Horizontally supported planar surfaces – Plural related horizontal surfaces – With partition
Patent
1995-09-05
1997-08-19
Chen, Jose V.
Horizontally supported planar surfaces
Plural related horizontal surfaces
With partition
211184, A47B 5700
Patent
active
056577028
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a shelf having separations.
2. Description of Background and Relevent Information
In mass distribution, particularly, one utilizes, to present the products, shelves having parallel separations. Identical products are positioned between two adjacent separations, generally one behind the other.
These shelves comprise a plurality of separations and, as they must receive conditioned products which have different dimensions, it is necessary that they be movable such that it is possible to adjust the distance between two adjacent separations.
Different apparatus have been proposed to allow for, after adjustment, the immobilization of the separations. Experience has shown that these apparatus were not very reliable and were delicate to implement. Furthermore, one of the main disadvantages of these known apparatus reside in the impossibility of precisely adjusting the distance between two separations in a manner such that this distance adapts itself to the dimension of the products.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
British document GB-A-844324 describes a shelf having separations of which each separation has, at one end, a folded back portion in the form of a hook adapted to hook behind an edge of the shelf against which it is pressed. It comes out from this document that each separation is affixed on the shelf independently of one another.
The present invention, which overcomes these disadvantages, is remarkable in that each separation has at one of its ends, at least, one folded back portion, means being provided to act simultaneously against the said folded back portions of all of the separations mounted on the shelf in a manner so as to immobilize the latter.
The folded back portions, or lugs, extend in a groove provided along one of the sides of the shelf and are pressed against either side of the said groove.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
The present invention will be better understood from the description which follows made with reference to the annexed drawings by way of indicative example, only, in which:
FIG. 1 is schematic view, in perspective, showing the apparatus of the invention;
FIG. 2 is a partial view in cross section made along line II--II of FIG. 3;
FIG. 3 is cross sectional view made along line III--III of FIG. 2;
FIG. 4 is a view, analogous to FIG. 2, showing an alternative embodiment;
FIG. 5 is a view, analogous to that of one, showing another embodiment;
FIG. 6 is a partial view, in transverse cross section, of the shelf of FIG. 5;
FIG. 7 is a partial view, on a larger scale, made along line VII--VII of FIG. 6, the movable elements being shown in a position along which the locking bar is not applied against the lugs;
FIG. 8 is a view analogous to FIG. 7, the movable elements being shown in a position in which the lugs are locked.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS
Referring to the drawings, it is seen that the problem posed consists in immobilizing separations or separation elements such as separations 2 of FIG. 1 on a shelf 1.
According to the invention, this result is obtained by utilizing a separation having, for example, a L-shaped cross section, whose vertical wing constitutes the separation itself and whose horizontal wing 3 rests on the shelf 1, one of the ends, at least, of the wing 3 being curved to form a bracket or lug 4 adapted to extend against the side 5 of shelf 1.
When the spacing between the different separations is adjusted all of the separations are immobilized simultaneously by the application, in pressure, of a locking bar 6.
It should be noted that, as the lug 4 is bent or folded along a line which is perpendicular to the separation, the pressure exerted by the locking bar over all of the lugs tends to press the latter against the side 5 of the shelf. This action, besides assuring the immobilization of all the separations, automatically position the said separations perpendicularly to the side of the shelf.
FIGS. 2 and 3 illustrate and embodiment of the blocking
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