Global till
AssigneeBlock, Inc.
InventorsRoger Peart, Paul E. Specht
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Abstract
A cash drawer insert is disclosed which includes a paper currency receiving and storage area and a coin receiving and storage area, each of which can be selectively reconfigured to accommodate paper currencies and coins of a wide variety of sizes, shapes, dimension and denominations. Each of these areas is provided with opposed ribbed walls that are adapted to removably receive the ends of divider partitions having locking tabs and locking toggles that secure to such dividers at any desired transverse location. Bill weights having mounting flanges with locking tabs for selective placement along a rearwall of the till as well as a pivotable auxiliary paper currency tray that permits storage of two different paper currencies in a single paper currency compartment are also disclosed.
Claims11
A till which can be selectively reconfigured to receive paper currencies and coins of various sizes and denominations, said till comprising:
- a generally rectangular body having opposed planar sidewalls, a backwall and a bottomwall having a generally flat surface extending forwardly from said backwall between said sidewalls and terminating in a curved portion having a front edge at a forward end of said body;
- a crosswall extending between said sidewalls to define a paper currency receiving and storage area and a separate coin receiving and storage area within said body;
- a plurality of spaced-apart vertically extending parallel ribs on the surface of said backwall facing said crosswall;
- a plurality of complementary spaced-apart vertically extending parallel ribs on the surface of said crosswall facing said backwall;
- a plurality of parallel spaced-apart slots in said paper currency receiving and storage area positioned in complementary relation to the vertically extending ribs on said backwall and crosswall;
- at least one paper currency divider partition having end portions sized to be detachably received between opposed adjacent ribs in said backwall and crosswall in generally perpendicular relationship therewith to define a paper currency subsection in said paper currency receiving and storage area selectively sized to accommodate currency of a predetermined size and denomination, said paper currency divider partition having a bottom edge which includes a pair of locking tabs sized to be received in a slot in alignment with the ribs in which the end portions are received, each of said tabs having a locking head biased in a direction opposite to the other tab forming said pair for releasably securing said at least one divider partition in said slot;
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- a bill weight attachment channel defined in part by the opposite surface of said backwall and a bottom shelf extending rearwardly therefrom, said bottomshelf having a series of channel slots, said opposite surface of said backwall also including a plurality of parallel spaced-apart vertical channel ribs extending rearwardly from the opposite surface of said backwall.
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