Arrangement for and method of cleaning a platter of a product checkout workstation

A checkout bi-optical workstation, comprising:

• a rectangular platter primarily disposed in a single plane and having four corner regions;
• a window integrated and coplanar with the platter and lying in a generally horizontal plane;
• an upright window located in a generally upright plane that intersects the generally horizontal plane;
• a data capture arrangement for capturing through at least one of the windows a target associated with a product to identify the product being checked out at the workstation;
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• a support structure for supporting the platter in the generally horizontal plane on a plurality of bottom supports during product checkout, the bottom supports being asymmetrically mutually arranged about a periphery of the platter to enable the platter to tilt to a tilted plane that is inclined relative to the horizontal plane when a downward force is exerted on a contact region in one of the four corner regions of the platter for cleaning the horizontal window, wherein when the downward force is exerted on the contact region to tilt the platter to the tilted plane, an opposite corner region is raised to an elevation sufficient for the platter to be removed from the checkout bi-optical workstation,
• wherein the platter has one side supported by a first set of the bottom supports and an opposite side supported by a second set of the bottom supports, and wherein at least one bottom support of the first set is collinear with at least one bottom support of the second set and at least another bottom support of the first set is non-collinear with at least another bottom support of the second set, the contact region on which the downward force is exerted to tilt the platter being disposed remotely away from the at least another bottom support of the first set that is non-collinear with the at least another bottom support of the second set corresponding to the opposite side of the platter.

A method of cleaning a window integrated with a generally planar platter of a product checkout workstation, the method comprising:

• providing a platter of a product checkout workstation, wherein the platter is supported in a generally horizontal plane on a plurality of bottom supports during product checkout, the platter being primarily disposed in a single plane;
• asymmetrically mutually arranging the bottom supports about a periphery of the platter so that the platter is configured to tilt to a tilted plane that is inclined relative to the horizontal plane upon receiving a downward force on a contact region of the platter, wherein the contact region is in one of a plurality of corner regions of the platter, such that when the downward force is exerted on the contact region to tilt the platter to the tilted plane, an opposite corner region is raised to an elevation sufficient for the platter to be removed from the checkout workstation;
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• wherein the platter has one side supported by a first set of the bottom supports and an opposite side supported by a second set of the bottom supports, and wherein at least one bottom support of the first set is collinear with at least one bottom support of the second set and at least another bottom support of the first set is non-collinear with at least another bottom support of the second set, the contact region on which the downward force is exerted to tilt the platter being disposed remotely away from the at least another bottom support of the first set that is non-collinear with the at least another bottom support of the second set corresponding to the opposite side of the platter.