Goods conveyance mechanism

• US 20020088671A1
• Filed: 01/03/2002
• Published: 07/11/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 01/11/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: KURA Limited
• Original Assignee: KURA Limited
• Inventors: Tanaka, Kunihiko
• Application Number:
  US10/037,392
• Publication Number:
  US 20020088671A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 186/38
• CPC Class Codes: A47F 10/06 for restaurant service systems table equipment A47G ; dirty crockery transport in association with crockery washing machines A47L15/00

Abstract

A goods conveyance mechanism having the function of displaying the course of an order carried from a goods supplying place to a goods receiving place by use of a gradually changing image in the goods receiving place. The goods conveyance mechanism includes carrying means for carrying goods from a goods supplying place to a goods receiving place; image display means provided in the goods receiving place; and control means for allowing an image displayed on the image display means to change one after another in accordance with developments of the goods carried up to the goods receiving place by the carrying means.

Claims

1. A goods conveyance mechanism comprising:

carrying means for carrying goods from a goods supplying place to a goods receiving place;

image display means provided in the goods receiving place; and

control means for allowing an image displayed on the image display means to change one after another in accordance with developments of the goods carried up to the goods receiving place by the carrying means.

2. The goods conveyance mechanism according to claim 1, wherein order input means for inputting information on goods ordered is provided in the goods receiving place, and order display means for displaying the information on the ordered goods input from the goods receiving place is provided in the goods supplying place.

3. A goods conveyance mechanism comprising:

selective carrying means for selectively carrying goods from a goods supplying place to a designated place of a number of goods receiving places;

a touch screen display, provided in the goods receiving place, serving both as image display means and as order input means for inputting information on goods ordered;

order display means, provided in the goods supplying place, for displaying information on goods ordered and a corresponding place to the designated goods receiving place; and

control means comprising a menu display function of displaying the information on a list of goods on the touch screen display provided in the goods receiving place;

an information function of giving the information on the selected goods to the goods supplying place when an orderer touches the touch screen display to select any item among the list of goods displayed on the touch screen display; and

an image control function of allowing an image displayed on the touch screen display to change one after another in accordance with developments of the ordered goods carried up to the designated goods receiving place, to give the information on the arrival of the ordered goods to the orderer.