Glossary entry (derived from question below)
German term or phrase:
Packzellenweiche
English translation:
bagging area divider
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Mar 23, 2015 21:04
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German term
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Packzellenweiche
German to English
Tech/Engineering
Retail
checkout / tills
This is from a text describing a food retailers checkout / till.
Packzellenweiche: I know what the term describes just not the English term. It is the dividing 'lever', long piece of metal on a pivot point that allows checkout assistants to push your shopping into one area, so you can pack while the next customer's shopping is being scanned. It effectually creates two packing areas for two separate customers to be served simultaneously.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Kind regards,
Sandra
Packzellenweiche: I know what the term describes just not the English term. It is the dividing 'lever', long piece of metal on a pivot point that allows checkout assistants to push your shopping into one area, so you can pack while the next customer's shopping is being scanned. It effectually creates two packing areas for two separate customers to be served simultaneously.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Kind regards,
Sandra
Proposed translations
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| 2 +2 | bagging area divider |
Armorel Young
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| 3 +1 | (bagging area) partition bar |
Johanna Timm, PhD
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| 3 | checkout lane diverter |
Kevin Fulton
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Change log
Mar 24, 2015 08:50: Steffen Walter changed "Field" from "Other" to "Tech/Engineering"
Proposed translations
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28 mins
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bagging area divider
is the term used here
http://talk.uk-yankee.com/index.php?topic=278.30
There are a few uses of "item accumulation divider"
e.g. http://www.google.com/patents/US7516818
The problem seems to be that these things have all but disappeared from the UK, so there is no commonly used name for them - the term "checkout divider" is used for the little bars that separate one customer's shopping from the next before it is scanned so needs to be distinguished from the Packzellenweiche.
http://talk.uk-yankee.com/index.php?topic=278.30
There are a few uses of "item accumulation divider"
e.g. http://www.google.com/patents/US7516818
The problem seems to be that these things have all but disappeared from the UK, so there is no commonly used name for them - the term "checkout divider" is used for the little bars that separate one customer's shopping from the next before it is scanned so needs to be distinguished from the Packzellenweiche.
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Thank you very much to all who replied. Thank you Armorel for the link to bagging area divider, which is what I went with in the end. It was part of a very general text, so this fit well. I had previously thought of using packing cell divider, had it bee"
28 mins
checkout lane diverter
A generic term. There may be a term of art, however.
+1
50 mins
Johanna Timm, PhD
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(bagging area) partition bar
I found the term "partition bar" that seems to fit the description and purpose of your device :
“A different accessory equipment can be applied according to customer’s needs. The bagging area feature rollers to simplify a downward movement of the goods as well as a partition bar to be able a shopping of two customers to be managed, at the same time. Bars reporting “next customer” in writing identify the shopping end. “
http://www.eleaspa.it/evolution/files/attachments/elea-evolu...
Peer comment(s):
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Donald Jacobson
2 mins
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| neutral |
Helen Shiner
: This is a translation, unfortunately, as evidenced by the text you have highlighted. Clearly an Italian translator trying to wrestle with the same issue.
1 hr
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You are right - the wording of the reference is a bit odd!
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