Weighing scales – With recorder – With recording of a factor additional to weight
Reexamination Certificate
2011-01-25
2011-01-25
Gibson, Randy W (Department: 2841)
Weighing scales
With recorder
With recording of a factor additional to weight
C177S025130, C426S231000, C426S232000, C702S173000, C705S015000, C708S105000, C708S111000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07875813
ABSTRACT:
Food service workers prepare a number of items throughout the day at a food counter, so the workers may need to track process steps for entirely different processes that are running concurrently. For example, the worker may need to remove a pizza from an oven one moment, and remove breadstick dough from a refrigerator one minute later. A programmable weighing scale guides users through process steps of a process, and tracks completion time of process steps for multiple processes, and alerts a food service worker when a next step in one of multiple, concurrently running processes needs to be completed. Because data stored for each process can be selected throughout, for example, an entire working day, the controller of the weighing scale can track timing requirements for each step of each process. The weighing apparatus is independent of other apparatuses used in completing the process steps (e.g., refrigerators, ovens, mixers, etc.), so it can track process steps that involve various apparatuses that may be needed to complete the processes. An alert for one process step associated with one process can be presented within the duration of an entirely different process step for an entirely different process.
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Hackathorne Daniel J.
King J. Thomas
Russo Kevin A.
Gibson Randy W
Mettler-Toledo, Inc.
Standley Law Group LLP
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