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US 4,093,848 AGranted
Toy cash register construction
AssigneeWestern Stamping Corporation
InventorJames E. Thomson
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AssigneeWestern Stamping Corporation
InventorJames E. Thomson
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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 supported by the target frame below the metal plate and above a cash drawer slidable in the bottom compartment. In another embodiment the bell and clapper are located under the drawer. The means for opening the drawer consists of a wire spring formed as a simple loop of generally circular form which reacts outwardly against the drawer and inwardly against the case. In one embodiment the spring is carried by the case, and in another embodiment by the drawer. The drawer is guided by a portion of its operating mechanism.
In a toy cash register or the like having a pair of components which comprise a housing and a drawer horizontally slidable in the housing, means biasing the drawer to a projected relation with respect to the housing, characterized by an initially straight spring wire which tends to straighten when relaxed, said wire being looped to generally circular form and secured at its two ends to one of said components and reacting against but unsecured to the other, whereby it tends to return to circular form when distorted, said looped wire being arranged under the drawer and stressed to oval shape by the drawer and housing when the drawer is closed, said spring wire biasing the drawer to projected position due to the tendency of the wire to assume a circular shape.
A toy cash register including a housing defining a drawer compartment in a lower portion thereof and a mechanism compartment above the drawer compartment, a drawer slidable in the drawer compartment, and a horizontal partition defining a plane of segregation between said compartments and spaced above the drawer, characterized by a sounding device suspended by and beneath said partition in the space above the drawer, and means carried by the drawer for actuating the sounding device.
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