JP3288354B2 - Rotating price display board - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a price used for displaying a product price, a product name, and the like on a product hanging device for hanging and displaying a product in a sales department such as a department store, a supermarket, and a convenience store. The present invention relates to a display plate, and more particularly to a rotary price display plate which is used by being attached to the tip of a bar material of a product hanging tool, and which can change the direction of a display surface thereof in a vertical direction by rotation.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art An example of a rotary price display plate is disclosed in, for example, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 07-334093. With reference to the example disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 07-334093, a merchandise hanging tool using a rotating price display board will be briefly described as follows. 5 and 6,
The goods hanging tool and the state in which the goods were hung and displayed are shown. The product hook has a vertical frame 1 serving as a support,
A plurality of horizontal frames 2 are provided from the vertical frame 1. A plurality of rows of bar members are attached to a plurality of horizontal frames 2 via hook brackets 3. As shown in FIG. 6B, the bar member has a lower bar 4 whose distal end portion is bent at an obtuse angle to form a bent shape, and its distal end portion is bent substantially at a right angle to form a L bar. The lower bar 4 and the upper bar 6 are formed using a metal round bar of, for example, about 6 mm. By passing the lower bar 4 through a hanging hole provided in the packaging container or the like, the product 5 is suspended by each bar member while being distinguished for each type, and each bar member has a tip portion of the upper bar 6, that is, an L-shaped bent. The price display plate 7 is attached to the section, and the name and price of the product 5 for each bar member are displayed on the price display plate 7.

Conventionally, a price display plate having a structure as shown in FIG. 6B has been generally used. That is, the price display plate 7 shown in FIG.
and the display panel main body 7b are integrally combined, and the upper bar 6 is passed through an L-shaped bent portion of the upper bar 6 through an L-shaped mounting hole 7d provided in the fixing portion 7a. 6 and the display panel main body 7b in this state.
Is directed to the front at an angle orthogonal to the upper bar 6.

In such a conventional price display plate 7, the direction of the display surface portion 7c in the display plate main body portion 7b is fixed, and therefore, depending on the height position of the bar member, the display of the product name and the price on the display surface portion 7c. May be difficult to see.
From such a viewpoint, a rotary price display plate having a structure in which the direction of the display surface portion 7c can be appropriately changed by rotating the display surface portion 7c has been devised, which is disclosed in the above-mentioned Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 07-334093. . The pivotable price display plate includes a mounting member corresponding to the fixing portion 7a of the price display plate 7 and a display plate main body corresponding to the display plate main body portion 7b, and the display plate main body is rotatable with respect to the mounting member. The orientation of the display panel body can be changed in a state where the display panel body is attached to the L-shaped bent portion of the upper bar 6 via an attachment member. According to such a rotary price display plate, the orientation of the display surface of the display plate main body is, for example, the front direction and the height of the bar member that are easy to see when the height position of the bar member is in a range close to the eyes of a person. The upward direction that is easy to see when the position is significantly below the line of sight of the person, the downward direction that is easy to see when the height position of the bar member is significantly above the line of sight of the person, and the inverted orientation that indicates that the product is out of stock etc. This can be maintained by changing the rotation. As a result, the functionality of the price display board can be further enhanced.

[0005]

The above-mentioned conventional price display boards and rotary price display boards (rotary price display boards) have the following problems.

[0006] b. A problem associated with the thickness of the bar member of the product hanging device not always being constant. That is, the conventional fixed price display plate has an L-shaped bent portion corresponding to the L-shaped bent portion of the upper bar.
In the mounting hole provided in the fixing part
When the upper bar is thicker than the inner diameter of the mounting hole, it is difficult to mount it, and it is difficult to remove it once it has been mounted because the fitting is performed by inserting and fitting the bent portion. On the other hand, when the upper bar is thinner than the inner diameter of the mounting hole, the fitting is loose and the mounting state is not stable. On the other hand, in the conventional rotary price display plate, as described in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 07-334093,
By forming a portion of a hollow structure having an opening on the lower surface as a mounting member, and pushing the horizontal portion of the L-shaped bent portion of the upper bar into this hollow structure portion to perform mounting,
Since the elasticity of the attachment member made of synthetic resin can be used, it is possible to prevent the upper bar from becoming loose even if it is thin. However, on the other hand, when the shape of the hollow structure portion in the length direction is not a shape corresponding to the L-shaped bent portion of the upper bar, when the upper bar is thinner than the inner method of the hollow structure portion, The mounting state is not stable in the length direction of the upper bar,
There is a problem that the tip of the upper bar is likely to protrude from the tip of the hollow structure portion, and in that case, the display panel main body tends to face downward. Also, since the hollow structure portion has only an opening on the lower surface, the side portion is closed, and the portion where the vertical portion in the L-shaped bent portion of the upper bar fits has a cylindrical structure. However, similarly to the fixed price display board, there is also a problem of difficulty in mounting and removing when the upper bar is thick. And what is difficult to remove is that when disposing of the bar member, the metal bar member and the plastic price display board would have to be separately separated,
Since it is difficult to remove the bar member, it is easy to cause a situation in which the bar member is discarded with the price display plate attached, which may increase the burden on waste disposal.

[0007] b. The problem of the occurrence of an error in the assembling process in the rotary price display plate having a structure in which the display plate body is rotatably mounted on the mounting member. A rotary price display plate comprising two members, a mounting member and a display plate body, is a completed product through a process of assembling each member manufactured by injection molding or the like. A situation where the mounting direction is wrong may occur. That is, as described in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 07-334093, the conventional rotary price display plate has a left-right symmetrical connection structure between the mounting member and the display plate body. There is no clear indicator to distinguish. Therefore, when the assembling process of this type of object is a manual assembling process as in many cases, there is a high possibility that the mounting direction of the display panel main body with respect to the mounting member will be wrong.

C. The problem of durability in conventional rotary price display boards. A conventional rotary type price display plate is disclosed in
As described in Japanese Patent No. 334093, as a structure for maintaining the changed orientation of the display panel body such as up and down, a structure including a locking projection and a plurality of locking holes for locking the same is adopted. . In the case of such a structure, the size of the locking hole is inevitably small due to the size (for example, the thickness of the mounting member is about 8 mm) that is naturally allowed on the price display board. The projections have to be small. In this case, not only is it not possible to obtain a very stable locking state, but also, for example, the locking projection may be damaged even if a rotation test required as a durability test before shipping the product is performed several tens of times. Is easy to invite.

The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned problems of the conventional price display board, and has as its object to provide a rotary price display board which can effectively solve these problems. I have.

[0010]

In order to achieve the above object, according to the present invention, there is provided a fixing member made of a synthetic resin provided with a mounting portion and a mounting receiving portion, and a fixing member made of a synthetic resin, A mounting portion formed by a pair of flat plate brackets facing each other is provided so as to protrude from the back surface, a display surface portion is provided on the front surface, and a flat plate rotatably mounted on the mounting receiving portion of the fixing member via the mounting portion. A display member is formed by attaching and fixing a fixing member to an L-shaped bent portion at a distal end portion of a bar material of a product hook for hanging and displaying a product through the mounting portion. The plate body takes a state perpendicular to the length direction of the bar material of the product hanging tool, and in this state, the direction of the display surface portion of the display plate body is set by the rotation, and the set direction can be maintained. In the rotary price display plate, a first engaging projection having a polygonal cross section perpendicular to the protruding direction is provided on the mounting receiving portion of the fixing member. A second engaging projection having a circular cross section perpendicular to the projecting direction is provided so as to face the mating projection, and the mounting portion of the display panel main body has one of the flat plate brackets provided with the second engaging projection. A first engagement receiving hole for slidably engaging the first engagement protrusion is provided, and a second engagement member for slidably engaging the second engagement protrusion with the other flat plate bracket. A receiving hole is provided, and a fixing member is provided by engaging the first engaging projection with the first engaging receiving hole and engaging the second engaging projection with the second engaging receiving hole. The display panel main body is rotatably mounted on the display panel so that the orientation of the display surface of the display panel main body can be adjusted. It is characterized in that it is can be set to different directions by an angle.

[0011]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS. As shown in FIG. 1, the pivotable price display plate includes a fixing member 11 and a display plate main body 12 rotatably connected to the fixing member 11.

The fixing member 11 has the following overall shape.
It has an L-shape corresponding to the L-shaped bent portion of the upper bar 6 of the above-mentioned product hanging tool, and a hollow split structure 13 that opens the lower side or the front side over the entire L-shape is formed as a mounting portion. . That is, the hollow split structure 13 has a horizontal portion 14 and a vertical portion 15 corresponding to the horizontal portion and the vertical portion in the L-shaped bent portion of the lower bar. The horizontal portion 14 and the vertical portion 15 are provided with linear projections 16 and 17 along the edges of the respective split surfaces. That is, the horizontal portion 14 is provided with one linear projection 16 along each edge of the pair of opposing split surfaces. Similarly, the vertical portion 15 is also provided with each end of the pair of opposing split surfaces. Linear projections 17 are provided one by one along the edge. Therefore, when the fixing member 11 is mounted on the upper bar 6 by a movement as indicated by an arrow in FIG. 1, the hollow portion structure 13 narrowed by the projection 16 is fixed to the horizontal portion 14 by a synthetic resin. The horizontal portion of the L-shaped bent portion of the upper bar 6 fits into the hollow split structure 13 so as to be pushed and spread by the elasticity of the member 11. Therefore, the upper bar 6 has a hollow split structure 13.
Even if it is thicker or thinner than the inner method, it can be easily mounted, and the mounting state can be effectively prevented from becoming unstable. On the other hand, the vertical portion 15 is inserted into the portion inside the projection 17 so that the vertical portion of the L-shaped bent portion of the upper bar 6 passes therethrough. The split structure 13 can be expanded. For this reason, even if the upper bar 6 is thicker than the internal method of the hollow split structure 13, mounting is easy, and the protrusion 17 prevents the upper bar 6 from coming off the open side of the hollow split structure 13. Since it is possible, the mounting state can be stabilized.

Here, in the conventional rotary price display plate described above, the hollow structure portion is deviated from the L-shape, as shown in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 07-334093. Is intended to be attached to the lower bar, which is bent at an obtuse angle to form a curved shape. However, from a practical point of view, it can hardly be said that the price display plate is mounted on the lower bar. Based on such knowledge, in the present invention, as described above, the hollow split structure 13 is formed into an L-shape including a horizontal portion 14 and a vertical portion 15 corresponding to the L-shaped bent portion of the upper bar 6, and is perpendicular to the horizontal portion 14. The structure is such that a projection 16 and a projection 17 are provided on each of the portions 15.

The fixing member 11 has an attachment receiving portion 18 at the tip of the vertical portion in the L-shape. The attachment receiving portion 18 is provided with a first engagement protrusion 19 on one side surface, and a second engagement protrusion 20 on the other side surface opposite to the one side surface. The first engaging projection 19 has a cross section perpendicular to the projection
The second engaging projection 20 is formed to have a rectangular cross-section perpendicular to the projecting direction.

The display panel body 12 is formed in a flat plate shape as a whole, and its front side is used as a display surface portion 21, while a pair of flat plate brackets 22 facing in parallel are formed on its back surface.
And 23 are provided so as to protrude. The display surface section 21 is provided with a structure for fixing a price list in which the names and prices of the products are described. One of the structures is a type in which a price list is attached, and the other is a transparent resin sheet 25 as in this embodiment.
Is fixed to the display surface 21, and the price list P (FIG. 1) is inserted into the gap S (FIG. 3F) formed by the resin sheet 25. When the resin sheet 25 is used, the resin sheet 25 is generally welded to the display surface 21 by ultrasonic welding or high frequency welding. Therefore, in the present invention, as shown in FIG.
A plurality of small point-like projections 26 of, for example, about 0.5 mm are provided along the side of one for welding points. In the example of the figure, three vertical sides of the display surface portion 21 are provided on each of the left and right vertical sides, and the horizontal side is only on the lower side,
One for each of the two partial ridges formed there. By providing the point-like projections 26 for the welding points in this manner, it is possible to effectively prevent the welding energy at the time of welding by ultrasonic waves or high frequency from being dispersed. Thus, the resin sheet 25 can be more securely fixed, and the occurrence of troubles such as the resin sheet 25 peeling off during use can be more reliably prevented.

The mounting portion 24 is attached to one of the flat plate brackets 22 forming the mounting portion 24 with the mounting receiving portion 1 of the fixing member 11.
8, a first engagement receiving hole 27 for engaging the first engagement projection 19 is provided.
Second engagement receiving hole 28 for engaging second engagement projection 20
Is provided. In the first engagement receiving hole 27,
An oval inner peripheral surface, that is, an inner peripheral surface having a shape formed by connecting opposed arc portions with a straight portion is provided. By forming the inner peripheral surface of the first engagement receiving hole 27 in such a shape, the positive
The rectangular first engagement projection 19 can be smoothly slid and rotated with little resistance, and a specific rotation angle state can be fixedly maintained when necessary. That is, any one of the six side faces of the hexagonal first engagement protrusion 19 is in a state along the linear portion of the oval first engagement receiving hole 27, thereby stabilizing the set rotation angle state. Can be maintained. On the other hand, the second engagement receiving hole 28 is provided with a circular inner peripheral surface so that the circular second engagement protrusion 20 can be slid smoothly.

FIGS. 2 and 3 show a state in which the display panel main body 12 is mounted on the fixing member 11 via the mounting receiving portion 18 by the mounting portion 24. FIG. With such a mounting structure, the display panel main body 12 can be rotated with respect to the fixing member 11, and the rotated specific angle state can be maintained. Specifically, as shown in FIG. 2A by a solid line or a two-dot chain line, and in FIG.
Four different directions ((D) in FIG. 3), that is, the front view ((b) in FIG. 4) that is easy to see when the height position of the bar member is in a range close to the eyes of a person, and the height position of the bar member Is easy to see when it is significantly below the line of sight of the person (FIG. 4 (c)), and downward when it is easy to see when the height of the bar member is significantly above the line of sight of the person (FIG. )), And an inverted orientation ((d) in FIG. 4) indicating that the product is out of stock.

As described above, in the present invention, the display panel body 12
The display panel main body 12 with respect to the fixing member 11 for maintaining the orientation of the display surface section 21 in a plurality of directions by the rotation of
The rotatable mounting structure of the first
And the second engagement protrusion 20 is slidably engaged with the second engagement receiving hole 28. According to such a structure, the first engagement protrusion 19 can be formed in a sufficiently large size, so that the specific rotation angle state (the display surface 21
Orientation) can be more stably maintained,
Further, even if the rotation for changing the direction of the display surface portion 21 is repeated many times, the fixed maintaining function is hardly deteriorated, and high durability can be obtained. Further, the first engagement projection 19 and the second engagement projection 20 are asymmetric, and accordingly, the first engagement receiving hole 27 and the second engagement receiving hole 2
8 is also asymmetric, so that an error in the above-described assembly process can be reliably prevented. This asymmetric structure also helps to reduce the resistance when rotating the display panel main body 12. That is, compared to the case where both the left and right engaging protrusions are hexagonal or other polygonal,
The configuration of the present invention in which only one of the engagement protrusions has the function of fixedly maintaining the rotation angle state and the other has the function of a pure rotation axis cannot be avoided to some extent with a polygonal rotation axis. Rotational resistance can be one side only,
Therefore, it is possible to minimize the rotation resistance in the structure in which the specific rotation angle state of the display panel main body 12 is fixedly maintained using the polygonal rotation axis.

In the above embodiment, the hollow split structure 13 has a structure in which the lower side or the front side is open.
Alternatively, a hollow split structure in which the upper side or the back side is opened may be used, and the same functionality as that of the hollow split structure 13 in the above embodiment can be obtained. Further, in the above embodiment, the first engagement protrusion 19 is a regular hexagon, but this is a preferable form in the case where the orientation of the display surface portion 21 is set to four directions. Other polygons, such as a pentagon or a heptagon, can also be used. When the shape of the first engagement protrusion is changed, the inner peripheral shape of the first engagement receiving hole with which the first engagement protrusion engages may be appropriately changed. In the above embodiment, the projections 16 and 17 provided on the horizontal portion 14 and the vertical portion 15 of the hollow split structure 13 are both linear, but these are within the range of satisfying the functions of the projections 16 and 17. Can be changed as appropriate.

[0020]

As described above, according to the present invention,
The structure for setting and maintaining the orientation of the display surface portion in a plurality of directions by rotating the display panel body with respect to the fixing member includes a polygonal first engagement protrusion provided on the fixing member and a circular second engagement projection.
Are formed by sliding engagement with the first engagement receiving hole and the second engagement receiving hole provided in the display panel body so as to correspond to the respective engagement projections. It is possible to stably maintain a specific rotation angle state to be set more stably, and even if the rotation for changing the direction is repeated many times, the fixed maintenance function does not deteriorate and high durability is achieved. can get. At the same time, due to the asymmetry of the first engagement projection and the second engagement projection, it is possible to reliably prevent an error in the assembly process of the rotary price display plate.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an exploded perspective view of a rotary price display board according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2A is a side view showing a state in which a display plate main body is attached to a fixing member in the rotary price display plate shown in FIG. 1, and FIG. 2B is a cross-sectional view in a similar state.

3A is a front view in the state of FIG. 2A, FIG. 3B is a cross-sectional view in the same state, and FIG. 3C is a rear view in the same state. , (D) is a side view as seen from the side opposite to (A) of FIG. 2, (E) is a side view similar to (A) of FIG. 2, and (F) is a display panel body. It is a block diagram in the thickness direction.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram of a use state of the rotary price display plate of FIG. 1;

FIG. 5 is a perspective view showing a configuration of a merchandise hanging device and a price display board attached to the hanging device.

6 (A) is a front view of the product hanging device of FIG. 5,
(B) is an enlarged side view showing the relationship between the bar member of the product hanging tool and the price display board.

[Explanation of symbols]

 Reference Signs List 6 Upper bar (bar material) 11 Fixing member 12 Display panel body 13 Hollow split structure (mounting portion) 14 Horizontal portion 15 Vertical portion 16, 17 Projection 18 Mounting receiving portion 19 First engagement projection 20 Second engagement Projection 21 Display surface part 22, 23 Flat plate bracket 24 Mounting part 27 First engagement receiving hole 28 Second engagement receiving hole

Claims (3)

(57) [Claims] 1. A fixing member made of a synthetic resin provided with a mounting portion and a mounting receiving portion, and a mounting portion formed of a pair of flat plate brackets also made of a synthetic resin and facing in parallel from a back surface. It is provided so as to protrude and has a display surface portion on the front surface, and comprises a flat display plate body rotatably attached to a mounting receiving portion of a fixing member via the mounting portion, and displays the product by hanging the product. The fixing member is attached and fixed to the L-shaped bent portion at the tip of the bar material of the product hanging device through the mounting portion so that the display panel main body is orthogonal to the length direction of the bar material of the product hanging device. In this state, the orientation of the display surface of the display panel main body is set by the rotation in this state, and the rotation type price display plate capable of maintaining the set orientation is provided. Is provided with a first engaging projection having a polygonal cross section perpendicular to the projecting direction, and a section perpendicular to the projecting direction facing the first engaging projection. A second engaging projection having a circular shape is provided, and a first engaging projection is slidably engaged with one of the flat plate brackets on the mounting portion of the display panel main body. Is provided, and the other flat plate bracket is provided with a second engagement receiving hole for slidably engaging the second engagement projection. Engagement with the first engagement receiving hole and second engagement protrusion
The display panel main body is rotatably attached to the fixing member by the engagement with the engagement receiving hole, so that the orientation of the display surface of the display panel main body can be set to a plurality of directions different from each other by a predetermined angle. A rotating price display plate, characterized in that it is made. 2. The rotary price display board according to claim 1, wherein the first engagement projection is formed in a hexagonal shape, and the orientation of the display surface portion can be set to four directions different from each other by 60 °. 3. The rotary price display board according to claim 2, wherein the first engagement receiving hole has an oval inner peripheral surface formed by connecting opposed arc portions with a straight portion.