Food product scale and related in-store random weight item transaction system with RFID
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1. A food product scale comprising:
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a label supply location within the housing;
a print head located within the housing along a label path for printing indicia on labels passing thereby;
a label RF unit for reading and/or writing label RFID tags on labels, the label RF unit positioned downstream of the print head along the label path so as to read and/or write label RFID tags after printing on the labels carrying the label RFID tags has been effected by the print head; and
a controller associated with the print head and the label RF unit for operation thereof;
wherein a peel bar is located for separating labels from label stock, the label RF unit is located downstream of the label peel bar;
a weighing station for receiving an item to be weighed;
the controller operable to establish a price for a weighed item based in part upon a weight indicative signal produced by the weighing station.
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Abstract
A random weight item transaction system include a scale with label RFID tag functionality, service person RFID tag functionality and customer RFID tag functionality. A slicer in proximity to the scale may include service person and bulk food product RFID functionalities. The scale may make weigh transaction data available to a computerized checkout system via a communications link or via writing the information to the label RFID tag.
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1. A food product scale comprising:
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a housing; a label supply location within the housing; a print head located within the housing along a label path for printing indicia on labels passing thereby; a label RF unit for reading and/or writing label RFID tags on labels, the label RF unit positioned downstream of the print head along the label path so as to read and/or write label RFID tags after printing on the labels carrying the label RFID tags has been effected by the print head; and a controller associated with the print head and the label RF unit for operation thereof; wherein a peel bar is located for separating labels from label stock, the label RF unit is located downstream of the label peel bar; a weighing station for receiving an item to be weighed; the controller operable to establish a price for a weighed item based in part upon a weight indicative signal produced by the weighing station. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. A food product scale for handling labels with associated RFID tags, the mechanism comprising:
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a housing; a label supply location within the housing; a print head located within the housing along a label path for printing indicia on labels passing thereby; a label RF unit for reading and/or writing label RFID tags on labels; a weighing station for receiving an item to be weighed; and a controller associated with the weighing station to establish a price for a weighed item based in part upon a weight indicative signal produced by the weighing station, the controller further associated with the print head and the label RF unit for operation thereof, wherein during a label output process the controller is operable to; control the label RF unit to identify whether a given label includes a non-functioning label RFID tag and, if so, to control the print head to effect printing of a void indication on the given label. - View Dependent Claims (7)
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