such shoulder when the supplemental slide end carrying the lug is raised. In Fig. 4: both supplemental slides are shown in the positions which they take when they have been slid forward with their forward ends raised to carry their lugs above the shoulders on the adjoining coin-feeding slides.

To keep the dollar-slide-actuating supplemental slide D with its lug-carrying forward end normally raised to clear its lug from shoulder 01 I provide the lever F, pivoted in earsff on the under side of the base-plate A and having the upwardly-extending arm F projecting up through a hole in the base-plate, so as to engage and support with its upperend the forward end of the supplemental slide. This lever is normally held swung to raise its arm F, so as to elevate the forward end of supplemental slide D enough to keep its lug 01- above shoulder (Z by the action of spring f engaging the under side of base-plate A and pressing down that part of lever F which is on opposite side of the lever-fulcrum from arm F. The outer and lower end of this part of the lever is also provided with the weight piece or head F which can be readily engaged and raised by the fingers inserted through the opening A? in the front plate A of the casing as the hand is placed to receive coins in change from the mouth of hopper 0. It will be understood that this raising of piece or head F causes arm F to be lowered, so that the lug-carrying end of supplemental slide D will descend to cause its lug (Z to engage the shoulder d on the dollar-slide and make the latter slide travel forward with the supplemental slide and cause a dollar coin to be fed from the dollar-stack as the latter slide is reciprocated toward the front of the machine.

Journaled in suitable hearings in the up right side frame-plates II II, secured to the opposite sides of the casing, is a rock-shaft I, extending across above the series of coin-deliveringandsupplementalslides. Suchshaft is connected with each of the supplemental slides D D by an arm 1, extending downward from the shaft and having its lower end situated between two shoulders i i on the respective slides, such shoulders engaging, respectively, the front and rear sides of the arm end, so that as the rock-shaft I is rocked forward and back on its axis each supplemental slide will be reciprocated toward and from the front of the machine. These shoulders 'i 2' I prefer to form, as indicated best in Figs. 5 and 6, by stamping or punching up portions of the slides, though they can be formed on or of the slides in any other way, as desired. The shaft I has also an upwardly-extending arm 1*, connected with spring 1 the other end of which is secured to a support on the casing forward of arm 1 so that the stress of the spring will always draw forward on arm I to rock the shaft I and keep the arms I forced rearward to hold the supplemental slides normally retracted. This rock-shaft I is also connected with all of the other slides D D so as to be rocked to move the supplemental slides forward each time that one of the other slides is reciprocated toward the front of the machine and to retract such reciprocated slide when ithas been released and left free to be moved rearward again. The connection of shaft I with each of the slides D D consists of a downwardly-extending arm I on the shaft for each slide and a shoulder 2" on each slide, adapted to engage the shaft I will rock said shaft against the stress of its spring I to carryall of its arms I I forward, moving the supplemental slides D D but leaving the other slides D D besides the one just described as being moved at rest in their normal retracted positions, the arms I I for such slides passing idly forward over the latter. When the moved slide D has been released by the power moving it, the spring I by rapidly rocking the shaft I back again causes the said slide to be quickly retracted, because of the engagement of the arm on the rock-shaft with the shoulder ion the slide. Also journaled in suitable bearings in the side frame-plates H H are the transverse parallel rock-shaftsK K, twentyin number, the series of such shafts beginning just forward of rock-shaft I and running for- Ward to a point just to the rear of the coin or change tray 0. Each of these shafts K has an upwardly and rearwardly extending leverarm K, whose upper rear end is connected with a key K formed of a rod extending up through a suitable hole in the top plate A of the casing and bearing on its upper end at some distance above such plate a finger-piece K having a fiat table to be engaged by the finger to press the key downand a portion 7c, inclined forward and downward from the table, to receive the number or marking for the respective key. As shown, each key-rod is connected with its lever-arm K by a reduced portion ofthe rod passing through an opening in the lever-arm and having below the latter a pin 7c,Which, together with the shoulder on the rod at the upper end of the reduced portion, causes the key and lever-arm to move up and down together.

Nineteen of the finger-pieces K are marked on their inclined front portions with figures to correspond with different multiples of five cents, from five to ninety-five, inclusive, and the remaining finger-piece is marked to indicate one dollar.

For convenience in description I have on the drawings in Figs. 4 and 5 numbered the shafts K K consecutively from the front toward the rear of the series. These shafts are connected, through their lever-arms K K and the rods of the keys, with the separate keys, as follows: shaft No. 1 with the dollarkey, shaft No. 2 with the five-cent key, shaft No. 3 with the siXty-five-cent key, shaft No. 4 with the forty-cent key, shaft No. 5 with the ten-cent key, shaft No. 6 with the seventy-cent key, shaft No. 7 with the fortyfivecent key, shaft No. 8 with the fifteen-cent key, shaft No. 9 with the seventy-five-cent key, shaft No. 10 with the fifty-cent key, shaft No. 11 with the twenty-cent key, shaft No. 12 with the eighty-cent key, shaft No. 13 with the fifty-five-cent key, shaft No. 14 with the twenty-five-cent key, shaft No. 15 with the eighty-five-cent key, shaft No. 16 with the sixty-cent key, shaft No. 17 with the thirtycent key, shaft No. 18 with the ninety-cent key, shaft No. 19 with the thirty-five-cent key, and shaft No. 20 with the ninety-fivecent key.

The figures on the respective keys are to correspond with the various amounts in multiples of five cents up to and including one dollar, which may be paid in by customers in making purchases.

In order that upon the pressing of any key marked to correspond with the amount of any single purchase less than one dollar the proper change may be issued by the machine for return to the customer when the amount given by the customer is greater than that required for the purchase and that the pressure of the dollar-key may cause a dollar to be fed out from the dollar coin-stack into the hopper, I connect the rock-shafts K K directly with the coin-feed-actuating slides D D hereinbefore described, except the extra fivecent slide, as follows: The form of connection between a shaft and slide is in each case the same, consisting of a rigid downwardlyextending arm K adapted at its lower end to engage the rear side of a shoulder 61 on the respective slide when the latter is in its normal retracted position. With this construction the forward swing of the arm, such as would be caused by pressing down on the key-piece K which is connected with the rock-shaft K, carrying the arm, will cause the slide to be moved forward to compel the feeding of a coin from the respective half tube or receptacle of the change-tray; but the arm will not interfere with or prevent such forward movement of the said slide when the latter is actuated by other means than that particular arm just described. The shoulders (Z d on the slides D D can be formed like the shoulders i i on the supple-1 mental slides D D by striking or driving up suitable portions of the slides or in any other desired way. Each rock-shaft K K is indirectly connected with the two supplemental slides D D through the retracting rock-shaft I, having the arms I I, engaging the shoulders t' 1' on such slides, as hereinbefore described, and the arms I I engaging the front sides of shoulders i t" on the slides D D and the arms K K on the rock-shafts K K, engaging the rear sides of the shoulders d @1 on the latter slides, the construction being such that as any key is depressed to rock its rock-shaft K to move forward any slide D the two supplemental dollar and extra fivecent slide actuating-slides D D will always be moved forward, too, being subsequently retracted,with any moved slide, by the return movement of the slide-retractor rock-shaft I under stress of spring 1 Of the shafts K K, actuated, as described, by the keys K No. 1, or the dollar-shaft, has only one arm K to engage the shoulder 10 on the dollar-slide D Shaft No. 2, the fivecent shaft, has four arms K to engage the shoulders (Z d on the fifty-cent, twentyfive-cent, and two ten-cent slides D D so as to cause ninety-five cents in coins to be is- 6 ceases sued when the five-cent key is pressed. Shaft No. 3, the sixty-five-cent shaft, has two arms to engage the shoulders on the twenty-fivecent and a ten-cent slide, while shaft No. 4, the forty-cent shaft, has two arms to engage V theshoulders on the fifty-cent and one tencent slide. The other rock-shafts K K have arms to engage lugs on the various coin-issuing slides D D as follows: shaft No. 5, four arms to actuate a fifty-cent slide, a twentyfive-cent slide, a ten-cent slide, and a fivecent slide; shaft No. 6, two arms to actuate a twenty-five-cent and a regular five-cent slide; shaft No. 7, two arms to actuate a fifty-cent and the regular five-cent slide; shaft No. 8, three arms to actuate the fifty-cent, twentyfive-cent, and one ten-cent slide; shaft No. 9, one arm to actuate the twenty-five-cent slide; shaft No. 10, one arm to actuate the fifty-cent slide; shaft No. 11, three arms to actuate the fifty-cent, twenty-five-cent, and regular fivecent slides; shaft No. 12, two arms to actuate the two ten-cent slides; shaft No. 13, three arms to actuate the twenty-five-cent and two ten-cent slides; shaft No. 14, two arms to actuate the fifty-cent and twenty-five-cent slides; shaft No. 15, two arms to actuate the regular five-cent and a ten-cent slide; shaft No. 16, three arms to actuate the twentyfive-cent, ten-cent, and regular five-cent slide; shaft No. 17, three arms to actuate the fiftycent and two ten-cent slides; shaft No. 18,

' one arm to actuate a ten-cent slide; shaft No.

19, three arms to actuate the fifty-cent, one tencent, and the regular five-cent slide; and shaft N0. 20, one arm to actuate the regular five-cent slide.

With the arrangement and construction just above described it will be seen that upon the pressure of any key marked with the amount of a purchase the machine can be made to issue as change to be returned to a customer coins to the amount of the difference between the purchase and one dollar, the machine being arranged to normally issue difierent amounts of change required where the purchases are under a dollar in value and a dollar is paid in.

In order that the machine may be adapted quickly and readily to give the proper change where the amount paid in by the customer exceeds the amount of his purchase, but is two dollars, fifty cents, or twenty-five cents instead of one dollar, I have provided certain devices for regulating at will the amount of change issued to suit the amount of the payment made.

Where two dollars are paid in and the purchase is any amount less than a dollar, the issue of the proper change is secured by pressing upon the head F of lever F, hereinbefore described, so as to lower the arm F and let the supplemental slide D drop to bring its lug 0Z into engagement with the shoulder al on the dollar-slide D The actuation of the key K marked with the amount of thepurchase, will then cause the dollar-slide to be actuated to issue a dollar-coin, in addition to such coins as are issued, in the manner hereinbefore described by the actuation of the other coin-slides caused by the engagement of the arms on the rock-shaft, which is connected with the key with the shoulders on said slides, and change will be delivered by the hopper for the payment on a two-dollar basis.

In order to provide for the making and issuing of the proper change for various payments on a fifty-cent or twenty-five cent 'basis and for the registration of any payments without the issuing of any coin in change whenever such payments are exactly equal to the amounts of the respective purchases, I provide the followingdescribed mechanism, connected with the pivoted feeding-dogs on the slides D D except the extra five-cent slide hereinbefore described.

A rock-shaft L, extending across within the forward part of the casing and journaled in suitable bearings ZZon the underside of baseplate A, just to the rear of the series of slotted heads d (Z on the stop-screws (Z 0Z connected with the pivoted spring-raised coin-feeding pawls or dogsD D, carried by all of the slides D D except the extra five-cent slide, has attached to it the series of forwardly-extending arms Z Z Z, extending through the slots 0Z d d in the heads d d d on the screws connected with the two ten-cent and the regular five-cent feeding-dogs. It has also a similar rigid arm Z, projecting through the slot d in the head dflconnected with the dollar feedingdog. The shaft L also has a rigid downwardlyextending arm Z by which it can be rocked, as desired, to lower and raise arms Z Z Z Z to cause the latter to draw down the two tencent, five-cent, and dollar dogs and let the latter rise again to their normal raised positions, in which they are supported by their respective springs 6Z3 CF. The construction is such. that as the shaft is rocked to depress its arms Z Z Z Z the latter will, by their engagement with the lower ends of the slots d d in the respective heads cZ (Z draw the coinissuing dogs D D, connected with such heads, down to carry and hold their coin-engaging noses or ends below the plane of the bottom coins in the respective stacks of coins in the change-tray, so that as the slides D D carrying said dogs, are reciprocated no coins will be fed out by their dogs. The shaft L, with its arms Z Z Z Z engaging the slotted heads connected with the two ten-cent,the five-cent, and dollar feeding-dogs, forms a simple and efficient cut-out to cut the said dogs out of operation at any time, as desired. A spring L, surrounding the shaft and engaging at its opposite ends the arm Z and the adjoining bearing Z for the shaft, serves to press upon arm Z so as to keep the same pressed normally forward to hold the shaft with its arms Z Z Z Z raised to allow the coin-feeding dogs of the two ten-cent, five-cent, and dollar slides to stand up in their coin engaging and feeding position.

To provide for rocking shaft L against the stress of spring L, I use the cut-out key L consisting of a rod extending in through the front plate of the'casing and bearing on its front or outer end a finger-piece Z while within the casing its rod or shank passes through a hole in the lower end of arm Z being prevented from longitudinal movement through such hole by the pins Z 1 passing through the rod in front of and to the rear of the arm Z 'respectivel y, the arran gem ent being such that while the key-rod and arm must move together as the rod is reciprocated longitudinally the rod can be swung up and down on the arm as a fulcrum without moving such arm. To the rear of arm Z the rod of this cut-out key is bent upward and then rearward, so that'its rear raised portion is in position to engage the under side of the crankarm Eton the rock-shaft E, hereinbefore described, which has the arm E for normally raising the supplemental slide D for actuating the extra five-cent slide out of position to actuate the latter. The spring 6 for holding the rock-shaft E in its normal position, with its arm E raised and its crank-arm E depressed, is strong enough to keep the rear or inner end of the rod or shank of the cut-out key L normally depressed to raise the outer or front end of the key, as shown in Fig. 5. The finger-piece Z has the horizontal outwardly-extending lower portion to be engaged by the finger, so as to depress said piece and raise the rear end of the key, as shown in Fig. 6, so as to raise the crank-arm E and depress the arm E to let the supplemental slide D drop into posit-ion to actuate the extra five-cent slide. A rearward swing of the arm Z of rock-shaft L, caused by pushing inward the cut-out key L will, through the connections between such shaft and the doilar, five-cent, and two ten-cent dogs already described and the connections between the shaft and the fifty-cent and twenty-five cent dogs to be described, depress all of such dogs, so that no change will be fed out by the change mechanism no matter what one of the change-maker-actuating keys K may be operated.

A sleeve M, journaled so as to rotate easily on the shaft L, has an arm on extending downward and then horizontally outward toward the side of the machine, its outer end passing just to the rear of and in contact with the arm Z and a horizontal forwardly-extending arm m, which passes through the slot d in the head d on the screw d connected with the twenty-five cent feeding-dog D, just as and for the same purpose as the arms Z Z on the rock-shaft engage the slots in the heads of screws connected with the tencent, five-cent, and dollar feeding-dogs, as hereinbefore described. A cut-out key M for rocking the sleeve is pivotally connected at its inner end with a short arm on the horizontal part of arm m and at its outer front'end, beyond the casing front plate, carries a suitable pushplate or finger-piece m Another sleeve N is rotatively journaled on shaft L, between sleeve M and the arm Z on such shaft, and has the downwardly-extending arm 'n passing down behind and in contact with the rear side of the horizontal part of arm mon sleeve M and the forwardly-extending arm n, passing through the slot 61 in the head 01 of the I screw d which is connected With the fifty-cent coin-feeding dog. A spring N, engaging with one end a stationary bearing on base-plate A and with the other engaging arm n, serves'to press such arm forward, so as to hold the sleeve normally with its coin-dog-depressing arm m raised to leave the respective dog in position to feed out a coin from the fifty-centsta'ck as the slide carrying it is reciprocated. Because of the engagement of arm 'n with the rear side of the horizontal part of arm 0% on sleeve M the spring N also serves to keep the latter sleeve normally rocked to raise its coin-feeding-dog-depressing arm m. A pushkey N for actuating arm n and sleeve N against the stress of spring N has its inner end pivotally connected with said arm n and extending forward from the latter through the front casing-plate, has on its front end a suitable push-head or finger-piece, as shown.

The operation of key L when rocked upon its bearing in the arm Z of rock-shaft L has already been described fully. When so rocked to carry its rear end upward,it,through the described connections, causes the supplemental slide for actuating the extra five-cent slide to go into operation to cause afive-cent piece to be fed out of the extra five-cent tube or receptacle. When pushed longitudinally inward, it acts directly as a cut-out key, causing all of the coinfeeding dogs which are on the slides D D except that on the extra fivecent slide, which is normally not moved with any of the other slides, to be swung and held down out of operative position, so that no coins can be fed out by them from the change- ,tray.

This it does because by moving the arm I rearward it rocks the rock-shaft L to depress its coin-feeding-dog-depressing arms Z Z Z Z to draw the dogs of the two ten-cent, the regular five-cent, and the dollar slides down. This movement of arm Z also moves the arm m rearward to rock sleeve M and de press its arm m to draw down the twentyfive-cent feeding-dog, and through the engagement of said arm on with the arm n on sleeve N also rocks the latter to depress its arm n to lower the fifty-cent feeding-dog.

cut-out key L is therefore pushed in, as described, only when the money paid in by a customer is equal to the amount of his purchase, and consequently no change is to be returned to him. W'hen the amount paid in is only fifty cents and the purchase is less, the output key N next to key L is pushed in, so as to rock the sleeve N and cause the fifty-cent feeding-dog to be drawn down out of operative position. The operation of any key K representing the amount of a purchase less than fifty cents will then cause the proper one or ones of the series of slides D D which are to cause coins to be fed from the stacks of coins below fifty cents to be moved to feed out the required change. When the amount of purchase by a customer is less than twenty-five cents and he pays in twenty-five cents,the cut-out key M is pushed in, and because of the engagement of the arm m with the arm n on sleeve N causes both sleeves M and N to be rocked to draw both the fifty-cent and the twenty-five cent feedingdogs down out of operative position. When one of the keys K marked to correspond with the amount of a purchase less than twenty-five cents, is then pressed, the proper one or combination of the ten and five cent slides 13 D will be actuated to push from the change-tray into the change-hopper the necessary coin or coins to make up the difference between the amount of the purchase and the twenty-five cents paid in by the customer. To counterbalance the weight of the arms K on the rock-shafts K and the keys K, connected with such arms, I provide each shaft K with a thin straight spring-wire which, extending upward from the shaft, projects into one of the cuts 70 70 in the plate K adj ustably secured to one of the side plates of the casing by screws 70 15 passing through slots k k in the plate. The upper ends of springs 70 70 pass up through the cuts k 70 into openings 71: 7c in the plate, as shown. With this construction as any key K is depressed to move any coin-delivering slide forward, and consequently to rock the slide-retracting rock-shaft I to carry its arms I I forward away from the lugs or shoulders t" t" on the unmoved slides, there will be no danger of any key .K falling because of the weight of it and of the arm K, connected with it.

The support to which the front end of spring I for actuating the retracting rock-shaft I is secured is the plate K 01' a pin thereon. This arrangement enables me to adjust the stress of the said spring upon the arm I of the shaft I by moving the said plate forward or back on its adjustable connections with the casing side plate.

To provide for the registration and indication of amounts of the different purchases while the machine automatically issues the proper amounts of change, when the payments exceed the purchases in value, so that the registration and indication of theamount of any purchase and the issue of change equal to the difference between the value of such purchase and the amount of the payment therefor made by the customer will all be caused to take place by the movement of a single one of the keys K the one marked to correspond with the amount of the purchase, I connect each key K with registering and indicating devices, as hereinafter described.

Each rock-shaft K, which is connected, as hereinbefore described, with one of the keys K so that depression of the key will cause the shaft to rock backward on its bearings, has an arm K extending up from its upper side, and each of such arms is pivotally connected with the rear end of a reciprocating rod 0, the arms K K being so arranged on the different rock-shafts as to be out of line with each other, so that the rods connected therewith can extend directly toward the rear of the machine, lying in a series parallel with each other, as shown best in Fig. 4. There being twenty of these rods, or one for each rock-shaft K, the first one on the right of the series is connected with the arm K on the first or dollar rock-shaft. The rock-shafts for successive lower amounts from and including the ninety-five-cent shaft to and including the five-cent shaft are similarly connected with the successive rods 0 O in the series, counting from the right to the left end of such series. On the rear end of each rod I secure a head 0 for engaging and actuating the registering and indicating devices, such head being supported so as to slide easily thereon on the transverse crossbar O eX- tending between the side frame-plates H H, secured to the side plates A A of the easing. These heads, having straight parallel sides, are placed close together, as shown, the series of twenty heads being divided up into five series of four each, these smaller series being separated from each other by narrow spaces (see Fig. 4) to accommodate four arms P P, fixed on the rock-shaft P, journaled above heads 0 O in suitable hearings in the side frame-plates H H and carrying also the two outer arms PP, just beyond the opposite ends of the whole series of heads 0 0. On its under side each head has a shoulder 0 to strike the supporting-bar O and limit the forward movement of the head and attached rod 0. Each head has on its upper side an abutment 0 to engage and move the crossbar P carried by the arms P P P P on rockshaft P as the headis moved toward the rear of the machine by reciprocation of its rod 0, caused by depression of the key K for operating the rock-shaft K, which is connected with this particular rod 0, as hereinbefore described. From this abutment 0 each head has a lower rearwardly-extendin g part passing un der the bar P and carrying on its rear end a raised part 0 the forward side. of which is preferably inclined upward and rearward, as shown in the drawings. The heads are made of such length that the rear ends of all of them will be in the same straight line,ru11ning transversely across the machine at right angles to the heads when the latter are all in their normal forward positions, with their shoulders 0 resting against the bar 0 The abutments o 0 on the respective heads 0 O are arranged as shown best in Fig. 4that is, so that the one on the head at the right of the seriesf that is, the one connected with the dollar rock-shaft Kstands close to the bar 1 carried by the arms P P on rock-shaft P, when the head is in its normal forward position, and the abutment on the next head stands a little farther away from the said bar P The distance between abutments on successive heads 0 O and the bar P increases regularly from the right to the left of the series of heads for a reason and purpose and by an amount to be described, the abutment on the head connected with shaft K, No. 2, or the five-cent shaft, being the farthest from barP so that that head will have to pass over the greatest distance before its abutment strikes and moves the bar P and consequently actuates rock-shaft P. Each head 0 is provided with an overhanging part 0 extending rearward a short distance from the upper part of its abutment 0 in a plane above the level of the top of the yielding bar P such overhanging part being a little longer than the thickness of bar and being slotted or notched vertically, as shown at 0 the rear end side of such slot or notch being preferably made flaring, as shown.

To secure lightness, the bodies of heads 0' O are preferably bored or hollowed or bored out from their abutments 0 0 forward, as indicated.

The rock-shaft P, which is for actuating the registering mechanism to different extents as different heads 0 O are forced rearward by the operation of the respective keys K K connected with them, has fixed to it a swinging segment rack P provided with rack-teeth meshing with and driving pinion P journaled so as to rotate freely on the rock-shaft P", which itself is journaled in suitable hearings on the side frame-plates H H. Secured to the hub of this pinion, so as to swing therewith as the pinion rotates, is an arm P carrying pivoted to its outer end a pawl 19, held by spring p in engagement with the ratchet-wheel P fixed on shaft P In order to prevent the possibility of centrifugal action affecting in any way the operation of the pawl p upon the teeth of the ratchetwheel, I make such teeth, which, as shown, are twenty in number, on the side of the wheel, forming a crown-ratchet, and pivot the pawl to the arm P by a pivot-pin p substantially parallel to a radius of the pinion P With this construction no matter how rapidly the arm P may be swung the operation of the pawl can be in no way affected by centrifugal action to swing it into or out of engagement with the ratchet-wheel; but the pressure of the pawl against the ratchet-wheel is always uniform, being due to the stress of the pawl-spring p The pawl and the teeth on the ratchetwill ride easily around over the ratchet-teeth without turning the ratchet-wheel or the shaft P upon which the wheel is fixed. As the pinion and arm P, with its pawl 5, are very light they cannot have any considerable nio mentum however fast the pinion may be ro tated by the segment-rack. Whatever ilio mentum there would be is overcome by the action of the spring device which I use to ro-' tate the pinion and pawl-arm backward when they have been-turned forward and are al; lowed to turn back because of the removal of the actuating power previously applied to swing the segment-rack P Such service consists of a leaf-spring P attached at one end to a suitable fixed support 13 and having its other end connected by a cord 19 with a hub 12 on the pinion P. This hub has a cord-receiving groove 13 extending around the hub from the point where the cord is attached in a diminishing spiral, as shown, so that as the cord is wound on the hub by the rotation of the pinion it will gradually approach nearer and nearer the axis of the hub and will consequently have less and less leverage for turning the hub and pinion or to resist such turning. Vith this construction the power of the spring to turn the pinion 0r resist its turning will be substantially uniform, because as the spring is bent more and more the effectual leverage which it has on the hub of the pinion is diminished, and as the spring straightens out and therefore loses power the cord, unwinding from the hub, has gradually more and more leverage to turn the latter and the connected pinion.

Attached to the rock-shaft P are the two oppositely-turned ratchet-wheels P P having twenty teeth, those on one wheel having their abrupt sides facing in the direction opposite to that in which the shaft will be turned by the engagement of the pawl 19 with the teeth of the ratchet-wheel P as the pinion P is rotated back by the spring device described and the segmental rack P is returned toward its normal rearward position and the other ratchet-wheel P having its twenty ratchetteeth facing the other way. A spring-pressed pawl P pivoted on one of the plates H, engages the former of these ratchet-wheels P", so as to prevent any rotation of the shaft P in a direction opposite to the arrow in Fig. 6 that is, the direction opposite to that in which pawl 19 would rotate the shaft by its engagement with ratchet-wheel P Another pawl P which I term my brake 0r stoppawl, engages the teeth of the other ratchet-wheel P fixed on shaft P to stop the rotation of the shaft under the influence of the engagement of the pawl 19 on the arm of the springrotated pinion 1? when the pinion and the segment-rack have been rotated back to their starting-points or to the positions which they normally occupy when a key K of the machine is not operated. This pawl P has its shank sliding in a longitudinal socket P in the swinging arm P secured to the rockshaft P, which carries the segment-rack, and is pressed outward with reference to such arm by the spring P its outward movement under stress of the spring being limited by a pin P on its shank engaging a slot P in the arm P The rocking of the shaft P swings this pawl P out of engagement with its ratchetwheel P as the shaft is turned to carry the segment-arm forward to rotate the pinion P on the shaft and into the path of a tooth on wheel P just as the rack completes its throw in the opposite direction, so that the ratchetwheel 1?", and consequently the shaft P will be suddenly brought to rest without any danger of overthrow due to momentum of the parts under the influence of the spring rotating pinion P As the pawl end is struck by one of the teeth on the ratchet-wheel P, the

' pawl yields slightly against the stress of its spring P so that there is no sudden or violent jar, and the action of the said spring then, when the parts have been brought to rest, pushes the pawl outward to its normal position, rotating the ratchet-wheel P and shaft P slightly backward. Secured to and rotating with shaft P is the register-wheel R, having its periphery graduated into twenty equal parts by suitable grad nation-lines numbered from 0 to 95, inclusive, the numbers increasing each time by five. An index-pointer R, situated on a portion of the supplemental frame R secured to the adjoining side frame-plate H, acts in conjunction with the graduations on wheel B, being so situated that as the pawl 19 rotates the ratchet-wheel P and consequently the shaft P through the distance of one tooth on such ratchet-wheel the wheel R will be turned to cause a graduation-mark thereon to move away from the index-pointer and a new mark to be brought up to the latter. The rotation of ratchet-wheel P through the distance of twenty teeth will then cause a full rotation of the register-wheel. The figures on the register-wheel from 5 to 95, inclusive, are intended to represent the different multiples of five cents in a dollar, so as to correspond with the markings on the keys K K except the dollar-key. Attached to the shaft P is also the gear-wheel R meshing with an equal-sized gear-wheel R secured on the worm-shaft R journaled in the supplemental frame R and carrying the worm R, meshing with and driving the worm-wheel R fixed on the vertical shaft R journaled in the frame R movably supported on frame R so as to be movable thereon to carry the worm-wheel into and out of engagement with the worm R on shaft R The movable connection between frames R and R consists of screws r1", tapped into frame R and passing through longitudinal slots r 4" in frame R For moving frame It as desired to engage and disengage the worm-wheel and worm I provide a lever R pivoted to frame R and connected with frame R by a link R such lever being made slightly yielding in a direction away from the plate of frame R to which it is pivoted, so that it can be passed over a stop-lug r 011 the said plate as the lever is swung back and forth. The spring of the lever is sufficient to cause it to rest in engagement with the forward or rear side of this lug and hold the lever against swinging, and consequently retain the frame R in the position into which it has been moved until the lever is grasped and sprung in enough to pass by the lug. The pitch of the described worm-gear is such that each time that the shaft P carrying the register-wheel R, is rotated through a full rotation the shaft R is rotated through onehundredth of a full turn. Secured on this shaft is a disk It, having its rim divided into one hundred equal parts by suitable gradua tion-marks, of which for clearness sake each fifth one is made longer than the others and is marked to indicate the number of dollars represented by such mark. The figures for these longer marks indicate consecutively greater and greater multiples of five, the figures running from and including 0 to and including 95. An index-pointer R for this disk, being fixed on a support on frame R extends slightly over the disk-rim, so as to act in conjunction with the graduations thereon to show how far the disk has been turned. As the described worm-gear causes this disk to rotate one one-hundredth of a full revolution each time that the registerwheel R makes a full turn the graduations on the disk can be considered as indicating dollars. A full revolution of disk R then represents one hundred dollars. To carry the registration still higher, so as to register a number of hundreds of dollars up to nine, I provide another disk R to which each hundred, represented by a full turn of disk R is transferred. Such disk R is secured on a short shaft R journaled in the disk R which shaft carries on its end below the latter disk the ten-toothed wheel R flwhose teeth are adapted to be engaged by the fixed lug R on a standard on frame R each time that the rotation of the disk R brings wheel R around to and past such lug. The rim of the wheel R is divided into ten equal parts by the graduation-marks numbered from O to 9, inclusive, and a fixed index-pointer R is secured on the top of shaft R to act in conjunction with such grad uations, as shown. With the described construction each time that the disk R makes a complete revolution to register one hundred dollars its movement causes the wheel R because of the engagement of one of the teeth of toothed wheel R with lug R", to be turned to bring a new graduation up to the index-pointer R thus registering each successive hundred dollars transferred from the registration of disk R. The wheel R can then register hundreds of dol-

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