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the Only Anatomaitic Cliae
Commpuitieg Madfoipe in the Woo
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This is a strong statement. The strengtbjf it lies
in the truth of it.' No statement is stronger than it
is true. In making this statement, we call your at
tention to the component parts of it. First, it is
AUTOMATIC; second, it COMPUTES; third, it
pays exact CIIAXGE. The above claim, therefore,
means that the POTTER AUTOMATIC CHANGE
COMPUTING MACHINE is the only one of its
kind in the world that combines the three features
v of working automatically, computing without men
tal calculation and actually paying the correct
amount of cash change. To equal the Potter Machine,
any other device would have to do what it will do,
not once in awhile, but EVERY TIME AND ALL
THE TIME.
DEMONSTRATION
Showing Exactly How Cor
rect Change Is Made
- ' Without Mental
Aid
Will yon follow the dem
onstration of this machine on
the illustration of the adjoin
ing keyboard t If so, you will
be as enthusiastic over the pos
sibilities of the machine as its
warmest friends already are.
Let us suppose: Mrs. A. en
ters your store. She purchases
a pair of shoes. The price is
$3.50. Mrs. A. tenders your
clerk a Five-Dollar Gold Piece.
The clerk makes out a sales
slip, upon which he enters the
amount of the purchase ($3.50)
and the amount received
($5.00). He despatches the
money and slip to the cashier
by messenger or automatically.
In front of the cashier is one of
the Potter Machines. The
cashier glances at the sales
slip, depresses the $3.00 key
on the right-hand keyboard,
which would be the figure 3
in the third column to the left.
She also depresses the 50-cent
key in the next column to the
right. That registers the
amount of the purchase. She
then depresses the $5.00 key on
the left keyboard, representing
the amount received. This is
the key marked 5 in the second
column to the right. The sales
slip is then inserted in the slot
on the table just ' below the
keyboard. The lever on the
right is pulled forward about
six inches and the work is
done. This is the result : The
exact amount of change, $1.50,
in largest denominations, falls
into the receptacle at the bot
tom of the machine. The sales
slip is stamped $3.50, the exact
amount of the purchase. On
the tabulating device at the
top. the amount, $3.50 is added
to the total sales made before.
The double keyboard makes
the computing possible. With
out it no computing could be
done. This machine is the only
double keyboard, change-computing
device in the world.
THE STOCK OF THIS COMPANY IS FOR
SALE. The present price of it is $60 per share, pay
able either in cash or upon payments of $5.00 down
and $o.00 per month, per share. After the sale of every
1000 shares, the price will be raised $5.00 per share.
hen the stock reaches par, by this method, enough
stock will have been sold for all immediate purposes.
It behooves the man or woman, therefore, who has
read of the splendid profits that have resulted from
earlv investment in industrial companies, to buy in
this as early as possible, for this company is as certain
to succeed as any company can be. The character of
gentlemen who have associated themselves with the
company and, who are directing its efforts, is almost
sufficient guaranty of this.
OFFICERS
I. Irving Potter. President
' and Manager.
T. B. Potter, Vice-President.
H. D. Eamsdell, Secretary.
R. W. Schmeer, Treasurer.
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Computing Possible with the Potter Automatic Changi
MAIL
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CoinMachime Manufacturing
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The POTTER AUTOMATIC CHANGE COM
PUTING MACHINE is the result of ten years of
hard work. T. Irving. Potter, designer of this ma
chine, has spent ten years in perfecting it. He is TEN
YEARS AHEAD OF ALL POSSIBLE COMPETI
TION. First, he successfully built and operated a
money-paying device that worked automatically;
then followed equal success in the building of an
adding device. In conjunction with both of these, the
stamping of the sales slip, was worked out. Perfect
ing each of these, he soon realized the tremendous
advantage that would follow the Combination of
the THREE MACHINES IN ONE. It was but a
short step to this result.
Having established the principles upon which
each worked, the joining of all in one was merely an
THIS COUPON FOR
DESCRIBFS INVESTMENT AINU rviAJl-IlNE.
Coin Machine Mamifacturing Company, 720 Corbett Building, Portland, Or.
GENTLEMEN: "Will you kindly forward a copy 'of your booklet, "A MECHANICAL
BRAIN" fullv describing the POTTER AUTOMATIC COMPUTING CHANGE MACHINE,
as well 'as the'possibilities of the investment, in which I am somewhat interested.
Qity ,
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION WRITE OR
720 Corbett Building, Portland, Oregon
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Double Keyboard, which Automatically Makes
ter Automatic Change Computing Machine
BOOKLET, WHICH
Telephone No.
incident. The acquisition of the Uliner patent, in
volving the additional unit necessary to make the
machine a perfectly computing one, completed the
whole idea. The plans have all been drawn and the
different parts have all been designed. Each has
been tried in its place and found successful. One
contract has been let in Portland for the making of
?, model machine, which will be completed and ready
for exhibition within three weeks. With the ap
pearance of that model, a NEW ERA WILL HAVE
BEEN INAUGURATED IN THE HANDLING
OF CASH. Those who have examined the drawings,
seen the various parts actually in operation and re
flected for a moment upon the wonderful field of
usefulness for this machine, have become impressed
with the certainty of its future.
FULLY
A PLANT WILL BE BUILT IN PORTLAND.
This will probably be constructed this Winter. It will
be a preliminary plant, but will always be used by the
company for the assembling of machines intended for
Pacific Coast Country distribution. The company has
already bought and paid for 30 acres of manufacturing
property near Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, immediately
adjoining the recently acquired 70-acre site of the
Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company, for
which they paid $250,000. It is purposed to erect the
large, permanent plant upon this property. The Com
pany feels assured, barring unforeseen obstacles, that
the Pennsylvania factory will be completed, machinery
installed and machines manufactured and ready for
the market within two years.
CALL
Company
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ITS SIMPLICITY
Showing Comparatively
Small Cost of Manufac
ture and Profit
Result
The first important thing to
be said about .the POTTER
AUTOMATIC CHANGE COM
PUTING MACHINE is the fact
that its mechanism is operated
almost exclusively upon the
lever system, as compared with
the system of springs, which are
unreliable, used in most other
similar devices. Strength is
thereby added, permanent re
liability !s guaranteed, while
cost of manufacture is greatly
lessened. This machine is so
constructed that it would re
quire quite as much ingenuity
to put it out of repair as it re
quires to build almost any other
kind.
The second great . feature of
this machine is the small num
ber of parts of which it is con
structed. There are only 1200
parts, as compared with 3500
parts comprised in a well
known adding machine now
upon the market, which can do
no more, infinitely less, in fact,
than the Potter Machine. The
less number of parts reacts
wonderfully upon the less oost
of manufacture. This is par
ticularly true, when it is re
membered that most of the
parts in the Potter Machine are
die cut, which is about as inex
pensive a method of manufac
ture as is known.
Another really material point
is the amazingly small labor
cost in assembling this appa
ratus. The assembling of the
parts is a very minor matter.
To most people, as a matter of
fact, the truly wonderful fea
ture of the whole machine, next,
of course, to the almost human
attainments it accomplishes, is
the remarkable small cost of
making it. This means, as well,
a wonderfully large profit, as
the Potter Machine will readily
sell for as much or more than
any other mechanical appliance
for office use that has ever
been manufactured. The make
up of the machine is one of the
strong ' arguments for the in
vestment. DIRECTORS
T. Irving Potter,
T. B. Potter, H. C. Wortman,
H. V. Ramsdell,
A. D. Bowen, W. J. Clemens,
. L. E. Kern.