EP1704801A2 - Présentoir avec une configuration variable - Google Patents

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EP1704801A2
EP1704801A2 EP06111194A EP06111194A EP1704801A2 EP 1704801 A2 EP1704801 A2 EP 1704801A2 EP 06111194 A EP06111194 A EP 06111194A EP 06111194 A EP06111194 A EP 06111194A EP 1704801 A2 EP1704801 A2 EP 1704801A2
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Sergio Borsato
Calogero Giuseppe Italiano
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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
    • A47F7/00—Show stands, hangers, or shelves, adapted for particular articles or materials
    • A47F7/02—Show stands, hangers, or shelves, adapted for particular articles or materials for jewellery, dentures, watches, eye-glasses, lenses, or the like
    • A47F7/021—Show stands, hangers, or shelves, adapted for particular articles or materials for jewellery, dentures, watches, eye-glasses, lenses, or the like for eye-glasses
    • 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
    • A47F5/02—Rotary display stands
    • 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
    • A47F5/04—Stands with a central pillar, e.g. tree type

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  • the present invention relates to a display with variable configuration.
  • These displays can be of the wall-mounted, shelf, or glass-case type and also of the type formed by a column with a plurality of radial arms for supporting lightweight articles, for example eyeglasses.
  • Known displays While being used and appreciated, generally have an inflexible structure, i.e., the supporting surfaces and the supports for the articles on display cannot be tilted or oriented variously in other ways; at the most, column-type displays can turn about their own vertical axis.
  • This structural inflexibility often does not allow the display to enhance in the best possible way the article displayed on it, which can have an aesthetic aspect of great importance in a region which is not visible when the article is placed on the display support.
  • the aim of the present invention is to provide a variable-configuration display which obviates the drawbacks of known types of display.
  • an object of the present invention is to provide a variable-configuration display which is able to give the best possible prominence to the articles displayed thereon.
  • Another object of the present invention is to provide a variable-configuration display which is capable of supporting articles having the most disparate shapes and dimensions.
  • Another object of the present invention is to provide a variable-configuration display which can be installed easily in any shop window or internal space of a shop, point of sale, exhibition display space, and the like.
  • Another object of the present invention is to provide a variable-configuration display which is lightweight, easy to handle and intuitive in installation and therefore can be managed even by personnel lacking particular prior training.
  • Another object of the present invention is to provide a variable-configuration display which can be manufactured at low cost with known systems and technologies.
  • variable-configuration display characterized in that it is constituted by a supporting element for a ball which is suitable to enter, with reversible interlocking, a receptacle of an item supporting frame which can rotate thereon about three axes.
  • variable-configuration display is generally designated by the reference numeral 10.
  • the display 10 is constituted by a supporting element 11 for a ball 12, which is suitable to enter, with reversible interlocking, a receptacle 13 of an item supporting frame 14.
  • the frame 14 can rotate about the ball 12 on three axes, respectively 15, 16 and 17.
  • the receptacle 13 can be accessed through an elastically deformable frustum-shaped opening 18 for the insertion of the ball 12.
  • the receptacle 13 is formed by two facing concavities 19 shaped like a spherical dome, in which the ball 12 is arranged.
  • the frustum-shaped opening 18 and the receptacle 13 with spherical domes 19 are mutually contiguous by way of the interposition of an annular extraction-preventing constriction region 20.
  • At least one dimension of the transverse cross-section of the constriction region 20 is smaller than the diameter of the ball 12.
  • the ball 12 is pushed into the frustum-shaped opening 18 and undergoes an elastic deformation in order to make the ball 12 pass.
  • the opening 18 returns to its original configuration and so does the constriction region 20, which by virtue of its dimension which is smaller than the diameter of the ball 12 prevents said ball from disengaging from the receptacle 13.
  • the radius of the spherical-dome concavities 19 is smaller than the radius of the ball 12, so that the item supporting frame 14 maintains its configuration on the ball 12 due to the friction produced by interference between the ball 12 and the concavities 19.
  • the supporting element 11 is a rod which is suitable to be inserted with interference in a complementarily shaped, transverse hole 21 of the ball 12.
  • a same rod 11 can support more than one ball and therefore a plurality of item supporting frames 14.
  • the frame 14 is composed of two detachable first and second parts 22 and 23.
  • a first part 22 is provided with the receptacle 13 and its opening 18 to be associated with the ball 12.
  • the second part 23 is designed to support an article to be displayed.
  • the first part 22 and the second part 23 are mutually associable by way of reversible fixing means.
  • Said reversible fixing means are constituted by an insert 24, which is arranged at a first end of the second part 23 and is suitable to enter a complementarily shaped receptacle 25 which is open on the first part 22.
  • the first part 22 has symmetrical protrusions 26 for balancing the weight of the second part 23 and of the article that said part supports.
  • the second part 23, by way of the reversible fixing means, can be replaced with another second part which has a different structure but has the same end insert 24 for engagement with the first part 22.
  • the first part 22 can be equipped selectively with one among a plurality of second parts, each of which is dedicated to supporting a specific article.
  • the second part 23 is shaped so as to support eyeglasses.
  • the flexibility of the display 10 in allowing to be variously inclined about three axes allows to set up the frame 14 in such a configuration as to enhance in an optimum manner the aspects that best characterize, in terms of visual impact, the eyeglasses being supported.
  • the frame 14 can be just as easily oriented so as to enhance the article according to the lighting which affects the display.
  • the rod 11, in the exemplary embodiment described here, is made of metallic material.
  • the ball 12 and the second part 23 of the frame 14 are made of plastics, for example ABS (acronym of Acrylonitrile-Butadiene-Styrene), while the first part 22 is also made of a plastic material, but of the type of Nylon 66 mixed with an elastomer.
  • ABS acronym of Acrylonitrile-Butadiene-Styrene
  • the present invention provides a variable-configuration display which can give the best possible prominence to the articles displayed thereon.
  • variable-configuration display which can carry articles having the most disparate shapes and dimensions.
  • the present invention provides a variable-configuration display which can be installed easily in any window or interior of a shop, point of sale, exhibition display space, and the like.
  • the present invention provides a variable-configuration display which is lightweight, easy to handle and intuitive to install and therefore can be managed even by personnel lacking particular prior training.
  • the present invention provides a variable-configuration display which can be manufactured at low cost with known systems and technologies and can be obtained to a large extent by molding plastic material.
  • the materials employed may be any according to requirements and to the state of the art.

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  • Mirrors, Picture Frames, Photograph Stands, And Related Fastening Devices (AREA)
  • Illuminated Signs And Luminous Advertising (AREA)
  • Devices For Indicating Variable Information By Combining Individual Elements (AREA)
  • Display Racks (AREA)
EP06111194A 2005-03-22 2006-03-15 Présentoir avec une configuration variable Withdrawn EP1704801A3 (fr)

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IT000017U ITPD20050017U1 (it) 2005-03-22 2005-03-22 Espositore ad assetto variabile

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