JP4561386B2 - Poster display device for vending machine - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a poster display device provided with a fixture for holding a poster support panel arranged in an electric room of an outer door at a display position.

First, FIG. 5 shows a front view of a vending machine that is an object of the present invention. In FIG. 5, 1 is the main body of the vending machine, 2 is the outer door, 3 is the product outlet provided at the lower front of the outer door 2, 4 is the display room for displaying the product sample 5, 6 is the product selection button, and 7 is the product selection button. It is an advertising lighting room arranged below the display room 4 and defined in the outer door 2, and a poster 8 is pasted on the poster support panel as follows in the advertising lighting room 7, or It is held behind the lighting board and held in a plug-in type.
In addition, a configuration in which a poster fixing tool is provided in the illumination room 7 is known so that the poster 8 can be replaced by simply mounting and removing the poster support panel from the back side of the outer door 2. Next, examples of the structure of a poster display device employed in a conventional vending machine are shown in FIGS. 6 to 8.

First, FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram showing the structure of the poster display device. In FIG. 6, 9 is a poster support panel (transparent resin base plate) with the poster 8 attached to the front surface, and 10 is the display position (upright posture). ) To support the poster. Here, the poster fixture 10 is attached to the rear end edge of the L-shaped lighting plate presser 2b laid on the back of the door frame 2a via a bolt (stepped bolt) 11, and the poster support panel 9 is The lower end thereof is fitted and supported by a concave receiving metal 2b provided on the rear surface of the door frame 2a, and the front end claw portion 10a of the poster fixing tool 10 is pressed against the upper end of the panel from behind to display the solid line shown in the figure. It is designed to be locked and held.
When the poster 8 is to be replaced, the poster fixing tool 10 is pulled up from the back side of the outer door to the chain line position shown in the figure to release the locking with the poster support panel 9, and the panel 9 is manually moved to the chain line position. The poster 8 is replaced by pulling it out from the receiver 2b.

Next, a specific conventional structural example of the poster fixture 10 is shown in FIGS. In the poster fixture 10 shown in FIGS. 7A and 7B, a handle 10b is formed at the center of the rear end of the channel-shaped frame to be processed into a sheet metal product, and a vertically long guide groove 10c is formed at both left and right ends. The stepped bolt 11 passed through the guide groove 10c is screwed into a bolt hole formed in the rear end surface of the lighting plate presser foot 2b so as to be guided and supported so as to be movable up and down.
With the above structure, the poster fixture 10 is always lowered by its own weight (the position indicated by the solid line in FIG. 6), and the tip claw portion 10a is supported from the back to the upper end of the poster support panel 9 and supported at the display position. From this state, when the handle 10b is put on and pushed upward, the poster fixture 10 rises along the guide groove 10c, and the tip claw portion 10a is detached from the poster support panel 9 (chain line position in FIG. 6). . Thereby, the poster support panel 9 can be taken out freely.

On the other hand, FIGS. 8A and 8B show improvements in operability by improving a part of the structure shown in FIG. 7. The guide groove 10d through which the stepped bolt 11 is passed is an L-shaped groove. After the poster fixture 10 is pushed upward, it is slid horizontally along the L-shaped guide groove 10d, so that the fixture 10 can be hooked and held in the lifted position even when the hand is released from the handle 10b. I can do it. Thus, the poster support panel 9 can be put in and out using both hands (in the structure shown in FIG. 7, it is necessary to support the fixture 10 in the upper position with one hand, and the poster support panel can be put in and out with one hand. There are inconveniences that must be made).
Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 11-25338

By the way, the conventional poster fixture 10 shown in FIGS. 7 and 8 has the following problems in terms of operability and cost. That is,
When the poster 8 is exchanged, even if the poster fixing tool 10 is locked and held at the position where the poster fixing panel 10 is pulled up by the procedure described with reference to FIG. Then, since it often returns to the original position and interferes with the operation of inserting and removing the support panel 9, there are many demands for improvement.
Further, the conventional poster fixture 10 which is a sheet metal processed product requires a large number of processing steps for forming the tip claw portion 10a, the handle 10b, and the guide groove 10c, and the parts are expensive.
The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and an object of the present invention is to improve a poster display device for a vending machine which is improved so as to improve the mounting and operability of a poster fixing tool and reduce the cost of parts. It is to provide.

In order to achieve the above object, according to the present invention, there is provided a poster display device provided in an illumination room of an outer door, wherein the lower edge of the poster support panel is locked to a receiver provided inside the door frame. In the case where the upper end of the panel is supported from the back via a poster fixing tool attached to the lighting plate presser foot, the above-mentioned poster fixing tool has a panel presser claw protruding at the tip, and both left and right wings Resin-molded part that has a guide pin and a return spring portion with an engaging claw, and further has a handle step and a latching step portion that latches and holds the fixture at the trailing edge of the lighting plate presser foot at the pull-out position The poster fixing tool is fixedly attached to the lighting plate presser so as to be slidable and pitchable in the front-rear direction, and the panel pressing claw portion protruding downward from the lighting plate presser at this mounting position is supported by the poster. Panel By pressing from behind the edges to hold the poster support panel to the display position of the poster, the time of replacement of the posters engaged in DenTeruban presser foot pull the poster fixture to the rear, the panel pressing claw portion in the pull-out position Is configured to be retracted to the upper surface side of the lighting plate presser foot and to be disengaged from the poster support panel.

According to the above configuration, the poster fixture is first a resin molded product, which can be manufactured at a lower cost than conventional sheet metal products. In addition, when attaching to the lighter plate retainer, one-touch operation that does not require troublesome screw tightening, just fits the engaging pin of the guide pin and return spring into the square hole opened in the lighter plate retainer. Easy to install by operation. Furthermore, just by holding the handle of the poster fixing tool and sliding it forward, the fixing tool can be hooked at the pull-out position and the poster support panel can be pulled out freely without restriction. The operability is improved as compared with a poster fixing tool having a conventional structure that requires a screw tightening operation, such as simply returning the original position by the spring force of the return spring simply by removing the fixing tool.

  DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Embodiments of the present invention will be described below based on the examples shown in FIGS. In the drawings of the respective embodiments, members corresponding to those in FIG.

First, the configuration and operation of the advertisement poster display device of the vending machine according to the first embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. That is, in this embodiment, instead of the poster fixture (sheet metal product) 10 in FIG. 6, the poster fixture 12 having a structure shown in the figure, which is a resin molded product, is connected to the lighting plate presser 2b (upper edge side of the poster support panel 9). And the poster support panel 9 is held in an upright posture at the display position via the poster fixture 12.
Here, as shown in FIGS. 2A to 2E, the poster fixing tool 12 is formed with a panel presser claw portion 12c protruding in a caudal shape at the front end of the substrate 12b on which the handle portion 12a is formed at the rear end. Furthermore, left and right wings are provided with guide pins 12d protruding forward from the handle portion 12a and provided with a step difference from the substrate 12b, and protruding in the form of hairpins toward the left and right, and engaging claws (hooks) 12f provided at the tips thereof. A return spring portion (beard spring) 12e is integrally formed.

The panel presser claw portion 12c has a substantially V-shaped cross section as shown in FIGS. 2B and 2C, and its V-shaped end surface is chamfered to an R surface (arc surface). Further, as shown in FIG. 2E, the left and right corners of the presser claw portion 12c are also rounded.
On the other hand, on the plate surface of the lighting plate presser 2b to which the poster fixing tool 12 is mounted, the square holes 2b-1, 2b-2 corresponding to the panel pressing claw portion 12c, the guide pin 12d, and the engaging claw 12f are provided. 2b-3 is opened.
In order to attach the poster fixing tool 12 to the lighting plate presser foot 2b, the board 12b and the panel pressing claw portion 12c are placed on the upper surface side of the electric plate pressing foot 2b from behind the outer door, and the guide pins 12d and The return spring portion 12e is pushed forward with the lower surface side aligned, and the guide pin 12d is inserted into the square hole (guide groove) 2b-2 that is long in the front-rear direction as shown in FIG. 12f is locked to the square hole 2b-3 and mounted as shown. In this mounted state, the panel presser claw portion 12c is fitted into the square hole 2b-1 of the lighting plate presser foot 2b, and the tip of the claw portion protrudes downward toward the upper edge of the poster support panel 9.

Next, an operation of taking out the poster support panel 9 performed when exchanging the poster will be described. First, FIG. 1B shows a state in which the poster support panel 9 is held at the display position. The poster retainer 12 has a spring force of the return spring portion 12e so that the panel pressing claw portion 12c at the tip is supported by the support panel 9. The upper edge of the is pushed forward from behind and held in a standing posture.
In this state, when the fingertip inserted into the gap between the upper edge of the poster support panel 9 and the lighting plate presser foot 2b from behind the outer door is hooked on the upper edge of the support panel 9 and pulled forward, FIG. As shown in FIG. 1C, the poster fixture 12 is pushed by the support panel 9 and slightly slides backward, and a panel presser claw portion 12c having a V-shaped cross section is formed on the upper edge of the support panel 9 as shown in FIG. As a result, the entire poster fixture 12 is tilted backward (pitching). As a result, the poster support panel 9 is pulled through the panel presser claw portion 12c and pulled backward. When the poster support panel 9 is removed, the poster fixing tool 12 returns to the original position due to the spring bias.

Further, after the poster is replaced, when the poster support panel 9 is pushed into the lighting chamber in the reverse procedure, the upper edge of the support panel 9 gets over the panel presser claw portion 12c of the poster fixture 12 during the operation. Thus, it is latched and held at the support position in FIG.
As can be seen from this description, the poster support 12 can be easily removed and fitted with one touch without having to manually move the poster fixture 12 backward.

Next , the configuration of the advertisement poster display device of the vending machine according to the second embodiment of the present invention and the insertion / removal procedure of the poster support panel 9 will be described with reference to FIGS. In this embodiment, a part of the structure of the poster fixture 12 described in the first embodiment is modified, and a claw-like latching step portion 12g is formed on the back side of the substrate 12b. The poster fixing tool 12 is locked to the rear end edge of the lighting plate presser foot 2b at the drawing position, and the other structure is the same as that of the first embodiment.
With this configuration, when the poster support panel 9 is held in the standing position at the display position , as shown in FIG. 3B , the panel presser claw portion 12c at the tip of the poster fixture 12 has the return spring portion 12e. The poster support panel 9 is held at the display position by pushing the upper end of the poster support panel 9 from behind by the spring bias.
Here, in order to remove the poster support panel 9 in order to replace the poster, the user pulls the handle 12a of the poster fixture 12 from the back side of the outer door and pulls it forward. As a result, the panel pressing claw portion 12c at the front end is pulled out from the square hole 2b-1 of the lighting plate presser foot 2b and rides on the upper surface side of the lighting plate pressing plate 2b as shown in FIG. It comes out of 9. At the same time, the latching step portion 12g engages with the rear edge of the lighting plate presser foot 2b, and the poster fixing tool 12 is latched at the drawing position. Thereby, the poster support panel 9 can be tilted rearward and removed without being restricted by the poster fixture 12. In the state where the poster fixture 12 is locked at the pull-out position, the engaging claw 12f of the return spring portion 12e is hooked in the square hole 2b-3 of the lighting plate presser foot 2b, and the return spring portion 12e is stored. Be forced.

Moreover, to return the display position of the poster support panel 9 after replacing the poster, the poster support panel 9 by the reverse procedure on plugged in DenTeru chamber, on the grip portion 12a of the poster fixture 12 Push up. As a result, the engagement of the latching step portion 12g and the rear edge of the lighting plate presser foot 2b is disengaged, and at the same time, the poster fixture 12 is slid forward by receiving the spring force of the return spring portion 12e. The poster support panel 9 is hooked and held back to the position).
As can be seen from the above description, in this embodiment, the panel holding claw 12c, the poster support panel 9 and the poster fixing panel 12 are secured by releasing the poster fixing tool 12 from the lighting plate presser foot 2b by manual operation of the handle 12a. The poster support panel 9 can be easily removed and fitted by disengaging the space between the two.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS It is explanatory drawing of the structure of main part corresponding to Example 1 of this invention, operation | movement, (a) is a perspective view showing the mounting state of a poster fixing tool, (b)-(d) is the removal operation | movement of a poster support panel. Side view showing the history It is a block diagram of the poster fixing tool in FIG. 1, (a) is a top view, (b) is a side view, (c), (d) is an arrow XX, YY sectional drawing of (a), respectively. (E) is a front view of (a). It is explanatory drawing of the structure and operation | movement of the principal part corresponding to Example 2 of this invention, (a) is a perspective view showing the mounting state of a poster fixing tool, (b), (c) is the removal operation | movement of a poster support panel. Side view showing the history It is a block diagram of the poster fixture in FIG. 3, (a) is a top view, (b) is a side view, (c), (d) is an XX, YY sectional drawing of (a), respectively. Front view of a vending machine that is an object of the present invention Schematic sectional view showing the conventional structure of the poster display device employed in the illumination room of FIG. FIG. 6 is a structural diagram of a conventional example of a poster fixing device corresponding to FIG. FIG. 8 is a structural diagram of a conventional example of a poster fixing tool different from FIG.

Explanation of symbols

2 Outer door 2a Door frame 2b Lighting plate presser 2b-1 to 2b-3 Square hole 2c Receptacle 7 Lighting chamber 8 Poster 9 Poster support panel 12 Poster fixture 12a Handle part 12b Substrate 12c Panel pressing claw part 12d Guide Pin 12e Return spring part 12f Engagement claw 12g Stopping step part

Claims (1)

This is a poster display device deployed in the lighting room of the outer door, and the lower edge of the poster support panel is locked and held by a backing plate provided inside the door frame, and the upper end of the panel is attached to the lighting plate presser foot In what was supported from behind through a poster fixture,
The above-mentioned poster fixing tool has a panel presser claw projecting at the tip, and a guide pin and a return spring part with an engaging claw are formed on both the left and right wings . Further, the handle and the fixing tool are illuminated at the pull-out position. It becomes a resin molded part formed with a latching step part that latches and holds on the rear edge of the plate presser foot, and the poster fixing tool is attached to the lighting plate presser foot so as to be slidable and pitchable in the front-rear direction. The panel presser claw projecting downward from the lighting plate presser foot at the mounting position is pressed against the upper edge of the poster support panel from behind to hold the poster support panel at the poster display position. locked to DenTeruban presser foot and pull the tool backwards, it has to the panel retaining claw portion in the pull-out position is moved backward on the upper surface of the DenTeruban presser foot release the latching between the poster support panel Advertising posters display device for an automatic vending machine according to claim.

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