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.
Claims4
A shopping bin in operable combination with a supermarket check stand table and its conveyor belt, said bin having a bottom which is slidable to a position substantially to the rear of said bin and said bottom having said check stand table holding means which thereby holds said slidable bottom in position as said conveyor belt moves said bin forward thus causing contents of said bin to be deposited upon said conveyor belt.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.