Mattress display rack with lift table |
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申请号 | EP13001170.3 | 申请日 | 2013-03-08 | 公开(公告)号 | EP2638830A1 | 公开(公告)日 | 2013-09-18 |
申请人 | Somilar Sistemas de Descanso, S.L.; | 发明人 | Martínez Benavent, José Ignacio; | ||||
摘要 | The invention describes a mattress display rack with lift table, designed in such a way that it allows several mattresses to be housed in respective compartments superimposed in height, wherein the lift table can be positioned at variable heights, opposite the position of a selected mattress (12) in order to extract it from its compartment and place it on a supporting platform (9) incorporated in the lift table with a view to positioning said mattress at the required height for checking and testing thereof. The lift table includes a scissor-type lifting mechanism, which can be secured at the selected height with the help of retaining mechanism actuated by means of an external pedal (11). There are springs (20) running longitudinally that collaborate with the scissor lifting mechanism during the operations of positioning the height of the supporting platform for the mattress. | ||||||
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说明书全文 | The present invention relates to a mattress display rack with lift table, which provides essential novel characteristics and considerable benefits in relation to the means known and used for the same purposes in the current state of the art. More specifically, the invention proposes the design and development of a mattress display rack that can be positioned in any place, premises or establishment that needs to display mattresses to the public in order to familiarise them with the product's characteristics and to allow a user to touch the mattresses and even test them for the purposes of determining whether they meet the user's preferences in terms of use and comfort. The mattress display rack is sized in such a way that while occupying minimum space it presents a predetermined number of compartments or housings to contain respectively another so many mattresses that can be extracted one by one and after study and testing by the user, be returned to the same compartment that they occupied, to which effect the display rack incorporates a lift table that when not in use can be housed underneath the rack, without occupying any additional space, but that when the table is in use, after pulling it out of its resting place, has lifting means in order to position a supporting platform at the height of the rack compartment housing the mattress to be displayed, extract the selected mattress, lower the platform to a normal height for use, and after presenting the mattress to the user and making the relevant tests, lifting the table platform again to the height of the compartment from which the mattress was extracted, and to put the mattress back into its housing by means of pushing it manually. The invention's field of application is comprised within the industrial sector of manufacturing sales displays of goods for household or industrial consumption. In general, it is a known fact that establishments designed to present and sell household goods do not tend to display mattresses or, that if they do so, their number is very limited essentially due to the fact that mattresses occupy a considerable surface area. This makes traders in general be more inclined towards other types of goods that occupy less space and that therefore allow for a greater return per occupied square meter to be obtained. Consequently, only establishments with a larger amount of space available, as in the case of large retail stores or shops specialised in this specific good, tend to allocate a higher amount of space to displaying mattresses and similar goods. Even in the case of the large retailers where a larger amount of space is available, it is desirable to optimise use of the space in such a way that without losing the capacity to show potential buyers their different choices, a larger number of goods can be shown. In consideration of the above, it is obvious that in the current state of the art there is a need for a display rack that achieves the objective of presenting the user with goods which due to their size occupy a significant amount of space, in such a way that the presence of the display in question helps to save space and improve the use of the available surface area. This objective has been fully achieved by means of the mattress display rack with lift table described as follows, wherein its main characteristics are set out in the characterising section of claim 1, attached. Essentially, the display rack with lift table proposed by the invention consists of providing a tubular structure with an overall prismatic configuration, obtained by means of four vertical posts which occupy the corners of the structure, between which there are upper and lower longitudinal and transverse bars which determine the formation of an upper frame and a lower frame that make the structure rigid, the distance in height between the upper and lower frames being divided by longitudinal bars running respectively between the front and back posts equidistant from each other in order to form the superimposed housings or compartments of equal dimensions, each one designed to contain one mattress, and wherein their respective supporting planes are made up of a number of tubular transverse bars, with a general cylindrical shape, in other words having a circular section, running between the front and back longitudinal bars respectively opposite each other in height. The lower frame is situated at a predetermined height above the floor, leaving enough space to house underneath the display the lift table consisting of a lower frame provided with fixed wheels for extracting said table, associated to both the front and back side of the frame, said frame supporting a scissor mechanism that supports above it a platform that can be positioned at different heights opposite the different compartments containing the respective mattresses, wherein the scissor mechanism can be released by means of an external pedal accessible from outside. The scissor mechanism is subjected to the action of springs working under traction and that help to lift the platform to the required height when the aforesaid external pedal is actuated. In this way, a display rack is provided which presents a series of advantageous characteristics against the current method of displaying goods that, like mattresses, occupy a considerable surface area:
These and other characteristics and benefits of the invention will become more clearly evident from the detailed description that follows of a preferred mode of embodiment of the invention, provided solely by way of illustration and not limitation in any way whatsoever, with reference to the attached drawings, wherein:
As mentioned above, the detailed description of the preferred mode of embodiment of the mattress display rack with lift table proposed by the invention, will be embodied as follows with the help of the attached drawings, which use the same reference numbers to refer to the same or similar parts. Thus, in the first place referring to the drawing of In this way, the inner space of the structure is divided into an amount of compartments whose number depends on the overall size of the structure and the order of separation in height between successive longitudinal and transverse bars. The tubular elements constituting the transverse bars 5 have been chosen to have cylindrical shape, with a circular section, with a view to contact with the body (normally the mattress) supported on them being minimal and therefore the resistance of the mattress to sliding over the tubular elements being minimal also. As appreciated from The lift table assembly can be better appreciated in Once the lift table has been extracted from its location underneath the structure of the display rack, said lift table can be lifted up to a height at which mattress 12 is located so that, by exerting slight traction on the aforesaid mattress favoured by the cylindrical configuration of the transverse bars 5 constituting the supporting plane of the mattress, it can be moved until situated on top of the platform 9 of the lift table. In addition, it is possible to appreciate in The retaining means mentioned above are represented in a more detailed manner, to a larger scale, in These lifting/lowering operations carried out during normal use of the lift table to show any of the mattresses contained in any one of the respective compartments of the display rack, respond to a sequence that has been shown by way of an example in In the first place, after extracting the lift table assembly from its resting position (table folded) by applying manual traction on the handle 10 of the frame, the platform 9 is lifted to the required position as explained in relation to the mechanisms of Once the required checks and tests have been made, it is sufficient to carry out the same operating sequence in reverse order, in other words, to actuate the pedal 11, lift the lift table platform 9 until the mattress is facing its housing, release the pedal 11 and push said mattress 12 inside its respective compartment, to act again on the pedal 11 and perform an action of pushing downwards, and finally to release the pedal 11 again and push the lift table assembly into the space designed to receive and store said lift table until it needs to be used once more. In this way, through use of the described lift table it is possible to show a user all of the mattresses contained in a display rack in succession, without occupying barely any additional space than that allocated for the display rack. It is not considered necessary to expand on the content of this description for a person skilled in the art to be able to understand the scope and associated benefits of the invention, and to carry out a practical embodiment thereof. Notwithstanding the foregoing, and given that the description made corresponds solely to a preferred example of embodiment of the invention, it will be understood that while retaining its essence, many variations in detail may be introduced, likewise protected, that may affect the shape, size or materials for manufacturing the assembly or its parts, without this in any way representing a modification of the invention as a whole, which is delimited solely by the claims provided hereafter. |