JP2000035276A - Showcase - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a showcase for improving merchandise display effect, suppressing frosting over a glass door, and further preventing damage or the like of a see-through door when cleaning a merchandise display case. SOLUTION: In a cold storage showcase comprising a merchandise display case 2 with a top opening 21e being freely opened and closed by a glass door 22a, and a cooling device 31 for cooling the merchandise display case 2, a plurality of merchandise display shelves 51, 52 and 53 of different display height are prepared, and the merchandise display shelves 51, 52 and 53 are arranged in the merchandise display case 2. In this case, merchandise of low height is placed on a merchandise display shelf 52 of high display height, while merchandise of high height is placed on a merchandise display shelf 15 of low display height. As a result, display height of various merchandise of different height is made uniform.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a showcase for storing products (vegetable salads, pickles, etc.) sold together with main products (gyudon, etc.) at a fast food store.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, when selling products, such as vegetable salads and pickles, which are sold along with the main product at a fast food store such as beef bowl sales, these vegetable salads and pickles are each of a height dimension. They are placed in different specific containers and stored in a refrigerated showcase product display.

[0003]

However, in the above-mentioned conventional refrigerated showcase, the height of the vegetable salad container and the height of the pickled food container are different as described above, so that the products displayed in the refrigerated showcase look good. And the display effect of the refrigerated showcase was impaired.

[0004] Further, since the interior of the merchandise display cabinet is cooled, dew condensation tends to occur on the glass door that opens and closes the merchandise display cabinet, thereby deteriorating the merchandise display effect. Was getting wet and giving discomfort to the buyer.

[0005] Further, when cleaning the inside of the merchandise display,
Remove the glass door and put it in another place for cleaning,
At this time, the glass door was often damaged or soiled.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In view of the above-mentioned problems, it is an object of the present invention to improve a product display effect, to suppress dew on a see-through door, and to damage the see-through door when cleaning a product display box. The goal is to provide a showcase that never does.

[0007]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention is directed to a product display having an upper opening which can be opened and closed by a transparent door, and a cooling device for cooling the product display. In a showcase provided with a cooling device, a plurality of merchandise display shelves having different display heights are prepared, and the merchandise display shelves are arranged in a merchandise display cabinet.

According to the present invention, a product having a low dimension (product container) is placed on a product display shelf having a high display height, while a product having a high dimension is placed on a product display shelf having a low display height. Place. Thereby, the display height of the commodities having different height dimensions can be made uniform.

In order to make the display height of the products uniform,
As in the second aspect of the present invention, the merchandise display shelves having different display heights may be fitted, or as in the third aspect of the present invention, the merchandise display shelves may be arranged in three upper and lower tiers.

According to the third aspect of the present invention, when a large number of products having a low height are stored, an intermediate product display shelf is pulled out from the inside of the upper product display shelf to increase a mounting space having a high display height. . On the other hand, when a product having a high height is to be stored at the same time, the intermediate product display shelf is stowed in the upper product display shelf, and the mounting surface of the lower product display shelf is exposed. Then, a product having a high height may be placed on the exposed portion.

When a structure in which the product stopper piece is protruded from the end of the intermediate product display shelf is adopted as in the invention of claim 4, the product stopper piece prevents lateral displacement of the product and the product display shelf. Can be prevented from falling.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a door unit having a guide rail frame surrounding the periphery of the transparent door and guiding the transparent door, and a door frame holding the guide rail frame, and the door unit is a product. It can be freely inserted into the upper opening of the display cabinet.

According to the present invention, when cleaning the inside of the merchandise display, the entire door unit is removed. here,
Since the door unit is protected at its periphery by the guide rail frame and the door frame, breakage of the transparent door, for example, a glass door, is prevented.

According to a sixth aspect of the present invention, in the showcase according to the fifth aspect, the guide rail frame is formed of a synthetic resin. In this showcase, since the merchandise storage is cooled, the see-through door is in a state where condensation easily occurs,
In particular, it is greatly affected by conduction heat from the guide rail frame.
Therefore, in the present invention, the guide rail frame is made of a resin material (the resin material has a lower thermal conductivity than a metal material such as steel).
To suppress heat conduction to the see-through door.

According to the invention of claim 7, a Peltier device is used as the refrigerating device, and the brine cooled by the Peltier device is fed to the inner peripheral wall of the commodity display. Since the Peltier element is used as described above, noise is lower than that of a cooling device using a compressor or the like.

According to the eighth aspect of the present invention, air is sucked in from the left and right air suction ports of the machine room, and the pump and the electrical unit are cooled by the air. The air that has cooled this pump etc.
Further, the Peltier element is cooled and exhausted from the air outlet. As described above, since the outside air flows directly into the pump and the electrical unit, these devices are efficiently cooled. Particularly, since the heat generated by the pump is reliably discharged, the influence of heat on the brine can be reduced.

[0017]

1 to 5 show an embodiment of a showcase (refrigerated showcase) according to the present invention. FIG. 1 is an external perspective view of a refrigerated showcase, and FIG. 2 is a refrigerated showcase. FIG. 3 is a bottom view of the refrigerated showcase, FIG. 4 is a perspective view of assembling the refrigerated showcase,
5 (a), 5 (b) and 5 (c) are front views showing display examples of commodities.

The refrigerated showcase 1 is formed in a horizontally long box shape, and a commodity display box 2 is provided at an upper part, and a machine room 3 is provided at a lower part.
have.

As shown in FIG. 2, the product display 2 is constituted by a heat-insulating housing 21 having an open upper surface. In the heat insulating casing 21, a heat insulating material 21c such as urethane foam is interposed between the outer box 21a and the inner box 21b, and the inside of the refrigerator is thermally shut off by the heat insulating material 21c. A brine circulation pipe 31e, which will be described later, is wound around the back surface of the inner box 21b, and the inside of the refrigerator is cooled by the circulation brine. Also,
This heat-insulating housing 21 has a peripheral edge on the upper surface side of each box 21a, 2b.
The flange 21 d is formed on both sides and the front surface of the heat-insulating housing 21 so as to protrude outward through 1 b. Further, the upper surface opening 21e of the heat-insulating housing 21 is formed so that its peripheral side wall 21f is inclined forward as shown in FIG. 4, so that the inside of the commodity display 2 can be easily seen through from the front side.

A door unit 22 is removably attached to the upper opening 21e of the heat insulating casing 21 formed as described above. As shown in FIG. 2, the door unit 22 includes two sliding doors 22a. The periphery of the glass door 22a is fitted into a guide rail frame 22b made of a synthetic resin, and is slidably supported in the left and right direction by the guide rail frame 22b. The periphery of the guide rail frame 22b is fixed to a steel door frame 22c as shown in FIG. The upper surface of the door frame 22c is inclined so as to correspond to the inclined surface of the peripheral side wall 21f of the heat insulating casing 21, and the glass door 2 is formed along this inclination.
2a and the guide rail frame 22b are installed, and the door frame 22c can be fitted into the peripheral side wall 21f.

On the other hand, the cooling device 31 of the heat insulating casing 21 is installed in the machine room 3. The cooling device 31 includes a Peltier element 31a used as a cooling element, a pump 31b for circulating brine (antifreeze) as a heat exchange medium, a blower 31c for blowing air for heat exchange, and these devices 3.
An electrical unit 31d on which the control elements 1a, 31b and 31c are mounted, and a circulation pipe 31e forming a brine circulation passage are provided.

The circulating pipe 31e has a tank 31f for exchanging heat with the Peltier element 31a. The circulating pipe 31e divides the brine flowing out of the tank 31f into two parts, and circulates around the heat insulating casing 21. It circulates through the pipe 31e.

The Peltier device 31a and the blower 31
3, c is arranged at the center in the longitudinal direction of the machine room 3, the pump 31b is arranged at one side of the Peltier element 31a, and the electrical unit 31d is arranged at the other side of the Peltier element 31a. Further, the blower 31 is mounted on the bottom wall 32 of the machine room 3.
An air outlet 32a is formed in a portion facing c.
The first air inlet 3 is provided on both sides of the bottom wall 32 of the machine room 3.
2b and a second air suction port 32c. here,
When driving the blower 31c, the first air inlet 32b
The air sucked from the air cools the pump 31b and flows to the heat exchange fins 31g of the Peltier element 31a, while the air sucked from the second air inlet 32c is
d is cooled and flows to the heat exchange fins 31g, and the Peltier element 31a is cooled by air from these two directions.

When installing the refrigerated showcase 1 on the counter 4 of a fast food store (gyudon store), the refrigerated showcase 1 is fitted into the mounting hole 41 of the counter 4. Here, as shown in FIG. 1 and FIG. 2, the flange 21 d of the commodity display 2 is mounted on and supported by the periphery of the mounting hole 41, and the refrigerated showcase 1 is mounted on the counter 4.

In the refrigerated showcase 1 configured as described above, the commodity display 2 according to the present embodiment is shown in FIG.
Merchandise display shelves 51, 52, 53 shown in FIGS. 4 and 5 are arranged.

Each of the product display shelves 51 to 53 is formed to be horizontally long, and a plurality of holes 51a, 5
2a and 53a. In addition, each product display shelf 51-
53 are front and rear support legs 51 such that the upper surface thereof is inclined forward.
The lengths of b, 52b and 53b are changed.

The merchandise display shelf 51 has a length substantially equal to the storage space of the merchandise display cabinet 2, and the height of the support legs 51b is shortened to slightly lower the display height. The product display shelf 52 has a slightly shorter dimension in the longitudinal direction than the product display shelf 51, and the support legs 52b.
Is heightened to increase the display height, and the width in the front-rear direction is slightly larger than that of the product display shelf 51. The product display shelf 53 is interposed between the product display shelf 51 and the product display shelf 52. This product display shelf 53 is 2
And a product stopper piece 53c whose one end in the longitudinal direction is bent upward.

FIGS. 2, 4, and 5 (a) and 5 (b) show a method of displaying the products A and B using the product display shelves 51 to 53.
This will be described with reference to (c). First, as shown in FIG. 4, the door unit 22 is removed from the peripheral side wall 21f of the heat insulating casing 21.
Next, as shown in FIGS. 2 and 4, the product display shelf 51 is stored inside the product display shelf 52, and the product display shelf 5 is further stored.
The two middle product display shelves 53 are stacked above and are housed inside the product display shelves 52.

In this state, when only a small product A (a container containing pickles) having a small height is to be sold, for example, as shown in FIG. The product A is pulled out from the display shelf 52 and the product A is arranged on the entire shelf. At this time, the display height of the product A placed on the product display shelf 53 is the same as the thickness of the product display shelf 52.
However, the plate thickness is small, and the purchaser sees the entire displayed product A at a uniform display height.

Further, the product A and the product B having a large height dimension
When displaying (the packaging container containing the vegetable salad), the two product display shelves 53 are stored inside the product display shelf 52 as shown in FIG. Next, the product A is placed on the product display shelf 52, and the product B is placed on the upper surfaces of the product display shelves 51 at both ends. At this time, since the display height of the product display shelf 51 is lower than the display height of the product display shelf 52, the display height of the product B and the display height of the product A are substantially at the same level.

Further, when only the product B is displayed, FIG.
As shown in (c), only the product display shelf 51 is placed in the product display
And the product B may be placed on the product display shelf 51.

When the display of the products A and B is completed, the door unit 22 is fitted into the peripheral side wall 21f so as to cover the upper opening 21e of the heat insulating casing 21. As a result, the products A and B enter a sales standby state. At the time of sale and at the time of product replenishment, the glass door 22a is opened and closed, and product sale and product replenishment are performed.

According to the present embodiment, as described above, the product display shelves 51, 52, and 53 are used, and as shown in FIGS. 5A, 5B, and 5C, the product display shelves 51, 52, and 53 are used. Is arranged, the display of the commodity A having a low height (FIG. 5 (a)), the display of the commodity B having a high height (FIG. 5 (c)), and furthermore, the display of both the goods A and B In the display (FIG. 5 (b)), goods A,
The display height of B can be made uniform, and a uniform product display can be impressed to the purchaser.

The product display shelf 53 has a product stopper piece 53c at one end in the longitudinal direction.
As shown in (b), the product stopper piece 53c prevents the product A placed on the product display shelf 52 from being shifted laterally,
There is no sliding down to the product B side.

Further, since the door unit 22 is removably fitted to the peripheral side wall 21f of the heat-insulating housing 21, the door unit 22 is used to change the display of the whole product or to clean the inside of the heat-insulating housing 21. Easy to work by fitting and removing.

Further, when the door unit 22 is removed and placed in another place, the periphery of the glass door 22a is protected by the guide rail frame 22b and the door frame 22c. And no dirt.

Further, the heat conducted to the inner box 21b of the heat insulating casing 21 is conducted to the door frame 22c, and the heat is further transmitted to the guide rail frame 22.
The guide rail frame 22b is made of a synthetic resin, but the heat conduction is suppressed at this portion. Thereby, the glass door 22
b is suppressed, and dew on the glass door 22b can be prevented.

Furthermore, since the Peltier element 31a is used as the cooling device 31 and the brine is circulated through the circulation pipe 31e, compared with other cooling devices that circulate the refrigerant using a compressor or the like, Drive noise is low.

Further, since the circulation pipe 31e is composed of two systems, the flow resistance of each system is reduced.
Therefore, the pump 31b can be reduced in size, and the diameter of the circulation pipe 31 can be reduced by the amount corresponding to the reduction of the flow resistance, whereby the thickness of the heat insulating casing 21 can be reduced.

Further, as shown in FIG.
Since the outside air flows directly into b and the electrical unit 31d, these devices 31b and 31d are efficiently cooled. Particularly, since the heat generated by the pump 31b is reliably discharged, the influence of heat on the brine can be reduced.

[0041]

As described above, according to the first to fourth aspects of the present invention, when displaying products having different dimensions, the display height of each product can be made uniform, and the display effect of the products can be improved. Can be done.

According to the fifth aspect of the present invention, since the door unit is protected by the guide rail frame and the door frame at the periphery of the see-through door, the door unit is placed in another place when cleaning the inside of the merchandise display cabinet. The see-through door, for example, a glass door is not damaged.

According to the sixth aspect of the present invention, since the guide rail frame is formed of a resin material to suppress heat conduction to the see-through door, dew on the see-through door is suppressed, and the product display effect is further improved. Can be improved.

According to the seventh aspect of the present invention, a Peltier device is used as the refrigerating device, and the brine cooled by the Peltier device is fed to the inner peripheral wall of the commodity display. Noise is lower than that of a cooling device using

According to the invention of claim 8, since the outside air flows directly into the pump and the electrical unit, these devices are efficiently cooled. Particularly, since the heat generated by the pump is reliably discharged, the influence of heat on the brine can be reduced.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an external perspective view of a refrigerated showcase.

FIG. 2 is a schematic longitudinal sectional view of a refrigerated showcase.

FIG. 3 is a bottom view of the refrigerated showcase.

FIG. 4 is an assembled perspective view of a refrigerated showcase.

FIG. 5 is a front view showing a display example of a product;

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Refrigerated showcase, 2 ... Product storage, 21d ... Flange, 21e ... Top opening, 22 ... Door unit, 22a ... Glass door, 22b ... Guide rail frame, 22c ... Door frame, 31 ...
Cooling device, 31a: Peltier element, 31b: Pump, 3
1c blower, 31d electrical unit, 32a air outlet, 32b, 32c air inlet, 51, 52,
53: product display shelf, 53c: product stopper piece, A, B ...
Product.

Claims (8)

[Claims] 1. A showcase comprising a commodity display shelves whose upper surface opening can be freely opened and closed by a transparent door and a cooling device for cooling the commodity display shelves, wherein a plurality of commodity display shelves having different display heights. Wherein each of the product display shelves is arranged in a product display cabinet. 2. The merchandise display shelves include one merchandise display shelf having a high display height and a short lateral dimension, and the other merchandise display shelf having a low display height and a long lateral dimension. 2. The showcase according to claim 1, wherein the display case is prepared, and the other product display shelf is fitted inside the one product display shelf and arranged in the product display cabinet. 3. The show according to claim 2, further comprising an intermediate product display shelf slidably movable in the left-right direction between the one product display shelf and the other product display shelf. Case. 4. The showcase according to claim 3, wherein the middle product display shelf has a product stopper piece protruding upward at one end in the left-right direction. 5. A door unit having a guide rail frame surrounding the periphery of the see-through door and guiding the see-through door, and a door frame holding the guide rail frame, wherein the door unit is provided with the commodity display box. The showcase according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the showcase can be freely fitted into an upper surface opening of the showcase. 6. The showcase according to claim 5, wherein said guide rail frame is formed of synthetic resin. 7. The cooling device comprises: a Peltier device for cooling brine such as antifreeze; a blower for discharging heat generated by the Peltier device to the outside; and a product cooled by the Peltier device through a pipe. The showcase according to any one of claims 1 to 6, further comprising a pump circulating through an inner peripheral wall of the display cabinet. 8. In the machine room below the commodity display box, the Peltier element, the blower, and the air outlet are arranged vertically, and the pump and the first air inlet are provided on one of the left and right sides of the blower. An electric unit on which a control device for controlling the pump or the like is installed and a second air suction port are respectively arranged on the other side, and the air flows through the Peltier element through the pump and the electric unit. 7. The showcase according to 7.