Karmakaze Designs

• Digital Scales
• Baby Scales
• Bathroom Scales
• Counting Scales
• Floor Scales
• Food Scales
• Hanging Scales
• Kitchen Scales
• Medical Scales
• Postal Scales

If most of us need to weigh something, we head for the bathroom scales. If it’s a pet or something that is hard to get on the scale, then we first weigh ourselves alone and then weigh ourselves while holding the animal or object. By subtracting the first result from the second, we get the weight of the pet or thing that we held. There are, however, a wide range of specialty scales for all different applications.

At the veterinarian’s office, for example, there is a pet scale. It is usually a large floor scale with a digital readout. While we may not be able to get our pets to stand still for more than a moment in the crowded vet’s office, we can usually either entice them or deposit them bodily on the veterinarian scale long enough to get a good reading.

Some of us might have a kitchen scale to weigh out ingredients or portion sizes for our meals, especially if we are on a diet. Kitchen scales may be either digital or analog scales. The digital kitchen scales often allow us to switch between ounces, grams, pounds, or even kilograms with the touch of a button.

The commercial scale used at the grocery store’s deli counter is basically a more advanced version of our home kitchen scales. First, it is designed to be very accurate and reliable so that it can be NTEP certified as legal for trade. Second, many of them have keypads and printers built-in. The deli clerk enters a numeric code for the item being weighed and the scale prints out a bar code label with the weight, the name of the item and the extended cost of the item to make it easier for the cashier.

These are probably the most common specialty scales that we see on a regular basis, but there are many more variations as well. Factories and warehouses use counting scales and pallet scales, for example. A counting scale is used to help rapidly count many small items at once. First the scale is calibrated with just a few of the item and the quantity is entered into the keypad. From this information, the scale can tell how many of the same item are dumped into it. It is useful for counting small components that are used in large quantities on the production line. Things like screws, electrical components, or any other small bulk item can be counted this way.

Pallet scales are for the big stuff. A forklift is used to deposit any large item or a pallet full of items onto the pallet scale to get a weight. Pallet scales are often used in the shipping department to figure out how much total weight is being included in a shipment, either to calculate freight costs or to make sure that over the road tractor trailer trucks are not loaded beyond the legal limit.

From the very small to the very big, specialty scales run from one end of the scale to the other.