JP3388394B2 - Product sample for vending machines - Google Patents

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a product sample for a vending machine, which is mainly installed in a display window of a vending machine that sells canned beverages.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in vending machines that sell canned soft drinks and hot drinks, a window for displaying a product sample is provided on the front of the vending machine, and a window for displaying a product sample is provided in the window. Samples of the products for sale are installed on the stage for installing the product sample.

For canned drinks sold in this type of vending machine, for example, in the case of a so-called shoulder can whose top diameter is smaller than that of the body, 280 ml can, 350 ml can
There are three types of cans and 500 ml cans (hereinafter referred to as small cans, medium-sized cans, and large cans). These are molded to the size of each volume with the same diameter of the top and the body and different lengths. There is.

Similarly, in the case of so-called straight cans having the same diameters at the top, body and bottom, a plurality of types of cans having different capacities and different capacities are also used.

In the vending machine for selling such canned beverages, the product sample displayed is new and beautiful, but the sales amount is larger than that using the faded product sample. However, due to customary reasons, product samples are frequently replaced.

Regarding the replacement of this product sample, conventionally, a product sample in which an elastic sheet-shaped sample display body made of a synthetic resin is attached to a display body supporting member for supporting the display body in a replaceable manner, is used. It is intended to reduce the cost of exchanging product samples by regularly replacing only the sheet-shaped sample display.

[0007]

However, in the conventional product sample for the vending machine of this kind, not only the product display but also the display support member has different heights for each of the small can, the medium can and the large can. Were manufactured separately.

For this reason, the number of types of display member support members increases, the manufacturing cost is high, and when the product to be sold is to be changed to a can of a different capacity, the display member support member is changed each time. Therefore, it is troublesome for an operator who carries out the replenishment work of the products at the same time to carry the display body supporting member.

The present invention has been made in view of such conventional problems.
The purpose of the present invention is to provide a product sample for a vending machine in which a plurality of product samples having different capacities can be formed by using the same display member supporting member.

[0010]

The features of the present invention for solving the above-mentioned conventional problems and achieving the intended purpose are as follows.
The display body has an elastic sheet shape and has a product display body on the surface of which sales products such as cans and bottles are displayed, and a display body support member that holds the product display body in a curved arc shape. The support member is configured by projecting a display body upper edge holding portion and a display body lower edge holding portion on the upper and lower front portions of the vertically-oriented connecting portion arranged vertically on the back portion, and the display body supporting member with respect to the above. In a product sample for a vending machine, in which the upper and lower edges of the product display body are held along the display body upper edge holding portion and the display body lower edge holding portion, the display body supporting member is arranged vertically. The direction connecting portion is composed of an upper connecting member and a lower connecting member which are separate bodies from each other, and
The connecting members are slidably fitted to each other in the vertical direction, the connecting members are connected so that the relative positional relationship between the connecting members can be changed, and the upper edge holding portion of the display body or the display body.
One of the lower edge holding portions is provided with a vertically-shaped supporting shaft in the shape of a rod, and the lower side connecting member or the upper side of the other side is provided.
The connecting member is integrally provided with a support shaft fitting portion in which the support shaft is fitted in the axial direction, the support shaft is provided with stopper engaging recesses at predetermined intervals, and the support shaft fitting portion is provided with a spring piece. The stopper projection protruding toward the support shaft is engaged with the tip end by the elasticity of the spring piece so that the interval between the display body upper edge holding portion and the display body lower edge holding portion is increased in the longitudinal direction. It is possible to appropriately select and hold a plurality of types of product display bodies having different sizes.

The support shaft is composed of a metal rod-shaped member provided with a stopper engaging recess formed of an annular recessed groove in the circumferential direction, and the support shaft is provided on the lower surface of the display body upper edge holding portion or the display. It is preferable that it is provided so as to project from the upper surface of the lower edge holding portion.

Further, the support shaft fitting portion may be formed with a concave groove formed in the center of the upper connecting member or the lower connecting member in a shape that bulges from the back surface to the front surface side, or the upper edge of the display body. The holding portion and the lower edge of the display body have a circular arc-shaped front surface regulation along which the outer peripheral surface of the opposing surface faces the outer peripheral surface of the upper and lower peripheral surfaces of the product display, which are rounded into a substantially semi-cylindrical shape. It is preferable that the piece is integrally provided, and a display body side edge regulating portion with which both side edges of the product display body abut is provided on the front surface side of the vertically-oriented connecting portion.

[0013]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Next, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

1 to 3 show a first embodiment of the present invention, in which 1 is a product display and 10 is a display support member which supports the product display in a replaceable manner. .

The commodity display 1 is made of a synthetic resin sheet material having elasticity, has a light-transmitting property, and has the same display as the sale commodity printed on the surface. In addition, the product display 1 has a shoulder-shaped shoulder portion 2 on the upper edge in the shape of a product with a shoulder can.
Are integrally molded.

The display body supporting member 10 is composed of an upper half body 11 and a lower half body 12, which are combined with each other to form a vertically connecting portion 13 on the back portion and the upper and lower end portions thereof on the front surface of the display body. The edge holding portion 14 and the display body lower edge holding portion 15 have a shape protruding in a predetermined arrangement.

The upper half body 11 is composed of the display body upper edge holding portion 14 and an upper connecting member 13a integrally provided on the upper end front surface of the display body. The lower half body 12 is the lower edge of the display body. The holding portion 15 and a lower connecting member 13b integrally provided on the front surface of the lower end of the holding portion 15 are formed. The upper and lower connecting members 13a and 13b are combined with each other to form a vertical connecting portion 13. It has become so.

Both upper and lower connecting members 13a and 13b have both side edges bent forward, and both edges of the upper connecting member 13a are bent back in a folding direction. , 16 are integrally formed with each other, and a lower connecting member 13b is vertically slidable inside the both and is fitted inseparably in the front-rear direction.

On the front side of the upper coupling member 13a, a vertically oriented support shaft 20 is arranged in the center thereof. The support shaft is made of a steel rod-shaped member, and the upper end thereof is press-fitted into a fitting hole formed in the lower surface of the display body upper edge holding portion 14 so as to integrally project. The support shaft 20 is provided with three stopper engaging recesses 21a, 21b, 21c, which are annular recesses formed in the circumferential direction and are vertically spaced apart by a predetermined distance.

A support shaft fitting portion 23 is integrally formed on the lower connecting member 13b at the center front surface of the upper end portion. The support shaft fitting portion 23 is composed of a recessed groove in which the lower coupling member 13b is bulged from the rear surface side to the front surface side, and the groove bottom of the recessed groove is formed in a semi-cylindrical shape into which the support shaft 23 fits. It is molded.

As shown in FIG. 2, a substantially U-shaped notch groove 24 is formed through the front and back of the support shaft fitting portion 23 on the front side peripheral wall thereof, and a cantilever type spring piece 25 is provided inside thereof. Is formed, and the stopper projection 26 is integrally formed on the rear surface of the tip of the spring piece.

The upper and lower connecting members 13a and 13b are fitted together, and the support shaft 20 is fitted into the support shaft fitting portion 23 and slid, whereby the stopper projection 26 is formed.
Is engaged with any of the stopper engaging recesses 21a, 21b, 21c by the elasticity of the spring piece 25,
The upper and lower connecting members 13a and 13b are positioned with respect to each other.

The stopper engaging recess 2 at the lowermost end
By selecting and engaging 1a, the display body supporting member becomes a height corresponding to the size of the 500 ml can, and by selecting the stopper engaging recess 21b of the intermediate height,
By selecting the stopper engaging recess 21c at the uppermost end for a 50 ml can, the height is adapted to each 280 ml can.

The display upper edge holding portion 14 is an upper connecting member 13.
It is formed so as to project forward from the upper end of a, and has a substantially disc shape with its outer periphery being continuous with both side edges of the connecting member. The display lower edge holding portion 15 is provided so as to protrude forward from the lower end of the lower connecting member 13a, and is formed into a substantially disc shape with its outer periphery continuous to both edges of the connecting member. An illumination window hole 30 is formed at the center of the display body lower edge holding portion 15, and a ring-shaped upright stage fitting portion 31 is integrally provided on the lower surface so as to project.

At the peripheral portions of the facing surfaces of both holding portions 14 and 15, arcuate display body front surface side regulating pieces 32 along the respective peripheral edges,
33 are integrally projected. Further, the display body side edge restricting portions 34, 34, which are vertically oriented ridges, are integrally provided on the front surface of the lower connecting member 13b of the lower half body described above.

Then, the merchandise display 1 is rolled into a cylindrical shape and inserted between the upper and lower holding portions 14 and 15, and by unrolling the merchandise display 1, the merchandise display 1 is expanded by its own elasticity, and the upper edge and the bottom are opened. The front side of the edge is the upper and lower sides of the display body front regulation piece 3, respectively.
2, 33 is abutted to regulate the opening and both side edges are located outside the both display body side edge regulating portions 34, 34,
The product display 1 is mounted so as to be oriented in a predetermined direction.

As shown in FIG. 1, the product sample for a vending machine configured as described above is fitted with a stage on the bottom surface of the display body supporting member 10 in the mounting hole 36 of the stage 35 for installing a product sample of the vending machine. The part 31 is fitted and removably mounted so that the inside of the product sample is illuminated from below by the illuminator 37 below the stage 35. Stopper engaging recesses 21a according to the size of the product display 1
21b or 21c is selected, and the stopper projection 26 is engaged with this to assemble. When replacing the product display 1 with a different size, the two half bodies 11 and 12 are slid with respect to each other to move the stopper projections 26 to the necessary stopper engaging portions, and are used by changing the height to a required height. .

[0028]

As described above, according to the present invention, the display member supporting member is formed into an elastic sheet, and the product display member on the surface of which products for sale such as cans and bottles are displayed is curved in an arc shape. In a product sample for a vending machine, the vertical connecting portion of the display body supporting member is constituted by an upper connecting member and a lower connecting member which are separate from each other, and the both connecting members are connected to each other. The relative positional relationship in the vertical direction is changeably connected, and the interval between the display body upper edge holding portion and the display body lower edge holding portion is appropriately selected and held by a plurality of types of product display objects having different vertical lengths. By making it possible, it is possible to replace and attach a plurality of types of product display bodies with different lengths to one display body support member. It was necessary to have a display member support member Compared with, in which a possible replacement cost of goods samples is significantly reduced.

Further, a rod-shaped vertical support shaft is provided on either one of the upper connection member or the lower connection member, and the support shaft is fitted on the other side in the axial direction. The support shaft is provided with stopper engaging recesses at a predetermined interval, and the support shaft fitting portion has a stopper projection toward the support shaft side at the tip of the spring piece. By being elastically engaged, it is assembled by both fitting with the shaft and the shaft fitting portion and fitting of the upper and lower connecting members, and a stable assembly state of the display body supporting member. Further, by sliding both connecting members against each other against the elasticity of the spring piece, it is possible to easily transform the connecting members into the lengths corresponding to the product display bodies of different lengths.

Further, the support shaft is formed of a metal rod-shaped member having a stopper engaging recess formed of an annular recessed groove in the circumferential direction, and the support shaft is provided on the lower surface of the display body upper edge holding portion or the display. The support shaft fitting part has a concave groove formed in the center of the upper connecting member or the lower connecting member and formed in a bulged shape from the back surface to the front surface, while protruding from the upper surface of the lower body edge holding portion. With this structure, it is possible to easily mold and assemble each member and obtain a display member supporting member having high durability.

Further, according to the present invention, in the above-mentioned product sample for a vending machine, the display body upper edge holding portion and the display body lower edge holding portion each have an approximately semi-cylindrical rounded outer peripheral portion of each facing surface. A display side front edge integrally provided with an arc-shaped display front face restricting piece along the upper edge outer peripheral surface and the lower edge outer peripheral surface, and both side edges of the commodity display contact the front side of the vertically connected portion. By including the regulation part, the sample display body is rolled up and inserted into the display body holding member, and when the rounding is released, it expands due to its own elasticity, and both side edges are swung to the position where the side edges of the display body are aligned with the regulation part. By doing so, it is mounted at a predetermined position, and the mounting work can be easily and efficiently performed even by an operator who is doing heavy work.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a vertical cross-sectional view showing an installed state of an example of a product sample for a vending machine according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view taken along the line AA in FIG.

FIG. 3 is an exploded perspective view of the above.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 product display 2 shoulder 10 Display support member 11 Upper half 12 Lower half 13 Connection 13a Upper connection member 13b Lower connection member 14 Display body upper edge holding part 15 Display lower edge holding part 16 Folding part 20 spindles 21a, 21b, 21c Stopper engaging recess 23 Support shaft fitting part 24 Notch groove 25 spring pieces 26 Projection for stopper 30 Lighting window hole 31 Stage fitting part 32, 33 Display body front side regulating piece 34 Display body side edge regulation part 35 stages 36 mounting holes 37 Illuminator

Claims (4)

(57) [Claims] 1. A product display body having an elastic sheet shape, on the surface of which products for sale such as cans and bottles are displayed, and a display body supporting member for holding the product display body in a curved arc shape. The display body support member is configured by projecting a display body upper edge holding portion and a display body lower edge holding portion on the upper and lower front sides of the vertically-oriented connecting portion arranged vertically on the back portion. A product sample for a vending machine, in which the upper and lower edges of the product display member are held along the display member upper edge holding portion and the display body lower edge holding portion with respect to a member. It is common to construct a member with its upper and lower connecting members whose longitudinal connecting portions are separate from each other.
In addition, both connecting members can be slid vertically with respect to each other.
The upper and lower holding members of the display body are connected to each other by connecting the two connecting members so that the relative positional relationship of the both in the vertical direction can be changed.
Preferably, one of the lower edge holding portions of the display body is provided with a rod-shaped vertical support shaft, and the other side of the upper connecting member is provided.
Alternatively, the lower connecting member is integrally provided with a support shaft fitting portion in which the support shaft is fitted in the axial direction, the support shaft is provided with stopper engaging recesses at predetermined intervals, and the support shaft fitting portion is provided with The stopper projection toward the support shaft is engaged with the tip of the spring piece by the elasticity of the spring piece, and the interval between the display body upper edge holding portion and the display body lower edge holding portion is increased vertically. A product sample for a vending machine, characterized in that a plurality of types of product display bodies having different lengths in directions can be appropriately selected and held. 2. The support shaft comprises a metal rod-shaped member having a stopper engaging recess formed of an annular recess groove in the circumferential direction, and the support shaft is provided on the lower surface of the display body upper edge holding portion or the display. The product sample for a vending machine according to claim 1, wherein the sample product is provided so as to project from the upper surface of the lower body edge holding portion. 3. The support shaft fitting portion comprises a concave groove formed in the center of the upper connecting member or the lower connecting member in a shape that bulges from the back surface toward the front surface. Product sample for vending machine described in 2. 4. The display body upper edge holding portion and the display body lower edge holding portion each have an upper edge outer peripheral surface and a lower edge outer peripheral surface, which are rounded into a substantially semi-cylindrical shape, on outer peripheral portions of respective facing surfaces. An arc-shaped display body front surface restricting piece which is provided along the side is integrally provided, and a display body side edge restricting portion with which both side edges of the product display body abut is provided on the front surface side of the vertically connecting portion. Product sample for vending machine described in.