WO1992013769A1 - Systeme d'etiquetage pour indiquer le prix des articles - Google Patents

Systeme d'etiquetage pour indiquer le prix des articles Download PDF

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WO1992013769A1
WO1992013769A1 PCT/SE1991/000073 SE9100073W WO9213769A1 WO 1992013769 A1 WO1992013769 A1 WO 1992013769A1 SE 9100073 W SE9100073 W SE 9100073W WO 9213769 A1 WO9213769 A1 WO 9213769A1
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Lennart Westerlund
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Trinics Ab
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65C—LABELLING OR TAGGING MACHINES, APPARATUS, OR PROCESSES
    • B65C9/00—Details of labelling machines or apparatus
    • B65C9/40—Controls; Safety devices
    • B65C9/42—Label feed control
    • B65C9/44—Label feed control by special means responsive to marks on labels or articles
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65C—LABELLING OR TAGGING MACHINES, APPARATUS, OR PROCESSES
    • B65C9/00—Details of labelling machines or apparatus
    • B65C9/46—Applying date marks, code marks, or the like, to the label during labelling

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  • the present invention relates to an arrangement for price labelling of articles marked with codes.
  • shelf front labels are arranged on the shelves for the articles and price labels are glued directly on the articles in ques ⁇ tion. In this way the customer will very often be informed of the price of the article in two places.
  • THE SOLUTION According to the present invention one has solved the above problem and brought about an arrangement for price label ⁇ ling of articles which is characterized in that it compri ⁇ ses a checkout desk having one or more conveyors for the articles and scanners for reading the identity of the article and one or more marking arrangements which are intended to automatically price label the articles in dependence of the information received from the scanner.
  • the labelling arrangements comprises a printing device for the price labels.
  • the labelling arrangement comprise a printing means for direct printing of the price on the article.
  • the labelling arrangement brings about price labels it should suitably comprise an arrangement for putting the price labels on the articles.
  • the price information to the labelling arrangements is intended to be supplied from a computer which is adapted to receive the identity of the articles from the scanners.
  • checkout desk can comprise a scale which is intended to give information of the weight of some articles to the computer of the checkout desk.
  • the present invention one gets the advantage that the articles are labelled with the price which in fact has been paid to the cashier.
  • the customer can as long as he has the article see how much he has paid for it and plan his coming purchases.
  • the shop also wins the advantage that one does not have to label the articles at the same time as one gives the customer the wanted price label.
  • a checkout desk 1 has two arrange ⁇ ments 3 and 4 according to the invention.
  • The are arranged parallel to each other so that they form a space 5 between each other.
  • the in the figure outwardly directed ends of the arrangements 3 och 4 are in the following called the input place 6 and those turned towards left are called the output place 7.
  • a place 8 has been arranged for the service personal which in front of herself has a cashregister 9.
  • the two arrangements 3 and 4 have each at the input place a working surface 12 with a scanner 13. From the working surface 12 a conveyor 15 runs which conveyor comprises means for transport formation of the articles.
  • the conveyors 15 have been made with transporting means in the shape of band or chain mats in three different sec ⁇ tions. Firstly a section 17 runs from the working surface 12 towards the right end of the arrangements in the figure. Transverse to this in the direction towards the space 5 another section 18 is running. This one in its turn connects to a scale 14 which changes into a longitudinal section 19 closest to the space 5. It runs (to the left in the figure) into an article collecting table 20 at the respective output place 7.
  • the cashier 9 will accordingly be sitting between the two arrangements 3 and 4 and it is pressumed that the sitting place is such that the cashier can swing to work with either one or the other side.
  • On the cashregister 9 located straight ahead of the cashier a key board for manual feeding of weight and price information and other not automatically fed data is arranged. Besides that displays for the presentation of data and means for printing receipts and the like are provided.
  • the way of the articles is indicated with arrows.
  • the first arrow 26 shows the way of the articles on the section 17 when the customer has picked them from the customer waggon and put them on the working surface 12.
  • An arrow 27 shows the reversed direction of movement of the articles on the section 18.
  • An arrow 28 shows the way of the articles on the section 19 moving towards the output place when the price registering and paying operations are performed.
  • the sections of the conveyor are arranged to be driven with the upper transporting part normally running in the direction as the arrows show. However, they are steered by the function of different organs to be stopped or alterna- tively to be reversed against the direction of the arrows.
  • the two scanners 13 and 22 namely the receiving of respective codes of the articles or which also can occur that no reading of the codes occurs.
  • the codes scanned are electronically compared with the information contained in the central computer of the store by which one price indication for each article is the most important part of the system.
  • the photosensor arrangement 21 is adapted to sense the passage of the articles when being further fed on the section 17 to the following sections 18 and 19.
  • the cashier has also the possibility to manually conduct the start and stop of the conveyors or their respective movement directions.
  • the object of the arrangement is that when the articles having been put into the arrangement by the customer and the customer has made the initial operations: manual code reading and putting the articles on the section 17 they are transported further without further handling from the customer until they are collected at the putout place 7.
  • the optical code is registered by means of the scanners 13 and 22 which the articles have been labelled with. This occurs through manual handling of the articles at the scanner 13 but automatically when being transported by at 22. Arrange- ments having the function that in this way discover and read a code is known earlier.
  • the articles must at the reading pass the reading arrangements one by one. If more articles are stapled on each other or are located close to each other it could occur that only one article was registered in spite of several passing the reading arrangement.
  • the articles pass one by one.
  • that means a formation of the articles in a line the three transport sections 17-19 are arranged.
  • the section 18 runs quicker than 17, it means that the articles are departed and further distance between them is obtai- nable if the section runs even quicker.
  • the U-arrangement has also the advantage that the location of the cashier and the input place for the customer can be located straight opposite each other so that a communication can be maintained between the cashier and the customer while nevertheless maintaining a suffici ⁇ ently long transportation way for formation of the ar- tides.
  • a labelling arrangement 30 which schematically is shown as a rectangle.
  • This labelling arrangement can be of different kind but it comprises preferably an attachment device for the labels which are blown on the article which is trans ⁇ ported by.
  • the arrangement comprises accordingly also a printing device for these labels and it gets the price information from the central computer in the store and from the scanners 13, 21 and 22.
  • the invention the main object of which is automatically price labelling of the article bought, has been described above in connection with a special checkout desk. It is of course possible to arrange the labelling device 30 in connection with also other desk constructions which give the information which is necessary for the labelling.
  • the articles have been oriented on the conveyor. This means that they shall have a certain distance from each other and that each article should be located at one edge of the conveyor, that means the edge that is closest to the labelling arrangement 30. This will occur automatically as the conveyor is oriented as shown in the figure, which means that they run in a ⁇ -shape so that the articles always will be located in an inner curve, that means at the edge which is further most away from the cashier as seen in the figure.
  • the invention is not limited to the embodiment example shown, but it can be varied in different ways within the scope of the claims. It is for example possible to use the table scanner which is used in a common checkout desk. The cashier can in such a case move the article past the scanner and one can apply the label already at this moment.

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L'invention ci-décrite est carcactérisée en ce qu'elle comprend une caisse de sortie connue en soi, munie par exemple d'un ou de plusieurs convoyeurs (17, 18, 19) pour transporter les articles et équipée de systèmes de balayage (13, 21, 22) pour déterminer l'identité des articles. Un ou plusieurs dispositifs d'étiquettage (30) destinés à appliquer automatiquement les étiquettes indiquant le prix des articles en fonction des informations transmises par les systèmes de balayage (13, 21, 22) sont disposés en fin de convoyeur à la hauteur de la caisse de sortie.
PCT/SE1991/000073 1991-02-01 1991-02-01 Systeme d'etiquetage pour indiquer le prix des articles WO1992013769A1 (fr)

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EP0597470A1 (fr) * 1992-11-13 1994-05-18 Fnac S.A. Système d'étiquetage automatique et utilisation dudit système pour la gestion des stocks
FR2725694A1 (fr) * 1994-10-17 1996-04-19 Gascan Thierry Dispositif de production automatique d'etiquettes autocollantes
EP1707492A1 (fr) * 2004-07-02 2006-10-04 Böwe Bell + Howell Ensemble d'application d'étiquettes sans bande de support
US7987141B2 (en) 2005-01-28 2011-07-26 Bowe Bell & Howell Company Dynamically changing label size during mail processing

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US4321103A (en) * 1980-09-25 1982-03-23 Hi-Speed Checkweigher Co., Inc. Mechanism for applying merchandising labels to packages/objects of different weights and dimensions
WO1990013873A1 (fr) * 1989-05-12 1990-11-15 Trinics Ab Dispositif servant a manier des marchandises marquees d'un prix code

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US4321103A (en) * 1980-09-25 1982-03-23 Hi-Speed Checkweigher Co., Inc. Mechanism for applying merchandising labels to packages/objects of different weights and dimensions
WO1990013873A1 (fr) * 1989-05-12 1990-11-15 Trinics Ab Dispositif servant a manier des marchandises marquees d'un prix code

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* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
EP0597470A1 (fr) * 1992-11-13 1994-05-18 Fnac S.A. Système d'étiquetage automatique et utilisation dudit système pour la gestion des stocks
FR2698071A1 (fr) * 1992-11-13 1994-05-20 Fnac Sa Système d'étiquetage automatique et utilisation dudit système pour la gestion des stocks.
FR2725694A1 (fr) * 1994-10-17 1996-04-19 Gascan Thierry Dispositif de production automatique d'etiquettes autocollantes
EP1707492A1 (fr) * 2004-07-02 2006-10-04 Böwe Bell + Howell Ensemble d'application d'étiquettes sans bande de support
US7987141B2 (en) 2005-01-28 2011-07-26 Bowe Bell & Howell Company Dynamically changing label size during mail processing

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