Toy cash register
AssigneeWestern Stamping Corporation
InventorJames E. Thomson
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Abstract
A toy cash register having vertically slidable plastic indicator targets and plunger-type actuating keys which are integral with the targets and with interconnecting parts including hinging portions. When raised, the targets are held up by resilient fingers formed on and integral with a rockable plastic latch plate which is swingable to release the targets. The working and locating parts, formed primarily of plastic, interlock with each other and with supporting portions of a metal housing structure so that the need for separate fasteners is virtually eliminated.
Claims32
A toy cash register having a supporting structure and including a keyboard section, said section having openings therein for the slidable reception of pushbuttons, characterized by the combination which comprises paired pushbutton and indicator target portions formed as relatively stiff integral parts of a single piece of plastic, said parts being joined to each other by a relatively flexible integral medial section, said parts being slidable, in paths lying at an angle to each other, toward and from an apex area in the vicinity of said flexible medial section, the medial section being located by and reacting against the supporting structure to transmit motion between said pushbutton and indicator target portions.
A toy cash register having a supporting structure and including a keyboard section, said section having openings therein for the slidable reception of pushbuttons, characterized by the combination which comprises paired pushbutton and indicator target portions formed as relatively stiff plunger-like parts, a plurality of levers of the first class fulcrumed on said supporting structure, one lever being provided for each paired pushbutton and target portion, said pushbutton and target portions being articulated to opposite arms of said levers and said pushbutton and target portions being slidable, in paths lying at an angle to each other, toward and from an apex in the vicinity of said levers.
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