JP2000157388A - Storage and exhibit furniture for lighting equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a storage and exhibit furniture for exhibiting and storing a plurality of luminaires by reducing waste with respect to space and electricity. SOLUTION: A plurality of drawer plates 10 are incorporated in one rectangular box shaped exterior box 11 so as to pull in and out manually, luminaires 12 is detachably attached to each drawer plate 10 electrically and mechanically, and this luminaires 12 is pulled out of the exterior box 11 together with the drawer plate 10 for exhibition and is stored in the exterior box 11. Only the luminaires for exhibition 12 which is pulled out of the exterior box 11 is lit to reduce waste in power consumption on the whole and protect the luminaires 12 stored in the exterior box 11 from dust by the exterior box 11.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a box-shaped lighting fixture storing and displaying fixture for storing and displaying a plurality of lighting fixtures.

2. Description of the Related Art At a mass retailer of lighting fixtures, a plurality of hanging lighting fixtures such as chandeliers are displayed suspended from a ceiling, and a plurality of wall-mounted lighting fixtures such as gate lights are mounted on a wall. Alternatively, a stand-type lighting fixture is installed on a shelf for display. However, such a display form of the lighting fixture is wasteful in terms of space. Therefore, as a display fixture for lighting fixtures with reduced space waste, for example, a display fixture having a shelf surface, a wall surface, and a ceiling surface continuously integrated as shown in FIG. 6 is used. The display fixture 1 shown in FIG.
It comprises a shelf 1a movably mounted above, a wall 1b extending right above the rear end of the shelf 1a, and a ceiling 1c extending forward from the upper end of the wall 1b. One or more types of lighting fixtures 3a are installed on the upper surface of the shelf 1a, another type of lighting fixtures 3b are installed on the front surface of the wall 1b, and a ceiling-mounted lighting fixture or suspension is installed on the lower surface of the ceiling 1c. The lighting fixture 3c is installed and displayed.

The display fixture 1 as shown in FIG. 6 uses a space surrounded by a continuous surface of a shelf surface, a wall surface, and a ceiling surface for display of a lighting fixture, so that more space-saving and more types can be obtained. Lighting fixtures can be displayed at the same time. However, in such an exhibition fixture 1, the lighting fixture 3a on the shelf 1a and the lighting fixture 3c on the ceiling 1c do not interfere with the display of the lighting fixture 3b on the wall 1b.
It is necessary to set a large distance between the height a and the ceiling 1c, and as a result, the entire display fixture 1 becomes large, and it is difficult to reduce the space waste of the lighting fixture display. FIG.
Display fixture 1 is suitable for simultaneous display of a large number of lighting fixtures of three or more types suitable for shelves, walls and ceilings, but different designs (partial shapes, colors, etc.) of the same type of lighting fixtures It is unsuitable for exhibiting a small number of lighting fixtures. As a result, lighting fixture users have the inconvenience that they can only find the desired type of lighting fixture from a small number of exhibits.
This is a factor in reducing sales for lighting equipment retailers. In addition, in lighting equipment mass retailers, many and many kinds of display lighting equipment are turned on in order to enhance the display effect of the displayed lighting equipment. However, at present, users mainly purchase items of specific types of lighting fixtures, and in such cases, exhibiting other types of lighting fixtures that are not targeted by the user does not mean much to the user The lighting of this display lighting fixture wastes power consumption. Furthermore, if lighting fixtures are displayed for a long time at a lighting fixture mass retailer, dust accumulates on the shades of the lighting fixtures and the like, which impairs the appearance and reduces the commercial value of the exhibited lighting fixtures. Further, it is troublesome to arbitrarily or regularly clean dust attached to such display lighting fixtures, and the frequency of this cleaning work is high. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a lighting fixture storage and display fixture that can store a large number of lighting fixtures in a more space-saving manner and can exhibit with less waste of power.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a drawer plate on which one or a plurality of fixture parts having a function of supporting a lighting fixture and being electrically connected to light the lighting fixture are installed. The drawer plate has a structure in which a plurality of the drawer plates are housed therein together with the lighting fixtures attached to the respective drawer plates, and an outer box is drawn out together with the lighting fixtures fitted with the respective drawer plates. To achieve. Here, the drawer plate is like a flat drawer or a box-shaped drawer of a large desk with a drawer, and the outer box into which the drawer plate is put in and out is like a box-shaped or frame-shaped body of the large desk. It is. In addition, the lighting equipment of the drawer plate stored in the outer box is stored in the outer box in a display or non-exhibition form and protected from dust, and the lighting equipment of the drawer plate drawn out of the outer box is connected to the drawer plate. It will be an exhibit with it attached. A second invention of the present invention is characterized in that all of the plurality of drawer plates are arranged side by side in the outer box. By arranging the drawer plates in parallel in this manner, the storage and display fixtures are compact and easy to handle. According to a third aspect of the present invention, a lighting switch is provided between each drawer plate and the exterior box so that when the plurality of drawer plates are pulled out of the exterior box, the lighting fixture of the extracted drawer plate is turned on. It is characterized by the following. In this way, by selectively lighting only the lighting fixtures to be exhibited, power consumption waste of the exhibition lighting fixtures is reduced. A fourth invention of the present invention is characterized in that a light-transmitting portion is provided on the outer surface of the outer box so that the lighting fixture of the drawer plate housed in the outer box can be seen from the outside. In this way, the lighting fixtures stored in the outer box can also be displayed.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment will be described below with reference to FIGS. The storage fixtures for lighting fixtures of the first embodiment shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 have a vertically long rectangular box-shaped exterior box 11 in which a plurality of drawer plates 10 are arranged substantially horizontally and are incorporated in multiple vertical stages. Each of the plurality of drawer plates 10 has a lighting fixture 1 of a corresponding type.
2 is manually and detachably mechanically and electrically connected and mounted. Each of the drawer plates 10 is manually put in and out of the exterior box 11 together with the lighting fixtures 12 attached thereto. The single drawer plate 10
For example, it is a rigid rectangular flat plate that supports one type of lighting equipment 12, and is put in and out of the exterior box 11 in a substantially horizontal state. The lighting fixture 1 is placed on the upper surface of the drawer plate 10.
A fixture mounting part 13 having a fixture supporting function for detachably supporting the fixture 2 and an electrical connection function between the lighting fixture 12 and an external commercial AC power supply 14 is installed. As the instrument mounting part 13, a single article having only an instrument supporting function and a single article having only an electrical connecting function, or a single article having both an instrument supporting function such as a hook-type sealing and an electric connecting function, which is commercially available, is applied. ,
FIG. 2 shows one of the former plural products. The fixture 13 in FIG. 2 is a connector fixed to a rear portion of the upper surface of the drawer plate 10. A power plug (not shown) of the lighting fixture 12 is detachably connected to the connector, and the lighting fixture 12 is connected to an external commercial device. Connected to AC power supply 14. The dimensional shape of the plurality of drawer plates 10 that are horizontally placed in and out of the outer box 11 and the intervals between the upper and lower plates are set in accordance with the type of the lighting fixture 12 mounted on each drawer plate 10. In the embodiment shown in FIG. 1, the size and shape of each drawer plate 10 are the same, and the upper and lower plate intervals are set to be the same. The exterior box 11 is a vertically long rectangular box having a front opening, and is moved on the floor 2 by casters 15 fixed to four corners on the lower surface. Side walls 1 of exterior box 11
A horizontal guide rail 18 and a guide roller 19 are fixed to the inner surface of the upper and lower parts 6 in multiple stages. Both ends of one drawer plate 10 are slidably held back and forth by a pair of guide rails 18 having the same height on both side wall plates 16. The drawer plate 10 is attached to the outer box 11
Manually inserted to the innermost position approaching the back plate 17 of
At this time, only the handle 21 protruding from the front end of the drawer plate 10 protrudes from the front surface of the opening of the exterior box 11.
Drawer plate 10 stored in outer box 11
Is pulled out of the outer box 11 by pulling the handle 21 toward the user, and is pushed out of the outer box 1 by pushing the handle 21.
Pushed back into 1. The guide roller 19 is driven to rotate by the operation of moving the drawer plate 10 in and out, thereby improving the manual operability of moving the drawer plate 10 in and out. Wiring components 22 are fixed to the back plate 17 of the outer box 11 in upper and lower tiers, and the respective wiring components 22 and the equipment mounting components 13 of the respective drawer plates 10 are connected by extendable cords 23. Connected to commercial AC power supply 14. When the drawer plate 10 is pulled out from the outer box 11 to the outermost position, for example, a stopper 24 protruding from the lower surface of the drawer plate 10 abuts on the guide roller 19 so that the drawer plate 10 does not come off the outer box 11. It is. In addition, one type of lighting equipment 12 is installed on one drawer plate 10 drawn from the exterior box 11,
It is electrically connected to the device mounting part 13. In this state, the drawer plate 10 is pushed into the exterior box 11 together with the lighting fixture 12 and stored. Exterior box 1
The lighting fixtures 12 housed in the lighting fixtures 1 may be turned on as needed, but lighting the lighting fixtures 12 when the drawer plate 10 with the lighting fixtures is pulled out from the exterior box 11 reduces power consumption waste. It is desirable in doing. Then, the next lighting switch 25 is connected to the exterior box 11 and each drawer plate 10 so that the lighting fixture 12 is turned on when the drawer plate 10 is pulled out.
Installed between For example, the side wall plate 16 of the outer box 11
A lighting switch 25 is installed at a fixed place near the guide rail 18 on the inner surface of the lighting device, and the lighting switch 25 is turned on by the stopper 24 when the drawer plate 10 is pulled out, so that the lighting device 12 is turned on by this switch-on. To Further, when the drawn-out plate 10 is pushed back into the exterior box 11, the lighting switch 25 is turned off by the stopper 24 and the lighting fixture 12 is turned off. The storage and display fixtures of the above embodiments are used for storing and displaying a plurality of lighting fixtures as follows. By storing the plurality of drawer plates 10 together with the lighting fixtures 12 mounted on the exterior box 11, the plurality of lighting fixtures 12 are stored and stored in the exterior box 11. By maintaining this storage state, the lighting fixture 12 is protected from dust and the like, does not become dirty, and the trouble of cleaning can be saved. In addition, the storage lighting fixture 12 can be displayed by looking through the storage lighting fixture 12 from the front opening of the exterior box 11. When the side wall plates 16 of the exterior box 11 are made of a transparent resin plate, or a light-transmitting portion such as a window hole is formed in the side wall plate 16 so that the inside can be seen from the outside of the exterior box 11, it is stored. It is also possible to simultaneously display the plurality of lighting fixtures 12 on the entire surface. The vertical spacing of the drawer plates 10 stored in one exterior box 11 in the upper and lower tiers is set to about the height of the lighting fixtures 12, and the same kind of lighting fixtures 12 are mounted on each drawer plate 10. By doing, a plurality of lighting fixtures 12
Are stored in multiple stages up and down with little waste of space, and are exhibited in a small number and many types of display format to lighting equipment users. The user goes to the exterior box 11 in which the lighting fixtures of his choice are stored together and pulls out the drawer plate 10 on which the lighting fixtures considered to be close to his preference are mounted. Only the lights will be on and effectively displayed to the user. At this time, the lighting fixtures 12 of many other drawer plates 10 stored in the exterior box 11 are turned off,
Waste of power consumption as a whole is reduced. In addition, the user can select the type of lighting fixture to be purchased from a large number of exhibits. Next, another embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. The same or corresponding parts in the respective embodiments of FIGS. 3 to 5 as those of the embodiments of FIGS. 1 and 2 are denoted by the same reference numerals to avoid duplication of description. The lighting fixture 12 shown in the second embodiment of FIG. 3 is a ceiling-mounted lighting fixture such as a chandelier, and a fixture 13 for hooking ceiling is fixed to the lower surface of the drawer plate 10.
The lighting fixture 12 is attached to the lower surface of the drawer plate 10. Also in this case, it is possible to display a small number and a large number of the lighting fixtures 12 with less space waste, and to reduce the waste of power consumption by lighting only the lighting fixtures 12 of the drawn-out drawer plate 10.
This is the same in a third embodiment and a fourth embodiment described later. Although not shown, a plurality of fixtures such as hooking ceilings are fixed to both upper and lower surfaces of the same drawer plate, and different types of lighting fixtures are mounted to both upper and lower surfaces of the drawer plate. Alternatively, the lighting fixture may be attached to either the upper surface or the lower surface of the drawer plate. Third in FIG.
The drawer plate 10 has a box shape with an upper opening, and the lighting device 12 mounted on the drawer plate 10 is a lighting device for a straight tube fluorescent lamp. The outer box 11 for storing a plurality of the above in a vertically multi-tiered manner is a frame-shaped box. A translucent portion 27 which is long in the horizontal direction is formed in upper and lower stages on both side wall plates 16 of the frame-shaped outer box 11, and the drawer plate 10 stored in the outer box 11 from each of the translucent portions 27.
Lighting equipment 12 can be seen. Translucent part 27
May be formed of a window hole partially formed in the side wall 16 or a transparent resin plate closing the window hole. The lighting fixture storage and display fixture shown in the fourth embodiment of FIG. 5 is configured such that a rectangular box-shaped drawer plate 10 is placed in a vertical position, and is put in and out of a corresponding exterior box 11 in a horizontal direction. In this embodiment, the lighting fixtures 12 are attached to the vertical inner surface of the drawer plate 10 in the vertical posture, and in FIG. 5, two types of lighting fixtures 12 are attached to the vertical inner surface of one drawer plate 10 in upper and lower stages. It is. In each of the above embodiments, a plurality of drawer plates are assembled in parallel to one exterior box at the same interval. However, the distance between the adjacent drawer plates may be different depending on the size of the lighting fixture supporting the drawer plates. Further, a part of the drawer plates may be assembled to one exterior box in a horizontal posture, and the other part of the drawer plates may be assembled to a vertical posture. Further, the drawer plate may be formed by integrating a transparent or opaque front plate on the front surface thereof, or may be formed in a box shape, and the meaning of the drawer plate includes such a plate.

According to the present invention, a lighting fixture is electrically and mechanically connected to each of a plurality of drawer plates which can be put in and taken out of one outer box, and the lighting fixture is put in and out of the outer box together with the drawer plate. Therefore, a plurality of lighting fixtures can be stored in the exterior box with less space waste, and can be exhibited with less space waste by extracting from the exterior box. In addition, by pulling out only the lighting fixtures desired by the lighting fixture user from the outer box and displaying them, and keeping other lighting fixtures in the outer box,
Dirt and the like of the lighting equipment due to dust and the like are greatly reduced, so that a reduction in the commercial value of the lighting equipment can be prevented for a long time, and maintenance work such as cleaning can be omitted. Also, by lighting the lighting fixtures only when the lighting fixtures are pulled out from the exterior box together with the drawer plate and displayed, the display effect of the exhibition lighting fixtures is increased, and the lighting fixtures in the exterior box are turned off. By doing so, it is possible to greatly reduce the power consumption of the entire display fixture. Further, by providing the exterior box with a light-transmitting portion that allows the inside to be seen from the outside, the display effect of the lighting fixtures housed in the exterior box is increased.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a storage and display fixture for lighting fixtures showing a first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a side view including a partial cross section of the storage and display fixture of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a side view including a partial cross section of a storage fixture for a lighting fixture according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a perspective view of a storage fixture for lighting fixtures showing a third embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a perspective view of a storage and display fixture for lighting fixtures showing a fourth embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a side view of a conventional display fixture for lighting equipment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Drawer plate 11 Outer box 12 Lighting equipment 13 Fixture mounting part 25 Lighting switch 27 Translucent part

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A drawer plate provided with one or a plurality of fixture parts having a function of supporting a lighting fixture and a function of being electrically connected to light the lighting fixture. A lighting fixture storage and display fixture comprising: an outer box that is housed together with a lighting fixture mounted on each drawer plate, and wherein each drawer plate is drawn out together with the lighting fixture. 2. The display fixture according to claim 1, wherein all of the plurality of drawer plates are arranged in parallel in the outer box. 3. A lighting switch is provided between the drawer plate and the exterior box so that when the drawer plate is pulled out of the exterior box, the lighting fixture of the extracted drawer plate is turned on. 3. A display fixture for lighting equipment according to 1 or 2. 4. The lighting device according to claim 1, wherein a light-transmitting portion is provided on an outer surface of the outer box so that the lighting device of the drawer plate housed in the outer box can be viewed from the outside. Storage display fixtures.