EP0198477A2 - Kassettensystem zum Präsentieren von Karten - Google Patents

Kassettensystem zum Präsentieren von Karten Download PDF

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EP0198477A2
EP0198477A2 EP86105192A EP86105192A EP0198477A2 EP 0198477 A2 EP0198477 A2 EP 0198477A2 EP 86105192 A EP86105192 A EP 86105192A EP 86105192 A EP86105192 A EP 86105192A EP 0198477 A2 EP0198477 A2 EP 0198477A2
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Harvey Kolster
Gerald Lloyd Wood
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47F—SPECIAL FURNITURE, FITTINGS, OR ACCESSORIES FOR SHOPS, STOREHOUSES, BARS, RESTAURANTS OR THE LIKE; PAYING COUNTERS
    • A47F7/00—Show stands, hangers, or shelves, adapted for particular articles or materials
    • A47F7/14—Show stands, hangers, or shelves, adapted for particular articles or materials for pictures, e.g. in combination with books or seed-bags ; for cards, magazines, newspapers, books or booklike articles, e.g. audio/video cassettes
    • A47F7/146—Show stands, hangers, or shelves, adapted for particular articles or materials for pictures, e.g. in combination with books or seed-bags ; for cards, magazines, newspapers, books or booklike articles, e.g. audio/video cassettes the show stands or the like being provided with compartments or pockets
    • A47F7/147—Show stands, hangers, or shelves, adapted for particular articles or materials for pictures, e.g. in combination with books or seed-bags ; for cards, magazines, newspapers, books or booklike articles, e.g. audio/video cassettes the show stands or the like being provided with compartments or pockets being individually detachable

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  • the present invention relates to a storage and display system and more particularly to a card cartridge storage and display system of improved design which provides effective display and high density storage of greeting cards.
  • Retailers have used various racks to store and display card-type articles.
  • Some prior art racks include a frame which supports a display panel at an inclined position.
  • the display panel has grooves formed into its face for containing the bottom portion of cards inserted into the grooves.
  • These racks do not provide a cover for the display panel; thus, dust collects on the cards and reduces their appeal to the potential purchaser.
  • Since the grooves on the display panel's face provide the only space for storage, the device cannot accommodate large quantities of cards. Additionally, the device takes up a large space because it requires a large area to display each type of card on a relatively flat surface. Finally, this device does not adequately display the greeting cards because the portion of the card inserted into the groove is not visible. To see the entire card, a purchaser must remove it from its groove. In doing this, he or she may soil the card.
  • the Schweizer device comprises a stand and a multi-segmented cover formed by a number of consecutively arranged segments. These segments combine to define compartments for containing card-like objects.
  • the Schweizer device reduces the effects of environmental influences such as dust and provides for convenient viewing of the objects contained within it. However, it does not greatly increase storage capacity.
  • the card cartridge display system of the present invention avoids the shortcomings of the prior art storage and display devices. It is simple and durable in construction and attractive in appearance. It provides storage for large quantities of greeting cards in a relatively small space, i.e., increases storage density, yet it exposes the greeting cards to purchaser viewing and affords easy and convenient access for removing and replacing the cards. The system also allows effective confinement of reorder and identification cards along with the greeting cards.
  • the applicant has achieved the foregoing objects of the present invention through the provision of a card cartridge display system for storing and displaying greeting cards.
  • the card cartridge display system includes a base member such as a storage chest or a structural framework which supports a number of cartridge carriers in an upwardly stepped arrangement with the first, bottom carriers located at the front end of the base member next to a user of the system.
  • the carriers are elongated trough-like structures which contain large numbers of cartridges arranged in the carriers in face-to-face order from the front of the carrier to the back.
  • Each carrier consists of a bottom support member and front and rear inclined wall sections.
  • the card cartridges are flat box-like enclosures with open tops. They contain greeting cards or other card-like objects for viewing by a potential purchaser. When used to store and display greeting cards, the cartridges may also contain reorder cards and identification cards with captions that describe the type of cards contained within the cartridges.
  • the card cartridges have open tops through which one may insert the cards and remove them.
  • These cartridges include one or more pins at their bottom end which fit into appropriately sized grooves formed on the bottom support member of each carrier to tiltably arrange the cartridges in the carriers. This pin and groove arrangement constitutes a cooperating means by which a purchaser may tilt a cartridge towards the back of the carrier to view the greeting cards contained within it.
  • Figs. 1-5 show the first preferred embodiment of the card cartridge system of the present invention at 11.
  • the display system generally comprises a base member 13 supporting trough-like carriers 15 which support and contain card cartridges 17.
  • the base member 13 may be a storage chest or any other suitable support capable of maintaining the carriers 15 at a suitable elevation above the floor surface of an establishment so that potential purchasers may conveniently view the greeting cards or other card-like objects displayed by the system.
  • the base member 13 includes a main body portion 19 having a stepped top with steps 21 and 23 for supporting the carriers 15. Each step has the appropriate dimensions to serve as a base for one carrier 15.
  • the base member 13 also includes a rear panel 25 to provide structural support and a backing for the system.
  • the carriers 15, shown in Figs. 1 and 3-5 and disposed on top of the steps 21 and 23, are elongated, trough-like structures which support and contain a large number of cartridges, as described below.
  • This system 11 has two carriers 15, but it may have more depending on the display and storage requirements of the establishment using it.
  • the carriers are arranged one behind and above the other in an upwardly stepped configuration with the first bottom carrier located at the front end of the base member next to a potential purchaser of the greeting cards.
  • the carriers 15 may simply rest on the base member 13 with their dead weight in addition to the dead weight of the cartridges they contain keeping them in place; or appropriate connecting means such as nut and bolt or rivet connections may secure the carriers to the base member 13.
  • the carriers 15 of the present invention each comprise a bottom support member 27 for supporting the cartridges 17 and inclined rear wall section 29 and front wall section 31 for containing the cartridges in the carrier 15 in an essentially upright position.
  • the bottom support member 27 includes a first lower section 33 made of wood or a similar material which provides structural integrity to the carrier and a number of corrugated panels 35 which tiltably arrange the cartridges in the carrier.
  • Fig. 3 shows a carrier with seven corrugated panels 35, each panel designed to accommodate a row of cartridges placed in face-to-face order in the carrier.
  • U-shaped members 37 one for each side of each panel 35, secure the panels 35 in place on the lower section 33 and serve as dividers for each row of cartridges.
  • the grooves 39 of the corrugated panels 35 are rounded and spaced an equal distance apart; they receive the cartridges 17; and they serve as pivots for the cartridges 17 so that the cartridges can tilt back and forth about their respective grooves and allow a potential purchaser of the greeting cards to inspect each cartridge.
  • Figs. 3 and 4 show a carrier with seven panels and panels with ten grooves. However, the carriers may have any suitable number of panels and the panels may have any suitable number of grooves.
  • the front wall section 31 slopes forward slightly and the rear wall section 29 slopes slightly backward so that they form an angle greater than 90 degrees with the bottom support member. This increases the angle between the last cartridge of the group tilted forward and the first cartridge of the group tilted backward for easier inspection of the cartridges.
  • the rear wall section 29 is a flat plate-like member made of wood or any material with sufficient structural integrity to support the group of cartridges 17 which rest on it when the user tilts them backward.
  • the front wall section 31 is also a flat plate-like member made of any suitable, transparent material to allow the user an unobstructed view of the cartridges and the greeting cards that they contain, yet one with sufficient strength to support the cartridges which rest on it when the user tilts them forward.
  • the card cartridge 17 used in the display system 11 and shown in Figs. 1 and 2 is a flat box-like enclosure integrally molded in one piece from a transparent material s,:ch as plastic which allows visual inspection of the greeting cards contained within the enclosure. It includes side portions 41 and 43; a bottom portion 45; a front portion comprising complemental sections 47a and 47b, each having the shape of an inverted "J"; and a back portion comprising sections 49a, 49b and 49c. These thin wall portions (as shown in Fig. 2) form the enclosure and serve to contain a predetermined number of greeting cards (not shown) within the enclosure. By increasing the depth or front-to-back dimension of the cartridge, the cartridge can accommodate a greater number of cards.
  • each cartridge contains a predetermined number of copies of a greeting card with the same design, a design different from the designs of the greeting cards of the other cartridges.
  • the cartridge may also hold reorder cards for the type of greeting cards it contains, making it much less likely that the retailer would somehow lose the reorder card.
  • the cartridge may contain an identification card with a caption describing the type of cards disposed in the cartridge.
  • One such identification card could be a card that is larger than the greeting cards and, when placed in the cartridge behind the greeting cards, includes an exposed surface with a caption printed on it which provides the requisite description, e.g., "Mother's Day", "Birthday", or the like.
  • the card cartridge 17 also includes two cross- shaped pins 51 sized to fit into grooves 39.
  • the cartridge may have only one pin or more than two.
  • the pins 51 cooperate with the grooves 39 to tiltably arrange the cartridges in the carriers 15.
  • the pins 51 pivot within the grooves 39 as the pin's cartridge tilts back and forth.
  • Lig. 6 illustrates a second embodiment of the card cartridge display system of the present invention at 111.
  • This system is also a two carrier system with the base member 113 comprising vertical rails 115, secured to a wall, and cantilever structural members 117 and 119, secured to the vertical rails 115 and supporting carriers 121.
  • the carriers 121 and cartridges 123 of this system are similar to those described above with respect to the first embodiment.

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EP0295869A2 (de) * 1987-06-15 1988-12-21 Forfas Schaustellungseinheit
GB2209423A (en) * 1987-07-10 1989-05-10 Danta Inc Display stand
EP0442730A1 (de) * 1990-02-16 1991-08-21 Eml Limited Behälter und Giessform zu seiner Herstellung
US7987998B1 (en) 2006-01-17 2011-08-02 American Greetings Corporation Method and apparatus for marketing greeting cards in display fixtures
US8943719B1 (en) 2006-01-17 2015-02-03 American Greetings Corporation Method and apparatus for marketing greeting cards
CN112220221A (zh) * 2020-09-29 2021-01-15 顾玉德 一种分区自适应调节档案柜

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US2815854A (en) * 1953-05-11 1957-12-10 Edward J Mckenna Combination card storage receptacles and display boards
GB859403A (en) * 1958-07-08 1961-01-25 Giuseppe Garanzini Device for supporting and presenting illustrated post-cards and the like, linkable with other devices of the same kind, in various dispositions
DE2547453A1 (de) * 1975-10-23 1977-04-28 Edler & Krische Steilsichtkartei mit zwischenplatten
CH620161A5 (en) * 1977-02-24 1980-11-14 Rent Design Device for storing and displaying picture postcards, in particular photographs
US4239307A (en) * 1977-09-02 1980-12-16 Schweizer Eduard H Storage and demonstration device particularly for card-type display objects

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US2815854A (en) * 1953-05-11 1957-12-10 Edward J Mckenna Combination card storage receptacles and display boards
GB859403A (en) * 1958-07-08 1961-01-25 Giuseppe Garanzini Device for supporting and presenting illustrated post-cards and the like, linkable with other devices of the same kind, in various dispositions
DE2547453A1 (de) * 1975-10-23 1977-04-28 Edler & Krische Steilsichtkartei mit zwischenplatten
CH620161A5 (en) * 1977-02-24 1980-11-14 Rent Design Device for storing and displaying picture postcards, in particular photographs
US4239307A (en) * 1977-09-02 1980-12-16 Schweizer Eduard H Storage and demonstration device particularly for card-type display objects

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EP0295869A2 (de) * 1987-06-15 1988-12-21 Forfas Schaustellungseinheit
EP0295869A3 (en) * 1987-06-15 1989-12-06 Eolas A display unit
GB2209423A (en) * 1987-07-10 1989-05-10 Danta Inc Display stand
EP0442730A1 (de) * 1990-02-16 1991-08-21 Eml Limited Behälter und Giessform zu seiner Herstellung
US5150813A (en) * 1990-02-16 1992-09-29 Earley Marketing Limited Receptacle and mould for making the same
US7987998B1 (en) 2006-01-17 2011-08-02 American Greetings Corporation Method and apparatus for marketing greeting cards in display fixtures
US8172093B1 (en) 2006-01-17 2012-05-08 American Greetings Corporation Method and apparatus for marketing greeting cards in display fixtures
US8943719B1 (en) 2006-01-17 2015-02-03 American Greetings Corporation Method and apparatus for marketing greeting cards
US8955694B2 (en) 2006-01-17 2015-02-17 American Greetings Corporation Greeting card display fixture
CN112220221A (zh) * 2020-09-29 2021-01-15 顾玉德 一种分区自适应调节档案柜

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