EP0628273A2 - Caisse pour des magasins de libre-service - Google Patents

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EP0628273A2
EP0628273A2 EP94107685A EP94107685A EP0628273A2 EP 0628273 A2 EP0628273 A2 EP 0628273A2 EP 94107685 A EP94107685 A EP 94107685A EP 94107685 A EP94107685 A EP 94107685A EP 0628273 A2 EP0628273 A2 EP 0628273A2
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Werner Dipl.-Ing. Potrafke
Heinz Van Dinther
Julius Reinelt
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47F—SPECIAL FURNITURE, FITTINGS, OR ACCESSORIES FOR SHOPS, STOREHOUSES, BARS, RESTAURANTS OR THE LIKE; PAYING COUNTERS
    • A47F9/00—Shop, bar, bank or like counters
    • A47F9/02—Paying counters
    • A47F9/04—Check-out counters, e.g. for self-service stores

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  • the invention relates to a cash desk for self-service shops with devices for scanning the goods according to the preamble of claim 1.
  • Cash desks at which the prices of the goods to be billed are scanned are known.
  • Optical scanners can be arranged and used in different ways.
  • Cash desks are known in which the cashier scans the goods one after the other with a scanner in the form of a hand-held device.
  • cash desks with a scanner built into a table top between two conveyor belts, by means of which the cashier moves the individual goods by hand.
  • checkout counters with self-scanning of the goods by the customer are known. At such a checkout counter, the customer passes the goods one after the other over a scanner located at the beginning of a conveyor belt.
  • the method of self-scanning of the goods by the customer is of particular interest to operators of self-service shops because it can make the cashier's work easier and, under certain conditions, also result in personnel savings.
  • the disadvantage is that such billing depends to a large extent on the speed and skill of the customers and that there is also the risk that the Merchandise settlement make mistakes, ie goods are unwanted or not wanted. In this regard, the cashier is required to pay more attention.
  • the invention seeks to remedy this.
  • the object of the invention is to provide a cash desk for self-service shops with goods scanning, which is set up for automatic scanning of the goods in order to relieve the cashier in this regard and, on the other hand, to avoid the disadvantages of manipulations as are possible with self-scanning.
  • the bridge with the aid of a scanning beam such as. B. a light beam, depending on the respective height of the incoming goods automatically height adjustable.
  • the height of the bridge can be designed differently.
  • An advantageous embodiment is that the bridge is supported at its ends on at least one pair of threaded rods and that the threaded rods by means of one in each Direction of rotation motorized, but axially immobile nut are held.
  • a slider which causes the goods to be moved laterally, e.g. B. in the manner of a pair of Nuremberg scissors, provided by means of which the unscanned goods can be transported from the trailing belt into a clipboard box located on the inside of the belt next to it.
  • the cashier for whom the clipboard box is easily accessible, can intervene and subsequently scan the goods or register them using the keyboard.
  • the conveyor belt has a longer conveyor length than the other two conveyor belts.
  • the tracking belt is advantageously at least twice as long as the registration belt, with a transverse light barrier at the end of the starting area, which causes the tracking belt to be switched off when an unscanned product arrives.
  • the trailing belt Furthermore, at the end of the starting area of the trailing belt there is a bar which can be moved in the conveying direction by incoming goods and which can be moved into an end position, folded up by hand and moved into its starting position.
  • the automatically scanned goods pass from the registration belt to the trailing belt, which is switched off as soon as the goods pass the light barrier located here.
  • the tracking belt is switched on again, the goods that have already accumulated move with simultaneous displacement of the holding bar until the holding bar has reached its end position.
  • the cashier swings the holding bar up and moves it to its starting position. It is then behind the registered goods of a customer in the direction of conveyance. From this moment on, the next customer can already place his goods on the conveyor belt.
  • the conditions for addressing the scanners are most favorable if the goods are on the registration belt as far as possible in the middle of the conveyor belt.
  • a tunnel-like hood made of transparent plastic is provided as a cover for the feeder belt, the registration belt and, in part, the trailing belt.
  • the exemplary embodiment illustrated in the drawing is a double checkout counter, i. H. a single cashier is responsible for two parallel conveyor belt arrangements.
  • the two belt arrangements run on the outside of the cash desk with a rectangular plan. Since the belt arrangements and the other devices on the two long sides of the checkout counter match each other, only one half is considered in the detailed description below.
  • the two halves of the checkout counter each rest on a cupboard-like substructure 1, which are connected to one another in the front area by a transverse wall 2 and in the rear area, for example by a base plate 3.
  • a customer aisle 4 or 5 runs on both long sides of the checkout counter.
  • each long side there is a conveyor belt arrangement, each comprising three successive conventional table conveyor belts, namely a feeder belt 6, a registration belt 7 and a trailing belt 8.
  • a goods receiving box 9 At the end of the trailing belt 8 there is a goods receiving box 9, which also, particularly towards the center, can be formed wider than the width of the conveyor belt 8.
  • the bottom of the goods receiving box 9 extends from the conveyor belt 8 towards the free end with a slight inclination, so that the goods due to their Gravity can move automatically towards the free end.
  • the feeder belt 6 is less wide than the registration belt 7, but is arranged in the center thereof.
  • Feeder belt 6 and registration belt 7 are provided with two ribs 10 or beads which run in the conveying direction and are at a certain distance from one another. Cans or bottles that are placed in a lateral position between the ribs 10 on the conveyor belt are prevented by the ribs 10 from rolling away to the side.
  • three scanners 11 are provided side by side in the area of the registration belt 7, which are arranged on an adjustable bridge frame 12 like an arch.
  • the bridge frame 12 rests next to the long sides of the feeder belt 7 on a pair of spindles 13, which are each mounted in an axially immovable but rotatable nut 14.
  • the nuts 14 can be driven in pairs by motor, so that the height of the bridge frame relative to the feeder belt 7 can be adjusted.
  • the height adjustment takes place automatically as a function of the height of the incoming goods with the aid of a light barrier 15.
  • Such a height control is known per se, for example in car washes.
  • the height control serves the purpose, for the scanner 11, depending on the thickness of the incoming goods, a favorable distance from the surface of the goods with the one located thereon Set bar code.
  • the circuit is expediently designed such that the bridge frame 12 automatically returns to its lower starting position after passing through a product.
  • the trailing belt 8 is more than twice as long as the registration belt 7.
  • a slide 16 which causes the goods to be moved sideways is provided with an articulated drive in the form of a pair of Nuremberg scissors 17, by means of which an unscanned goods from the trailing belt 8 can be automatically transported into an intermediate storage box 18 located on the inside of the trailing belt 8.
  • the extended position of the Nuremberg scissors 17 is indicated in Fig. 1.
  • a one-piece or multi-piece tabletop 19 is arranged in the front area of the cash desk, which extends to the cashier's workplace 20.
  • the table top 19 is used to set up a keyboard 21 for price registration and a cash cassette 22.
  • a first transverse light barrier 26 is provided, which causes the registration belt 7 and the tracking belt 8 to be switched on when a product arrives.
  • Another light barrier 27 is located at the end of aforementioned starting area of the trailing belt 8; This light barrier 27 causes the trailing belt 8 to be temporarily switched off when an unscanned product arrives.
  • the customers can observe the registration process of the goods they have purchased in detail.
  • the characteristics of the goods such as name and price appear on the monitors with each scanning process, and at the end, after all the goods of a customer have been scanned, the monitor also shows the total amount to be paid. The same information appears for the cashier 20 on the monitor 24.
  • the trailing belt 8 stops and the slider 16 conveys the unscanned goods into the intermediate storage box 18.
  • the cashier 20 can now ensure that these goods are registered in a different way, for example with the help a hand scanner or by entering the price directly using the keyboard 21. It then places the goods back on the conveyor belt 8 and then releases the conveyor belt arrangement again.
  • the conveyor belts together with the scanners 11 are each covered by a tunnel-like hood 28 made of transparent plastic (cf. FIGS. 2 and 3).
  • a holding bar 29, also known as a goods separating bar, which can be moved in the conveying direction is provided, which can be moved between a front end position at the end of the starting area of the trailing belt 8 and a rear end position 30 at the beginning of the goods receiving box 9.
  • a holding bar 29 also known as a goods separating bar, which can be moved in the conveying direction is provided, which can be moved between a front end position at the end of the starting area of the trailing belt 8 and a rear end position 30 at the beginning of the goods receiving box 9.
  • it is folded up so that the cashier 20 can manually move it from the rear to the front end position.
  • the procedure for a goods settlement is as follows: The customer places his goods on the running narrow feeder belt 6 with the bar code upwards. The customer must ensure that the individual goods are not placed directly on the conveyor belt one after the other, but that a small distance is maintained.
  • the registration belt 7 and the tracking belt 8 are switched on.
  • the next light barrier 15 may effect the correct height control of the bridge frame 12, so that the goods passing under the bridge are at a favorable distance from the scanners 11. If the barcode is read by one of the three scanners, the other two are automatically switched off.
  • the scanned product now arrives on the trailing belt 8 and is conveyed by it, taking the holding bar 29 with it, until the holding bar has reached its end position.
  • the trailing belt 8 As far as all goods placed by the customer have been properly scanned, a collection of all goods is found the trailing belt 8 instead, since the holding bar 29 temporarily prevents further movement into the receiving box 9.
  • the tracking belt 8 can now be switched off automatically or by the cashier's intervention.
  • the holding bar 29 is folded up by the cashier 20 and moved back over the goods into the front end position. From this point on, the next customer can place his goods on the feeder belt 6.
  • the release of the cash desk for the next customer can be indicated by a light signal.

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EP94107685A 1993-06-09 1994-05-18 Caisse pour des magasins de libre-service. Withdrawn EP0628273A3 (fr)

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DE19934319153 DE4319153A1 (de) 1993-06-09 1993-06-09 Kassentisch für Selbstbedienungsläden

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US10028599B2 (en) 2016-01-21 2018-07-24 Walmart Apollo, Llc High velocity checkout terminal
EP3537390A1 (fr) * 2018-03-07 2019-09-11 Wanzl Metallwarenfabrik GmbH Dispositif de balayage ainsi que procédé correspondant

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DE3137572A1 (de) * 1981-09-22 1983-03-31 Dieter W. 6331 Hünenberg Zug Liedtke Warenregistriereinrichtung und -verfahren
EP0443407A1 (fr) * 1990-02-17 1991-08-28 Werner Potrafke Spezialfabrik Für Kassentische Und Förderanlagen Comptoir d'enregistrement à balayage automatique
US5046570A (en) * 1989-02-13 1991-09-10 Abo Metall Ab Weighing device for checkout counters and the like
EP0445422A1 (fr) * 1990-03-07 1991-09-11 Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme Aktiengesellschaft Appareil de facturation pour produits de supermarché

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DE3137572A1 (de) * 1981-09-22 1983-03-31 Dieter W. 6331 Hünenberg Zug Liedtke Warenregistriereinrichtung und -verfahren
US5046570A (en) * 1989-02-13 1991-09-10 Abo Metall Ab Weighing device for checkout counters and the like
EP0443407A1 (fr) * 1990-02-17 1991-08-28 Werner Potrafke Spezialfabrik Für Kassentische Und Förderanlagen Comptoir d'enregistrement à balayage automatique
EP0445422A1 (fr) * 1990-03-07 1991-09-11 Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme Aktiengesellschaft Appareil de facturation pour produits de supermarché

Cited By (2)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US10028599B2 (en) 2016-01-21 2018-07-24 Walmart Apollo, Llc High velocity checkout terminal
EP3537390A1 (fr) * 2018-03-07 2019-09-11 Wanzl Metallwarenfabrik GmbH Dispositif de balayage ainsi que procédé correspondant

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