DefinitionThis class includes machines employed for ascertaining the number of movements of various devices or machines; also, indicating devices where the purpose is to disclose the numerical extent or quantity of movement of a machine and where the device is separate and independent of the machine whose movements are to be noted; also organized machines, such as, cash-registers, fare-registers, voting machines and calculators having registering or counting devices as essential or important elements and having in addition certain other features necessary to make up the complete machines for the purposes desired. In this class are also recording calculating machines, as--recording cash-registers, and recording voting-machines, which are classified herein instead of in classes providing for the particular recording means, by reason of the analogy of the machines as entireties to other machines (cash-registers, etc.), in this class. These recording devices usually, but not invariably, comprise attachments for printing numbers. Registers, per se, include attachments to machines where the purpose is to ascertain or count the number of movements thereof, such as engine-counters, counters for printing-presses, etc. They also include devices comprising indicating hands or pointers (or equivalents thereof), whether moved regularly or irregularly, forward or backward, in cooperation with a scale or index to disclose the numerical extent of movement. In addition to registers, per se, the class is subdivided into various groups according to the functions of the machines classified therein. The registering mechanisms employed in cash-registers (with the exception in Subclass References to the Current Class, below) and calculators are capable of being operated to different extents--that is, if they comprise drums having numerals from "0" to "9" on their peripheries they may be operated one step or more up to the limit at one operation, dependent upon the key or equivalent actuated. Moreover, any drum or drums (or equivalent) in the set representing different orders, as units, tens, etc., or dollars and cents, may be operated either singly or together. In these respects the registers are different in their operation from those in the other groups, where the actuator is in operative relation only with the wheel or other device of lowest order and moves the same one step at a time, the tens being "carried" as this or any other wheel completes its rotation. Cash-registers, classified in this class, are classified machines employed in mercantile establishments for the purpose of keeping a check upon the financial transactions. These machines usually comprise keys or equivalents, registering devices, indicating-tablets, or drums to disclose to the purchaser the amount of the sale, a cash-drawer, a bell or other alarm, and various subordinate devices mainly for the purpose of compelling the clerk or cashier to completely and correctly operate the machine. It also includes machines where an autographic record of the transaction is made upon a movable strip of paper, together with means for moving the paper, a cash-drawer, and other subsidiary devices. |
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