Mounting arrangement for scanner
AssigneeScantech B.V.
InventorsJacqueline Mariette Jager, Damian Raymond Muldoon
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Abstract
The present invention provides a mounting arrangement for a device for scanning and reading coded information on one or more articles. The arrangement comprises a housing in which the scanning equipment is arranged and which is provided on one side with a window for passage of scanning beams. The housing includes a bottom cover for engagement with a base surface or with a foot part via a coupler for pivoting the housing towards and away from the user of the device.
Claims13
A portable device for scanning and reading coded information on one or more articles, comprising:
- a housing having scanning equipment contained therein and which is provided on one side with a window for passage of scanning beams, said housing including a bottom cover plate;
- coupling means, disposed between said bottom cover plate and an external base surface upon which said portable device is placed in a non-fixed manner, for pivoting the housing substantially 90.degree. in either direction from a plane perpendicular to said base surface to fix said housing at a plurality of predetermined scanning positions;
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- a foot part arranged to rest on said base surface without attachment to said base surface during scanning operations, said foot part comprising
- (1) a plate which protrudes in one direction to a limit point beneath a farthest position to which the housing can be tilted and,
- (2) means for selectively fixing said foot part in a first position and, alternatively, in a second position rotated through 180.degree. relative to the first position, where in said first position said foot part points in a direction in which the housing is pivoted for use.
A portable mount for a bar code scanner having a housing located in a substantially perpendicular position relative to a horizontally extending foot part, the housing having scanning equipment contained therein, the scanning equipment generating a scan pattern projected through a window in the housing, said portable mount comprising:
- a coupler attaching the housing to the horizontally extending foot part, said coupler allowing the housing to be pivoted substantially 90.degree. in either direction of a plane perpendicular to the horizontally extending foot part to fix said housing at a plurality of predetermined scanning positions;
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- said foot part arranged to rest on an external base surface upon which said portable mount unit is placed without attachment during scanning operations, said foot part comprising
- (1) a plate which protrudes in one direction to a limit point beneath a farthest position to which the housing can be tilted, and
- (2) means for selectively fixing said foot part in a first position, and alternatively, in a second position rotated through 180.degree. relative to the first position, where in said first position said foot part points in a direction in which the housing is pivoted for use.
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