Retail Display
A knockdown configured for assembly into a display having first, second, third and fourth side panels and at least one shelf. The knockdown has a first flat wall including the first and third panels attached along a first fold line and lying in a first substantially same plane and a second flat wall including the second and fourth panels attached along a second fold line and in a second substantially same plane with first and second corners whereat the first and second walls are attached to one another. At least one shelf, having a front edge and a back edge, is integrally attached at the front edge thereof to the first side panel and extends in the first substantially same plane. A plunger panel between the first and the second side panels has a front surface thereof adhesively attached to the at least one shelf adjacent its back edge.
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This application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Applications 61/620,729, filed Apr. 5, 2012, and 61/791,854 filed Mar. 15, 2013, and which are hereby incorporated herein by reference.
FIELD OF THE INVENTIONThe present invention relates to product displays, and more particularly to retail displays such as those used for small product packages, such as power wing displays.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTIONDisplays are widely used in retail stores or the like to display packaged items such as food, candy, DVDs, CDs, vitamin supplements, consumer packaged goods, toys, or the like for prospective customers to simply lift the goods from the display to drop into their shopping basket. Such point of purchase displays typically have many parts due to shelving requirements. Accordingly, construction of such displays is often complicated and time consuming. Thus, there is a need in the art for display cases with one or more shelves that is easy to assemble, while maintaining satisfactory aesthetics and rigidity.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTIONThe present invention provides an improved display that is assembled from a knockdown. A knockdown refers to a flat, unassembled display that can be opened and folded to form the completed display.
Broadly, the invention provides a knockdown configured for assembly into a display having first, second, third and fourth side panels and at least one shelf. The knockdown has a first flat wall including the first and third side panels attached along a first fold line and lying in a first substantially same plane and a second flat wall including the second and fourth side panels attached along a second fold line and in a second substantially same plane with first and second corners whereat the first and second walls are attached to one another. At least one shelf, having a front edge and a back edge, is integrally attached at the front edge thereof to the first side panel and extends in the first substantially same plane. A plunger panel between the first and the second side panels has a front surface thereof adhesively attached to the at least one shelf adjacent its back edge. The knockdown may also have a second shelf attached to the first side panel. The plunger panel may be adhesively attached to the second shelf, and the plunger panel may be positioned to pull the second shelf into an approximately perpendicular position relative to the first side panel.
The invention also provides a display having multiple side panels attached to one another to form container sides. The side panels include a first, second, third and fourth side panel. The first and second side panels are attached to one another at a first folded corner, and the third and fourth side panels attached to one another at a second folded corner. The display has at least one shelf integrally attached to the first side panel, which extends from the first wall to the fourth wall. A plunger panel is adhesively attached to the at least one shelf. The plunger panel is positioned to pull the at least one shelf into an approximately perpendicular position relative to the first side panel when the container is assembled from the knockdown state.
The accompanying drawings, which are incorporated herein and constitute part of this specification, illustrate the presently preferred embodiments of the invention, and, together with the general description given above and the detailed description given below, serve to explain the features of the invention. In the drawings:
In the drawings, like numerals indicate like elements throughout. Certain terminology is used herein for convenience only and is not to be taken as a limitation on the present invention. The following describes a preferred embodiment of the present invention particularly suited to function as what is known in the art as a power wing display. However, it should be understood, based on this disclosure, that the invention is not limited by the preferred embodiment described herein and the display may be adapted for other purposes.
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The display 10 of the present invention has at least one shelf on which items can be displayed. In the illustrated embodiment, the display 10 has two shelves 40a, 40b, but the display 10 may have more or fewer. Each shelf 40 has a front edge 70 and a back edge 72 with a shelf panel 74 extending therebetween and an attachment portion 46 extending from the back edge 72. Preferably each shelf 40 also includes a locking tab 28 extending from the back edge 72. Optional retaining tabs 34 may be provided along the front edge 70 of the shelf 40 to help retain retail items on the shelf 40.
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Referencing the upper shelf 40a in
An illustrative knockdown 100 which may be assembled into the display 10 will be described with reference to
The exemplary tray piece blank 200 includes, as an integral unit, the first, second, third and fourth side panels 50, 52, 54, 56, as well as the shelves 40a, 40b. The tray piece blank 200 also includes a glue tab 68 integrally adjoined to the outside edge of the second side panel 52. The side panels 12 are separated by corner fold lines 44 impressed into the tray piece blank 200 where shown to act as a fold line to aid in folding and creating the first, second, third, and fourth corners 60, 62, 64, 66. The corner fold lines 44 are formed preferably with scores, however, it is understood that any suitable line of weakness may be used.
Each shelf 40 is formed by cut lines 38, an upper fold line 35 and lower fold lines 36. The shelf panel 74 is located between the top and bottom fold lines of each shelf 40. The attachment panel 46 of the shelf 40 is formed between the upper fold line 35 and an upper cut line 38. The locking tab 28 for each shelf 40 extends from the top of the shelf panel 74 and is formed by locking tab cut line 29. The cut lines 38 separate the shelves 40a, 40b from the first side panel 50 and, when the shelves 40a, 40b are folded along the fold lines 36, the retaining tabs 34, defined by cut lines 41, remain in the substantially same plane as the first side panel 50. Cut outs 42 located on the first side panel above the respective shelves 40a, 40b provide ease of set up when folding down the shelves 40a, 40b.
The tray piece blank 200 also may include folds and cuts to form handles. As shown in
The fourth side panel 56 may have various cutouts. In the illustrated embodiment, two locking slots 25 are located in the upper region of the fourth side panel 56. The locking slots 25 may be utilized for rack mounting the display 10, which is explained in greater detail below. The fourth side panel 56 also includes the locking slots 30 sized to receive the locking tabs 28 when the display 10 is in its assembled form.
The plunger panel blank 202 includes two top cutouts 24 for receiving optional brackets 150 that can support the display unit 10. The top cutouts 24 align with the cutouts 25 on the fourth side panel 56 when the display is in its fished form 10. The plunger panel blank 202 also includes the two lower cutouts 26 to provide an opening through which the locking tabs 28 can extend into the locking slots 30 of the fourth side panel 56.
The blanks 200, 202 can be formed from any material suitable for use as a display, including corrugated board and chip board, e.g. mottled white corrugated board, kraft on the inner face 206 and white paper on the outer face 204. A single die cut piece of corrugated board is preferable for the illustrated embodiment. Any suitable type of score, creases, perforations, etc., may be used for the fold lines shown as known in the art.
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As shown in
The knockdown 100 that is opened and folded to form the display 10 is now described. The term “knockdown” refers to the flat unassembled assembly 100 shown in
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The knockdown 100 also includes the plunger panel 22 sandwiched between the first and second walls 102, 104. In the illustrated embodiment, the plunger panel 22 is located between the first side panel 50 and the second side panel 52, with the front side 108 of the plunger panel 22 adhesively attached to the back side of the first side panel 50. Specifically, the front side 108 of the plunger panel 22 is attached to the back of the attachment portions 46a, 46b of the shelves 40a, 40b. As shown in
The shelves 40a, 40b are shown in their flat knockdown position, the shelf panel 74 of each shelf 40 being in the substantially same plane as the first side panel 50 to which they are attached. The shelves 40a, 40b are shown cut from the first side panel 50 at cut lines 38. Fold lines 36 are located at the bottom of each shelf 40; each fold line 36 becoming the front edge 70 of the shelf 40 when the display 10 is in its final form. The fold lines 36 and the cut lines 38 will facilitate the formation of the shelves 40a, 40b when the display 10 transitions from the knockdown 100 to the open position depicted in
To assemble the knockdown 100 into the display 10, the two flat walls 102, 104 are pushed apart moving the first and third folded corners 60, 64 inwardly towards each other, folding the flat walls 102, 104 to form the corners 60, 62, 64, 66 of the display 10. In the initial open position as illustrated in
The display of the present invention may also include handles to enable easy transport. In the illustrated embodiment, handles 32 are formed on the upper portions of the second side panel 52 and the third side panel 54. As shown in
The display of the present invention can be easily set up on the floor or mounted to a rack.
While particular embodiments of the invention are described herein, it is not intended to limit the invention to such disclosure. Changes and modifications may be incorporated and embodied within the scope of the appended claims. For example, the illustrated embodiment shows two shelves formed within the display. Those skilled in the art readily recognize that the display may contain any number of shelves.
Claims
1. A knockdown configured to be assembled into a display having first, second, third and fourth side panels and at least one shelf, the knockdown comprising:
- a first flat wall including the first and third side panels attached along a first fold line and lying in a first substantially same plane;
- a second flat wall including the second and fourth side panels attached along a second fold line and in a second substantially same plane;
- first and second corners whereat the first and second walls are attached to one another, the first and second side panels attached to one another at the first corner, the third and fourth side panels attached to one another at the second corner;
- at least one shelf, having a front edge and a back edge, integrally attached at the front edge thereof to the first side panel and extending in the first substantially same plane; and
- a plunger panel at least partially sandwiched between the first and the second side panels with a front surface thereof adhesively attached to the at least one shelf adjacent the back edge thereof.
2. The knockdown of claim 1, wherein upon assembling of the knockdown into the display, the plunger panel is moved to and secured at a position with an inner surface thereof adjacent the fourth panel such that the at least one shelf is supported between the first and fourth panels.
3. The knockdown of claim 2, wherein the at least one shelf is supported such that it is substantially perpendicular to the first and fourth panels.
4. The knockdown of claim 1, wherein at least one of the second and third panels defines a handle.
5. The knockdown of claim 4, wherein the handle is formed by cut lines and a score line.
6. The knockdown of claim 1, further comprising a top panel that extends from the first side panel in the first substantially same plane.
7. The knockdown of claim 1, wherein the at least one shelf further comprises a locking tab extending from the back edge, and the plunger panel and the fourth panel each define a locking slot sized to receive the locking tab.
8. The knockdown of claim 1, wherein the plunger panel and the fourth panel each define mounting slots.
9. The knockdown of claim 1, wherein the second and fourth panels are attached to one another by an adhesive.
10. The knockdown of claim 1, comprising at least two of the shelves wherein each shelf is integrally attached at the front edge thereof to the first side panel and extends in the first substantially same plane and the front surface of the plunger panel is adhesively attached to each of the at least two shelves adjacent the back edge of each.
11. The knockdown of claim 10, wherein each of the at least two shelves further comprises a locking tab extending from the back edge thereof, and the plunger panel and the fourth panel each define a respective locking slot sized to receive each of the locking tabs.
12. A display comprising:
- multiple side panels attached to one another to form display sides, the side panels including first, second, third and fourth side panels, the first and second side panels attached to one another at a first corner, the third and fourth side panels attached to one another at a second corner;
- at least one shelf, having a front edge and a back edge, integrally attached at the front edge to the first side panel; and
- a plunger panel positioned within the display sides with a front surface thereof adhesively attached to the at least one shelf adjacent the back edge thereof, the plunger panel is secured at a position with a rear surface thereof adjacent the fourth panel such that the at least one shelf is supported between the first and fourth panels.
13. The display of claim 12, comprising at least two of the shelves wherein each shelf is integrally attached at the front edge thereof to the first side panel and extends in the first substantially same plane and the front surface of the plunger panel is adhesively attached to each of the at least two shelves adjacent the back edge of each.
14. The display of claim 12, wherein at least one of the second and third panels defines a handle.
15. The display of claim 12, wherein the at least one shelf further comprises a locking tab extending from the back edge of the at least one shelf, and the plunger panel and the fourth panel each define a locking slot sized to receive the locking tab, wherein the locking tab extends through the locking slots of the plunger panel and the fourth side panel and fixes the position of the plunger panel relative to the fourth panel.
16. The display of claim 12, wherein at least one mounting slot is defined through the plunger panel and the fourth panel.
17. The display of claim 16, further comprising a mounting bracket having a first end extending through the mounting slot and a second end of the mounting bracket defines a mounting hook outside of the display.
18. A knockdown configured for assembly into a display having first, second, third and fourth side panels and at least one shelf, the knockdown comprising:
- a first knockdown wall including the first and third side panels attached along a first fold line;
- a second knockdown wall including the second and fourth side panels attached at their ends and in a second substantially same plane;
- the first and second knockdown walls being attached to one another at opposing first and second corners;
- at least one shelf attached to the first side panel, the at least one shelf comprising a front end and a back end; and
- a plunger panel attached to the at least one shelf and disposed between the first and the second knockdown walls, the plunger panel, after partial assembly of the display, being moveable relative to first and the second knockdown walls to move the at least one shelf into an approximately perpendicular position relative to the first side panel.
19. A knockdown of claim 18 wherein the plunger panel extends from a top of the knockdown and is slidable downward into the display assembly during the assembly of the display to move the shelf into the approximately perpendicular position.
20. A knockdown in accordance with claim 18 wherein the first and second knockdown walls are formed from a single integral blank.
21. A display assembled from the knockdown as set forth in claim 1.
22. A display assembled from the knockdown as set forth in claim 18.
Type: Application
Filed: Apr 4, 2013
Publication Date: Oct 10, 2013
Applicant: Innovative Packaging Designs L.P. (Montgomeryville, PA)
Inventor: Thomas R. Brady (Bethlehem, PA)
Application Number: 13/856,656