DE9409448U1 - Sales display - Google Patents

Description

Schwerdtle & Schantz GmbH 07 June 1994

12359 Berlin

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Sales display

Description

The invention relates to a sales display of the type specified in the preamble of claim 1.

Such a sales display is known from the publication DE 89 07 717 U.

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The design of such a sales display must ensure that it has small dimensions when folded up, i.e. in a transport configuration, and at the same time produces a large-volume and representative-looking setup configuration that offers space and sufficient stability for a large quantity of goods.

The latter requirement is only partially met by the above-mentioned sales display due to its central support and the trays projecting from it; its dimensions and load-bearing capacity are limited.

There are also sales displays that are modularly constructed in tiers and in which the trays rest on support tubes held in closed side walls.

These displays have the disadvantage that the goods presented cannot be seen from all sides, but only from limited viewing angles. They are also sensitive to side impacts, which can lead to the levels shifting against each other or even to the upper trays falling down.

The invention is therefore based on the object of specifying a sales display of the generic type with increased load-bearing capacity and stability, which enables an all-round perception of the presented goods.

This object is achieved by a sales display having the features of claim 1.

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The invention includes the knowledge that by dispensing with a central support column and at the same time improving the accessibility of the goods and also omitting walls that block the view of the goods, an improved load-bearing capacity and rigidity of the stand can be achieved if support elements are provided at the same time that act outside the middle area of the trays as spacers between the trays that maintain the angular rigidity and serve as supports for crossbars that also transfer the support forces of the trays to the spacers. The spacers are preferably hollow and are crossed by slim stabilizing rods that run through several levels and thus also stabilize the horizontal alignment of the trays among each other. Since the crossbars are also connected to the support elements in an angularly rigid manner, their stabilizing effects with regard to angle changes as a result of lateral impact forces in particular are added together, so that the entire arrangement has a high level of structural strength.

Since there should be no closed peripheral surfaces at the same time, a structure made of several vertical support columns and the crossbeams connecting these and supporting the trays is provided, which can be made entirely of cardboard due to the structural design of these elements. A high level of rigidity, in particular a high level of stability against non-vertical forces, is achieved by ensuring that the individual levels cannot be displaced relative to one another by at least

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at least one stabilisation profile that extends over more than one level (preferably vertically), is laterally supported at each product tray level and is held at an accurate angle.
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In an advantageous embodiment, two integral support frames are formed in such a way that two supports are provided which, when viewed from the side, essentially have the shape of a rectangular ring, on whose vertical side edges a vertically extending hollow support profile, in particular with a square or equilateral triangular cross-section, is formed. This design of the supports connects two support columns or profiles to each other relatively rigidly, is easy to manufacture and handle and still ensures the desired transparency of the sales display from all viewing directions. The support frames are kept aligned over several levels by the slim stabilizing rods which run through the hollow support profiles arranged one above the other.

The cross members are expediently designed essentially as hollow profiles and preferably have a triangular, in particular scalene triangular, cross-section, with the tip of the triangle pointing downwards when assembled and one side of the triangle running horizontally and in contact with the underside of a product tray. This ensures on the one hand simple manufacture and on the other hand high load-bearing capacity and stability when made from cardboard. This is further increased if a support wall is formed inside the triangle which runs essentially vertically when assembled.

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In the preferred design of the supports described above, two cross members are expediently provided in each product tray level, with the hollow profile of each cross member being supported with a region of its peripheral surface in a recess in the hollow support profile of the support corresponding to the shape of the peripheral surface. If the cross members have a triangular cross section, the recess in the hollow support profile is designed such that at least one side of the triangular cross section of the cross member - but preferably both sides pointing downwards - touches an edge of the support profile delimiting the recess essentially over its length.

A very rigid design of the sales display is characterized by the fact that the stabilizing element is a profile, in particular a tube, which passes through several product tray levels in a spatial relationship to the supports and essentially vertically, and which engages in recesses in the product trays that are arranged essentially one above the other and correspond to the cross-sectional shape of the profile, in particular circular. This results in mutual support of the stabilizing element and the respective tray in each level, so that a stable spatial supporting structure is created.

Its stability is further increased if four stabilizing elements are provided, each of which is arranged inside a hollow support profile, and the cross members also have recesses corresponding to the cross-sectional shape of the profile, into which the profile engages. This additionally provides locking

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of the stabilizing elements with the cross beams. In addition, the beams are stabilized internally so that they do not collapse even under heavy loads.

In modified versions, it is also possible to form the stabilizing element(s) integrally with one or more of the supports, for example in such a way that the supports themselves extend over several product tray levels. It is also possible to form the cross members integrally with the product trays, preferably by gluing them to their underside in the initially flat state or fully formed, or even to form both elements from one piece of material.

The stabilizing elements can be formed from several parts placed one after the other in the longitudinal direction, in a manner that deviates from the vertical sequence of the product tray levels, which makes packaging easier in the case of very high displays.

In an expedient manner, the position of the trays on the supports or cross members can be fixed in that the former have recesses - such as slots - and the latter have extensions - corresponding to the slots, such as tabs with a corresponding shape, such that the extensions engage in the recesses when the sales display is assembled.

The product trays can each consist of a multi-layered layer of corrugated cardboard of the same cut, which is covered with a cover layer which, in addition to a

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first outer cover surface of the multilayer layer surrounds its edge regions and is connected, in particular glued, to the second outer cover surface opposite the first cover surface in the edge region thereof.
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Since the transparency of the display is only important in the height range at which goods are to be presented, the lowest product tray can rest on a base with essentially closed lateral peripheral surfaces and with a rectangular cross-section in particular. This can be made from several layers of cardboard, connected to one another in particular to form spatial interlockings.

It is practical for at least one stabilizing element - which can also be made as a cardboard tube - to stand on the floor when the sales display is in use and is held in a guide in the base when a base is used.

Cost-effective and environmentally friendly production and disposal as well as low transport weight are achieved by the fact that the supports and/or the crossbars are each made from a layer of cardboard that can be unfolded into a plane. A very rigid design of triangular prismatic crossbars is possible in that their inner support wall is made from two parts of the cardboard layer that support each other and at the same time carry tabs for fixing the trays, whereby the tabs also reach through the top of the crossbar and fix the support wall in place there without the need for adhesive.

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Other advantageous developments of the invention are characterized in the subclaims or are described in more detail below together with the description of the preferred embodiment of the invention using the figures. They show:

Figure la shows the overall view of a sales display according to an embodiment of the invention in perspective,
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Figure Ib is a simplified sectional view of the sales display according to Fig. la along the line A-A,

Figure Ic is a top view of the sales display according to Fig. la,

Figure 2a is a perspective view of a support of the sales display according to Fig. 1,

Figure 2b is a development of the carrier according to Fig. 2a in the plane

Figure 3a is a perspective view of a crossbar of the sales display according to Fig. 1,
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Figure 3b is a development of the traverse according to Fig. 3a in the plane,

Figure 4a is a development of the lower product tray of the 0 sales display according to Fig. 1 in the plane,

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Figure 4b shows the top view of an insert for the product tray according to Fig. 4a,

Figure 5a is a plan view of one of the other product trays of the sales display according to Fig. 1,

Figure 5b shows the top view of an insert for the product tray according to Fig. 5a,

Figures 6a to 6c are development views of the parts of the base of the sales display according to Fig. l in the plane,

Fig. 7 a two-part stabilizing tube of the sales display according to Fig. 1 in perspective view and

Fig. 8 is a detailed view of the connection area between the support, crossbar and tray in the sales display according to Fig. 1.
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Figure la shows the overall view of a sales display 1 made entirely of cardboard in perspective.

A first rectangular tray 3.1 rests on a cuboid-shaped base 2. On this tray, at a distance that corresponds to approximately half the length of the tray, are two supports (trestles) 4.1 of the same shape, which are connected to one another by two crossbeams 5.1 of the same shape (hidden in the figure). The crossbeams 5.1 are supported in the

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supports 4.1 and carry a second rectangular product tray 3.2, which is slightly smaller than the first tray 3.1. On this, exactly above the supports 4.1 of the first tray, there are two further, identical supports 4.2, which carry two further crossbeams 5.2 and a third tray 3.3 resting on them, which is identical in shape to the second tray 3.2. In the same way, two further supports 4.3 and crossbeams 5.3 carry a fourth tray 3.4, on which a poster holder 6 is attached. Over the height of the sales display 1, from the floor to the level of the fourth tray 3.4, four identical tubes 7 extend vertically within the base 2 or the supports 4.1 to 4.3, each of which passes through circular recesses in the trays 3.1 to 3.4 (not individually designated in the figure for better clarity) and corresponding recesses in the cross members 5.1 to 5.3 (not shown in the figure) and together with them form a stable spatial support structure.

Figure Ib shows one of the sales displays according to Fig. la along the line A-A, in which the cardboard material is shown in a simplified cross-section as a single line. The individual elements and their reference numbers correspond to those in Fig. la. The connection areas between the stabilizing tubes 7 and the cross members 5.1 to 5.3 are also shown in a simplified manner; see Fig. 8 and the associated description.

Figure Ic shows a top view of the sales display according to Fig. la, in which only the first and fourth trays 3.1 and 3.4 including their circular recesses

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3.41 to 3.44 for the pipes 7, the poster support 6 and the pipes 7 are visible parts. Furthermore, the position of the (hidden) supports 4.3 and cross members 5.3 is shown,,

Figure 2a is a perspective view of one of the supports (frames) 4.1 to 4.3 of the sales display according to Fig. 1, and Fig. 2b is a development 4.1' of the support 4.1 in the plane. From the figures it can be seen that the support is made of a punched, folded and folded material layer. The material used is corrugated cardboard with a basis weight of 280 to 300 g/m².

In Fig. 2a it can be seen that the support 4.1 in the ready-to-assemble state has two hollow profiles 4.12 and 4.13 of square cross-section connected by a flat middle part 4.11, the undersides 4.12a and 4.13a of which span a common plane perpendicular to the direction of the longitudinal extension of the hollow profiles and the upper sides 4.12b and 4.13b of which are inclined inwards (mirror image) with respect to this plane, so that they enclose an angle (of about 40°) with it, which ensures that the lateral surfaces of the cross members 5.1 facing them rest on it - see Fig. 3 and the associated description. The hollow profiles 4.12 and 4.13 are formed from the strip-shaped pre-folded lateral sections 4.12' and 4.13' of the development 4.1' by folding and gluing in the doubled area.

The middle part 4.11 has a large cut-out so that the carrier is largely transparent.

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Half of this, at the height of the upper limit of the top sides of the hollow profiles, a folded edge 4.110 is provided in the development 4.11' of the middle part, so that the upwardly projecting section 4.111 of the middle part can be bent by 90°, whereby it rests on the underside of the tray 3.2 when the sales display is assembled. In the area between the hollow profiles 4.12 and 4.13 and the bent section 4.111, the upper limiting edge runs at an angle (of about 70°) to the lower limiting edge of the part, which ensures that the corresponding surface of the cross member rests on it as shown in Fig. 3.

In the lower part, below the large-area punched-out area, there is another folding edge 4.112, which divides the lower part into two equally wide strip sections 4.113 and 4.114, to each of which a tab 4.113a or 4.114a is formed. These strips are overlapped by folding them 180", after which both tabs face downwards and penetrate the plane spanned by the undersides 4.12a and 4.13a of the hollow profiles 4.12 or 4.13. As shown below, a slot in the first tray (or the tray lying under the carrier) corresponds to this tab, so that the tab can engage in this slot and thus lock the carrier to the respective base.

Figure 3a is a perspective view of one of the crossbars 5.1 to 5.3 of the sales display according to Fig. 1 and Figure 3b is a development 5.1' of the crossbar 5.1 in the plane. It can be seen from the figures that the crossbar

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verse is made from a punched, folded and folded material layer. Cardboard with a surface weight of 1000 g/m² is used as the material.

In Fig. 3a it can be seen that the traverse, when folded and ready for assembly, has approximately the shape of a triangular prism, with the cross section being scalene triangular and the side view - as best seen in Fig. 1b - being trapezoidal.

In the upper side 5.11 of the cross member (in the middle strip 5.11' of the strips 5.11' to 5.15' of the development 5.1' separated from each other by folded edges) there are three longitudinal slots 5.11a, 5.11b and 5.11c, the position and size of which correspond to the tabs 5.12a, 5.12b and 5.12c or 5.13a, 5.13b and 5.13c formed on the outer strips 5.12' and 5.13' of the development. When folding along the folded edges as shown in Fig. 3a, the outer strips 5.12 and 5.13 come to lie flat against one another inside the prismatic crossbar, and the tabs penetrate the top 5.11 of the crossbar in the slots and protrude from it. On the one hand, they thus hold the middle bar of the crossbar, formed from the strips 5.12 and 5.13, in its position. As shown further below, the tabs also correspond to slots in the second tray (or the tray lying on the crossbar), so that the tabs engage in these slots and can thus lock the crossbar to the tray it is carrying.

When folded, the strips 5.14' and 5.15' form the other two lateral surfaces 5.14 and 5.15 of the support

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verses which, when the sales display is assembled, come to rest on the upper sides 4.12b or 4.13b of the support profiles 4.12 or 41.3 or on the bevelled section of the upper edge of the support middle section 4.11 and on which the cross member rests.

The strip 5.11' has two circular cutouts 5.11d and 5.11e, the diameter of which is slightly larger than the outer diameter of a stabilizing tube 7, and the strip 5.15 has two U-shaped cutouts 5.15a and 5.15b in the corresponding position and size. When the cross member is folded, a tube 7 passes through the cutouts 5.11d and 5.15a or 5.11e and 5.15b - as indicated in the figure with a dotted line and explained in more detail below with reference to Fig. 8.

Figure 4a shows a development of the lower product tray 3.1 of the sales display 1 according to Fig. 1 in the plane and Figure 4b shows the top view of an insert 3.1a for this tray. As can already be seen in Fig. 1c for the fourth tray 3.4, both the first tray and the insert - in the same position - have four circular cutouts located at the corners of an (imaginary) rectangle inside the tray surface, which have the reference numbers 3.11 to 3.14 or 3.11a to 3.14a. Their diameter is slightly larger than that of the tubes, and the cutouts are pierced vertically by one of the tubes when the display is assembled. In addition, there is a slot 3.15 and 3.16 or 3.15a near the short sides of the imagined rectangles.

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or 3.16a. One of the double tabs 4.113a/4.114a of a carrier 4.1 engages in these in order to lock this - as already mentioned above - to the tray.
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The multiple folded (not separately marked in the figure) edge areas of the tray are folded over appropriately and held in the folded position by the insert or, if necessary, additional gluing and form an upwardly projecting edge of the tray, which prevents goods from being pushed down.

Figure 5a shows a development of one of the other product trays 3.2 to 3.4 in the plane and Figure 5b shows the top view of the associated (double) insert 3.2a. This tray or its insert initially has all of the features of the first tray 3.1 described above, which are designated with corresponding numbers and are not repeated here. In addition, six additional slots 5.17a to 5.22a and 5.23a to 5.28a are punched into the two parts of the insert in two parallel rows, which lie one above the other when the insert is folded and into which the tabs 5.12a/5.13a, 5.12b/5.13b and 5.12c/5.13c of two cross members 5.1, described above, engage when the stand is assembled in order to lock the tray onto the cross members.

Figures 6a to 6c show developed views of the inner parts 2.1 and 2.2 and the casing part 2.3 (each of which is required twice) of an embodiment of the base 2 of the

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Sales display 1 according to Fig. 1 in the plane. The parts are made of double or single corrugated cardboard with a surface weight of in particular 250 g/m². Since this base structure - apart from the visible passages for the pipes 7 - is essentially conventional, it will not be described in more detail here.

Fig. 7 shows the two parts 7a and 7b of a stabilizing tube 7 of the sales display 1 according to Fig. 1 in perspective. A connecting piece 7a' is glued into the tube 7a, the outer diameter of which is slightly smaller than the inner diameter of the tube and with the help of which the parts 7a and 7b can be joined together in the lengthwise direction. In this way, the tube 7 with the required total length can be formed from two parts that can easily be packed together with the other elements.

Fig. 8 is a detailed view of the connection area between the support 4.1, crossbar 5.1 and tray 3.2 in connection with the stabilizing tube 7 in the sales display 1 according to Fig. 1. It can be seen how the crossbar with the two downward-facing lateral surfaces 5.14 and 5.15 rests in a V-shaped groove formed by the corresponding edge design of the support 4.1 and the tube 7, which penetrates the hollow profile 4.13 of the support lengthwise and the crossbar 5.1 and the tray 3.2 crosswise, holds all parts in their relative position to one another in a stabilizing manner - even when forces are applied from the side.

The poster carrier 6 is not shown separately since its construction is of a conventional type.

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The invention is not limited in its implementation to the preferred embodiment given above. Rather, a number of variants are conceivable which differ from the solution presented even in fundamentally

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Claims (23)

S44.G1A Sheet 18 Claims 1. Sales display (1) with at least two product trays (3.1 to 3.4) mounted one above the other on at least one essentially vertically extending support (2, 4.1 to 4.3), characterized, that between each two vertically adjacent product trays (3.1 to 3.4) two or more essentially vertically extending supports (4.1 to 4.3) are provided as spacers, whereby at least two supports (4.1 to 4.3) in each product tray level are connected to one another by at least one horizontally extending cross-member (5.1 to 5.3) and the product trays (3.2 to 3.4) each rest on the cross-members (5.1 to 5.3) belonging to a level, and that at least one slim stabilizing element (7) extending through at least two product trays is provided, which is at least indirectly connected to the cross members in an angularly rigid manner. 2. Sales display according to claim 1, characterized
characterized in that at least one support (4.1 to 4.3) is designed as a frame in the form of a ^: ··) 5.5-&Pgr; QLj,. S44.G1A Sheet 19 a rectangular, angularly stiffening ring, on the vertical side edges of which a vertically extending hollow support profile (4.12, 4.13) is formed.
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characterized in that the hollow support profiles (4.12, 4.13) are designed to have a square or, in particular, isosceles or equilaterally triangular cross-section. 4. Sales display according to claim 3, characterized
characterized in that the cross members (5.1 to 5.3) have a triangular, in particular scalene triangular, cross-section, the tip of the triangle being directed downwards in the assembled state and one side of the triangle (5.11) being aligned horizontally and being in contact with the underside of a product tray (3.2) in a manner supporting the latter. 5. Sales display according to claim 4, characterized
characterized in that the cross-section of the cross-members (5.1) is triangular and is formed with a supporting wall (5.12, 5.13) which runs essentially vertically inside the triangle in the assembled state. 6. Sales display according to claim 2 and claim 3 or 4, characterized in that S44.G1A Sheet 20 two cross members (5.1 or 5.2 or 5.3) are provided in each product tray level, the hollow profile of each cross member (5.1) being supported with a region of its lateral surface (5.14, 5.15) in a recess corresponding to the arrangement of the lateral surface on the hollow support profile (4.12, 4.13) of the carrier (4.1). 7. Sales display according to claim 4 and 6, characterized in that the recess on the hollow support profile (4.12, 4.13) is designed in such a way that at least one outer surface (5.14, 5.15) of the cross member touches at least one edge (4.12b, 4.13b) of the support (4.1) delimiting the recess essentially over its length, with in particular two outer surfaces of the cross member each touching an edge of the support (4.1) delimiting the recess. 8. Sales display according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the stabilizing element (7) is a profile, in particular a tube, which passes through several product tray levels in spatial association with the supports (4.1 to 4.3) in a substantially vertical manner and which passes through recesses (3.11 to 3.14; 3.21 to 3.24; 3.41 to 3.44) in the product trays (3.1; 3.2; 3.4) which are arranged essentially one above the other and correspond to the cross-sectional shape of the profile (7), in particular circular. S44.G1A Sheet 21 9. Sales display according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the stabilizing element (7) runs in the interior of a hollow support profile (4.12, 4.13). 10. Sales display according to one of claims 8 or 9, characterized in that the cross-sections (5.1 to 5.3) of the profile (7) have corresponding recesses (5.11d, 5.11e, 5.15a, 5.15b) into which the profile engages. 11. Sales display according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the at least one stabilizing element is formed integrally with a carrier. 12. Sales display according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the cross members are each formed integrally with the product trays. 13. Sales display according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the at least one stabilizing element (7) is formed from a plurality of parts (7a, 7b) placed one on top of the other in the longitudinal direction, in a manner deviating from the vertical sequence of the product tray levels. .'· S44.G1A Sheet 22 14. Sales display according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the product trays (3.1 to 3.4) have recesses (3.15, 3.16, 3.15a, 3.16a; 3.25, 3.26; 3.25a, 3.26a, 3.25a ¹ , 3.26a ¹ , 3.21b to 3.26b, 3.21b' to 3.26b ^! ) and the supports (4.1 to 4.3) and/or the cross members (5.1 to 5.3) have extensions (4.113a, 4.114a; 5.13a to 5.13b) with a shape corresponding to the shape of the recesses, such that the port sets in the assembled state of the sales display (1) can be inserted into the recesses intervene. 15. Sales display according to claim 14, characterized in that the recesses are slot-shaped and the extensions are tab-shaped. 16. Sales display according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the product trays (3.1 to 3.4) each consist of a multi-layer layer of corrugated cardboard of the same cut, which is covered with a cover layer which, in addition to a first outer cover surface of the multi-layer layer, surrounds its edge regions and is connected, in particular glued, to the second outer cover surface opposite the first cover surface in the edge region of the latter. 17. Sales display according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the lowest product tray (3.1) is mounted on a base (2) with S44.G1A Sheet 23 essentially closed lateral peripheral surfaces and with a particularly cuboid shape. 18. Sales display according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the at least one stabilizing element (7) touches the ground when the sales display is in use. 19. Sales display according to claim 17 and 18, characterized in that the stabilizing element (7) is held in a guide in the base. 20. Sales display according to one of claims 17 to 29, characterized in that the base (2) is made of several layers of cardboard (2.1 to 2.3) connected to one another, in particular to form spatial interlockings. 21. Sales display according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the supports (4.1) and/or the cross members (5.1) are each formed from a layer of cardboard (4.1' or 5.1') that can be unrolled into a plane. 22. Sales display according to one of claims 5 to 21, characterized in that the in- S44.G1A Sheet 24 A further supporting wall (5.12, 5.13) of the cross members (5.1 to 5.3) is formed from two mutually supporting parts, each made of one layer of material, which simultaneously carry tabs (5.12a to 5.12c, 5.13a to 5.13c) for fixing the trays (3.2 to 3.4), whereby the tabs reach through the top side (5.11) of the cross member (5.1) and fix the supporting wall in its position there without the use of adhesive. 23. Sales display according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the at least one stabilizing element is a two-part cardboard tube (7a, 7b).