Plural key actuated totalizer for gasoline sales pump

Abstract

Plural totalizers having axially shiftable shafts, and key actuated locks for moving the shafts, are mounted on a plate adapted to be connected over an opening in the case of a gasoline sales pump. Plural key actuated locks with lugs on the undersides of their cylinders selectively cam the ends of the shafts to connect one shaft to a shaft driven by the sales register of the pump. Detents co-act with slides on the bottom of each cylinder to permit only one cylinder and totalizer shaft to be engaged at a time. One detent closes a switch on the plate when actuated to complete a circuit to the pump delivery device. The other detent is actuated by a lever supported on the plate and adapted to be connected to the reset lever of the pump to release both detents and a first actuated lock cylinder prior to a succeeding actuation of the pump. Flanges turned from the plate support the totalizers with the shafts of the totalizers projecting therefrom. The lock bodies are connected opposite the ends on the shafts to another flange turned from the plate. The lock cylinders require key rotation before axial movement, and slots in the lock bodies receive the lugs to prevent axial motion until the cylinders are rotated.

Description

Claims

1. In a totalizer attachment for a gasoline sales pump having plural totalizers on axially shiftable shafts, a key operated lock for each shaft, a control slide actuated by each lock, a control detent and a release detent interlocked by said control slides, a switch arranged to be actuated by said control detent and adapted to be to the delivery circuit of the pump, a release element arranged to actuate said release detent and adapted to be connected to the reset control of the pump, a common drive shaft to which said shiftable shafts are selectively engagable, a connecting element adapted to be drivingly connected between said common shaft and the non-resettable accumulator of said pump, and a mounting plate for said attachment, the improvement which comprises:

means connecting the bodies of said locks to said plate in spaced relation to the ends of said shiftable shafts,

lugs connected to the cylinders of said locks and projecting from the bodies of the locks toward said shiftable shafts,

and cam portions on said lugs movable therewith in camming engagement across the ends of said shiftable shafts to move the shafts into driven engagement with said common shaft.

2. In the improvement as defined in claim 1, the further improvement in which the means connecting said locks to said plate include a flange turned laterally from an interior portion of said plate.

3. In the improvement as defined in claim 2, other flanges turned from the interior portion of said plate and supporting the slidable shafts of said totalizers.

4. In the improvements as defined in claim 3, said plate having said switch, said release element, and said connecting element supportingly connected to its rear side.

5. In the improvement as defined in claim 1, the cylinders of said locks being rotatable in their bodies only by their keys, and being axially slidable only in their key rotated positions.

6. In the improvement as defined in claim 5, the bodies of the locks defining axially extending slots passing said lugs, and angularly extending transverse slots opening from the axial slots to receive the lugs in the axially retracted positions of the cylinders.

7. In the improvement as defined in claim 6, the control slides having laterally turned flanges on their outer ends defining arcuate slots, and the flanges being secured to the inner ends of the lock cylinders by means of screws passed through the arcuate slots and said lugs to said cylinders.