Card – picture – or sign exhibiting – Changing exhibitor – Shiftable display item or item support
Patent
1986-07-11
1988-11-01
Mancene, Gene
Card, picture, or sign exhibiting
Changing exhibitor
Shiftable display item or item support
40513, 40661, G09F 1130
Patent
active
047809760
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The invention relates to a container for accommodating a pile of pictures, that is to say a pile of rectangular pictures of like format, these preferably being photographic prints.
Containers of that general type, designed as picture changers for the cyclic rearrangement of pictures, are described in U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,238,898, 4,238,899, 4,241,528, 4,241,529, 4,245,417, 5,259,802 and 4,376,348. These known containers comprise a housing with a viewing window under which the pile of pictures lies and through which as far as possible the whole of the picture area of the picture facing the window is to be visible. A slider member which houses the pile of pictures can be pulled out of, and pushed back into, the housing parallel to the plane defined by the window. On each complete cycle of movement of the slider member, a picture is taken from one end of the pile, thus remaining in the housing, and added again to the other end of the pile. Problems arise if the pictures are photographic prints owing to the generally bowed form of the pictures which--if special steps are not taken--protrude from the withdrawn slider member. But even flat pictures could fall out of the slider member if the container were opened, for example, overhead. The features provided in the prior art to avoid this falling out or protrusion are holding-down members attached to the slider member which engage over the edges of the pile that extend parallel to the direction in which the slider member is pulled out or also over the edges extending transversely thereto.
To ensure adequate reliability, these holding-down members are accordingly wide. They thus cover the outer surface regions of the picture, which is to be exposed as fully as possible in the viewing window. This applies above all to the front end holding-down member if this member, during relative movement between the picture facing the window and the window itself, is to space the picture from the window in order to prevent the window from being scratched on the inside, for in that case the holding-down member should engage quite substantially over the relevant picture edge.
In vew of these problems, the invention proposes a container for a pile of rectangular or square pictures of like format with a housing which is provided with a viewing window, matching the picture format, for the uppermost picture of the pile, and with a slider member, which can be pulled out of and pushed back into the housing parallel to the plane of the window, for removing at least one picture from the housing, which slider member has in the region of its front wall a movable holding-down member, the holding down member being spring-biassed into a projecting position in which it engages over the at least one picture in the withdrawn slider member.
The holding-down member thus fulfils the abovedescribed functions when the slider member is pulled out, that is to say it ensures that none of the pictures transported out of the housing in the slider member fall out, and it can also meet the spacing requirement. If, however, the slider member is pushed into the housing, it can be moved away from the viewing area of the window, preferably by running up against a stop member; it is preferred that in this displaced position it still just overlaps the pile of pictures. In addition, or alternatively, further holding-down members may be moulded onto the housing which act on the same edge of the pile of pictures and assist in the spacing function.
The development according to the invention is applicable equally well to picture changers as to containers without such a changeover function.
Preferred embodiments of the invention are defined in the sub-claims and are explained in detail hereinafter with reference to the accompanying drawings.
FIG. 1 shows in plan view, and partially cut-away, a container according to the invention designed as a picture changer, in which the slider member is shown partially withdrawn.
FIGS. 2 to 10 show sections and details of the picture changer of FIG. 1.
FIG. 11 shows a further embodiment
REFERENCES:
patent: 3696537 (1972-10-01), Alleman
patent: 4241528 (1980-12-01), Ackeret
patent: 4241529 (1980-12-01), Baur
patent: 4245417 (1981-01-01), Ackeret
patent: 4245417 (1981-01-01), Ackeret
Contreras Wenceslao J.
Ingerman Jeffrey H.
Licinvest AG
Mancene Gene
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