Patent ID: 9642477
Date: 2017-05-09
CPC Classifications: A47F,F16M,G06F

Claim:
1. A device for supporting one or more data-processing devices associated with a weighing scale or a point-of-sale terminal, wherein the data-processing devices, each having electrical signal- and power-transmitting lines, include at least one of: a video display screen, a touchscreen panel, a keyboard and a printer, the device comprising: a foot module, adapted for connection to one of: a chassis base of a weighing scale, a table, a floor or a ceiling; at least one adapter module, each adapter module adapted to connect one of the data processing devices to the device; a primary pole module and, optionally, one or more extension pole modules, the primary pole module having, in an assembled condition, a first axial end thereof connected to the foot module and a second axial end thereof connected to one of the at least one adapter modules or at least one of the extension pole modules, wherein each of the pole modules, whether a primary pole module or an extension pole module, is configured in the shape of hollow circular cylinder with an outside cylinder radius and an inside cylinder radius; mechanical connector elements and fasteners that secure the respective foot module, adapter modules and pole modules to each other in the assembled condition to provide a support column having a continuous central axis that defines an axial direction, wherein the mechanical connector elements, the fasteners and the electrical signal- and power-transmitting lines are enclosed completely inside the support column, wherein each mechanical connector element is configured as a circular disk having a disk thickness, an outside contour sized to fit precisely into the hollow circular cylinder, and a cutout passage for the signal- and power-transmitting lines; and wherein the primary pole module further comprises two first internal projections containing axially directed threaded holes located diametrically opposite each other at the first axial end thereof and two second internal projections located diametrically opposite each other, set back by one-half of the disk thickness from the second axial end thereof, the second internal projections containing axially directed threaded holes located at a radial distance from the central axis.