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EP0469612A1
EP0469612A1 EP91112962A EP91112962A EP0469612A1 EP 0469612 A1 EP0469612 A1 EP 0469612A1 EP 91112962 A EP91112962 A EP 91112962A EP 91112962 A EP91112962 A EP 91112962A EP 0469612 A1 EP0469612 A1 EP 0469612A1
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Matthias Thies
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K & T Handels- U Unternehmensberatungs GmbH
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47B—TABLES; DESKS; OFFICE FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; GENERAL DETAILS OF FURNITURE
    • A47B43/00—Cabinets, racks or shelf units, characterised by features enabling folding of the cabinet or the like

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  • All of this packaging is disposable packaging that ensures a correspondingly high amount of waste.
  • the plate-like boundary parts such as side walls, intermediate floors, rear wall, etc. should - if at all made of solid material - be made of light yet stable material and be constructed in such a way that optimum rigidity is achieved with the least possible use of material.
  • the side walls can have a lattice-like structure or the like.
  • the connecting elements enable the assembly of several containers to form larger units such as a continuous presentation front, a free-standing presentation gondola or the like, the overall unit being much more stable than individual containers connected side by side.
  • the container should have a dream shape, i.e. when opened, it should be several times higher than its width or depth.
  • the side walls will consist of solid material and will not be articulated in themselves, with several horizontal shelves being attached to the side walls when the container is open. If these are intermediate shelves made of solid material, the side walls are thereby kept in the spread state and thus the container is kept in its unfolded state.
  • the rear wall will preferably have only one hinge in the middle and additionally have stops so that the rear wall cannot be moved beyond its extended position.
  • the rear wall is at most twice as wide as the side walls, so that the M-shaped fold results in a compact, flat package with a rectangular cross section in the folded state.
  • Another way of folding is in that the two side walls are connected to one another via at least two, in each case articulated intermediate floors arranged at the bottom and top of the side walls. If these are articulated intermediate floors in the horizontal position, they thereby stretch the side walls apart, so that the container is in the opened state. The intermediate floors or the side walls have stops so that the intermediate floors cannot move beyond the extended, horizontal position.
  • these intermediate shelves are folded upwards, that is to say if there is only one joint in the course of the intermediate shelves, they are brought into a vertically upward position. As a result, the side walls can in turn move in a parallel position to one another until they approach each other.
  • the advantage of this folding is that for reasons of stability there is not necessarily a back wall.
  • This means that the rear wall can either be left out entirely or can be replaced by an inherently unstable, for example flexible element such as a film or a textile fabric.
  • a further folding variant consists in creating the side walls and the rear wall from solid material, the rear wall in turn being articulatedly connected to the rear edges of the side walls, but beyond that has no further joint.
  • the side walls can be folded inwards when the container is collapsed, that is, they can be placed on the front of the rear wall.
  • the required intermediate shelves can here, for example, be connected in an articulated manner with their rear edge to the front of the rear wall and, for example, can be folded upwards before the container is collapsed until they rest against the rear wall.
  • the next step would then be to fold the side walls inwards, so that the container would again be a flat package with the length of the side walls or the rear wall when folded.
  • U-shaped brackets made of steel, etc. can be used as connecting elements for connecting individual containers, which can be placed over side walls lying next to one another or also rear walls lying against one another from above or from the side. For this purpose, corresponding recesses must be provided in the side walls or rear walls to be penetrated.
  • the intermediate floors which do not additionally have to serve for the stability of the container in the clamped state, can be, for example, solid plates which are inserted, for example, from the front into horizontal grooves on the inside of the side walls.
  • these intermediate floors can also consist of a flexible material, such as a textile fabric or a film, which is movably connected along its edges or at least at its corner points to the side walls.
  • a flexible material such as a textile fabric or a film
  • eyelets could be worked into such a flexible material in the vicinity of the corners, by means of which hooks etc. can be used to hang them into the opened container.
  • the shoes or other products can be placed on the intermediate floor of the opened container at the manufacturer without fear of relocation and the fear of chafing on the outer walls of the container during transportation.
  • an electronic component can also be glued into the hook-shaped part of the Velcro fastener, which is applied to the shoe sole, which triggers an alarm when an electronic lock is passed, which is located, for example, at the exit of the retail store. In this case, it is sufficient to introduce such electronic components only on a few shoes in order to achieve a sampling effect and a deterrent function.
  • the front front can be closed, for example, by a flexible material such as a film or a textile material, which is guided, for example, like a roller blind in vertically running grooves on the inside of the side walls in the area of their front edges.
  • the retailer only has to remove this cover after the individual containers have been set up in his sales rooms, by pushing them upwards in the groove or by winding them onto an upper edge of the container, which is biased by a spring-loaded roller.
  • the groove can also be used to insert advertising posters, price tags, etc. at the top of the container.
  • flexible covers can also be used as the rear wall in the first and third folding types described, in which the rear wall spreads the side parts apart, if, in the region of the rear edge, cross braces are also arranged in an articulated manner between the side walls and take over this spreading function .
  • cross braces are also arranged in an articulated manner between the side walls and take over this spreading function .
  • the folding principles described which were described using a slender, vertical, tower-shaped element, can also be applied to a transverse, correspondingly low element, the height of which corresponds to that of a single product to be accommodated, that is to say that it no longer contains any additional shelves for storing products.
  • the longest parts of the collapsible container are the horizontal parts which represent a base and a cover plate, in which case such collapsible individual levels must be stacked on top of one another and connected to one another in order to assemble larger units.
  • FIG. 1 a to 1 c show views of a container in the unfolded, half-folded and fully folded state, in which the rear wall is folded between the side walls, so that there is an M-shaped fold.
  • the rear wall 6 is hingedly connected to the side walls 5 in the vicinity of the rear edges 8 thereof via hinges 9.
  • the rear wall 6 has a hinge 10 in its center, so that the rear wall can be folded about a perpendicular axis.
  • the joint 10 moves with the adjacent parts of the rear wall 6 into the space between the two side walls 5 in the direction of their front edges 7, as indicated by the arrow in FIG Fig. 1 a indicated.
  • the side walls 5 of the container 1 approach each other in a parallel position, as is clear in the sequence of FIGS. 1 a to 1 c.
  • FIG. 1 a can also be seen an intermediate floor 4, which in this case consists of flexible material, such as textile fabric.
  • This intermediate floor 4 has eyelets 17 in its corners, via which the intermediate floor 4 is connected to the inner sides of the side walls 5.
  • the front eyelets 17 are not directly connected to the side walls 5, but rather each with a vertical rod 16, which is slidably fastened on the inside of the side wall 5 in the vertical direction relative to the latter.
  • FIG. 1 b it can also be seen how the intermediate floors 4 made of flexible material when the container 1 is folded around the inwardly migrating rear wall.
  • Fig. 1 b on the left edge of the container can also be seen how a connection to an adjacent container is created by means of U-shaped clamps 12 which are pushed from above over two adjacent side walls 5.
  • the design of the joint 10 ensures that the rear wall 6 cannot move rearward beyond the extended position.
  • a rear wall configuration is of course possible, in which this does not move into the space between the side walls 5 when the container is folded, but rather moves the joint 10 backwards in the direction opposite the arrow of FIG. 1 a, that is to say away from the side walls 5.
  • Such a design has the advantage that in the space between the side walls 5 a free sagging of the flexible shelves 4 is possible, and the folded container is narrower than in Fig. 1 c.
  • the folded container then has a greater extent in depth corresponding to half the width of the rear wall 6.
  • FIG. 2 a to 2 c another folding of the container 1 is shown, in which the side walls of the container are held in the open state by some fixed intermediate floors 4 at a distance.
  • a back wall is not absolutely necessary in such a construction for reasons of stability, but will be present for the purpose of presenting the contamination.
  • the lighter and cheaper variant of a flexible rear wall made of film or textile material can be used.
  • FIGS. 2 b and 2 c show the container 1 in the unfolded state.
  • a fixed intermediate floor 4 is shown above, below and in the middle, which are connected to the side walls 5 by hinges 9.
  • These fixed shelves 4 each have a hinge 11 in the middle, which makes it possible for these hinges 11 to move upwards when the container is folded - as can be seen in FIGS. 2 b and 2 c - from the extended position of the shelves 4 , so that the bent intermediate floors first take on a roof-like shape and later lie approximately parallel to the mutually approximated, parallel side walls 5.
  • the uppermost intermediate floor 4 naturally protrudes upward from the folded container, while the other fixed intermediate floors are located in the space between the side walls 5.
  • a number of flexible intermediate floors 4 made of textile material are arranged between the side walls 5 and are stretched when a container 1 is unfolded, as shown in FIG. 2 a. As the side walls 5 approach each other, these flexible intermediate floors 4 sag more and more due to the force of gravity and, when the container is completely collapsed - as shown in FIG. 2 c - are in the still available space between the side walls 5 and the folded intermediate floors 4.
  • a cross strut 15 is drawn in by way of example in FIG. 2 a, which is fastened to one of the side walls 9 by means of a joint and, for example, is folded upwards into the vertical position before the container is collapsed, in order to bring the sides closer together walls 5 not to hinder each other.
  • this cross strut expands with its free end in a corresponding recess in the opposite side wall 5 and thereby additionally keeps the side walls 5 at the desired distance.
  • Such a cross strut 15 can serve, for example, for additional stabilization or can also replace the middle, fixed intermediate floor 4 which is otherwise used.
  • the type of joint 11 or stops (not shown) on the edges of the individual parts of the fixed intermediate floors 4 ensure that the fixed intermediate floors 4 only extend upwards from the extended, horizontal position, but not downwards over the extended position can move out.
  • 3 a to 3 c show a third variant of the folding of the container 1:
  • the side walls 5 are connected to the rear wall 6 via hinges 9.
  • this has no additional joint in its course and is additionally cranked somewhat on its outer edges in the direction of the side walls 5, in order to still have space between the folded side walls 5 and when the container 1 is completely folded, as shown in FIG. 3b Allow rear wall 6.
  • This space is required for the existing fixed intermediate floors 4, which are connected via hinges 19 at their rear edges to the inside of the rear wall 6, as shown in the cut-away side view of FIG. 3 c.
  • the side walls 5 can be folded inwards according to the direction of the arrows in Fig. 3 a, the fixed intermediate floors 4, which rest in the horizontal position near the front edges on stops 10 of the side walls 5, upwards into the vertical position folded, in which they come to lie parallel near the inside of the rear wall 6, as shown in Fig. 3 b.
  • the side walls 5 can then be folded inwards until they rest against the undersides of the fixed intermediate floors 4.
  • flexible intermediate shelves 4 can in turn be fastened between the side walls 5, provided that these are located at a sufficient distance above the fixed intermediate shelves 4 in order not to hinder their folding up.
  • FIGS. 1, 2 and 3 a floor plan was assumed in which the side facing the viewer, i.e. the width of the rear wall or front front, is larger than the width of the side walls, so that e.g. Shoes can only be placed on the intermediate floors standing in front of the viewer.
  • At least the folding variants of FIGS. 1 and 2 also allow a base area of the container 1, in which the depth of the container is greater than its width, so that, for example, shoes can be arranged with the tip towards the viewer.

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  • Purses, Travelling Bags, Baskets, Or Suitcases (AREA)
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  • Packaging Of Annular Or Rod-Shaped Articles, Wearing Apparel, Cassettes, Or The Like (AREA)
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  • Containers And Packaging Bodies Having A Special Means To Remove Contents (AREA)
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EP2457841A1 (fr) * 2009-07-22 2012-05-30 Industrias Alegre, S.A. Caisse à plateforme de charge pliable
DE102016118021A1 (de) * 2016-09-23 2018-03-29 Josef Ebnet Klappbarer Ladungsträger und Verfahren zur Bereitstellung eines klappbaren Ladungsträgers
US10231538B2 (en) 2013-08-08 2019-03-19 Rehrig Pacific Company Collapsible shelving unit
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