Patent ID: 6065728
Filing Date: 2000-05-23
Classification: G06K

Abstract:
The combination of a bar code price scanner having a removably mounted rear mounting plate and a holder and mounting assembly mountable to a vertical support surface; said holder and mounting assembly comprising,a) a vertically extending wall provided with two pair of holes arranged to matingly align with two pair of holes provided in said scanner rear mounting plate;b) a horizontally extending wall connected to the lower portion of said vertically extending wall and provided with at least one opening configured to accept a conventional power supply cord connected to said bar code price scanner;c) a forwarding extending lip portion provided on said horizontally extending wall and inclined upwardly at an acute angle thereto, said lip portion and provided with a generally centrally located opening configured to provide visual access to a reading head of a bar code scanner operatively supported in said assembly;d) a pair of spaced side walls, a respective one of said side walls connected to and extending along an outer edge of said vertically extending wall, said horizontally extending wall, and said forwardly extending lip portion in generally surrounding relationship to at least a portion of a bar code scanner operatively mounted in said assembly; ande) a plurality of fasteners, a respective one extending through a respective one of said matingly aligned holes in said vertically extending wall and in said scanner rear mounting plate to fix said plates in superposed relationship to one another and to a vertical support surface.