Abstract:
A product conveying assembly for installation, for example, in a market check out stand receives products selected for purchase and brought by a customer in a buggy or cart and orderly end delivers them to a checker in the immediate location of a product code scanner, a key-in cost entry register, a scale, and/or bagging location. The customer places the products being purchased on a circular rotation product receiving and delivering belt, which has its central portions rotatably supported for rotation about a vertical support, rotatably mountable on a market check out stand. Over half but not all of this circular rotation product receiving and delivering belt is slidably guided on a support mountable on a check out stand. Further, this belt, beyond the slidable guiding support, is folded under as multi-directional rotational guides, such as omni wheels, are mounted on a shaft in turn mountable on a check out stand, to guide at least one side of this folding circular rotation product receiving and delivering belt, beyond the end delivery of a customer's products to a checker. Movement of this belt around the vertical support and over the omni wheels, occurs as a driving wheel assembly, mountable on the check out stand, rotatably bears against and rotates tangentially against the respective top and bottom peripheral surfaces of the folded under portion of the circular rotation product receiving and delivering belt.
Abstract:
In grocery stores, other markets, and warehouses a customer's loaded shopping cart is directed by the customer into an inter-related sloping position with a conveyor. Upon demand, the checker runs the conveyor to move portions of the load to the just opened front of the shopping cart. The checker then easily reaches the respective items being purchased, moving them across a scanner and into bags, or beyond for bagging.