Article advancing device and article arrangement shelf

Abstract

Provided are an article advancing device and an article arrangement shelf, wherein the article advancing device has a flexible sheet on which articles can be arranged at a condition where the sheet is extended, a roller to which one end of the sheet is fixed and which winds the sheet in the reverse extension direction, a drive means which rotates the roller in the winding direction of the sheet, and a wall member with which the articles in the first row of the articles arranged on the sheet come into contact. When the articles are arranged on the sheet, the article advancing device stops the winding operation of the sheet by the drive means by the contact of the articles in the first row with the wall member. The article advancing device has a simple article advancing function which employs a horizontally extending shelf basically having no incline and which does not require energy, such as electric power, and can be used regardless of the packaging state of the articles.

Description

technical field [0001] The present invention relates to an article forwarding device that arranges articles at least along the depth direction, and has a function of conveying articles in the second row to the front row when the articles in the front row are removed from a shelf, and a device using the article forwarding device The article arrangement rack, in particular relates to an article forwarding device and an article arrangement rack suitable for use as a commodity display rack. Background technique [0002] Conventionally, a conveyor-type device has been known as a product display rack having a mechanism for feeding products to the front row to fill up an empty space. For example, Patent Document 1 describes a motor-driven belt conveyor display rack and a gravity-driven roller display rack. Patent Document 3 also describes a gravity-driven product display rack in which high sliding properties are imparted to the upper surface of a shelf plate. [0003] In addition...

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Problems solved by technology

[0009] In the product display rack described in Patent Document 1, since the belt conveyor type device uses the rotational force of the motor as the driving force, electric power is required, and the manufacturing cost and running cost are increased.

In addition, the roller conveyor-type device described in Patent Document 1 and the product display rack described in Patent Document 3 use gravity as a driving force, so the cost can be suppressed, but it is necessary to give the shelf board a predetermined amount of inclination. Additional space required, resulting in fewer items that can be displayed compared to horizontal shelving

[0010] In addition, in the storage racks described in Patent Documents 2, 4, and 5, since the spring force and the restoring force of the tape measure are used as the driving force, there is no running cost, but the mechanism for properly controlling the force is relatively complicated. , so the production cost increases

In addition, since the articles are pushed toward the article entrance and exit one by one, it is difficult to apply to the case where the packaging container of the article is soft.

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