Registers – Cash registers
Reexamination Certificate
1999-06-24
2001-06-26
Lee, Michael G. (Department: 2876)
Registers
Cash registers
C235S432000, C283S060100
Reexamination Certificate
active
06250547
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to a cash register, and more particularly to one having a printing mechanism constituted to print added-value information onto a receipt upon issuance thereof.
Cash registers or POS terminals (to be collectively referred to as “cash register” hereinafter) have been used in retail shops, and include a receipt printing device for printing information, such as sales itemization information about goods and/or services, onto a receipt to be issued to a customer.
Such a receipt is typically printed with receipt information such as a name or logo representing the receipt issuing shop, an issuing date, items of purchased goods and/or services, unit price thereof, and amounts of received money and change.
A receipt may serve as an advertising medium. Thus, in addition to a simple name of shop, logo, or a regular message and the like, receipt printers have printed added-value information, such as an informative advertisement of special sale article and date thereof, a service-point to be given in proportion to the amount of purchase, a coupon, and/or a lottery ticket pattern on a receipt.
The aforementioned added-value information has conventionally included a shop name and/or logo to be printed before the receipt itemization area, and other information to be printed thereafter. However, when the added-value information to be printed together with the receipt information is a service-point to be given in proportion to the amount of purchase, a coupon, and/or a lottery ticket pattern, it has become troublesome to deal with the receipt since the receipt serves both receipt and added-value functions.
Namely, an inherent function of a receipt is to be kept by adhering it onto a household account book, or to be preserved for at least a predetermined period of time in compliance with a requirement of accounting or taxation. As such, when a receipt is printed with the aforementioned lottery ticket pattern or coupon which may be later submitted to the issuing shop, it has been troublesome to preserve the receipt and/or it has been required to cut the received one-piece receipt into a receipt information printed portion and an added-value information printed portion, such as by means of scissors.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present invention provides a cash register comprising: sheet feeding means for unrolling a roll sheet housed in a housing part to thereby feed a sheet; printing means for printing receipt information to be issued to a customer onto a first area of the sheet and added-value information onto a second area of the sheet; perforator means for rendering, as the sheet is fed, the first printed area and the second printed area into a readily separable state, and cutting means for cutting out the printed sheet from the roll sheet, so as to issue the cut sheet as a receipt provided with said added-value information.
Further, the perforator means comprises a circular blade having a saw-teeth shape and being coaxially mounted on a roll sheet feeding shaft arranged on the way of the traveling path of the sheet. As the sheet travels, the circular blade creates a perforation-shaped cutting along a boundary line between the printed areas of the sheet.
In this way, the present invention has solved the aforementioned problems by providing an issued single receipt which possesses both receipt function and added-value information function, by printing the receipt information onto a first area and the added-value information onto a second area of the surface of the sheet such that the receipt information printing area and the added-value information printing area are isolated or distinguished in the lateral direction, and by rendering the receipt information printed area and the added-value information printed area to be in a readily separable state.
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Cyr Daniel St.
Lee Michael G.
NCR Corporation
Stukenborg Charlene
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