EP0033534A2 - Selling aid for storing and putting on display suspended cloths, especially home textiles - Google Patents

Abstract

1. Sales aid for storing and displaying or showing hanging materials (41, 42), in particular home textiles, consisting of a carrying or supporting arrangement and at least one plate (1) attached thereto, which plate (1) has gliding tracks open to the bottom and connected together at angles, in which tracks gliding hangers (44, 44') carrying the materials (41, 42) are displaceably arranged, the gliding tracks being formed by storage tracks (20) extending parallel to each other at a close distance apart and ending blind in front of the rear edge (16) of the plate (1) and by at least one display or demonstration track (21, 22) each connecting the storage tracks (20) to each other at their front ends and extending substantially parallel to the front edge (17) of the plate (1) and opening at its ends into the lateral edges (12, 13) of the plate (1), characterized in that the supporting arrangement is formed by a supporting structure (2), that adjustment devices for aligning and arranging the corresponding display tracks (21, 22) of two adjacent plates (1) are formed by front and rear recesses (14, 15) correspondingly arranged in pairs in the lateral edges (12, 13) of the plates (1) and by parts of the frameword structure (2) which are suitably conforming or adapted in cross-section and received by these recesses (14, 15), and in that the one or more than one display track (21, 22) extends in front of the front recesses (14), viewed from the front edge (17).

Description

The invention relates to a sales aid according to the preamble of claim 1.

From DE-PS 594 343 a device for demonstrating objects, patterns; Goods, samples or the like are known in which slideways are arranged in a horizontally arranged plate parallel to each other at a relatively large distance, which are in turn connected to one another by several further slideways. On this plate, which so far forms a self-contained unit, linkage mechanisms are attached, by means of which bolts located in the slideways are gripped and moved. Such a device is very complex and unsuitable for storing and demonstrating home textiles.

From DE-PS 22 48 243 a false ceiling for demonstration rooms, in particular for sales rooms of home textiles, is known, which has a rail system from. has intersecting slideways. Here, the slideways are through spaced and parallel straight guide rails formed. In addition, the guide strips are connected to closed frames, each delimiting a ceiling field, by means of curved corner gliders. A slideway is then formed between the adjacent sides of two frames. Such a construction is extremely complex and also not suitable for a sales aid.

The invention is therefore based on the object of designing a sales aid in accordance with the preamble of patent claim 1 in such a way that it can be put together particularly well for the generic purpose and in a simple manner to form units of different sizes.

This object is achieved in the generic sales aid by the features of the characterizing part of claim 1. With such a sales aid, plates can be placed side by side, whereby the number of bearing tracks multiplies according to the number of bearing tracks in a plate. The demonstration tracks are placed next to each other so that the respective demonstration track in one plate with the assigned demonstration tracks of adjacent plates one continuous demonstration lane. The arrangement of demonstration tracks and storage tracks is therefore comb-like.

• Fig. 1 eine perspektivische Darstellung einer Verkaufshilfe gemäß der Erfindung,
• _Fig. 2 eine mit Gleitbahnen versehene Platte der erfindungsgemäßen Verkaufshilfe in einer perspekti-^- vischen Ansicht auf ihre Unterseite,
• Fig. 3 einen Schnitt durch eine Platte gemäß der Schnittlinie III-III in Fig. 1,
• Fig. 4 einen Schnitt durch eine Platte gemäß der Schnittlinie IV - IV in Fig. 1,
• Fig. 5 einen stark vergrößerten Teilausschnitt aus Fig. 4,
• Fig. 6 eine Gelenkkette für die Verkaufshilfe in Seitenansicht,
• Fig. 7 eine Unteransicht der Gelenkkette gemäß Sichtpfeil VII in Fig. 6 und
• Fig. 8 einen Schnitt durch die Gelenkkette gemäß der Schnittlinie VIII-VIII in Fig. 6.

Further advantages and features of the invention emerge from the subclaims and the following description of an exemplary embodiment with reference to the drawing. In the drawing shows

• 1 is a perspective view of a sales aid according to the invention,
• _F ig. 2 is a plate provided with slideways of Sales aid according to the invention in a perspec- ^- vischen view on their underside,
• 3 shows a section through a plate along the section line III-III in FIG. 1,
• 4 shows a section through a plate according to section line IV-IV in FIG. 1,
• 5 shows a greatly enlarged partial section from FIG. 4,
• 6 a link chain for the sales aid in side view,
• Fig. 7 is a bottom view of the link chain according to arrow VII in Fig. 6 and
• 8 shows a section through the link chain according to section line VIII-VIII in FIG. 6.

In Fig. 1 a sales aid for curtains and curtains is shown, which is formed by side-by-side plates 1 and a supporting frame 2 supporting them. The support frame consists of ladder-like elements 3, each of which is formed from a front support 4 and a rear support 5, both of which run parallel to one another and perpendicular and which are rigidly connected to one another by a few spaced-apart struts 6. The supports 4, 5 expediently have a square cross section and are designed as corresponding hollow profiles. The struts 6 suitably consist of the same profile material. In the vicinity of their upper ends, but just below these upper ends of the supports 4, 5, a cross member 7 similar to the struts 6 is also attached.

Two adjacent ladder-like elements 3 are connected to one another in the region of the two rear supports 5 by rectangular frames 8, which are expediently formed from the same profile material as the supports 4, 5 and the struts 6 and cross bars 7. The vertical Frame parts 9 are screwed to the respective adjacent rear supports 5 by means of screws 10. For aesthetic reasons, the horizontal frame parts 11 are arranged in one plane with associated struts 6. Between each two adjacent ladder-like elements 3 connected by a frame 8, a plate 1 held between the two corresponding upper cross bars 7 is supported. It has in its lateral side edges 12, 13, which are thus arranged parallel to the cross bars 7, at a distance from a front support 4 to the associated rear support 5, vertically extending recesses 14 and 15. The two rear recesses 15 are formed in the interface between a respective lateral side edge 12 or 13 and the rear side edge 16 of the plate 1 and consist of incisions, the depth of which in the direction of a lateral side edge 12 or 13 is approximately the corresponding depth of the rear Support 5 in the plane of an element 3 corresponds. The width of such a rear recess 15 corresponds to half the width of a rear support 5. The dimensions of a front recess 14 are the same. This has the consequence that the mutually associated front recesses 14 and rear recesses 15 of two adjacent plates 1 with their mutually associated lateral side edges 12 and 13, respectively, delimit a surface through which the upper end of a support 4 or 5 protrude straight can. This adjusts two adjacent plates to one another, in such a way that their rear side edges 16 and their front side edges 17 are aligned with one another.

The lateral side edges 12, 13 are also at least between the front and rear Recesses 14, 15 extending channel-like recess 18, the height of which is at least equal to the height of a cross member 7 and whose width is at least equal to half the width of such a cross member, so that when two adjacent plates are pushed along their lateral side edges 12 and 13 by the each also covering overlapping groove-like recesses 18 can receive such a cross member 7, each plate 1 being supported on the top of the cross member 7 with its flange 19 which delimits the corresponding groove-like recess 18 upwards. At the same time, this disappears invisibly in the two channel-like recesses 18 of two adjacent plates 1 facing each other. Due to the design described, adjacent plates are held in alignment and firmly with one another between a support frame 2 formed from several ladder-like elements 3 and frame 8.

Each plate has a larger number of slideways that run parallel to one another and parallel to the lateral side edges 12, 13 and serve as bearing tracks 2o and which end closed shortly before the rear side edge 16.

The ends of the bearing tracks 2o facing the front side edge 17 are connected to one another by a right-angled slideway which runs parallel to the front side edge 17 and serves as a demonstration track 21. Parallel to this first demonstration lane 21, a second demonstration lane 22 is arranged at a distance of 10 to 15 cm from the first demonstration lane 21, which likewise connects the Laaerbahnen 2o to one another. The distance between adjacent bearing tracks is 5 to 10 cm. The two demonstration tracks 21, 22 each end openly on the side Side edges 12, 13, so that in the described arrangement of adjacent plates 1, their corresponding first demonstration tracks 21 and second demonstration tracks 22 each merge into one another in a straight line. So that the second demonstration track 22, which is closer to the front side edge 17, can also be reached from the bearing tracks 2o, the two demonstration tracks 21, 22 are connected by slideways which serve as connecting tracks 23 and are aligned with the bearing tracks 2o. As seen from the front side edge 17, both demonstration tracks 21, 22 lie in front of the front recesses 14, ie they are located in an area of the plates 1 protruding beyond the support frame 2.

As well as strength particularly in FIGS. 3 and 4 from _F. 2 shows, the slideways have a slotted box profile, as is usual with curtain rails.

In order to produce such a profile, the plate consists of a one-piece deep-drawn part 24, which is provided with the bearing tracks 2 ₀ , the demonstration tracks 21, 22 and the connecting tracks 23 laterally and at their base bounding grooves 25. The side walls 26 of these channels 25 taper towards the (top) bottom 27 of the channels, so that it is easier to demold this deep-drawn part 24 after deep-drawing. The side walls 26 are also connected to one another on their ends facing away from the bottoms 27 of the channels 25, that is to say at the bottom, by boundary surfaces 28, since the entire deep-drawn part 24 is deep-drawn from a thick plastic film, for example from polyethylene. Plate bodies are glued or welded onto these boundary surfaces, each protruding above the channels 25 and leaving a centrally arranged one free Slot 29 each form a pair of sliding flanges 3 ₀ , 31. For this, three types of plate bodies are necessary, namely elongated plate bodies 32 which delimit the bearing tracks 2o in the longitudinal direction and which can be integrally connected to one another by a rear connecting web 33, which also forms the end limitation of the bearing tracks 2o. Furthermore, relatively short plate bodies 34 are necessary, which delimit the connecting tracks 23 on both sides and the demonstration tracks 21, 22 on each side. The first demonstration track 21 facing the bearing tracks 20 is still delimited on one side by the corresponding sides of the long plate bodies 32.

The side of the second demonstration track 22 facing the front side edge 17 is delimited by a third elongated plate body 35 which extends along this front side edge 17. For reasons of stability, the deep-drawn part 24 firmly connected to these plate bodies 32, 34, 35, with its upper side of the bottoms 27 facing away from the plate bodies 32, 34, 35, is against a reinforcing plate 36, which is usually a so-called Chipboard can act, screwed by means of screws 37 and / or glued by means of an adhesive layer 38. As shown in FIG. 4, the upper flanges 19 supporting the plates 1 on the cross bars 7 and delimiting the groove-like recesses 18 are formed by corresponding areas of the deep-drawn part 24 and the associated side edges of the reinforcing plate 36. The plate bodies 32, 34, 35 each extending along the lateral side edges 12, 13 cover the cross bars downwards, that is to say form the lower boundary of the groove-like recesses 18.

As can be seen in particular from FIG. 2, the corners of the plate bodies 32, 34 are rounded at the intersection points 39 of the first demonstration track 21 with the bearing tracks 20 and the connecting tracks 23 in a quarter circle. The same applies to the corners of the plate bodies 34 at the junction points 40 of the connecting tracks 23 into the second demonstration track 22.

So-called articulated chains 43 serve to hold and transport fabric panels, in particular curtains 41 and curtains 42 in the slideways. They consist of sliding hangers 44 suitable for curtains 41 or curtains 42, which have approximately a T-profile and with their upper crosspiece 45 on the Sliding flanges 3 ₀ , 31 lie on and protrude with their longitudinal web 46 through the slot 29 from the respective slideway downwards. At their lower end they are provided with an eyelet 47, from which the curtain 41 or the curtain 42 is then hung.

The sliding hangers 44 arranged in a continuous sequence are each connected to one another by means of a so-called film hinge 48. Such film hinges consist of thin webs which connect two adjacent, at a short distance from each other sliding hangers 44 and are integrally formed with them. This configuration makes it possible to produce a joint chain 43 in one piece from a correspondingly suitable, sprayable plastic, for example a suitable polypropylene. The transverse webs 45 are each formed symmetrically to the longitudinal direction of the articulated chain, and in fact they taper - in each case from the central longitudinal axis 49 from - to the side approximately trapezoidal, so that an approximately triangular, tapered to the side sliding surface 5o is formed on its underside on both sides of the respective longitudinal web. The two sliding surfaces of 5o of a transverse web 45 and all sliding surfaces 5o an articulated chain 43 lie in a common - horizontal - plane, so that all sliding surfaces 5o rest of an articulated chain 43 to the associated parts of the sliding flanges 3 _0, 31 a bearing track 2o.

The trapezoidal locking of the transverse webs 45 to the side ensures that, despite the only slight extension of each film hinge 48 in the direction of the central longitudinal axis 49, which extension can be approximately 2 mm, for example, the articulated chain can be bent by a relatively narrow radius until abut two adjacent side edges 51 of two adjacent transverse webs. This minimum radius, around which the adjacent sliding hanger 44 of the articulated chain 43 can be bent, is at most as large as the radius of the roundings 52 of the plate bodies 32, 34 already mentioned at the crossing points 39 and the plate body 34 at the junction points 4o. The sliding surfaces 50 of the transverse webs 45 each merge into the side edges 51 by means of an approximately upwardly curved transition surface 53.

On the longitudinal webs 46 - starting from the sliding surfaces 50 - extending downward and sideways to the central longitudinal axis 49, approximately cylindrical segment-shaped side guides 54 are formed. The maximum lateral extension a of the two side guides 54 attached on both sides of a longitudinal web 46 in the area immediately below the sliding surfaces 5o is at most as large, but preferably by a slight side play smaller than the width b of a slot 29. This ensures that even at a contact between the side guides 54 and the associated slot boundary edge 55 only an approximately linear contact takes place, so that the frictional forces are very low. In addition, canting and thus clamping effects between the slide hangers 44 and the bearing tracks 20 are excluded. The same advantageous effects apply with regard to the design of the crosspieces 45 with their sliding surfaces 50 already described.

Relatively large, plate-shaped guide crosspieces 56 - are formed on the two outermost, that is to say end-side slide hangers 44 'of an articulated chain 43. These guide crosspieces 56 - as can be seen in FIG. 7 - are wider than the crosspieces 45 transversely to the central longitudinal axis 49. In addition, they are considerably longer in the direction of the central longitudinal axis 49 than the crosspieces 45. As a result, they form in the Top view of a surface which in any case has a greater extension in all directions than the largest clear distance c (see FIG. 2) of the plate bodies 32, 34 on the cross crossing points 39 or the junction points 4 ₀ , so that despite the considerable cross-sectional enlargements of the slots 29 'given by the roundings 52, there is no danger that the one side of a crosspiece 45 at such an intersection point 39 or a junction point 4o will correspond from the - can "thread out" the bearing track 2o or one of the demonstration tracks 21 or 22.

The guide transverse webs 56 have 44 adjacent side extending in the same manner as in the normal Gleitaufhängern 44 side edge 51 ', from which a transition surface 53' to ₀ extending on its the next Gleitaufhänger to a likewise very narrow formed sliding surface 5 ', which also lies in one plane with the other sliding surfaces 5o. From this respective sliding surface 50 ′ extends a run-up surface 57 that is directed upward, ie away from the eyelets 47, to the end edge 58 of the respective guide crosspiece 56. A further eyelet 59 is formed in the two end-side sliding hangers 44 ′ , in which a pull rod or a pull cord can be hung. Thus, not only forces acting in the direction of the central longitudinal axis 49 but also forces acting vertically downward are applied to the respective end-side slide hanger 44 '. For this reason, the described configuration of the guide crosspieces 56 is advantageous because, on the one hand, a smooth, largely friction-free displacement is possible within the bearing tracks 2o or demonstration tracks 21, 22, but on the other hand, it is impossible to unthread the link chain from these tracks. In this together For the sake of good order, it should be noted that the clear distance c from plate bodies 32, 34 in the region of the intersection points 39 and the junction points 4o is smaller than the smallest distance d between a side guide 54 of a slide hanger 44 and the opposite outer edge of the associated crosspiece 45, so that the normal gliding hangers 44 'at the crossing points 39 and the junction points 4o cannot thread out of the tracks 2 ₀ , 21, 22.

Such an articulated chain 43 is assigned to each bearing track 20, on which a curtain 41 or a curtain 42 is fastened. Normally, these garages 41 or curtains 42 hang in the bearing formed by the bearing tracks 20 in the support frame 2. In order to be able to demonstrate it, a curtain 41 or a curtain 42 is pulled out of the corresponding storage track and either pulled straight over the assigned connecting track 23 to the assigned junction point 4o and then swung into the second demonstration track 22 or already at the upstream crossing point 39 in the first demonstration track 21 swung in. The two demonstration tracks 21, 22 serve primarily the purpose of being able to demonstrate curtains and curtains overlapping, that is to say to achieve the actual hanging conditions at a window.

It should be added that the slot widths in the demonstration tracks 21, 22 and the connecting tracks 23 are of course identical to those of the bearing tracks 2 ₀ .

The upper cross bars 7 together with the upper ends of the front and rear supports 4, 5 can also be designed in part in the form of a lying double T, which is then fastened to a wall or a ceiling by means of a suitable cantilever arm, as a result of which the bottom the plate lying part of the support frame 2 would be superfluous without the adjustment functions of the upper ends of the supports 4, 5 and the upper cross members 7 being lost.

Claims (12)

1. Sales aid for storing and demonstrating hanging fabrics (41, 42), in particular home textiles, consisting of a carrying device and at least one plate (1) attached thereto with downwardly open, angularly interconnected slideways in which the fabrics (41, 42) load-bearing slide hangers (44, 44 ') are arranged displaceably, characterized in that the slide tracks by bearing tracks (20) which run parallel to one another and at a short distance from one another and which close in front of the rear side edge (16) of the plate (1) and at least a demonstration track (21, 22) connecting the bearing tracks (20) at each of their front ends, approximately parallel to the front side edge (17) of the plate (1) and ending openly in the side side edges (12, 13) of the plate (1) ) are formed, and that adjustment devices are provided for the aligned alignment and arrangement of the mutually corresponding demonstration tracks (21, 22) of two adjacent Pl atten (1). 2. Sales aid according to claim 1, characterized in that the adjusting devices by paired mutually associated front and rear recesses (14, 15) in the lateral side edges (12, 13) of the plates (1) and by these accommodated in cross-section adapted parts of Carrier are formed. 3. Sales aid according to claim 2, characterized in that between the two areas, which are received in the pairs of recesses (14, 15), a cross member (7) of the carrying device is arranged, which in the assigned groove-like recesses (18) in the since Lichen side edges (12, 13) of the plates (1) is arranged, and on the flanges (19) of each plate (1) which upwardly delimit the groove-like recesses (18). 4. Sales aid according to one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that the support device is formed by a support frame (2). 5. Sales aid according to claim 4, characterized in that the support frame (2) is formed from ladder-like elements (3) which are releasably connectable to one another in the region of the rear of the support frame (2). 6. Sales aid according to one of claims 1 to 5, characterized in that seen from the front side edge (17), the at least one demonstration track (21, 22) in front of the front recesses (14). 7. Sales aid according to one of claims 1 to 6, characterized in that each plate (1) from a one-piece part having the slides laterally and upwardly defining grooves and part attached to the underside of this part plate bodies (32, 34, 35) exists, the edges of which partially cover the channels (25) with the formation of sliding flanges (30, 31), leaving one slot (29) free. 8. Sales aid according to claim 7, characterized in that the part containing the grooves (25) is designed as a deep-drawn part (24). 9. Sales aid according to claim 7 or 8, characterized in that the one-piece part and the plate body (32, 34, 35) consist of plastic. 10. Sales aid according to one of claims 7 to 9, characterized in that a reinforcing plate (36) is attached to the top of the one-piece part. 11. Sales aid with several demonstration lanes according to one of claims 1 to 10, characterized in that the demonstration lanes (21, 22) are connected to one another by connecting lanes (23). 12. Sales aid according to claim 11, characterized in that the connecting tracks (23) with the bearing tracks (20) are formed in alignment.

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