Cash drawer
AssigneeAtlas Manufacturing, Inc.
InventorMark J. Wedel
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Abstract
A cash drawer movably mounted in a housing between open and closed positions and yieldingly urged toward its open position by resilient rods adjustably mounted in the housing. A latch hook releasably holds the drawer in its closed position, and a power operated device is used alternatively with a manually operated mechanism to move the latch hook in a direction to release the drawer for opening movements. The manually operated mechanism includes a latch hook engaging portion for positively locking the latch hook against drawer releasing movement, when desired. Drawer supporting slide rails are tilted to a degree which provides for substantially constant velocity of opening movement of the drawer, and a yielding friction element engages the drawer to stop opening movement of the drawer at a given position of said opening movement.
Claims11
A cash drawer assembly comprising:
- a. a housing including a frame having a bottom wall and laterally spaced side walls;
- b. a drawer having front and rear walls and side walls;
- c. support means mounting said drawer in said housing for forward opening and rearward closing movements;
- d. latch means releasably holding said drawer in a closed position;
- e. operating means for said latch means;
- f. elongated, normally straight flexible resilient rod means for urging said drawer toward its open position;
- g. bracket means for supporting said rod means in said housing at an oblique angle to the direction of movement of said drawer for engagement of one end of the rod means by said drawer, whereby said rod means is rearwardly bent by said drawer during closing movements of the drawer;
- h. and clamping means securing the other end of said rod means to said bracket means for adjustment of said rod means longitudinally thereof on said bracket means, whereby to vary the effective bending length of said rod means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.