Patent ID: 9747485
Date: 2017-08-29
CPC Classifications: B65D,G06K,G07G

Claim:
1. A checkout workstation, comprising: a platter primarily disposed in a single plane and having a contact region; a window integrated and coplanar with the platter; a data capture arrangement for capturing through the window a target associated with a product to identify the product being checked out at the workstation; and a support structure for supporting the platter in a 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 the contact region of the platter for cleaning the horizontal window, wherein the contact region is in one of a plurality of corner regions, 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, 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.