Patent ID: 8321340

Claim:
A self-service retail item checkout station comprising: a peripheral device for interacting with a customer while the customer is conducting a self-service retail item checkout transaction at the station; a non-swiveling mounting mechanism including (i) a slidable mounting portion on which the peripheral device is mounted, and (ii) a fixed mounting portion on which the slidable mounting portion is supported for sliding movement between a retracted position in which a customer in a standing position at the station can interact with the peripheral device and an extended position in which a customer in a seated position at the station can interact with the peripheral device wherein the fixed mounting portion has (i) at least one elongate opening in which a fastener connected to one portion of the slidable mounting portion slides, and (ii) at least one arcuate opening in which a fastener connected to another portion of the slidable mounting portion slides so that both the spatial position and the viewing angle of the peripheral device changes at the same time when the peripheral device is moved between the retracted and extended positions and where a portion of each end of the at least one arcuate opening extends at an angle away from the direction of the adjacent arcuate opening and away from the slidable mounting portion where the length of each end portion is sufficient to receive the fastener and where the fastener is located in one of the end portions when the peripheral device is in the retracted position; and a magnet secured to one of the fasteners such that (i) the slidable mounting portion is magnetically attached to the fixed mounting portion when the peripheral device is in the retracted position, (ii) the magnet provides tactile feedback by moving the sliding fastener of the arcuate opening into one of the end portions when the slidable mounting portion moves to the retracted position, and (iii) the slidable mounting portion moves away from the fixed mounting portion when the slidable mounting portion is lifted to move the sliding fastener of the arcuate opening out of the end portion and pulled to move the slidable mounting portion from the retracted position to the extended position.