IMPERIAL CASH REGISTER.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 208, 7 October 1909, Page 4

IMPERIAL CASH REGISTER.

A NEW ZEALAND INVENTION. The Imperial Cash Register and Sales Recorder is now being placed before the Taranaki business public, and it is' being welcomed in a fashion most gratifying to- Mr. A. E. Watkins, who has been fortunate in securing the Taranaki agency. Yesterday Mr. Watkins gave us a demonstration of tlr? marvellous scope of the machine and its 110 less marvellous simplicity of design and construction, It is made in New Zealand, and is the invention of a New Zealander, Sir. F. H. Trevellian. Until the "Imperial" was invented, all that the most elaborate imported cash register could do was to record amounts of the transactions in the course of business, and the task Sir. Trevellian set himse'f to perforin, and in which he has abso. lately succeeded, was the devising of a machine that would record the actual goods sold, thereby providing the shopkeeper with that information so absolutely essential to a correct statement of his daily transactions with his cmlomvrs. The "Imperial" is a distinct advance on cash register? hitherto used, inasmuch as it shows not onlv the cash and credit sales to the firm, lint also a 1 {lie transactions in detail, in the day's work of the store. It gives a "sale note' to the customer, and retains'under lock and key a copy for the proprietor (where a bookkeeper is employed it will also issue a "duplicate" for the book keeper, retaining a "triplicate," thereby providing a double ehcek ove r the assist ant and bookkeeper). It delivers bills, and "books up" credit sales, issues receipts, and records any accounts paid bv customers, and keeps a correct tally of amounts and the details of cash paid out by the firm. W-lien'a sale is made the assistant makes the necessary entry upon the sale note. The machine then does the rest—on the turning of a Handle tile sale note is ejected from the register (a unique device automatically ensures the correct length of sale note! a copy comes into view beneath a glass j indicator, the previous copy disappearing, the cash drawer is unlocked and thrown forward, a bell is rung announcing the opening of the drawer a summarised detail strip is brought forward beneath a glass plate, where t remains visible, and the whole mechanism is then automatically locked until the cash drawer is closed, when tt-i operation can be again repeated. When cash is paid out the register takes a receipt from the payee and files it away 111 a compartment designed for that purpose. If cheques, notes, etc., are cashid tor customers it records the particulars and tells tile proprietor which assistant gave the change, for every sale note, or note of any transaction, must be initialled by tile salesman. At the end ol the day there is fo r the proprietor a complete roll record of the day's butine*s. A simple but rapid cutter slices tile l ol! inio lengths exactly corresponding I lie notes issued to customers. 1 osting' ir, simple. With the machine are supplied handy little files and state-ment-books, so that a monthly balance showing eash business, credit business, cash Oil accouiiTj cash paid out, etc., can be made out with ease and the greatest ' accuracy. Several models of the ma- j chine are made, and they all have an excellent appearance. There seems to ue nothing about them to go wrong, for all tiiis w'ork, which might fairly involve a mystifying set of keys and springs and 1 eccentrics, is done by the most simple.' mechanism. One of the "Imperial" ! registers, which cost about a fifth ol the amount usually paid for these me- • chanical aids to accuracy, can be seen at Sir. Watkins' olliee. next Sir. .J Avery's. i