Movable Demo Product Locator for Drawer Access and Dust Control
Find Innovative SolutionsGenerate Solutions
Solution Overview
Problem
Existing retail product display systems face challenges in providing adequate space for demonstration products and easy customer access to retail products, as large demonstration tracks impede access and lead to dust accumulation, reducing the display's attractiveness.
Innovation Solution
A retail product display system featuring a slidable drawer with a demonstration product locator that moves between inclined and horizontal positions, allowing for easy access when open and maximizing space for demonstration products when closed, along with a mechanism using telescopic tubes and a ramp to facilitate this movement.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Area of stationary object
If the demonstration product track is made large to display many demonstration products and information, then the display capacity is improved, but customer access to retail products is impeded
Solution Approach 1:
The demonstration product track is made movable rather than fixed. The track can be repositioned along the shelf, allowing it to be moved out of the way when customers need to access retail products, while still providing adequate display space when in use.
Solution Approach 2:
The demonstration product track is divided into multiple sections or segments that can be independently positioned. This allows parts of the track to be relocated to optimize both display capacity and customer access to retail products behind the shelf.
2Length of stationary object
If the demonstration product track extends to a high level, then more demonstration products can be displayed, but customer access to retail products behind is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The demonstration product track is designed with adjustable height segments that can be repositioned vertically. This allows the track to extend to appropriate heights for displaying products while leaving adequate space for customers to access retail products behind the shelf.
3Ease of operation
If the shelf is made slidable like a drawer to improve access, then customer access is improved, but the shelf gets dirty quickly due to dust accumulation
Solution Approach 1:
The dust protection function is extracted from the shelf structure itself and assigned to a separate transparent cover element. This cover can be opened when customers need to access products but closed otherwise to protect the shelf from dust, without requiring the shelf to be slidable.
4Object-affected harmful factors
If a transparent cover is added to protect from dust, then dust protection is improved, but the display becomes less attractive when not much retail products are placed
Solution Approach 1:
The transparent cover is made movable rather than fixed, allowing it to be opened when retail products need to be displayed or accessed, and closed when protection from dust is needed. This dynamic behavior maintains display attractiveness while providing dust protection.
Data Source
Figure 1~2
Figure 3~4
Figure 5~7
AI summary
The invention provides a retail product display system 72, comprising a retail product drawer 20 slidable between a closed position and an open position, a demonstration product locator 30 arranged at the front of the retail product drawer 20 and movable between two extreme positions respectively an inclined display position and a horizontal display position, wherein the system is arranged for allowing the demonstration product locator 30 to be in the inclined display position when the retail product drawer 20 is in the closed position and for allowing the demonstration product locator 30 to be in the horizontal display position when the retail product drawer 20 is in the open position. The invention makes it possible to offer greater space for accommodating demonstration products or displaying information with easy access to the retail product for purchase by the customer.