A point-of-sale terminal system including one or more keyboard terminals and associated cash drawers in communication with a control chassis having a micro-computer, a printer and power supply. Each keyboard terminal has manually operable keys for designating the various items for sale and associated display devices which, under the guidance of the computer, display the number of each item ordered. Function keys are provided for instructing the computer to total the sales price of each order wit...

A lightweight portable electric hand steamer with a special sole plate having a prow that is uniquely shaped to spread the concealed short edges at the rear of a seam joining two plies of fabric which are to be pressed into planarity. The prow includes a leading beak for initiating separation of the short rear edges. Behind the prow the sole plate is provided with a flat pressing surface. Steam issues through the pressing surface to impinge upon the fabric plies being pressed as well as upon the...

Sole structure able to associated to an upper of a shoe, having first ducts in the area of the plantar arch and of the tip and one or more lateral openings in the heel area. In the heel area is obtained a seat for a counter-shaped insert provided with at least an elastically compressible central area, inferiorly communicating with second ducts communicating in turn with third ducts obtained superiorly to the insert and communicating with the first ducts and with the openings, and through the int...

A container which may be utilized for the display and housing of articles at the point of sale which includes a box having a flat surface supported above the bottom thereof to provide a plenum. The flat surface defines a plurality of slits, each of which is adapted to receive a tongue extending from an elongate pocket which is adapted to receive and hold the article which is to be displayed and sold.

A print head (15) on a carriage (16) slides on a carriage guide bar (17) in front of a platen bar (18). A receipt slip (25) is fed from a roll (26) over part of the width of the platen bar (18) to a knife (40) for cutting off individual receipts. A daybook slip (45) is fed from a roll (46) over the bar (18) to a take-up roll (50). Other documents may be fed in for printing either downwardly between upper guides (37 and 38) or upwardly between lower guides (35 and 55). In either event the inserte...

A secured point-of-sale mechanism is disclosed in which there is a closable two compartment housing having an unsecured door portion covering a monetary negotiable instrument section disposed within a secured portion for which a transaction price index is set to the correct sales amount purchased by a customer, wherein a plurality of switching mechanisms are actuated by the negotiable instruments in the negotiable instruments section for which a locking mechanism connected to said plurality of s...

A secured point-of-sale mechanism is provided by a closable two compartment housing having (1) a secured portion which includes a printer and a plurality of signal devices for verifying that the mechanism is in a "locked" state and (2) an unsecured portion which cooperates with said secured portion in such a manner that transactions involving credit cards, negotiable instruments and the like are protected against unauthorized intervention. In certain preferred embodiments of this invention, the ...

The invention is a stall mounted on wheels for an itinerant merchant. It has a hollow spherical body made up of an upper and a lower shell, the upper one acting as a roof and the lower one as a store and sales counter. The upper shell is movable between two positions, a closed position wherein it is sealed against the lower shell along merging edges and a service position wherein it stands away and above the lower shell to act as a roof.

A data processing system comprising a keyboard having a plurality of keys arranged in an array of rows and columns, and programming means likewise arranged in an array of rows and columns such that each intersection of a row and a column corresponds to a single key at a row-column intersection of the keyboard. Means are included for electrically scanning one of the keyboard rows and columns to sequentially detect activated keys, and means are included for latching the scanning means until an out...

A lottery ticket is generated from a customer receipt by listing on the receipt the UPC codes of the items purchased by the customer. The UPC codes can be used as lottery numbers. To enhance security, it is optional to subject the UPC numerical codes on each receipt to a predetermined numerical algorithm to generate a lottery number. The lottery numbers generated are stored to memory of the inventory computer, and, once a week, or some other period, the computer randomly selects one or more of t...