DE8903041U1 - Display actuator - Google Patents

Description

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The invention relates to a display stand made of a number of interconnected wall elements.

Such display stands, which can be arranged in star-shaped, zigzag-shaped, arched, etc. arrangements in sales rooms or at exhibitions and trade fairs to present products, images and advertising messages, are known in various designs. 0 are usually relatively complex in construction, have a high weight and are relatively bulky during storage and transport.

The invention is based on the object of creating a display actuator of the type mentioned at the beginning, which consists of a small number of identical components, is lightweight, is easy to assemble and disassemble, and can be stored and transported in a space-saving manner. Furthermore, the display actuator should be inexpensive to manufacture.

This object is achieved according to the invention in a display actuator of the

The above-mentioned type is achieved in that the wall elements have a surrounding tubular frame, that the tubes of the tubular frame are provided with slots facing the inner surface of the frame, and that panels are inserted into the tubular frames which have projections on their edges in the positions corresponding to the slots.

For assembly, it is only necessary to insert the projections of a plate into the slots of the tubes forming the tubular frame and then put the tubes together to form the frame. The diameters of the tube sections and corner pieces are selected so that the frame can be 0 holds together sufficiently firmly. For longer use, gluing is possible. The tubular frame can be rectangular, for example, and comprise curved corner pieces, each of which is fitted together around the plate with two long-side tubes and two cross-side tubes. A commercially available tube material, for example made of plastic, can be used. The same applies to the arched corner pieces. Support feet or connecting fittings are not necessary.

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The tubular frames can be connected in a star shape, zigzag shape or otherwise using suitable clamps, connectors or the like.

Shelves and consoles, frames for posters, brochure holders, etc. can be attached to the wall elements.

In the following, preferred embodiments of the invention are explained in more detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.
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Fig. 1 is a perspective view of an embodiment

a display actuator according to the invention;

Fig. 2 to 4 show embodiments of the process for producing a

S Wall elements required parts;

Fig. 5 is a partial view illustrating the connection

joining the tubular frame with a plate;

0 Fin. 6 shows a connecting piece for tubular frames;

Fig. 7 and 8 illustrate a connector for connecting up to four tubular frames.

Figure 1 illustrates a display stand according to the invention with four wall elements 10, 12, 14, 16 arranged in a star or cross shape. The wall elements are connected by connecting pieces 18, which will be discussed in more detail later. They consist in detail of an overall rectangular tubular frame 20 and a plate that takes up the framed area.

22. The tubular frames 20 are in turn made up of quarter-circle-shaped corner pieces 24, which are identical to one another, long straight pipe sections 26 and short, straight pipe sections 28, which are also identical to one another. All pipe parts can be made from commercially available plastic pipes. The external diameters of the straight sections 26, 28 and the internal diameters of the corner pieces 24 are dimensioned in relation to one another in such a way that a sufficiently firm fit can be achieved by putting them together.

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can be reached and further connecting devices are not required. The display stand can be used as a room-designing and room-dividing element and, moreover, above all as a support for different exhibition objects. Figure 1 shows, for example, a frame 30 for posters or pictures fastened to one of the plates 22, a triangular table top 32 attached to two adjacent plates 22 and a storage shelf 34 fastened to a plate 22 in an elevated position.

Figures 2 to 5 show details of the structural design of the wall elements. Figure 2 is a view of a corner piece 24 in the form of a 90° pipe bend. Figure 3 shows a pipe section 26 with a slot 3G running along a surface line. Figure 4 illustrates the outline of a plate 22. The plate shown has projections 38, 40, 42 on its left, longer side ⁰ and the short upper and lower sides, which have the shape of elongated rectangles and extend essentially over the entire length, except for the two end regions of the associated side. In the end regions are the corner pieces 24 of the tubular frame, which are not provided with slots 36 for reasons of strength. The projections 38, 40, 42 therefore only engage in the slots 36 of the pipe sections 26 and 28.

0 On the right, longer side of the plate 22, as a further example, there are three küFZ6, FeChiöCkiytj VöfSpfÜnye 44,46,48 VofyeSehen, uie in corresponding,

not shown, shorter slots of the tube sections 26. This solution has the advantage that the tube sections retain a higher torsional rigidity despite the slots.
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From Figure 5 it can be seen how the plate 22 with the projections 38,40 and the pipe sections 26,28 as well as the corner pieces 24 are assembled.

Figure 6 illustrates a connecting piece 18 in the form of a two-part double clamp, the parts of which are held together by a screw 50 and a nut 52. The two clamp parts designated 54, 56 have two adjacent, corresponding, semicircular recesses 58, 60, which essentially complement each other to form circles. Each of these circles serves to accommodate a vertical pipe section 26 of two wall elements to be connected.

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Another connecting device is shown in Figures 7 and 8. This connecting piece, designated overall by 62, is used to connect up to four wall elements according to Figure 1. In the example shown, it consists of three plates 66, 68, 70 lying one above the other, connected to one another by a vertical shaft 64, which are arranged one above the other in a congruent shape and position. A solid body with a corresponding contour can therefore also be used. The plates 66, 68, 70 have a square

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72. The radius of these semicircular recesses 72 0 corresponds to the outer radius of the pipe sections 2( ,28. According to Figure 8, four vertical pipe sections 26 are inserted into the recesses 72 in a cross-shaped arrangement. To fix the pipe sections, a holding plate 74 is shown as an example, which is placed diagonally to the wall elements against the connecting piece 62 from the angle formed by two adjacent wall elements and is fastened by means of a screw 76 which enters a thread 78 of the connecting piece.

Claims (5)

TER MEER - MÜLLER - STEINMFslSTER;& ^ART^F» ·,' ·* .' Dekora - 1 PROTECTION CLAIMS 1. Display stand, consisting of a number of wall elements connected to one another, characterized in that the wall elements (10, 12, 14, 16) have a circumferential tubular frame (24, 26, 28), that the tubes (26, 28) of the tubular frame are provided with slots (36) facing the inner surface of the frame, and that plates (22) are inserted into the tubular frames and attached to them in an annular manner . WV«^« \&Lgr;11 ■ -Jt ₁ VtIU «*t I IMtWtI I 4 tat tVfWI Il lit UOt t UUII VM III IA-Ut I ^VV/ Ql t IO ^SI O Ol &Igr;&Ogr;&Igr; IUOI t I UOI tions have projections (38,40,42,44,46,48).
10 2. Display stand according to claim 1, characterized in that the tubular frame is rectangular overall and has curved corner pieces (24). 3. Display stand according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the tubular frames are connected by connecting pieces (18,62). 4. Display stand according to one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that the tubular frame is detachably assembled from the corner pieces (24) and straight tubular sections (26, 28). 5. Display stand according to one of claims 1 to 4, characterized in that several slots (36) and projections (44, 46, 48) which are short in relation to the side length of the tubular frame are provided distributed over the length of the sides of the tubular frame.