EP1561404A1 - Sales display for various articles, especially for food products with expiration date - Google Patents

Abstract

The device has a framework (1) including two lateral walls (2) and a transversal wall (3) connecting the lateral walls. Supports are disposed in positions, such that detachable shelves (9) are placed in horizontal positions on the supports. The shelves are formed of a packing made of a semi-rigid material e.g. cardboard, and transported to a place of sale for displaying food products.

Description

The present invention relates to a display device for sale various articles, in particular foodstuffs with a date consumption limit. It concerns more particularly, but without be limited, the exhibition for sale of bakery products packaged in a packaging made of a flexible material, such as breads, rye breads, whole loaves, or more buns or other pastry items.

Such fresh products, which have an expiry date displayed, can not be delivered in large quantities to sales, supermarkets or hypermarkets, in which they are offered consumers, and sellers tend to continuous replenishment of the shelves of linear they are exposed. This is a significant penalty on the premises as it is necessary to check products daily. have reached their sell-by date and are still exposed to the public and replace them with fresh products. It is well known that buyers tend to stock up on the shelves that are within reach of their hands and not to bend or raise arms to reach lower or higher shelving. It results that it is necessary not only to replenish exhibit locations for sale of these items but to wear a particular attention to those of those locations that are overlooked by the public and from which it is necessary to periodically transfer a important part of these articles at more accessible levels.

In the case of industrial bakery products, we meet in addition another disadvantage, namely the fact that they deform when subjected to external pressure or shock and It is therefore not possible to stack them on top of one another in linear. This results in poor use of the rays of these the last, while it is well known that in all places of sale aims at optimum use of available volumes.

The present invention aims to remedy these disadvantages by offering a sales display device that is adapted to the specificity of the products on sale and, in particular, their dimensions, avoiding overlapping them, and which can be used on places of sale in addition to the usual linear, at the ends of these or between successive linear.

The present invention also aims at facilitating the replenishment of fresh products of such a device, by exposing products in a part of the overpack that was used to convey up to the place of sale a lot of these products in their packaging flexible individual.

• une ossature en un matériau rigide comportant deux parois latérales parallèles, réunies entre elles suivant deux bords parallèles par une paroi transversale, cette ossature étant apte à reposer sur un support horizontal avec les trois parois disposées verticalement ;
• solidaires d'au moins les deux parois parallèles de cette ossature, des supports disposés dans des positions telles que des tablettes puissent prendre appui en parallèle sur ceux-ci dans des positions horizontales ;
• des tablettes amovibles reposant en parallèle sur les supports et aptes à supporter les articles à exposer en vente,

   ce dispositif étant caractérisé en ce que les tablettes amovibles sont constituées par une partie de dimensions appropriées issue d'un emballage en un matériau semi-rigide tel que le carton ou le carton ondulé, ayant servi à l'acheminement jusqu'au lieu de vente d'un lot des articles à exposer, lesquels sont de préférence protégés par un conditionnement individuel, de manière à pouvoir mettre en place en une unique opération sur le support associé une tablette et le lot d'articles qu'elle supporte.For this purpose, the subject of the invention is an exposure device for the sale of various articles, in particular foodstuffs having a final date of consumption and, more particularly, of bakery or industrial pastry articles, this device comprising :

• a frame made of a rigid material comprising two parallel side walls, joined together along two parallel edges by a transverse wall, this frame being able to rest on a horizontal support with the three walls arranged vertically;
• secured to at least the two parallel walls of this frame, supports arranged in positions such that shelves can bear in parallel on them in horizontal positions;
• removable shelves resting in parallel on the supports and able to support the articles to be displayed for sale,

this device being characterized in that the removable shelves are constituted by a portion of appropriate dimensions from a packaging made of a semi-rigid material such as cardboard or corrugated cardboard, used for transport to the place of sale a batch of articles to be exposed, which are preferably protected by individual packaging, so as to implement in a single operation on the associated support a tablet and the batch of articles it supports.

Preferably, the spacing of the tablets is just sufficient for that the tablets and the batch of articles that they support can be put in place, so that the optimum use can be made of available volume.

Advantageously, each tablet comprises a flat part, on which the items to be displayed for sale rest, this flat part being adjacent, preferably, along its edges contiguous to the three walls of the frame, with erect sidewalls perpendicular to the flat part, while the portion of this flat part of the tablet facing outward is devoid of wall.

This portion of the planar portion facing outward may possibly be doubled by an adjoining, folded and glued part against her, to stiffen her.

Such a tablet may be constituted for example by the tray portion of the two-part package described in EP-A-2 799 745.

By judiciously choosing the spacing of the walls of the framework of the device according to the invention, it is thus possible to put in position on the supports whose walls are equipped not only a tablet constituted by a part of the packaging in which a lot of items was transported to the point of sale, but also, in a single operation, this batch of articles, the latter not to be transferred individually from the packaging to the device, which represents a considerable saving of time for warehouse handlers.

Of course, as in the past, unsold items based on less accessible tablets should be transferred to other tablets, but the tablets thus emptied of their contained in a single piece of cardboard or cardboard corrugated can be scrapped and replaced immediately by a another similar tablet supporting a whole lot of items.

Another advantage of the device of the invention is that, given the spacing of the shelves adapted to the height of the articles displayed in sale, virtually all the available volume of this device will be be used in an optimum way.

The shelf supports can be of any type, known or new, but they must be able to withstand the weight of a lot of items on sale because the tablets associated with them and which are formed of cardboard, corrugated board or the like and of the initial overwrap have a relatively limited.

The supports of the shelves are preferably firmly attached to removable walls of the frame, to facilitate the assembly and disassembly of the device at the point of sale. These supports can for example, to include metal rods parallel to the walls parallel of the frame and joined transversely by rods parallel to the third wall of the framework on which they are welded. To make such supports integral with the framework of the device, the rods arranged transversely advantageously have their ends contiguous to the side walls of the frame curved downwards and engaged in openings arranged in these walls. Alternatively, two rods arranged transversely in contiguous position may have their extremities joined by a curved portion arranged parallel to the wall corresponding frame and engaged in an opening in this wall.

La figure 1 est une vue en perspective, en partie éclatée, de l'ossature et des supports de tablettes du dispositif d'exposition en vente ;

La figure 2 est une vue en perspective de ce dispositif avec deux tablettes amovibles, en position d'utilisation, dont l'une emplie d'articles exposés en vente ;

La figure 3 est une vue en perspective d'une tablette vide formant tiroir amovible.

It is this last form of implementation of the invention which will be described hereinafter in more detail, by way of example. In this description, reference will be made to the attached schematic drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view, partly broken away, of the frame and shelf supports of the display device for sale;

Figure 2 is a perspective view of this device with two removable shelves, in the use position, one filled with items on sale;

Figure 3 is a perspective view of an empty shelf forming a removable drawer.

As seen in the drawings, the exhibition device for sale shown comprises a frame 1, comprising two flat walls parallel 2 rigidly secured to a transverse wall 3 which is perpendicular or articulated on it. In the position of use, the walls 2, 3 rest on the ground or on any support by their base or by parts forming a base and they are arranged in vertical position. The walls 2, 3, can be in any sufficiently rigid material.

4 shelf supports, here comprising two pairs of rods 5, which in the position of use are parallel to the wall 3, are welded on pairs of rods 6, which, in use position, are parallel to the walls 2. The lateral ends of the rods 5 of each pair are joined by a curved portion 7, parallel to the walls 2, and these parts 7 are engaged in openings 8 arranged in the corresponding position in the walls 2 at levels spaced regularly in the direction of the height of these walls, way that the rods 5 bear on the base of the openings 8. In this way, removable shelf supports are easily made. can easily be made integral with the framework 1 on the premises of sale and be dismantled after use.

As a variant, the supports which have just been described could understand that a pair of 5 rods, or more than two pairs. We could also use different tablet holders, removable or not, without departing from the scope of the invention.

As indicated above, the tablets 9 of the device, comprise a flat part 9 has resulted from the packaging which was used for the delivery to the point of sale of articles 10 to present to the public, protected by a package Each of the shelves 9 are in the form of a drawer, closed on three sides of the flat portion 9a on which the articles 10 are resting. walls straightened vertically and open outward at its end facing the buyers.

Each shelf 9 can be separated from the transport packaging articles 9 by breaking lines of breakthroughs provided therein and the tablet 9 can be transferred to the support on which it is intended to bear in same time as the batch of articles 10 that it supports, without having to put these in place individually, which represents a considerable advantage. At the front end of the drawer 9, the flat portion 9a of these supporting sections 10 can advantageously be lined with a portion 11 adjoining folded and adhered against it, in order to stiffen it.

As explained, the gap between the different tablets of the device can be calculated to the fair, so as to allow the introduction without difficulty of the tablet 9 loaded with articles 10, without any loss of space, while allowing buyers possible to have easy access to these items, and without having to overlay these, which in the case of bakery products or industrial pastry, could damage them.

If some tablets 9 more easily available to buyers empty of articles 10 faster than others, it will be easy to complete empty tablets from tablets still containing items for sale and replace them with new ones tablets 9 containing a complete lot of items 10, the tablets removed can be discarded without problems, since they are made of cardboard, corrugated cardboard or similar material.

The device according to the invention thus offers an ease and a filling capacity much higher than that of the shelves of standard lines, which they can usefully complement, in the case of exposure to the public of products with a sell-by date.

Claims (6)

Display device for the sale of miscellaneous articles (10), in particular foodstuffs having a final date of consumption and, more particularly, of bakery or industrial pastry articles, this device comprising: a frame (1) made of a rigid material comprising two parallel side walls (2), joined together along two parallel edges by a transverse wall (3), this frame being able to rest on a horizontal support with the three walls arranged vertically; secured to at least the two parallel walls of this framework, supports (4) arranged in positions such that shelves (9) can bear in parallel on them in horizontal positions; removable shelves (9) resting in parallel on the supports (4) and able to support the items (10) to be displayed for sale, this device being characterized in that the shelves (9) are constituted by a removable portion of appropriate dimensions from a packaging made of a semi-rigid material such as cardboard or corrugated cardboard, which was used for transporting to place of sale of a lot of articles to be exhibited, which are preferably protected by an individual package, so as to be able to implement in a single operation on the support (4) associated a shelf (9) and the batch of articles that it supports. Device according to claim 1, characterized in that each shelf (9) comprises a flat part (9 a ), on which the articles (10) to be displayed for sale rest, this flat part (9 a ) being adjacent, preferably following its edges contiguous to the three walls (2, 3) of the frame (1) to side walls erected perpendicularly, while the portion of the flat portion of the shelf (9) facing outwardly has no wall. Device according to claim 2, characterized in that the portion of the flat portion (9 a ) of the shelves (9) facing outwards is doubled by an adjoining part, folded and glued against it to stiffen it. Device according to one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that the spacing between the supports (4) is such that it simply allows to introduce the tablets (9) loaded with a batch of articles (10). ), so as to make optimum use of the available volume. Device according to one of claims 1 to 4, characterized in that the supports of the shelves (9) are detachably secured to the parallel walls (2) of the support. Device according to claim 5, characterized in that the supports (4) of the shelves (9) comprise at least one pair of rods (5) which, in the position of use, are parallel to the parallel walls (2) of the support ( 1) and which are rigidly secured to rods (6), which, in the position of use of the support, are parallel to the third wall (3) of the support (1), the ends of the pair of rods (5) being bent or joined by curved parts (7) which are substantially parallel to the walls (2) of the support (1) in the position of use of the support, these curved ends or these curved parts (7) being engaged in openings (8) arranged at regular intervals along the height of the walls (2) and bearing on the base of these openings.

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