JP2002300942A - Rotary shelf device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To relieve replacing or rearranging work of articles by replacing the articles in the shelf front by the rotation of a shelf. SOLUTION: A rotary shelf device is provided with a fixed shelf 2 and a movable shelf 3 arranged on the upper surface of the fixed shelf 2. The movable shelf 3 is constituted of a supporting plate 4 supported so as to be pulled out to the front of the fixed shelf 2 and a rotary plate 5 supported rotatably in a vertical rotation axis direction on the supporting plate 4 opposing two sides of which constitute products take-in/take-out parts 14. By a rotary plate fixing means 17, the rotary plate 5 is rotatably fixed temporarily when the products take-in/take-out part 14 of the rotated rotary plate 5 is positioned in the front.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a rotating shelf device usable in various storage spaces, for example, furniture and fixtures in general households, and merchandise shelves, showrooms and exhibitions used in stores such as mass retailers and supermarkets. The present invention relates to a rotating shelf device that can be used for storage and display equipment used.

[0002]

In recent years, in the commercial environment, the style and operation of stores have been diversified, and one of them is to increase the business hours of stores and operate them without interruption during the day and night. In such stores with long business hours, the number of customers who visit the store in the morning, noon, evening, and night of the day is changing. There are many stores that divide the day into time zones and change the displayed products for each time zone.

[0003] By the way, in stores where the above-mentioned business forms are carried out, employees manually exchange products, but women and the elderly are increasingly employed as employees. In, the work of frequently rearranging the products tends to excessively burden the employees. Furthermore, in the industry where such products are displayed and face-to-face sales are performed, the efficiency of various operations is aimed at, but it is problematic that the time, labor and cost required for sorting products are enormous. . Specifically, to replace products by time of day and by customer segment, remove the displayed products from the display shelf and move them to another location,
Another product is arranged on the display shelf in the open space of the display shelf. In addition, when refilling the displayed products, the product at the back of the shelf is pulled out to the front, and the replenished products are arranged in the empty back space. In addition, products cannot be sorted efficiently.

[0004] Further, the point that the operation of pulling out the articles placed on the back of the shelf toward the front is complicated is not limited to the stores in the various commercial industries described above. That is, it is also experienced in ordinary households. For example, when books are arranged in front and back on a bookshelf, it is difficult to take out the books arranged in the back. When books, clothes, tableware, and the like are stored in various kinds of furniture as described above, it is difficult to take out the articles placed in the back, and it is necessary to secure the storage furniture and fixtures according to seasonal items and uses. In view of the above circumstances, it is an object of the present invention to make it possible to change the articles on the take-out side by rotating the shelf, and to reduce the task of changing and rearranging the articles. is there.

[0005]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in consideration of the above problems, and has a fixed shelf and a movable shelf arranged on the upper surface side of the fixed shelf. And a support plate which is supported so as to be able to be pulled out in front of the fixed shelf via a slide means, and which is rotatably supported on the support plate via a rotation means on the support plate, and which has two opposite sides as product loading / unloading portions. In consideration of a rotating shelf device, comprising a rotating plate fixing means for temporarily fixing the rotating plate to be rotatable when the product loading / unloading portion of the rotating rotating plate is located on the front side. This is to solve the problem. In the present invention, a plate having a product information display plate mounting portion on the front and back is provided rotatably on the front portion of the support plate, and the plate is rotated when the rotating plate mounting portion is located at the front. It is preferable to have a plate fixing means for temporarily fixing rotatably. Further, it is preferable to have a support plate fixing means for temporarily fixing the support plate so as to be movable toward the front of the fixed shelf when the support plate is located at a standby position on the fixed shelf.

[0006]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Next, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the embodiments shown in FIGS. 1 in FIG.
The rotary shelf device 1 is composed of a fixed shelf 2 and a movable shelf 3 as shown in FIG. The shelf 2 is attached to a wall, a shelf frame, or the like, and has a front edge (front side in the drawing) facing the customer, and a rear edge corresponding to the wall, the shelf frame, or the like. In this embodiment, the method of attaching the fixed shelf 2 to the wall or the shelf frame is not particularly limited, and a known attachment method can be adopted.

As shown in FIG. 3, the movable shelf 3 is a fixed shelf 2
And two movable shelves 3 are arranged along the frontage direction of the fixed shelf 2. In the following description, one movable shelf 3 will be described, but the two movable shelves 3 have the same structure. FIG. 4 is an exploded view of the rotating shelf device 1 of the present invention. The movable shelf 3 has a structure in which a support plate 4 and a rotary plate 5 are vertically stacked, and the rotary plate 5 is disposed on the support plate 4. Sliders 8 located on both sides of the support plate 4 are slidably inserted into slide rails 7 located on the inner side surfaces of the two mounting brackets 6 parallel to the upper surface of the fixed shelf 2. Slide means 9 from the slider 7 and the slider 8
The support plate 4 is supported so as to be able to be pulled out of the fixed shelf 2 via the sliding means 9 in front of the fixed shelf 2, and the entire support plate 4 is located in front of the upper surface of the fixed shelf 2. The maximum draw-out length is set by a stopper (not shown) when the support plate 4 is moved, and the support plate 4 is provided so as not to fall forward.

A catcher 10 is located at the rear end of the support plate 4 as shown in the figure, and the support plate 4 is in a standby position set as the innermost portion of the fixed shelf 2. At one time, a projection 11 is provided at a position corresponding to the catcher 10 so as to be detachably engaged with the catcher 10, and the support plate 4 is moved forward by the catcher 10 and the projection 11 at the standby position. A support plate fixing means 12 is provided for temporarily fixing in a state where it can be moved by a drawer. As described above, between the support plate 4 and the fixed shelf 2, the support plate 4 can be pulled forward by the slide means 9, and the support plate 4 is set at the back of the fixed shelf 2 by the support plate fixing means 12. Since the support plate 4 can be temporarily fixed at the standby position, the entire movable shelf 3 can be pulled out toward the front of the fixed shelf 2, and the movable shelf 3 is allowed to stand still at the standby position at the back position. So that you can keep it.

As shown in the figure, on the upper surface of the support plate 4, there is provided a rotating means 13 composed of an annular bearing and having a rotating shaft extending in the vertical direction. Are fixed by screws or the like. As a result, the rotating plate 5 can be rotated in the plane direction, and the rotating operation of the rotating plate 5 allows the rotating plate 5 to rotate with the article placed on the movable shelf 3 as described later. The rotating operation of the rotary plate 5 is performed when the support plate 4 is pulled out from the upper surface of the fixed shelf 2 toward the user.

[0010] As shown in the figure, the rotating plate 5 has a pair of opposed sides elongated so as to have a planar shape (a shape viewed from above).
Is in a shallow tray shape having a substantially rectangular shape. The two long sides facing each other are used as the product loading / unloading portions 14, and the side stays 15 are attached along each of the other two short sides. Have been. The side stays 15 prevent the articles placed on the movable shelf 3 at the standby position from shifting toward the frontage of the rotary shelf device 1 and moving to the adjacent movable shelf 3 side. Also,
Although the side stays 15 are not provided on each of the long sides which are the product loading / unloading portions 14, a transparent plate or the like for stopping products may be attached as necessary.

The upper surface of the rotary plate 5 is divided into one product loading / unloading portion 14 and another product loading / unloading portion 14 by a partition plate 16 extending between the side stays 15. As described above, the upper surface of the rotary plate 5 is
And the movable plate 5 is rotatably supported by the rotating means 13, so that the rotating plate 5
If the articles placed on one mounting surface 5a and the articles placed on the other mounting surface 5b, which are separated by the partition plate 16 on the upper surface of the table, are classified, the rotating plate 5 is rotated to rotate the rotating shelf. The replacement of the product located on the front side of the apparatus 1 can be easily performed. For example, in a convenience store or the like, in the case of adopting a business mode in which a product for a visitor in the morning and a product for a visitor in the afternoon are exchanged and displayed, one morning placing surface 5a of the movable shelf 3 is used. The product is placed, and the afternoon product is placed on the other placing surface 5b. The movable shelf 3 is pulled out when necessary, and the rotating plate 5 is rotated half a turn (180 °). 3 is returned to the upper surface side of the fixed shelf 2 and the support plate 4 is fixed to the support plate fixing means 12.
, It is possible to easily arrange a product different from the product before the movable shelf 3 is pulled out on the front side of the rotating shelf device 1. Further, even in the case of taking out a product located on the back side of the movable shelf 3, if the rotating plate 5 is half-turned on the support plate 4 after the movable shelf 3 is pulled out, a desired product can be obtained. The product is located at the front, and the product located at the back can be easily taken out.
The partition plate 16 is not fixed to the center of the rotary plate 5, but is fixed to both side stays 15 and the rotary plate 5.
And is detachably attached to the attachment hole 16a provided in the base. The side stays 15 and the mounting holes 16a of the rotary plate 5 are provided in plural numbers along the short side so that the partition plate 16 can be repositioned in the direction along the short side.

In the rotating shelf device 1, the rotating plate 5 of the movable shelf 3
When the long side in is parallel to the frontage direction, that is, when the product loading / unloading portion 14 located on the front side is parallel to the frontage direction, unnecessary rotation of the rotary plate 5 does not occur. The rotation of the rotating plate 5 is suppressed by the rotating plate fixing means 17.
The rotating plate fixing means 17 is provided at a position corresponding to the projecting body 18 attached to the inside of the rotating means 13 of the supporting plate 4 when the product loading / unloading portion 14 of the rotating plate 5 is located at the front. It is provided with two locking holes 19 provided, and the two locking holes 19 are arranged at symmetric positions with the rotation center therebetween. With the structure of the rotating plate fixing means 17, when the rotating plate 5 rotates and one product loading / unloading portion 14 is located at the front, the projection 18 is removably locked in one locking hole 19, and is rotated. The plate 5 is temporarily fixed in a rotatable state. If the rotating shelf 5 is rotated while the movable shelf 3 is pulled out to the front of the fixed shelf 2, the engagement between the locking hole 19 and the projection 18 is broken, and the rotating plate 5 is moved. The projection 18 is locked in the other locking hole 19 at the time of half rotation from the above state, and the other product loading / unloading portion 14 that has been rotated and moved toward the front can be freely rotated. The rotation of the rotary plate 5 is stopped in a state parallel to the frontage direction, and the movable shelf 3 is returned to the standby position as it is, without contacting the adjacent movable shelf 3 side, and the rotary plate 5 It can be easily returned to the standby position in a stable state without causing unnecessary rotation. here,
Although the rotation plate fixing means 17 has one projection 18, two projections may be arranged corresponding to the two locking holes 19.

In the rotary shelf device 1, as described above, the product located on the near side is replaced by the rotation of the rotary plate 5 in the movable shelf 3, and information (product name, price, etc.) of the replaced product is stored. As shown in FIG. 5, a plate 22 having front and back mounting portions 21 to which the product information display plate 20 can be removably mounted is arranged at the front of the support plate 4 so as to be easily switched and displayed. The plate 22 is rotatably provided with the rotation axis direction being the front longitudinal direction of the support plate 4 (the direction of the frontage of the rotary shelf device), and is attached to the front and back mounting portions 21 by rotating the plate 22. The product information display panel 20 can be turned to the front. Then, plate fixing means 23 for temporarily fixing the plate 22 to be rotatable when the mounting portion 21 is positioned at the front by rotating the plate 22 is projected from both end surfaces or one end surface of the plate 22 to rotate. A pair of protrusions 24 opposed to each other with the center therebetween, and the inner surface of a plate mounting portion corresponding to the end face of the plate 22 where the protrusions 24 are located are recessed so that the protrusions 24 are detachably engaged. The product information display board 20 is selected and turned toward the front so that the plate 22 is prevented from being rotated carelessly.
In addition, the convex portion 24 and the concave portion 25 that regulate the rotation of the plate 22 are provided.
May be the same as the configuration of the projection 18 and the locking hole 19 in the rotating plate fixing means 17.

The above embodiment shows an example in which the rotating shelf device of the present invention is incorporated in the display shelf A, but the present invention is not limited to this embodiment, and is used in ordinary households. It can be used for book shelves, shelves for various storage furniture, shelves in refrigerators, etc., and also for shelves for furniture such as various cabinets used on general office floors. Can also be configured. Furthermore, it can be configured as a product display shelf at an exhibition or the like. Further, the sliding means 9
And the rotating means 13 are preferably such that no resistance is generated when the worker performs a manual operation. Further, the rotating means 13 has a low resistance to the manual operation of the worker and has an A mechanism exhibiting a large resistance to an external force comparable to the applied acceleration may be incorporated.

[0015]

As described above, according to the rotary shelf apparatus of the present invention, a fixed shelf and a movable shelf disposed on the upper surface side of the fixed shelf are provided, and the movable shelf is provided with sliding means on the fixed shelf. From a support plate that is supported so as to be able to be pulled out in front of the fixed shelf through the support plate, and a rotation plate that is rotatably supported on the support plate via a rotation unit on the support plate and has two opposite sides as a product loading / unloading part It is characterized by having rotating plate fixing means for temporarily fixing the rotating plate rotatably when the product loading / unloading portion of the rotating rotating plate is located in the front, and moving the movable shelf from the fixed shelf toward the front. By pulling out and then turning the movable shelf a half turn, the direction of the movable shelf itself becomes 18
By changing the position by 0 degrees, it is possible to easily change the position of the articles on the back side of the movable shelf to the front side. As a result, when rearranging products, which has been performed in a conventional convenience store or the like, the products according to the next rearrangement may be arranged in advance in a part on the back side, and the products can be rearranged without trouble. Rearrangement can be performed, and there is no need to secure a storage space for storage at a position different from the product shelf. Further, when taking out an article from the movable shelf, the movable shelf is pulled out to the front and then rotated, so that the articles arranged on the back side can be easily taken out from the near side, and the article on the back side can be taken out. Even when arranging items on the front side, they can be moved to the back side by rotating the movable shelf once, making it easy to take out items and making effective use of the depth space of the shelf. It has the effect that it has.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram showing a mode in which a rotating shelf device according to the present invention is incorporated as a display shelf.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing a state where a movable shelf is pulled out to the front;

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing an embodiment of the rotating shelf device according to the present invention.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory view showing the embodiment in an exploded state.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory view showing a plate.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Rotary shelf apparatus 2 ... Fixed shelf 3 ... Movable shelf 4 ... Support plate 5 ... Rotating plate 9 ... Sliding means 10 ... Catcher 11 ... Projection body 12 ... Support plate fixing means 13 ... Rotating means 14 ... Product taking-out part 17 ... Rotation Plate fixing means 18 Projection 19 Locking hole 22 Plate 23 Plate fixing means

Continuation of the front page (72) Inventor Tsutomu Takemura 1-5-1, Taito, Taito-ku, Tokyo Toppan Printing Co., Ltd. F-term (reference) 3B118 AA11 BB01 DA02 FA11

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A fixed shelf and a movable shelf disposed on an upper surface side of the fixed shelf, wherein the movable shelf is supported by the fixed shelf so as to be able to be pulled out in front of the fixed shelf via a slide means. A plate and a rotating plate rotatably supported on the supporting plate via a rotating means on the supporting plate, and having two opposite sides as product loading / unloading portions, wherein the product loading / unloading portion of the rotating rotary plate is positioned in front. A rotating plate fixing means for temporarily fixing the rotating plate to be rotatable when the rotation is performed. 2. A plate having a mounting portion for a product information display plate on the front and back is rotatably provided at a front portion of the support plate, and the plate is rotated when the rotating mounting portion of the plate is located at the front. 2. The rotating shelf device according to claim 1, further comprising a plate fixing means for temporarily fixing as possible. 3. The rotating device according to claim 1, further comprising a support plate fixing means for temporarily fixing the support plate so as to be movable to a position in front of the fixed shelf when the support plate is located at a standby position on the fixed shelf. Shelf equipment.