Classifications

• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B62—LAND VEHICLES FOR TRAVELLING OTHERWISE THAN ON RAILS
  • B62B—HAND-PROPELLED VEHICLES, e.g. HAND CARTS OR PERAMBULATORS; SLEDGES
  • B62B3/00—Hand carts having more than one axis carrying transport wheels; Steering devices therefor; Equipment therefor
  • B62B3/14—Hand carts having more than one axis carrying transport wheels; Steering devices therefor; Equipment therefor characterised by provisions for nesting or stacking, e.g. shopping trolleys
  • B62B3/1428—Adaptations for calculators, memory aids or reading aids

Definitions

• the invention relates to a manually movable, stackable with the same car and intended for receiving goods or luggage, which is optionally equipped with a coupling part and whose sliding device is either supported by handle holding parts or is part of an upward-facing frame construction, one of which is used for Placing or parking a handheld scanner is provided.
• the transport trolleys made available to the customers and designed as shopping carts are equipped with a carrying device which is used to hold the hand scanner when no billing processes are carried out.
• the carrying device which is designed like an open container, is fastened as an independent part to the pushing device of the transport trolley designed as a handle bar. When not in use, the hand scanner is loosely set or inserted into the carrying device during the shopping process.
• US Pat. No. 4,691,816 briefly notes that a clamping device is provided on a coupling part, into which a flat electronic calculator or a shopping list can be clamped.
• the cited patent does not provide any information as to whether the clamping device is able to accommodate the hand scanners that are designed much larger than a pocket calculator, nor does it provide information about the type of arrangement and fastening of the clamping device on the coupling part. It would also be extremely inconvenient during the shopping process to attach the hand scanner to the transport trolley each time it is not in use, since two hands are always required for this process.
• the German utility model DE 295 07 722 Ul describes a transport trolley, in the sliding device of which is designed as a handle bar, a bowl-shaped small parts container is molded.
• the utility model proposes to provide the small parts container in an attachment which is held by the handle bar, and a coupling part can be integrated in the attachment designed in this way. The usage pattern leaves open whether a hand scanner can be inserted into the described small parts container.
• the object of the invention is to develop a trolley of the generic type so that the disadvantages just described are avoided.
• the carrying device be arranged non-detachably either on a handle holding part or on a coupling part or on the sliding device.
• a second solution to the problem consists in releasably, in particular snap-fittingly, connecting the carrying device either with a handle holding part or with a coupling part. Since the carrying device is a space-saving component of one of the handle holding parts or the coupling part or the sliding device, the impression is avoided that a further additional part is arranged in the area of the sliding device.
• the carrying device can be provided in such a way that advertising on the sliding device is not covered. It has proven particularly expedient to arrange the carrying device within the floor plan of the trolley. This measure prevents damage to the carrying device and the hand scanner caused by starting or bumping. If the carrying device is designed as a smoothly shaped opening or as a projection or hook, no dirt can settle on the carrying device. This is a decisive advantage if the transport trolley, designed as a shopping cart, is used to transport food.
• FIG. 1 shows a trolley designed as a shopping trolley
• FIG. 3 shows a carrying device arranged on a handle holding part
• Fig. 4 is a support device integrated in a sliding device
• Fig. 5 shows the floor plan of a trolley.
• the transport trolley 1 shown in FIG. 1 is designed as a conventional shopping trolley.
• the trolley 1 is movable by hand. It can be stacked in a known manner with the same transport trolley 1 in a space-saving manner and is designed in such a way that it can be used to transport goods, for example shopping goods, or, with the appropriate construction, also partially to transport luggage.
• the transport carriage 1 is equipped with a usually tubular or rod-shaped sliding device 4, which is either supported by separate handle holding parts 6 fastened to the transport carriage 1 or is part of at least one upward-pointing frame construction. Such arrangements are known.
• the sliding device 4 carries, for example, a coupling part 7 designed as a coin lock, which, in a known manner, enables the transport carriage 1 to be coupled and uncoupled to or from the same transport carriage 1.
• a coupling part 7 of this type is described, for example, in DE 39 00 582 A1. wrote.
• the transport trolley 1 has a chassis 2 equipped with castors 3, it being possible, of course, to provide further suitable devices, for example a child seat arrangement or a lower parting area. It is also possible to equip the trolley 1 with removable baskets or containers.
• FIG. 2 shows a top view of part of a tubular sliding device 4 which carries a known coupling part 7.
• the housing 8 of the coupling part 7 has a shape 10 which has, for example, a receptacle 10 'in the form of a depression or an opening or at least one projection.
• the carrying device 9 is a depression, the hand scanner is inserted or inserted into the depression.
• a breakthrough is selected as the carrying device 9, the hand scanner can be hung in the breakthrough, the contour of the hand scanner being designed, e.g. by a stepped edge so that the hand scanner does not fall through the opening.
• the hand scanner can be attached to the projection or attached to the hook.
• the carrying device 9 designed as a depression or as an opening, is molded into the housing 8 of the coupling part 7.
• the carrying device 9 is thus arranged on the coupling part 7 so that it cannot be detached.
• contours are provided on the support device 9 and on the coupling part 7, which interlock with one another. Such contours can be formed in a known manner by depressions, shoulders, grooves, flinter cuts and the like.
• the carrying device 9 is arranged at a distance from the key insert of the coupling part 7 marked with an arrow.
• FIG. 3 shows that the carrying device 9 described in FIG. 2 for a hand scanner can also be provided on one of the two handle holding parts 6.
• the handle holding parts 6, which are usually made of plastic, are used on transport trolleys 1 to hold and support the rod-shaped or tubular sliding device 4. So it’s possible Lich, to form a support device 9 in the form of a recess or an opening or a projection on one of the two handle holding parts 6, so that the support device 9 is non-detachably arranged on the handle holding part 6.
• the means mentioned are then also provided in a correspondingly corresponding manner on the handle holding part 6.
• Fig. 4 shows a further possibility of attaching a carrying device 9 for a hand scanner to a transport carriage 1.
• the sliding device 4 is a rod-shaped injection-molded part made of plastic, to which one is provided as an opening (as shown) or as a projection or as a hook designed carrying device 9 is molded as an inseparable part of the sliding device 4. Since a support device 9 in the form of an opening would weaken the cross section of the rod-shaped sliding device, the opening, as shown, is preferably outside this cross section.
• Such a sliding device 4 can also accommodate a coupling device, as is proposed in DE 37 14 115 C2.
• the sliding device 4 can also consist of two separately arranged push handles, with the carrying device 9 being molded onto one of the two push handles.
• FIG. 5 It is extremely expedient, and as can be seen from FIG. 5, to arrange the carrying device 9 described in FIGS. 2 to 4 for a hand scanner within the floor plan of the transport carriage 1.
• the solution presented in FIG. 2 is shown in the drawing, the lines marked with 11 representing the outline of the transport carriage 1.
• the carrying device 9 is located between the sliding device 4 and that device, for example a basket 5, which is intended for receiving the goods. Since transport trolleys 1 of this type encounter obstacles too often, the proposed solution prevents damage to the carrying device 9.
• the invention also includes transport trolleys 1 designed as luggage transport trolleys, since such trolleys can also be used to shop in stores which, for example, wise at airports.
• Trolleys 1 of this type usually have a small basket-like container 5, in which goods can be parked.

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