U.S. patent number 3,589,524 [Application Number 04/772,748] was granted by the patent office on 1971-06-29 for a display and sale appliance for flat goods or flat good packages.
Invention is credited to Werner Schramm.
United States Patent |
3,589,524 |
Schramm |
June 29, 1971 |
A DISPLAY AND SALE APPLIANCE FOR FLAT GOODS OR FLAT GOOD
PACKAGES
Abstract
A display and sale appliances for flat goods or flat good
packages, comprises a main shelf subdivided in compartments, in
which goods carriers are pivotally disposed near the front edges of
the compartments over a predetermined angle. Each goods carrier
includes a common hollow base body and insertion pockets fanlike
disposed around the axis of the pivots of the goods carriers and
upon the goods carriers and having lateral limiting members and
intermediate partitions consisting of wires, rods or the like, said
limiting members consisting for all insertion pockets of each goods
carrier of one uniform integral wire, rod or the like.
Inventors: |
Schramm; Werner (8 Munich, 22,
DT) |
Family
ID: |
5681769 |
Appl.
No.: |
04/772,748 |
Filed: |
November 1, 1968 |
Foreign Application Priority Data
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Jan 19, 1968 [DT] |
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P 16 11 750.3 |
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Current U.S.
Class: |
211/39; 211/99;
312/327; 211/170 |
Current CPC
Class: |
A47F
5/0037 (20130101); A47F 7/19 (20130101); A47F
5/12 (20130101) |
Current International
Class: |
A47F
7/19 (20060101); A47F 5/00 (20060101); A47F
5/12 (20060101); A47F 5/10 (20060101); A47b
088/18 (); A47f 005/08 (); A47f 005/12 () |
Field of
Search: |
;312/328,327,326,329,323,325,123,136
;211/99--100,96,97,170--171,168--169,106,47 ;16/146,145,184,75
;220/30.6,30.5,33 |
References Cited
[Referenced By]
U.S. Patent Documents
Primary Examiner: Britts; Ramon S.
Claims
I claim:
1. An exhibition and sale appliance for ranges of flat goods or
flat good packages, such as shirts or other clothes or flat cloth
packages, comprising a main shelf or frame subdivided in
compartments in which goods carriers are pivotally disposed about
horizontal pivots near the lower front edge of each compartment for
a predetermined angle, each of said goods carriers including a
common hollow base body having integrally joined an upper wall, a
vertical front wall, a lower horizontal wall and lateral sidewalls,
the latter carrying said horizontal pivots of said base body,
insertion pockets for said goods being fanlike or starlike disposed
around the axis of said pivots and upon said upper wall of said
hollow base body, the latter defining closed bottom walls of said
insertion pockets having lateral limiting members and intermediate
partitions consisting of wires, rods or the like and being attached
to said hollow base body, said lateral limiting members of all
insertion pockets in each of said goods carriers include one
integral wire, rod or the like attached with one end at one side to
the bottom of the foremost of said insertion pockets of each of
said goods carriers, said wire, rod or the like extending
horizontally a given distance and then extending vertically
upwardly to an intermediate height of the overall height of said
insertion pockets, said wire, rod or the like extending at this
intermediate height at first horizontally and then along one
lateral side of all of the insertion pockets of said goods carrier
to the last, innermost one of said insertion pockets, and being
guided behind this last insertion pocket, said wire rod or the like
subsequently extending along the opposite lateral side of all of
the insertion pockets to the foremost insertion pocket, wherein
said wire, rod or the like extends horizontally inwardly, is then
bent downwardly therefrom and subsequently extends horizontally to
a position at which its other end engages the bottom of the
foremost insertion pocket at the other side thereof and is attached
thereto.
Description
The invention relates to a display and sale appliance for flat
goods and flat good packages such as shirts or other clothes,
comprising a main shelf or frame subdivided into compartments.
Especially dress shirts and similar flat and flat visibly packaged
clothes are usually stacked in shelve, one above the other. The
selection of the single good from the piles of stacked goods
according to the size, style and appearance is difficult and
requires considerable time. A sufficient view over the stacked
goods is not given, neither for the buyer nor for the seller.
In the hitherto appliances for display and advertising purposes
only one piece of the goods is made visible and accessible, whereas
the easy accessible storing of a number of these goods is not
possible.
It is one object of the invention to provide a display and sale
appliance for flat goods and sorted flat goods which makes storing
of ranges of flat goods possible, which is simple in structure and
easy in manufacturing and handling, and makes self-selling of the
goods possible.
For this purpose a display and sale appliance of the above type is
provided, in which goods carriers are pivotally disposed about
horizontal pivots near the lower front edge of each compartment for
a predetermined angle, each said carrier including a common hollow
base body having integrally joined an upper wall, a vertical front
wall, a lower horizontal wall and sidewalls, the latter carrying
said horizontal pivots of said hollow base body, insertion pockets
for said goods fanlike or starlike disposed around the horizontal
axis of said horizontal pivots and upon said upper wall of said
hollow base body, the latter defining the bottoms of said insertion
pockets having lateral limiting members and intermediate partitions
consisting of wires, rods or the like, and being attached to said
hollow base body.
Another object of the invention is to simplify the insertion
pockets parts of the good carriers of the display and sale
appliance and to make the inserted goods as visible and accessible
as possible.
For this purpose said lateral limiting members of all insertion
pockets of each goods carrier include one uniform integral wire,
rod or the like attached with one end at one side to the bottom of
the foremost insertion pocket, said wire, rod or the like extending
horizontally a given distance and then extending vertically
upwardly to an intermediate height of the overall height of said
insertion pockets, said wire, rod or the like extending at said
intermediate height at first horizontally outwardly and then along
one lateral side of all insertion pockets of said goods carrier to
the last, innermost of said insertion pockets, and being guided
behind this last insertion pocket, said wire, rod or the like
subsequently extending along the opposite lateral side of all of
the insertion pockets to the foremost insertion pocket, wherein
said wire, rod or the like extends horizontally inwardly is then
bent downwardly therefrom and subsequently extends horizontally to
a position at which its other end engages the bottom of the
foremost insertion pocket at the other line 1 thereof and is
attached thereto.
Other details and advantages of the invention are described and
illustrated in the following specification in connection with the
accompanying drawings, in which some embodiments of the invention
are represented.
FIG. 1 shows an embodiment of one of the goods carriers disposed in
the compartments of the main shelf of the display and sale
appliance in retracted position in side view,
FIG. 2 shows the same goods carrier as in FIG. 1 in side view, in
forwardly turned position,
FIG. 3 shows the same goods carrier as in FIG. 1 and a part of the
main shelf in front view,
FIG. 4 shows another embodiment of the goods carrier, in side view,
in retracted position,
FIG. 5 shows the same goods carrier as in FIG. 4, in side view, in
forwardly turned position,
FIG. 6 shows the same goods carrier as in FIG. 4, in front
view,
FIG. 7 shows one goods carrier of FIGS. 4 to 6 disposed in a
compartment of the main shelf of the display and sale appliance in
perspective view from the back side, in enlarged scale.
In the drawings FIGS. 1 to 6 show an embodiment of a goods carrier
3 for flat goods or flat good packages, such as dress shirts
pivotally disposed at the lower front edge of each of the
compartments of a main shelf 1, subdivided in at least two
horizontal ranges of compartments with bottom walls 2, preferably
of wood plates, artificial material, metal or the like.
Each goods carrier 3 includes a common hollow base body 4 which has
an upper wall 5, a vertical front wall 6, a lower horizontal wall 7
and lateral sidewalls 8 and 9, to which are attached the horizontal
pivots 10 of the hollow base body 4 interengaging bearing supports
11 attached to the bottom wall 2 of each shelf compartment.
In the embodiment of FIGS. 1 to 3 the upper wall 5 is subdivided in
staggered disposed wall parts 12, 13, 14 interconnected with each
other. Whereas in the embodiment of FIGS. 4 to 6 the upper wall is
in the shape of a quarter of a circle.
Upon the upper walls 5 and 5' of the base body 4 each of said goods
carriers 3 has a fanlike or starlike about the horizontal axis of
the pivots 10 disposed insertion pockets 15, 16, 17 for the goods
or the goods packages, which have lateral limiting members 18,
intermediate partitions 19 and closed bottoms defined by the
staggered wall parts 12, 13, 14 of the upper wall 5 in FIGS. 1 to 3
or the circular wall 5' in FIGS. 4 to 6. The limiting members 18
and partitions 19 of the insertion pockets consist of wire, rods or
the like and being attached thereto.
Each of the partitions 19 consists of one uniform wire, rod or the
like in U-shaped form inserted with the free ends into holes of the
bottom walls 12, 13, 14 or 5' of the insertion pockets 15, 16, 17
and attached thereto.
In front of the foremost insertion pocket 15 and the vertical front
wall 6 of the hollow base body 4 an additional advertising
insertion pocket 20 is provided adapted to receive a model good
piece. The bottom of this additional insertion pocket 20 is defined
by a prolongation wall part of the lower horizontal wall 7 of the
hollow base body 4 or by wires.
The limiting members 18 of all insertion pockets 15, 16, 17 of each
goods carrier 3 consist of one uniform integral wire, rod or the
like, one end of which is attached at one side to the bottom of the
foremost insertion pocket 15. Said wire, rod or the like extends
with a part 21 horizontally and then vertically upwardly to an
intermediate height of the overall height of the insertion pockets
15, 16, 17, extending subsequently at this intermediate height at
first horizontally outwardly and then along the one lateral side of
all of the insertion pockets 15, 16, 17, subsequently is guided
behind this last insertion pocket 17 and extends then along the
opposite lateral side of all insertion pockets 17, 16, 15 to the
foremost insertion pocket 15, wherein it extends horizontally
inwardly, and is then bent with a part 22 downwardly therefrom and
extends subsequently with a part 21 horizontally to a position at
which its other end engages the bottom 7 of the foremost insertion
pocket 15 at the other side thereof and is attached thereto. The
parts 21 of the wire, rod or the like define the bottoms of the
additional insertion pocket 20.
The lateral limiting members 18 for all insertion pockets 20, 15,
16, 17 are spaced from each other somewhat more than the vertical
wire parts of the intermediate U-shaped partitions 19 for better
support and separation of the inserted flat goods in the adjacent
insertion pockets. On the short front parts 23 of the limiting
members 18 any plate 25 for designation of the single goods
carriers 3 or the sorted goods inserted therein may be
attached.
In FIG. 7 a perspective view of one goods carrier 3 according to
the embodiment of FIGS. 4 to 6 in a compartment of the main shelf 1
from the back side with parts of the main shelf 1 and its
compartments and in interconnection with said goods carrier 3 are
better clearer visible represented than in the schematic FIGS. 1 to
6.
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