JP2000253965A - Desk type cooled showcase - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a desk type cooled showcase which, when installed on a service counter or the like, allows an article display room to have sufficient appeal to customers and permit effective 'self-selling' which requires customers themselves to take out articles on a desk and effective 'face-to-face selling' in which clerks deliver articles to customers. SOLUTION: This showcase includes a front surface 4 through which stored articles 10 are viewable to customers, a service surface 6 located alongside the front surface 4 for allowing clerks to view the stored articles 10 through it, an article display room 9 formed in succession along the backs of the front surface 4 and the service surface 6, and a machine room 13 enclosed in a space formed behind the article display room 9 to enclose machinery for cooling the inside of the article display room 9. The articles can thus be sold from both the front surface 4 and the service surface 6.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a table-top cooling showcase used on a service table of a store or the like.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A table-top cooling showcase used on a service table of a store or the like is generally designed so that the product can be seen from the outside as shown in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 46456/1988. A machine room for cooling the display room is provided below the display room to be displayed.

[0003]

In the above-mentioned prior art, the position of the display room naturally rises, and it is difficult for the customer to see the product or to take the product, thereby lowering the sales efficiency. Also, the machine room makes the design effect seen from the front worse. Furthermore, since the hot air from the machine room flows toward the customer or the sales clerk, it causes discomfort to the customer or the sales clerk, and dust adheres to the periphery of the machine room to give a bad hygienic impression to the customer, There are problems such as impairing the appearance.

[0004] The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned problems, and has a desk-top type capable of sufficiently appealing to a customer when a cooling showcase is installed on a service counter or the like. The present invention provides a cooling showcase. Another object of the present invention is to provide a desktop-type cooling showcase that can effectively carry out so-called self-sale, in which a customer takes out goods on a desk, and so-called face-to-face sales, in which a clerk hands over the goods to the customer.

[0005]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention provides a front face through which a stored product can be seen for a customer, and a stored product located next to the front face and corresponding to a store clerk. A service surface that can be seen through, a product display room formed continuously along the back side of the front surface and the service surface, and a product display room provided in the product display room so that products can move from the service surface to the front surface. A product display shelf, a machine room that is housed in a space formed behind the product display room and stores a machine for cooling the product display room, and a product on the product display shelf on the service side. And a door for taking out a product on the product display shelf on the front side.

According to another aspect of the present invention, the front surface and the service surface are disposed at an angle of about 90 degrees, and the machine room is surrounded by the front surface and the service surface. The technical means of being located in the projection area behind the product display room was adopted.

Further, in order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention provides a technical means in which the merchandise display shelf is formed so that merchandise on the merchandise display shelf slides from the service surface toward the front surface. Adopted.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a door for loading a commodity onto the commodity display shelf from the service side and a door for taking out the commodity on the commodity display shelf from the front side. Has adopted the technical means of forming windows through which the products on the product display shelf can be seen.

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention has a structure in which the commodity display room is formed over substantially the entire height of the cooling showcase, and the front surface and the service surface are formed over substantially the entire height of the commodity display room. The technical means of forming was adopted.

According to another aspect of the present invention, in order to solve the above-mentioned problem, the product display shelf is formed such that the product on the shelf slides by its own weight and moves from the service surface side to the front side. Technical measures were adopted.

Further, in order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention provides a technical means in which an air flow in the machine room is sucked from a rear surface and / or a bottom surface of the machine room and discharged from the upper surface. Adopted.

[0012]

Next, an embodiment of the present invention will be described. 1 to 7 show a cooling showcase according to a first embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing a state where the cooling showcase is installed on a service counter. FIG. 2 is a state showing a front door opened. FIG. 3 is a perspective view of the cooling showcase with the service door open, FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional plan view of the cooling showcase with the front door and the service door open, FIG. 5 is a plan view of the cooling showcase, and FIG. Is a rear view of the cooling showcase, and FIG. 7 is a vertical sectional side view of the cooling showcase. FIG.
FIG. 9 is a cross-sectional plan view of the cooling showcase of the second embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 9 is a cross-sectional plan view of the cooling showcase of the third embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 10 is a cross-sectional view of the fourth embodiment of the present invention. It is a cross-sectional plan view of a cooling showcase.

[0013] One means of the present invention is a front surface capable of seeing stored goods corresponding to a customer, a service surface located beside the front surface and capable of seeing stored goods corresponding to a clerk, the front surface and the service. A product cooling chamber formed continuously along the back side of the surface; a product display shelf provided in the product cooling room so that the product can move from the service surface toward the front surface; and the product cooling chamber. A machine room that is housed in a space formed at the rear of the machine and houses a machine for cooling the product cooling chamber, a door for loading products on the product display shelf on the service side, and the front side. Is a table-top cooling showcase having a door for taking out a product on the product display shelf.

A first embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. Reference numeral 1 denotes a table-top cooling showcase installed on a so-called table 2 such as a service counter of a store. The showcase 1 has a rectangular parallelepiped or cubic box shape as a whole, and the front surface 4 corresponding to the customer 3 can be opened and closed by a front door 5 which almost entirely forms a window through which the products on the product display shelf 11 can be seen. Configuration. The surface adjacent to the front surface 4 of the showcase 1 at an angle of about 90 degrees is a service surface 6 where the clerk 8 hands over and sells the product 10 to the customer 3, and almost the entire service surface 6 is provided. It is a configuration that can be opened and closed by a service door 7 that forms a window through which a product on the product display shelf 11 can be seen. In FIG. 1, hatched portions indicate windows that can be seen through. The front surface 4 and the service surface 6 are arranged at an angle of about 90 degrees, and a product display room 9 is formed continuously along the back side of the front surface 4 and the service surface 6, and the product display room 9 stores the product 10. A cooling chamber for cooling is formed. Product display shelves 11 for displaying products 10 from the service surface 6 to the front surface 4 are placed in the product display room 9 up and down 2.
The product 10 slides under its own weight and moves from the service surface 6 toward the front surface 4. The merchandise display shelf 11 is arranged on the front surface 4 so that the merchandise 10 moves in a flat U-turn from the back side to the front side to improve the display effect of the merchandise 10 on the front surface 4. The product display room 9 is located behind the product display shelf 11 and has a plate-shaped cooler 12 which is bent substantially at right angles from the service surface 6 to the front surface 4 so that natural convection of air flows through the product display room 9. Cooling. In order to improve the display effect of the product, the front surface of the cooler 12 is painted with the same color as the wall surface of the product display room 9, for example, a white paint, the advertisement of the product 10 is provided on the front surface of the cooler 12, or the cooling is performed. The front surface of the container 12 may be mirror-finished, or a method of providing a mirror having an area covering the front surface of the cooler 12 between the cooler 12 and the product display shelf 11 may be adopted. Reference numeral 13 denotes a machine room arranged in a projection area behind the product display room 9 and surrounded by the front surface 4 and the service surface 6, and is connected to the cooler 12 by a refrigerant circuit to form a refrigeration unit machine 14. Is stored. For this reason, the machine room 13 is arranged in the rear projection area surrounded by the product display room 9. The refrigeration unit machine 14 mainly includes a refrigerant compressor 15, a condenser 16 and a blower 17, and the refrigerant compressed by the refrigerant compressor 15
After being condensed by heat exchange by the blower 17 and decompressed by the decompression device 18, it enters the cooler 12 and evaporates to cool the product display room 9. The refrigerant evaporated in the cooler 12 is compressed again by the refrigerant compressor 15 and repeats circulation to the condenser 16. An air inlet 19 for air into the machine room 13 is formed on the bottom and / or back surface of the machine room 13, and an air outlet 20 for air is formed on the upper surface of the machine room 13. In the above description, the front surface 4 and the service surface 6 are formed over almost the entire height of the showcase 1 except for the top plate and the bottom plate of the showcase 1, and the commodity display room 9 is provided with the top plate and the bottom plate of the cooling showcase 1. Except for this, it is formed over almost the entire height of the showcase 1. For this reason, the front surface 4 and the service surface 6 are formed over almost the entire height of the product display room 9.

In this configuration, in the state of selling goods by the showcase 1, the goods 10 are displayed on the goods display shelf 11 and cooled. The clerk 8 sells the product to the customer 3
In the so-called face-to-face sales in which the customer sells the product 10 by hand, the service door 7 that opens and closes the service surface 6 is opened, and the clerk 8 sells the product 10 to the customer 3 by hand. In this case, the service door 7 is supported by upper and lower supports at the intersection of the front surface 4 and the service surface 6 and is opened in the front 4 direction. 10 does not remain on the product display shelf 11 on the service surface 6 indefinitely. On the other hand, in the so-called self-selling, in which the customer 3 takes out the product 10, the customer 3 can take out the product 10 by opening the front door 5 that opens and closes the front surface 4. To replenish the product 10, the clerk 8 opens the service door 7 and places the product 10 from the service surface 6 to the product display shelf 11 from the rear end. The commodities 10 are sequentially slid and moved toward the front 4 directions by their own weight along the inclination of the commodity display shelves 11, and are aligned on the commodity display shelves 11. As for the air flow in the machine room 13, the air sucked from the air suction ports 19 on the bottom surface and the back surface rises inside the machine room 13 by the blower 17 and is discharged from the discharge port 20 on the top surface. Therefore, the air discharged from the machine room 13 does not blow directly to the customer 3 or the clerk 8.

Next, a cooling showcase according to a second embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. The service surface 6 is covered with a transparent plate 21, and a transparent service door 7 for loading a product on the service surface 6 is provided on the back surface of the showcase 1 corresponding to the start end of the product display shelf 11. The transparent front door 5 of the front surface 4 is pivotally supported on the right side and can be opened and closed.

Next, a cooling showcase according to a third embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. 9 mainly showing differences from the first embodiment. The front surface 4 and the service surface 6 are covered with a continuous transparent plate 22. The transparent service door 7 for loading the product on the service surface 6 is provided on the product display shelf 1.
1 is provided on the back of the showcase 1 corresponding to the start end of the showcase 1. A transparent front door 5 for taking out products from the front surface 4 is provided on the right side of the showcase 1 corresponding to the end of the product display shelf 11. The merchandise display shelf 11 has an S-shaped bent shape on the front side so that merchandise is displayed in three front and rear rows.

Next, a cooling showcase according to a fourth embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. In the fourth embodiment, service surfaces 6 are provided on both the left and right sides of the front surface 4, and substantially the entire service surface 6 can be opened and closed by a transparent service door 7. The front surface 4 corresponding to the customer 3 can be opened and closed almost entirely by a front door 5 constituting a window through which the products on the product display shelf 11 can be seen. In the product display room 9, a substantially U-shaped product display room 9 is formed continuously along the front side 4 and the back side of the service surface 6, and the product 10 is provided in the product display room 9 from the service surface 6 to the front surface 4. Commodity display shelves 11 for display are provided in upper and lower two tiers.
The plate-shaped cooler 12 is arranged in a substantially U-shape along the rear wall of the commodity display room 9. The merchandise display shelf 11 is inclined so that the merchandise 10 slides under its own weight from the service surface 6 toward the front surface 4. They are arranged so as to move in a U-turn to improve the display effect of the products 10 on the front surface 4. The machine room 13 is disposed in a rear projection area surrounded by the front surface 4 and the service surface 6 and is located behind a central portion of the front surface 4. For this reason, the machine room 13 is arranged in the rear projection area surrounded by the product display room 9. The service door 7 is supported by upper and lower supports at the intersection of the front surface 4 and the service surface 6 and is opened in the front 4 direction, so that it can be sold from the product 10 on the front 4 and the old product 10 can be used forever. It does not remain on the product display shelf 11 on the service surface 6. Other configurations are the same as those of the first embodiment.
The cooling showcase 1 in this case includes a service table 2
Suitable for installation in the middle part of

The first to fourth embodiments, which are specific examples of the present invention, are generally configured as described above. However, the present invention is not limited to these embodiments, and is described in the claims. Various changes can be made within the described range.

[0020]

As described in the above embodiment,
In the table-top cooling showcase of the present invention, when installed on a service counter or the like, the customer can see the product display room from a height that is easily viewable to the customer, almost on the front of the showcase and over a large area on the service surface. Thus, it is possible to provide a table-top cooling showcase that can sufficiently show the product display effect. The present invention can also provide a desktop-type cooling showcase that can effectively carry out so-called self-sale, in which a customer takes out goods on a desk, and so-called face-to-face sales, in which a clerk hands the goods to the customer. Further, it is possible to prevent a customer or a clerk from being exposed to the air discharged from the machine room and feeling uncomfortable. Further, there is no problem that dust adhering around the machine room is visible to customers and impairs aesthetic appearance.
Furthermore, the configuration in which the machine room is arranged in the projection area surrounded by the front surface and the service surface behind the product display room can be configured so that almost the entire height of the cooling showcase can be a see-through surface, The feature can be exhibited as a cooling showcase that can enhance the product display effect to customers through the front surface and the service surface beside it.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing a state in which a cooling showcase according to a first embodiment of the present invention is installed on a service counter.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the cooling showcase according to the first embodiment of the present invention in a state where a front door is opened.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view of the cooling showcase according to the first embodiment of the present invention in a state where a service door is opened.

FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional plan view of the cooling showcase with the front door and service door of the cooling showcase of the first embodiment according to the present invention opened.

FIG. 5 is a plan view of the cooling showcase of the first embodiment according to the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a rear view of the cooling showcase of the first embodiment according to the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a vertical sectional side view of the cooling showcase of the first embodiment according to the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a cross-sectional plan view of a cooling showcase according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 9 is a cross-sectional plan view of a cooling showcase according to a third embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 10 is a cross-sectional plan view of a cooling showcase according to a fourth embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Cooling showcase 4 ... Front 5 ... Front door 6 ... Service surface 7 ... Service door 9 ... Product display room 10 ... Product 11 ... Product display shelf 12 ... Cooler 13 ... Machine room 14 ... Freezing Unit machine 19: Air inlet 20: Air outlet

Claims (7)

[Claims] 1. A front surface which can see through stored goods corresponding to a customer, a service surface located beside the front side and which can see through stored goods according to a clerk, and a back side between the front surface and the service surface. A product display room formed continuously from the service surface to the front surface, a product display shelf provided in the product display room from the service surface to the front surface, and a product display room stored in a space formed behind the product display room. A machine room storing a machine for cooling the product, a door for loading a product on the product display shelf on the service side, and a door for taking out the product on the product display shelf on the front side. Tabletop cooling showcase. 2. The front surface and the service surface are approximately 90 in length.
2. The table-top cooling system according to claim 1, wherein the machine room is arranged at an angle of degrees, and the machine room is arranged in a projection area behind the commodity display room surrounded by the front surface and the service surface. Showcase. 3. The table-top cooling showcase according to claim 1, wherein the merchandise display shelf is inclined so that merchandise thereon moves from the service surface toward the front surface. 4. A service door for loading a product on the product display shelf from the service surface and a front door for taking out the product on the product display shelf from the front surface, respectively. 2. The table-top cooling showcase according to claim 1, wherein a window that can be seen through is configured. 5. The product display room is formed over substantially the entire height of the cooling showcase, and the front surface and the service surface are formed over substantially the entire height of the product display room. Tabletop cooling showcase. 6. The tabletop type according to claim 1, wherein the commodity display shelf is formed such that the commodity on the shelf moves under its own weight and moves from the service side to the front side. Cooling showcase. 7. The table-top cooling showcase according to claim 2, wherein the flow of air in the machine room is sucked from the back and / or bottom surface of the machine room and discharged from the top surface.