ES2333076A1 - Automontable shelves (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding) - Google Patents

Abstract

Self-assembling shelving, usable for storage and/or advertising purposes, of those formed entirely by essentially rigid sheets of cardboard, linked together determining at least one module constituted by a body that, from a folded initial position of storage substantially flattened, it is capable of adopting an operative deployed position in which it is capable of standing vertically upright. Said body, which is provided inside a flat plate, is formed by four vertical walls in the operative deployed position of the rack and each one connected respectively with the two adjacent, of which one is the front, two are side and folding and the other is the later one; by a hinged base, hingedly attached to the inner face of the front wall; and by means of lower support means of the collapsible bottom, also collapsible. Both side walls are adapted to allow their simultaneous folding outwards. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)

Description

Self-contained shelving

Technical sector of the invention

The present invention relates to a self-contained shelving, usable for storage and / or purposes advertising The shelving is self-forming totally by essentially rigid sheets of cardboard, joined between yes determining at least one module consisting of a body that, to from a folded initial storage position noticeably flattened, it is likely to take a position operational deployed in which it is able to stay vertically erect.

Background of the invention

In the exhibition and promotion of products in establishments such as fairgrounds, commercial areas and shops in general, where there is a large influx of public, is they need non-permanent exhibitors or shelves that They are easy to assemble and transport. They are currently known shelves of very different types and materials, such as those based on metal structures, in panels assembled together of material plastic, or shelves constructed from sheets of paperboard.

Such shelves present, in general, the inconvenience of being based on rigid vertical structures, generally of remarkable size, which gives them a certain degree of instability, especially when they support the product for which they have been designed. Another drawback of known embodiments of the shelves described is that their characteristics in terms of rigidity and wingspan They greatly hinder their storage and transportation.

For the reasons stated, they exist in the currently self-contained shelves, composed entirely of essentially rigid sheets, preferably cardboard, assembled and stamped. These shelves are usually adapted  to adopt a folded storage and distribution position, to from which they can be deployed and held vertically erect in an operational position.

Explanation of the invention.

In order to provide an alternative to Known self-contained shelves, a new one is released self-contained shelving, usable for storage and / or purposes advertising, of which they are formed entirely by sheets essentially rigid cardboard, joined together determining the less a module consisting of a body that, from a initial position folded storage noticeably flattened, is capable of adopting an operational deployed position in the that is able to stay vertically upright, in a way simple and effective.

In essence, the self-contained shelving object of The present invention is characterized in that said body is formed by four walls, vertical in the deployed position operational and each linked respectively with the two contiguous, of which one is the front, two are lateral and foldable and the other it is the later; by a collapsible bottom, articulated jointly to the internal face of the front wall; and by some means of support bottom bottom folding, also foldable. The main Advantages of the aforementioned self-contained shelving are its easy assembly and  its capacity back to the folded storage position, with what is possible its reuse.

According to another feature of the invention, both side walls are equipped with two bending lines, vertical in the operative deployed position and adapted to allow simultaneous folding of the side walls out and along said fold lines.

According to another feature of the invention, the self-contained shelving is provided inside of the body of a flat plate, suitable for receiving and exposing information and / or advertising and juxtaposed to the inside of the back wall of said body.

The self-adjusting shelving is also characterized because the said lower support means of the collapsible bottom they consist of at least two laminar strips, each of which is endowed with a vertical, transverse fold line in the operative deployed position, being fixedly fixed one end of each strip to the extreme bottom of the inner side of a side wall while the other end of the strip is fixedly fixed to the inner face of the wall posterior, below the lower edge of the flat plate juxtaposed to the back wall.

Another notable aspect of the bookshelf The object of the invention is that the lower edge of the flat plate juxtaposed to the rear wall is adapted for lean on the upper edges of the laminar strips that they constitute the lower support means of the collapsible bottom, when the body is in its operative deployed position.

The self-assembling shelf according to the invention, it is further characterized in that the lower face of the folding bottom It is adapted to rest on the upper edges of the laminar strips that constitute the lower support means of said collapsible bottom, when the body is in position operative deployed.

Another feature of the bookshelf of the invention is that the folding bottom is articulated jointly by its posterior edge to the inner face of the flat plate juxtaposed to the rear wall of the body.

Brief description of the drawings

The attached drawings illustrate, by way of non-limiting example, two embodiments of the shelf object of the invention. In these drawings:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the first embodiment of the self-adjusting shelving in one position folded storage;

Fig. 2 is another perspective view of the bottom of the self-adjusting shelving of Fig. 1, in a intermediate deployment position;

Figs. 3 and 4 are perspective views and in profile, respectively, of the self-adjusting shelving of the Figs. 1 and 2 in an operational deployed position; Y

Figs. 5, 6 and 7 are perspective views of the second embodiment of the self-adjusting shelving in a folded storage position, intermediate deployment and Operatively deployed, respectively.

Detailed description of the drawings

In Figs. 1 to 7 two modes have been represented of realization of the self-assembling shelf 1 object of the invention specially designed to support objects to the view of the public and used as advertising media. Be note that in said Figs. 1 to 7 have been used numerical references to designate analogous parts or components equivalents in both embodiments of the self-assembling shelf 1 according to the invention. In both cases, the self-adjusting shelving 1 It consists entirely of essentially rigid sheets of cardboard linked together determining a module consisting of a body 8 which, as explained below, can adopt a folded storage position A and another deployed position operational B.

In the first embodiment represented in Figs. 1 to 4, it is observed that, in the folded initial position of storage A (see Fig. 1) body 8 has a noticeably flattened configuration in which a front wall 3 it is superimposed on another rear wall 3 ', not visible in Fig. 1, which are joined by two folding side walls 2 by paths 6 fold lines longitudinal. It is also appreciated that a flat plate 7 protrudes from the upper part of the body 8 juxtaposed to the inner face of the back wall 3 'of said body 8.

With the purpose that in this folded position storage To the self-contained shelf 1 occupy less space, the flat plate 7 is provided with a fold line 7c on which it can be folded towards the front wall 3, as indicates arrow F1, until juxtaposed to it. Alternatively, the flat plate 7 can also be folded towards the 3 'rear wall, being in this case juxtaposed to it. In both cases the position of the self-supporting shelf 1 is equivalent occupying a very small and flattened space.

To unfold the body 8 of the shelf automontable 1, from the folded starting position of storage A of Fig. 1, the flat plate 7 must be moved introducing it into body 8, as indicated by arrow F2. This displacement of the flat plate 7 causes the movement of a background folding 4 articulated jointly to the front wall 3 of the body 8 and articulated jointly by its rear edge 4b to the inner face 7b of the flat plate 7 (see Fig. 2). When the flat plate 7 descends, the rear edge 4b of the foldable bottom 4 is also lowered to the inner face 7b of the flat plate 7, so that the bottom folding 4 changes position with respect to the front wall 3 passing of a first position juxtaposed to said front wall 3 to a second position perpendicular to it. In Fig. 2 it has been represented the collapsible bottom 4 in an intermediate position of deployed, between the first and second positions before described.

As the flat plate 7 is introduced further in body 8, the collapsible bottom 4 acquires a further position perpendicular to the front wall 3, so that the force that applied to lower the flat plate 7, represented by the arrow F3, causes the distance between the front wall 3 and the 3 'rear wall, as indicated by arrow F4. In turn, the side walls 2 unfold simultaneously along of their respective fold lines 6, approaching each other.

Also shown in Fig. 2 are means of lower support 5 of the collapsible bottom 4 which are constituted by two laminar strips 9, each of which is provided with a longitudinal fold line 9a. One of the ends 9b of each strip 9 is fixedly fixed to the bottom of the face internal 2a of a corresponding side wall 2, while the other end 9c of the strip 9 is fixedly fixed to the face internal 3a of the rear wall 3 '. Thus, when deployed the body 8 the side walls 2 tend to flatten and position themselves  perpendicularly to said rear wall 3 ', thereby causing that the strips 9 fold along the fold line 9a, forming respective parallelograms in the lower inner corners of the body 8, which initially are not rectangles but that they become rectangles as body 8 unfolds. In the body deployment position 8, the support means 5 adopt a form analogous to some support support columns.

Advantageously, the flat plate 7 comprises a lower extension 7d adapted so that when body 8 is in operative deployed position B, its lower edge 7e is supported on the ground on which the body 8 of the self-adjusting shelving 1. In Fig. 2 said 7d lower extension before being arranged between the strips laminar 9 constituting the inner support means 5 and of that its lower edge 7e butt with the ground. It should be noted that the width of the lower extension 7d is smaller than that of the plate flat 7 for it.

Therefore, the flat plate 7 is inserted into the body 8 until the lower edge 7e of its extension 7d bumps into the ground, if it is in an upright position on a surface, as already said, or until the bottom edge 7a of the plate flat 7 and the bottom face 4a of the folding bottom 4 run over the upper edges 9d of the laminar strips 9, situation shown in Fig. 3. That is, the lower support means 5 of the folding bottom 4 serve as support for both the flat plate 7 as for the folding bottom 4, when the flat plate 7 is not supported on the ground or to make additional support of the flat plate 7 and the folding bottom 4. Optionally, depending on small dimensional and / or structural changes that they would not have because modify the essence of the invention, said support in the means of bottom support 5 may consist of the support only of the lower edge 7a of the flat plate 7 or the one of the face bottom 4a of the folding bottom 4. On the other hand, in said Fig. 3, it can be seen in more detail how the folding bottom 4 is foldable around its front edge 4c, facing the inner face 3a of the front wall 3.

The self-adjusting shelf 1 of Figs. 1 to 4 further comprises a top folding shelf 10, attached articulated to the front wall 3 of body 8 and attached articulated by its rear edge 10a to the inner face 7b of the flat plate 7, similar to the folding bottom 4 and located some distance above it, preferably at a distance less than the height of the body 8, partially visible in Fig. 1. This top 10 folding shelf helps keep the plate flat 7 in the position juxtaposed to the rear wall 3 'of the body 8 when it is in operative deployed position B.

In said operative deployed position B shown in Fig. 4, the self-assembling shelf 1 is ready for display information and / or advertising that can be printed, before or after deployment, on any of Your visible faces. Additionally, it can also be used to the storage of products intended to be on display.

To facilitate the exhibition of products stored in the self-mountable shelf 1, the possibility of practicing in the body 8 one or multiple openings 11, by way of windows. In Figs. 5 to 7 another way of appreciating preferred embodiment of the self-assembling shelf 1, provided with additional folding shelves 10 'located distributed regularly between the folding bottom 4 and the folding shelf top 10. Said self-mountable shelf 1 comprises some openings 11 made in the front face of the body 8 in its portions located between the top folding shelf 10 and a respective additional folding shelf 10 'immediately below, between two additional shelves 10 'and between the folding bottom 4 and the additional folding shelf 10 'immediately above. So and as explained below, in this second embodiment the body 8 can adopt a folded storage position A and another operative deployed position B, similar to the first mode of embodiment described above.

In Fig. 5 it can be seen that the shelf automontable 1 consists entirely of sheets essentially rigid cardboard, joined together determining a module constituted by a body 8, in folded storage position A  noticeably flattened Similarly equivalent to the first mode of realization, a front wall 3 is superimposed on another wall 3 'back, not visible in Fig. 5, joined by two walls lateral 2 folded by paths 6 fold longitudinal lines. Likewise, it can be seen as from the upper part of the body 8 a flat plate 7 protrudes juxtaposed to the inner face of the rear wall 3 'of said body 8.

To unfold the body 8 of the shelf automontable 1, from the folded starting position of storage A of Fig. 5, in the same manner as in the first described embodiment, the flat plate 7 must be moved introducing it into body 8, as indicated by arrow F5. He displacement of the flat plate 7 causes the movement of a folding bottom 4 articulated jointly to the front wall 3 of the body 8 and articulated jointly by its rear edge 4b to the face internal 7b of the flat plate 7, appreciable in Fig. 7. It is also causes the movement of a top folding shelf 10 and also, unlike the previous case, of the folding shelves additional 10 '. When the flat plate 7 descends, they also descend the back edges of the folding bottom 4, of the folding shelf top 10 and 10 'additional folding shelves, all they attached to the inner face 7b of the flat plate 7. Of this mode, the folding bottom 4, the top folding shelf 10 and the additional folding shelves 10 'change position simultaneous with respect to two fold lines by which these remain attached to the front wall 3, passing from a position juxtaposed to the front wall 3 to an increasingly more position perpendicular to it, all as shown in Fig. 6, which represents an intermediate deployment position.

As the flat plate 7 is introduced further in body 8, the movement of the collapsible bottom 4 and of the folding shelves 10 and 10 'causes the distance between the wall front 3 and the back wall 3 ', as in the first described embodiment. At the same time, the side walls 2 are they are unfolding simultaneously along their respective paths 6 fold lines, and automatically approach between yes.

Still and not being represented, it also contemplates that the second embodiment described comprises lower support means 5 equivalent to those of the first embodiment that support the flat plate 7, for the folding bottom 4 or for both.

Finally, body 8 can adopt a operative deployed position B in which it is able to stay vertically upright, as shown in Fig. 7. You can further note that each of the openings 11 allows access to the respective additional folding shelves 10 'and at the bottom folding 4. Optionally, said openings 11 may be closed by a window, preferably translucent and PVC, to allow only visual accessibility inside the body 8 or for modify the appearance of the self-adjusting shelving.

Claims (7)

1. Self-assembling shelf (1), usable for storage and / or advertising purposes, consisting entirely of essentially rigid sheets of cardboard, joined together determining at least one module consisting of a body (8) that, from an initial position folded storage (A) noticeably flattened, is capable of adopting an operative deployed position (B) in which it is able to remain vertically upright, characterized in that said body is formed by four walls (2, 3 and 3 '), vertical in the operative deployed position and each one connected respectively with the two adjacent ones, of which one is the front one (3), two are lateral (2) and foldable and the other one is the rear one (3 '); by a collapsible bottom (4), articulated jointly to the inner face (3a) of the front wall; and by means of lower support (5) of the folding bottom, also foldable. 2. Self-assembling shelf (1) according to claim 1, characterized in that both side walls (2) are provided with two fold lines (6), vertical in the operative deployed position (B) and adapted to allow simultaneous folding of the walls laterally outward and along said fold lines. 3. Self-assembling shelf (1) according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that it is provided inside the body (8) of a flat plate (7), suitable for receiving and exposing information and / or advertising and juxtaposed to the face internal (3a) of the rear wall (3 ') of said body. 4. Self-assembling shelf (1) according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that said lower support means (5) of the folding bottom (4) are constituted by at least two laminar strips (9), each of which is provided with a transverse fold line (9a), vertical in the operative deployed position (B), one of the ends (9b) of each strip being fixedly fixed to the lower end of the inner face (2a) of a side wall (2), while the other end (9c) of the strip is fixedly fixed to the inner face (3a) of the rear wall (3 '), below the lower edge (7a) of the flat plate (7) juxtaposed to the back wall. 5. Self-assembling shelf (1) according to claim 4, characterized in that the lower edge (7a) of the flat plate (7) juxtaposed to the rear wall (3 ') is adapted to rest on the upper edges (9d) of the strips laminar (9) that constitute the lower support means (5) of the folding bottom (4), when the body (8) is in its operative deployed position (B). 6. Self-assembling shelf (1) according to claim 4, characterized in that the lower face (4a) of the folding bottom (4) is adapted to rest on the upper edges (9d) of the laminar strips (9) that constitute the support means bottom (5) of said collapsible bottom, when the body (8) is in its operative deployed position (B). 7. Self-assembling shelf (1) according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the folding bottom (4) is articulated jointly by its rear edge (4b) to the inner face (7b) of the flat plate (7) juxtaposed to the rear wall (3 ') of the body (8).