EP3528235A1 - Adapter device and method for fixing an information carrier to a supporting rail provided with two holding devices - Google Patents

Abstract

An adapter device (1) for fastening an information carrier to a carrier rail provided with two holding devices is described, wherein the adapter device has a first leg (6) and a second leg (7) which can each be held on one of the two holding devices. This adapter device should be developed such that even after multiple mounting and dismounting of the adapter device to and from the carrier rail a secure hold of the adapter device is ensured on the support rail and at the same time the cost of producing the adapter device are minimized. To solve this problem, it is proposed to connect the first limb (6) to the second limb (7) via a joint (8), the first limb having a first connection device (9) for connecting the information carrier to the first limb and the second leg has a second connection device (10) for connecting the information carrier to the second leg such that in an assembled state in which the information carrier is not connected to the adapter device, the first and second legs are freely pivotable about the hinge and in a blockade state in which the information carrier is connectable to the adapter device via the first and the second connection device, the joint can be blocked by the information carrier itself.

Description

I. Field of application

The present invention relates to an adapter device and to a method for fastening an information carrier to a carrier rail provided with two holding devices. The adapter device is used in particular on shelves or other goods presentation devices of retail outlets which have the carrier rail. The information carrier can be labels made of sufficiently rigid material, such as cardboard or plastic, with printed price and / or product information or electronic labels with a display, which displays price and / or product information. Electronic labels are known as ESL price plates (ESL = Electronic Shelf Labeling).

II. Technical background

From the DE 39 00 904 C1 is a label bar for attaching to a price rail known. The label bar has a pocket for receiving a label formed by a back wall strip and a transparent cover strip. On the back of the back wall strip, a short and a long Einsteckschenkel are attached. The long Einsteckschenkel is hingedly connected to the back wall strip of the label bar.

The price rail has two groove-like holding devices. To attach the label strip on the price rail, the free ends of the Einsteckschenkel are each inserted into one of the groove-like holding devices. Then the label strip is pressed against the price rail, whereby the long Einsteckschenkel in the in Fig. 2 the DE 39 00 904 C1 shown position is pivoted, in which it runs substantially parallel to the rear wall strip or the cover strip.

To secure the label strip on the price rail, a locking body attached to the rear wall strip engages in a latching cavity located on the long insertion leg and thus ensures a secure hold of the free ends of the insertion legs in the groove-like holding devices on the price rail. The label can be inserted into the pocket of the label strip before or after the label strip is mounted on the price rail.

The known label strip has the disadvantage that the latching connection between the back wall strip and the long Einsteckschenkel can wear out, so that then no secure hold of the label bar is guaranteed on the price rail more. In addition, the known label strip is designed relatively expensive in their construction, so that their mass production is associated with relatively high production costs.

III. Presentation of the invention a) Technical task

It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide an adapter device and a method for attaching an information carrier, in particular a printed label, an electronic label or a monitor to a provided with two holding means support rail, which or after multiple mounting and Disassembly of the adapter device to and from the support rail ensures a secure hold of the adapter device to the support rail and is connected at the same time with the lowest possible manufacturing cost.

b) Solution of the task

This object is achieved with an adapter device or with a method having the features of claim 1 or 15. Further embodiments of the present invention will become apparent from the dependent claims.

According to the invention, an adapter device for fastening an information carrier, in particular a printed label, an electronic label or a monitor, is proposed on a carrier rail provided with two holding devices, wherein the carrier rail, for example, on a shelf, on another goods presentation device, on a wall or in hanging down Form is located on a ceiling of a retail store. The adapter device has a first leg and a second leg, which are each releasably secured to one of the two holding devices of the carrier rail. The two legs are preferably formed as a flat body whose thickness is significantly less than its dimensions in the other two spatial directions.

The first leg and the second leg of the adapter device are preferably connected directly to each other via a hinge, wherein on the first leg, a first connection means for connecting the information carrier with the first leg is attached and on the second leg, a second connection means for connecting the information carrier with the second leg is attached. Accordingly, in an assembled state of the adapter device in which the information carrier is not connected to the adapter device, the first and the second leg are freely pivotable about the hinge and form an angle of less than 180 ° relative to one another. In a blocking state of the adapter device, in which the information carrier can be connected to the adapter device via the first and the second connecting device, the joint can be blocked by the information carrier itself.

In the blocking state, the legs of the adapter device form an angle of substantially 180 ° and thus lie substantially in a plane spanned by them. The information carrier, for example a printed or electronic label, has inherently such a bending stiffness that is sufficient to keep the legs blocked in the blocking state. The information carrier thus acts as a mechanical blocker latch which, by virtue of its connection to both the first leg and the second leg, holds both legs in an extended or planar state.

Since the information carrier itself can act as a mechanical blockade seal in the adapter device according to the invention, it is not necessary to provide additional mechanical locking or securing devices on the adapter device itself, which wear out after repeated use and thereby their locking or Could lose the security effect. The task of ensuring a secure hold of the adapter device on the carrier rail is rather shifted to the information carrier itself. This is subject even with multiple assembly and disassembly of the adapter device to or from the support rail, if any, only a very small wear.

Incidentally, the lack of additional mechanical locking or securing devices on the adapter device itself advantageously results in that the construction of the adapter device according to the invention can be kept comparatively simple and thus inexpensive to produce. Is selected as the material for the adapter device plastic, so for example offers a cost-effective production by way of injection molding, in which due to the simple construction of the adapter device according to the invention only correspondingly simple injection molds must be provided.

In the case of the adapter device, the first connection device and the second connection device are preferably of similar design. Alternatively, it is conceivable, for example, depending on the construction of the back of the information carrier, to make the first connection device of its type and mode of operation deviating from the second connection device.

The connection of the information carrier with the first leg and the second leg of the adapter device can be done in the context of the present invention in various ways. On the one hand, it is conceivable to produce a latching connection between the information carrier and the first leg or the second leg of the adapter device by means of the first connection device and / or the second connection device. On the other hand, it is possible to produce a sliding connection between the information carrier and the first leg or the second leg of the adapter device by means of the first connection device and / or the second connection device. Finally, it is also conceivable to provide a combined sliding and latching connection between the information carrier and the first leg or the second leg of the adapter device. The last-mentioned combined variant offers the user of the adapter device the greatest possible freedom of handling when it comes to attaching the information carrier to the adapter device as a function of the spatial environmental conditions in which the carrier rail is located.

A latching connection can for example be designed such that the first connection device and / or the second connection device has at least two latching fingers with latching lugs, between which the information carrier can be latched from the front. A sliding connection can for example be designed such that the first connection device and / or the second connection device has at least two guide fingers with guide lugs, between which the information carrier is preferably insertable from above. In the combined locking and sliding connection, it is particularly advantageous if the guide fingers with the guide lugs simultaneously form the latching fingers with the latching lugs.

In order to avoid that the information carrier attached to the adapter device wobbles, in each case at least one flat spring can be formed in or on the first leg and in or on the second leg. The at least one leaf spring presses the information carrier without play against the latching lugs and / or guide lugs holding it. In this case, the leaf spring is preferably formed by a curved material web of the material of the first leg and the second leg. In an advantageous manner, the flat spring can be arranged between the latching fingers and / or between the guide fingers.

The second leg can advantageously have a stop projection as a stop for the information carrier. This stop makes it possible, in particular in the case of several adapter devices on a carrier rail, to uniformly position all the information carriers carried by the one carrier rail. In a horizontally extending support rail of the second leg forms the lower leg of the adapter device and the stop then forms a height stop for the information carrier.

Especially in the case of relatively large information carriers, the first leg and / or the second leg may have a spacer projection, which serves as a positioning aid to position the information carrier in the blocking state substantially parallel to the plane defined by the first and second legs ,

The first leg and / or the second leg has, in each case at its free end facing away from the joint, a retaining edge which can engage positively in the respective retaining device on the carrier rail. This retaining edge is at the first leg and / or formed flattened at the second leg to facilitate insertion into the example formed as retaining grooves holding means of the carrier rail.

The joint connecting the first leg to the second leg only needs to have one degree of freedom and can be of any type. As advantageous and inexpensive, a film hinge has proven, which can be used in particular in the manufacture of the plastic adapter device according to the invention.

The invention also proposes a method for fastening an information carrier, for example a printed or an electronic label, to a carrier rail provided with two holding devices, in which an adapter device according to the invention is used. The method comprises, as a first step, the pivoting of the first leg relative to the second leg about the joint, so that a bent adapter device is obtained, in which the two legs form an angle of less than 180 ° to one another. In the bent adapter device, the joint is bent in such a way that the holding edges of the first leg and the second leg facing away from the joint occupy a spatial distance which is less than a predetermined distance which the two holding devices of the carrier rail have from one another. This allows the second step of the method according to the invention, according to which the bent adapter device is inserted with its holding edges form fit into the carrier rail.

As part of a third step of the method according to the invention, a pivoting of the first leg relative to the second leg takes place about the joint, so that in the support rail, an elongated adapter device is obtained, in which the joint is stretched and between the first leg and the second leg sets an angle of substantially 180 °.

In the context of the fourth and last step of the method according to the invention, the information carrier is connected both to the first connection device of the first leg and to the second connection device of the second leg. Thereby, the joint of the elongated adapter device is blocked by the information carrier itself and the holding edges of the first leg and the second leg are held in a holding connection with the two holding means of the carrier rail.

c) embodiments

Fig. 1:

eine perspektivische Ansicht auf die Vorderseite eines ersten Ausführungsbeispiels der erfindungsgemäßen Adaptervorrichtung;

Fig. 2:

eine perspektivische Ansicht auf die Rückseite der in Fig. 1 gezeigten Adaptervorrichtung;

Fig. 3:

eine Ansicht auf die Vorderseite der in Fig. 1 gezeigten Adaptervorrichtung;

Fig. 4:

eine Seitenansicht der in Fig. 3 gezeigten Adaptervorrichtung von rechts;

Fig. 5:

eine Seitenansicht der Fig. 3 gezeigten Adaptervorrichtung von links;

Fig. 6:

eine vergrößerte Schnittansicht gemäß Schnitt A-A in Fig. 3;

Fig. 7:

eine Ansicht auf die Vorderseite eines Informationsträgers in Form eines elektronischen Etiketts, das zur Befestigung an einer Trägerschiene mittels der erfindungsgemäßen Adaptervorrichtung vorgesehen ist;

Fig. 8:

eine Ansicht auf die Rückseite des in Fig. 7 gezeigten Informationsträgers;

Fig. 9:

eine perspektivische Ansicht auf die in Fig. 8 gezeigte Rückseite des Informationsträgers;

Fig. 10:

eine Seitenansicht des in Fig. 7 gezeigten Informationsträgers von unten;

Fig. 11:

eine perspektivische Ansicht einer Trägerschiene zusammen mit dem ersten Ausführungsbeispiel der erfindungsgemäßen Adaptervorrichtung in seinem abgeknickten Montagezustand;

Fig. 12:

eine perspektivische Ansicht entsprechend Fig. 11, wobei sich die Adaptervorrichtung in ihrem Blockadezustand befindet;

Fig. 13:

eine perspektivische Ansicht entsprechend Fig. 12, wobei zusätzlich ein Teil des in den Fig. 7 - 10 gezeigten Informationsträgers kurz vor dem Verbinden mit der Adaptervorrichtung dargestellt ist;

Fig. 14:

eine perspektivische Ansicht entsprechend Fig. 13, wobei sich der Informationsträger in seiner endgültigen, mit der Adaptervorrichtung verbundenen Stellung befindet, in welcher er das Gelenk der Adaptervorrichtung blockiert; und

Fig. 15:

eine perspektivische Ansicht einer Trägerschiene zusammen mit einem zweiten Ausführungsbeispiel der erfindungsgemäßen Adaptervorrichtung in seinem abgeknickten Montagezustand.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described by way of example with reference to the accompanying drawings. Show it:

Fig. 1:

a perspective view of the front of a first embodiment of the adapter device according to the invention;

Fig. 2:

a perspective view on the back of in Fig. 1 shown adapter device;

3:

a view on the front of the in Fig. 1 shown adapter device;

4:

a side view of in Fig. 3 shown adapter device from the right;

Fig. 5:

a side view of Fig. 3 shown adapter device from the left;

Fig. 6:

an enlarged sectional view along section AA in Fig. 3 ;

Fig. 7:

a view of the front of an information carrier in the form of an electronic label, which is provided for attachment to a support rail by means of the adapter device according to the invention;

Fig. 8:

a view on the back of the in Fig. 7 shown information carrier;

Fig. 9:

a perspective view of the in Fig. 8 shown back of the information carrier;

Fig. 10:

a side view of the in Fig. 7 shown information carrier from below;

Fig. 11:

a perspective view of a support rail together with the first embodiment of the adapter device according to the invention in its bent mounting state;

Fig. 12:

a perspective view accordingly Fig. 11 with the adapter device in its blocking state;

Fig. 13:

a perspective view accordingly Fig. 12 , In addition, part of the in the Fig. 7 - 10 shown information carrier is shown just before connecting to the adapter device;

Fig. 14:

a perspective view accordingly Fig. 13 with the information carrier in its final position connected to the adapter device, in which it blocks the hinge of the adapter device; and

Fig. 15:

a perspective view of a support rail together with a second embodiment of the adapter device according to the invention in its bent mounting state.

Hereinafter, like reference numerals will be used for like parts or elements. If the same reference numerals are used in conjunction with the two different embodiments, the parts or elements marked with corresponding reference numerals correspond to each other in functional terms.

Fig. 1 shows a perspective view of a first embodiment of the adapter device according to the invention. The adapter device 1 has a first leg 6 and a second leg 7, which are connected directly to one another via a hinge 8 in the form of a film hinge. The legs 6 and 7 are formed as a rectangular flat body, as in the Fig. 1-5 can be seen. The entire adapter device 1 according to the first embodiment is made in one piece from a plastic.

How best in Fig. 1 as in Fig. 6 can be seen, which is an enlarged sectional view along section AA in Fig. 3 shows, protrude from the leg 6 two spaced guide fingers 9 forward. At their free ends, the two guide fingers 9 each have a guide nose 11. In a structurally similar manner protrude from the leg 7 two spaced guide fingers 10, each having a guide nose 12 at their free ends.

The guide fingers 9 and the guide lugs 11 form a first connection means, with the help of a in the Fig. 7 - 10 as well as the Fig. 13 and 14 shown information carrier 2 can be connected in the form of an electronic label with the first leg 6. In the same way, the guide fingers 10 and the guide lugs 12 form a second connecting device, with the aid of which the aforementioned information carrier 2 can be connected to the second leg 7.

In the Fig. 7 - 10 an electronic label 2 is shown as an information carrier, with the help of the adapter device 1 at one in the Fig. 11 - 14 partially shown support rail 3 is to be attached. The carrier rail 3 is located, for example, on shelves or other goods presentation devices of retail stores such as supermarkets. The electronic label 2 has a display device 19, for example in the form of an LCD display or in the form of an electronic paper (passive, non-luminous displays that simulate the appearance of ink or ink on paper), on which product and / or Price information on the product can be displayed, which are assigned in the shelf or in the other goods presentation device spatially the intended for the label 2 arrangement position.

As in the Fig. 8 - 10 can be seen, the electronic label 2 on its back 24 an electronic unit 20, in which all the hardware and software components required for the operation of the electronic label 2 may be located in the Fig. 8 - 10 not shown and to which, for example, a battery, a memory for storing the product and / or price information to be displayed and a processor belong. How best Fig. 10 can be seen, the electronics unit 20 along its in Fig. 8 left and right side edge guide projections 21 which form between them and the back 24 of the electronic label 2 guide recesses 22. The guide projections 21 and guide recesses 22 may, of course, be formed completely independent of the presence of an electronics unit 20 projecting from the rear side 24, depending on the design of the label 2 used. The main thing is that the guide projections 21 and guide recesses 22 for making a connection with the guide fingers 9 and 10 and the guide lugs 11 and 12 can cooperate.

In the in Fig. 1 shown blocking state in which the legs 6 and 7 lie in a plane or form an angle of 180 ° between them, the electronic label 2 with its electronic unit 20 in Fig. 1 from above so between the guide fingers 9 and the Guide finger 10 are pushed, that on the one hand the guide lugs 11 and on the other hand, the guide lugs 12 engage in the located on the electronic label 2 guide recesses 22. There is thus a sliding connection between the electronic label 2 and the leg 6 and the leg 7 of the adapter device 1. Thus, the label 2 in Fig. 1 does not fall down from the guide fingers 9 and 10, a forward projecting stop projection 14 is disposed on the leg 7, against which in the Fig. 8 and 9 to detect the lower end of the electronics unit 20 can strike. The stop projection 14 acts accordingly in the embodiment shown as a height stop.

Instead of the provided in the first embodiment sliding connection between the electronic label 2 and the adapter device 1 may alternatively be provided a locking connection between the electronic label 2 and the adapter device 1. For example, for this purpose, the guide fingers 9 and 10 could be formed with such inherent elasticity that the electronic label 2 with its electronics unit 20 in the Fig. 1 and 3 from the front or in Fig. 6 From above against the leg 6 and the leg 7 can be pressed to effect the connection with the adapter device 1. Such a mounting variant from a direction perpendicular to the plane spanned by the legs 6 and 7 could be advantageous if the mechanical ambient conditions in which the carrier rail 3 is, an insertion of the label 2 in Fig. 1 not allowed from above. It would be particularly advantageous in this context to form the guide fingers 9 and 10 and the guide lugs 11 and 12 both as guide elements and as latching elements. This would ensure the greatest possible flexibility with regard to the mounting direction of the electronic label 2.

In order to ensure a wobble-free as possible seat of the electronic label 2 on the adapter device 1, the first embodiment between the two guide fingers 9 and the two guide fingers 10 each have a flat spring 13. How best in the Figure. 1 and 2 can be seen, the flat spring 13 of a in Fig. 1 formed from the plane of the leg 6 and 7 outwardly arched material web, which is delimited on the left and right of each one passage slot 23 of the remaining material of the leg 6 and 7 (see. Fig. 6 ). At her in Fig. 1 and 2 upper or lower end of the flat spring 13 is integrally connected to the remaining material of the leg 6 and 7 respectively.

If the electronic label 2 with its electronics unit 20 in Fig. 1 pushed from above between the guide figure 9 and 10, so press the two flat springs 13, the electronics unit 20 in the Fig. 1 and 3 forward or in Fig. 6 up. In doing so, the in Fig. 10 Guide projections 21 shown pressed against the guide lugs 11 and 12, so that the electronic unit 20 is guided without play in the direction perpendicular to the plane spanned by the legs 6 and 7 plane.

As in the Fig. 1 . 3 and 5 can be seen, the first leg 6 a in the Fig. 1 and 3 forward as well as in FIG. 5 to the right of him projecting spacer projection 15, which is formed in the embodiment shown in the form of a rectangular, closed circumferential web of material. A corresponding identically formed spacer projection 16 is attached to the leg 7. The spacer projections 15 and 16 serve as a positioning aid, which in attached to the adapter device 1 electronic label 2 in contact with the in the Fig. 8 - 10 to see rear side 24 of the electronic label 2 come to the label 2 as parallel as possible in the Fig. 1 and 3 to be held by the legs 6 and 7 plane spanned. In this way, the label 2 is prevented from being twisted in the direction of the adapter device 1 in a state mounted on the adapter device 1 about a vertical axis extending between the guide fingers 9 and the guide fingers 10.

According to the Fig. 1 . 3 . 4 and 5 has the leg 6 at its end remote from the joint 8 end a retaining edge 17 which is formed flattened in the embodiment shown (see. 4 and 5 ). In the same way, the leg 7 at its end facing away from the joint 8 a retaining edge 18, which is flattened in the embodiment shown in the same manner as the retaining edge 17 of the leg 6.

The Fig. 11 - 14 illustrate the process of mounting the adapter device 1 on the support rail 3 and the electronic label 2 on the adapter device 1. The carrier rail 3 designed as a profile rail, for example made of aluminum points in the Fig. 11 -14 above and below a holding device 4 and 5 respectively in the form of a not to be recognized holding groove for receiving the holding edges 17 and 18 of the adapter device 1.

Corresponding Fig. 11 the adapter device 1 is first brought into its mounting state, in which the legs 6 and 7 are bent relative to each other, ie an angle of less than 180 ° with each other. The Abknickwinkel between the legs 6 and 7 is to be chosen so that the holding edges 17 and 18 of the adapter device 1 can be positively inserted into the holding means 4 and 5 of the support rail. As in Fig. 12 1, the adapter device 1 is then brought into its extended blocking state, in which the legs 6 and 7 span a common plane and form an angle of substantially 180 ° to one another. Both retaining edges 17 and 18 are then in the groove-shaped holding means 4 and 5 of the support rail 3 and are in Fig. 12 therefore no longer visible.

As in Fig. 13 shown, then the electronic label 2 with his in the Fig. 8-10 shown electronic unit 20 is pushed from above between the guide fingers 9 and 10 until it abuts against the stop projection 14. This condition is in Fig. 14 shown. In Fig. 14 is also good to see that the electronic label 2 in his supervision is about as large as the adapter device 1 itself, so that the latter hardly noticeable when mounted label 2.

Fig. 15 shows a second embodiment of the adapter device 1 according to the invention in front of the support rail 3 with their groove-like holding devices 4 and 5. Notwithstanding the first embodiment, the legs 6 and 7 are each formed here L-shaped. The retaining edges 17 and 18 are each located on the shorter leg of the L. The hinge 8 is not a film hinge, as in the first embodiment, but a hinge similar to a piano hinge. The first leg 6 has a total of six guide lugs 11 in the second embodiment. In the same way, the second leg 7 is provided with a total of six guide lugs 12. Notwithstanding the first embodiment, here in the sense of the guide fingers 9 and 10 acting elongated guide walls are formed, which are significantly longer than the guide fingers 9 and 10 and extend over the entire length of the respective long L-leg of the leg 6 and 7 respectively.

The basic procedure for mounting the in Fig. 15 shown adapter device 1 on the support rail 3 and the electronic label 2 on the adapter device 1 is the same as that described in connection with the first embodiment.

LIST OF REFERENCE NUMBERS

1

adapter device

2

Information carrier (electronic label)

3

support rail

4

Holding device of the carrier rail 3rd

5

Holding device of the carrier rail 3rd

6

First leg

7

Second thigh

8th

joint

9

Guide finger of thigh 6

10

Guide finger of thigh 7

11

Guide nose of the guide finger 9

12

Guide nose of the guide finger 10

13

flat spring

14

stop projection

15

Spacer projection of the leg 6

16

Spacer projection of the leg 7

17

Retaining edge of the leg 6

18

Retaining edge of the leg 7

19

display

20

electronics unit

21

guide projection

22

guide recess

23

Through slot

24

Back side of the electronic label 2

Claims (15)

Adapter device (1) for fastening an information carrier (2) to a carrier rail (3) provided with two holding devices (4, 5), wherein the adapter device (1) has a first leg (6) and a second leg (7), respectively on one of the two holding devices (4, 5) are halterbar,
characterized in that
the first leg (6) and the second leg (7) are connected to one another via a joint (8), the first leg (6) has a first connecting device (9) for connecting the information carrier (2) to the first leg (6) and the second leg (7) has a second connection device (10) for connecting the information carrier (2) to the second leg (7) such that in an assembled state in which the information carrier (2) is not connected to the adapter device (1) is, the first and the second leg (6, 7) are freely pivotable about the hinge (8) and in a blocking state, in which the information carrier (2) via the first and the second connecting means (9, 10) with the adapter device ( 1) is connectable, the joint (8) by the information carrier (2) itself is blocked. Adapter device (1) according to claim 1,
characterized in that
the first connection device (9) and the second connection device (10) are of similar construction. Adapter device (1) according to one of claims 1 or 2,
characterized in that
by means of the first connecting device and / or the second connecting device, a latching connection between the information carrier (2) and the first leg (6) or the second leg (7) can be produced. Adapter device (1) according to claim 3,
characterized in that
the first connection device and / or the second connection device has at least two latching fingers with latching lugs, between which the information carrier (2) can be latched. Adapter device (1) according to one of the preceding claims,
characterized in that
A sliding connection between the information carrier (2) and the first leg (6) or the second leg (7) can be produced by means of the first connecting device and / or the second connecting device. Adapter device (1) according to claim 5,
characterized in that
the first connecting device and / or the second connecting device has at least two guide fingers (9, 10) with guide lugs (11, 12), between which the information carrier (2) can be inserted. Adapter device (1) according to claim 6 in conjunction with claim 4,
characterized in that
the guide fingers (9, 10) with the guide lugs (11, 12) are the locking fingers with the latching lugs at the same time. Adapter device (1) according to one of claims 4, 6 or 7,
characterized in that
in the first leg (6) and in the second leg (7) in each case at least one flat spring (13) is formed, with the help of the information carrier (2) without play against the latching lugs or against the guide lugs (11, 12) can be pressed. Adapter device (1) according to claim 8,
characterized in that
the flat spring (13) is in each case a curved material web of the first leg (6) and of the second leg (7). Adapter device (1) according to claim 8 or 9,
characterized in that
the flat spring (13) between the latching fingers or between the guide fingers (9, 10) is arranged. Adapter device (1) according to one of the preceding claims,
characterized in that
the second leg (7) has a stop projection (14) as a stop for the information carrier (2). Adapter device (1) according to one of the preceding claims,
characterized in that
the first leg (6) and / or the second leg (7) has a spacer projection (15, 16) which serves as a positioning aid to move the information carrier (2) in the blocking state substantially parallel to that of the first and second legs (6, 7) plane to be positioned. Adapter device (1) according to one of the preceding claims,
characterized in that
the first limb (6) and / or the second limb (7) is flattened on its holding edge (17, 18) remote from the hinge (8) in order to be inserted into holding devices (4, 5) of the carrier rail (3 ) to facilitate. Adapter device (1) according to one of the preceding claims,
characterized in that
the hinge (8) is a film hinge. Method for fastening an information carrier (2) to a carrier rail (3) provided with two holding devices (4, 5) using an adapter device (1) according to one of the preceding claims, the method comprising the following steps: Pivoting the first leg (6) relative to the second leg (7) about the hinge (8), so that a bent adapter device (1) is obtained in which the hinge (8) is bent in such a way that 8) facing away from holding edges (17, 18) of the first leg (6) and the second leg (7) occupy a distance from each other, which is less than a distance, the two holding means (4, 5) of the carrier rail (3) from each other . Inserting the bent adapter device (1) into the carrier rail (3), Pivoting of the first leg (6) relative to the second leg (7) about the hinge (8), so that in the carrier rail (3) a stretched adapter device (1) is obtained, wherein the joint (8) is stretched and between the first leg (6) and the second leg (7) makes an angle of substantially 180 °, and Connecting the information carrier (2) both to the first connecting device (9) of the first leg (6) and to the second connecting device (10) of the second leg (7) in such a way that the joint (8) of the extended adapter device (1 ) and the holding edges (17, 18) of the first leg (6) and the second leg (7) are held in holding connection with the two holding devices (4, 5) of the carrier rail (3).

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