Patent ID: 8746564

Claim:
A scanning system for reading optical codes on items being passed via a transport mechanism through a read volume of the system, comprising a front arch section and a rear arch section, each arch section having (a) first and second lateral leg sections, and (b) a top arch section connected to a top portion of each of the first and second lateral leg sections and spanning therebetween over a width of the transport mechanism, wherein the front arch section and the second arch section are arranged with lower portions of the front arch lateral leg sections adjacent to lower portions of the rear arch lateral leg sections, wherein the first and second lateral leg sections of the front arch section are slanted forwardly and the first and second lateral leg sections of the rear arch section are slanted rearwardly; a plurality of readers disposed in the top arch sections and the lateral leg sections for reading an optical code on any of five sides of a six-sided box-shaped item being passed through a read region formed by the arch sections.