An editor for various-sized paper rolls used in cash registers, and the like, has a supporting base on which are mounted first and second roller assemblies of different heights. Between the roller assemblies is disposed an inclined reading and notation table arranged for supporting a tape being wound between the roller assemblies, with the inclination of the table being from the higher to the lower of the roller assemblies. The height of the table is variable to accommodate the tape as same is b...

An improvement in a telephone number register having a plurality of double levers in a drawer for positioning selected register cards, each of said levers including locking means for holding a lever in its selected position and automatically releasing the locking means upon the return of the drawer to the register casing. The locking means preferably includes a pivotable flap for each lever for holding down a depressed front end part of an associated lever and the release is preferably provided ...

This invention relates to an anti-theft cash register of the type for use at the point of sale for calculating and collecting the total charges for the sale. The cash register includes a vault for storing money therein and a deposit system for receiving and inserting the money into the vault. The deposit system also generates a money deposit signal responsive to the money being deposited in the vault. An electronic computer is provided for processing data input signals to calculate a sales total...

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 compartment and the bottom of the main mechanism compartment. The targets and their operating and release mechanism are supported on the top of the metal frame plate by a plastic target frame carried thereby. In one embodiment a bell and clapper are s...

A method and apparatus for providing or maintaining accurate register of a web with mechanisms operating on the web. The web is driven substantially without slippage at a first position on the web path and a register roller is positioned at a second position on the web path. The register rollers and web are caused to engage without substantial slipping relative to each other. The web is driven at the first position and by the register roller at speeds which have a substantially constant ratio to...

An apparatus is provided for effecting automatic adjustments of the rotational position of a slotting head of a conventional container blank slotting machine, as required to accommodate the machine to handle container blanks of a length in excess of the maximum length of blank for which the machine was originally designed.

An electronic cash register comprises: a keyboard including a group of entry keys for entering input data representing the price of a merchandise item; a read only memory; a memory section including an entry data memory for temporarily storing the input data, a counter for counting number of the digits of the input data and a totalizer for accumulating the input data; a central processor unit coupled to the keyboard, the read only memory, the digit number counter, and the memory section; and pro...

An instruction set modifier register, comprising one or more bistable latches which are loadable under program control, is provided for use in a processor in conjunction with an instruction register. An instruction decoding circuit and an instruction execution control logic circuit, responsive to both the instruction register and the instruction set modifier register, generate a first set of control signal combinations corresponding to a first instruction set when the instruction set modifier re...

A toy cash register device which closely simulates the operation of an actual real life cash register having a plurality of program plates depicting thereon various items of merchandise and monetary values therefore with each plate having a total value for each grouping of items thereon. The device is entirely actuated and operated by tensioned springs and no other source of power is required for actuating thereof. An OPEN button releases a cash drawer for positive opening under other spring mec...

A radiation hardened register file renders a central processing unit intrinsically hard to the disruptive effects of nuclear radiation by providing means for establishing a valid rollback point for each computer instruction operation performed in the central processing unit. Dual data register images provide alternate locations for storing data operands in the register file. A pointer register stores a signal the truth state of which indicates which of the two images currently provides the prope...