Michael D Spradlin

US Patent:

60657286, May 23, 2000

Filed:

Mar 22, 1999

Appl. No.:

9/273740

Inventors:

Michael D. Spradlin - Springfield OH

Assignee:

Spradling Welding Co. - Springfield OH

International Classification:

A47F 500

US Classification:

2483091

Abstract:

A holder mounting assembly for a bar code price scanner of the type having a removably mounted rear mounting plate. The holder and mounting assembly includes a vertical rear wall, a horizontal bottom wall provided with a forwardly extending lip portion disposed at an upwardly directed acute angle. Side walls are included which extend along the rear and horizontal walls and the lip portion. The lip portion includes an opening aligned to provide visual access to the reading head of a bar code scanner mounted to the holder assembly. The vertical rear wall includes a plurality of holes disposed to be aligned with holes provided in the scanner mounting plate such that the scanner mounting plate, removed from the scanner, can be fixed to the vertical rear wall of the holder assembly and to a vertical support surface in a convenient location in a retail store area. The bar code scanner may then be conveniently re-mounted to the scanner mounting plate in a conventional manner within the protective confines of the holder. The vertical rear wall is adapted to be mounted to either a square or I-beam type support column of the type typically used in retail store areas.