FR2821473A1 - Information card support for display unit with shelves has tongie projecting from rear face to fit into sheld connector - Google Patents

Abstract

The support consists of a curved panel (2) with upper and lower edges (3, 4) shaped to form guide grooves for an information card. The rear face of the panel has a projecting flat tongue (7) designed to fit under the edge of a wire basket or plastic box containing articles displayed for sale on a shelf unit, or to engage with a fastening element with slots at different angles that attaches to the front edge of a shelf.

Description

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The present invention relates to the field of displays in stores and more particularly relates to an information sheet support device for display.

Such devices are common in stores and are used in particular ZD product identification and the indication of their price. Such devices are known which are simply constituted by a metal strip formed into a rail and fixed on the edge of the shelves on which the display units are arranged, which generally have the shape of boxes or baskets of metal wires. Small fact sheets on the nature of the product and its price are fixed in the rail of the metal strip. These fact sheets are often made of paper and provided with a transparent plastic protection.

 For some products such as valves, piping etc., more information on the products is needed, such as photographs, instructions for use and technical information. This requires a large display surface on the information sheet support devices without preventing access to the contents of the displays which in this case often have the form of open boxes up and half-way up. forward and the products are commonly presented in bulk.

 The object of the invention is to propose an information sheet support device which is particularly well adapted to this type of display and which does not prevent access to products in displays placed on different levels.

 It is also intended to provide an information sheet support device that is particularly easy to assemble and disassemble and that can be used alone for a whole row of displays.

présentation de produits dans certaines familles de produits rangées en colonnes sur Zn les étagères. t > Un autre but de l'invention est de remédier également à ce problème. A problem with current information sheet support devices is that their reading is relatively difficult when they are associated with displays placed at a relatively low level, close to the ground, which frequently occurs for

presentation of products in some families of products arranged in columns on Zn shelves. Another object of the invention is to also remedy this problem.

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 The object of the invention is a display information sheet support device comprising a plug support member and means for retaining said plug support member on a display unit displaying articles to be presented for sale. , characterized in that said retaining means comprise at least one tab projecting from the rear face of said plug support member and adapted to be fixed in a position to hold the plug support member in front of the display.

 According to other features of the invention: the device further comprises a linear element carrying means for fixing the device on a support, and said plug support member and the linear element are connected to one another; other by means of quick links; said tongue protrudes in a medial zone of said rear face of said plug support member, substantially perpendicular thereto; said fast link means comprise a groove extending along said linear element and adapted to receive said tongue and to maintain it inside said groove; said groove and said tongue comprise latching means for retaining said tongue inside said groove; said fast link means comprise at least two grooves extending along said linear element and defining different angles of inclination of said tongue relative to the horizontal when the tongue is housed in the groove; one of the grooves extends so as to define an angle of inclination of substantially 0 of said tongue relative to the horizontal when the latter is housed in the groove; one of the grooves extends so as to define an angle of inclination of approximately 35 of said tongue relative to the horizontal when the latter is housed in the groove; said plug support member has a curved surface towards the outside;

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 - said plug support member comprises at its upper rim a bent portion rearwardly and downwardly so as to form a housing adapted to receive a horizontal wire of a basket of son which is constituted said display; said fixing means of said linear element comprise an adhesive tape.

 Other features and advantages of the device according to the invention will become apparent from the following description of an exemplary embodiment, not limiting, with reference to the appended figures in which: - Figure 1 is a perspective view of a device of information sheet support according to the invention; FIG. 2 is an overall perspective view showing a shelf with several rows of displays in which support devices according to the invention are used; - Figure 3 is a schematic side view of a device according to the invention adjustable in two angular positions relative to a support on which it is fixed; FIG. 4 is a perspective view showing a quick link member of a plug support device according to the invention.

 The information sheet support device 1 illustrated in FIG. 1 comprises a plug support member 2 having a generally rectangular elongated shape. The lower and upper flanges of this plug support member are parallel to one another and in a conventional manner themselves folded first outward and then towards each other to form guide grooves. and retaining 3, 4 delimiting a receiving surface 5 of an information sheet 6 (see Figure 3). This sheet can be paper or plastic and represent the image of an article, the technical characteristics of this article, or other information.

 In the illustrated example, the receiving surface 5 on the plug support member 2 is bent outwardly.

 The plug support member 2 is provided with at least one tongue 7 protruding from the rear face of said element, in a median zone thereof,

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 substantially perpendicular to the latter and adapted to be retained on a display so as to hold the plug support member rectified in front thereof.

 With this arrangement, the plug support member 2 also projects downwardly below this tongue 7 and a very large display surface is obtained on this support member.

 This tongue 7 can be inserted between the underside of a display constituted by a basket of metal son, and the surface such as a shelf on which this display stand. In general, the bottom of such a wire basket is slightly raised relative to the surface of the support so that a gap is formed in which this tongue can be inserted. The tongue is thus easily held between the basket and the support. In this case, it is also possible to use a plug support member 2 several meters long, provided that notches are made in the tongue 7 to divide it into several parts each of which can be introduced under a basket.

juxtaposées dans une rangée sont reliées les unes aux autres à l'aide de clips. tl >
La figure 2 montre une étagère à plusieurs rangées de présentoirs sous forme de boîtes 8, avec utilisation des dispositifs de support de fiche 1 selon l'invention. The displays are often made of plastic boxes open upward and up to halfway upwards to allow easy access to the products that are in bulk in these boxes. In general, boxes

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Figure 2 shows a multi-row shelf of box-shaped display units 8, using the plug support devices 1 according to the invention.

The boxes 8 are arranged in rows on tablets 9. They have variable widths of for example 125,250 and 500 mm adapted to the size of the products and their consumption.

aisément être dégagée si besoin en est pour, par exemple, changer les fiches Zn d'information ou pour restructurer l'étagère. The plug support devices 1 are associated with the boxes 8 by its tabs 7 which are inserted between the bottom of the boxes and the shelves 9 so that the plug support member 2 of each device is arranged in front of the respective box or boxes . The tongue is thus tight in this position, but can

It can easily be disengaged if need be, for example, to change the information Zn plugs or to restructure the shelf.

 The boxes 8 of a row can advantageously be associated with a single plug support device 1 which in this case extends over the entire width of the

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 Tablet. Another possibility is to use several support devices for a row and align them on each other.

 In the example illustrated in FIG. 3 and according to another aspect of the invention, the information sheet support device further comprises a linear element 10 provided with attachment means 11 of the support device for associating it with to a display by fixing it in such a way that the plug support member 2 extends immediately in front of it.

 FIG. 3 shows in greater detail the front part of a shelf 9 on which this linear element 10 is fixed by means of fastening means 11 which preferably consist of an adhesive tape extending on the underside of the linear element 10, over the entire length thereof.

 Of course, the fixing means may simply be constituted by fastening screws passing through regularly spaced holes in the linear element to be screwed into the shelf, or any other suitable fastening means.

 In the example shown, the linear element 10 has on its underside a rib 12 which extends over the entire length of the linear element and which is intended to be inserted into a groove 13 on the upper face of the tablet. 9, near the front end thereof. The interaction between the rib 12 and the groove 13 facilitates the positioning and maintenance of the linear element 8 when it is attached to the tablet.

 FIG. 3 further shows that the tongue 7 of the plug support member 2 can be connected to the linear element 10 by quick link means having a groove 14 extending over the entire length of the linear element. and which is adapted to receive the end of the tongue 7. The groove 14 and the end of the tongue 7 are advantageously provided with latching means comprising respective conformations 15,16 complementarily shaped.

 Advantageously, the quick link means of the tongue 7 to the linear element 10 comprise at least one additional groove 17 for receiving the tongue 7 similar to the first groove 14. However, these grooves 14, 17

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 define different angles of inclination of the tongue 7 relative to the horizontal A-A when the tongue is housed in the groove.

 Thus, the first groove 14 can define an angle of inclination of substantially 0 of the tongue 7 relative to the horizontal, while the second groove defines an inclination angle cr of about 35. The first position of the tongue 7 and hence of the plug support member is in Fig. 3 shown with broken lines and the second position with solid lines.

 With this arrangement, it is possible to tilt up the plug support members of the devices at the bottom of a shelf to facilitate reading of the corresponding records.

 Figures 1 and 3 further show a plug support member 2 which at its upper rim has a bent portion rearwardly and downwardly to form a housing 18 adapted to receive a horizontal wire of a basket of son which is constituted the display.

 Both the plug support member 2 and the linear element 8 are advantageously obtained by extrusion of a suitable plastic material.

 Thus, thanks to the invention, is obtained an information sheet support device which is easy to assemble and disassemble, whose display surface is important without preventing access to the contents of a display stand. on a shelf shelf immediately lower, and it further allows to tilt the display surface to facilitate reading of the plug placed on the plug support member when the device is associated with a display that is found in a low position, near the ground.

 In addition, as illustrated in Figure 2, the device according to the invention can be connected to the upper shelf of the shelf to display families of products in displays located directly below and arranged for example in columns.

 An additional advantage of the device according to the invention is that it adapts easily to existing furniture.

Claims (11)

 Display plate holder for a display, having a plug support member (2) and retaining means (7) of said plug support member on a display unit displaying articles to be presented for sale, characterized by the fact that said retaining means comprise at least one tongue (7) projecting from the rear face of said plug support member (2) and adapted to be fixed in a position to hold the plug support member ( 2) in front of said display.  2. Information sheet support device according to claim 1, characterized in that said tongue (7) projects in a central zone of said rear face of said plug support member (2), substantially perpendicular to that this.  3. Information sheet support device according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that it further comprises a linear element (10) carrying fixing means (11) of the device on a support (9), and that said plug support member (2) and the linear member (10) are connected to each other by quick connect means (14-17).  4. Information sheet support device according to claim 3, characterized in that said quick link means comprise a groove (14; 17) extending along said linear element (10) and adapted to receive said tongue. (7) and maintain it within said groove (14; 17).  5. The information sheet support device as claimed in claim 4, characterized in that said groove (14; 17) and said tongue (7) comprise latching means (15, 16) for retaining said tongue at a distance of interior of said groove.  6. The information sheet support device according to any one of claims 3 to 5, characterized in that said quick link means comprise at least two grooves (14,17) extending along said linear element and defining different angles of inclination of said tongue relative to the horizontal (AA) when the tongue (7) is housed in the groove (14; 17). <Desc / Clms Page number 8>  7. Information card holder device according to claim 6, characterized in that one (14) of the grooves extends to define an angle of inclination of substantially 0 of said tongue (7) by relative to the horizontal (AA) when the latter is housed in the groove (14).  8. Information card holder device according to claim 6 or 7, characterized in that one (17) of the grooves extends to define an angle of inclination (a) of about 35 said tab (7) relative to the horizontal (AA) when the latter is housed in the groove (17).  9. Information sheet support device according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that said plug support member (2) has a curved surface towards the outside.  10. Support device information sheet according to any one of claims 3 to 9, characterized in that said fastening means of said linear element comprise an adhesive tape (11).  An information sheet holding device according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that said plug support member (2) has at its upper rim a curved portion rearwardly and downwardly of to form a housing (18) adapted to receive a horizontal wire of a basket of son which is constituted said display.