Plastic bag dispensing apparatus for supermarkets incorporating devices for the registering of the purchased items
AssigneeA.W.A.X. Progettazione E Ricerca S.r.l.
InventorsAngelo Cappi, Renato Rimondi
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Abstract
Apparatus for dispensing and opening plastic bags from a continuous strip wound in a reel apt to detach from it a bag (4) at a time, open it and keep it open below a mouth (8) through which a customer may insert into the underposed bag (4) the items he purchased, the apparatus comprises also a scanner (5) connected through a computer (7) to a shutter (11, 11') located on the mouth (8) so that the computer (7) controls the opening of the shutters (11, 11') and the inhibition of the scanner (5) when it has registered an item, and controls the reactivation of the scanner (5) and the closing of the shutters (11, 11') when the registered item has entered the bag (4) through the mouth (8).
Claims12
An apparatus for dispensing and opening plastic bags from a continuous strip wound in a reel apt to detach from it a bag (4) at a time, open it and keep it open below a mouth (8) through which a customer may insert in the underposed bag (4) the items he purchased, characterized in that it comprises also a scanner (5) connected through a computer (7) to a shutter (11, 11') located on the mouth (8) so that the computer (7) controls the opening of the shutters (11, 11') and the inhibition of the scanner (5) when it has registered an item, and controls the reactivation of the scanner (5) and the closing of the shutters (11, 11') when the registered item has entered the bag (4) through the mouth (8).
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