EP3484328A1

EP3484328A1 - Temperature-controlled plate, use of a temperature-controlled plate and self-service dispensing shelf system comprising said temperature-controlled plate

Info

Publication number: EP3484328A1
Application number: EP17735114.5A
Authority: EP
Inventors: Denis CICHUTA; Hernan De La Vega; Christine Wolff; Benjamin ZILCH
Original assignee: Lidl Stiftung and Co KG
Current assignee: Lidl Stiftung and Co KG
Priority date: 2016-07-13
Filing date: 2017-07-04
Publication date: 2019-05-22
Anticipated expiration: 2037-07-04
Also published as: AU2017295478A1; AU2017295478B2; LT3484328T; EP3484328B1; US11576500B2; PL3484328T3; US20200237117A1; WO2018011004A1

Abstract

In order to be able to keep products stored on the shelves (6) of a dispensing shelf system (1) hot or cold, the shelves (6) are designed as electrically operated temperature-controlled plates (50), said temperature-controlled plates (50) and the main frame (19) of the dispensing shelf system (1) being adapted to each other in a specific way.

Description

tempering,

Use of a tempering plate and self-service dispenser shelf with tempering plate

I. Field of application

The invention relates to a Tempeherplatte, with the food deposited thereon - usually electrically - tempered, preferably kept warm, or cooled. An electrically operable cooling plate can be realized, for example, by means of Peltier elements.

II. Technical Background Heating panels are known from the gastronomy and the household sector, which are electrically heated, and from different materials, mostly stainless steel, but also glass, can exist.

In addition, heating plates are known from other areas, which have a layer structure of two glass plates and an interposed heating layer, which is very thin, usually well below a millimeter, and is firmly connected to the glass sheets. The heating layer can consist of an electrically conductive material in the form of a film, a mesh fabric, a textile material or a mouldable mass with, for example, particles of electrically conductive materials contained therein in sufficient quantity. Such heating plates are used for example as heated window panes in the automotive sector and elsewhere. In the present case, however, it is about the use of tempering, preferably hot plates, in the food self-service area, ie as a shelf in an output shelf, so this used as a shelf heating plate from the customer who wants to remove the goods deposited there, usually also can be touched, which involves a risk of injury:

From a microbiological point of view, the products parked on them must be kept at a core temperature of at least 65 ° C in order to minimize germ growth in the product, which means that - depending on the dimensions of the products stored on them and their thermal conductivity - the hotplate should be at least 100 ° C, usually even up to 130 ° C, must be heated. With a stainless steel hot plate at this temperature, contact would almost inevitably lead to skin burns, and a stainless steel plate would also undesirably deform relatively severely at such temperature.

Therefore, in the past, there have been few efficiencies, such as removing the product from the hot plate only by an operator, not the customer himself, or even taking the product with a customer-held tool that has been used extends into the dispenser shelf, which has been prevented by appropriate measures the direct access of the customer to the hot plate.

In addition, the previously known heating plates, especially if they consisted of glass plates, adjustable only in the form of a single temperature zone, and they have a relatively wide edge, which can not be heated, which is partly due to the manufacturing process, on the other hand, but also provided In order to provide a border region with such low temperature at which such a heating plate easily with both the Hand held and can be fixed in other devices without this other device is strongly heated.

III. DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION a) Technical Problem

It is therefore an object of the invention, on the one hand to provide a suitable tempering and on the other hand a suitable self-service furniture, especially an output shelf, with such a tempering as a shelf.

b) Solution of the task

This object is solved by the features of claims 1, 4 and 10. Advantageous embodiments will be apparent from the dependent claims. Not known from the prior art is the use of a tempering, in particular a hot plate, which is accessible to the customer, as a storage area in a self-service furniture, especially as shelf shelf in a self-service dispenser shelf. For this purpose, there is at least one of the main outer surfaces of the tempering, in particular both main outer surfaces - hereinafter referred briefly as the top and bottom, since for the purpose of depositing objects on it such a temperature control plate will be arranged substantially horizontally - made of a material with a lower temperature conductivity than iron or steel, in particular stainless steel, preferably of glass. Of course, this material with low thermal diffusivity must not only be present on the outer surface, but must extend at least as far into the depth of the plate that its lower temperature conductivity and thus slower heat emission to a touching body part is also the result at least to a depth of half a millimeter, better of 1 mm, better of two or 3 mm.

On the one hand, glass in particular has a significantly lower thermal conductivity, so that immediate burns are often still to be avoided on contact, as one has more time to react and remove the hand from the hot tempering plate. Glass is also much easier and faster to clean than a metal plate, especially a stainless steel plate. Furthermore, the use of glass or even most other materials with lower thermal conductivity than iron or steel has the advantage that these materials are usually not electrically conductive, so that in case of damage to the electrically operated temperature control, which energize the outer surface of the temperature would be an electric shock when touched by a person is avoided.

Therefore, in this use, a hot plate can be heated and operated in operation to over 100 ° C, and up to about 130 ° C, which is important for seed minimization in the products stored thereon.

Likewise, the air space above the hot plate, for example, up to the next arranged above shelf, be held without problems and exclusively by convection in a predetermined target temperature range whose upper limit and lower limit only a maximum of 20 ° C, better at most 10 ° C, apart Preferably, it can be achieved that individual tempering regions within the temperature control plate-as viewed in the top view-can be controlled essentially independently of one another in terms of their temperature by means of a control. NEN. Thus, by a relatively high-heated edge region, but preferably spaced from the outer edge of the Temperierplatte by a non-heated edge region, an ascending in particular in the supervision circulating hot air curtain are formed, the outflow of slightly less warm air in the interior of the Air space prevented to the outside, thereby preventing a temperature gradient from the inside of the air space to the outside.

Conversely, the same can be achieved analogous to a cooling plate, thereby dispensing with the active generation of a circulating flow by means of a fan, which generates noise and consumes energy and also stirs up more dust.

Furthermore, by heating the tempering plate to a very narrow, in particular not heatable, edge area of a maximum of 3 cm, better at most only 2 cm, better at most only 1, 5 cm, a very large heated usable area can be achieved on the temperature control, and thus a very good use when used as a shelf. This also makes it possible to keep the core region of the air space, ie within the strongly heated, preferably peripheral edge region, to only slightly above 65 ° C. in order to achieve and maintain the core temperature of 65 ° C. in the products while at Conventional heatings, such as heat lamps, with a pronounced temperature gradient in the airspace from the inside to the outside, the temperature in the core region of the air space must be set much higher to reach a core temperature of 65 ° C even for the peripheral products.

In particular for this use, a temperature control plate is expedient, which is preferably operated electrically and can be designed both as a heating plate and as a cooling plate, in that the temperature control plate consists of a glass top plate and a glass base plate with an arrangement between them. Temperierschicht, in particular heating layer, as already mentioned above.

In addition, the Tempenerplatte should be at least on its upper side and the customer facing front narrow side, or generally in all accessible by the customer surface areas, free of materials that have a higher thermal conductivity than the material of the top plate and bottom plate, so in particular have no attachments made of metal In order to prevent their heating to the temperature of the glass plates and thus contact a combustion of the customer.

Preferably, not only one but a plurality of temperature sensors are distributed over the surface in the temperature control plate in order to constantly monitor the temperature of the temperature control plate and also to be able to report to the control that the heating or cooling power - in particular within the individual temperature control ranges independently of each other - then readjust accordingly.

The controller is preferably also able to turn on and / or off the temperature control at predetermined times, and at predetermined times the target temperature and in particular the heating or cooling capacity - in particular separately for the individual tempering - raise or lower. Preferably, one or preferably a plurality of temperature sensors are arranged at a distance from one another in the strongly tempered edge region, which is preferably recessed inwards from the temperature-controlled outermost edge region, and also in the core region surrounded by this strongly heated edge region.

Preferably, temperature sensors are also present in the unheated edge area. If a peripheral area is mentioned above, this is preferably in each case a circumferential edge area, but it could also be an edge area on individual sides, for example on the two opposite sides.

Thus, the tempering on two opposite sides along these side edges extending support area - the direction of which is called the depth direction - with the tempering on two opposite sides can be placed on corresponding supports.

The support area is defined by the fact that it is arranged on the underside of the temperature control plate and has a protective coating, in particular a stainless steel plate, and preferably a thermal insulating layer is present between this protective coating and the temperature control plate.

These bearing areas may have the same or a smaller width than the unheated edge area of the tempering plate. The tempering plate preferably has at its trailing edge, which extends between the two support areas, an upwardly projecting rear stop to prevent falling of deposited on the tempering plate products on the trailing edge, wherein the rear stop over preferably more than 80% of the length the trailing edge extends in its extension direction.

Preferably, the tempering in its front two corner regions each have a corner recess, in particular a rectangular recess with a rounded inner corner or a recess with a curved gene, in particular a quarter circle-shaped contour. Since a dispenser shelf usually has a base frame, which usually consists of along the outer edges extending profiles, usually made of metal, finds in these corner recesses each of the cross section of the front upright profiles Place so that the temperature plate can extend forward to the front edge of the base frame at this height and laterally to the outer surfaces of the base frame at this height. As a result, the unheated outermost edge region is largely in the thickness and / or depth of the upright profiles, so that the area between the four upright profiles is usually almost entirely available for laying products as a heated surface. The corner recess is in the transverse direction equal to or greater than the width of the unheated outermost edge region and preferably the corner recess in the transverse direction is greater than the cross section of the front upright profiles in this direction, which, as described later, results in handling advantages ,

It is particularly advantageous, when considered in the top view, the tempering plate independently controllable tempering, so that, for example, the core region of the temperature is divided into several temperature ranges, for example, if due to the number of products held not the entire surface of the temperature must be tempered and before Of course, in this way, a strongly heated edge region can of course be heated to a higher temperature than the less strongly heated core region, which also represent temperature-controllable tempering plate regions which are separately adjustable with respect to temperature.

Since the tempering plate is normally operated electrically, a cable, at least for the power supply, preferably additionally for the data transmission from the temperature sensors in the temperature control plate to the control unit, leads away from the actual temperature control plate and preferably out of its rear end. At the free end of the cable is usually a plug to the cables of all used in a shelf tempering regardless of the number of each a connector strip which may be arranged directly on the control unit to be able to plug into corresponding sockets.

The tempering may have on its underside a flat insulation, in particular with an outer surface made of stainless steel or plastic, if in this tempering the radiation of heat down to be minimized, which for example regularly in the lowest used in a dispenser shelf temperature is, because on all other floors is also desirable for the radiation also down, as this the air space of the underlying Gefaches is heated with.

Upper and lower plates, especially if made of glass, will generally be of the same thickness, but preferably, when used as a heating plate, the top plate is thinner than the bottom plate, when used as a cooling plate, preferably the top plate is thicker than the bottom plate.

Using the example of a heating plate, it is understandable that the heating of the thinner top plate takes much less time than for the bottom side and so that the heating plate can be put into operation more quickly, and in particular the heat storage before the heat is released to the environment in the top plate is thereby lower and in addition the heat transfer is kept low on the laterally encircling narrow side surfaces.

In order to be able to optimally use such a heating plate in a self-service dispenser shelf, such a dispenser rack is specifically designed:

Generically, a self-service dispenser shelf has the following features as known:

On the one hand, a base frame, which preferably consists of a frame of profiles, usually metal profiles, which at least along the edges of the Issuing Regale run, which preferably has approximately the shape of an upstanding cuboid, preferably whose front surface - at least in the upper area - obliquely recedes upwards and backwards. Accordingly, the base frame comprises upright, in particular vertically upright, upright profiles, on the one hand, and transverse profiles running horizontally in front of the picker and, in the depth direction, that is, in the direction of the front side facing the picker to the opposite rear side of the dispensing rack. profiles.

The dispensing rack comprises at least one storage space and at least one removal space - often the storage space being at the same time the removal space for the products - by directly removing one or more products from the storage space in which there are usually a plurality of products to pass them from a storage room into which you can not reach into a separate collection room. Frequently, in such a dispensing shelf usually several storage rooms and / or removal rooms are arranged one above the other in height, separated by interposed, usually the entire horizontal cross section of the output shelf at this point overlapping, mostly plate-shaped shelves as dividing elements.

As such a shelf, for example, a tempering plate according to the invention or a simple, non-tempered bearing shell for the products to be stored thereon or in it can be used. In such a dispenser shelf so only one, a few or all shelves can be formed as - usually electrically operated - tempering. These shelves or dividers are usually on extending in the depth direction support bars and are accessible from the back, usually the feed side of the shelf by the staff. If a simple bearing shell is used as the shelf and thus separating element between the floors, so superimposed pantries, the staff can replace an empty bearing shells against a filled with products bearing shell from the back. If a tempering used as a shelf and thus separating element and is arranged on the support strips, such as a hot plate, it will not be removed from the output shelf for filling with new products, since it is connected for the purpose of power to a power supply unit and a very has much higher weight and value than a simple plastic bearing shell and is also more susceptible to damage.

The detachable, so in a simple and fast way, preferably without tools, detachable, attaching as many components as possible, such as the tempering on the base frame is also a hygiene aspect, since all removed components can be separately cleaned more intensively or can be disinfected and then the remaining remainder dispensing rack, in particular the base rack, can be cleaned very thoroughly.

The support strips and thus also the shelves themselves are usually arranged rising from the front to the rear in the depth direction in order to present the products stored thereon for the extractor more visible. In the case of several shelves one above the other, their inclination from bottom to top preferably increases, likewise for the improved visibility of the products stored thereon. There are two possibilities for the front design of such output shelves, since the air heated in the air space of a heated or cooled floor, for example a storage room, can not flow unhindered forward and also not in the other directions very high energy loss over time would result:

Either the front side of a removal space, which can also be a storage space at the same time, is closed - preferably every single removal space or only over the height of two removal spaces, but not across all removal spaces - through a supply front panel designed as a door or flap. the most transparent as Vorrats- front panel, which consists for example of glass, is formed and opens the user to remove a product from the pantry and then closes again and usually gravity closes by itself again, if they are not more is kept open.

In order to prevent the door or flap from hitting too hard even when dropped, a stop damper or a speed limiter for closing is additionally installed.

The other possibility is that the front of each storage space is not completely closed by one or two adjoining in height storage front panels or supply front windows, so that in the front of each storage space a tool opening remains open, through which a tool, in particular the handle of a tool such as a slider or a spoon, may extend therethrough. The extractor holds the tool at the outer end and moves with the inner end of the tool, the desired product from the substantially closed pantry in an adjacent, separated by a swinging flap, removal space in which the user from the front and can take out the selected product.

With regard to the positioning and dimensioning of its supports for shelves, the dispensing shelf is dimensioned relative to the dimensions of the tempering plate so that the tempering plate, instead of a regular shelf, such as a bearing shell for products, on the same supports, usually the support strips extending in the depth direction of the shelf, can be hung up.

However, the dispenser rack as well as its support ledges or general supports are designed and dimensioned in relation to the dimensions of the tempering plate in such a way that the tempering plate rests on these support ledges in a preferably centered state except for a free lateral edge area of less than 8 mm, better less than 5 mm each, better less than 2 mm each, which remains free on both sides on the upper side of the support strips. Preferably, however, the tempering plate extends to the outer edge of the support strips and / or to the outer edge of the base frame or the upright profiles of the base frame or frame, but preferably not beyond the dimensions of the base frame.

Design of the support strip in cross-section Preferably, these support strips are designed so that each support strip initially a V-shaped profile, usually formed as a sheet-metal part, and at the front and rear ends of the V-profile each have a fixing device, such as a Schraublasche, with the Support bar attached to each one front and one rear upright profile, in particular can be screwed. Therefore, the fixing device is usually a Schraublasche, which is perpendicular to the one leg of the V-profile, which provides the support surface for a separator such as temperature control plate 50 in the assembled state. The other leg of the V-profile, which in the mounted state with the tip its profile shape towards the middle of the shelf and thus the V-profile is open to the outside, on the one hand has the purpose that on the inwardly directed downwards outside of this other, lower leg a light bar can be attached.

The V-profile is open to the outside and the lower leg is inclined, so that inside as possible no dirt such as crumbs of baked goods can accumulate. By the same token, in the region adjacent to the top of the profile, the upper leg is slightly downwardly inwardly towards the center of the shelf, inclined to allow fouling to fall down on the next dividers. Accordingly, this one, in the assembled state upper leg in its course is formed capped, wherein the mounted state horizontally extending end portion has an extent which is at least as large as considered in the front view width of an upright profile, preferably significantly wider, about twice as wide, so that in the additional width range at the front end of the V-profile, a stop can be arranged, the front stop for the launched eg Tempering plate forms and on the upper side in the assembled state, the outside of this leg, rises upwards.

In this way, the lateral unheated edge region of the tempering plate extends substantially above the support strips, and extends little or not into the free space between the inner corner edges of the upright profiles of the base frame, so that the surface of the top of the tempering so good how can be used without compromising the edge area for the placement of products.

In the case of a temperature control plate that is not horizontal but rises slightly to the rear in the output shelf, a front stop is required for positioning the temperature control plate in the depth direction. manoeuvrable. This can be attached to a front transversely extending stop bar, such as a crossbar to which a price-sign unit can be attached or directly to the base frame, preferably its upright profile, or attached to the support strips. The front stop may in particular be adjustable in terms of its distance to the front end of the base frame of, for example, to the front end of the front upright profile.

Preferably, a rear stop for the temperature control is present in order to avoid pushing back the temperature control plate, in particular by the picker. Such a rear stop is preferably attached to one of the support strips, in particular two support strips.

Since the production of Temperierplatten is complex, it is tried - despite the changing from floor to floor length of the support strips in the depth direction, due for example, a sloping front and different angles of inclination of the support strips - either only one design or a maximum of two types of tempering, especially with regard to their dimensions:

So it is possible, at least all Temperierplatten in the output rack below the top plate with respect to the dimensions to make the same, which because of the different length of the support strips in the arrangement of the front edge and the front stops for the temperature control plate as far forward, on some of the lower floors a passage behind the trailing edge of the tempering to the rear end of the base frame results. If the storerooms arranged on top of each other, ie airspaces, of the individual floors should occupy the same temperature, these rear passages may remain permeable to air, if not, an air-impermeable closure must take place here through a closure plate. The uppermost temperature plate is shorter in its measured length in the depth direction. The lowermost tempering plate preferably has insulation on the preferably entire underside or it is not deposited directly on its supports, in particular its support strips, but with an intermediate layer of a bearing shell or another, unheated, shelf, which limits the heat radiation down and the lateral edge is then in each case insulating between the edge of the temperature control plate and the support bar. So that the basic metal frame is tempered as little as possible by the tempering plate, all contact surfaces between the tempering plate and the base frame are kept as small as possible and thermally decoupled as far as possible by intermediate layers of a thermally insulating material.

By in the width direction, the recesses in the front corner of the tempering are greater than the width of the accommodated therein cross section of Aufrechtprofiles, the Temperierplatte can be pushed to one side up to the stop of the upright profile in the Ausspa- tion for removal, in which case at a adjacent analog output shelf previously raised the side edge of the temperature and must be pushed over the adjoining tempering or the other separating there. Then, however, the other side of the temperature control can be lifted up to a pivoting angle of 20 °, 30 ° or even 40 °, even if in the central state in the base frame above this edge region of the tempering had a side wall, as explained later. This inclination is required to pull the tempering by the fitter backwards between the rear upright profiles. The power supply unit, which is usually part of the electrical control unit for the electrically operated tempering, is located below the bottom shelf, at least below the lowest tempering in the base frame, usually in the base space and near one of the sides of the base frame with the control unit to the back of the back Operator aligned. This control unit and / or power supply unit can also supply and control other electrically operated components of the output shelf, for example light sources. The power cable and / or data cable, usually a combined data / power cable, at the free end is usually a plug, preferably do not run out of the rear narrow side of the temperature in its center, but near one of its side edges. On this page, a cable duct is preferably mounted on the upright profile, in which the brought up by the individual temperature control plates are collected and guided down, preferably at the level of each trailing edge of a temperature control plate an inlet opening for a cable in the cable channel is present, of course can be opened over its entire length.

In the control unit located in the base area are usually appropriate sockets, or it is a corresponding connector strip already arranged on the upright profile further up. The cable duct is preferably made of thermally insulating and electrically non-conductive material, usually plastic.

Instead of a separate cable channel, the upright profiles can also be designed as hollow profiles and the corresponding hollow profile to which the control unit and also the cable outlets are adjacent to the temperature control, be used as a cable channel with corresponding outlet openings, in particular an open side of the cross section. In this way, the operator, who generally handles on the back of the shelf, on the control unit, the desired temperature or the temperature range, preferably each individual tempering set, and gets there preferably also in a display unit, the temperatures of the individual Temperierplatten, preferably from each individual of the local temperature sensors and thus in the individual tempering areas.

The controller should be able to maintain the set temperature on the tempering plate, except for a deviation of +/- 15 ° C, better +/- 10 ° C, better +/- 5 ° C, on the one hand, on the temperature control plate, and if in the air space, for example, attached to the base frame, also a temperature sensor is present, which is in communication with the controller, and the temperature in the air space.

On the underside of the support strips extending in the direction of depth light strips can be arranged, the radiate obliquely down inside and the products on the next lower shelf, especially the next lower-lying tempering shine.

Since these light strips also - depending on the used bulbs (LEDs or conventional bulbs) more or less - give off heat exactly in the lateral edge area, in which a curtain of rising warm air to be formed, these light strips contribute to the temperature straight in the To heat the airspace of this edge area. By means of corresponding sensors, this temperature can be measured and, accordingly, the temperature in the strongly heated lateral edge region of the temperature control plate can be regulated accordingly, in particular controlled lower than in the absence of light sources radiating from above.

Such an air curtain is especially necessary when the air space at the side surfaces of the base frame is open and not limited. Preferably, however, the sides of the base frame are at least partially closed by a continuous or several individual side plates, preferably at least 70%, better at least 80%, better at least 90% of the side surface of a frame or at least the side surface of each floor, so each storage room.

Such individual side plates - in particular side windows made of a transparent material such as transparent plastic or transparent glass - on each floor can be fixedly and immovably arranged on the base frame or can be arranged to pivot about a pivot axis extending in the depth direction slightly outwardly, so that the lower edge of the side plate slightly behind can be swiveled outwards in order to be able to lift the side edge of the tempering plate past it upwards for removal in an inclined state.

This pivot axis can be the same pivot axis on which a recourse protection device can be mounted in such a side surface in the base of the output rack and also the side plate, in particular, can additionally function as a recourse protection device, if the pivoting range is set accordingly as explained with reference to the drawings.

Preferably, such a single side plate per floor closes the side surface of this storage space to at least 70%, better at least 80%, better at least 90%.

Also, the back of the output rack is usually closed by a single-leaf or double-wing tailgate, preferably over the entire height of the storage area in which the storage rooms are located, or again separated by the height of each floor, so over the height every storeroom. Such a rear door is preferably made of a mirrored, but in one direction transparent, glass, so that a sol- The rear door is transparent to the operator in order to be able to check the loading status of the individual shelves, but for the customer standing in front of the dispenser shelf it is not transparent but mirrored.

The generally rectangular rear doors in this case have on the handle side along its local edge extending indentation, which serves the rear door of an immediately adjacent base frame, which has its hinge on this side, when pivoting this adjacent rear door whose hinge dive into the recess to let, so that can be dispensed with a distance between the bases and the use of space is improved.

In contrast, the back of the shelf below the bottom shelf, in particular below the bottom tempering, usually open and this base space accessible from the rear.

If the front of the storage room is also completely or partially open, there is also a need for a hot air curtain, which can also be generated by a strongly heated front edge region of the heating plate and / or in this front edge region from above radiating, heat-emitting , To shine.

The - preferably obliquely sloping back - top of the shelf is closed with a cover plate, which preferably consists of thermally insulating material and / or from a down mirrored mirror.

c) embodiments

Embodiments according to the invention are described in more detail below by way of example. Show it: FIG. 1 a: the delivery rack in a side view, ie viewed in the width direction, with a first front design,

1 b: the output shelf in the front view, thus viewed in the depth direction from the front,

FIG. 1 b1: an enlargement from FIG. 1 b,

Figure 1c: the output shelf in the side view with a second

Front design,

FIG. 2a: a recourse protection device with a side plate,

FIG. 2b shows a recourse protection device with fixed side plate,

FIG. 3a-c: a temperature control plate in various views,

FIG. 3a1: an enlargement from FIG. 3a,

Figure 4a-c: sections through different edge shapes of a

tempering,

FIG. 1a shows in a side view and FIG. 1b a front view of a single dispensing shelf 1, from which it is first evident that the dispensing shelf 1 has a frame-like base frame 19 consisting of profiles 41 welded or screwed together, namely upright Upright profiles 41a, depth profiles 41b extending in the depth direction 30, and transverse profiles 41c extending in the width direction 31, the transverse direction.

In this way, a base frame 19 is provided, which is rectangular in the front view, ie with mutually parallel left and right upright struts 41a and horizontally extending depth profiles 41b and cross struts 41c.

The transverse profiles 41 c, which run both between the rear and the front upright profiles 41 a, are present in height only at the upper end and in the lower half, approximately one third of the total height of the output shelf 1, which is about man-high, so that the lower cross profile 41c is at about knee height of an adult user 100 standing in front of it, or something above it.

It can also be seen in the side view of FIG. 1a that the depth profiles 41b are also present only at two points, namely between the upper ends of the front and rear upright profiles 41a and approximately at the same height as in FIG. 1b the lower transverse profile 41c.

In the side view, a depth profile 41 b could additionally be present at the lower ends of the sides of the front and rear upright profiles 41 a. However, an additional transverse profile 41c at the level of the lower ends of the upright profiles 41a is not present, as can be seen in FIG. 1b, so as not to prevent accessibility from the front between the upright struts 41a in the base region 12 'just above the ground.

The side view of Figure 1a shows that the base frame 19 is not rectangular in the side view, but only in the lower region, ie up to the lower of the two depth profiles 41 b and there has a vertical front 3, while from there to is formed at the top and thus the largest part of the front side 3 inclined, so the front upright profile 41a in this area up towards the rear, continuous vertical upright profile 41a approximates.

Furthermore, the depth profiles 41 b connecting the upper ends of the upright profiles 41 a do not run horizontally but slightly sloping from the front side 3 to the rear side 22 of the base frame 19. This top of the Output shelf 1 is closed by a cover plate 42 placed on the base frame 19 from above.

The front side 3 of the base frame 19, in front of which the user 100 stands and wants to take products P out of the dispensing shelf 1, can be completely open or more or less closed, as explained below, and also the side surfaces can be open or closed.

The back 22, from which the dispenser shelf 1 is typically filled with products by the operator, is either closed or closed by means of openable rear doors or flaps, as will be explained.

Above the lower depth profile 41b and transverse profile 41c are at different heights both between the left and between the right front and rear upright profiles 41a each left and right at the same height support strips 18 attached to the uprights 41a, usually screwed on which - as shown in Figure 1 b1 viewed from the front - plate-shaped separating elements 6, such as tempering 50, be placed on it to be deposited and sold products P with its edge region.

The support strips 18 and thus the separating elements 6 are arranged inclined from the back 22 to the front side 3 downwards, from the top to the bottom support bar 18 with decreasing inclination, wherein the lowermost support bar 18 can also be arranged horizontally, as in Figure 1a shown.

The dividing elements 6, in this case tempering plates 50 or even simple storage trays 6 for products P, subdivide the interior of the dispensing shelf 1 in height into individual floors or compartments, whereby individual storage spaces 2 are created for the products P, namely between the individual dividing elements 6 and between the top separator 6 and the upper end of the base frame 19 of the output shelf 1, so usually the cover plate 42nd

The area below the lowermost separating element 6 is referred to as base space 12, so that the height of the output shelf 1 is subdivided into a storage area 2 'and a base area 12'.

The front side 3 is in the base area 12 'by a front panel 16 usually closed, but which can be opened by the front panel 16 is openable and here is designed as a flap and by means of one or more hinges 21 at its upper edge aufschwenkbar on the Base frame, in particular the lower transverse profile 41c, is attached.

In the open state, this allows access to the base space 12 from the front, either there to clean the underground 200 there or to accommodate supplies there. The closing operation of the front panel 16 is slowed by a closing damper 25 and thereby dampens the impact.

As shown in FIG. 1 b on the left side of the dispensing rack 1, the sides of the dispensing rack 1 can be closed on one or both sides with a lateral side plate 20 as required, either only in the base area 12 'or in the storage area 2'. which depends inter alia on whether several such output shelves 1 viewed in the front view of Figure 1 b are juxtaposed lined up and / or if then the adjacent pantries 2 must be separated from each other or not.

This depends inter alia on whether as separators bearing shells 6 or separators with other function, such as tempering 50 - hot plates for holding products P or cooling plates for cooling products P - are used, because then it has a affected storage space 2 may alone already for the sake of thermal insulation are largely closed on all sides.

Thus, the front view of Figure 1 b shows over the entire height of the base frame 19 continuous side plate 20, which then, however, must usually rest on the outside of the side surface of the base frame 19, which is not optimal in a juxtaposition of a plurality of base frames 19. In FIG. 1 a, on the other hand, individual side plates 20, here formed as at least partially transparent side windows 20, can be seen in the upper two storage spaces 2 and removal spaces 4, respectively, in the free space between the front and rear upright profiles 41 delimiting this storage space 2 in the side view a and the overlying and underlying support bar 18, the top storage space 2 between the overlying depth profile 41 b and the underlying support bar 18, are inserted, which will be explained in more detail with reference to Figures 2a, b. In Figure 1a, the two upper floors are simultaneously shown as a storage room 2 and removal chamber 4 simultaneously by the this space 2, 4 each on the front 3 occlusive supply front panel 11 extends over the entire front surface of this space 2, 4 and formed as a door is with a lateral hinge, and 100 can be opened by the taker, to then directly a product P - to take here in a kind of basket filled food - can.

Thus, the supply front panel 11 is not opened unintentionally and the heat escapes from this storage and removal chamber 2, 4, which is generated by each as a shelf and thus partition element 6 there provided heating plate 50, these supply front panels 11 - whether in the design as a door as in FIG. 1a, or as a flap as in FIG. 1c - as shown in FIG. formed so that they close automatically when released, especially due to gravity.

Thus, the impact on the front upright 41 a is not too hard is - preferably in the solution as a door - a stop damper 27 applied to the front of the upright 41 a profile, in particular glued, which consists for example of plastic, and on the Supply front panel hits (Figure 1a). So that this is reliably held in the closed state, a magnet 26 is mounted on the supply front panel 11 on the base frame 19 side facing in the upright 41a, which is sufficiently strong to rest against the stop damper 27, the supply front panel 11 to hold in this position on the base frame 19 made of iron.

In Figure 1a it is shown that the magnet 26 is arranged so that it meets the stop damper 27, but this need not be mandatory: The magnet 26 could also be arranged offset to the stop damper 27, so that the supply front panel 11 in the closed state directly applied to the stop damper 27, provided that the magnet 26 is thinner than the stop damper 27th

In the lowermost floor of the storage area 2 ', the space downwardly delimited by the lower depth profile 41b and the stop bar 18 located above is only shown as a storage space 2 in FIG. 1a, so that the extractor 100 does not come directly from the front side 3 should engage in this reservoir 2 and can, but only by means of a in this reservoir 2 from the outside extending tool 37 such as a slider 33 which extends through a narrow tool opening 14 in the supply front panel 11 therethrough. The picker 100 can hold this tool at the outer end outside the dispensing rack 1 and with the in the dispenser shelf 1, ie in the storage space 2, located at the end move there product P in a view in the direction of Figure 1a in front of or behind it removal chamber 4, for example, a laterally mounted another base frame 19, as shown with reference to Figures 2a, b.

In this case, the supply front panel 11 is of course not possible to be opened by the picker 100 as possible, but still be open for cleaning purposes, etc. at least for the staff. Therefore, the supply front plate 11, which in this case is also designed as a door, is secured with its free end to one of the upright profiles 41a, as shown in the enlargement: For example, a movable, in particular pivotable, e.g. Attached L-shaped latch 45, the cranked extension 45a engages in the locking state in a recess 46 which is fixed on the inside of the supply front panel 11. This locking mechanism 48 can thus not or only very difficult to be opened through the tool opening 14 and is usually opened by the staff from the back 22 of the rear open or open dispensing rack 1. Especially when in the output shelf 1 tempering plates 50 are used as dividing elements 6, but also independently, should also be the back 22 of the output shelf 1 be closed.

In FIG. 1 a, therefore, the rear side 22 is closed by a separate rear door 15 extending on the rear side of the base frame 19 over the height of each compartment, that is to say each floor, which as a rule is also designed as a pane transparent at least from the outside to the inside. around To allow the staff to gain insight into the loading situation in the interior of the storage space 2 or removal space 4.

As can also be seen from FIG. 1 a, the temperature control plates 50, 50 'used on each floor as a shelf 6 are of varying length, or more precisely in the extension direction of the support strips 18, on which they respectively rest, depending on, inter alia, the depths increasing inclination of the support afford 18 of the lowest, not inclined, to the top support bar 18 and by the inclined front:

However, since the length of the support strips 18 from bottom to top decreases - despite the increasing inclination of the support strips 18 due to the more powerful tendency of the front 3 - the length of the shortest, top temperature plates 50 is selected so that they are substantially over the entire Length of their support strips 18 extends.

The second and all lower temperature control plates 50 are slightly longer than the uppermost temperature control plate 50, but all have the same length, ie they have the same length in their depth direction, ie in the mounted state in the direction of the support strips 18 in that the second tempering plate 50 extending from above substantially extends over the entire length of its support strips 18.

Since a front stop 8 for the front edge of the Temperierplatten 50 is formed on the support strips 18 respectively at the front end - arranged lying in the side view of Figure 1a in a non-visible position in the depth region of the front Upright 41a - the third from above and lower lying support strips 18 are still longer, results in each case behind the rear end of the Temperierplatten 50 at the third and fourth Aufla- list 18 from above an increasing gap to the back of the output shelf. 1 This is accepted in order to reduce the number of different lengths and thus designs of the tempering plates 50 and is harmless as long as both storerooms 2, ie below and above the tempering plate 50 separating them and the gaps behind them, are to be tempered to approximately the same temperature , If this is not the case, this gap must be closed by a suitable, preferably from the left to the right support bar 18 continuous cover strip.

The on the lowest floor and thus the lowest support bar 18, which usually runs horizontally, launched tempering 50 'is also isolated on its underside to prevent radiation of heat - in a heating plate 50 - down into the base space 12.

FIGS. 3a, b show the design of the temperature control plates 50, 50 'in detail, specifically FIG. 3a in plan view from above, ie on the main plane 51' of the temperature control plate, FIG. 3b in front view, partly in section, and FIG. 3c in the side view.

From this it is clear that the tempering plate 50, 50 'in each case consists of a plate composite 51, that is to say virtually the main plate, to which various attachments are attached.

Plate assembly 51, because - as shown in Figure 4a - c in cross-section - this plate assembly 51 consists of a flat top plate 51a and a flat bottom plate 51 b, which are preferably both glass plates, and which together with a fixed therebetween tempering 56 the Form plate assembly 51, which has a main plane 51 ', which is parallel to the top and / or bottom of the plate assembly 51, which indeed run parallel to each other in the rule. The main plane 51 'of the plate assembly 51 is therefore usually also the main plane of the temperature control plate 50, since the additional components present in addition to the plate assembly 51 have a much smaller extension with respect to the plate assembly 51. The tempering layer 56 can consist of any desired material, but contains electrically conductive elements 56a, for example heating wires 56a, which can be heated by means of electric current and heat the top plate 51a and bottom plate 51b to the desired temperature.

In order to measure this temperature, further temperature sensors 57 are arranged between upper plate 51a and lower plate 51, the signals of which reach the control unit 66 and associated power supply unit 43, preferably via the cable supplying the electric current to the conductive elements 56a, to which the temperature control plates 50 are connected.

The temperature sensors 57 are preferably arranged in the adhesive layer 68, with which the temperature-control layer 56 is glued preferably on its underside and on its upper side opposite one of the glass plates.

At the left end of the sectional views of FIGS. 4a-c, solutions for covering the visible and accessible tempering layer 56 accessible from the end face are also shown:

In a first solution according to Figure 4a, a cover 69 extends, which preferably consists of stainless steel, over the entire thickness D, ie height, of the plate assembly 51, but is not in the height beyond and also does not surround the top or bottom edge of the Plate composite 51, as this would form inside corners and inner edges, where dirt can be deposited.

However, this solution has the disadvantage that such a cover strip 69, especially if it consists of a material with a higher thermal conductivity than glass, can produce lighter burns when touched than when touching the example top of the existing glass top plate 51a. Especially at the front narrow side of the plate composite 51, the Tempe- rierplatte 50, then this front narrow side should preferably by a z. B. in front of the base frame 19 arranged transverse bar 17 are protected, which extends at a small distance in front of the cover 69: In Figure 1c is in a cutaway enlargement such, between a left and right front upright profile 41a fastened, preferably easily attachable, cross bar 17th For this function shown too low lying, which is indeed preferably used as a price tag holder by a price tag unit 28 can be attached thereto, as shown in this sectional view:

This consists of a price tag holder 23 in the form of a polygonal cross-section bent plastic profile, which extends in the same direction, the width direction 31, as the cross bar 17:

In the upper part of the price tag holder 23 this is three times bent by about 90 °, so that there is an almost closed, approximately rectangular inner contour into which the cross section of the transverse rod 17 fits. Since the material of the price tag holder 23 is sufficiently elastic, this multiple crimping can be bent up so far that the price tag holder 23 can be slipped onto the cross bar 17 from above.

In the lower part of the price tag holder 23 is bent once by approximately 180 ° and thus forms a U-shaped, open at the top pocket in the top of the price tag 24 can be inserted for in this corresponding floor, usually the floor below the Cross bars 17, products offered.

Thus, the entire price plate unit 23 is in the range of the dimensions of the base frame 19, since the transverse bar 17 is not in front of, but in the depth region of the front upright profiles 41a and thus protected behind the front supply front doors 11th In order to protect the front narrow side of the temperature control plate 50, the cross bar 17 higher, this covering, could be arranged.

In Figure 1c, another design of the front side 3 of a dispensing shelf 1 is further shown, namely by the supply front plates 11 are each formed as a horizontally pivotally open plate, each extending over the height of the front surface of one of the storage spaces 2 and / or extraction spaces 4 extend. In this solution, preferably in the joint of each of these formed as a flap supply front plates 11, ie around the plate pivot axis 47 around, a damper for slowing down the gravitational closing movement available. FIG. 4b shows, in a second variant, a cover strip 69 'which is recessed relative to the foremost end face of upper plate 51a and lower plate 51b, and thus can be touched less easily:

Either the cross-sectionally also strip-shaped, thus rectangular, cover strip 69 'extends only in the thickness range of the tempering layer 56 and the adhesive layers 68, or the glass plates are chamfered at their respective edge facing the other glass plate - as shown in FIG. 4c - so that the recessed cover strip 69 "may have a diamond-shaped or triangular cross-sectional shape and because of the larger contact surface with respect to the glass plates 51 a, 51 b can be better glued thereto.

In the illustrations of FIGS. 3 a, b, c, such optional cover strips 69, which are arranged in particular along the front side and / or the side surfaces, are shown only in partial areas.

Such cover strips 69 may instead of stainless steel also consist of a different material whose temperature conductivity is preferably not greater is as that of glass, especially plastic. In particular, in the construction according to FIG. 4 c, such a cover strip 69 can be applied from a pasty material, such as silicone, and then cured.

Figures 3a, b, c show primarily the other, usually made of stainless steel sheet, attachments to the plate assembly 51:

On the one hand, the protective coating 59 in the form of a stainless steel strip, which is visible in the edge region along one of the side edges 51.2, 51.3 of the plate composite 51, namely in the support region 58 or slightly wider or narrower in the depth direction 30 preferably extends over the entire extent of the plate assembly 51 on the underside thereof.

The width of the protective coating 59, so the support area 58 may be equal to or larger, wider or narrower than the surface with which the temperature control plate 50 rests laterally on the support strips 18 in the mounted state.

At the back, that is along the trailing edge 51.4, of the plate assembly 51, a transversely extending 31 rear profile 70, usually made as sheet metal bent parts made of stainless steel, arranged, which has several functions:

On the one hand, the rear profile 70 projects as a rear strip 61-substantially over the entire width of the rear edge 51.4 of the panel assembly 51-over its upper side, and is intended to prevent products P resting on the panel assembly 51 from being torn by the picker 100 by mistake. are pushed so that they fall over the trailing edge 51.4 of the plate assembly 51. On the other hand, a cable 64, which supplies the tempering layer 56 with power, extends out of the rear region, in particular the rear narrow side, of the plate assembly 51, as FIG. 4a shows, and usually not in a corner region of the plate composite 51, but rather in the middle Area.

To this cable 64 to the side, so to one of the rear upright profiles 41a to which a cable channel 29 is vertically mounted to guide these cables 64, zoom, this rear profile 70 on the underside of the plate assembly 51, on which it is after extends down, simultaneously used as a cable guide, as shown in Figure 3c:

For this purpose, viewed in the side view, ie in the direction of this rear profile 70 - the rear profile 70 in the area below the plate assembly 51 has the cross-sectional shape of a U-shaped cable tray 71 which is open towards the rear, so that the cable 64 inserted therein can be and be led to the side.

This rear profile 70 is attached to the upper leg of the U-shaped cable tray 71 only at the bottom of the plate assembly 51, preferably glued, and has the cross-sectional shape shown in Figure 3c consisting of the U-shaped cable tray 71 and the free end of the upper leg Upwardly projecting rear strip 61. Another attachment may be a protective cover 59, which does not extend as shown in FIG. 3b in the left region only over the support region 58 as a strip extending in the depth direction along the underside of the panel assembly 51, but essentially over the entire Bottom of the plate assembly 51, and of course in the support area 58, where it is a thermal insulation against the support strips 18, on which the temperature control plate 50 rests to offer. This is necessary at the lowermost of several temperature plates 50 in a dispensing shelf 1 to prevent the heat radiation of a hot plate down into the underneath unheated pantry 2, usually at the bottom floor, to radiate heat in the one underneath Base space 12 to avoid.

Such a continuous protective coating 59 is then preferably designed as a trough, with a lowering in the central region, where in the resulting distance between the underside of the plate assembly 51 and the lowered central region of the trough-shaped protective cover 59, an insulating layer 60 of thermally insulating material is present.

The upwardly bulging and parallel to the main plane of the trough-shaped protective cover 59 extending edges are preferably in the side areas - for the function as an intermediate layer between the plate assembly 51 and the supporting support strips 18 in the support area 58 - and in the front - as a screen to the front against a visibility in the insulating layer 60 - and preferably also in the area of the back available, so circumferentially available.

The cable tray 71 forms because of the supernatant down on the underside of the plate assembly 51 at the same time a handle 62, at which the staff can take the tempering plate 50 and pull out of the back of the base 19.

Furthermore, it can be seen in the plan view of FIG. 3 a that the two front corners of the panel assembly 51 of the temperature control plate 50 each have a corner recess 63 which runs at right angles with legs parallel to the outer edges of the panel assembly 51 and has a rounded inner corner, the latter to avoid the build-up of internal stresses in the glass plates. The extension of the recess 63 in the width direction 31 is greater than the width of the upright profiles 41a, viewed in plan view from above, and the extension in the depth direction 30 is greater than the extension of the front upright profile 41a, which in the direction of depth 30 partially and in widths - Direction 31 extends completely in the corner recess 63.

In the inserted into the Ausgaberegal 1 state, the temperature control plate 50 is preferably in the base frame that the usually inclined obliquely forward temperature control plate 50 with the front edge 51.1 of their Plattenver- feder 51 on each side of a front stop 8 - in Figure 3a only on one side - rests, which is preferably, see Figure 2a, b, attached to the support bar 18, so that the front upright profile 41a with its cross section without contact with the plate assembly 51 is partially in the corner recess 63. But the front edge of the plate assembly 51 is offset with respect to the front edge of the cross section of the front upright profile 41a backwards, so that in the supernatant of the front upright profile 41a forward still the cross bar 17 can be accommodated with the price-sign unit 28, as in the Cut-out enlargement shown in Figure 1c.

The measured in the width direction 31 width of the plate assembly 51 and thus the temperature control plate 50 is selected so that it extends in the mounted state up to or close to the outer edges of the support strips 18 on which it rests, but not beyond the base frame 19 addition.

On the one hand, each plate composite 51 has a production-related, unheated, since unhookable, edge region 53, the at least two opposing one another in the top view of Figure 3a on the plate assembly 51, the possible existing, independently tempered Temperierbereiche 52a, b Page exists and run along the depth direction 30 here. The width of this unheated border area 53 is larger than the width of the support area 58, in which about the plate assembly 51 is to rest on the underlying support bar 18.

The area within, that is, between the two unheated edge areas 53 is preferably not only a single tempering area:

Rather, there is a preferably annularly circulating heated edge region 54 between the unheated edge regions 53, ie within the unheated edge regions 53, and if they are present on all four edges of the preferably rectangular plate composite 51, and this heated edge region 54 closes a core region 55 one. In this way, the heated edge region 54, whether extending only in the depth direction or formed only along the width direction or as a circulating region, can be heated to a higher temperature than the core region 55 and thereby a kind of hot air curtain thereof Heavily heated edge region 54 can be generated, which reduces the cooling on the cooler side boundaries such as side plates 20, rear door 15 or front panel 11.

How the support strips 18 can be designed is shown in FIGS. 2a, b and FIG. 1c.

The support bar 18 comprises, on the one hand, a V-profile 34 lying in the assembled state, which extends essentially in the depth direction 30, when viewed naturally inclined with respect to the depth direction of the support bar 18 in the running direction of the support bars 18.

This V-profile 34 is usually a bent sheet metal part and has an upper leg 34a and a lower leg 34b, wherein the V-profile 34 with the tip 13 of its cross-sectional shape is directed inwards, ie toward the center of the delivery rack 1, and with its open side facing outward. The upper leg 34a is curved in its course with an obtuse angle, so that in the mounted state, the free end portion of this upper leg 34 extends horizontally up to the crank with its cross section, while the thereto in the direction of the tip 13 towards extending portion due to the cranking sloping down in the direction of the center of the output shelf 1.

The horizontally extending end region is thereby wider than the width of a front upright profile 41a considered in this front view, up to the outer edge of which this free end region of the upper leg 34a extends, when extending from the underside of this end region and thus of the upper leg 34a downwardly extending fixing device 36, namely a vertically standing plate-shaped Schraublasche 36 is screwed to the inwardly facing surface of such upright profile 41a.

In the then remaining distance in the width direction 31 between the inside surface of the upright profile 41a and the crank in the upper leg 34a projects beyond the top of the upper leg 34a, a front stop 8 upwards, for the application of the temperature control 50th

For this reason, over the front end of the upper leg 34 a projecting forward (see Figures 3a and 3a1) screw 36 and the front stop 8 on the front side of the V-profile 34 can be made as a common sheet-metal part, which only at preferably the underside of the upper leg 34a must be welded as can also be seen in the plan view of Figure 1 b2.

The fixing device 36, in particular in the form of the plate-shaped Schraublasche 36, has at the rear end of the support bar 18, so the V-profile 34 in which it projects beyond the rear end of the V-profile to the rear, usually no upwardly projecting stop Part up. The lower leg 34b extends in principle obliquely outwards downwards, but optionally specifically only in its outer end region, since the lower leg 34b also has an offset around an obtuse angle, which causes the region between the upper end of the obliquely sloping end region and the tip 13 of the V-profile 34 extends approximately horizontally.

At the sloping end region, a light strip 40 is fastened on the lower side of the lower leg 34b, for which purpose a fastening device 32, e.g. in the form of a breakthrough at each end of the V-profile 34 is present.

As in FIG. 1 a, in FIG. 1c the base front plate 16 at its upper edge at the level of the lowermost depth profile 41b can also be shown mounted as a flap in a hinged manner via a hinge.

The power supply 43 and control unit 66 for the electrically operated temperature control plates 50 in an output shelf 1 are accommodated in the base space 12, as shown in FIGS. 1a, b, c.

For this purpose, in the cable channel 29 down to the control unit 66 and power supply 43 guided - and for this sufficiently long dimensioned - cable 64 of the individual Temperierplatten 50 at their free end in each case a plug 65th

Either as a separate component or on the back of the power supply unit 43 - which is usually integrally formed with the control unit 66 - are appropriate sockets 67a to 67d, in each of which a plug 65 a Temperierplatte 50, 50 'can be inserted and above all can be unplugged from this when this tempering 50, 50 'in the output shelf 1 either replaced by another tempering 50, 50' or another partition element 6, such as a simple bearing shell 6, instead to be inserted. In integral construction of control unit 66 and power supply unit 43 - as shown in Figures 1a, 1b, 1c - this is usually mounted in the base space 12 in the upper region of the base frame 19 with a rear facing control unit 66a in its front, as shown in FIG 1a indicated, in which the necessary display elements and switches and controls are present, and the connector strip 67 with the individual sockets 67a to 67d is arranged either on the front side of the combined unit 66, 43, as shown in Figure 1 b - but then sufficiently far from the front side 3 of the base space 12 to the rear to allow the insertion of the plug 65 - or arranged on the side surface of the combined unit 66, 43, as shown in Figure 1c.

FIGS. 2 a, 2 b also show in detail the side panels 20 shown in FIG. 1 a in the upper two levels in different attachment types in vertical section:

In Figure 2b is an example of one of the compartments, so the floors of the output shelf 1, the attachment of the side plate 20 shown in the height between two see separating elements 6 in the form of tempering 50th with their lateral support portions 59 on the inner surfaces of an upright profile 41a front and rear screwed support strips 18 rest.

In this case, the side plate 20 is in the width range of the front and rear upright profiles 41a, and is with its front and rear edge - as shown in Figure 1a - by means usually in the height of two superimposed mutually spaced staple parts 39 which are attached to the upright 41a , kept in position. In the enlargement of FIG. 2 b, it can be seen that these can be two individual angle profiles, which are fastened to the upright profile 41 a with one leg and clamp the side plate 20 between them, for example, with the two other legs facing each other. The side plates 20 may also have holes through which a screw connection with respect to the at least one angle profile is possible, but this should be avoided to avoid contamination-relevant edges and individual parts.

The side plate 20 - usually formed as a transparent side window 20 - is thus immovably fixed between the front and rear upright profile 41 a and also fills the height distance between the located above and the underlying Temperierplatte 50 substantially.

This solution will be chosen if the storage space 2 is at the same time the removal space 4, that is, the removal of the product P from the front takes place, for example, in a stand-alone dispensing shelf.

Figure 2a, however, shows a solution in which laterally next to the interior space used only as a storage space 2 in Gefach an output shelf 1 next to a removal chamber 4 - preferably housed in a further output shelf 1 - is.

Then, a recapture protection device 9 is present between the two chambers 2, 4, so that the removal device 100 first removes the product P lying in the storage space 2 on the temperature control plate 50 for removal by means of a tool 37, such as a slide 33 (see also FIG Figure 1a) - which extends through the substantially closed front side 3 through, first of all from the storage room 2 in an adjacent removal chamber 4 on there existing separator 6 - which does not need to be heated - must push to then from the front side in grab the removal chamber 4 and remove the desired product from there.

In order to avoid pushing back from the removal chamber 4 into the storage space 2, as a recourse protection device 9, the side plate 20 is here between see front and rear upright 41 a pivotally about a pivot axis 49, which generally runs horizontally disposed. The pivot axis 49 is located in the front view of Figure 2a seen laterally outside the side plate 20, and is pivotally mounted in a matching, ren at the rear and front end of the side plate 20 on the outside, for example glued, hat profile.

The pivot shaft 49 protrudes from a base plate 72 extending vertically in the width direction in front of and behind the front and rear ends of the side plate 20 and disposed on each of the mutually facing outer surfaces of one of the upright sections 41 a respectively toward the central portion of the side plate 20 ,

This base plate 72, together with a support pin 73 which projects from the upright 41a in the direction of the other front or rear upright profile 41 a in the depth direction 30, a suspension device 10:

For this purpose, the base plate 72 has an L-shaped recess 74 opening in one of its side edges, which is dimensioned such that the unit consisting of side plate 20 and front and rear mounted base plates 72 on the front and rear trunnions 73 at the front and rear Upright profile 41a can be mounted by the two base plates 72 can be pushed with the mouth of their L-shaped recess in each case via one of the support pin 73 until it rests in the upwardly facing closed end of the L-shaped recess 74.

In this case, the support pin 73 is still in the height range of the side plate 20, and since the support pin 73 as well as the pivot axis 49 on the respect to the viewed in the depth direction outside of the side plate 20 with respect to the center of the discharge shelf 1, the support pin 73 acts when pivoting the side plate 20 about the Schwenkach- se 49 as a stop for the upper end of the side plate 20, since it is located above the pivot axis 49.

The lying below the pivot axis 49 depending part of the side plate 20 can thus be pivoted in the direction of storage space 2 only by a small angle, namely until its upper portion abuts on the support pin 73, of course in the depth direction 30 into the depth range of the side plate 20 must extend into it. However, this slight pivoting of the side plate 20 is not sufficient to push a product already located in the removal chamber 4 back into the storage space 2 or to reach it with the hand from the removal space 4 out into the storage space 2. In the other direction, ie with the lower end of the side plate 20 in the direction of removal chamber 4, the side plate 20, however, can be pivoted indefinitely, so even in a horizontal position, so that the product P can be easily pushed underneath into the removal chamber 4 , And thereby pushes the side plate 20 in front of him until it pivots back over the product P back into its vertically hanging starting position.

However, this pivotability of the side plate 20 with the lower area outwards with respect to the output shelf has a second important function with tempering plates 50 as separating elements 6:

Because of the unheated lateral edge region 53, these tempering plates 50 extend to or close to the outer edge of the base frame and thus the upright profiles 41a.

To remove the temperature control plates 50 from the base frame 19 to the rear, therefore, they must first be inclined so that they can be passed between the rear upright profiles 41a. However, since the perpendicular or hanging side plate 20 is in the width range of the upright 41a and thus in the width direction 31 above the temporal edge region of the temperature control 50, this is only possible if the lower portion of the side plate with respect to the output shelf 1 as far outward can be pivoted - as shown in dashed lines in Figure 2a - that the underlying edge region of the temperature control plate 50 can be swung over the pivoted side plate 20 over in the necessary oblique position for removing the temperature control plate 50 to the rear.

LIST OF REFERENCE NUMBERS

1 output shelf

2 pantry

2 'storage area

3 front of the storage room

4 removal room

5 removal opening

6 bearing shell, separating element, shelf

7 rear stop

8 front stop

9 recourse protection device

10 suspension device

1 1 disk, supply front panel

12 base room

12 'base area

13 tip

14 tool opening

15 rear door

16 base front panel

17 crossbar

18 support bar

19 frames, base frame

20 side plate

21 hinge

22 back side

23 price tag holder

24 price tag

25 closing dampers

26 magnet

27 stop damper

28 price tag unit

29 cable channel depth direction

Width direction, Crosslink

fastening device

Spoon, slider

V-Profile

a upper leg

b lower thigh

attack

Fixing device, Schraublasche

Tool

offset distance

clamp part

light bar

profile

a upright profile

b depth profile

c cross profile

cover plate

Power supply unit

vertical

bars

recess

Plates pivot axis

locking mechanism

swivel axis

tempering

Interconnected panel

.1 leading edge

.2 / 3 side edge

.4 trailing edge

'Main level

a top plate

b lower plate 52a, b temperature control range

53 unheated edge area

54 heated edge area

55 core area

56 tempering layer

56a heating wire, electr. conductive element

57 temperature sensor

58 circulation area

59 protective coating, stainless steel plate 60 insulating layer

61 rear bar

62 handle bar

63 corner recess

64 cables

65 plug

66 control unit

66a control unit

67 female header

67a, b socket

68 adhesive layer

69 cover strip

70 rear profile

71 cable tray

72 base plate

73 trunnions

74 recess

100 extractors

101 hand

200 underground

D thickness

P product

Claims

(Temperature control plate = heating plate or cooling plate) 1. Use of a tempering plate (50), in particular a heating plate (50), as accessible to the customer shelf shelf (6) in a self-service output shelf (1).

2. Use according to claim 1,

d a d u r c h e s e n c i n e s, d a s s

- At least one of the main outer surfaces (50 a, b), in particular both main outer surfaces, the top (50 a) and the bottom (50 b), the tempering (50) made of a material having a lower temperature conductivity than iron, in particular of glass,

- The achievable for the customer parts of the peripheral surface of the Temperierplatte (50), in particular the entire peripheral surface of the Temperierplatte (50), consist of an electrically non-conductive material and / or

- the heating plate (50) is heated in operation to a surface temperature of about 100 ° C,

and or

the air temperature in the preferably entire air space of the floor above and / or below the tempering plate (50) is held exclusively by convection within a desired temperature range with a maximum of 20 °, better still a maximum of 10 ° C distance between the upper and lower limits of the range; in particular in that the tempering plate (50) is subdivided into tempering regions (52a, b), which can be temperature-controlled independently of one another, and these are tempered at different temperatures.

3. Use according to claim 1 or 2,

characterized by the fact that

- The temperature of the temperature control plate (50) except for an unheated edge region (53) of less than 3 cm, in particular less than 2 cm width is performed, which rotates in particular to the entire tempering (50)

and or

- In a heated edge region (54), in particular in relation to the unheated edge region (53) in the main plane (51 ') of the Tem- perierplatte, in particular their plate composite (51), further inside, the tempering (50) heated more is considered to be in the central area (55) which is located farther inside than the heated edge area (54).

and or

- The air space in the shelf storage above the heating plate (50) is kept in operation at a temperature of at least 60 ° C, better 65 ° C, preferably in the entire air space of the shelf storage.

4. Temperierplatte for use as a shelf (6) in a self-service dispenser shelf (1), in particular for placing on in the depth direction of the output shelf (1) extending support strips (18), characterized ichnet that

the tempering plate (50) comprises a plate composite (51) with a glass top plate (51a) and a glass bottom plate (51b) and tempering layer (56), in particular heating layer (56), arranged therebetween and firmly connected to the top plate and bottom plate ,

5. tempering plate according to claim 4,

characterized by the fact that

- The plate assembly (51) of the temperature control plate (50) in its main plane (51 ') outer unheated edge region (53) of less than 3 cm, in particular less than 2 cm, in particular around the entire circumference of the plate assembly (51) of the temperature control plate (50) is designed,

and or

a heated edge region (54), which lies further inwards in relation to the unheated edge region (53) in the main plane (51 '), is independently controllable with respect to its temperature with respect to the central region (55) lying further inside than the heated edge region (54) and in particular, can be heated to a higher temperature

and or

viewed in the plan view of the tempering plate (50), in particular within the core region (55), temperature-controlled tempering regions (52a, b) are present independently of each other, in particular the heated edge region (54) located further inwards relative to the unheated edge region (53) ) and / or the other hand, in turn, further inside, that is to say in the direction toward the center of the temperature control plate (50), at least one core region (55).

6. tempering according to one of the preceding device claims,

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- The temperature control plate (50) is tempered by supplying electrical current and in particular to the temperature control plate (50) a combined data / power cable (64) is fixedly arranged with a plug (65) at the free end

and or

- The tempering (50) at least at its top and the front edge facing the customer (50.1) is free of materials having a higher temperature conductivity than the material of the top plate (51 a) and / or bottom plate (51 b)

and or

the tempering plate (50) has a plurality of temperature sensors (57), in particular at least one in each tempering region (52a, b), which are connected to a control unit (66) for automatically controlling measured at the control unit (66) set target temperature or the target temperature range and / or in the set on the control unit (66) periods.

7. tempering according to one of the preceding device claims,

characterized by the fact that

- In a preferably in the depth direction (30) extending, both sides existing support area (58), in particular the same or a smaller width as the unheated edge region (53), on the underside of the tempering (50) a protective coating (59), in particular a stainless steel plate (59), is present

and or

the protective coating (59), in particular the stainless steel plate, is equal to or smaller than the support area (58),

and or

- Between the protective coating (59) and the temperature control plate (50), a thermal insulating layer (60) is arranged.

8. tempering according to one of the preceding device claims,

characterized by the fact that

- The tempering (50) at the trailing edge (51.2) of the plate assembly (51) has an upwardly projecting tail stop (61), which total over more than half, better more than 80%, the

Extension of the trailing edge (50.2) extends,

and or

- The plate assembly (51) of the tempering (50) in its front corners each have a corner recess (63), in particular an angled corner recess (63) with a rounded inner corner or an arcuate, in particular quarter-circular Eck- Recess (63), and / or - The corner recesses (63) in the front corners in the transverse direction (31) are equal to or greater than the width of the unheated edge region (53).

9. Tempeherplatte according to any one of the preceding device claims,

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- The tempering (50 ') on its underside a thermal insulating layer (60'), in particular with an outer surface made of stainless steel or in the form of a trough with a peripheral edge, which rests against the underside of the plate assembly (51) of the temperature control plate (50), has, and / or

the upper plate (51a) of the tempering plate (50) is thinner in a heating plate and thicker in a cooling plate than the lower plate (51 b) is formed.

10. Self-service dispenser shelf (1) for storing, presenting and dispensing hygienically protected food products (P) to a picker (100), with

a base frame (19), which is designed in particular as a frame (19),

- At least one storage space (2) for storage and for the Entnehmer (100) visible presentation of the products (P) on each shelf (6), with

a front side (3) facing the extractor (100),

- One from the extractor (100) facing away from back (22), as well

- one in the depth direction (30), ie in the direction of the front side (3) to the back (22) of the storage space (2) seen, right and left side,

- At least one removal chamber (4) for removing products (P) from the output shelf (1), which may be the same time the storage space (2), - Wherein the storage space (2) and / or the removal space (4) at least partially in the interior of the base frame (19) are arranged, characterized in that

at least one shelf (6), in particular all shelves (6), as, in particular electrically operated, tempering (50), in particular according to one of the preceding device claims, is formed.

11. output shelf according to claim 10,

characterized in that

- A plurality of stacking chambers arranged (4) and / or storage spaces (2) by one each in particular as a tempering (50) formed shelves (6) are separated in height from each other, and / or

- Shelves (6) designed as tempering plates (50) are arranged from the front to the rear, that is to say in the depth, rising on the base frame (19) and in the case of several shelves (6) one above the other the inclination of the shelves (6) from the lowest shelf ( 6) to the top shelf (6) increases, in particular continuously increases,

and or

- between the front upright profiles (41 a) and the rear upright profiles (41 a) of the base frame (19), in particular of the frame (19), along the sides of the output rack (1) extending support strips (18) for placing the Shelves (6) are present.

(Side supports)

12. Dispenser shelf according to one of the preceding shelf claims, characterized in that

- In the depth direction (30) extending lateral support strips (18) centrally in the shelf applied tempering (50) this up to a lateral projection of the top of the support strips (18) of less than 8 mm, preferably less than 5 mm, better less than 2 mm this rests, but in particular not on the dimensions of the base frame (19) protrudes laterally,

and or

- On the base frame (19), in particular the support strips (18) or the front upright profile (41 a) or a front cross bar (17) extending between two front upright profile (41 a), at least one front stop (8) for the temperature control plate (50) is present, and / or

- The tempering (50) within a base frame (19) to the topmost temperature plate (50) are the same length and wide or all tempering (50) within a base frame (19) are the same length and width

and or

a rear stop (7) for the temperature control plate (50) is arranged on the lateral support strips (18),

and or

- All with the temperature control plate (50) in contact stops (7, 8) have such a small contact surface with respect to the temperature plate as possible, so that just for the function as a stop (7, 8) necessary stability of the stop (7, 8 ) given is,

and or

- The corner recesses (63) in the front corners of the plate assembly (51) of the temperature (50) in the transverse direction (31) are so large that by lateral displacement to one side until it stops at the local base frame (19) the opposite side edges

(51.2 or 51.3) of the plate assembly (51) of the temperature control plate (50) can be raised up to an inclination of at least 20 °, better 30 °, better 40 ° relative to the horizontal.

13. Dispenser shelf according to one of the preceding shelf claims, characterized in that the support strip (18), viewed in its course, comprises a V-profile (34) which, in the installed state, is open to the outside of the delivery shelf (1), and in particular is a bent sheet metal part,

and

- A fixing device (36) for fixing to an upright profile (41 a), in particular a plate-shaped Schraublasche (36) having a through opening, at the front and rear ends of the V-profile (34) and in particular moreover in each case above,

wherein in particular the plane of the plate-shaped screw lug (36) extends at right angles to the freely ending region of the upper limb (34a) and preferably below the height of the upper limb (34a),

- And in particular the plate-shaped Schraublasche (36) from the free outer end of the upper leg (34 a) is set back by a

Offset distance (38) that corresponds at most to the width of a upright profile (41a) viewed in front view,

in particular

- The upper leg (34a) of the V-shape of the V-profile (34), viewed in the direction of the V-profile (34), from its free end to the rounded tip (13) of the V-profile (34) straight running over a distance which corresponds at least to the width viewed in the front view of an upright profile (41a),

and or

- The lower leg (34b) at least in its free end to the upper leg (34a) obliquely outwards and in particular runs down, preferably at an angle of 20-60 °, more preferably between 25 and 45 °, in particular to the straight, free end portion of the upper leg (34 a).

14. Dispenser shelf according to one of the preceding shelf claims, characterized in that - in the obliquely downwardly inclined portion of the lower leg (34b) at least at the ends of the support bar (18) each have a fastening device (32) for attaching a light bar (40) on the outside of this lower leg (34b) is present

and or

- On, in particular before, the front end of the V-profile (34) a front stop (8), which consists in particular of the same material as the V-profile (34), above the top of the upper leg (34 a) projects upwards ,

(Power supply)

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- The data / power cable (64) from the rear narrow side of the plate assembly (51) leads out of the temperature control plate (50),

and or

- The control unit (66) for the at least one tempering plate (50), which also forms the power supply unit (43) for the temperature control plate (50) and / or the light strips (40), in the base space (12) below the bottom shelf ( 6) is arranged laterally in the rear region and with the operating unit (66a) pointing backwards

and or

- On the base frame (19), in particular the inside of one of the rear upright profiles (41 a), a cable channel (29), in particular of a thermally insulating material such as plastic, is arranged, in which the cable (64) of the temperature control plate (50 ) to the control unit (66)

and or

- At least one of the rear upright profiles (41 a) is formed as a hollow profile and the cables (64) in the interior of the hollow upright profile (41 a) extend.

16. Output shelf according to one of the preceding shelf claims, characterized in that

- At the free ends of the temperature control plate (50) leading away cable (64) each have a plug (65) is arranged and either on the control unit (66) or on the base frame (19) fixed female connector (67), in particular the function-matched is formed with the cable channel (29) to the plugs (65) matching plug sockets (67a, b) are formed

and or

- The control unit (66) is capable of a set air temperature to a deviation of +/- 15 °, better +/- 10 ° C better +/- 5 ° C in the entire air space between two temperature plates (50) to comply and / or

- At the bottom of the support strips (18) light strips (40) are arranged, the radiate obliquely down inside and are used as part of the marginal airspace heating.

(Side surfaces) 17. Dispenser shelf according to one of the preceding shelf claims, characterized in that

- At least one of the sides of the base frame (19) by at least one side plate (20) to at least 70%, better at least 80%, better at least 90%, better completely closed, and / or

- Between each superposed support strips (18) each have a side plate (20), in particular made of a transparent material such as transparent plastic or glass, which ends in particular at a distance above the underlying support strip (18) which is greater than the thickness (D) the tempering plate (50) in its lateral edge region, in particular twice as large, better than 2.5 times as large as this thickness (D),

and or - The side plate (20) pivotable about a in the depth direction (30) extending, in the upper half of the side plate (20) extending, plate pivot axis (49) relative to the base frame (19) with the lower edge is pivoted outwardly, in particular so far, the adjacent side edge of the temperature control plate (50) on the side plate (20) can be pivoted upwards about the opposite side edge of the temperature control plate (50).

18. Dispenser shelf according to one of the preceding shelf claims, characterized in that

- Between the front and rear upright profile (41 a) of the base frame (19) has a suspension device (10) for suspending a limited pivoting recourse protection device (9) is provided and the side plate (20) are formed so that in this Einhän - ge-device (10) can be hung,

and or

- A at the output shelf (1) existing recourse protection device (9) between laterally juxtaposed pantry (2) on the one hand and removal chamber (4) on the other hand from a flat material, in particular a disc of transparent

Plastic or a glass pane, which closes the side surface of the air space of this storage space (2) to at least 70%, better at least 80%, better at least 90%. (Back)

19. Dispenser shelf according to one of the preceding shelf claims, characterized in that

- The back (22) of the output rack (1) is at least partially closed by an at least from outside to inside transparent, preferably mirrored when looking from inside, rear door (15), which consists in particular of glass

and or - The rear door (15) in height above the height of a Gefaches, and / or over the height of the entire back (22), at least in the storage area (2 '), extends. (Generally)

20. Dispenser shelf according to one of the preceding shelf claims, characterized in that

- The output shelf (1) has a top of the uppermost storage space (2) closing cover plate (42), which consists of thermally insulating material and / or viewed from the bottom is mirrored,

and or

- The back (22) of the output rack (1) below the bottom shelf (6), in particular the lowest temperature control plate (50) is not closed

and or

- The bottom tempering (50) with the interposition of a bearing with the open side up bearing shell (6) on the support strips (18) with the edges of the bearing shell (6) rests therebetween.

21. Output shelf according to one of the preceding shelf claims, characterized t t that

- The front side (3) of the output shelf (1) is inclined at least in the upper region to the vertical (44) and in particular to the back (22) of the output shelf (1) by their lower edge is further away from the back (22) than their Upper edge and in particular in the case of a plurality of storage spaces (2) arranged one above the other, this front side (3) is a flat, inclined front side (3) which extends over a plurality, in particular all, storage spaces (2)

and or

- The removal opening (5) an engagement opening (14) or a tool opening (14 ') in an otherwise the front side (3) close- the supply front panel (11), in particular a transparent front pane (11) is

and or

- Under the lowest storage space (2) in the base frame (19) a basic space (12) is present, which is closed on the front side (3) by a base front plate (16), and

and or

- At least one of the sides of the base frame (19) at least in the region of the base space (12) by a side plate (20) is closed, which is in particular removably attached to the base frame (19).

(Details base frame)

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- A, in particular only one, hinged cross bar (17) between the front upright profiles (41 a) of the frame (19), which serves in particular the attachment of the price tag holder (23) is present and is arranged in particular in such an altitude in that it is located in front of or below the front narrow side of the separating element (6), in particular the tempering plate (50)

and or

- On the underside of the support bar (18) in the depth direction (30) extending light bar (40) is fixed, which in particular has LEDs as lighting means

and or

- On the transverse bar (17) lights, in particular in the form of a light bar, are fixed, which radiates on the front edge region of the next below arranged tempering plate (50).