Registers – Systems controlled by data bearing records – Credit or identification card systems
Patent
1998-01-09
2000-06-13
Le, Thien M.
Registers
Systems controlled by data bearing records
Credit or identification card systems
235375, 235382, 902 22, 902 26, G06K 300, G06K 1700
Patent
active
060738383
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The invention relates to a cash register for use in catering companies and retail businesses.
Depending on the particular use, different requirements are made of cash registers in terms of the way in which they can be operated. For example, cash registers in catering companies, so-called bar cash registers, are operated by a standing person, as it were in passing, while the cashier in a retail business is seated in front of the cash register during the entire working time. This results in different ergonomic design principles which are to a certain extent contradictory and which have hitherto been fulfilled only imperfectly with a single design of cash register.
The desire for application-specific equipment relates to different storage and identification media such as disk drives for diskettes or CD-ROM, connection possibilities for electronic, electro-optical or electromechanical mass storage devices, for example, according to the PCMCIA Standard or even readers for magnetic strip cards or smartcards with which a cashier is identified at the cash register. The casing of the cash register would have to be changed for each equipment variant. However, different designs make a cash register more expensive.
It is already known to make cash register systems of modular design. The individual components, and thus a selection of different keypads, are accommodated in discrete casings. When such a cash register system is installed, the individual components are to be electrically connected to one another, which generally requires the use of a technician. However, this runs counter to efforts to hand over directly to a user of the cash register a system which is ready for operation when installed.
WO-A-97/00514 discloses a cash register with a control region, comprising a console shaped keypad surface, and a display region, the keypad surface of which cash register is mounted on the lower part of the cash register so as to be pivotable about a pivot axis running parallel with its rear edge, and in its folded down position can be locked to the said lower part. The front region of the keypad surface is bent downward.
In its folded down position, the keypad surface covers a money container with a plurality of compartments arranged next to and behind one another, the height of their front walls decreasing incrementally in the direction of the front wall in the cash register. The front wall of the cash register drops away abruptly in a rearward and downward direction in relation to the side walls. When the keypad surface is folded down, this abruptly set back region is closed off by the front, downwardly bent region of the said keypad surface, the lower edge of which region then rests on the upper edge of the front wall.
DE-A 37 41 704 discloses a card reader installed in the front wall of a cash register.
IBM TECHNICAL DISCLOSURE BULLETIN, Vol. 28, No. 6, Nov. 1985, pages 2361-2363, discloses how a pivotable keypad can be releasably held on a computer casing with a bolt which is acted on by spring force.
EP-A-0 085 482 describes various possible ways of alternately or simultaneously making accessible, or inaccessible, to a user two keypads which are accommodated in separate casings. According to a first proposed solution, both keypads are located one on top of the other, so that only the upper one can be used. The latter can be pushed rearward, as a result of which the lower keypad also becomes accessible. According to a second proposal, a lower keypad can be pulled forward from under an upper one, so that both keypads can be used at the same time. According to a third proposal, an upper keypad can be pivoted, with its rear upper edge, on the front upper edge of a lower keypad. In order to make the first keypad accessible, it is pivoted forward in front of the lower keypad.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,790,504 describes a screen support device on which a display device is mounted so as to be capable of being inclined and rotated about a vertical axis.
The object of the invention is to propose a compact cash register which can be ada
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Baitz Gunter
Kamin Hartmut
Le Thien M.
Rodriguez Douglas X.
Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG
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