GOODS FEEDING DEVICE

• US 20150090675A1
• Filed: 12/05/2014
• Published: 04/02/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/14/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: POS TUNING Udo Voßhenrich GmbH & Co. KG
• Original Assignee: POS TUNING Udo Voßhenrich GmbH & Co. KG
• Inventors: VOSSHERNRICH, Udo
• Granted Patent: US 9,226,599 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 211/1.57
• CPC Class Codes: A47F 1/126 the pushing device being urged by spring means

Abstract

The functionality and effectiveness of a goods feeding device for a front carton of a plurality of cartons or goods trays of a shelf-ready packaging system arranged one behind the other on a shelf of a display and storage rack, with goods or goods packaging stored therein, is further improved. The goods feeding device has a pusher plate for the goods on a slide housing which allows a manual rack-loading of deep commercial racks with narrow shelf spacings and a plurality of cartons or goods trays stored one behind the other is made substantially easier. This is achieved by virtue of the fact that the pusher plate is fixed in a height-adjustable manner to the slide housing and can be moved out of an erected work setting into a flattened position.

Claims

1. A goods feeding device to be fixed to a rack, comprising:

a slide housing;

a pusher plate for goods on said slide housing, said slide housing and said pusher plate defining a goods slide;

a carton tray being detachable from and removable from a remainder of the goods feeding device via a form-locking connection, said carton tray having a front carton strip forming part of said form-locking connection;

a guide profile for said goods slide, said guide profile disposed below said carton tray; and

a front anchor having one of a bearing surface and a catch for said pusher plate situated in a tilted state, said front anchor further having a connecting piece connected to but not integral with said guide profile for said goods slide, said connecting piece being lowered relative to a structural height of said guide profile, and said carton tray placed into the goods feeding device is held with said front carton strip in a bottom region, engaged there between said front anchor and said guide profile, said front anchor holding said guide profile at a front side so as to be fixed to a bottom of the rack.

2. The goods feeding device according to claim 1, wherein said pusher plate is disposed on said slide housing such that it is at least one of pivotable and telescopable about at least one axis.

3. The goods feeding device according to claim 2, wherein said axis lies horizontally and at right angles to a motional direction of said goods slide.

4. The goods feeding device according to claim 3, wherein said axis is arranged level with a top side of said slide housing and said pusher plate is horizontally divided along said axis and has an upper part that can be pivoted forward or rearward.

5. The goods feeding device according to claim 4, further comprising one of a film hinge and some other joint defining said axis.

6. The goods feeding device according to claim 4, wherein said pusher plate is a forward-tiltable pusher plate and a back of said upper part of said forward-tiltable pusher plate has at least one arc-shaped runner for a stock carton of a shelf-ready packaging system, the stock carton to be passed over said goods slide rearward into a rack.

7. The goods feeding device according to claim 6, wherein in an upright state of said pusher plate, said arc-shaped runner extends over said axis alongside said slide housing down to behind a fixed part of said pusher plate and is supported there and, in the flattened state, is raised over said pusher plate into an end region of said slide housing.

8. The goods feeding device according to claim 1, wherein said structural height of said guide profile exceeds a thickness measurement of a carton bottom of said carton tray, and in that the goods, when said carton tray of a shelf-ready packaging system, said carton tray having a bottom and back cutout formed therein, is in a state of having been placed into the goods feeding device, stands vertically on said guide profile.

9. The goods feeding device according to claim 8, wherein said guide profile has a supporting surface for supporting the goods, said supporting surface having an antifriction coating.

10. The goods feeding device according to claim 1, wherein the goods feeding device is for a front carton of a plurality of cartons or goods trays of a shelf-ready packaging system disposed one behind the other on a shelf of a multistoried display and storage rack, with the goods or goods packagings stored therein.

11. The goods feeding device according to claim 1, wherein said pusher plate is fixed in a height-adjustable manner to said slide housing and can be moved out of an erected work setting into a flattened position.

12. A goods feeding device to be fixed to a shelf, comprising:

a slide housing;

a pusher plate for goods on said slide housing, said slide housing and said pusher plate defining a goods slide for reveiving a disposeable carton tray being detachable from and removable from a remainder of the goods feeding device via a form-locking connection, the carton tray having a front carton strip forming part of said form-locking connection;

a guide profile for said goods slide, said guide profile disposed below the disposeable; and

a front anchor having one of a bearing surface and a catch for said pusher plate situated in a tilted state, said front anchor further having a connecting piece connected to but not integral with said guide profile for said goods slide, said connecting piece being lowered relative to a structural height of said guide profile, and the disposable carton tray placed into the goods feeding device is held with said front carton strip in a bottom region, engaged there between said front anchor and said guide profile, said front anchor holding said guide profile at a front side so as to be fixed to a bottom of the rack.