DE1153556B - System for the automatic detection of the movement of goods as well as the inventory of goods in warehouses or the like. - Google Patents

Description

GERMAN

PATENT OFFICE

St 13661 IXc / 43a

REGISTRATION DATE: 17. A P R I L 1958 NOTICE LOGIN - _ή ">

AND EDITION OF ZSi AU fl US ι 1863

EDITORIAL:

The recording of the movement of goods as well as the inventory in the context of department stores provides poses a special problem that can hardly be compared with the other problems of the inventory is.

The key difference to other inventory tracking problems is that that normally there is no ongoing record of the number of items sold are. In the past, there were special central cash registers and goods issuing points in many cases, some of which were handwritten records. In the last few years, however the tendency to set up the cash register directly at the point of sale, above all to achieve the fastest possible handling of customers. This is necessary because in particular very strong sales peaks occur on weekends and the number of purchases that are processed can be practically the possible conversion be ao it's correct. In a modern department store, there are cash registers even in relatively small departments used, so that a medium-sized department store z. B. has a hundred cash registers.

It is not sufficient to record the movement of goods within the central warehouse of a house, as normally two thirds of the goods are directly in the sales room. The quantitative recording the goods movements are therefore mostly based on the goods receipts, whereby it is then assumed that that the stocks in the sales room itself are unchanged. Since this procedure in particular If the product range is not sufficiently reliable, interim inventories are often carried out. The quantity sold is determined by the difference in stocks between the last inventory date and the current key date + goods receipt determined.

In the case of purchasing disposition, there are essentially two different procedures

a) the disposition for the entire season; the essential document here is the one with the inventory determined movement of goods;

b) the current disposition for the correction of larger deals as well as for the order of the articles to be dispatched continuously. This is essentially done by the responsible department head getting a visual overview of the available stocks, or by the sales staff notifying the department manager if an article is sold out. This procedure probably has the VorSystem for automatic recording
the movement of goods and the inventory of goods in department stores or the like.

Applicant:

Standard electrical system Lorenz Aktiengesellschaft, Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen,
Hellmuth-Hirth-Str. 42

Dr.-Ing. Ulrich Schöttle, Stuttgart,

and Georg Reinicke, Gauting near Munich,

have been named as inventors

because of its extraordinary simplicity, but it lags too far behind the events.

Especially with those goods that are exposed to strong market fluctuations and also pro Pieces represent a relatively high value, enable a special recording of the number of pieces sold, In recent years, the number of items sold has been increasingly recorded by means of tear-offs introduced. A distinction can essentially be made between two methods, namely tear-offs with manual handling and demolitions with machine evaluation.

For this purpose, there are sales tags with one or more tear-offs on the goods. These are removed when the goods are sold and sorted manually and the number of items sold is recorded. Several methods have been developed for machine evaluation. Known for a long time are small tear-offs that are provided with special perforated writing. With HMe these demolitions are then normal punch cards created for each individual sale.

There are also documents known that consist of two separable parts of which one has only visually readable, the other has visually and machine-readable characters.

The disadvantage of this method is that there is no connection to the cash register exists and therefore a control of the correct detection of the breaks is hardly possible. Also is the effort for punch cards is not inconsiderable.

Furthermore, a normal punch card with a tear-off was known, on which the article-

309 619/114

115 ** 556

number and number of items are crossed off. Here, too, a punch card has to be created for each tear-off, which is created. In addition, the painting of the * "XäiÖeijSfaieii i & fiitiv , takes a lot of time for the sales staff to claim! F? '.

Cash registers with a punch tape attachment have also been proposed. Here too you can Find tear-off cards, whose punched font is then automatically transferred to the punched tape will. It is also possible to put the details of the cash registers in punched tape These facilities are specifically designed for loan sales. These bodies are, however, associated with very considerable effort, since the costs of such a system are several times over the cost of a normal cash register, so they are essentially just in case of loan sales are economically viable.

The evaluation of the punched tape can be done either by converting it into punch cards or directly by an electronic, data processing system.

The invention is now based on the object of avoiding the disadvantages indicated and of providing an arrangement to specify the operation of cash registers, which makes it possible to use the previously common cash registers to be kept unchanged. It is used here in a known manner documents on which the for the recording of the movement of goods required in both visually and machine-readable data Form are entered and the effect that the cash register can then and only then be operated can when a receipt is inserted into the additional device. Since the receipts are sent to If further evaluation is to be sorted, it is necessary that they all be stacked in the same way will; in order to achieve this, recesses are made in the documents in a known manner, which have the effect that the operation of the cash register is blocked if the receipt is incorrectly inserted.

According to the invention, the receiving device of the additional device is movable and as a release button for the operation of the cash register designed in such a way that when the key is pressed the circuit for the relay, which in turn enables operation of the cash register when it is energized, is closed; furthermore, the documents have recesses which, in a known manner, cause at Incorrect insertion of the receipts or in the case of receipts that are not provided with the correct cut-outs the circuit for the relay is interrupted.

The tear-off sheets expediently contain the most important data in coded hole font. To the Data belong e.g. B. the article number and the price. Further entries are in general unnecessary. However, by manually making an additional identification hole on the demolition It should be noted that the punched price is invalid.

The recorder is designed in a known manner so that the data of the inserted tear-off slip are visible and the note cannot be easily pulled out again. Mechanical locks against the removal of documents introduced into computing machines have already become known, but the invention has the advantage that the blocking is only effective when the tear-off sheet is correct is inserted into the insertion slot.

According to a development of the invention, means are provided to the receiving device in to latch the pressed state and to reverse the latching from the cash register do. The resetting of the receiving device can, for example, by means of the armature of a relay, whose excitation circuit is closed by pressing the cash register and a trigger button will take place.

In the arrangement according to the invention, use can also be made of the measure known per se are made, the forwarding of the processed document to the collection point by the operator of the To make cash register dependent. Finally, it is useful to lock the cash register If the documents are too large, provide contact pins that reach through the slot can and for documents that do not exceed a certain size, as contacts in the excitation circuit of the cash register relay are effective.

All these measures result in the greatest possible security against false or fraudulent Operate the cash register. If a receipt is inserted incorrectly by mistake, the cash register can are not operated, which indicates to the operator that they have done something wrong has, and it is avoided that the documents are stacked in an arbitrary manner, which is what a later automatic processing is disadvantageous. Nor can a false receipt affect the operation effect of the cash register. Does the wrong receipt have the required slots around the cash register? to be able to operate with fraudulent intent, then the cash register can indeed be operated , but this "false receipt" falls into the recording cassette so that it can be used to check the Operator can be used. If, on the other hand, the "false receipt" is executed in such a way that it is still accessible from the outside after pressing the release button and thus before falling could be pulled out into the cassette, then the contact pins cannot function, so that the operation of the cash register is blocked.

In addition to avoiding the disadvantages of the known devices, the invention has the The advantage is that it is ensured that the number of cash register operations with the number of recorded breaks matches.

The invention is explained in more detail below with reference to FIGS. 1 to 4, for example. It shows

Fig. 1 is a view of the recorder used in the system according to the invention, 2 shows a tear-off label,

3 shows the part of the tear-off label used for the recorder,

4 shows the internal structure of the recorder.

Fig. 1 shows a view of the recorder 1 used in the system according to the invention will. On the front is the recording device 2 for the tear-off sheet with the field of view 3, in which the data on the tear-off sheets are visible. The lockable cassette 4 serves to remove the cassette.

The label shown in FIG. 2 can be used as a tear-off sheet. It consists of the parts 5 and 6. Part S remains with the goods, while part 6 is separated from the sale and for the Operation of the cash register is used. in the

The upper part of the tear-off sheet 6 contains the data required for the booking in plain text and the lower part Part housed in lettering. The recessed corners 7 are intended to prevent the incorrect insertion of the Avoid slips of paper, as explained below.

The internal structure of the recording device 1 is shown in FIG. For operating the cash register the tear-off slip 6 is inserted into the slot of the receiving device 2, which falls onto the fork 8. Then the receiving device is pressed down, whereby the lever 9 latches under the nose 10. As a result, the contact 12 is closed via the arm 11 at the same time. Are in this state the readable data of the tear-off slip is visible in the field of view 3 and the slip itself so far into the slot introduced that it can no longer be pulled out. When moving down, the left one slides Edge of the slip through the contact 13. As can be seen from Fig. 3, this contact is only then cannot be closed if the slip of paper is inserted correctly.

By latching the lever 9 under the nose 10, the lever 14 is rotated about its pivot point 15, so that the arm 16 slides in front of the lever 17. At the same time the pins 18 are forward pressed and strike the front wall 19 of the receiving device 2. The wall 19 is opposite the rear wall 20 electrically isolated. When the receiving device 2 is pressed down, furthermore the contact 21 is closed via the toothed segment 22, the gear 23 and the cam disk 24. The contact 13 can also close if no slip is inserted. There is now a Circuit for the relay 25 from the voltage source 26 via the contacts 27 and 12 and the pins 18, the wall 19 and the line 28. The relay 25 is located in the cash register and gives the lock the cash register free when it is aroused. When the relay is picked up, contact 29 is closed and the so-called "Imprint Circle" prepared.

After the registration in the register is done, the contact 30 is through the reset button closed so that the relay 31 can draw current and thus the armature 17 attracts. The anchor 17 presses against the arm 16 so that the lever 9 can disengage. At the same time the fork 8 is after moves to the right and thus gives the tear-off slip 6 the way into the cassette 32. The return spring 33 brings the lever assembly back to its original position. The relay is activated via contacts 21 and 34 31 kept under power until all mechanical return movements have been carried out.

Assume now that the tear-off slip 6 is inserted incorrectly in the slot in some way is then the contact 13 can close, as FIG. 3 shows. In this case there is a current path from earth across the contact 13, the line 35 and the winding of the relay 31 to the power source 26 is established. With the attraction of the relay 31, the contact 27 is separated and thus the current path for the in the Cash register located relay 25 interrupted. Since the relay 31 before the depression of the receiving device 2 and thus before the latching of the lever 9 pulls under the nose 10, comes the Anchor 17 to the right of the arm 16 to lie. This makes it impossible to shift the fork 8 to the right, and the incorrectly inserted slip cannot fall into the cassette 32. The removal of the wrong Inserted slip of paper and the resetting of the entire arrangement are carried out manually or automatically by an arrangement not shown.

The pins 18 are used, among other things, to prevent the unauthorized To prevent actuation of the recording device. To do this, a slip of paper would have to be in the receiving device 2, which still protrudes from it after it has been pressed down so that it can be restored can be taken. But so the ίο pins 18 can not hit the wall 19, and the Current path for relay 25 does not come about. This relatively simple connection between Register device and cash register, it is possible to use the existing cash registers without too much effort to be converted for the connection of the recorder. The cassette with the tear-offs can be locked in Recording device housed and can only be removed by the supervisory staff. If you read the Removal of the cassette from the counter reading at the cash register, then you can also check the value correct registration in the cash register.

The information on the tear-off sheet can be rewritten in a known manner in a punched tape will. For this purpose, it is advisable to design the tape maker so that the tear-off sheet is automatically generated can be removed from the cassette and fed to the punch.

It is useful to look at the tear-off sheets for special features, e.g. B by department, the hole punch so that you get a punched tape for each department on which the sold Item numbers and prices are included. If so, you can contact the manufacturer of the punched tape an addition work can be connected, with the hoofs of the value conversion for the individual Cash registers can also be added. By comparing this number with the reading on the cash register It is then also possible to check the value of the registered incoming payments.

The punched tape can be used in any known device for accounting purposes in can be evaluated by a control center. Since the punched strips are created in departments, z. B. the punched tape from the same department in all department stores initially on a magnetic drum are summarized, so that after the punched tape has passed through the entire number of items and values Sales are separated by houses and recorded as a whole by the drum. The one from the drum The collected numbers can then be transferred to a magnetic tape on which the The sales can be updated over a longer period of time. After completing the acquisition work of one department, the tear-off sheets of the next department can be captured by the drum and can also be transferred to a magnetic tape. In order to the prerequisites are created that daily the total sales figures for all articles for all houses as a whole and for each individual house for information.

Claims (4)

PATENT CLAIMS: 1. Arrangement for operating cash registers or the like in such a way that the cash register then, and can only be operated if a document assigned to the goods, e.g. B. a price label on the the data required for the detection of the movement of goods are entered both visually and in machine-readable form, inserted into an additional device, characterized in that the receiving device (2) for the receipts is designed to be movable and as a trigger button for operating the cash register is used in such a way that when the button is pressed, the circuit for the relay (25), which in turn enables the operation of the cash register when energized, is closed, and that the receipts contain recesses that are used in a known manner to operate a contact (13 ) and thus serve to interrupt the circuit for the relay (25). 2. Arrangement according to claim 1, characterized in that means are provided to the To latch the receiving device (2) in the pressed state and the latching of the cash register from undo. 3. Arrangement according to claims 1 and 2, characterized in that means (29, 30, 31) are provided to unlock the collecting fork (8) in a known manner only when the Cash register (relay 25) is activated. 4. Arrangement according to claims 1 to 3, characterized in that one through the insertion slot penetrating contact pin (18) is provided, which makes contact with the wall (19) only produces if the receipt does not exceed a certain amount. Considered publications:
German Patent Nos. 544 645, 477 247;
British Patent No. 490 284;
Austrian Patent No. 126 246;
U.S. Patent Nos. 1219 766, 1233 699. Legacy Patents Considered:
German Patent No. 1110 454. 1 sheet of drawings