JPH05266354A - Merchandise sales registration device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To easily correspond to a case when a clerk takes out a merchandise from a basket and a case when a customer takes it out in the merchandise sales registration device of a checkout counter where a bar code sacker stand. CONSTITUTION:A part of the upper surface 18 of the sacker stand 17 adjacent to the bar code read part 21 is set to be a movable part 26. The movable part 26 is freely vertically supported and it is positioned to be the same height as that of either an immobile part 25 at the tip side of the sacker stand 17 or the bar code read part 21.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a commodity sales registration device for transporting a shopping cart to a bag unloading section facing a customer moving area.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A first conventional example of a product sales registration device is shown in FIG.
It will be explained based on. First, in the checkout counter 1 which is the product sales registration device, a pair of soccer stands 3 and 4 are arranged so that the stationary bar code scanner 2 is located in the central portion, and the distal end portion of the soccer stand 4 on the end side is arranged. The electronic cash register 5 is arranged in the vicinity. In the checkout counter 1, the scanner body 6 of the bar code scanner 2 is integrally provided with the display 7 and the keyboard 8, and the electronic cash register 5 is also provided with the display 9, the keyboard 10 and the R / J. (Receipt / Journal) The printer 11 and the drawer 12 are integrally provided. In the checkout counter 1, the upper surface of the scanner body 6 of the barcode scanner 2 that optically scans the upper side serves as a barcode reading portion, and the step between the scanner body 6 and the soccer table 3 is a shopping cart 13. It is equivalent to the height of.

In such a structure, in the checkout counter 1, one salesperson operates both the barcode scanner 2 and the electronic cash register 5 by one store clerk, and the barcode scanner 2 and the electronic cash register. Each of the 5 and 5 can be used for both a two-person sales operation in which a dedicated store clerk operates. For example, when the checkout counter 1 carries out a one-person sales business, when a customer (not shown) places a shopping basket 13 in which products are stored on the soccer table 3 and is installed side by side on the bar code scanner 2. One clerk (not shown) is the shopping basket 13
The merchandise (not shown) is taken out from the bar code scanner, and the merchandise information is input by the optical scanning of the bar code scanner 2 or the manual operation of the keyboard 8. The merchandise whose input of such merchandise information is completed is the shopping basket on the soccer table 4. Put in 13. At this time, the merchandise information input by the barcode scanner 2 as described above is sequentially transmitted to the electronic cash register 5 and registered, so that the clerk who has completed the registration and transfer of all merchandise. The keyboard 10 of the electronic cash register 5 or the like is operated to execute the settlement process.

Here, in the check-out counter 1 described above, the shopping basket 13 placed on the soccer table 3 by the customer.
The store clerk takes out the product and performs registration processing with the bar code scanner 2, but the clerk will start taking out the product from the shopping basket 13 of the next customer after completing the settlement process for one customer. Therefore, the work efficiency is lowered and the work load on the clerk is also increased. Although this kind of problem has been solved in the two-person sales business, it is prominent in the one-person sales business. Therefore, at present, a checkout counter is implemented so that the customer takes out the product from the shopping basket 13 to reduce the work load of the one-person sales work and improve the work efficiency. ..

Then, such a checkout counter will be described as a second conventional example of the commodity sales registration apparatus with reference to FIG. First, in the checkout counter 14 which is the product sales registration device, a pair of soccer tables 3, in which the stationary barcode scanner 2 is also arranged in the central portion, is used.
An electronic cash register 5, which is a register body, is arranged near the end of 4, and here, a mounting table 15 which is formed at substantially the same height as the shopping basket 13 and whose upper surface matches the scanner body 6 is provided on the soccer table 3. It is installed on top.

In the checkout counter 14 having such a structure, the customer places the shopping basket 13 in which the products are stored on the tip of the soccer table 3 and then stores the shopping basket 13 on the soccer table 3 in the shopping basket 13. The products are sequentially taken out on the placing table 15. Therefore, the clerk takes out the product on the mounting table 15 and inputs the product information by optical scanning of the bar code scanner 2 or manual operation of the keyboard 8. The product whose input of such product information is completed is placed on the soccer table 4. It is put in the shopping basket 13 of. Therefore, in the following, as in the case of the checkout counter 1 described above, the store clerk executes the settlement process in the electronic cash register 5.
While the store clerk is performing the settlement process in the electronic cash register 5 as described above, the next customer can take out the product from his / her shopping basket 13 and place it on the mounting table 15, and the checkout counter 14 Has reduced the work load of the one-person sales work and also improved the work efficiency.

[0007]

In the check-out counter 14 as described above, the store clerk registers the product information of the product taken out by the customer from the shopping basket 13 on the placing table 15 by the bar code scanner 2. The work load of the sales system is reduced and the work efficiency is improved.

[0008] However, it is not preferable from a sales point of view to let the customer perform a part of the sales work, and when the two-person sales work is possible or the number of customers is small. It is desirable that the salesclerk perform all the sales work at the checkout counter 1 described above.
Therefore, it is conceivable to attach / detach the mounting table 15 prepared in advance on the soccer table 3 according to the number of customers, etc. However, this makes the mounting / removing operation of the mounting table 15 complicated, and A storage place for the mounting table 15 that does not exist is required, and there is a concern that the mounting table 15 mounted on the soccer table 3 may fall off, which is not desirable.

Further, a checkout counter (not shown) in which the above-described mounting table is previously integrated with the soccer table
It is also possible, but this is not practical because it becomes a dedicated machine for one-person sales business that allows customers to take out products and it can not handle two-person sales business.

[0010]

[Means for Solving the Problems] An elongated soccer table is formed in parallel with a moving direction of a customer, and a bar code reading section is provided in a protruding manner in a central region of an upper surface of the soccer table, and a position adjacent to the bar code reading section is provided. A part of the upper surface of the soccer table is formed with a movable portion, and the movable portion is supported so as to be movable in the vertical direction, and is substantially the same as one of the immovable portion on the tip side of the soccer table and the barcode reading portion. An elevating mechanism for positioning and holding the height is provided.

[0011]

[Function] A single-person sale in which the customer takes out the product from the shopping basket by vertically moving the movable part with the elevating mechanism and positioning and holding it at the same height as one of the immovable part and the bar code reading part. It is extremely easy to handle both the business and the two-person sales business in which the store clerk takes out the product from the shopping basket, and there is no need to attach or detach the placing table on the soccer table, so it is extremely It is possible to easily deal with various situations of sales operations.

[0012]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. First, as shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, in a checkout counter 16 which is this product sales registration device, an upper surface 18 of a front end of a main body housing 17 which is a soccer table is horizontally formed so that a shopping basket 13 and a product. The electronic cash register 19 and the bar code scanner 20 are arranged in an L-shape centering on the upper surface 18. Here, the bar code scanner 20 is of a stationary type that optically scans downward, and the bar code reading section 21 located in this scanning region is provided so as to project upward with respect to the upper surface 18 of the adjacent main body housing 17. ing. Further, a roller conveyor 22 and an opening hole 23 are provided side by side on the upper surface of the main body housing 17 adjacent to the barcode reading portion 21 on the terminal side.
A bag holding mechanism (not shown) for holding a shopping bag (not shown) is formed in the unit 3.

In the checkout counter 16, the shopping bag is formed as a continuous sheet roll that can be divided, and is stored in the front and rear surfaces of the main body housing 17 at the position of the bar code reading section 21 so that the shopping bag can be pulled out. Has been done. Further, the checkout counter 16 is provided with a bag conveying mechanism (not shown) for pushing out the shopping bag from the bottom of the opening hole 23 of the main body housing 17 to the end bag discharging portion 24. A fragile product or a long product that is not suitable for the above are manually conveyed to the bag unloading section 24 by the roller conveyor 22 on the main body housing 17.

The checkout counter 16
Then, the top surface 18 on the tip side of the main body housing 17 is formed by the immovable portion 25 on the tip side and the movable portion 26 on the terminal side adjacent to the barcode reading portion 21, and as illustrated in FIG. The movable portion 26 is movably supported in the vertical direction by a hydraulic jack 27 which is an elevating mechanism, and is positioned and held at the same height as one of the bar code reading portion 21 and the stationary portion 25. .. Therefore, in the checkout counter 16, the movable part 2 that has descended is
6 is the shopping cart 13
The height between the movable portion 26 and the immovable portion 25 is also equal to the height of the shopping basket 13.

Here, the checkout counter 16
However, the electronic cash register 19 is integrally formed with the display 28, the keyboard 29, the R / J printer 30, etc., and the bar code scanner 20 has the display 32 and the keyboard 3 on the scanner body 31.
3 is integrally formed. Further, in the checkout counter 16, a cart 34 for loading and collecting the shopping basket 13 is arranged beside the tip of the main body housing 17.

The bar code reading section 21 referred to in the present invention.
Means a flat portion that is located in the scanning region of the stationary barcode scanner 20 and guides a product that scans and scans a barcode, and it is essential that the reading window of the barcode scanner 20 is located here. do not do.

In such a structure, in the checkout counter 16, as shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the movable portion 26 of the main body housing 17 is vertically moved up and down to be positioned and held, whereby the bar code scanner 20. Both a one-person sales operation in which one store clerk operates both the electronic cash register 19 and the electronic cash register 19, and a two-person sales operation in which a dedicated store clerk operates each of the barcode scanner 20 and the electronic cash register 19. It can be adapted to.

That is, the checkout counter 16
When carrying out a two-person sales operation with the main body housing, the hydraulic jack 27 lowers the movable portion 26 to position and hold it at the same height as the immovable portion 25, as illustrated in FIG. The upper surface 18 of 17 is molded into one plane lower than the bar code reading section 21. Therefore, a plurality of customers (not shown) sequentially place the shopping baskets 13 on the upper surface 18 of the main body housing 17 and slide the shopping baskets 13 to the adjacent portion of the barcode scanner 20, as illustrated in FIG. As described above, the first clerk takes out a product (not shown) from the shopping basket 13 on the bar code reading section 21 and inputs product information by optical scanning of the bar code scanner 20 or manual operation of the keyboard 33.

Here, the checkout counter 16
Then, the store clerk sets in advance the shopping bag whose upper surface opens in the opening hole 23, and the first store clerk puts the product in which the product information is input as described above into the shopping bag in the opening hole 23. Throw in. By doing so, the product for which the product information has been registered is stored in the shopping bag in the opening hole 23. Therefore, in the checkout counter 16, the first store clerk processes all the products to carry out the shopping bag. When stored inside, a second store clerk (not shown) executes a settlement process for the customer in the electronic cash register 19. Then, in the checkout counter 16, when the above-mentioned checkout process is completed, the shopping bag storing the products is pushed out to the bag unloading section 24 by the bag transport mechanism, so that the shopping bag located in the bag unloading section 24. Will be taken out by the customer. Here, in the checkout counter 16, while the second store clerk is executing the settlement process in the electronic cash register 19 for the customer, the first store clerk receives the product of the next customer from the shopping basket 13. Since it can be taken out and the registration processing by the barcode scanner 20 can be started, the sales operation can be executed with extremely good efficiency.

The checkout counter 16
When performing a one-person sales business in the case of Fig. 1 (b) and Fig. 2
As illustrated in (b), the hydraulic jack 27 is used to move the movable portion 26.
Is raised and positioned and held at the same height as the bar code reading section 21, so that only the immovable section 25 is lower than the bar code reading section 21 and the movable section 26 of the main body housing 17. Therefore, when one customer who places one shopping basket 13 on the immovable part 25 of the main body housing 17 takes out the product on the movable part 26 by himself, one store clerk barcodes the product on the movable part 26. The product information is input by sliding on the reading unit 21 and optically scanning the bar code scanner 20 or manually operating the keyboard 33. Since the products registered in this way are stored in the shopping bag in the opening 23, the clerk who completes such work for all the products pays the customer with the electronic cash register 19. Processing will be executed.
Here, in the checkout counter 16, while one store clerk is executing the settlement process in the electronic cash register 19 for a customer, the next customer stores the product in the immovable section 2.
5 is taken out from the shopping basket 13 and placed on the movable part 26, so that the work load of the sales operation by one person is reduced and the work efficiency is improved.

That is, the checkout counter 16
Then, as described above, the movable part 26 of the main body housing 17 is moved up and down to position and hold the movable part 26 at the same height as one of the immovable part 25 and the bar code reading part 21 to take out the product from the shopping basket 13. Both the one-person sales business performed by the customer and the two-person sales business performed by the store clerk for picking up the product from the shopping basket 13 can be handled very easily. And this checkout counter 1
In FIG. 6, the movable portion 26 of the main body housing 17 can be moved up and down by the hydraulic jack 27. Since it is not necessary to install the mounting table on the soccer table to provide such a step, There is no need for complicated work such as attachment and detachment, no need for a storage place for an unused mounting table, and there is no concern that the mounting table will fall off from the main body housing.

In the checkout counter 16 of this embodiment, two-person sales operation is performed with the movable portion 26 lowered, and one-person sales operation is performed with the movable portion 26 raised. However, for example, when the number of customers is small, one store clerk can perform all the work in a state where the movable part 26 is lowered.
It is possible to raise and lower 6 to deal with various situations.

Further, in the checkout counter 16 of this embodiment, the upper surface of the movable portion 26 is a simple horizontal surface, and there is a concern that the products placed on the raised movable portion 26 may fall. As illustrated in FIG. 5, a checkout counter 36 in which a protection wall 35 is erected on the outer peripheral portion of the movable portion 26 can be implemented. In this case, in the checkout counter 36, when the movable part 26 is lowered, there is a concern that the protective wall 35 is positioned between the immovable part 25 and the sliding movement of the shopping basket 13, but this is at this position. Of the protective wall 35 of the elastic member,
A mechanism is formed in which the movable wall 26 is lowered to a position where the upper edge of the protective wall 35 is at the same height as the immovable portion 25, or the movable wall 26 is lifted to interlock the protective wall 35. It can be resolved by things like that.

[0024]

As described above, according to the present invention, a slender soccer table is formed in parallel with the moving direction of the customer, and a bar code reading section is provided so as to project in the central region of the upper surface of the soccer table. A part of the upper surface of the soccer table is formed by a movable portion at a position adjacent to, and the movable portion is supported movably in the vertical direction, and the stationary portion on the tip side of the soccer table and the barcode reading portion By providing an elevating mechanism that positions and holds it at approximately the same height as one side, the elevating mechanism moves the movable part up and down to position and hold the immovable part and the barcode reading part at the same height. It is extremely easy to handle both a one-person sales operation in which the customer takes the product out of the shopping basket and a two-person sales operation in which the store clerk takes out the product from the shopping basket. Place on the table Since there is no need, such as attaching and detaching the,
This has the effect of being able to deal with various situations of sales operations very easily.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view.

FIG. 3 is a vertical sectional front view showing an enlarged main part.

FIG. 4 is a plan view.

FIG. 5 is a perspective view showing a modified example.

FIG. 6 is a perspective view showing a first conventional example.

FIG. 7 is a perspective view showing a second conventional example.

[Explanation of symbols]

 16,36 Commodity sales registration device 17 Soccer table 18 Upper surface 21 Bar code reading part 25 Immovable part 26 Movable part 27 Lifting mechanism

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A slender soccer table parallel to a moving direction of a customer, a bar code reading section projectingly provided in a central region of an upper surface of the soccer table, and a position adjacent to the bar code reading section of the soccer table. A movable part forming a part of the upper surface,
The movable unit is movably supported in the vertical direction, and comprises an elevating mechanism for positioning and holding the movable unit on the tip end side of the soccer table and the bar code reading unit at substantially the same height. Product sales registration device.