Check-out counter with stopping elements

• US 4,938,317 A
• Filed: 07/22/1988
• Issued: 07/03/1990
• Est. Priority Date: 07/28/1987
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Tokyo Electric Co., Ltd. (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Tokyo Electric Co., Ltd. (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Akita, Hiromasa, Umebara, Takao, Kurimoto, Yukuo, Kohno, Mitsunori
• Primary Examiner(s): Shaver, Kevin P.
• Application Number:
  US07/223,029
• Time in Patent Office: 711 Days
• Field of Search: 186/59-63, 186/66, 186/68, 186/56
• US Class Current: 186/61
• 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

Abstract

A check-out counter table has a commodity receiving wall which extends leftwardly and rightwardly of a vertical type bar code reader having a reading window formed in a front wall thereof. A stopper adapted to present a high contacting resistance is provided at a location on the commodity receiving wall directly forwardly of the bar code reader on the carrying in side for a basket. When a basket is pulled toward an operator and slipped on the commodity receiving wall, it is always stopped at a fixed position by the stopper.

Claims

1. A check-out counter table upon which a basket is placed, comprising:

a vertical type bar code reader having a reading window formed in a front wall thereof,

a stationary commodity receiving surface extending on opposite sides of said bar code reader, and

first stopper means mounted in a recessed portion of said commodity receiving surface for presenting a slipping resistance surface which lies in substantially the same plane as said commodity receiving surface so as to provide slipping resistance with a bottom portion of said basket when passed over said surface of said stopper means and which is located forward of said bar code reader.

2. A check-out counter table according to claim 1, which comprises second stopper means for providing a high contacting resistance for stopping the basket at a fixed location and which is provided on an exit side of said bar code reader for the basket on said commodity receiving surface.

3. A check-out counter table according to claim 2, wherein said second stopper means is disposed in substantially the same plane as said commodity receiving surface.

4. A check-out counter table, comprising:

a bar code reading having a reading window formed in a surface thereof,

a commodity receiving table having a stationary central commodity receiving surface located on a front side of said bar code reader, a stationary upper receiving surface contiguous to a first side of said central commodity receiving surface,

a stationary lower commodity receiving surface contiguous to a second side of said central commodity receiving surface and located at a lower position than said upper commodity receiving surface, and

first stopper means located at least at an end portion of said upper commodity receiving surface and adjacent said central commodity receiving surface for contacting with a basket placed on said upper commodity receiving surface and within which commodities are contained.

5. A check-out counter table according to claim 4, which comprises second stopper means for presenting a high contacting resistance for stopping the basket at a fixed location and which is provided on said lower commodity receiving surface of said commodity receiving table.

6. A check-out counter table according to claim 4, wherein said central commodity receiving surface of said commodity receiving table is inclined downwardly from said upper commodity receiving wall toward said lower commodity receiving wall.

7. A check-out counter table, comprising:

a bar code reader having a reading window formed on a surface thereof,

a commodity receiving table having a central commodity receiving surface located on a front side of said bar code reader, an upper receiving surface contiguous to a first side of said central commodity receiving surface, and

a lower commodity receiving surface contiguous to a second side of said central commodity receiving surface and located at a lower position than said upper commodity receiving surface,

first stopper means located at least at an end portion of said upper commodity receiving surface and adjacent said central commodity receiving surface for contacting with a basket placed on said upper commodity receiving surface and within which commodities are contained, and

second stopper means for presenting contacting resistance for stopping the basket at a fixed location and which is provided on said lower commodity receiving surface of said commodity receiving table wherein said first stopper means comprises an elastic member and wherein a spacing is formed at a central location between a lower face of one of said first and second stopper means and one of said upper and lower receiving surfaces.