JP2008000327A - Storage apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To change vertical position of a bottom wall member without taking out articles therein by a simple constitution. <P>SOLUTION: This storage apparatus for storing articles on its inside includes: a first storage case 3 having the bottom wall member 6 for mounting the articles, side wall members 5a-5d raised from the bottom wall member 6 and an opened upper part; and a second storage case 4 having raised side wall members 10a-10d and opened upper and lower parts, and being detachable/attachable relative to the upper part and the lower part of the first storage case 3. This storage apparatus is used by stacking the first storage case 3 and the second storage case 4 on each other. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a storage tool that stores articles such as merchandise, and more particularly to a storage tool that stacks and stores articles inside.

Stores such as convenience stores generally have showcases for displaying small items such as ice cream. The showcase is open at the top, and a plurality of storage devices formed in a box shape, for example, are installed inside (see Patent Document 1). Within each storage tool, products are stacked and stored for each type. The upper part of the storage tool is open, and the purchaser can take out the product in the storage tool by putting his hand from above.
JP-A-5-220032

  For example, the sales quantity of seasonal products such as ice varies greatly depending on the climate. When a large number of products are not expected due to reasons such as the season, the product may not be replenished in order to avoid inventory as much as possible, and only a few products may be placed in the showcase. In such a case, the product is located in the lower part of the storage tool, and the product is difficult to see and difficult to take from above, which may affect the sales of the product.

  Therefore, in order to solve such a problem, a storage device is conceivable in which a bottom wall member (bottom plate) on which a product is placed is detachable and the bottom wall member can be moved to a plurality of vertical positions. Specifically, for example, such a storage tool is formed by forming the storage tool into a rectangular parallelepiped cage having an open top and allowing the bottom wall member to be locked to the peripheral wall member (side wall) at a plurality of vertical positions. Can be realized with a simple configuration.

However, in the storage device having such a configuration, it is difficult to move the bottom wall member unless all the products are taken out of the storage device, and the vertical position of the bottom wall member is changed while the product remains in the storage device. However, there is a problem that it takes time and effort to take out all the products from the storage device and store the taken-out products again after the bottom wall member is moved.
The present invention has been made to solve such problems. The object of the present invention is to store articles such as products in a stacked manner and store them in a simple configuration without taking out the articles. It is providing the storage tool which can change the up-and-down position of a bottom wall member.

  In order to achieve the above object, the invention of claim 1 is a storage device for storing an article therein, wherein the bottom wall member is capable of placing the article, and the first peripheral wall is erected from the bottom wall member. A first storage container having an opening at the top, and a second peripheral wall member standing upright. The top and the bottom are open, and the first storage container is attachable to and detachable from the top and the bottom of the first storage container. Two storage containers, wherein the first storage container and the second storage container are used in an overlapping manner.

The invention of claim 2 is characterized in that, in the invention of claim 1, the first peripheral wall member, the bottom wall member, and the second peripheral wall member are formed in a fence shape or a mesh shape by a wire. And
According to a third aspect of the invention, in the first aspect of the invention, the first peripheral wall member, the bottom wall member, and the second peripheral wall member are formed of a plate material.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in any one of the first to third aspects, the height of the first storage container is different from the height of the second storage container.
According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, in the fourth aspect of the invention, the ratio of the height of the first storage container to the height of the second storage container is approximately 2: 1 or approximately 1: 2. It is characterized by.
The invention of claim 6 is the invention according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the upper and lower parts of the first storage container can be sandwiched between at least the upper part of the second peripheral wall member. A pair of fixing members for fixing one storage container and the second storage container are provided.

According to the storage device of the first aspect of the present invention, storage devices having different bottom wall member vertical positions can be obtained by selectively overlapping the second storage container on the upper or lower portion of the first storage container. . Therefore, it is possible to obtain a storage tool that can change the vertical position of the bottom wall member with a simple configuration without taking out the articles stored in the first storage container.
According to the storage device of claim 2, in the storage device in which the first peripheral wall member, the bottom wall member, and the second peripheral wall member are formed in a fence shape or a mesh shape with a wire, the vertical position of the bottom wall member Can be obtained.

According to the storage device of claim 3, in the storage device in which the first peripheral wall member, the bottom wall member and the second peripheral wall member are formed of a plate material, the storage device capable of changing the vertical position of the bottom wall member. Obtainable.
According to the storage device of claim 4, when the second storage container is overlaid on the lower part of the first storage container, the entire storage device is reversed, so that the bottom of the storage device when it is not reversed is provided. Storage devices having different wall member vertical positions can be obtained.

According to the storage device of claim 5, the second storage container is superimposed on the upper part of the first storage container, and the second storage container is stacked on the lower part of the first storage container. When the second storage container is overlapped with the lower part of the first storage container and the entire storage tool is inverted, the vertical position of the bottom wall member can be set in three ways.
According to the storage device of the sixth aspect, the first storage container and the second storage container are fixed with a simple configuration by sandwiching the first storage container by the pair of fixing members. A storage tool in which the first storage container and the second storage container are overlapped and integrated can be obtained.

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.
FIG. 1 is an overall view of a showcase 2 in which a storage tool 1 according to the present invention is installed.
As shown in FIG. 1, a showcase 2 that is installed in a store such as a convenience store or a superstore and displays items such as ice is open at the top, and the items displayed in the showcase 2 are purchased by the purchaser. Has a structure in which a hand can be taken out from above.

In the showcase 2, a plurality of storage tools 1 for storing products are installed. The storage tool 1 is configured by overlapping a first storage container 3 and a second storage container 4.
As shown in FIG. 2, the first storage container 3 has a rectangular parallelepiped shape, and has side walls 5 a, 5 b, 5 c, 5 d (corresponding to the first peripheral wall member of the present invention) and the bottom on the front, rear, left and right sides. The wall member 6 is provided and the upper part is opened. The side wall members 5a, 5b, 5c, and 5d are formed in a fence shape with a wire. The bottom wall member 6 is located in the lower part of the first storage container 3 and is formed in a mesh shape with a wire. The first storage container 3 has a function of storing a plurality of products by stacking products on the upper surface of the bottom wall member 6. The height of the first storage container 3 is set to approximately 2/3 of the interior height of the showcase 2. What is necessary is just to set suitably the width | variety (long side) and depth (short side) of the 1st storage container 3 according to the internal dimension of the showcase 2, etc. In addition, seat members 7 a and 7 b formed of wire rods are fixed to the bottom surface of the bottom wall member 6 in the vicinity of both ends in the width direction. The seat member 7 extends linearly in the depth direction of the first storage container 3, and both ends thereof extend to the vicinity of the side wall members 5a and 5b.

  As shown in FIG. 3, the second storage container 4 has a rectangular parallelepiped shape, and includes side wall members 10a, 10b, 10c, and 10d (corresponding to the second peripheral wall member of the present invention) on the front, rear, left and right sides. The upper and lower parts are open. The side wall members 10a, 10b, 10c, and 10d are formed in a fence shape with a wire. The width (long side) of the second storage container 4 is substantially the same as the width of the first storage container 3. The height of the second storage container 4 is set to approximately ½ of that of the first storage container 3. The side wall members 10a and 10b on both sides in the depth direction are provided with fixing members 11a and 11b for fixing the first storage container 3 and the second storage container 4, respectively. The fixing members 11a and 11b are formed such that a part of the wire forming the side wall members 10a and 10b extends upward and protrudes from the upper ends of the side wall members 10a and 10b. The depth (short side) of the second storage container 4 is such that the upper end and the lower end of the first storage container 3 are inserted and sandwiched between the pair of fixing members 11a and 11b. It is set slightly larger than the depth of the container 3.

By stacking the first storage container 3 and the second storage container 4 configured as described above vertically, the storage tool 1 having an overall height H substantially equal to the interior height of the showcase 2 is configured. Is done.
Next, a method for overlaying the first storage container 3 and the second storage container 4 will be described with reference to FIGS.

As shown in FIG. 4, the second storage container 4 is inverted and overlapped on the upper part of the first storage container 3, and the upper end of the first storage container 3 is placed between the pair of fixing members 11a and 11b. By inserting and clamping, the first storage container 3 and the second storage container 4 are fixed. Thereby, as shown in FIG. 5, the storage tool 1a in which the bottom wall member 6 is located at the lower end is obtained.
On the other hand, as shown in FIG. 6, the first storage container 3 is overlaid on the second storage container 4, and the lower end of the first storage container 3 is inserted between the pair of fixing members 11a and 11b. Thus, the first storage container 3 and the second storage container 4 are fixed. Thereby, as shown in FIG. 7, the storage tool 1b in which the bottom wall member 6 is located approximately 1/3 above the overall height H from the lower end is obtained. At this time, each of the seat members 7a and 7b enters the vicinity of the inner side of each of the side wall members 10c and 10d of the second storage container 4. Accordingly, the seat members 7a and 7b abut on the side wall members 10c and 10d of the second storage container 4, respectively, so that the first storage container 3 and the second storage container 4 in the width direction (longitudinal direction). A relative movement is also restrained and the 1st storage container 3 and the 2nd storage container 4 can be fixed reliably.

  Thus, by changing the method of overlapping the first storage container 3 and the second storage container 4, the storage tools 1 a and 1 b having different bottom positions of the bottom wall member 6 can be easily obtained. . Therefore, by changing the overlapping method according to the number of stored products, it is possible to change the vertical position of the bottom wall member 6 and position the product as high as possible. Thereby, it becomes easy to see and catch the product, and sales of the product can be promoted.

Further, since the vertical position of the bottom wall member 6 is moved by moving the second storage container 4 relative to the first storage container 3, the bottom without removing the product from the first storage container 3. The vertical position of the wall member 6 can be changed, and the trouble at the time of the change can be suppressed.
Further, as shown in FIG. 8, the first storage container 3 is inverted, the second storage container 4 is overlaid thereon, and the first storage container 3 is placed between the pair of fixing members 11 a and 11 b. You may obtain the storage tool 1c by inserting an upper end part (it becomes a lower end part before inversion). This corresponds to the state in which the entire storage tool 1b shown in FIG. 7 is inverted. In this case, the bottom wall member 6 is positioned approximately 2/3 above the entire height H from the lower end. Thereby, when the sale number of goods is not expected to be large due to reasons such as the season, the goods can be positioned further upward.

  In addition, as shown in FIG. 9, you may provide the fixing members 12a and 12b formed by bend | folding a wire rod elliptically on the outer side of the left and right side wall members 10c and 10d of the 2nd storage container 4, respectively. Accordingly, by inserting the upper end portion or the lower end portion of the first storage container 3 between the pair of fixing members 12a and 12b, the width direction (length) of the first storage container 3 and the second storage container 4 is increased. Therefore, the first storage container 3 and the second storage container 4 can be reliably fixed.

  Moreover, as shown in FIG. 10, you may arrange | position the fixing members 11c and 11d formed by bending a wire rod in the ellipse shape outside the surrounding wall members 10a and 10b. In this way, the lower end portion of the other second storage container 4 can be inserted between the pair of fixing members 11c and 11d. Therefore, by preparing a plurality of second storage containers 4, FIG. As shown in FIG. 2, not only the first storage container 3 and the second storage container 4 are fixed, but also the second storage containers 4 can be fixed to each other, and the overall height is further increased. The storage tool 1d can be obtained.

As shown in FIG. 12, the fixing members 11c and 11d may be disposed outside the side wall members 10a and 10b, and the fixing members 12a and 12b may be provided outside the left and right peripheral wall members 10c and 10d. Thereby, while being able to fix the 1st storage container 3 and the 2nd storage container 4 reliably, the 2nd storage containers 4 can also be fixed reliably.
Alternatively, the ratio of the height of the first storage container 3 to the height of the second storage container 4 may be set to 1: 2.

  Thus, by setting the height ratio to 2: 1 or 1: 2 as in the above embodiment, the second storage container 4 is superimposed on the top of the first storage container 3, and When the second storage container 4 is superimposed on the lower part of the first storage container 3, and when the second storage container 4 is superimposed on the lower part of the first storage container 3 and the entire storage tool 1b is inverted. Thus, the vertical position of the bottom wall member 6 can be set in three ways for every 1/3 of the overall height H.

  In addition, as described above, the height of the first storage container 3 can be set to the height of the first storage container 3 without setting the ratio of the height of the first storage container 3 and the second storage container 4 to 1: 2 or 2: 1. You may set so that the height with the 2nd storage container 4 may differ. In this way, similarly to the above, when the second storage container 4 is overlaid on the lower part of the first storage container 3, the entire storage tool 1 is inverted, so that the bottom wall member is not reversed. The vertical position of 6 can be changed.

Moreover, in this embodiment, although the side wall members 5a-5d, 10a-10d, and the bottom wall member 6 are formed in the shape of a fence or mesh with a wire, it is not limited to this, A flat plate or punching metal You may form all or one part with the board | plate material etc. which have such an opening part.
Moreover, in this embodiment, although the fixing members 11a-11d, 12a, and 12b are used as a fixing member which fixes the 1st storage container 3 and the 2nd storage container 4, instead of these, for example, A fixing device such as a snap lock may be provided outside the side wall members 10a to 10d or the side wall members 5a to 5d.

Moreover, you may make the external shape of the 1st storage container 3 and the 2nd storage container 4 into shapes other than a rectangular parallelepiped like a cylinder.
Further, in the present embodiment, the present invention is applied to a storage device installed in the showcase 2, but the present invention is not limited to this, for example, a component storage device installed on a component shelf, The present invention can be applied to any storage device having a structure in which a small article is stored inside and an article is taken out from above.

It is a general view of the showcase which installed the storage tool which concerns on this invention. The structure of a 1st storage container is shown, A) is a top view, B) is a front view, C) is a side view. The structure of a 2nd storage container is shown, A) is a top view, B) is a front view, C) is a side view. It is a perspective view which shows the overlapping method of a 1st storage container and a 2nd storage container. It is a front view which shows the state which fixed the 1st storage container and the 2nd storage container by the superposition method of FIG. It is a perspective view which shows the other overlapping method of a 1st storage container and a 2nd storage container. It is a front view which shows the state which fixed the 1st storage container and the 2nd storage container by the other overlapping method of FIG. It is a front view which shows the state which fixed the 1st storage container and the 2nd storage container by the further another overlapping method. It is a side view which shows other embodiment of the 2nd storage container. It is a side view showing other embodiments of the 2nd storage container. It is a front view which shows the state which fixed two or more 2nd storage containers. It is a side view showing other embodiments of the 2nd storage container.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Storage tool 3 1st storage container 4 2nd storage container
5a-5d Side wall member 6 Bottom wall member 10a-10d Side wall member 11a-11d Fixing member 12a, 12b Fixing member

Claims (6)

A storage device for storing articles therein,
A first storage container comprising a bottom wall member on which an article can be placed and a first peripheral wall member erected from the bottom wall member;
A second peripheral wall member that is erected and includes a second storage container that is open at the top and bottom and is detachable from the top and bottom of the first storage container;
A storage tool, wherein the first storage container and the second storage container are used in an overlapping manner.   The storage device according to claim 1, wherein the first peripheral wall member, the bottom wall member, and the second peripheral wall member are formed in a fence shape or a mesh shape by a wire.   The storage device according to claim 1, wherein the first peripheral wall member, the bottom wall member, and the second peripheral wall member are formed of a plate material.   The storage device according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein a height of the first storage container is different from a height of the second storage container.   The storage tool according to claim 4, wherein a ratio of a height of the first storage container to a height of the second storage container is approximately 2: 1 or approximately 1: 2.   A pair of fixing members for fixing the first storage container and the second storage container that can sandwich the upper and lower parts of the first storage container are provided at least on the upper part of the second peripheral wall member. The storage device according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein

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