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• • G—PHYSICS
  • G09—EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
  • G09F—DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; LABELS OR NAME-PLATES; SEALS
  • G09F1/00—Cardboard or like show-cards of foldable or flexible material
  • G09F1/04—Folded cards
  • G09F1/06—Folded cards to be erected in three dimensions
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G09—EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
  • G09F—DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; LABELS OR NAME-PLATES; SEALS
  • G09F1/00—Cardboard or like show-cards of foldable or flexible material
  • G09F1/04—Folded cards
  • G09F1/06—Folded cards to be erected in three dimensions
  • G09F1/065—Totem-like displays; Portable collapsible columnar displays
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G09—EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
  • G09F—DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; LABELS OR NAME-PLATES; SEALS
  • G09F15/00—Boards, hoardings, pillars, or like structures for notices, placards, posters, or the like
  • G09F15/0006—Boards, hoardings, pillars, or like structures for notices, placards, posters, or the like planar structures comprising one or more panels
  • G09F15/0025—Boards, hoardings, pillars, or like structures for notices, placards, posters, or the like planar structures comprising one or more panels display surface tensioning means

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• the field of the invention is that of information display racks for communication or visual advertising at POS points of sale.
• the displays of the invention are foldable columns on themselves and unfoldable with the advantage of being able to be transported and stored in excellent conditions, on the one hand, and to be installed very quickly on site, somewhere else.
• the invention relates to a support, information display at least two presentation faces respectively on two blank parts of substantially rigid and collapsible material, the blank portions being arranged for, in an unfolded state of the support, to be constrained in order to constrain the presentation faces, a plurality of holding inserts, the actions of which are exerted discretely distributed along said presentation faces, being provided to maintain the presentation faces in their constrained state.
• Document FR 2 824 946 already known, in particular from FR 2 824 946, such a display support comprising, as means for constraining the blank portions, elastics and, as holding inserts, antagonist holding strips for the elastics and which, in position Deployed from the display stand, abutting flap flaps of the blank portions and hinged to hinge flaps of the blank portions.
• each holding insert is mounted between the blank portions. in an editable state that can change between a state of folding of the support and a state of maintenance of the constrained state of the presentation faces of the blank portions of the support, each insert being associated with locking means of its holding state.
• the display stand is very simple, both for use and for manufacture.
• the locking means of a holding insert are also arranged to unlock it from its holding state and allow the flattening of the blank portions and the folding of the support.
• each insert comprises a plate of substantially rigid and collapsible material arranged to be folded on itself along the two secant fold lines.
• the wafer portion extending on one side of one of the two fold lines to be fixed to the blank portions to form the holding insert, the other of the two fold lines being substantially parallel to the edges of the blank portions and contained in the plane of these edges, and the wafer portion extending on the other side of said one fold line constituting a locking lever-unlocking the holding state of the insert portion of the wafer.
• the wafer portion extending from one side of one of the two fold lines is attached to the blank portions to form the holding insert, the other of the two fold lines extending in the plane of the edges of the blank portions, perpendicular to these edges in the folded state, and the wafer portion extending on the other side of said fold line constituting a lock-unlocking lever of the state of maintenance of the insert portion of the wafer.
• the lever portion of the wafer comprises automatic folding means around said one fold line in one direction or the other.
• the nature of the material of the locking-unlocking plate is determined for a folding of the lever portion of the wafer under the action of its weight. With this, it is sufficient to unfold the display stand, to constrain its blank parts to constrain the presentation faces, which unfolds the holding plates and locking-unlocking and makes them planes, the time to ensure maintenance of the state forced faces, before, possibly with a slight shake, the lever portions of the pads do not switch to the locking position of the holding portions.
• FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a first embodiment of the display stand, in the deployed state
• FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the upper panels of the display rack of FIG. 1, being deployed;
• FIG. 3 is a perspective view of the panels of FIG. 2, after deployment but before locking;
• FIG. 4 is a perspective view of the panels of FIG. 3, after locking;
• FIG. 5 is a perspective view of a holding and locking insert, during deployment of the support of FIG. 1;
• - Figure 6 is a view of the insert of Figure 5, in its plane state
• - Figure 7 is a perspective view of the insert of Figure 6, in its locking position
• FIG. 8 is a view, in its plane state, of a holding and locking insert of a second embodiment of the display stand
• FIG. 9 is a perspective view of the insert of Figure 8, in its locking position
• FIG. 10 is a perspective view of the insert of Figure 8, during deployment of the support;
• FIG. 11 is a perspective view of the upper panels of the second embodiment of the display stand, in the expanded state;
• FIG. 12 is a perspective view of the upper panels of FIG. 11, after deployment but before locking;
• - Figure 13 is a perspective view of the upper panels of Figure 11, being deployed;
• FIG. 14 is a perspective view of the upper panels of a third display rack embodiment after locking and FIG. 15 is a top view of a fourth embodiment of the display rack after deployment. and lock.
• the display rack of FIG. 1 is in the form of an extended vertical column 1 with two blank portions 2, 3 formed in a single, rather light cardboard starting blank or paperboard, which is a rigid and foldable material. .
• Each blank portion 2, 3 is divided into panels 4, 5, here three in number, adjacent to each other along thick fold lines 6, here two in number. All panels 4, 5 are identical to each other. It is the front faces of the panels 4, 5 which constitute the information presentation faces 11, 12 of the support column.
• the column of FIG. 1 can be folded on itself by folding the panels 4, 5 on one another.
• the starting blank of rectangular shape, had two lateral free edges 13, 14 and two transverse edges 15, 16. From one of the lateral edges 13, was formed a lateral flap 17 beyond a line of folding which, in Figure 1, merges with the side edge 14.
• the flap 17 has been fixed, here by gluing, on the strip adjacent to the lateral edge 14 of the rear face 18 of the blank portion 3.
• the starting blank has been folded along a fold line 19 parallel to the edges 13, 14 so that the two blank portions 2, 3 are identical and both extend between their side edges 19, 14 and 14, 19.
• Column 1 comprises, here in number of one pair of panels 4, 5 of the same level of the two blank portions 2, 3, a holding and locking-unlocking insert 20 ( Figures 5-7). It is a wafer also issuing from a flat blank portion of rigid and foldable material of the same nature as the blank of the support column here having a complex shape.
• a first portion 21, rectangular, provides a holding function, a second portion 22 of substantially semicircular shape, provides a ve ⁇ ouillage-unlocking function.
• the two parts are separated from each other by a first folding line 23.
• the plate can be also folded around a second fold line 24, intersecting the first, in this case at right angles, and extending parallel to the two effective side edges 25, 26 of the holding portion 21 substantially equidistant from the two.
• the fold line 23 corresponds substantially to a diameter of the semicircular portion 22, a diameter substantially equal to the length of the holding portion 21 between its edges 25, 26. Beyond the effective lateral edges 25, 26, the portion 21 is continued by two strips 27, 28 intended, after folding around the "edge" lines 25, 26, to be glued against the rear faces 18 of the blank portions 2, 3, for fastening the inserts.
• the first portion 21, said maintenance of the wafer 20 may be described as holding insert 21, the other part, as will now be seen, lever 22 locking-unlocking the holding state of I insert 21.
• the plate 20 can be folded in two i) around the first line 23 (FIG. 7), with, on one side, the holding insert 21 and, on the other, the lever 22 or ii) around the line 24 ( Figure 5), with, on one side, the first insert and lever halves and, on the other side, the second insert and lever halves. Because the two fold lines 23, 24 are intersecting, the wafer 20 can be folded only around one of the two fold lines, the wafer portions extending on either side of a folding line can only remain flat.
• the quality and nature of the material of the wafer 20 allow a folding of the lever portion 22 around the first folding letter 23, in one direction or the other, which will be described as automatic, or possibly semi-automatic and this, thanks to the weight of this lever portion 22.
• each insert is mounted between the two parts of the blank 2, 3, against their rear faces 18 to which are fixed, here by gluing, their two lateral strips 27, 28, the two effective side edges 25, 26 of the inserts extending here parallel to the side edges 14, 19 of the column 1.
• the two blank portions 2, 3 are interconnected by a plurality of holding inserts 21, identical to each other, and whose actions are exerted in a discrete manner along the presentation faces 11 , 12.
• Retention inserts 21 are described associated with locking-unlocking levers 22 arranged to tilt under the action of their weight.
• the embodiment 101 of the display support of Figures 8-13 is distinguished from the first by its holding plates and locking-unlocking 120 shaped for the production of columns with more than two presentation faces. Also, the elements of the second embodiment homologous to those of the first will bear the same references as these, however preceded by the numbers 1 of the hundreds.
• the plates 120 comprise a holding portion 121 but two locking-unlocking portions 122, 122 ', extending beyond the fold lines 123, 123' forming, in the expanded state of the column, the edges of the holding part 121.
• the holding and locking-unlocking inserts 120 are manufactured as the inserts 20, however being differently shaped and fixed in the column.
• the holding portion remains rectangular but the locking or unlocking parts or levers 122, 122 'are trapezoidal in shape, with a large base coincides with the fold line 123 (123').
• the wafer 120 may also be folded around a third fold line 124 intersecting, here too, the lines 123, 123 'at right angles.
• the holding portion 121 beyond its effective lateral edges 125, 126, perpendicular to its fold edges 123, 123 ', is extended by two strips 127, 128, intended, after folding around the edge lines 125, 126 , to be glued against the rear faces 118 of the blank portions 102, 103, for fixing the inserts.
• the plate 120 can be folded in three i) around the two fold lines 123, 123 '(FIG. 9) with, in the center, the holding insert 121 and, on both sides, the levers 122, 122 'or ii) around the fold line 124 ( Figure 10), with, on one side, first insert halves 121 and levers 122, 122 'and, on the other side, second insert and lever halves.
• the plates 120 can only be folded around lines 123, 123 'or 124.
• the folding of the lever portions 122, 122 'of the plates 120 is performed semi-automatically.
• each insert is mounted between the two parts of the blank 102, 103, against their rear faces 118 to which are fixed, here by gluing , their two lateral bands 127, 128, the two effective lateral edges 125, 126 of the inserts extending here orthogonally to the lateral edges 114, 119 of the column 101, that is to say here in a plane perpendicular to these edges .
• the two blank portions 102, 103 are interconnected by a plurality of holding inserts 121, identical to each other, and whose actions are exerted in a discrete manner along the presentation faces. 111, 112.
• the fold line 124 allowing the folding of the column and its unfolding, extends in the plane of the two lateral edges 114, 119 of the column.
• the embodiment of the display rack 201 of FIG. 14 is distinguished from the two preceding by its three presentation faces, 211, 212, 213 constituting the front faces of three plane portions 232, 233, 234, formed in two blanks of FIG. starting 216, 217 in a material identical to that of columns 1 and 101.
• Each starting blank had two lateral free edges 235, 236 and 237, 238 and two transverse edges 239. From one of the lateral edges 236, 238 was formed, in each blank, a lateral flap 214 215, beyond a fold line which, in Figure 14, merges with the side edge 235, 237. The flaps were also fixed by gluing, as on the columns 1 and 101.
• the starting blanks 216, 217 were folded respectively along two lines 218, 219 parallel to the free side edges 235-238 and delimiting the blank portion 234, thus in two portions.
• This third blank portion 234 is folded along the border line 235 for the folding of the column 201.
• the two starting blanks 216, 217 are flat against each other, the blank portion 234 folded on itself around the fold line 235.
• the blank portions 232, 233, 234 of the column 201 are divided into identical panels 204, 205, 206.
• the column 201 is folded on itself by folding one on the other. other groups of a panel 204, a panel 205 and a half-panel 206.
• the column 201 comprises at each level of panels a holding and locking-unlocking insert 220 which is partially identical to the inserts 120 of the column 101, without the second lever portion 122 '.
• the elements of the inserts 220 homologous to those of the inserts 120 bear the same references as these, with, however, substitution of the number 1 by the number 2 of the hundreds.
• the inserts 220 are mounted between the two blank portions 232, 233, near the side edges 218, 219 of the third blank portion 234.
• the inserts 220 comprise a holding portion 221, a locking lever-deve ⁇ Ouillage 222, articulated to the holding portion 221 around the fold line 223, the two holding-221 and locking 222 parts, after being set to flat, foldable in two around the fold line 224 extend in the plane of the transverse edge 237 and the fold line 235 of the third portion of blank 234
• the column 201 being folded on itself, the three blank portions 232, 233, 234 flat, the blank portion 234 itself folded in two, their rear faces 218 against each other, the groups panels 204, 205, 206 also folded against each other around the fold lines 206, the column 201 is unfolded, the blank portions are manually constrained by pressure on the side edges 235 and 237, which brings them closer to each other, bombs the blank portions 232, 233 and, with them, the presentation faces 211, 212 and substantially flatten the blank portion 234. Concomitantly, the inserts 221 have also unfolded around their folding line 224 until they become planes.
• the lever parts 222 of the inserts are automatically, or semi-automatically, tilted by their weight in their locking position. .
• the plane state of the holding inserts 221 is then locked by the levers 222, it is possible to release the pressure on the lateral edges; the inserts 221 keep the presentation faces 211, 212 in their curved state and the face 213 in a barely curved, almost plane state.
• the column 201 is turned over so that the lever parts 222 are pivoted in the other direction under the action of their weight, until the plates 220 return to their plane state, allowing the inserts 221 to be folded around their line of contact.
• folding 224 extending in the plane of the lateral edges 235, 237 of the column, and thus the folding of the blank portions 232, 233 toward one another and their resetting, one against the other, and folding the two halves of the blank portion 234 against each other, outside the blank portions 232, 233, before folding the panel groups one over the other around the fold lines 206, alternately on one side and the other, in accordion, and to maintain the assembly thus folded by any appropriate means, for example an elastic.
• Embodiment 301 of the display rack of Fig. 15 differs from that of Fig. 14 in its fourth additional display face.
• the four faces 302, 303, 304, 305 are formed of the two starting blanks 306, 307, fixed to one another by still gluing a flap 308, 309 folded around a fold line forming a border 310, 311, of one of the starting blanks 306, 307 on an end lateral band adjacent to a lateral edge 312, 313 of the other of the starting blanks 307, 306.
• the starting blanks 306, 307 have were folded in half along two fold lines forming side edges 314, 315 for the column, separating the faces 302, 303 and 304, 305.
• the four presentation faces are of the same dimensions and such that, in the deployed state of the support column 301, they are nevertheless constrained and here only slightly curved and, in any case, prevented from 'be concavely distorted towards inside the column. This is the definition of the curved state that will be considered here.
• the column 301 in the deployed state, has in cross section (horizontal) a square shape very slightly curvilinear.
• the column 301 is divided into a group of four panels of the same level, two adjacent groups being separated by four fold lines.
• the holding and locking-unlocking inserts 320 of the column 301 always exert their respective actions discretely along the (height) of the column, are quite similar to those 120 of the column 101, with their bonding flaps, their holding portion 321 and their two locking-unlocking portions 322, 322 'hinged to the holding portion 321 around fold lines 323, 323', one of which 323 extends in the plane of the opposite fold-edging 314, 315, the other 323 'being parallel to it and extending here in the dihedral of the blank portions 302, 305.
• the three holding and locking-unlocking portions 321, 322, 322' can be folded in two around a fold line 324 extending in the plane of the opposite side edges 310-313.
• the locking-unlocking lever portions 322, 322 ' are here, not trapezoidal, but triangular.

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