EP0451441B1 - Display stand made of foldable material - Google Patents

Abstract

A display stand made of foldable material is described which consists of a foot and a container hinged to the foot. The foot and the container can both be dispatched folded flat so that they require little space. They are both erected with few manipulations. Additionally, the display stand is distinguished by little waste material in its manufacture. <IMAGE>

Description

The invention relates to a floor stand made of folded material with the features of the preamble of claim 1.

A floor divider with these features is described in DE-U-82 22 484. The walls of the container are designed there as cardboard walls. This gives the container good stability, but it cannot easily, i.e. H. can be folded or unfolded in a few simple steps. In addition, a relatively large amount of waste material is produced in the production of the cuts of the foot and the container of this known floor stand.

DE-U-88 11 653 describes a floor divider made from a one-piece blank made of folded material, in the production of which little waste is produced because the outline of the blank runs essentially within a rectangle and this rectangular area is used for the blank with only a little waste material.

US-A-3 191 766 describes a floor stand made of foldable material with diagonal fold lines in the side walls of the container.

Based on this prior art, the invention has for its object to propose a floor divider with the features of the preamble of the main claim, which is characterized by a further improved handling, combined with space-saving transport of the floor stand in empty condition and optimal use of the cutting benefits.

This problem is solved by the characterizing features of the main claim.

Due to the mentioned, oblique folding lines in the side walls of the container, the side walls and the Front wall to be folded flat onto the bottom of the container. This also contributes to the fact that, according to the invention, the container has no rear wall. This is also not necessary because the container is placed on the base or base at an appropriate angle.

If the front wall of the container is aged, its side walls are also unfolded, without the user having to do anything, so that basically for unfolding the entire, pre-assembled container, only the front wall is pivoted and unfolded from its position folded flat on the floor got to. In a way, she takes the side walls with her and also unfolds them.

The flat folding of the container is done in reverse order.

The foot is also pre-assembled accordingly and thus the entire floor stand.

It can thus be transported - when unfilled - folded flat and takes up minimal space. Then it is unfolded with a handle, for which purpose only the foot has to be pivoted relative to the container, the front wall of the container then being pivoted relative to the floor. This single swivel movement unfolds both the foot and the container. The container can then be filled with goods.

After the goods have been sold, they can be refilled or folded flat again and then disposed of with minimal volume.

Because the front wall of the foot is hinged to the top edge of the front wall of the container, there is minimal drop in the production of the blanks for the floor stand according to the invention.

Because the side walls of the container are double in such a way that the folding flap doubling the respective side wall is folded onto the outside of the inner folding flap and glued to it, the principle of pre-assembly applied here is retained. Not only are the side walls strengthened accordingly, but there is also no need to fold them up by folding them up, as was the case with the aforementioned utility model 82 22 484.

With these features, there is a further advantage, namely that the cut of at least the container and the front wall can be printed on one side and the print is then not only visible on the front of the floor stand, starting with the upper poster and ending with the lower front wall of the foot , but also on the side, namely on the now printed side walls.

An important embodiment of the invention is characterized in that the bottom of the container is extended upwards and that side tabs are articulated to the extensions, which are also articulated to the side walls. Here one takes advantage of the fact that the container has no upper rear wall. Instead, the extension mentioned is provided, which serves as a poster and is therefore connected in one piece to the container. In the prior art, such posters, that is to say advertising imprints related to the contents of the container, had to be made separately and connected to the floor stand or its container, for example via a plug connection. This does not apply to the floor stand according to the invention.

The mentioned side tabs stiffen the construction and hold the extension, e.g. B. a poster.

It serves to further stiffen the poster if stiffening straps are formed in the side straps. These are folded outwards and stiffen the construction.

Figur 1

einen Zuschnitt zur Herstellung eines Fußes eines erfindungsgemäßen Bodenaufstellers bei einer ersten Ausführungsform;

Figur 2

den dazugehörigen Zuschnitt für den Behälter mit angelenkter Vorderwand des Fußes;

Figur 3 - 6

schematische Draufsichten auf abgeänderte Aus führungsformen des Fußes, wobei dieser jeweils aus zweiteiligen Zuschnitten aufgefaltet ist, die miteinander verklebt sind.

The invention is explained in more detail below on the basis of exemplary embodiments, from which further important features result. It shows:

Figure 1

a blank for producing a foot of a floor stand according to the invention in a first embodiment;

Figure 2

the corresponding cut for the container with the articulated front wall of the foot;

Figure 3 - 6

schematic plan views of modified forms of the foot, the latter being unfolded from two-part blanks that are glued together.

With the exception of its front wall, the foot is unfolded from the blank shown in FIG.

This blank has a rear wall panel 1, to which 2 side wall panels 3 are hinged via fold lines. Longitudinal folding lines 4 run centrally in the side wall panels. Adhesive flaps 5 are articulated to the side wall panels.

A double, first transverse fold line 6 can be created in the blank, which also extends into the laterally adjacent side wall panel parts.

Furthermore, second, third and fourth, likewise double transverse folding lines 7, 8 and 9 are provided in the blank, by which the second transverse fold line 7 also extends into the laterally adjacent parts of the side wall panels 3.

A field 10 is formed between the transverse fold lines 7, 8, a field 11 is formed between the transverse fold lines 8, 9, and an adhesive flap 12 delimits the transverse fold lines 9.

The blank shown in Figure 2 has a front panel 13 of the foot, on the underside of which a stiffening tab 14 can be hinged. The blank according to FIG. 1 also has corresponding stiffening straps 14. The stiffening straps are placed flat against the inside of the relevant walls of the foot and glued to them, thereby forming a stiffened punching surface for the foot. The stiffening tabs 14 of the blank according to FIG. 1 are connected to one another by narrow webs at their lower edges, as a result of which they are connected and can be handled and handled more easily.

A front wall panel 16 of the container is articulated to the front wall panel 13 of the foot via a fold line 15 on the upper edge of the front wall panel 13.

A bottom panel 17 of the container is articulated to the front panel 16 and in turn side panel panels 18.

The bottom panel 17 is extended at its top and this extension 19 can be hinged to the bottom panel 17 via a fold line 20. A further transverse fold line 21 can also be provided in the extension 19.

Creasing lines 22 run in the side wall panels 18 so that they can be doubled, as described at the beginning. Partial side wall panels 23, 24 are thereby formed.

In the partial side wall panels 23, 24 there are inclined scratch lines 25 which coincide when the partial side wall panels are superimposed. The side walls and with them the front wall panel 16 can be folded flat onto the bottom panel 17 via these scoring lines. For this purpose, the scoring lines start from the lower, lateral corners 26 of the container.

In FIG. 2, the fold line 25 running in the field 23 is designed as a scoring and is therefore drawn in with a solid line.

Adhesive flaps 27 are hinged to the inner partial side wall panels 23 and are glued to the front wall panel 16.

Lateral stiffening brackets 28 are articulated to the extension 19 and can be stabilized via oblique fold lines 29. The extension 19 can also be folded up via further, also inclined folding lines 30 into a position parallel to the walls 16, 18, specifically around the folding line 20.

The fold lines 6, 20, 21 and 30 enable the flat folded material to be assembled.

Figure 1 shows that the edges 31 of the side wall panels 3 are inclined with arcuate recesses 32 approximately in the region of the longitudinal fold lines 5 and extending from there to the outside.

Lateral widenings 33 on the upper side of the front panel 13 ensure a stable articulation of the front panel 16 to the front panel 13 and also bring about an attractive visual transition from the foot to the container.

The adhesive tabs 5 of the blank according to FIG. 1 are in the area the side edges glued to the front panel 13, thereby completing the foot. In addition, the adhesive tab 12 is glued to the rear wall of the foot approximately in the middle of the bottom panel 17 on the underside thereof. Furthermore, the partial side wall panels 23, 24 and the adhesive tabs 27 are glued, as described above. This also applies to the stiffening brackets 14. The floor stand is then pre-assembled. It can be shipped folded flat, and its container is also folded flat.

From this flat-folded position, it is unfolded in a few simple steps, it being essential that the distance between the front wall and the rear wall of the foot increases automatically, as a result of which the foot is unfolded. At the same time, the front wall panel 16 of the container assumes an approximately right-angled position with respect to its bottom panel 17, as a result of which the container is also unfolded.

In the position of use, the unfolded container lies inclined on the foot, as described and illustrated in the German utility model 82 22 484 mentioned at the beginning. The recesses 32 are also provided for the above-mentioned pivoting movement of the container relative to the foot, completely as described in the mentioned utility model specification, the disclosure of which also hereby belongs to the disclosure of this application, unless otherwise stated. In particular, deviating from the teaching of this utility model specification, the invention provides that the container can be unfolded, as explained at the beginning. However, the disclosure of this utility model specification explains the basic functioning of such a floor stand.

It should also be mentioned that, as a rule, the unfolded container is filled with goods and with them lying flat against it Foot is shipped. The foot is then unfolded in a few simple steps.

Figure 3 shows schematically a plan view of a variant of such a foot, from which it is also clear that this one-piece foot is glued together in the area 36.

FIGS. 4-6 each show different embodiments of two-part feet, also with adhesive zones 36.

In detail, a cut part of the foot is glued to the front wall panel and the two side wall panels in FIG. In FIG. 5, the front wall panel is glued to the other cut parts of the foot, similarly to the embodiment according to FIGS. 1 and 2. In FIG. 5, however, the front wall panel is longer.

In FIG. 6 the front wall panel is connected to one of the side wall panels and this blank is glued to the rear wall panel and the other side wall panel.

Claims (4)

1. A floor-standing display unit of folding material, consisting of a prefabricated receptacle for receiving goods and a base part with a plurality of walls (1, 3, 13), which base part can, when folded flat along longitudinal folding lines (4,4), be folded to rest close against the receptacle and can be unfolded from this position into its use position by being pivoted relative to the receptacle, in the use position the receptacle resting on upper edges (31), which are V-shaped in profile when viewed laterally, of the lateral walls (3) of the base part while being inclined to the horizontal, and the receptacle has a bottom (17), lateral walls (18) which can be positioned vertical and are hinged on the latter, and a front wall (16), characterised in that the lateral walls (18) are composed of two wall parts (23, 24) connected by means of a folding line (22), the outer wall (24) being folded onto the exterior of the inner wall (23) and struck thereto, in that diagonal folding lines (25) are provided in the lateral walls (18) of the receptacle, these folding lines (25) running at an incline from the lower front corners (26) of the receptacle to the free edges of the lateral walls (18) of the receptacle, and in that the front wall (13) of the base part is connected to the upper edge (15) of the front wall (16) of the receptacle.
2. A floor-standing display unit in accordance with Claim 1, characterised in that the bottom (17) of the receptacle is extended upwards.
3. A floor-standing display unit in accordance with Claim 2, characterised in that lateral tabs (28) are hinged on the extension (19) and are also hinged on the lateral walls (18).
4. A floor-standing display unit in accordance with Claim 3, characterised in that stiffening tabs are formed in the lateral tabs (28).

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