ES2245541B1 - Storage and control furniture for audiovisual products, has carousels, which carry receivers for audio visual products, arranged at different levels within prismatic body and constructed of chains geared with crowns at ends - Google Patents

Abstract

Carousels, each carrying a receiver for audio visual product, is arranged at different heights within a prismatic body. Each carousel is constructed from chains geared with crowns at the ends. A pusher pushes out the selected product from the corresponding receiver into the window in front of the prismatic body. The products can be identified or selected using internal electronics and computer controls.

Description

Storage, dispensing and control furniture of audiovisual products.

Object of the invention

The present invention relates to a piece of furniture storage, dispensing and control of audiovisual products, the which is intended for use in sales departments of CD, DVD, VHS, video games, etc., constituting a medium that enables a rapid acquisition by the buyer of a product of referrals.

The furniture has some characteristics structural and functional such that, in addition to preventing theft of the products stored inside, supply each product based on a simple reading through a reader connected in a selling point to the public or directly to the furniture, in which the Products are permanently identified and located.

Background of the invention

As a result of the numerous thefts that are made of audiovisual products (CD, DVD, video games, etc.), in one day a security system based on an alarm was implemented that is activated when faced with a normally intended device in the exit area of the sales establishment. This system that currently it is still used for this and other types of products, it is violated and unused on many occasions, well by extracting the product from its case or with other tricks that elude the anti-theft system described

Currently another system is also used to prevent theft of such products, consisting of exposing the empty cases with the corresponding cover and a code or identification tag on the case, so that the buyer takes the empty case to the point of sale terminal the one who is interested and the seller, from the references respective, will locate the case with the original product, well in an adjacent warehouse or in a display cabinet conveniently protected.

This operation carries with it a remarkable waste of time, both for the buyer and the seller, with the disadvantages that the loss of time, during which obviously other clients may wish be taken care of

This system meets 100% the objective of prevent theft, although it has the disadvantage that the Storage of products in cabinets or warehouses must be done in a very special way, and it is evident that only the person who performs such storage knows precisely the location of the products and their corresponding classification, and although the seller knows in part how the orders are ordered products will sometimes have gaps, which leads to delays and unnecessary waiting for delivery of the product to the buyer, assuming a problem to consider especially at times of great influx of public.

Description of the invention

The furniture that is recommended has been conceived to solve the problem described above, complying not only the function of preventing product theft audiovisuals, such as CD, DVD, etc., but also and through a simple reading by a reader who has the seller, reading that will be made logically on the label or identification code, the product is supplied or sold concrete and desired by the buyer.

More specifically, the furniture of the invention, being constituted in any material and whenever suitable to serve as storage cabinet for products and prevent them from being stolen if it is not through authorized opening of the corresponding door, presents the particularity of including a plurality of carousels inwardly  moved by chains and toothed crowns, so that in each carousel are mounted with an independent power a plurality of receptacles intended to contain a pair of cases with as many albums or audiovisual products in question.

These receptacles are associated with a ejector element that can be activated after reading the codes or identification tags, so that activation of the ejector produces its displacement and corresponding thrust of the product contained in the receptacle, product that comes out through a window provided in the front area of the furniture.

The carousels, arranged horizontally and to different heights, are constituted in each case from a pair of endless chains arranged at different levels, each of which is engaged in two toothed crowns mounted on the ends of two vertical axes spaced apart and provided in the extreme areas, to automatically put into operation the crowns and therefore the carousel when it receives the signal timely.

The chains are endowed with a plurality of lateral supports that remain in horizontal arrangement and faced by couples, for mounting the receptacles, each of these being in a vertical plane between two supports, one corresponding to the upper chain and another corresponding to the lower chain of the carousel.

In this way and after classification Timely robotic, which is done, both at the time of initial load as in the replacement or filling maneuver of empty spaces, each carousel and each receptacle and therefore Each product will be conveniently identified so that when one of them is requested the corresponding carousel is put in operation and turn until the receptacle in which it find the selected product in front of the window exit, at which time for the carousel and thrust occurs by part of the ejector so that the product goes out to through the window in the front of the furniture.

The activation signal of the referred media it is established with simple reading, through a reader connected to the terminal, code or empty product identification card that the buyer has taken from the exhibitor to the point of sale, product whose identification corresponds to that of one of the real objects of the carousels arranged inside of the furniture.

The furniture door can be opaque or transparent and go with advertising or not, like the rest of faces, provided they are resistant to vandalism and always that the door cannot be violated or opened if it is not with the Timely authorization.

The furniture is complemented with electronics and suitable means so that in combination with a computer get control of the information supplied to the furniture, in sense of identification of the carousels and of each of the receptacles, these being also numerically identified or with any type of key to allow manual removal of the products in the case of blackouts and / or breakdown of the system automatic operation

Among the most outstanding advantages of furniture described, in addition to the automatic sale of products, The following can be cited:

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its large storage capacity under the arrangement of carousels and their own storage receptacles products.

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Possibility of several actions sellers at once to supply as many products different practically simultaneously.

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Possibility of carrying out an analysis of the situation, since sales can be known at the moment, the storage stock, the products below  of the minimum level allowed according to sales, general list of the products, different inventory, etc.

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Product safety in the interior of the furniture, theft is virtually impossible by conventional fraudulent methods or attempts that normally they are carried out for the theft of this type of products.

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Possibility to supply manually any requested product, by virtue of the identification numerical or classification that has been granted to each of the receptacles and ultimately to each of the products.

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Possibility of placing furniture collaterally attached to increase the capacity of storage in the same area, or distribute several furniture independently in different areas to be able to supply products without having to travel.

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Possibility that the furniture is of larger or smaller size

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Total cleaning since it is a simple closed furniture, being able to even be endowed with an optimal decorative appearance and in concordance with the site's location.

Description of the drawings

To complement the description that is being performing and in order to help a better understanding of the characteristics of the invention, according to a preferred example of practical realization of it, is accompanied as part member of that description, a set of drawings where with illustrative and non-limiting nature, what has been represented next:

Figure 1.- Shows a representation according to a schematic perspective of a piece of furniture made according to the object of the invention, seeing two complete carousels and two other voids, that is, exempt from receptacles Product containers.

Figure 2.- Shows a detail in perspective of a front part of the furniture selling products through windows provided for this purpose in a frontal area of the furniture.

Figure 3.- Shows a perspective view General of a complete carousel.

Figure 4.- Shows a detail in perspective of an extreme section of the upper and lower chains of a carousel, as well as the corresponding serrated crowns and the shaft vertical common to these.

Figure 5.- Shows a detail in perspective of a part of one of the carousels, seeing a portion of chain, the gear on one of the crowns, the supports of the chain for mounting the receptacles, seeing these partially.

Figure 6.- Shows, finally, a detail in perspective of a receptacle facing the corresponding ejector.

Preferred Embodiment of the Invention

In view of the figures outlined you can observe how the furniture of the invention is constituted by a general prismatic-rectangular body that can have any size and be constituted in any material, so that the furniture that constitutes said body is endowed with a front door that can only be opened by one person authorized, resulting the whole of the safe furniture before possible attempted robbery

Inside the furniture are mounted a plurality of carousels (2) according to different levels, looking at Figure 1 as the furniture represented has four levels what it means that it admits four carousels (2), although only they have represented the upper two, the lower two being empty to reveal part of the mechanism of such carousels.

Each carousel (2) is constituted from a pair of chains (3) and (3 ') arranged in two distant planes and horizontal, meshing with respective crowns (4) and (4 ') located on the upper and lower ends of a common axis (5) provided in each of the extreme parts of the set, since the chains (3) and (3 ') are, in each case, endless chains.

On chains (3) and (3 ') they are in solidarity a plurality of horizontal and lateral supports (6) and (6 '), which they face each other, so that between a support upper (6) and the lower support (6 ') facing it goes mounted, with independent character, a receptacle (7) that preferably contains a couple of audiovisual products (8), such as DVD, CD, etc. The mounting of the receptacles (7) between the pairs of supports (6) and (6 ') can be made by outgoing pivots (9) of those, as depicted in Figure 5, which are positioned in holes established for this purpose in the supports themselves (6), although this assembly and disassembly can be performed by other appropriate elements or means.

In this way, when a customer arrives at establishment where this type of furniture is mounted, and after having seen in a display case a case whose cover indicates that It has a content, although fictional, that corresponds to a product that interests you, will take that case and take it to the seller who is in the corresponding terminal point of sale or in a nearby area, so that said seller, previously authorized, through a reader connected to the terminal point of sale or the furniture itself reads the card or identification code corresponding to said case that provided by the customer or potential buyer, at which time and after performing the operation the carousel is put into operation in the one that the requested product is arranged, so that carousel will stop at a certain time so that the corresponding receptacle (7) faces an ejector element (10) that with pins (11) are introduced through some necks (12) established for this purpose on the back of the commented receptacle (7) the thrust being made by the ejector (10) of the products (8) contained in the receptacle (7), these being expelled outside through windows (13) established for this purpose in a lateral part of the front of the own furniture (1), as shown in figure 2.

Obviously, when the products inside, that is to say the furniture is recharged (1), it proceed to read the identification code of each product, establishing a control of the receptacle (7) in which it has remained stored that product, which at all times the receptacles and therefore the products are controlled and identified so that the product is always supplied requested, all based on an electronic and media computer governed control.

Claims (4)

1. Storage, dispensing and control of audiovisual products, which is intended for use in the establishment of sale of products such as CDs, DVDs, video games and the like, determining both a means of storage and security against attempts to steal said products , as a means that supplies, at the request of the seller, products that are acquired by customers or buyers, it is characterized in that it is constituted by a body (1) as a cabinet resistant against violent acts and internally endowed with a plurality of carousels ( 2) automatic operation, after reading a code or identification card provided in a virtual reference product, with the particularity that each carousel (2) is formed by two endless chains (3) and (3 ') geared in paths pairs of toothed crowns (4) and (4 ') provided at the upper and lower ends of two shafts (5) arranged vertically in correspondence with the extreme zones, the chains (3) and (3 ') being arranged in two horizontal planes whose distance is occupied by a plurality of receptacles (7) mounted between respective pairs of supports (6) and (6') facing and emerging towards outside the chains (3) and (3 '), having provided that each of said receptacles (7), containers of the products (8) to be supplied, is confrontable in its movement to an ejector (10) that pushes the product (8) outside the receptacle (7) and outside the furniture (1), through appropriate windows (13) provided in one of the lateral areas of the front of the furniture itself (1). 2. Storage, dispensing and control of audiovisual products, according to claim 1, characterized in that the products (8) are identified in their introduction in the receptacles (7), allowing the supply of the specific product requested through the reading of the code or identification card. 3. Storage, dispensing and control of audiovisual products, according to previous claims, characterized in that the reading of the code or identification card is carried out by means of a reader connected to a point of sale terminal of the establishment, or to the furniture itself. 4. Storage, dispensing and control of audiovisual products, according to previous claims, characterized in that in addition to the corresponding electronics, it is assisted by a computer for the control of the operation and the existence of products inside the furniture, as well as sales of the number and of the concrete products sold.