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CASH REGISTER

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 446 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CASH See also:REGISTER , a See also:species of calculating See also:machine adapted for use in connexion with the cash-tills of shops, in See also:order to provide a See also:record of the See also:money received. Such See also:machines are made in See also:great variety and widely used. Sometimes the records are constituted by holes punched in a See also:roll of See also:paper; in other cases they are shown on dials by the aid of adding mechanism. A See also:common See also:form has a number of keys, each representing a particular sum and each attached to a counting mechanism which records how many times it has been used. By pressing appropriate combinations of these keys the amount of any See also:purchase can be registered, and the combined records of all the countingmechanism give the See also:total that has been passed through the machine in any selected See also:period. Each See also:key when pressed also raises an See also:indicator which informs the customer how much he has to pay. In their more elaborate forms these cash registers may have a See also:separate money-drawer for each assistant employed in the See also:shop, thus enabling the proprietor to ascertain how many customers each See also:man has served and how much money he has taken, and also to See also:fix responsibility for mistakes, See also:bad money, &c. The machines are also made to deliver a printed See also:receipt for each purchase, showing the amount, date and assistant concerned, and they may be arranged to keep separate records of See also:credit sales, money received on See also:account, and money paid out.

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