Patents Assigned to M-S Corporation
  • Patent number: 4424426
    Abstract: A battery driven cash drawer provided with a latching arrangement in which a solenoid energizable by a battery operates to rotate a latch lever release arm pivotally mounted to the cash drawer casing, out of engagement with an extended portion of a latch lever. The latch lever is also pivotally mounted to the casing. The release arm is connected to the latch lever through a latching spring which biases the lever and release arm into engagement. The latch lever also includes a hook shaped portion which is pivotally engageable with a drawer latch member fixed to the rear of the drawer tray. A remote switch operates to couple the solenoid to the battery. When the latch lever is engaging the latch member to hold the drawer tray in its casing, energization of the solenoid causes the release arm to rotate so as to disengage the latch lever and rotate the hook portion of the latch lever out of engagement with the drawer latch member. A drawer pushing spring then pushes the drawer tray out of the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 1982
    Date of Patent: January 3, 1984
    Assignee: M-S Corporation
    Inventor: Shiro Ishii
  • Patent number: 4412709
    Abstract: A cash drawer includes a separate compartmented money tray which is removable therefrom. The removable money tray is compartmented both for bills and coins. The drawer includes a number of compartments in the bottom thereof and slots in the front wall of the drawer which correspond to each of the compartments. When the money tray is received in the drawer, different kinds of media such as checks, slips, or coupons can be stored in the drawer by inserting the appropriate media through a corresponding slot so that it is guided by the bottom face of the money tray into a corresponding compartment in the bottom of the drawer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1980
    Date of Patent: November 1, 1983
    Assignee: M-S Corporation
    Inventor: Shiro Ishii
  • Patent number: 4373295
    Abstract: A unitary weatherstripping and self-balancing sash guide for slidingly embracing the juxtaposed side edges of a pair of double-hung inner and outer window sash units, and guiding their sliding opening and closing movement in a window opening, comprises an arched portion spanning the side edge of the window opening and having a central parting bead protruding into the window opening, inner and outer terminal flanges protruding from the arched portion into the window opening, and two slanting wing flanges respectively extending cantilever-fashion from the parting bead diagonally toward the arched portion and the respective terminal flanges, forming therewith a pair of channel-shaped grooves each embracing the side edge of one sash unit, whereby each of the two sash units is slidingly gripped in resilient tractive balancing engagement between a terminal flange and a facing slanting wing flange resiliently deformed by the embraced sash unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1980
    Date of Patent: February 15, 1983
    Assignee: A.M.S. Corporation
    Inventor: William R. Starck
  • Patent number: RE32456
    Abstract: A battery driven cash drawer provided with a latching arrangement in which a solenoid energizable by a battery operates to rotate a latch lever release arm pivotally mounted to the cash drawer casing, out of engagement with an extended portion of a latch lever. The latch lever is also pivotally mounted to the casing. The release arm is connected to the latch lever through a latching spring which biases the lever and release arm into engagement. The latch lever also includes a hook shaped portion which is pivotally engageable with a drawer latch member fixed to the rear of the drawer tray. A remote switch operates to couple the solenoid to the battery. When the latch lever is engaging the latch member to hold the drawer tray in its casing, energization of the solenoid causes the release arm to rotate so as to disengage the latch lever and rotate the hook portion of the latch lever out of engagement with the drawer latch member. A drawer pushing spring then pushes the drawer tray out of the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 1986
    Date of Patent: July 7, 1987
    Assignee: M-S Corporation
    Inventor: Shiro Ishii