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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 17, 1999
Filed:
Nov. 26, 1997
George B Rockstein, Audubon, NJ (US);
David M Wilz, Sr, Sewell, NJ (US);
David P Bubnoski, Glassboro, NJ (US);
Carl H Knowles, Moorestown, NJ (US);
Metrologic Instruments, Inc., Blackwood, NJ (US);
Abstract
Bar code symbol reading system with automatic modes of hand-held (i.e., hands-on) and stand-supported (i.e., hands-free) operation. In the hand-held mode of automatic operation, the user initiates laser scanning by simply bringing the object within at least a portion of the scan field of the automatic bar code symbol reading device. In the stand-supported mode of automatic operation, a scanner support stand is used to support the automatic bar code symbol reading device relative to a countertop surface so that the scan field is projected away from the scanner support stand and the hand-supportable housing, and extends above the countertop surface permitting the automatic reading bar code symbols on goods passed thereby. This way, during the scanner-supported mode of automatic operation, a bar code symbol on an object of virtually any size can be automatically read when the object is automatically detected in the outwardly projected scan field while the hand-supportable bar code symbol reading device is supported within the scanner support stand.