EP2177135A1 - Caisse automatique - Google Patents

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EP2177135A1
EP2177135A1 EP09173263A EP09173263A EP2177135A1 EP 2177135 A1 EP2177135 A1 EP 2177135A1 EP 09173263 A EP09173263 A EP 09173263A EP 09173263 A EP09173263 A EP 09173263A EP 2177135 A1 EP2177135 A1 EP 2177135A1
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Martino Favaro
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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
    • A47F9/046—Arrangement of recording means in or on check-out counters
    • A47F9/047—Arrangement of recording means in or on check-out counters for recording self-service articles without cashier or assistant

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  • the present invention refers to an improved automatic cash register group.
  • the present invention refers to an automatic cash register group applicable in a supermarket wherein usually there is simultaneously a large number of customers and each customer simultaneously purchases several items.
  • the customer arrives at the cash register carrying the chosen items in a shopping bag or trolley where the abovementioned items had been progressively accumulated.
  • the price of each single item is entered into a terminal, called cash register, either through direct manual entry on the numerical keyboard or - given that nowadays items are provided with a barcode - through a barcode reader connected to the cash register.
  • Such "automatic" cash register systems are mainly required to carry out three operations such as identifying the goods that the user wants to purchase, collect and put the same items away in a given space, for example in a bag or in a box or any other similar container, and finally allow paying.
  • each single item is delivered manually by the customer to a scanner, be it a manual or fixed scanner, connected to a cash register.
  • the item after being scanned the item is still in the hands of the customer who directly puts away the scanned item downstream of the reading station.
  • This system has the double disadvantage of inefficiently using the scanning device. As a matter of fact, there are pauses wherein the customer is required to move the scanned goods occupying the system of the cash register for a relatively long period of time. In order to overcome such drawbacks there are systems provided with a conveyor belt, or the like, on which the items are moved from this identification station to a collection area.
  • the customer may place the items on the conveyor belt without simultaneously having to put them away again and package them.
  • some embodiments comprise automatic stations for identifying the goods wherein, after being placed on the conveyor belt, the item automatically enters into an identification station and, almost immediately thereafter, it is automatically transferred to a collection area.
  • these groups of cash registers have two or more collection areas so that the subsequent customer directly places the items on the conveyor, even though the previous customer has not yet paid the purchased goods, to the advantage of the efficiency of the system.
  • each area for collecting the goods may be closed physically by a gate mechanism or by a similar system that is released after payment.
  • a gate mechanism or by a similar system that is released after payment.
  • a payment station may be installed at the collection area.
  • a centralised payment station serving several cash register systems in which a receipt is issued bearing an issuance code, for example provided with a barcode, the receipt then being used in the collection area to release the closure of the same.
  • An object of the present invention is that of providing an improved automatic cash register group capable of overcoming the abovementioned drawbacks of the prior art in an extremely simple, inexpensive and particularly functional manner.
  • Another object is that of providing an improved automatic cash register group comprising a goods deposit area, area of identification of said goods being fed and a plurality of deposit areas of said identified goods wherein all the collection areas may be used even in case of failure of one or more products identification devices.
  • an improved automatic cash register group according to the present invention is indicated with 10.
  • the automatic cash register group 10 of the present invention comprises a goods deposit area, wherein customers may place - on feeding belts - all the goods making up one's shopping, an area for identifying the goods being fed wherein - through codes associated to the products - the total expense of the customer's shopping is calculated, and areas for depositing the identified goods wherein the products remain awaiting to be picked until the customer pays the amount calculated by the preceding means for identifying the products.
  • the automatic cash register group 10 of the present invention comprises at least two longitudinal belts 11, 12 for feeding the goods placed thereon by the customer after picking them up from the respective trolley or basket.
  • at least two longitudinal feeding belts 11, 12 are arranged adjacent to each other, or lightly separated from each other, and comprise first ends 13, 14 for depositing the goods and second ends 16, 17 respectively associated to at least two transversal belts 15', 15'' for feeding the goods.
  • transversal feeding belts 15', 15'' develop from sides opposite and substantially orthogonal with respect to the longitudinal feeding belts 11, 12 thus forming substantially L-shaped structures with the latter.
  • the automatic cash register group 10 comprises a plurality of deposit belts 18 which are provided with respective first ends 22 associated to different portions of the development of the transversal feeding belts 15', 15'' and second ends 23 for collecting the goods.
  • Such deposit belts 18 develop in two adjacent groups substantially orthogonal with respect to the transversal feeding belts 15', 15'' thus obtaining a comb-like structure with the latter.
  • the automatic cash register group 10 comprises means 20 for identifying the goods being fed, preferably associated to a portion of the development of the longitudinal feeding belts 11, 12.
  • the means 20 for identifying the goods being fed, associated to the longitudinal feeding belts 11, 12 may comprise devices for reading a code associated to the goods themselves such as for example a scanner for reading a barcode associated to the products.
  • such scanner for reading barcodes is connected to a software for processing data associated to the abovementioned barcode such as the price of the product itself.
  • such devices for reading the code associated to the goods may be of the automatic type.
  • the means 20 for identifying the goods may comprise shoplifting prevention devices which operate associated to the belts with weighing means for verifying the weight, or to magnetic sensors or to radio frequency receivers for verifying the respective labels.
  • the automatic cash register group 10 comprises at least one payment receipt issuing device 30, provided with a code, wherein such device 30 for issuing the receipt is connected in a known manner and/or through wireless system, to the means 20 for identifying the goods.
  • the customer will proceed to the abovementioned receipt issuing device 30 and, after paying the shopping, collect the same receipt indicating that payment has been completed.
  • Such payment may be performed automatically.
  • the customer After paying and collecting the receipt indicating successful payment, on which as mentioned above a code is born, the customer shall move on to the second end 23 of the deposit belt 18 into which his goods are accumulated and pick them.
  • the second end 23 of the belts 18 for depositing the goods may comprise a group 31 for collecting the identified and transported goods, such collection group 31 being selectively not accessible from outside.
  • Such group 31 for collecting the goods may comprise devices for reading the code associated to the payment receipt in such a manner to make the goods accessible solely after the same have been paid, after entering or writing said code.
  • the automatic cash register group 10 comprises movable means 21 for directing the goods being fed coming from at least two longitudinal feeding belts 11, 12 onto the transversal feeding belts 15', 15''.
  • Such movable directing means 21 are located at the second ends 16, 17 of the at least two longitudinal feeding belts 11, 12.
  • the movable directing means comprise a movable wedge-shaped deflector 21, with vertex associated to the second ends 16, 17 of the at least two longitudinal feeding belts 11, 12.
  • Such wedge-shaped element 21 is movable astride the at least two transversal feeding belts 15', 15'' to identify a first position wherein it excludes for example one 15' of the two transversal feeding belts 15', 15'', a second position wherein it excludes the other 15'' of the two transversal feeding belts 15', 15'', and a third position wherein the goods fed on the first longitudinal feeding belt 11 are directed on the first transversal feeding belt 15' and the goods fed on the second longitudinal feeding belt 12 are directed onto the second transversal feeding belt 15''.
  • the transversal feeding belts 15' 15'' are always operative even in case of failure of a longitudinal feeding belt 11, 12.
  • the automatic cash register group 10 In order to channel the goods of a respective shopping into the respective deposit belt 18, the automatic cash register group 10 according to the invention also comprises movable means 25 for channelling the goods being fed on the deposit belts 18, such means 25 being associated to the first ends 22 of the deposit belts 18.
  • such movable channelling means 25 comprise barrier elements 25 moveable between a first closure position, where they isolate the deposit belts 18 not hindering the feeding of the goods onto the transversal feeding belts 15', 15'', and an interception position, where they are extended in oblique direction along transversal feeding belts 15', 15'' intercepting the goods being fed and channelling them into a respective deposit belt 18.
  • both the movable means 21 for directing the goods being fed on the transversal feeding belts 15', 15'' at the second ends 16, 17 of the at least two longitudinal feeding belts 11, 12, and the movable means 25 for channelling the goods being fed into the deposit belts 18 associated to the first ends 22 of the deposit belts 18 may be of the automatic type.
  • the improved automatic cash register group comprises at least two goods deposit areas, wherein the customer places - on a feeding belt - all the goods representing his/her shopping, at least two areas for identifying the goods being fed where - through codes of the products - the total expense of the customer's shopping is calculated, and a plurality of areas for depositing the identified goods where the products remain awaiting to be collected until the customer pays the expense calculated by the preceding means for identifying products.
  • the group 10 comprises more than one belt 11, 12 for feeding the goods, such belts being selectively connectable to all deposit belts 18 present.
  • the group 10 comprises movable directing means 21, such as a wedge-shaped movable deflector with vertex associated to the second ends 16, 17 of the at least two longitudinal feeding belts 11, 12.
  • Such wedge-shaped element 21 astride the at least two transversal feeding belts 15', 15'' identifies a first position in which it connects both the two longitudinal feeding belts 11, 12 to one of the two transversal feeding belts 15', 15'', a second position in which it connects both the two longitudinal feeding belts 11, 12 to the other of the two transversal feeding belts 15', 15'', and a third position in which the goods fed on the first longitudinal feeding belt 11 are directed onto the first transversal feeding belt 15' and the goods fed on the second longitudinal feeding belt 12 are directed onto the second transversal feeding belt 15''.
  • all the deposit belts 18 may be used by the remaining longitudinal feeding belt 11, 12 without slowing down the process of paying the goods making up the customer's shopping.
  • Figure 3 shows the cash register group during a normal step of operation wherein the first belt 11 - through the deflector 21 arranged centrally - directs the products placed thereon to the transversal belt 15' and then - through the barrier element 25 - to the second of the deposit belts 18 of a first group.
  • the second belt 12 - through the deflector 21 arranged centrally - instead directs the products placed thereon to the transversal belt 15'' and then - through the barrier element 25 - to the last of the deposit belts 18 of a second group.
  • the dashed positions of the deflector 21 show how the same is arranged to receive products from both belts 11, 12 and selectively feed them to the first and second group of belts 18.
  • the improved automatic cash register group of the present invention allows using all the deposit belts, even in case of failure of one or more products identification devices.

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WO2013120875A3 (fr) * 2012-02-17 2013-10-24 Wincor Nixdorf International Gmbh Ensemble de système de caisse
GB2520513A (en) * 2013-11-22 2015-05-27 Asda Stores Ltd Self-checkout terminal
EP2873044A4 (fr) * 2012-07-16 2016-03-02 Ncr Corp Procédés et système de traitement de clients par l'intermédiaire d'un système de point de vente ayant un appareil pour scanner le prix de plusieurs articles
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WO2013040500A1 (fr) * 2011-09-14 2013-03-21 Karl Fischer Caisse à fonctionnement rapide comportant de multiples trajets pour les produits
WO2013120875A3 (fr) * 2012-02-17 2013-10-24 Wincor Nixdorf International Gmbh Ensemble de système de caisse
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