EP2186080A1 - Shelf accessory - Google Patents
Shelf accessoryInfo
- Publication number
- EP2186080A1 EP2186080A1 EP08828208A EP08828208A EP2186080A1 EP 2186080 A1 EP2186080 A1 EP 2186080A1 EP 08828208 A EP08828208 A EP 08828208A EP 08828208 A EP08828208 A EP 08828208A EP 2186080 A1 EP2186080 A1 EP 2186080A1
- Authority
- EP
- European Patent Office
- Prior art keywords
- shelf
- base plate
- accessory
- functional
- fixing
- Prior art date
- Legal status (The legal status is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the status listed.)
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Classifications
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- G—PHYSICS
- G09—EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
- G09F—DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; LABELS OR NAME-PLATES; SEALS
- G09F3/00—Labels, tag tickets, or similar identification or indication means; Seals; Postage or like stamps
- G09F3/08—Fastening or securing by means not forming part of the material of the label itself
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- G—PHYSICS
- G09—EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
- G09F—DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; LABELS OR NAME-PLATES; SEALS
- G09F3/00—Labels, tag tickets, or similar identification or indication means; Seals; Postage or like stamps
- G09F3/08—Fastening or securing by means not forming part of the material of the label itself
- G09F3/18—Casings, frames or enclosures for labels
- G09F3/20—Casings, frames or enclosures for labels for adjustable, removable, or interchangeable labels
- G09F3/204—Casings, frames or enclosures for labels for adjustable, removable, or interchangeable labels specially adapted to be attached to a shelf or the like
Definitions
- the invention relates to a shelf accessory intended for fixing to a shelf.
- shelf talkers are used, for example holders for advertisements, flags, coupons or product samples .
- Such and other accessories can be fixed to the shelf, for example, with the aid of tape, magnets, suction cups or engagement members which interact with a data strip that is fixed to the shelf.
- the shelf is a so-called wire shelf, which is configured as a lattice work of rigid wires
- the accessories can be fixed to the shelf with the aid of wire clips.
- shelf accessory comprises a flat base plate which is placed on top of the shelf and is supported by the latter.
- the base plate is usually rectangular and a functional accessory part, for example a flag holder, is arranged protruding up from one short side of the base plate.
- the shelf accessory is placed such that this short side is arranged parallel with and close to the front edge of the shelf, so that the functional accessory part protrudes up from the shelf at its front edge.
- the functional accessory part can be constituted, for example, by a shelf talker.
- no special means are used to fix the base plate to the shelf, but rather the shelf accessory is held in place by the friction between the top side of the shelf and the base plate.
- the base plate is often relatively thin, so that goods can be placed on top of the base plate without significantly jutting up above adjacent goods which are placed directly on the shelf. The weight of the goods placed on top of the base plate here help to hold the shelf accessory in place.
- the base plate comprises some type of special means for fixing the shelf accessory to the shelf.
- the shelf is formed of a paramagnetic material, such as steel
- a magnetic layer for example in the form a thin magnetic strip
- the base plate can also be fixed to the shelf by means of an adhesive layer, for example a double-adhesive tape, which is fastened to the underside of the base plate.
- the shelf is a wire shelf
- clips which are snapped tight so that they mechanically grip around the wires in the shelf, can be arranged on the base plate.
- suction cups which are fixed to the base plate can be used to secure the base plate by vacuum action with the flat glass surface.
- One object of the invention is to provide an improved shelf accessory which can be fixed on top of a shelf. Another object is to achieve with simple means an improved fixing of the shelf accessory to the shelf. Yet another object is to provide a shelf accessory of the kind which allows the base plate to be formed as a relatively thin plate from a cheap material.
- the shelf accessory is intended for fixing to a shelf. It comprises a base plate having a substantially flat underside, which is intended to be supported by the top side of a shelf, and a functional accessory part, which is arranged on the base plate.
- a hinge joint is arranged on the base plate and is configured to allow a first portion of the base plate to be rotated about the hinge joint in relation to a second portion of the base plate.
- the base plate according to the invention is configured with two portions which are articulately arranged one beside the other, the two portions are allowed to move in relation to each other. If one, for example the front portion which can be provided with a function accessory part projecting in front of the shelf, is subjected to an upwardly directed shock such that it comes free from the shelf, this portion is allowed to swing upward. Owing to the hinge joint, the rear portion is not affected by the upwardly directed shock, but instead this portion maintains its fixation to the shelf, with the result that the front part can fall back down and regain its original position on the shelf. If the functional accessory part and the front portion are instead subjected to a downwardly directed force, the front portion is allowed to be bent such that it assumes an upwardly curved arc shape.
- the first portion is substantially larger than the second portion and the functional accessory part is arranged on the first portion.
- the first, front portion is allowed to be substantially bent when the functional accessory part is subjected to downwardly directed forces. Large downwardly directed forces can hence be brought to bear without the rear portion and hence the accessory coming free from the shelf.
- At least the second portion expediently comprises means for fixing the base plate to the shelf. The assurance that the accessory will maintain the intended position on the shelf, even when there are no goods placed on the base plate, is thereby improved. In those cases also where goods are placed on the base plate, such means help to maintain the position of the accessory on the shelf, for example if a passerby happens to knock sideways against the functional accessory part projecting from the shelf.
- the means for fixing the base plate to the shelf expediently comprise a magnetic layer, an adhesive layer, a suction cup, a mechanical clip or a combination of one or more of these means.
- the functional accessory part is expediently articulately arranged on the base plate. This allows the functional accessory part to be knocked against by passersby without the force being transmitted to the base plate.
- the articulately arranged functional accessory part also correspondingly reduces the risk of it being broken loose from the base plate when the latter is fixed with great force to the shelf and when the functional accessory part is subjected to large forces.
- the functional accessory part is expediently articulately arranged on the base plate, about two pivot axes arranged substantially at right angles to each other.
- the functional accessory part can hence be subjected to both horizontal and vertical forces, for example, without the risk of the shelf accessory coming free from the shelf or being broken in two.
- the invention offers great freedom of choice when choosing the material in which the base plate is formed. It has proved expedient to form the base plate in any one of the materials PP, PA or PE.
- the functional accessory part can expediently be constituted by a flag holder, and the first and second portions of the base plate, on their respective shelf- facing sides, each have a layer of a magnetic material.
- fig. Ia is a perspective view of one embodiment of the shelf accessory according to the invention.
- fig. Ib is a partial enlargement of the shelf accessory shown in fig. Ia,
- fig. 2 is a perspective view of the shelf accessory shown in fig. 1, in which a sheet- like flag is held in place by means of the functional accessory part of the accessory,
- fig. 3a is a bottom view of a second embodiment of a shelf accessory according to the invention.
- fig. 3b-c are side views which show the shelf accessory shown in fig. 3a following the adoption of various positions on a shelf,
- fig. 4a is a bottom view of a third embodiment of a shelf accessory according to the invention.
- fig. 4b-c are side views which show the shelf accessory shown in fig. 4a following the adoption of various positions on a shelf .
- the shelf accessory shown in figure 1 comprises a base plate 10 and a functional accessory part 20.
- the base plate 10 is configured as a relatively thin rectangular plate having a flat underside (not shown in fig. 1) .
- the base plate 10 there are arranged four break-off tabs 11.
- one or more tabs can be broken off to allow wire clips to be introduced into the through holes which are formed in the base plate when the tabs are broken off.
- the wire clips can subsequently be snapped tight around the rigid wires in the wire shelf and can in this way fix the shelf accessory to the wire shelf.
- the holes through the base plate which are formed when the tabs are broken off can also be used to fix the shelf accessory with the aid of other clips, suction cups or similar mechanical arrangements in shelves of corresponding configuration.
- the functional accessory part 20 shown in the figures is constituted by a so-called flag holder.
- Fig. 2 shows how a sheet-like flag 40 has been fixed between oppositely directed clamping members 21 provided on the flag holder 20.
- the flag holder 20 is arranged on a front short side 12 of the base plate 10 and is formed in one piece with the base plate by injection molding. When the shelf accessory is placed on a shelf, the front short side of the base plate is intended to be arranged parallel with and close to the front edge of the shelf.
- the flag holder 20 comprises a distancing part 22, which projects forward and upward from the front short side 12 of the base plate.
- the distancing part 22 comprises a first, elevated portion 23, which is intended to be arranged over, for example, a fixing strip (not shown) , which may be placed on the front edge of the shelf, for the securement of shelf dividers, feed devices and the like.
- the distancing part 22 also comprises a second portion 24, which is arranged on the first portion and has the shape of an inverted U. This second portion is configured to be able to receive for example, between its legs 24a, 24b, a data strip (not shown) arranged on the front edge of the shelf and jutting up above the shelf plane, and/or a so-called front edge stop (not shown) , which juts up from the shelf plane and prevents goods from sliding or falling down from the front edge of the shelf.
- the distancing part 22 of the shelf accessory thus allows simple placement of the shelf accessory on a shelf, even if this shelf is equipped on its front edge with ordinary, commercially available strips and other similar accessories.
- the functional accessory part 20, i.e. the flag holder comprises a holder part 25 articulately arranged on the second portion 24 of the distancing part.
- the holder part 25 comprises the mutually opposing clamping members 21 and a hinge plate 26.
- the hinge plate 26 is connected by means of a horizontally arranged first joint 27 to the front leg 24a of the second portion 24 of the distancing part 22.
- the first joint 27 is configured by a thin material bridge.
- a pair of interacting stops 28 is provided, one on each side of the first joint 27, to prevent the hinge plate 26 and the holder plate 25 from being swiveled up around the joint 27 beyond the point where the holder part 25, from a maximally swiveled-up position, falls back into the normal position under its own weight.
- the holder part 25 also comprises a vertical clamping plate 29, on which the clamping members 21 are arranged.
- the clamping plate 29 is articulately fastened to the hinge plate 26 by means of two thin material bridges 30, which form a vertical joint fixed to the hinge plate 26.
- On the lower end of the clamping plate 29 there is arranged a rearward- projecting, horizontal, substantially triangular return plate 31.
- FIG. 1 The rearward-facing surface of the return plate 31 bears in the normal position against a support surface 32, which is disposed on the front leg 24a of the second portion 24 of the distancing part 22.
- figures Ia, Ib and 2 show the shelf accessory when the clamping plate 29 and the hinge plate 26 has been somewhat swiveled-up about the first joint 27 from this normal position.
- the clamping plate 29, and a flag 40 fastened thereto by means of the clamping members 21, can be tilted both up and to either side from the normal position shown in fig. 2.
- the risk of the shelf accessory snapping, coming free from the shelf or being displaced from its intended position on the shelf, if, for example, a passerby happens to knock against the flag 40 jutting up from the shelf, or the holder part 25, is thereby reduced. If the flag 40 and the clamping part 29 are rotated from their normal position, about one or both of the axes, they will regain the normal position under the influence of gravity, as has been described above, once the rotary force ceases . With reference to fig.
- the base plate 10 comprises a hinge joint 13, which is constituted by a material thinning forming a thin, flexible material bridge.
- the hinge joint 13 extends at right angles to the longitudinal direction of the rectangular base plate 10, from one to the other long side thereof.
- the hinge joint thereby delimits the base plate in a first, front portion 14 and a second, rear portion 15.
- the hinge joint 13 is arranged closer to the rear end of the base plate 10, so that the front portion 14 is substantially larger than the rear portion.
- Fig. 3b shows how that embodiment of the shelf accessory which is shown in fig. 3a-d is fixed to a shelf 50.
- the shelf is made of a paramagnetic material such as steel.
- the shelf accessory is quite simply placed on top of the shelf in the intended position and fixed in this position by means of the interaction of the magnets 16a, 16b, 17 with the material in the shelf.
- the hinge joint 13 helps to detain the shelf accessory in the intended position on the shelf, even if the shelf accessory is subjected to powerful shocks and large forces in the vertical direction, both upward and downward .
- Fig. 3c shows how the flag holder 20 projecting in front of the shelf has been subjected to a powerful, upwardly directed shock.
- the shelf accessory will remain fixed to the shelf by means of the smaller magnet 17, even if the upwardly directed shock is so strong that the two larger magnets 16a, 16b come off from the shelf.
- the hinge joint 13 allows the front portion 14 of the base plate 10 to be given liberty to rotate about the hinge joint 13 in relation to the rear portion 15 of the base plate 10, which hence will not be subjected to any significant force from the shock.
- the front portion 14 of the base plate 10 After the front portion 14 of the base plate 10 has swung upward, it will fall back down onto the shelf under the influence of gravity, whereupon the front portion and thus the whole of the shelf accessory regains its original intended position on the shelf.
- fig. 3d it is shown, in a corresponding manner, how the hinge joint 13 helps to retain the position of the shelf accessory on the shelf, also when the flag holder 20 is subjected to large downwardly directed forces.
- Fig. 3d shows how the flag holder 20 projecting forward from the shelf is subjected to such a strong, downwardly directed force that the base plate 10 is bent or bows upward.
- This bending of the base plate is limited to its front portion 14.
- the rear portion 15 of the base plate therefore retains its position and its fixing to the shelf by means of the magnet 17, while the front portion is allowed to be bent, so that middle portions of the magnets 16a, 16b come free from the shelf 50.
- FIG. 4a-4d show an embodiment of the shelf accessory which differs from the embodiment shown in fig. 3a-3d only in that the two larger, front magnets 16a, 16b have been replaced by a smaller magnet 18, which is fixed to the underside of the base plate, close to the front short side 12.
- the accessory shown in these figures works in a corresponding manner to the accessory shown in fig. 3a- 3d when the flag holder is subjected to upwardly and downwardly directed shocks and forces .
- the embodiment shown in fig. 4a-4d has the advantage, inter alia, that it requires less permanent-magnetic material, and that the two magnets 17 and 18 can be identically configured, which means cost savings.
- the magnets 16a, 16b, 17 and 18 can be replaced by or supplemented by other means for fixing the shelf accessory to the shelf.
- double-adhesive tape or glue can be applied to the underside of the base plate 10.
- adhesives can be applied in the positions in which the magnets 16a, 16b, 17 and 18 are placed in the above- described examples, or in other positions.
- the magnets can also be replaced by or supplemented by mechanical means for fixing the base plate 10 to the shelf. Examples of such mechanical means are clips, which are threaded through the holes formed when the tabs 11 are broken off and which are detachably snapped tight around rigid wires in a wire shelf.
- suction cups which are fixed to the base plate with the aid of the aforesaid holes and which, by vacuum action with, for example, the flat top side of a glass or plastics shelf, secures the base plate to the shelf.
- the functional accessory part is constituted by a flag holder. It will be appreciated, however, that the functional accessory part can be constituted by any other type of accessory part whatsoever. Examples of such other functional accessory parts are holders for coupons, advertising strips, brochures, product guides, aisle signs, or so- called hangstrips .
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Applications Claiming Priority (2)
Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
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SE0701922A SE530369C2 (en) | 2007-08-27 | 2007-08-27 | Shelf accessory for fixing to shelf has hinge joint about which first base plate portion is rotatable relative to second base plate portion |
PCT/SE2008/050961 WO2009029034A1 (en) | 2007-08-27 | 2008-08-26 | Shelf accessory |
Publications (2)
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EP2186080A1 true EP2186080A1 (en) | 2010-05-19 |
EP2186080A4 EP2186080A4 (en) | 2013-10-02 |
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Application Number | Title | Priority Date | Filing Date |
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EP08828208.2A Ceased EP2186080A4 (en) | 2007-08-27 | 2008-08-26 | Shelf accessory |
Country Status (3)
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EP (1) | EP2186080A4 (en) |
SE (1) | SE530369C2 (en) |
WO (1) | WO2009029034A1 (en) |
Family Cites Families (3)
Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
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GB2122014B (en) * | 1982-06-16 | 1986-04-23 | Pendred And Company Ltd Norman | Price ticket display stands |
US6082687A (en) * | 1998-05-13 | 2000-07-04 | Fasteners For Retail, Inc. | Flag holder and label holder |
US7225572B2 (en) * | 2004-02-27 | 2007-06-05 | Fast Industries, Ltd | Label/sign holder with J-strip support surface mount |
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- 2007-08-27 SE SE0701922A patent/SE530369C2/en not_active IP Right Cessation
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- 2008-08-26 WO PCT/SE2008/050961 patent/WO2009029034A1/en active Application Filing
- 2008-08-26 EP EP08828208.2A patent/EP2186080A4/en not_active Ceased
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EP2186080A4 (en) | 2013-10-02 |
SE0701922L (en) | 2008-05-13 |
WO2009029034A1 (en) | 2009-03-05 |
SE530369C2 (en) | 2008-05-13 |
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