Cash register alarm system

• US 7,116,226 B1
• Filed: 01/07/2004
• Issued: 10/03/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 01/07/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: William Reginald Pollard
• Original Assignee: William Reginald Pollard
• Inventors: Pollard, William Reginald
• Primary Examiner(s): Mullen, Thomas
• Assistant Examiner(s): Previl, Daniel
• Application Number:
  US10/752,925
• Time in Patent Office: 1,000 Days
• Field of Search: 340/570, 340/568.1, 340/546, 340/555, 340/600, 340/691.1, 340/571, 340/572.1, 340/533, 340/572.3, 340/545.6, 200/61.61, 200/61.19, 109/39, 235/379, 235/380
• US Class Current: 340/570
• CPC Class Codes: E05G 1/06 having provision for multiple compartments
• CPC Class Codes: E05G 1/10 with alarm, signal or indicator E05G1/14 takes precedence; burglar, theft or intruder alarm per se G08B13/00; fire or explosion alarm per se G08B17/00
• CPC Class Codes: G07G 1/0027 Details of drawer or money-box
• CPC Class Codes: G07G 3/003 Anti-theft control theft alarms G08B13/00
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/1481 with optical detection

Abstract

A cash register alarm system for sounding an alarm to the police without delay. The cash register alarm system includes a cash drawer having a bottom wall and a back wall, and also includes a tray having a bottom wall and a back wall and plurality of partitions spaced apart and forming compartments therebetween, and further includes a plurality of sensors disposed in the compartments in the bottom wall of the tray, and also includes a plurality of electrical current contact members disposed upon the back walls of the cash drawer and the tray. More than one compartment without paper money will expose the sensors to light which will acutate the alarm system to the police.

Claims

1. A cash register alarm system comprising:

a cash drawer having a back wall and a bottom wall;

a tray having a bottom wall and a back wall and being removeably disposed upon said bottom wall of said cash drawer, said tray further having a plurality of partitions spaced apart and forming compartments in said tray;

a plurality of sensors disposed in said compartments for detecting the presence of paper money in said compartment; and

wherein each said sensor of said plurality of sensors is a light-sensitive detector actuated when said sensor is exposed to light;

wherein each said sensor of said plurality of sensors is mounted on said bottom wall of said compartment of said tray such that placement of paper money in said compartment blocks light from reaching said sensor and removal of paper money from the compartment exposes said sensor to light;

a plurality of electrical current contact members disposed upon said back wall of said tray and upon said back wall of said cash drawer, said electrical current contact members disposed upon said tray being connected to said sensors with wires, said electrical current contact members disposed upon said cash drawer being connected to the alarm system with wires, each of said electrical current contact members of said tray being in contactable relationship with a respective one of said electrical current contact members of said cash drawer, said sensors being connected to one another in series such that more than one of said sensors would need to be actuated before an electrical impulse would be transmitted to the alarm system, said light-sensitive detectors being interconnected with wires, said electrical current contact members of said tray being disposed on an exterior of said back wall thereof, said electrical current contact members of said cash drawer being disposed on an interior of said back wall thereof, each of said electrical current contact members of said cash drawer being aligned and in contactable relationship with a respective one of said electrical current contact members of said tray so that the alarm system is connected to said sensors.

2. The cash register alarm system of claim 1 wherein said tray has four compartments, one of said sensors being positioned in each of said compartments, each of said compartments being further subdivided by a medial partition positioned at a spaced location from said back wall of said tray, each of said sensors being located adjacent to said medial partition.