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EP0777990A2
EP0777990A2 EP96118189A EP96118189A EP0777990A2 EP 0777990 A2 EP0777990 A2 EP 0777990A2 EP 96118189 A EP96118189 A EP 96118189A EP 96118189 A EP96118189 A EP 96118189A EP 0777990 A2 EP0777990 A2 EP 0777990A2
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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
    • A47B73/00—Bottle cupboards; Bottle racks
    • A47B73/002—Racks made of wire
    • 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
    • A47F5/00—Show stands, hangers, or shelves characterised by their constructional features
    • A47F5/08—Show stands, hangers, or shelves characterised by their constructional features secured to the wall, ceiling, or the like; Wall-bracket display devices
    • A47F5/0807—Display panels, grids or rods used for suspending merchandise or cards supporting articles; Movable brackets therefor
    • A47F5/083—Grids; Article supports therefor
    • 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
    • A47F7/28—Show stands, hangers, or shelves, adapted for particular articles or materials for containers, e.g. flasks, bottles, tins, milk packs
    • A47F7/283—Show stands or the like having a compartment for each container

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  • the invention relates to a wall element used for the presentation of goods with a wall surface provided with oblique, intersecting slots and at least one bracket detachably attached to the wall element, projecting beyond the wall surface and engaging for support in at least two of the intersecting oblique slots with two downward converging contact surfaces.
  • the invention further relates to a holder for such a wall element.
  • a wall element of the type mentioned at the outset with detachably fastened holders is known, which is particularly suitable for receiving and presenting printed products or blister packs, i.e. mainly serve from lighter objects.
  • the wall element is also excellently suited for the presentation of heavy objects which project relatively far beyond the wall surface and therefore in principle also for the presentation of bottles, for example wine - or spirits bottles can be used.
  • printed products and blister packs can be stacked one after the other in the holders so that a printed front side points away from the wall element towards the front of the room and is easy to read, the amount of space required for bottles would be very large if they corresponded to them would be placed upright in the brackets.
  • upright bottles can be knocked over relatively easily, particularly during the removal of adjacent bottles.
  • the wine bottles in the holders should, if possible, not be in an upright position in which their corks remain unwetted.
  • Bottled-stacked bottles have a much higher stability and a smaller space requirement in terms of the wall area required, but the bottle labels pointing upwards are difficult or impossible to read without removing a bottle, which is why such an arrangement is unsuitable for a sales presentation.
  • the object of the invention is to improve the known wall element in such a way that bottles can also be presented in an optically appealing manner, the bottles being arranged stably, safely and easily on any holder without the viewer having to look at the information on a bottle label is difficult.
  • the holder has space for several bottles lying with their longitudinal axis perpendicular to the wall surface on the support surfaces and has a receptacle for another bottle with its longitudinal axis aligned substantially parallel to the wall surface.
  • the invention is based on the idea of positioning one of the bottles received in the holder in a raised position and with a legible label, while the rest of the bottles are stacked on top of one another on the support surfaces to be converged downwards, thereby preventing bottles from falling or falling and the space requirement with regard to the required wall area is reduced as much as possible.
  • a preferred embodiment of the invention provides that the depth of the support surfaces is adapted to the bottle size such that the bottle necks protrude beyond a front edge of the preferably flat support surfaces.
  • the bottle which is aligned with its longitudinal axis essentially parallel to the wall surface, rests with its bottom against a supporting surface of the holder, which is preferably arranged in an extension of one of the two contact surfaces, the longitudinal axis of the bottle preferably being parallel to the other Contact surface runs.
  • the in the recordings of all brackets Bottles located on a wall element are preferably aligned parallel to one another, so that they are presented following the alignment of part of the slots in an inclined position which corresponds approximately to that in which a wine waiter presents a wine bottle before opening, but with the label facing forward and does not point upwards.
  • falling out of a bottle from the receptacle is prevented by the receptacle at least partially encompassing the bottle in the region of its belly, as a result of which its base does not move to a greater extent with respect to the support surface and thus does not move even then can slip off if the bottle bottom is only partially against the support surface.
  • the wall elements without the brackets are designed as described in the aforementioned DE-OS 43 27 843, the disclosure of which is hereby incorporated in particular in this regard as part of the present application.
  • the L-shaped or preferably T-shaped slits delimit a multiplicity of holding elements arranged obliquely next to one another, which protrude beyond a supporting structure of the wall element, their front end being widened to form a longitudinal recess or undercut adjacent to the slit.
  • the brackets are supported on the holding elements, each of which engages in at least two intersecting slots so that they cannot tilt downward, each resting on several adjacent holding elements in the region of the edges of the slots.
  • the rear edge areas of the brackets are preferably angled perpendicular to the support surfaces and engage in the undercuts or longitudinal recesses behind the extended ends of the holding elements, their backs abutting and supporting against the supporting structure.
  • the wall element 2 shown in the drawing is intended for the presentation and presentation of wine bottles, for example in the sales rooms of winegrowers, wineries or wine shops.
  • a plurality of brackets 4, 6 in the arrangement shown in FIG. 1 or in any other arrangement next to and / or one above the other can be detachably fastened to the wall element 2.
  • the brackets 4, 6 each carry several wine bottles 5, 7, which can all be filled, for example, with a wine of the same origin and the same vintage.
  • one (5) of the wine bottles 5, 7 is presented to the viewer in the raised position with the label facing forward, while the remaining bottles 7 are arranged lying on the holder 4, 6.
  • the bottom of the lying bottles faces the wall element 2 and preferably abuts against it, while its neck points forward to the viewer, so that the bottles 7 can be easily gripped and removed from the holder 4, 6.
  • the wall element 2 consists essentially of a rectangular, continuous particle board 8, which forms the supporting structure of the wall element 2, and a plurality of holding elements 10, which project at a distance from one another over a broad side surface of the particle board 8 (FIG. 4).
  • the front ends 14 of the holding elements 10 facing away from the supporting structure have the shape of congruent squares whose edges are aligned with the edges of adjacent squares and whose diagonals run parallel to horizontal and vertical edge boundaries 16, 18 of the wall element 2.
  • Spaces 12 are formed between the opposite edges of respectively adjacent holding elements 10, each of which the spaces 12 that are aligned in the longitudinal direction form one of a plurality of parallel slots 20, each of which extends from top left to bottom right or from top right to bottom left the wall element 2 run.
  • the slots 20 form two sets of slots 22, 24 which intersect at an angle of 90 degrees.
  • the slit shares 22, 24 can also include other angles, in which case the angles open toward the horizontal edge boundary 16 or towards the vertical edge boundary 18 are of different sizes.
  • the holding element 10 is each provided with four dowels 34 projecting rearward beyond the web 30, which are each arranged in the region of the corners of the web 30 and are driven into corresponding bores 36 in the chipboard 8 for fastening the holding element 10.
  • the web 30 formed on the plate-shaped part 26 rests with its flat rear end face 32 on the front of the chipboard 8. Cavities 48 enclosed by the webs 30 between the chipboard 8 and the plate-shaped parts 26 of the holding elements 10 serve to reduce the weight of the wall element 2.
  • the spaces 12 between two adjacent holding elements 10 and thus also the slots 20 have a T-shaped cross section, with a foot of the T-shaped slot cross section from the space between the mutually parallel side edges 38 of two adjacent plate-shaped parts 26 is formed and opens on the wall surface 28.
  • the arms of the T-shaped slot cross section are formed by longitudinal recesses or undercuts 40 behind the edges 38 of the plate-shaped parts 28. These longitudinal recesses or undercuts 40 are each delimited by a boundary surface 42 of the plate-shaped parts 26 facing the chipboard 8 and projecting outwardly beyond the web 30, a surface area 44 of the chipboard 8 opposite these surfaces 42 and an outer surface 46 of the web 30.
  • the holders 4, 6 provided for receiving wine bottles are each formed in one piece. They each comprise two differently long, essentially rectangular supports 50, 52, which converge or converge at the same angle as the slots 20 downwards in a V-shape, with their obliquely upward-pointing upper sides flat support surfaces 54, 56 for those on the Bracket 4, 6 form lying wine bottles 7.
  • the width of the support surfaces 54, 56 is adapted to the size of the bottles 5, 7 such that a front edge 58 of the two supports 50, 52 facing the space is located approximately below the transition between the belly and the neck of the bottles 7, so that their neck protrudes forward over the pads 50, 52.
  • the bottles 7 are expediently stacked on the support surfaces 54, 56 in such a way that a bottommost bottle rests on both support surfaces 54, 56, while bottles arranged above them either rest on one of the two support surfaces 54 or 56 and on another bottle or from two adjacent ones Bottles are supported, being in a recess formed between them (Fig. 1).
  • the holders 4, 6 further comprise a receptacle 60 for the bottle 5 positioned in the highlighted position, which protrudes forward over the supports 50, 52 and holds the bottle 5 in such a way that its longitudinal axis 62 parallel to the slots 20 by a (24) of the two slit coulters 22, 24 is aligned, the bottle 5 essentially being the bottom three to four bottles 7 of one on the bearing surface 54 of the longer edition 50 rows of bottles on the front are partially or completely covered.
  • the receptacle 60 consists essentially of a bracket 64 which forms a support surface 66 for the bottom of a bottle held by the receptacle 60 and at its front end a pipe section 68 (FIG. 2) or two brackets 70 (FIGS. 1 and 5 to 7) ) which completely or partially encompass the belly of this bottle and thereby hold the bottom of the bottle on the support surface 66.
  • the arm 64 protrudes forward at the lower end of the two supports 50, 52 in an extension thereof, i.e. more precisely on both sides of the point where the two supports 50, 52 meet at an angle.
  • the length of the arm 64 is adapted to the length of the bottles 5, 7 in such a way that the front ends of those bottles 7, which are completely or partially covered behind a bottle 5 arranged in the receptacle 60, are a certain distance from the bottle 5 in have the receptacle 60 so that they can be removed easily.
  • the configuration of the arm 64 with regard to its shape and material is expediently adapted to that of the holder 4, 6 as a whole.
  • the arm 64 in the embodiment shown in FIG. 2, like the holder 4 itself, is made of transparent plastic, the support surface 66 being formed by the top of a plate 72 which projects forward as an integrated part of the shorter support 52, while the cylindrical tube piece 68 made of transparent plastic holds the bottle 5.
  • the pipe section 68 is glued to a part of its outer circumference on a plate 74 which projects forward as an integrated part of the longer support 50 and is integrally connected along its lower edge 76 to the lower edge of the plate 72, its front edge 78 in one plane is arranged with the front edge 79 of the plate 72.
  • the pipe section 68 is fastened in the vicinity of the front edge 78 of the plate 74 on the upper side thereof, projecting slightly forward over the plate 74, so that a bottle 5 inserted into the pipe section 68 only partially rests on the support surface 66 with its bottom .
  • the inside diameter of the pipe section 68 is somewhat larger than the outside diameter of the bottle belly, so that the bottle 5 can be pushed well into the pipe section 68 from above with the bottom first.
  • the tube piece 68 engages around the belly of the bottle 5 below a transition between the belly and the neck.
  • An upper and lower edge of the tube piece 68 run parallel to the support surface 66, which in turn is itself aligned parallel to the slots 20 of one (22) of the two slot shares 22, 24, while a longitudinal axis of the tube piece 68 parallel to the slots 20 of the other slot shares 24 is aligned.
  • the entire holder 6 and thus also the extension arm consists of rigid metal wire rods 80, 82, which are preferably made of steel and can be chrome-plated or nickel-plated or provided with a plastic coating.
  • the metal wire rods 80, 82 are welded at right angles one above the other to form a V-shaped metal wire grid with legs of different lengths, the upper sides of the respective upper rods 80 forming the inclined support surfaces 54, 56.
  • some of the wire rods 80 perpendicular to the wall surface 28 are extended towards the front, a total of three in the exemplary embodiment shown, one 80 'of which protrude beyond the shorter edition 52 and two 80' 'beyond the longer edition 50.
  • the elongated wire rods 80 ', 80' ' are connected to each other for reinforcement by a further wire rod 82' bent at right angles, which together with the front end of the one elongated wire rod 80 'forms the support surface 66.
  • the free end of the two other elongated wire rods 80 ′′ projecting beyond the wire rod 82 ′ is each bent in a circular manner upwards and backwards, the two brackets 70 being formed, which largely separate the belly of the bottle held by the receptacle 60 encompass its circumference.
  • Both brackets 4, 6 are each supported against two diagonally opposite holding elements 10a, 10b and others at an intersection of two slots 20 in the horizontal direction adjacent holding elements 10c, 10d arranged above (FIG. 1), wherein they rest on the obliquely upward-pointing side edges 38 of their plate-shaped parts 26 (FIG. 4).
  • the brackets 4, 6 each engage with their rear edge area facing the wall element 2, i.e. a rear edge of the two supports 50, 52 into two intersecting slots 20, with a web 90 (FIG. 3) or the rearmost 82 ′′ of the wire rods parallel to the wall surface protruding, possibly interrupted, from the rear edge region 82 (FIGS. 3 and 4) protrudes into the undercuts 40 behind the enlarged front ends 14 of the holding elements 10 and is supported against the chipboard 8, the holder 4, 6 being inserted into the slots 20 due to the V-shaped shape thereof folding down is prevented.
  • the brackets 4, 6 can be clamped in the slots 20, for which purpose a V-shaped wedge (not shown) is used, which in the area of the V-shaped lower end of the bracket 4, 6 against the
  • a V-shaped wedge (not shown) is used, which in the area of the V-shaped lower end of the bracket 4, 6 against the
  • the upper sides of the two supports 50, 52 are inserted between them and a further holding element 10 arranged above the intersection of the slots 20 (covered by the bottle 5 in FIG. 1), so that it engages in the intersecting slots 20.
  • the brackets 4, 6 cannot be released from their seats even by forces directed against the supports 50, 52 from below.

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