Optical scanning apparatus for reading coded symbols.

摘要

A portable coded symbol scanning apparatus includes a housing member (18) having a pair of sloping supporting surfaces (32,38) orientated at an angle to each other and a floor portion (52) on which is mounted a reflecting mirror (44). One of the sloping supporting surfaces (32) includes a transparent plate (34). A hand-held scanner (30) is mounted adjacent the other sloping supporting surface (38) for projecting a plurality of scanning light beams in the form of a scanning pattern at the reflecting mirror (44) which reflects the scan pattern onto the transparent plate (34) over which a coded label is passed enabling the scanning light beams to scan the coded label. A number of embodiments are disclosed for mounting the hand-held scanner (30) adjacent the other sloping supporting surfaces (38) and include an embodiment of the housing member (80) rotatably mounted for movement to a number of rotated positions. <IMAGE>