WO2010063903A1

WO2010063903A1 - Self-supporting scrollable display device with optimal viewing

Info

Publication number: WO2010063903A1
Application number: PCT/FR2009/001367
Authority: WO
Inventors: Anthony Galvaire
Original assignee: Anthony Galvaire
Priority date: 2008-12-04
Filing date: 2009-12-01
Publication date: 2010-06-10
Also published as: FR2939551A1; FR2939551B1

Abstract

The invention aims to enable an optimal viewing for displays while not blocking out the essentials of the device environment but instead making it possible to integrate the display with said environment while carrying out a simple and rapid installation/uninstallation of the "in-store" display device. A self-supporting scrolling display device according to the invention includes: two tape spools (3) and (5) that are located in an upper and lower position and supported by slings (1); and a system for driving said tape spools (3) and (5). Further, a display streamer (2) is connected by each end thereof to a tape spool (3) or (5) by means of a detachable clamping means, at least one of the tape spools (3) or (5) being motorized to enable the driving of the display streamer (2), the slings (1) being conductive and enabling electrical power to be supplied to the motors.

Description

OPTIMUM VISUALIZING AUTOMOTIVE RETRACTOR DISPLAY DEVICE

The invention relates to a self-supporting scrolling display device optimal visualization, especially through a showcase or any premises visible from the outside: shops, outlets, pharmacies, exhibition halls, etc.. This type of exposure is hereinafter referred to as "in-store".

The invention relates to the field of commercial type of scrolling display can also be for space decoration, for example showcase. In particular, the invention relates to stand-up self-supporting advertising poster carriers, that is to say whose rigidity and stability depend essentially on their very structure, and adapted to an instore use.

In order to produce a motorized display device for such a display, the patent document EP 0935228 essentially describes means for attaching posters actuated by an electric motor. This motor is powered by a rechargeable battery by a photovoltaic cell positioned in the vicinity of a source of illumination.

[0004] It is also known from patent document GB 2363 891 an electronic screen type display device, supported by vertical cables via support elements. The cables provide power to the device, as well as a control unit and a storage unit for the display.

EP 0 587 521 also discloses a poster support device fixed to the floor and / or ceiling via at least two cables comprising lower and upper anchoring parts. Spacers allow the poster holder to be hung laterally on the cables and connectors, also attached to the cables, can be used to feed very low voltage lighting means between the two cables through transverse conductors located above the support.

[0006] None of the above documents makes it possible to produce a scrolling display of posters allowing an optimal visualization, that is to say a visualization of the posters that do not mask the essential part of the environment of the device but allow, on the contrary, to integrate the display in this environment.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The invention aims to allow such an optimal viewing while performing a quick and easy installation / uninstallation of an "in-store" display device by reducing the number of apparent structures. Such a simplification according to the invention also has the advantage of reducing noise, eliminating the intervention of external agents and reducing congestion.

Another object of the invention is to advantageously allow the installation of posters of different formats, and a quick and easy change of poster trains to be displayed successively.

To do this, the invention proposes to use a minimum of visible structures consisting of poster drives supported by a conductive wiring of electricity and removable connection means of the posters on the unwinders.

More specifically, the invention relates to a self-supporting scrolling display device comprising two mandrels, located in upper and lower position, carried by slings and a drive system of said mandrels, in which a train of posters. is connected at each of its ends to a mandrel by means of a removable clamping means. At least one of the mandrels is motorized to allow the training of the train of posters, the slings being conductive and allowing a power supply of the engines.

According to particular embodiments: - The device is mounted in a room, having a ceiling and a floor, by means of high and low fixing slings respectively to the ceiling and the floor;

- The removable clamping means of the poster train on the mandrels is a ring cylindrical shaped roll longitudinally open and having an elastic force clipping on the mandrel;

The spacing between the mandrels and the lengths of the mandrels are adapted to the format of the poster, the length can be adapted by providing several sets of mandrels or telescopic mandrels;

[0015] the ends of the poster train are connected by removable securing means to a primer band fixed on the ring;

- Removable securing means are selected from a slide fastener, a male - female transverse connection, self-gripping strips and hooking means type pins or hooks.

Each mandrel is motorized by an electric motor, the control of these motors being managed by a control unit allowing a parametrable drive of the train of posters in one direction or the other;

[0018] the electric motors are geared motors integrated in the mandrels and the control unit comprises a GSM receiver box and an electronic control unit of at least one electric motor;

Geared motors are brushless type (that is to say: without brushes);

- The control unit is disposed in a housing in a thermoformed cover extending along a mandrel;

The thermoformed cover extends along the lower mandrel;

[0022] the material supporting the posters of a train of posters is translucent; - The translucent material is a web of printed mesh.

Under these conditions, the invention provides a variable speed and a stop time on each parameterizable poster, allows the use of at least three posters, a discretion by the presence of cables. steel as a support structure, an installation and a change of posters that can be made by a non-specialist. Preferably, the translucent printed support is washable and recyclable.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE FIGURES

Other features and advantages of the invention will emerge on reading the description which follows, with reference to the appended figures, which respectively illustrate:

Figure 1 is a front view of an embodiment; Figure 2 is a side view of the embodiment according to Figure 1; Figure 3, a removable clamping means with primer strip; and - Figure 4, a removable clamping means with primer strip and the attachment means of an associated lé.

Identical or similar elements are identified by identical reference signs throughout the figures. In addition, the indications "upper", "lower", "up", "down", "horizontal", "vertical", refer to the device in its usual mode of use, it being understood that the ceiling and the floor are parallel horizontal surfaces, the ceiling being located in a higher position on the ground.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF AN EMBODIMENT [0027] In a first embodiment, with reference to FIGS. 1 and 2, two steel slings 1 are fixed and stretched vertically by fastening means, one of which 8 is located at ceiling and another 9 on the floor. These two slings 1 are connected to a transformer 7 and allow the low voltage supply of two motor chucks 3 and 5 "Brushless" geared motors. Said motor chucks 3 and 5 being carried by the two slings 1.

An electrical communication cable 11 connects the two mandrels 3 and 5, along one of the two slings 1 and allows the synchronization and control of the upper chuck 3, the control unit located in the lower part.

The low motor chuck 5 is disposed in a housing called control box 6 in which are also arranged the electronic controls. This housing 6 comprises in front, a thermoformed cover 10, able to contain a housing for GSM housing, an inductive reader or an optical reader.

The control box 6 can set the speed of unwinding posters, the time on each poster and to trigger the loading and unloading procedures of the lé, through a keypad controls and an LCD display.

A poster train 2 is wrapped around the two mandrels 3 and 5. The action of the upper motor chuck 3 winds the display train towards the upper part of the device and vice versa, the driving of the motor chuck 5 winds up. the poster train at the bottom of the device. The poster train 2 is made of a printed mesh. Conventionally, a poster train comprises three consecutive posters, separated by markers, allowing the device to control the stop of the motor chucks.

The detection of the various posters in the poster train 2 is performed by the action of a photoelectric sensor located in the control box 6, oriented towards the motor chuck 5 and able to identify on the train poster 2 a reflective patch, indicating that a poster is correctly positioned between the two mandrels 3 and 5. Alternatively, the sensor can be magnetic induction or any type of remote control (infrared, ultrasound, radiofrequency, ...) .

Two semi-rigid bush rollers 20, with reference to FIGS. 3 and 4, engage independently with the mandrels 3 and 5, by pressure manual. The rollers 20 are made of semi-rigid PVC or fiberglass, in the form of a cylinder whose length is equal to the width of the train of posters 2 to install. This cylinder has longitudinal opening so that it is positioned firmly around a mandrel 3 or 5 by mechanical interlocking.

A primer strip 21 is attached to the ring roller 20 and has at its free end a male zipper strip 22 complementary to the strips of female zippers 23 located on the shaping head and foot of les 2. Ring rollers produce by their structure a uniform tension along the mandrels, which makes it possible to have reliable priming strips calibrated in length and parallelism. An optimal straightness of the course of a train of posters can thus be obtained.

The installation of the lé 2 on the mandrels 3 and 5 is effected in the first time by the attachment of the lé 2 on the starter strip 21 of the high chuck 3. Then the automatic loading program is activated by the intermediate electronic controls located in the control box 6, having the effect of winding the entire poster train 2 on the high chuck 3. The lower part of the 2 becomes accessible and is fixed to the low chuck 5 by the means of Zippers 22 and 23. The end of the automatic loading is marked by the tension of the web 2 between the two mandrels 3 and 5.

The unloading of the train of posters 2 is effected by the activation of the unloading program, at the control box 5. The action of the motor chucks 3 and 5 positions the lé 2 so that it is possible to unzip the lower part of the lé 2 at first, then, all the lé 2 is unrolled and accumulates on the ground. The starting strip 21 of the ring-roller 20 located around the high mandrel 3 is then accessible and can be detached from the poster train 2 via the set of slides 22 and 23. In another embodiment, the positioning of the posters of the 2 may be achieved by counting pulses Hall effect sensors of the motor rollers 3 and 5.

An alternative example is composed of a bar code reader placed in the housing 6, oriented to the motor chuck 5, adapted to read a bar code, indicating the correct positioning of a 2 and identifying each poster train or individually each poster.

The invention can not be limited to the examples described above. In particular the nature of the printed medium 2 may vary and be, among others, a thin paper, a natural or synthetic textile material or a PVC tarpaulin.

In a preferred mode of use, the materials component le 2 are soft and translucent materials.

The hooks 22 and 23 of the strips 2 on the priming strip 21 may be replaced by velcro connections, snaps or magnetic strips.

In addition, a visiometry system can be installed to allow a measurement of the audience in real time, thanks to a technology of "face tracking" (face tracking in French).

Moreover, the display device is not necessarily attached to a floor and / or a ceiling. It can, for example, be fixed from a vertical plane, in particular a window frame or skirting boards, with brackets.

Claims

[0044] Claims

1. Self-supporting scrolling display device comprising two mandrels (3) and (5), located in upper and lower position, carried by slings (1) and a drive system of said mandrels (3, 5), characterized in that that a poster train (2) is connected at each of its ends to a mandrel (3) or (5) via a removable clamping means and in that at least one of the mandrels (3, 5) is motorized to allow the driving of the train of posters (2), the slings (1) being conductive and allowing a power supply of the engines.

2. self-supporting scrolling display device according to the preceding claim, wherein the device is mounted in a room with a ceiling and a floor, by means of high (8) and low (9) for fixing the slings, respectively to the ceiling and on the ground.

A self-supporting scrolling display device according to claims 1 or 2, wherein the removable clamping means of the poster train on the mandrels (3, 5) is a longitudinally open cylindrical roll-shaped ring (20) having an elastic force for clipping on the mandrel (3, 5).

4. Free-standing scrolling display device according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein the spacing between the mandrels (3) and (5) and the lengths of the mandrels (3) and (5) are adapted to the format of the displays, the length can be adapted by providing several sets of mandrels or telescopic mandrels.

5. self-supporting scrolling display device according to claims 3 or 4, wherein the ends of the train of posters (2) are connected by removable fastening means to a primer strip (21) fixed on the ring (20).

6. free-standing scrolling display device according to claim 5, wherein the removable fastening means are selected from a slide fastener (22) and (23), a male-female transverse connection, Velcro strips and means of hooking type pins or hooks.

7. self-supporting scrolling display device according to one of the preceding claims, wherein each mandrel (3) or (5) is motorized by an electric motor, the control of these motors being managed by a control unit (6) allowing a configurable training of the train of posters (2) in one direction or the other.

Self-supporting scrolling display device according to one of the preceding claims, in which the electric motors are geared motors integrated in the mandrels (3) and (5) and the control unit (6) comprises a housing of GSM reception and an electronic control unit of at least one electric motor.

9. self-supporting scrolling display device according to claim 8, wherein the geared motors are of the "brushless" type.

The self-supporting scrolling display device according to one of the preceding claims, wherein the control unit (6) is disposed in a housing in a thermoformed cover (10) extending along a mandrel.

The self-supporting scrolling display device according to claim 10, wherein the thermoformed cover (10) extends along the lower mandrel (5).

12. self-supporting scrolling display device according to one of the preceding claims, wherein the support material of the posters of a train of posters (2) is translucent.

The free-standing scrolling display device according to claim 12, wherein the translucent material is a printed mesh yarn (2).