Abstract: A check processing device is particularly adapted for retailer/customer use at the point-of-sale through use of a MICR read head means, printer means and keypad means which feed information into a CPU which communicates, through an existing telecommunication system, with the customer's bank and the retailer's bank in order to transfer funds from the account of the customer to the account of the retailer.

Abstract: A secured point-of-sale mechanism is provided by a closable two compartment housing having (1) a secured portion which includes a printer and a plurality of signal devices for verifying that the mechanism is in a "locked" state and (2) an unsecured portion which cooperates with said secured portion in such a manner that transactions involving credit cards, negotiable instruments and the like are protected against unauthorized intervention. In certain preferred embodiments of this invention, the mechanism further comprises (a) means for accessing a computer system maintained by issuers of credit cards, negotiable instruments, etc., (b) means to access an external communication in order to identify a payor of a negotiable instrument and to perform an electronic funds transfer, (c) telephonic means to communicate with issuers of credit cards, negotiable instruments etc., and (d) a keypad, for customer use, which is located outside the closable two compartment housing.

Abstract: A secured point-of-sale mechanism is disclosed in which there is a closable two compartment housing having an unsecured door portion covering a monetary negotiable instrument section disposed within a secured portion for which a transaction price index is set to the correct sales amount purchased by a customer, wherein a plurality of switching mechanisms are actuated by the negotiable instruments in the negotiable instruments section for which a locking mechanism connected to said plurality of switching mechanisms and disposed between the secured and unsecured portions of the housing is actuated against invasion as long as the plurality of switching mechanisms are actuated.

Abstract: A belt drive clutch having a hexagonal sleeve splined on a power output shaft and carrying an outer sheave disc. A drive belt supporting annulus is freely rotatable on the sleeve and located between the outer sheave disc and an inner sheave disc. The inner sheave disc has a stud shaft extending inwardly and having a hexagonal bore matching the hexagonal external conformation on the sleeve. Ball bearings are assembled on the stud shaft and a clutch control ring is assembled on a peripheral race of the ball bearing. A camming arrangement shifts the clutch control ring axially to engage or disengage the belt by optionally constricting or expanding the space between the outer and inner sheave discs.

Abstract: Quarter inch plate steel forms the bottom, front and rear walls of a U-shaped open sided saddle for mounting therewithin a 9 H.P. four cycle gasoline engine, the bottom of said saddle being clamped along its front edge to a 30 inch fixed axle on opposite ends of which are freely rotatable 14 inch diameter ballon tired wheels. Rectangularly rigidly connected to upper ends of said spaced rear and front engine saddle walls and continuing 46 inches forwardly therefrom is an inverted 4 inch square U-cross section sheet metal channel providing a drill supporting tongue for the tool while also housing a main shaft, the rear end of which journals in a self-aligning bearing fixed rockably on said rear engine saddle wall. Behind said wall said main shaft has a driven pulley fixed thereon which is belt driven from an engine shaft drive pulley when a manually controlled idler roller clutch means tightens the connecting belt.