ES2285557T3 - CONSOLE FOR THE EXHIBITION OF PRODUCTS. - Google Patents

Abstract

Console for the exhibition of products, which includes: - a support cabinet (13) that has a rear face and a front face open at least in part, - at least one drawer (8) mounted horizontally on the slide support furniture (13) between a retracted position and an extension position in which said drawer is moved towards the front face of the support furniture, said drawer being adapted to contain at least part of said products and presenting an oriented front end towards the front face of the support furniture. characterized in that it also includes at least one adjustable display stand (3) that is pivotally mounted in relation to the drawer (8), with the aid of joining means (5), at the front end of the drawer around an axis of horizontal rotation substantially parallel to the front face of the support furniture, locking means being provided to selectively block the display (3) relative to the drawer (8), said display (3) being adapted to present at least one sample of said products, the console being arranged so that a person who is in the vicinity of the front face of the support furniture can see the contents of the display.

Description

Console for the exhibition of products.

The present invention relates to consoles for the exhibition of products, such as the one described in the US 2003/160012 A1.

More specifically, the invention relates to a product display console, which includes:

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a support furniture that has a back face and a face previous open at least in part,

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by at least one drawer sliding horizontally in the furniture of support, between a retracted position and an extension position, wherein said drawer is moved towards the front face of the support furniture, said drawer being adapted to contain by at least part of these products and presenting an earlier end  oriented towards the front face of the support furniture.

In this way, they can be stored in the drawer conditioned products, allowing easy access to such products, if necessary.

However, unless you have arranged one the console itself, it is difficult to know what drawer they are in said conditioned products. In addition, the conditioning of a range of products are usually very similar, distinguishing only through some inscriptions, so that we can see us in the obligation to search the product in numerous drawers wanted.

The present invention especially has object to alleviate these inconveniences.

For this purpose, according to the invention, a console for the exhibition of products that, in addition to the attributes mentioned above, is essentially characterized because it also includes at least one adjustable display, which it is pivotally mounted with the aid of joining means in the front end of the drawer, around an axis of rotation horizontally substantially parallel to the front face of the furniture support, locking means being provided to block selectively the display in relation to the drawer, being adapted said exhibitor to present at least a sample of said products, the console being arranged so that a person who find near the front face of the support furniture I can see the content of the exhibitor.

Thanks to these provisions, representative samples of the products arranged in the drawer are placed in an exhibitor directly attached to the drawer, so that it is known where to look for a product corresponding to the
sample.

In addition, articulating the display with the drawer, it is easier to adapt to external layout limitations,  linked for example to the placement of the console in its set.

In addition, you can condition separately drawer products so that they can be stored in large numbers in the drawer, and present the exhibitor's samples without conditioning, in order that outside observers can make a Faithful idea of such products.

In preferred embodiments of the In this case, one and / or another of the following provisions:

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he display is configured to allow rotation between a first position, in which said display stands substantially horizontal, and a second position in which said display stands down from the drawer;

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he exhibitor has a lower face with means of illumination;

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he exhibitor includes:

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a splint that presents a upper face, and

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a block adapted to present at least said sample and it shows a face lower adapted to cooperate with said upper slat face, to fix said block to said splint;

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bliss lower face of the block cooperates removably with said face upper of the splint;

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he block includes an upper face equipped with alveoli adapted for receive said samples;

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the locking means include a part of the drawer and a part of the exhibitor who cooperate by friction;

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he display and the drawer are articulated by a spike attached to the display and through an anterior part of the drawer in relation to the which is the pin adapted to pivot; the spike includes a plurality of housings and locking means include:

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at least one rod rotating in the drawer, adapted to slide with relation to the pin, between a locked position and a position unlocked, and

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at least one solidarity tooth of the rod adapted to cooperate selectively with one of said housings in the locked position and be away from said housing in the unlocked position;

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he drawer includes, in the vicinity of its front end, a section of exposure adapted to contain at least one sample of said products, the console being arranged for a person that is close to the front face of the furniture support can see the exposure section of the drawer;

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he drawer also includes, at the rear of the exposure section, a storage section adapted to contain at least part of these products.

Other features and advantages of the invention will appear in the course of the following description of one of its embodiments, provided by way of example not Limiting, with reference to the attached drawings.

In these drawings:

- Figure 1 shows a side view of a console according to the invention,

- Figure 2 shows a perspective view of a drawer and an display according to the invention,

- Figure 3 represents a partial section of a articulation mechanism of a drawer and an exhibitor such as represented in figure 2, along the axis of rotation,

- Figure 4 represents the same cut of another articulation mechanism in an intermediate position between a locked position and an unlocked position, and

- Figure 5 shows a perspective view of a drawer and an exhibitor, according to a variant of the invention.

Figure 1 represents a console that presents a support furniture 13 deposited on the floor. The console includes an anterior face, for example provided with a transparent element 25, such as a glass or an adapted plastic, which can selectively open or close, for example by sliding along an orthogonal direction to the plane of section of figure 1, to allow access to the interior of the console. The console also includes a rear face 13a, for vertical and rigid example. A certain number of supports 2 are fixed one above the other on the back of the console, rigidly For example, they are arranged horizontally.

Said supports 2 are adapted to receive, each, in a mobile way, a device 1 that receives products 10 (see figure 2) to be stored. Especially, device 1 includes a drawer 8 that can slide relative to the support 2 towards the front face of the console in an extension position, and towards the back side in a retracted position. In the face an exhibitor 3 is articulated around each drawer around an axis normal to the plane of figure 1, substantially parallel to the front and back sides of the console.

Especially, it is observed that the supports 2 they can be of different sizes from each other, and receive 8 drawers of variable sizes, relative to which the respective exhibitors are inclined according to variable orientations. For the Therefore, different types of Products in the same console. Exhibitors 3 can be provided on its lower face with a lighting element 11, such as a lamp, and the inclination of the top exhibitors can adapt so that said lamp 11 globally illuminates the immediately lower display.

The console can present for example a face anterior inclined towards its posterior face, and the supports 2 can Be shorter and shorter as you get on the console. The exhibitors can then be increasingly inclined to measure which rises in the console, the lowest exhibitor being noticeably arranged horizontally.

Figure 2 represents, from closer, a device 1 for product display, the drawer being located at least partly on the support 2.

Exhibitor 3 includes at least one tranche of exhibition of samples, to present the characteristics of the the products available, very visible to a user, according to a first direction y_ {1} normal to the general plane of the exhibitor, and generally inclined in relation to the vertical.

Exhibitor 3 also includes a section of grip 26 that a user can catch and throw to attract towards him the device 1.

The drawer 8 includes a storage section 4 containing one or more units of the products presented in the exposure section, arranged for example vertically. These products are visible to the user in a substantially vertical direction y_ {2}, especially when the drawer is pulled towards the front face of the
console.

The display 3 and the drawer 8 are connected between yes by the joining means 5 arranged close to one end previous drawer. This joint allows an inclination adjustment of exhibitor 3, for example to favor the exposure of the section exposure to various outside observers, or to adapt to The layout of the console. Later, examples will be detailed of said joining means.

In the example of Fig. 2, the display 3 mainly includes a tablet 23 of parallelepipedic shape that has an upper face 23 turned towards an observer. The anterior face and an anterior part 23b of the upper face of the tablet 23 may also include indications on the nature or properties of the samples
exposed.

In the embodiment presented, the samples are arranged on a block 7, substantially parallelepipedic, of which a lower face 7a is located on the upper face 23a of the splint 23.

Block 7 can be fixed to the board by a number of known techniques, such as:

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by pinching of pins (no shown) of the bottom face 7a of the block in holes (also not represented) adapted from the exhibitor,

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by means of magnets integrated in block 7 and / or board 23, cooperating said magnets with complementary magnets or elements ferromagnetic integrated in the splint 23 and / or block 7 respectively,

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by combining these two techniques, or others.

In this way, block 7 can be mounted in removable way in the splint 23, which has the effect of being able to use it to successively present different types of products.

The upper face 7b of block 7 may include alveoli 6, arranged in an orderly manner in lines and columns, and adapted to receive representative samples of products 10. Each sample can be exactly one unit of a product presented, or a simple witness that presents a characteristic Essential of the different products.

Alternatively, the upper face 7b of the block 7 can be flat, and the samples can be for example tablets of colors adhered to said upper face, to present by example lipstick tubes characterized by said colors.

Alternatively, samples are not presented with the help of a block 7, but they can be arranged directly on the surface of the splint 23 by any adequate medium.

The drawer 8 includes a bottom face 8b which rests and slides on the horizontal support 2 attached to the console. The drawer 8 is adapted to receive the products 10 whose representative samples are exposed in the exhibitor 3. Products 10 are eventually conditioned and ready for carry by an outside observer. If the samples are arranged in the exhibitor in an orderly manner, for example order the products 10 in the drawer identically or similarly 8, in order to find the product in a minimum time corresponding to the sample.

The samples are not necessarily intended to be visualized by an outside observer; by For example, it can also be samples of perfumes intended to be tested by the outside observer.

In addition, device 1 may have means lighting, like a lamp 11, on the inner face 23c of the Clipboard. The power supply of said lighting means 11 can be carried out, for example, by electric cables (not represented) extending from lamp 11 to one end back of drawer 8, where they can be attached to a source of feeding. Alternatively, the device may contain a removable battery (not shown) attached to the lamp 11.

Exhibitor 3 and drawer 8 are attached by means of joining 5 that constitute a joint, by example of the pivot type. This joint can be done through a wide variety of means. You can foresee for example, as shown in figure 3, that a spike 17 integral with the display 3 can rotate selectively in relation to the drawer 8, so adapted to hold in position, with an inclination  given, the display 3 and the drawer 8 one in relation to the other when no force is applied to the display, by simple friction of pin 17 and drawer 8 at the level of the joint. The media of connection 5 also allow a variation of the inclination between the drawer 8 and display 3 inside a tilt fork. Said fork extends for example between a position exhibitor horizontal and an inclined exhibitor position of the order from 10 to 90 degrees down, relative to the drawer. Inside of said fork, the drawer and the display can be arranged in a multiplicity of intermediate relative positions.

For information purposes only, it is shown in the Figure 3 an articulation mechanism. However, they could use, within the framework of the invention, other types of joints that allow the same movement.

A spike 17 is integral with the exhibitor 3 and it has a cylindrical drain 17a in which one end 30 of the front part 16 of the drawer, in a complementary manner, can rotate by the action of a user. When the user does not exercise any force on the display, blocking the pieces together is secured only by the friction of the pieces between they.

A variant of the locking means consists in using a locking mechanism like the one represented in the figure 4.

Spike 17 solidarity of the exhibitor 3 presents a cylindrical dump 17a extending along the axis of rotation and an internal face 17b normal to the axis of rotation. It also includes hollow housings 29 provided on its face external

The previous part 16 of the drawer 8 presents also a cylindrical emptying aligned with that of the pin when the display and the drawer are mounted. In addition, it is equipped of a chamber 27 of non-cylindrical section, for example square.

The mechanism also includes a pusher cylindrical 21 provided with teeth 14 arranged at angular intervals  regular on the inner face 21a of the pusher 21 and, so complementary, accommodation of the external face of spike 17, housed in these in the locked position.

The pusher 21 is mounted on a rod 15 adapted to slide in cylindrical recess 17a. The rod It is also integral with a collar 22. This rod has a compression spring 20 of which a first end is in contact with collar 22 and a second end is in contact with the face internal 17b of the spike. The rod has a widened end 19 of complementary section of the chamber 27 of the anterior face 16 of the drawer.

Through these provisions, only one translation movement of the rod 15 relative to the drawer. To unlock the mechanism, an operator moves the pusher 21 to the left of figure 4, against the solicitation of spring 26, and teeth 14 are released from the housings corresponding to the spike. The spike 17 and the display can then turn freely relative to the anterior face 16 of the drawer, for example by the operator's action. Once reached the desired orientation, the joint can be blocked again, releasing the pusher 21 that returns to the locked position, by middle of the pier 20.

Figure 5 represents a second mode of realization of device 1, which includes most of the features described above. In this second mode of embodiment, the drawer 8 includes a storage section 4, such as described above, and may also include a second exposure section 12, similar to the first section of exposure described above.

Claims (10)

1. Console for the exhibition of products, which It includes:

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a support furniture (13) having a rear face and a face previous open at least in part,

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for the minus one drawer (8) mounted horizontally on the slide support furniture (13) between a retracted position and a position of extension in which said drawer is displaced towards the face front of the support furniture, said drawer being adapted for contain at least part of said products and presenting a front end facing the front face of the furniture support.

characterized in that it also includes at least one adjustable display stand (3) that is pivotally mounted in relation to the drawer (8), with the aid of joining means (5), at the front end of the drawer around an axis of horizontal rotation substantially parallel to the front face of the support furniture, locking means being provided to selectively block the display (3) relative to the drawer (8), said display (3) being adapted to present at least one sample of said products, the console being arranged so that a person who is in the vicinity of the front face of the support furniture can see the contents of the display. 2. Console according to claim 1, wherein the display is configured to allow a rotation between a first position, in which said display extends so substantially horizontal, and a second position in which said display stands down from the drawer (8). 3. Console, according to any one of the previous claims, wherein the exhibitor (3) presents a  lower face equipped with lighting means (11). 4. Console, according to any one of the previous claims, wherein the exhibitor (3) includes:

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a splint (23) presenting an upper face (23a), and

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a block (7) adapted to present said at least one sample and which has a lower face (7a) adapted to cooperate with said upper face (23a) of splint (23), to fix said block to said splint;

5. Console according to claim 4, wherein said lower face (7a) of the block (7) cooperates in a removable manner with said upper face (23a) of the splint (23). 6. Console according to claim 4 or the claim 5, wherein the block (7) includes an upper face (7b) equipped with alveoli (6) adapted to receive said samples. 7. Console, according to any one of the previous claims, wherein the blocking means include a part (16, 30) of the drawer and a part (17) of the exhibitor who cooperate by friction. 8. Console, according to any one of the previous claims, wherein the display (3) and the drawer (8) are articulated by a spike (17) attached to the exhibitor (3) and by means of an anterior part (16) of the drawer (8) in relation to which the pin (17) is adapted to pivot, in which the pin (17) includes a plurality of housings (29) and in the that the blocking means include:

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for the minus one rod (15) in rotation with the drawer (8) and adapted to slide relative to the spike between a locked position and an unlocked position, and

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for the less a tooth (14) integral with the rod and adapted for selectively cooperate with one of said accommodations in the locked position and be away from said accommodation in the unlocked position.

9. Console, according to any one of the previous claims, wherein the drawer (8) includes, in the proximity of its anterior end, a stretch of exposure (12) adapted to contain at least one sample (6) of said products, the console being arranged for a person to be found in the vicinity of the front face of the furniture support can see the exposure section (12) of the drawer (8). 10. Console, according to claim 9, in the that the drawer also includes in the rear part of the section of exposure, a storage section adapted to contain so minus a part of those products.