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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7533797 | Short depth cash drawer with a moveable base A cash drawer housing holding a cash drawer for use in a check stand and placed over a scanner is disclosed. The cash drawer housing has a moveable base member that is located above the scanner. The moveable base member allows the scanner to be moved without moving ... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7363067 | Damping sliding rail A damping sliding rail is described. The damping sliding rail has an elastic member, a buffer member, a buffer stud, a fixing stud, and a switch. The elastic member provides an opening force to open apart a first casing from a second casing. The buffer member provid... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7233478 | Method and apparatus for protecting a solenoid and its driving circuit in an electronic device A circuit for protecting a solenoid and/or receipt printer in an electronic device, such as a point-of-sale terminal, includes a resistance and a capacitance. The resistance is electrically coupled in parallel with the capacitance, and the parallel network of resist... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7059513 | POS podium incorporating a short depth cash drawer A short depth cash drawer including, a cash drawer and an opening device. The cash drawer includes an open top side, a till holding portion, a front portion, a rear portion, and an opening device interface region. The opening device opens the cash drawer when an inp... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7004386 | Cash drawer A cash drawer comprises a casing, a drawer with a lock head and a connecting rod, a shift plate, a locking device, an opening device, a guiding device and a transmitting device, wherein the drawer is closed by being pushed rearward and opened by turning the lock hea... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6997329 | Container lid rack A substantially W-shaped rack having four legs, each of which is preferably a wire or rod member formed of a single, elongated, bent rod or a plurality of connected rods. It is preferred that each of the legs has substantially the same length. The shape of the rack ... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6981633 | Point of sales terminal, point of sales system, and method for managing cash-on hand information Cash received from a customer is placed by cashier into a change device, which is connected to a point of sales terminal. The change device counts an amount of cash by its type, and stores a counted amount into a memory unit. Further the change device stores an amou... | 01/03/2006 |
| 6814281 | Multi-voltage cash drawer In one embodiment of the present invention, a cash drawer is provided which can have its drawer latch solenoid actuated by one of a plurality of different voltages. The plurality of different voltages can include at least three different voltages. In another illustr... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6772941 | Revenue balancing method and computer program A revenue balancing method and computer program that more quickly, accurately, and easily reconciles or balances revenue contained in a first cash drawer while at the same time building or filling a second cash drawer. ... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6739501 | Cash drawer controlling apparatus and a method of controlling cash drawers A cash drawer device includes a command receiving and outputting circuit for receiving a plurality of open commands and outputs the open commands, and a simultaneous open inhibiting circuit for inhibiting the command receiving and outputting circuit from simultaneou... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6719196 | Cashdrawer apparatus A banknote holder is installed to a cash casing in a cantilever fashion. Some banknotes are stored on the banknote holder while other banknotes are stored beneath the banknote holder. A banknote depressor of the banknote holder depresses the banknotes stacked on the... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6390361 | Cash drawer protection system having an emergency and an active cash drawer A method of protecting an active cash drawer from robbery comprising the following steps: housing the active cash drawer together with an emergency cash drawer in a housing having a frontal opening to accommodate the opening of a cash drawer; arranging fo... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6152366 | Cash drawer bill dispenser A bill dispenser includes a cantilever and traction wheel attached thereto. The wheel includes a traction surface around a perimeter thereof for frictionally engaging a currency bill. Movement of the traction surface atop the bill is used for dispensing t... | 11/28/2000 |
| 6116504 | Opening/closing mechanism for drawer member An opening/closing mechanism for a drawer member includes a stopper member for stopping movement of the drawer member, where the position of a stopper member is variable, in the direction of movement of the drawer member, so as to adjust the degree of ope... | 09/12/2000 |
| 6105858 | Inner case with lid of a cash box The present invention relates to an inner case with lid for a cash box, comprising: a casing, formed as a rectangular box, which is open on the upper side, with some insertion openings on the back side, a horizontal groove above the insertion holes, and a... | 08/22/2000 |
| 6098877 | Interface and method for controlling an optical reader having a scanning module An electrical interface for a scan engine includes a plurality of control pins including a range limiter mode pin, laser enable and scan enable pins, a signal output pin and a start-of scan indicator pin. Operation of the scan engine can thus be controlle... | 08/08/2000 |
| 6027025 | Currency storage and dispensing apparatus A currency storage and dispensing apparatus (20) includes a top member (22) defining an upper interior cavity (34), a bottom member (36) defining a lower interior cavity (48), and a slider (64). The top member and the bottom member can be connected to def... | 02/22/2000 |
| 5756977 | Cash registers A money drawer of a cash register has a frame which supports a number of individual coin cups and note cups. A respective weighing device, supported on a base of the register, is provided for each cup. A positioning mechanism, for example, comprised of ca... | 05/26/1998 |
| 5723850 | Cash drawer assembly A cash drawer assembly includes a housing having an interior region and a drawer received in the interior region for sliding movement between closed and open positions. The housing has a symmetrical construction so that the drawer can be received by the i... | 03/03/1998 |
| 5520286 | Money case with partition plates An open-top case is provided wherein an inside portion of the open-top case is separated by partition plates in a lateral manner, whereby several bank note storage portions are provided in the open-top case. Several openings are provided in an upper regio... | 05/28/1996 |
| 5451753 | Currency shield for cash drawer A money shield for insertion into a cash drawer or cash drawer insert of a cash register to overlie paper currency in one or more paper currency compartments to prevent visual inspection of currency under the shield, wherein the shield covers the area def... | 09/19/1995 |
| 5380990 | Till drawer for a cash register The money drawer (3) has a lid (14), which is connected to the drawer housing (2) by the money drawer (3) being slid into the drawer housing and is detachable from the drawer housing (2) through the creation of the locking attachment between the lid and t... | 01/10/1995 |
| 5371344 | Cash drawer Cash drawer system for a point-of-sale terminal having a housing, a latchable drawer, and a mechanism for forcing the drawer outward. The drawer slides on a pair of slides positioned beneath the drawer, and the drawer is latchable to the slides by latches... | 12/06/1994 |
| 5111394 | Circuit and method for energizing a solenoid in an electronic device for a predetermined energizing period An electronic business machine having a cash drawer therein, the electronic business machine including a circuit which operatively couples the microprocessor to a driver which energizes a device, such as a solenoid, for a predetermined period of time, whi... | 05/05/1992 |
| 4937744 | Cash register method and apparatus A point of sale cash register having multiple drawers. The drawers are opened on a selected basis to prevent employee theft. One procedure would be for the drawers to open randomly so that the employee could not in advance know which drawer was opening. A... | 06/26/1990 |
| 4829429 | Electronic cash register Disclosed is an electronic cash register comprising an input unit including numeric keys to enter the numerical information such as price and function keys to enter a variety of transaction information, an internal processing circuit to process the numeri... | 05/09/1989 |
| 4803346 | Theft proof cash drawer assembly A business machine assembly such as a cash register includes a plurality of hook members secured to the lower surface of the cash register positioned within corresponding slots in a support member. A cash drawer is slidably mounted within the support memb... | 02/07/1989 |
| 4766292 | Remotely controlled cash box A remotely operated cash box assembly comprises a box-like structure having a front wall portion, a rear wall portion and two side wall portions. Rotatably mounted between the front wall portion and the rear wall portion is a spring urged cover member. A ... | 08/23/1988 |
| 4720611 | Electro-manual drawer latch An electro-manual drawer latch for a drawer which in a manual mode locks the drawer when the drawer is pushed into a housing and unlocks the drawer when the drawer is again pushed into the housing and which in an electrical mode prevents the drawer from b... | 01/19/1988 |
| 4642449 | Cashbox for a cash register The invention relates to a cashbox for a cash register, with a money drawer mounted in a cash case so as to be slidable in a moving-in and a moving-out direction, a sliding drive for the money drawer with spring means which act on the money drawer, are st... | 02/10/1987 |
| 4638908 | Insert for a money drawer An insert for a money drawer for receiving coins, currency, bills and the like including a relatively large area lower tray defining a plurality of relatively long and relatively deep compartments running from front to rear of the lower tray and sized to ... | 01/27/1987 |
| 4603239 | Cash drawer assembly having a compulsory switch activating drawer latch A compulsory switch activating latch for being fixed to the casing of a cash drawer. The latch includes a pivotable latch member for engaging a latch bar on the drawer. The pivotable latch member is also capable of limited reciprocal movement in the direc... | 07/29/1986 |
| 4595985 | Electronic cash register This disclosure is directed to an improved electronic cash register which includes a detecting device for detecting that a cash drawer of the cash register is opened, a warning device for effecting processings of warning, and a control circuitry which per... | 06/17/1986 |
| 4436989 | Cash drawer for cash registers in tellers' stations, sales counters or the like Cash drawer for cash registers in tellers' stations, sales counters or the like, including a slide-in unit and a drawer tray being movable into and out of the slide-in unit in given directions; the slide-in unit having vertical side plates at opposite sid... | 03/13/1984 |
| 4424426 | Battery powered drawer opening device A battery driven cash drawer provided with a latching arrangement in which a solenoid energizable by a battery operates to rotate a latch lever release arm pivotally mounted to the cash drawer casing, out of engagement with an extended portion of a latch ... | 01/03/1984 |
| 4412709 | Divided cash drawer with slots and two trays A cash drawer includes a separate compartmented money tray which is removable therefrom. The removable money tray is compartmented both for bills and coins. The drawer includes a number of compartments in the bottom thereof and slots in the front wall of ... | 11/01/1983 |
| 4182539 | Latching device A cash register drawer releasing device wherein the drawer latch is pivotally supported for movement to unlatching position, but normally blocked from such movement by a toggle device which may be released by a relatively weak electromagnet.... | 01/08/1980 |
| 4101745 | Drawer operated switch assembly A latch mechanism is disclosed for latching a cash drawer of a data terminal device in a closed position and for generating an electrical signal indicating the position of the drawer within the terminal device. The latching mechanism includes a rotatable ... | 07/18/1978 |
| 4093848 | Toy cash register construction A toy cash register including, in one embodiment, a plastic case having a drawer compartment at the bottom and main mechanism and target display compartments above the drawer compartment. A horizontal metal frame plate defines the top of the drawer compar... | 06/06/1978 |
| 4035792 | Cash register security system A cash register security system has a first latch normally adapted to engage and securely hold within a cash register a false drawer, a release device connected to the first latch for releasing the first latch from engaging and holding the false drawer wi... | 07/12/1977 |
