Adjustable Product Display Rack With Sliding Walls and Pusher
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional product display systems are inflexible and require multiple units to accommodate products of different dimensions, weights, and physical properties, making them difficult to load and visually unappealing, which hinders effective merchandise display.
Innovation Solution
A modular product display system featuring slidably coupled side walls, a pusher mechanism with a spring, and a detachable lighting housing, allowing for adjustable width and height configurations, easy loading, and enhanced visual appeal through customizable lighting.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a conventional product display system uses a fixed structure designed for one size of product, then it can display that specific product size, but it cannot accommodate products having different dimensions without using multiple different display systems
Solution Approach 1:
The side walls are made slidable relative to the base, allowing the display system to dynamically adjust its width to accommodate different product sizes. The side walls can be positioned at multiple locations along the base and locked in place, transforming a static structure into an adaptable one that fits various product dimensions without requiring multiple fixed display systems
Solution Approach 2:
The display system is divided into separable components: a base, slidable side walls, and locking mechanisms. This segmentation allows the side walls to be independently positioned and adjusted, enabling the system to adapt to different product sizes while maintaining structural integrity through the locking mechanism
2Adaptability or versatility
If a pusher mechanism uses a static pushing force, then it can push products forward, but it requires multiple different display systems to accommodate products having different weights or physical properties
Solution Approach 1:
The pusher mechanism allows adjustment of the spring's pre-compression or selection of different spring constants, changing the pushing force parameter to match the weight and physical properties of different products. This enables a single display system to accommodate various product weights by modifying the force parameter rather than requiring multiple fixed systems
3Productivity
If a pusher mechanism applies constant forward force, then it can continuously push products, but it makes loading product difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The pusher mechanism uses a spring that can be dynamically adjusted or temporarily disengaged during loading. The spring's elastic nature allows it to be compressed or relaxed as needed, and the mechanism can be temporarily disabled or repositioned to facilitate easy product loading, then reactivated to resume continuous pushing
4Adaptability or versatility
If a product display system uses a fixed width and height configuration, then it can be structurally simple, but it cannot accommodate products of different dimensions
Solution Approach 1:
The side walls are designed to slide along the base and be locked at multiple positions, creating a dynamically adjustable width. This simple sliding-and-locking mechanism provides dimensional adaptability without requiring complex adjustment systems, achieving versatility through straightforward mechanical movement and positioning
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
The system provides a versatile and visually appealing solution for displaying various products by accommodating different dimensions and weights, simplifying loading and enhancing consumer attention with adjustable features and customizable lighting.
Implementation Method 1
The pusher mechanism can include a pusher paddle and a spring, such that said pusher paddle is moveable relative to the base along the first axis
Data Source
AI summary
This document provides product display systems for displaying merchandise. Exemplary product display systems disclosed herein include a base, a first side wall and a second side wall each slidably coupled to the base, a first support plate and a second support plate, a pusher mechanism, a front plate positioned at the front of the base, a first hanger bracket and a second hanger bracket each slidably coupled to the base, and a front bracket unit connected to the first and second hanger brackets. Some embodiments of product display systems disclosed herein include a lighting unit, e.g., having a LED lighting source. This document also provides selectively detachable lighting housings that can be attached to product display systems.