Check stand conveyor belt bottom extracted shopping bin
OwnerDonald James McLeesinventor
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Abstract
A shopping bin which mounts crosswise on a shopping cart and is slidable onto the conveyor belt of a supermarket check stand. The bin mechanism holds the bottom of the bin in place and causes a door at the front of the bin to open as the conveyor belt moves the rest of the bin forward until the bottom of the bin has been mostly extracted, thus allowing the check stand conveyor to completely vacate the contents of the bin and send them to the checker and the item scanner.
Claims3
A shopping bin comprising a front portion, a rear back portion, two sides and a slidable bottom in operable combination with a supermarket check stand table, its conveyor belt, item scanner and checker, said bin bottom being slidable to the rear of said bin to a position in which more than ninety percent of the surface area of said bottom resides to the rear of said bin and said bin bottom having a downward protruding tab at the rear of said bin bottom which engages the leading edge of said check stand table thus holding said slidable bin bottom in place while said check stand conveyor belt moves said bin toward said check stand scanner and checker causing the contents of said bin to be deposited upon said conveyor belt.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.