Retractable Door Display Rack for Secure Product Compartments
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing display racks are difficult to secure displayed items and limit empty or unused portions, as they are often flat and open, making it challenging to manage product presentation and inventory.
Innovation Solution
A multi-shelf display rack with retractable doors, featuring sloped frames, panels, and U-shaped door panels that pivot and slide into tracks, allowing selective access and security of compartments.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If display racks are designed as flat, open, and vertically oriented structures, then product visibility and accessibility are improved, but security of displayed items deteriorates and empty portions cannot be limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies the dynamics principle by implementing doors that can transition between open and closed states. The doors are hinged to the back panel and can be opened for product access or closed to secure items and limit display of empty portions. This dynamic capability allows the same structure to serve both accessibility and security functions at different times.
2Illumination intensity
If display racks are designed as flat, open, and vertically oriented structures, then product visibility is improved, but the ability to limit empty or unused portions deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The doors provide dynamic control over which portions of the display rack are visible. When a compartment is empty or unused, the door can be closed to conceal it, preventing customer confusion and maintaining a neat appearance. When products are present, the door can be opened for visibility and access.
Data Source
AI summary
A display rack includes left, right, top, and back panels attached to a frame, with a plurality of shelves extending horizontally within the frame to form a plurality of compartments. A door panel covering is compartment has a “U”-shaped upper edge that pivots about door retaining pins within each compartment to allow the door to be moved from a vertical position in which the door panel covers the front of the compartment and a horizontal position in which the door panel is retracted into the compartment, suspended on door tracks within the compartment. In some embodiments, product racks positioned or attached within the compartments are configured to display products in vertical orientation. In some embodiments the panels are advertising panels imprinted with text and graphics.