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EP0363036A2 - Tragevorrichtung zur Verwendung in einem Ausstellungssystem - Google Patents

Tragevorrichtung zur Verwendung in einem Ausstellungssystem Download PDF

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EP0363036A2
EP0363036A2 EP89309451A EP89309451A EP0363036A2 EP 0363036 A2 EP0363036 A2 EP 0363036A2 EP 89309451 A EP89309451 A EP 89309451A EP 89309451 A EP89309451 A EP 89309451A EP 0363036 A2 EP0363036 A2 EP 0363036A2
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upright
foot
insert
support means
lugs
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Anthony J. Smyth-Tyrell
Paul Barnes
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BFN STOREFITTERS Ltd
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BFN STOREFITTERS Ltd
Baxter Fell Northfleet Ltd
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47F—SPECIAL FURNITURE, FITTINGS, OR ACCESSORIES FOR SHOPS, STOREHOUSES, BARS, RESTAURANTS OR THE LIKE; PAYING COUNTERS
    • A47F5/00—Show stands, hangers, or shelves characterised by their constructional features
    • A47F5/10—Adjustable or foldable or dismountable display stands
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47B—TABLES; DESKS; OFFICE FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; GENERAL DETAILS OF FURNITURE
    • A47B91/00—Feet for furniture in general

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  • This invention relates to a support means for use in a display system.
  • Display systems which incorporate spaced tubular steel uprights, each fitted with a foot.
  • Each upright has a series of locating holes formed therein, into which cantilever brackets may be engaged, shelves then being supported on the brackets. Back sheets to the shelves, together with other items of trim may also be secured to the upright.
  • the feet are critical in giving stability to the system, and they are typically either manufactured from tubular steel sections or from two appropriately shaped steel plates. When the system is to be heavily loaded, the feet are generally welded to their respective uprights, while for lighter loadings they can be mechanically fixed to the uprights by any suitable engagement system.
  • the invention has for its object to provide a support means for use in a display system, which support means provides a mechanical connection between a foot and an upright that it very much stronger than existing mechanical connections, and that can approach structural performance equivalent to that of a welded connection.
  • support means for use in a display system comprises a hollow upright having a substantially planar face in which longitudinally aligned locating holes are formed at substantially identical spacing along the length of the face, each pair of adjacent holes being separated by a web of the material from which the upright is formed; a foot engaged with the lower part of the upright to extend transversely thereto, the foot having at one end thereof a series of spaced lugs which are engaged with locating holes on the upright and which have regions that are locked behind parts of the webs of the upright to hold the foot in position relative to the upright; and an insert located in that end of the upright with which the foot is engaged, the insert having a height at least substantially equal to the height of the foot, and the insert having upper and lower sections that are of complementary cross-section to, and a close fit within the interior of the upright, and having a body extending between the upper and lower sections, the body being shaped so as to locate behind, and to provide support to, at least some of those webs against which the foot is located.
  • the insert may take many different forms.
  • the upper and lower sections that are of complementary cross-section to the interior of the upright may be provided at the upper and lower extremities of the insert or spaced some distance from those extremities.
  • the height of these sections is not critical, but they should not present significant obstructions to the locating holes in the uprights.
  • the upper section should ideally be at a height no lower than the upper part of the foot.
  • the insert may have one or more additional sections that are complementary to the interior of the upright, and these may be located as required on the insert.
  • the shape of the insert is such that it must provide the necessary support to some, and preferably to all, of the webs against which the foot is located, and it should also be shaped so that it does not hinder insertion and locking of the lugs of the foot into the locating holes of the upright.
  • the body of the insert in those regions where it provides support to the webs, has a shape such that insert material extends completely across the interior of the upright to that interior surface of the upright opposite to the webs. This assists the load transference effect to which reference has already been made.
  • the body of the insert may be an elongate plate having a width substantially equal to the distance between the interior surface of a web and the opposite interior surface of the upright.
  • the plate desirably has a thickness that is less than the width of a locating hole measured transversely of the upright, such reduced width allowing engagement of the lugs of the foot into the locating holes.
  • the plate may be formed with cutouts lying immediately behind the locating holes in the upright, further to facilitate engagement of the lugs of the foot into the locating holes.
  • the insert desirably adjacent to the shaped lower section thereof, has a tongue projecting through the lowermost locating hole of the upright, the tongue carrying a formation that is engageable with a complementary formation on part of the foot spaced away from the upright.
  • This additional load bearing engagement between the upright and the foot effectively prevents the undesirable twisting, and also prevents any relative vertical movement between the foot and the upright.
  • the foot can take any one of a number of different forms, but preferably it comprises two side by side similar plates, each engaged with the lower part of the upright.
  • Each plate has lugs, with one lug from each of the plates being engaged in a common one of the locating holes. If the body of the upright is of plate form then the lugs of the two plates of the foot will lie to opposite sides of that body. In order to facilitate insertion of the lugs of the foot into the locating holes, these lugs may be bent slightly out of the plane of the respective plate the lugs of one plate diverging from those of the other.
  • the plates may lie to opposite sides of the tongue, the tongue carrying formations on each side thereof, each formation being engageable with a complementary formation on a respective one of the plates.
  • locating holes may be formed in more than one such face, and particularly in two opposite faces.
  • the insert will then be shaped so as to provide support to the webs of each face in which locating holes are provided, and the insert may also have a projecting tongue associated with each of those faces.
  • FIGS. 1 and 2 show a support system comprising an upright 1, a foot 2 and an insert 3.
  • the upright extends upwardly to any suitable height and is designed to be positioned so that it is spaced transversely from a further upright, the two uprights then supporting shelves fixed to cantilever brackets extending from the uprights above their respective feet 2.
  • Opposite faces 4, 5 of the upright are formed with a regularly spaced series of rectangular locating holes 6, 7, with immediately adjacent locating holes being separated by webs 8, 9 respectively of upright material.
  • the brackets that support the shelves have lugs at their inner end which may be engaged into locating holes 6, the bracket then being pushed downwardly so that regions of those lugs are locked behind webs associated with those holes.
  • a similar system of engagement is used for the foot as shown in figure 1, the inner end of the footplate having three spaced lugs 10, which can be inserted into three adjacent locating holes and then locked in position by being pushed downwardly so that regions of those lugs engages behind the webs associated with the holes.
  • the invention resides in the provision of the insert 3 and its interaction with the upright and foot.
  • One form of insert is shown in detail in figure 3.
  • the insert is formed from two similar parts 11, 12 secured back to back by a fastening means passed through holes 13, by adhesive, by welding or by any other means.
  • the insert may be cast or moulded as an integral assembly.
  • the insert has an upper section 14 and a lower section 15, each of these sections being of complementary cross-­section to, and a close fit within, the interior of the upright, as will be seen from figure 2. Between these upper and lower sections, the insert has a body in the form of an elongate plate 16 formed with a series of spaced cutouts 17, 18 lying to opposite sides of the centre of the plate. The cutouts define plate projections 19, 20, and the distance between the extremities of opposite projections 19, 20, i.e. the width of the plate, is substantially equal to the distance between the interior surfaces of opposed webs 8, 9 of the upright.
  • a lower part of the insert, immediately above and adjacent to the lower section 15, has tongues 21, 22, the ends of which are provided with formations in the form of upper and lower outwardly projecting tags, 23, 24 for tongue 21 and 25, 26 for tongue 22.
  • the insert is formed with an elongate, circular section opening 27 and associated openings 28, 29 designed to accommodate the bolt and nut of an adjustment means forming part of an adjustable support secured to the bottom of the upright in known fashion.
  • the foot is formed of two side by side similar plates 40, 41.
  • the inner end of each plate is provided with three lugs 10, which, as will be seen from figure 5 are bent out of the plane of the respective plate and which diverge slightly from the lugs of the adjacent plate.
  • the angle ⁇ of bend is preferably made as small as possible while being consistent with easy insert of the lugs into the locating holes on the upright as will later be described.
  • the upper edges of the plates 40, 41 are formed with locating notches such as 43 to enable a shelf to be located and supported thereon.
  • the plates are provided with localised deformations that provide an opening for a pin, deformations 44 on plate 40 being in vertical alignment with, but vertically spaced from, similar deformations 45 on plate 41.
  • the plates also have cutouts, cutouts 46 on plate 41 being located and shaped so as to be engageable with the tags 23 on tongue 21, and similar cutouts on plate 40 being engageable with the tags 24 on tongue 21.
  • the insert of figure 3 is inserted into the bottom end of the upright as shown in figure 1 until the lower section 15 of the insert lies within the interior of the upright, and the parts 19 and 20 of the insert body lie respectively behind webs 8 and 9 of the upright. It is important that the upper and lower sections 14 and 15 be a close fit within the interior of the upright, and desirably this fit should be as tight as possible while being consistent with reasonably easy insertion and removal of the insert.
  • a first one of the plates 40, 41 that make up the foot has its lugs 10 inserted into openings of the upright, the cutouts 17 of the insert facilitating this insertion, and the insertion being further facilitated by the angle of the lugs to the main body of the plate.
  • the plate is pushed downwardly so that regions of the lugs engage behind respective webs 8 of the upright as shown in figure 1.
  • the other place is then inserted with the lugs diverging from the lugs of the first plate and is similarly pushed downwards into appropriate engagement.
  • the two plates are then pulled together as indicated by the arrow A from the broken to the solid lines in figure 2.
  • the openings 46 on the plates move into engagement with their respective tags 23, 24.
  • the formations 44, 45 also move into vertical alignment, and pins can then be inserted downwardly into those formations in order to hold the plates in their side by side location as shown in figures 2 and 5.
  • brackets When brackets are secured to the upright above the foot, shelves are placed on those brackets and loadings are applied to the shelves, then the effect is to give a twisting moment in the direction of arrow B between the upright and the foot.
  • This translates into a compressive force on the web 8a at the upper part of the footplates, and a tensile force on the web 8b at the lower part of the footplates.
  • the presence of the tongue 21 and the tag formations interengaging with the footplates converts this tensile force from a pull on web 8b and a twisting of the lowermost lugs of the footplates into a straight tensile force within the tongue 21.
  • the engagement of the tags 23, 24 in the cutouts such as 46 has the further function of preventing relative vertical movement between the plates and the upright, and thus prevents inadvertent release of the footplate lugs from the upright.
  • the upright shown has locating holes in two opposed faces 4, 5, and the longitudinal centre line of the holes in face 4 is slightly offset from the longitudinal centre line of the holes in face 5. It will be seen from figure 2 that, as a result of this affect, the plate 16 forming the body of the insert makes an angle other than a right angle with the faces 4, 5. This angle can be changed to accommodate any given offset.
  • the foot need not be formed of footplates, and feet of tubular or other construction can be used.
  • the feet may be of any required height, and have any appropriate number of lugs; the three lugs shown in the drawings is only exemplary.
  • footplates are provided only on one face of the upright then only one of the tongues 21, 22 need be provided. Indeed, even that tongue could be omitted and replaced by some other interengagement between the lower part of the footplate and the insert and upright. It is preferred the insert extend across the full width of the upright behind the webs that it is supporting, although this is not essential. Thus, if footplates are to be supported only from the face 4 of the upright then the parts 20 of the plate could be omitted, and advantage would still be gained. However, even in this context, the parts 20 are preferred as they assist stress distribution.
  • cutouts 17 in the insert factilitate the insertion of the footplate lugs, and of lugs on brackets supported in the upper regions of the upright, they may not be essential if the thickness of the plates and lug and the width of the openings in the upright are designed accordingly.
  • the dual footplate arrangement described is also not essential and different footplate arrangements can be used.

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WO1991016838A1 (de) * 1990-05-02 1991-11-14 3K Büromöbel Gmbh Fuss für büromöbel
WO2003094672A1 (en) * 2002-05-08 2003-11-20 Samuelsons Inredningar Ab Device at rail formed hollow posts
EP1407696A3 (de) * 2002-10-07 2005-01-12 Expedit A/S Regalsystem
NL1024596C2 (nl) * 2003-10-23 2005-04-27 Vika Metaal B V Voetstuk voor een stelling.
DE202012012380U1 (de) * 2012-12-21 2014-03-24 Tegometall (International) Ag Hakenteil
EP2515717B1 (de) 2009-12-21 2015-09-23 Hmy Zubehör mit dickenoptimierung

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DE1529680A1 (de) * 1965-03-31 1969-05-14 Bouda Josef F Regalstaender,insbesondere fuer Verkaufsregale
US3801054A (en) * 1972-06-12 1974-04-02 M Glowacki Table support construction and mounting
FR2211065A5 (de) * 1972-11-01 1974-07-12 Link 51 Ltd
DE3028552A1 (de) * 1980-07-28 1982-02-25 Tegometall Rudolf Bohnacker, 7482 Krauchenwies Winkelfoermige trageinheit fuer stehende regale

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DE1529680A1 (de) * 1965-03-31 1969-05-14 Bouda Josef F Regalstaender,insbesondere fuer Verkaufsregale
US3801054A (en) * 1972-06-12 1974-04-02 M Glowacki Table support construction and mounting
FR2211065A5 (de) * 1972-11-01 1974-07-12 Link 51 Ltd
DE3028552A1 (de) * 1980-07-28 1982-02-25 Tegometall Rudolf Bohnacker, 7482 Krauchenwies Winkelfoermige trageinheit fuer stehende regale

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WO1991016838A1 (de) * 1990-05-02 1991-11-14 3K Büromöbel Gmbh Fuss für büromöbel
WO2003094672A1 (en) * 2002-05-08 2003-11-20 Samuelsons Inredningar Ab Device at rail formed hollow posts
EP1407696A3 (de) * 2002-10-07 2005-01-12 Expedit A/S Regalsystem
NL1024596C2 (nl) * 2003-10-23 2005-04-27 Vika Metaal B V Voetstuk voor een stelling.
EP1525823A1 (de) * 2003-10-23 2005-04-27 Vika Metaal B.V. Basis für ein Gestell
EP2515717B1 (de) 2009-12-21 2015-09-23 Hmy Zubehör mit dickenoptimierung
EP2515717B2 (de) † 2009-12-21 2018-10-10 Hmy Zubehör mit dickenoptimierung
DE202012012380U1 (de) * 2012-12-21 2014-03-24 Tegometall (International) Ag Hakenteil
WO2014096190A1 (de) * 2012-12-21 2014-06-26 Tegometall International Ag Hakenteil
CN104869866A (zh) * 2012-12-21 2015-08-26 蒂戈麦特尔（国际）股份公司 挂钩件
AU2013366646B2 (en) * 2012-12-21 2017-01-05 Tegometall International Ag Hook part

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