Apparatus for checking out purchases

• US 4,838,383 A
• Filed: 03/15/1988
• Issued: 06/13/1989
• Est. Priority Date: 03/16/1987
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Tokyo Electric Co., Ltd. (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Korea Electric Power Corporation (Government of South Korea)
• Inventors: Sakuragi, Takeo, Saito, Kiyoshi, Yamamoto, Yoshiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Pellinen, A. D.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Fuller, Leon K.
• Application Number:
  US07/168,385
• Time in Patent Office: 455 Days
• Field of Search: 186/59, 186/61, 186/62, 235/383, 235/384, 235/385, 340/825.35
• US Class Current: 186/59
• CPC Class Codes: A47F 9/046 Arrangement of recording means in or on check-out counters record carriers or readers per se G06K
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/10871 randomly oriented data-fields, code-marks therefore, e.g. concentric circles-code
• CPC Class Codes: G07G 1/0036 Checkout procedures

Abstract

An apparatus for checking out purchases which includes a commodity counter with a commodity bearing surface which is flat and elongated leftward and rightward and a commodity reader portion provided on the aforesaid commodity counter in its center leaving a passage for a basket in front of the same, the commodity reader portion being provided with a reading window made in its front face and with a control portion and a display portion disposed above the same.

Claims

1. An apparatus for checking out purchases comprising a commodity counter with a commodity receiving surface being flat and elongated leftward and righward, a basket, a columnar commodity reader portion provided on the commodity counter located in a center portion thereof and leaving a passing portion for said basket to be positioned in front of said commodity reader portion, a reading window provided in the front face of the columnar commodity reader portion and at a position above the basket, and a control portion and a display portion provided on the columnar commodity reader portion.

2. An apparatus for checking out purchases according to claim 1, wherein said display portion comprises a display portion for use by customers, said display portion being located at a position shifted in the direction of the flow of customers from the control portion provided above the commodity reader portion.

3. An apparatus for checking out purchases according to claim 1, wherein said basket has a rectangular bottom face, and wherein the width of said commodity counter is adapted to be larger than the longer side of said basket and the width of the passing portion for the basket in front of said commodity reader portion is adapted to be larger than the shorter side of said basket.

4. An apparatus for checking out purchases according to claim 1, wherein said commodity reader portion including said reading window, control portion, and display portion is incorporated in a mobile housing which is provided with a leg portion.