EP1721552B1 - Displaying device with shelf - Google Patents

Abstract

The displaying device has a plate (5) which has an adjustable holder for displaying one object at its front side. A device which is to be displayed is mounted at the front side of the rack compartment. The plate is at least partially transparent.

Description

The invention relates to a presentation device with shelves, with the help of a housed in a storage rack or shelf sales is to be presented to a potential customer.

Storage shelves or shelves usually have shelves on which the items are usually packaged. At the front of the shelf a mostly oblique surface is arranged, for example in the form of a rail, on which a name of the object is housed. With the ever increasing number of different, exactly adapted to a particular case objects, the name of the items is getting longer, so that they are often difficult to distinguish.

A presentation device is already known ( US 5857578 ), which is not intended for a sales shelf or storage rack. It contains a vertically arranged plate with several parallel undercut grooves, wherein in each groove an edge of a board can be inserted. Several plates can be combined.

The invention is based on the object to provide a way in such shelves the most packaged items one Showcase users so that they can identify them at a glance.

To solve this problem, the invention proposes a presentation device with shelves with the features mentioned in claim 1. Instead of the usual designations or article numbers that are getting longer and therefore less and less noticeable, now the article itself is presented. From a distance, a user can recognize what items are on this shelf or shelf.

Since the presentation device requires only a simple plate, the production cost is also low from the cost point.

The attachment to the front of the shelf ensures that there is always a direct assignment between the shelf and the presented object.

In order to adapt the presentation device to different sized and / or differently shaped objects, according to the invention, the holder can be adjusted.

In a further development of the invention can be provided that the plate provided for the holder is at least partially transparent. As a result, the user's gaze falls on the presented object itself and is not deflected by the plate.

In particular, it can be provided that the plate of the presentation device projects above the surface of the associated shelf upwards. Thus, the plate can serve at the same time, for example, in sloping shelves, to prevent slipping out of lying on the shelves packs. It can be provided the part of the plate projecting above the surface is transparent. Thus, the view is not limited to the arranged behind the plate packaging.

In order to attach the plate of the presentation device particularly quickly, safely and easily, the lower edge of the plate for insertion into a groove on the front of the shelf can be used. Such grooves are already present on many shelves. In order to be able to fix the plate securely, it can be provided according to the invention that the lower edge region of the plate has a profiling or structuring, preferably on the rear side, which leads to a clamping fixing of the plate in the groove.

The profiling can for example be formed by two extending in the longitudinal direction of the plate bead-like projections.

The bracket attached to the plate is formed to have at least one horizontally extending undercut groove extending the entire length of the plate. This groove is very easy to produce, especially if it runs over the entire length of the plate. The plate can be made in long lengths and then disassembled into pieces. By the undercut of the groove, it is possible to insert a sliding block into the groove, which can be moved along the groove and in turn can have an attachment possibility for the object to be presented. For long objects, for example, two or more such nuts can be used. By their displacement in the groove, the distance between two sliding blocks can be adjusted to the desired object.

According to the invention can be provided in a further development, the mounting option such that they can be closed without tools, but can not be solved without tools. In particular, a release of the attachment possibility should be recognizable. In this way, manipulations that can be made unintentionally, are prevented.

It has already been mentioned that with long objects, which are preferably mounted horizontally, a plurality of juxtaposed sliding blocks can be used. Of course, there are also cases where the objects also have a certain width. Here it can be inventively provided that the holder may have two such superposed grooves, for example, parallel to each other.

One option envisaged by the invention for attaching an object to a sliding block is to use a cable tie which is either directly attached to the sliding block or inserted through an opening in the sliding block. Such cable ties are very well secured against loosening, so that a pliers or a tool is needed to remove an object. But then you can see that the cable tie has been opened.

Figur 1

die Seitenansicht des vorderen Bereichs eines Fachbodens;

Figur 2

die Seitenansicht einer Platte zur Herstellung der Präsentationseinrichtung nach der Erfindung;

Figur 3

in vergrößertem Maßstab die Seitenansicht der Platte der Figur 2 im Bereich einer Nut;

Figur 4

einen für die Nut in Figur 3 bestimmten Nutenstein mit einem angeformten Kabelbinder;

Figur 5

eine Stirnansicht einer Präsentationseinrichtung mit einem daran befestigten eine Schraube aufweisenden Dübel.

Further features, details and advantages of the invention will become apparent from the claims and abstract, the wording of which is incorporated by reference into the content of the description, the following description of a preferred embodiment of the invention and from the drawing. Hereby show:

FIG. 1

the side view of the front portion of a shelf;

FIG. 2

the side view of a plate for producing the presentation device according to the invention;

FIG. 3

on an enlarged scale, the side view of the plate FIG. 2 in the region of a groove;

FIG. 4

one for the groove in FIG. 3 certain sliding block with a molded cable tie;

FIG. 5

an end view of a presentation device with an attached screw having a dowel.

FIG. 1 shows a side view of a front portion of a shelf 1. The shelf 1 has in its front region an edge 2, where the material of the shelf is bent at right angles downwards. Subsequently, with a certain distance, the shelf is bent upwards again, so that here a groove 3 is formed with a constant width. Before the groove 3, the material of the shelf extends obliquely downwards and forms a display surface 4, can be applied to the labels, article designations or similar displays. The free edge of the material, usually sheet metal, is then bent backwards to avoid edges.

In the mentioned groove 3, whose side walls are somewhat yielding because of the material sheet, can now be inserted according to the proposal of the invention, a plate 5, the in FIG. 2 is shown in side view. The plate is rectangular with a rectilinear lower edge 6 and a rectilinear upper edge 7. The thickness of the plate in the lower region is chosen to be somewhat thinner than the width of the groove 3. At the back 8 of the plate, two beads 9 are formed whose distance from the lower edge 6 is smaller than the depth of the groove 3. When inserting the plate 5 in the groove 3, this is pushed so far down until the lower edge 6 hangs on the bottom of the groove 3. The two beads 9 on the back are then with a certain voltage to the sheet, so that a good and secure fixing of the plate 5 is given in the groove.

The plate 5 has on its front two undercut grooves 10. The undercut is at the in FIG. 2 upper side of the groove 10 more clearly than on the lower side. The two grooves 10 are parallel to the top edge 7 and bottom edge 6 of the plate and perpendicular to the paper plane. At both ends of the plate 5, the grooves 10 are open.

How to get the FIG. 2 can also be seen, the thickness of the plate 5 is slightly reduced above the upper groove on the back.

The shape of the grooves 10 is from the enlarged view of FIG. 3 closer. In the upper part of the groove 10 is bounded by a semicircular arc 11, which merges to the front at an acute angle in the front side 12 of the plate 5. At the inward side of the sheet 11 goes down in a flat surface 13, wherein this flat surface 13 extends obliquely. In the lower area in turn a part-circular bend 14 is present.

In the grooves 10, a sliding block 15 can be used, which in FIG. 4 is shown. In his intended for insertion into the grooves 10 in FIG. 4 left portion 16, this sliding block has the shape of the grooves 10. The oblique surface 13 associated outer surface 17 has approximately in its center a slot 18 which extends horizontally in vertical plate 10. As a result, a certain spring action of the parts of the sliding block to be inserted into the bends 11, 14 is achieved. The sliding block can also be inserted by tilting into the groove 10, wherein the displacement in the longitudinal direction of the groove is the preferred direction of movement.

At the bottom 19 of the sliding block, a band 20 of a cable tie is attached, for example formed. The free end of this band 20 can be wrapped around an object to be fastened and then inserted from above into an opening 21 passing through the sliding block 15. In this opening 21, the band 20 may be fixed, similar to a cable tie. Cable ties are designed to prevent the tape from being pulled back by a metallic tongue. Such a metallic or plastic tongue could be disposed in the passage 21 to prevent the tape from being withdrawn. In this way, it can be ensured that unauthorized persons can not easily remove the object.

FIG. 5 now shows a proposed by the invention presentation device, as already described, with an accommodated therein object. In the lower of the two grooves 10, two sliding blocks 15 are inserted one behind the other. Before the nuts 15 a partially screwed into a dowel 22 screw 23 is then held. Then, the band 20 of the left cable tie is placed around the screw 23 and inserted into the opening 21 and pulled down. The rest of the strip 20 is cut off. At the right nut 15, the same thing happens to the dowel 22. Subsequently, the plate is inserted into the groove 3 of the associated shelf. Above the shelf, the contents of the shelf can be seen, since the plate 5 is made of transparent material. In the illustrated example case, where it is a long and narrow object, the upper longitudinal groove 10 can remain free. It would also be conceivable to attach the dowel with screw in the upper groove.

Claims (8)

1. A presentation device with rack shelf, having

   1.1 a plate (5), which

   1.2 on its front side (12) exhibits at least one mount for an object to be presented, and

   1.3 is secured on the front side of a rack shelf (1) by

   1.4 designing the lower edge of the plate (5) to be inserted into a groove (3) on the front side of the rack shelf (1), wherein

   1.5 of the at least one mount, at least one mount exhibits a back-cut groove (10) running parallel to the upper edge (7) and lower edge (6) of the plate (5) over its entire length, and

   1.6 this mount exhibits at least one t-nut (15) that can be inserted into the groove (10), and has means for securing the object to be presented.
2. The presentation device with rack shelf according to claim 1, in which at least one mount out of several mounts can be adjusted.
3. The presentation device with rack shelf according to claim 1 or 2, in which the plate (5) is at least partially translucent.
4. The presentation device with rack shelf according to one of the preceding claims, with two grooves (10) arranged one over the other, preferably running parallel to each other.
5. The presentation device with rack shelf according to one of the preceding claims, in which the t-nut (15) exhibits a band (20) of a cable tie.
6. Use of a presentation device with rack shelf according to one of the preceding claims, in which the lower edge (6) of the plate (5) is inserted on the front side of a rack shelf (1).
7. The use according to claim 6, in which the plate (5) extends upwardly over the surface of the allocated rack shelf (1).
8. The use according to claim 6 or 7, in which at least the portion of the plate (5) extending upwardly over the surface of the rack shelf (1) is translucent.

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