JP3208733B2 - Product display shelves and display units - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a product which is easy to assemble, improves the height accuracy of the rollers, enables fine adjustment of the spacing between the partition plates, and controls the speed at which the product moves. The present invention relates to a display shelf and a display unit.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, there are provided a base member on which a number of rotating rollers are erected, a side plate having a length substantially covering the entire length of the base member in the front-rear direction, and a width adjusting mechanism capable of adjusting an interval in the width direction of the base member. There is known an invention of a product display take-out unit characterized by being provided (Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. H10-50).
No. 80).

[0003]

In the conventional product display and take-out unit, it is difficult to maintain high accuracy of the upper peripheral surface of the rotating roller, and if the rotation of the rotating roller is smooth, the moving speed of the product is gradually increased. As a result, there was a risk that the product would strongly collide with the front stopper.

The pair of side plates can be adjusted by the width adjusting mechanism, but one unit is required for each row, and there is a problem that a large number of units are required for many rows.

[0005]

According to the present invention, the roller shaft supporting surface of the roller erection portion of the main body base is made flat, and the roller shaft is pressed by the roller cover to hold the position, so that the upper peripheral surface of the roller is provided. The accuracy of the present invention can be improved, and the roller cover is interposed between the rollers, so that the conventional problems such as the control of the moving speed of the product can be solved.

Further, since the main body base and the roller cover are integrated or integrally formed, there are advantages that the same product can be mass-produced with high precision, assembling is facilitated, and assembling efficiency can be improved.

That is, according to the present invention, a roller for supporting a product at right angles to a moving direction of the product is juxtaposed and rotatably mounted on the main body base, and the axis of the juxtaposed roller is
A roller cover having a through hole capable of exposing and projecting the upper peripheral surface of each of the rollers is supported by a flat surface having the same height ,
A product display shelf, wherein a front stopper is attached to a product take-out side portion of the main body base, and a side fence is attached to a side portion parallel to the moving direction of the product, and the main body base is parallel to the moving direction of the product. In addition, a partition plate is attached so as to adjust the interval.

In another aspect of the invention, a roller for supporting a product at right angles to a moving direction of the product is arranged on a main body base in parallel so as to be rotatable , and the axes of the parallel rollers are at the same height.
It is supported in a plane Rutotomoni, the closure member between the rollers
A roller cover having a through hole through which the upper peripheral surface of each of the rollers can be exposed and inserted is attached, a front stopper is attached to a product take-out side of the main body base, and a side surface is parallel to a moving direction of the product. A product display shelf in which a fence is mounted and a partitioning groove for mounting a partition plate parallel to a moving direction of the product is provided on the main body base, and rollers are laid in parallel in front and rear, right and left. The right and left adjacent rollers are shifted by 1/2 pitch. Next, the roller shaft supporting portion of the main body base is flat, the roller shaft abutment portion of the roller cover is a U-shaped groove or a U-shaped groove, and the main body base and the roller cover are integrally or integrally formed, respectively. The hanging grooves for attaching the partition plates are arranged in a straight line or in a stepwise manner.

Next, a main body base having a roller erection part for arranging rollers in parallel at right angles to the moving direction of the product, a main body base having a partition plate hooking part, a roller erected on the main body base, and supporting the roller in a fixed position. A product display unit characterized by combining a roller cover for closing each roller gap, a front stopper attached to the product take-out side of the main body base, and a partition plate. In addition, the roller erection part of the main body base has a roller shaft support plane for each roller, the partition plate retaining part has a retaining groove for mounting the partition plate, and the main body base is integrated or integrally molded. The roller cover is
The roller shaft holding groove, the exposed through-hole of the roller, and the closing member of the roller gap are integrated or integrally formed.

According to the present invention, since the main body base and the roller cover are formed integrally or integrally, the display shelf can be mass-produced with high efficiency, and the height accuracy of the upper peripheral surface of the product support of each roller can be improved. The product can be moved at an appropriate speed by keeping it high and controlling the increase in the product moving speed peculiar to the roller. Further, the main body base can be partitioned by a partition plate in accordance with the width of the product.

According to the above-mentioned invention, the adjacent roller is reduced to 1/2.
Because it was installed at a shifted pitch, the roller top surface protruding from the roller cover is aligned at 1/2 pitch,
The goods will be supported almost only on the roller top surface.
Therefore, there is an advantage that the product is hardly supported on the portion other than the top surface of the roller when the product is moved, so that the product does not move up and down and noise is not generated.

Further, since the position where the locking groove of the partition plate is provided has a relatively small area, the accuracy can be improved only by a method of reducing the interval. In the present invention, since the latch groove is formed in a stepped shape, even if the accuracy of adjusting the interval between the partition plates is increased, it is possible to prevent the partition plate from being misplaced or the member between the latch grooves from being damaged.

According to the above invention, each roller shaft is erected and fixed by the flat surface of the main body base and the U-shaped groove or the U-shaped groove of the roller cover. In addition to being supported, the product smoothly rotates and contributes to the smooth movement of the product, and the moving speed of the product can be controlled by friction between the product and the roller cover.

According to the present invention, since the locking groove of the partition plate is integrated with or formed integrally with the main body base, the partition interval can be freely and reliably adjusted.

[0015]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention is characterized in that rollers are mounted on a main body base in parallel at right angles to the moving direction of a product, and the rollers are rotatably supported, and a roller cover for closing each roller gap is attached. This is a product display shelf in which a front stopper is provided on a front side portion of a main body base, side fences are provided on left and right side surfaces, and a partition plate is attached to the main body base so as to be freely and narrowly corresponding to the width of the product.

According to still another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a main body base having a roller erection part for arranging rollers for placing goods in parallel and a partition plate retaining part, a roller erected on the main body base,
A roller cover that supports the roller in a fixed position and closes a gap between the rollers, a front stopper that is attached to a front side portion (a product take-out side portion) of the main body base, and a product moving path corresponding to a product width. This is a product display unit configured by combining a partition plate. According to the present invention, when the roller is erected, the roller shaft is supported on the flat portion of the main body base, and the position of the roller shaft is accurately maintained by the U-shaped groove or U-shaped groove of the roller cover. The precision can be kept as high as the molding precision of the rollers.

That is, in the conventional roller erection structure, a bearing is provided on the main body base, and the roller is erected on the bearing. Therefore, an error in setting the bearing on the main body base is directly affected by the height accuracy of the roller product support surface. Affects
Since the roller bearing surface of the present invention is a flat surface, it can be easily formed with high accuracy, and therefore, the height accuracy of the roller can be maintained with high accuracy.

In the present invention, the right and left adjacent rollers are erected with a shift of 1/2 pitch so that the product can be supported almost only on the top surface of the rollers. Further, since the locking grooves of the partition plate are stepped to allow fine adjustment of the interval, it is possible to prevent the member between the locking grooves from being damaged beforehand.

[0019]

[Embodiment 1] Locking grooves 3 and 3a of a partition plate 2 are installed before and after a rectangular plate 1 made of synthetic resin, and a locking groove 5 of a front stopper 4 is provided at a front edge of the rectangular plate 1. (FIG. 5). Side fences 6 and 6a are provided at the left and right edges of the rectangular plate 1.
Of the partition plate 2 are provided near the central portion and the front and rear edges of the rectangular plate 1.
d is provided in parallel with and corresponding to the engaging grooves 3, 3a, and between the engaging grooves 3, 3a, 3b, 3c, 3d,
The main body base 15 was formed by piercing the bridge grooves 10 and 10 of the rollers 9 and 9 that support the product 8 (FIG. 3). Rollers 9, 9 are inserted into the erection grooves 10, 10,
a, 3b, 3c, and 3d, are freely rotatably fitted at right angles to the long sides. The shafts 9a, 9a of the rollers 9, 9 are supported by the common flat edges 10a, 10a of the bridging grooves 10, 10 and the bearings of the roller cover 11 are attached to the shafts 9a, 9a of the rollers 9, 9 respectively. The U-shaped groove or U-shaped groove 12, 12 provided in the strip 11a is fitted (FIG. 6),
By fixing 1 to the rectangular plate 1, the shafts 9a, 9a of the rollers 9, 9 are rotatably held at fixed positions. The roller strip 11 includes the bearing strip 11a.
Are projected downward in correspondence with the shafts 9a, 9a of the rollers 9, 9, and the shafts 9a of the respective rollers 9 are attached to the bearing strips 11a.
U-shaped or U-shaped grooves 12, 1 fitted in the shaft 9a corresponding to
The U-shaped or U-shaped grooves 12, 12 keep the distance between the shafts 9a of the rollers 9 constant, forming an integral body base 15.

The roller cover 11 is provided with through holes 13 and 13 for exposing the upper peripheral surfaces of the rollers 9 and 9 and closing members 11b and 11b for gaps between the rollers 9 and 9, respectively. The upper surface of the roller 11 is slightly lower than the uppermost surface of the rollers 9 during setting, and the roller cover 11 is an integrally molded product made of synthetic resin (FIG. 8).

The front stopper 4, the partition plate 2 and the side fences 6 and 6a are inserted into the engaging grooves 5, 3, 3a, 3b, 3c and 3d provided in the main body base 15 and the engaging notch 7. Hanging pieces 16, 17, 17a, 18 for stopping are provided (FIG. 7). Since the main body base 15 of the above embodiment is formed integrally or integrally, the rollers 9, 9 are installed on the main body base 15, and the front stopper 4, the partition plate 2, the side fences 6, 6a, and the roller cover 11 are respectively installed. Then, the product display shelf 20 of the present invention can be configured.

The main body base 15, the partition plate 2, the front stopper 4, the side fences 6 and 6a, the roller 9 and the roller cover 11 constituting the product display shelf 20 are manufactured separately, and each set of display shelves or necessary. If the members (for each unit) are brought to the site, the display shelf can be assembled easily, accurately and quickly.

Since the merchandise display shelf 20 is installed on the display machine with a gentle inclination, the merchandise 8 on the display shelf moves slowly in the direction of the arrow 14 by its own weight (FIG. 1). That is, if the moving component generated by the weight of the product 8 is made larger than the frictional force, the product 8 can be moved automatically. At this time, the roller cover 1 is placed between the rollers 9 and 9.
Since the closing member 11b of the gap 1 is interposed, the product 8
And the roller 9 are in rolling friction, and the closing member 11b in the gap between the product 8 and the roller cover 11 is in sliding friction. Therefore, if the sum of the rolling friction and the sliding friction is made smaller than the above-mentioned component force, the product 8 moves by its own weight. On the other hand, when the moving speed increases, the sum of the rolling friction and the sliding friction increases, so that the product moves at a speed that balances the sum of the friction and the component force. Therefore, the moving speed of the product 8 becomes constant, and it is possible to prevent the product 8 from colliding with the front stopper 4 or generating noise due to sliding or the like.

[0024]

Embodiment 2 Another embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. This embodiment is different from the first embodiment in that
The distance between adjacent rollers is shifted by ２ pitch so that the distance between the top surfaces of the rollers that support the product is reduced as much as possible, so that the vertical movement during the movement of the product is reduced and the generation of noise is reduced.

In the first embodiment, the retaining grooves of the partition plate are linear parallel grooves. In this embodiment, the partition plates have stepped parallel grooves.
This is a fine adjustment of the partition plate.

That is, step-like engaging grooves 21 and 21a of the partition plate 2 are arranged in front of and behind the rectangular plate 1 made of synthetic resin, and the engaging groove 5 of the front stopper 4 is provided on the front edge of the rectangular plate 1.
Is provided. Between the engaging grooves 21 and 21a, the adjacent bridge grooves 10 and 10 of the rollers 9 and 9 for supporting the product 8
The main body base 15 was formed by piercing at a shift of 1/2 pitch. Therefore, the grooves for pressing the shafts 9a, 9a of the rollers 9, 9 in the roller cover 11 are also shifted by ピ ッ チ pitch in accordance with the bridging grooves 10, 10.

Since the engaging grooves 21, 21a of the partition plate 2 are stepped, the width of the inter-groove member of each engaging groove 21, 21a is compared even when the adjacent adjustment interval is narrow. Since it can be made wide enough, it can have sufficient strength to prevent it from being damaged during use.

When the rollers 9 are erected as in the above embodiment, the rear rollers face between the front rollers 9 as shown in FIG. 14, and the product 8 is supported at a substantially constant height. You can move as it is.

For example, FIG. 15 shows the case of the first embodiment. Depending on the shape of the product, the roller bearing surface may move up and down, and the product may move up and down.

The above is different depending on the length, the diameter and the shape of the bottom of the product, so that the best structure can be selected according to the respective conditions.

[0031]

Embodiment 3 Embodiment 1 is an embodiment in which a plurality of partitioning plates 2 can be installed on the main body base 15, but as shown in FIG. A display shelf 20a (for one row of products) to which the stopper 4 and the side fences 6 and 6a are attached can also be configured.

According to the present invention, the right and left adjacent rollers are erected at a half pitch, so that the product can be supported almost only on the top surface of the rollers. Further, since the locking grooves of the partition plate are stepped to allow fine adjustment of the interval, it is possible to prevent the member between the locking grooves from being damaged beforehand.

[0033]

According to the present invention, the display shelf is constituted by the integrally or integrally formed main body base, the roller, the roller cover, the front stopper and the side fence, so that the display shelf is simple, easy and accurate. Can be assembled, and the moving speed can be kept constant irrespective of the automatic movement of the goods. In addition, since the roller shaft is supported on a flat surface and positioned in the U-shaped groove or U-shaped groove of the roller cover, the uniformity of the height of the product receiving surface of the roller is maintained with high accuracy, and the effect that the product can be moved smoothly. is there.

Next, by shifting the adjacent rollers by 1/2 pitch, there is an effect that the support of the product can be further stabilized.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a plan view in which a part of the present invention is omitted.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view in which a part of the embodiment is omitted.

FIG. 3 is a partially enlarged perspective view in which a part is omitted.

FIG. 4 is a partially enlarged perspective view showing the relationship between a roller and a roller cover.

FIG. 5 is a partially enlarged view showing a hooked state of the side fence.

FIG. 6 is an enlarged partial cross-sectional view showing a hooked state of the side stopper.

FIG. 7A is a partially enlarged perspective view of the front stopper. (B) A partial enlarged perspective view of the partition plate. (C) A partially enlarged perspective view of the same fence.

FIG. 8 is a perspective view in which a part of the roller cover is omitted.

FIG. 9 is an enlarged partial cross-sectional view showing a state where the rollers are installed.

FIG. 10 is a perspective view in which a part of another embodiment is omitted.

FIG. 11 is a partial plan view of another embodiment.

FIG. 12 is a partial side view of the same.

FIG. 13 is an enlarged plan view partially omitted.

FIG. 14 is an explanatory view of the roller of the embodiment in FIG. 11;

FIG. 15 is an explanatory view of the roller of the embodiment in FIG. 1;

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Rectangular plate 2 Partition plate 3, 3a, 3b, 3c, 3d Hanging groove 4 Front stopper 5, Hanging groove 7 Hanging notch 6, 6a Side fence 8 Product 9 Roller 9a Roller shaft 10 Bridge groove 11 Roller cover 11a Bearing strip 12 U-shaped groove or U-shaped groove 13 Through hole 15 Main body base 16, 17, 17a, 18 Hanging piece 20, 20a Product display shelf 21 Hanging groove

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Claims (10)

(57) [Claims] 1. A roller for supporting a product in a direction perpendicular to a moving direction of a product is arranged in parallel on a main body base so as to be rotatable, and the axes of the parallel rollers are planes having the same height.
And a roller cover having a through hole through which the upper peripheral surface of each of the rollers can be exposed and exposed, and a front stopper attached to the product take-out side of the main body base, to a side portion parallel to the moving direction of the product. Product display shelf with side fences attached. 2. A roller for supporting a product at right angles to a moving direction of the product in parallel with the main body base and rotatably mounted on the main body base.
And the axes of the parallel rollers are supported on the same level
Was Rutotomoni, inserting the closure member between the rollers, the roller cover having a through hole to the upper peripheral surface be exposed projection of each roller deposited, attached to the front stopper to the main body base product take-out side, A product display shelf, wherein a side fence is attached to a side surface portion parallel to a moving direction of the product, and a latch groove for attaching a partition plate is provided in the main body base in a direction parallel to the moving direction of the product. 3. The product display shelf according to claim 1, wherein the rollers are laid in parallel in front and rear, right and left. 4. The merchandise display shelf according to claim 1, wherein the right and left adjacent rollers are shifted by ピ ッ チ pitch. 5. The product display shelf according to claim 1, wherein a partition plate is mounted on the main body base in such a manner as to be able to adjust the interval in parallel with the moving direction of the product. 6. The roller shaft bearing portion of the main body base is flat, the roller shaft contact portion of the roller cover is a U-shaped groove or a U-shaped groove, and the main body base and the roller cover are formed integrally or integrally. The product display shelf according to claim 1, wherein: 7. The product display shelf according to claim 2, wherein the locking grooves for attaching the partition plate are arranged in a straight line or in a stepwise manner. 8. A main body base having a roller erection part for arranging rollers in parallel at right angles to a moving direction of the product, a main body base having a partition plate hooking part, and a roller erected on the main body base.
While supporting the rollers in place, the roller cover having a closing member that closes each roller gap, a front stopper attached to the product take-out side of the main body base, and a partition plate are combined and configured. Product display unit. 9. The roller mounting portion of the main body base has a roller shaft support plane for each roller, the partition plate locking portion has a locking groove for mounting a partition plate, and the main body base is integrally formed. 9. An integral molding of the above.
Product display unit as described. 10. The merchandise display unit according to claim 8, wherein the roller cover has a roller shaft holding groove, an exposed through-hole of a roller, and a closing member for a roller gap integrated or formed integrally.