Supports: racks – Special article – Platelike
Patent
1986-07-25
1989-04-11
Machado, Reinaldo P.
Supports: racks
Special article
Platelike
211 601, A47G 1908
Patent
active
048198137
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
GENERAL PRIOR ART
The invention relates to a device for receiving and presenting rigid, flat articles, such as, for example, CD, audio, and video cassettes, having a base supporting the articles in consecutive arrangement in a substantially vertical rearwardly inclined position, said base having transverse grooves for holding the articles against displacement.
MOST PERTINENT PRIOR ART
From German Patent No. 715 042 is known a drawer arrangement for holding files, outcards, and folders or other written documents, there being provided a box with at the bottom thereof a grid having transverse grooves to prevent the slipping off at the bottom of the documents held in the box. For supporting the documents there are also provided in the upper area of the box support rods transversely spaced from each other and practically dividing the box into compartments for holding each in the upper area a parcel of documents. This makes possible to turn over the sheets of the documents in each compartment in order to locate the intended page or the like. A quite similar arrangement with a profiled grid is described in U.S. Pat. No. 1,900,148. A dislocation of so-called CD (compact disk) cassettes, video cassettes or audio cassettes or similar relatively thick, flat rigid articles, particularly in such `browsing`, could not be prevented by these known file cabinets if they were used for receiving such articles; therefore, it will hardly be possible to receive such articles in such installations and display the same and, particularly, to make possible easy turning over of the sheets. But it is precisely such browsing which is absolutely desirable when presentation is required in certain businesses (record stores and the like); in a similar way as is already basically possible with conventional records, if they are simply kept in boxlike containers. But such boxlike containers also without other features are unsuitable for receiving said kinds of articles (cassettes) with the possibility of browsing, since said articles are quite thick and, on browsing, must be tilted and are thereby dislocated. Also if any of such installations are used for the said cassettes, this would be disadvantageous in that the articles would rub against each other and become scratched, particularly if several cassettes have already been removed, since these articles cannot then be held in order.
German Application Open to Public Inspection 2 801 567 has already proposed the use of means for box-shaped receiving troughs, said means being provided for dividing these troughs normally intended for receiving long-playing records into a plurality of lying one next to the other longitudinal compartments for audio cassettes. The audio cassettes are to be received in separate packages provided at the top with lettered sheets, and said packages are arranged one right after another in each longitudinal compartment, the bottom of the compartment being plane or stepwise rising. Also here the packages slip readily with audio cassettes if a compartment is not fully filled, and consequently, also here it is impossible to browse for a better view of individual cassettes.
From U.S. Pat. No. 2,263,255 and German Application Open to Public Inspection No. 3 017 869, devices are known for receiving objects, such as, for example, audio cassettes or chewing gum packages where there is provided a base in a boxlike container, said base being saw-shaped in cross section. On the back side of such receiving compartment there is provided a skewed support area integral with the base, and rearwardly inclined articles lie on such support area; the saw-shaped configuration of the base, similarly to the above-named known devices of the profiled base are intended to prevent the articles from sliding. Also here it is impossible to `turn around` or `browse` therethrough.
Similarly from U.S. Pat. No. 3,200,957 is known a device for presenting meat packages in self-service businesses, the meat packages being arranged one after another in a row in a flat skewed position being supported by
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Eley Sarah A. Lechok
Lift Verkaufsgerate-Gesellschaft m.b.H.
Machado Reinaldo P.
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