Apparatus for supporting point-of-sale terminals

Claim 1

A stand for a point-of-sale terminal, comprising: a base means for mounting to a counter in a retail establishment; a rotatable member which is rotatably mounted relative to the base means for movement between at least a first and second position; a stub shaft fixed to the base means for rotatable connection to the rotatable member, the stub shaft and the rotatable member both being circular in cross-section, with one being adapted to be received by the other, and the stub shaft and the rotatable member both being tubular for providing a path through their interiors for wires leading to and from the point-of-sale terminal; holder means connected to the rotatable member for holding a point-of-sale terminal in a substantially non-horizontal orientation when the rotatable member is in the first and second positions, the holder means being an open box-like structure for receiving the point-of-sale terminal such that its keypad faces upwardly and outwardly, the upper and lower walls of the box-like structure being formed to terminate short of one of the sidewalls of the box-like structure by a distance sufficient to allow free use of a magnetic card-receiving slot in the point-of-sale terminal.