Abstract: A showcase has a front wall which defines a showroom for a commodity in cooperation with other walls on a customer side, and includes a transparent portion. The showcase also has a support device that supports the transparent portion in such a way that the transparent portion is allowed to be translated to a direction away from the showroom.

Abstract: A showcase has a front wall which defines a showroom for a commodity in cooperation with other walls on a customer side, and includes a transparent portion. The showcase also has a support device that supports the transparent portion in such a way that the transparent portion is allowed to be translated to a direction away from the showroom.

Abstract: A showcase includes air outlets provided at an upper rear end of a goods-storing room, and shelf ducts individually provided at lower faces of goods shelves. Cold air discharged from the air outlets is caused to descend along a rear plate of the goods-storing room, and then flows through the shelf ducts from rear ends towards front ends of the goods shelves while being partly discharged downward, whereby the cold air can be discharged downward from the shelf ducts to lower goods shelves, making it possible to efficiently cool goods placed on the goods shelves, even if no air curtain is formed in front of a showcase body. Accordingly, the visibility of upper goods shelves can be improved by using an upper face of the showcase formed by a transparent top plate.

Abstract: The invention is intended to provide an open showcase which allows efficient displaying of frozen and refrigerated foods even in a retail store with a limited sales floor space. Thus, the open showcase, as it comprises a lower showcase whose top face is open and an upper showcase which is arranged above and at a prescribed distance from the top face of the lower showcase, is enabled to display frozen foods in the lower showcase and refrigerated foods in the upper showcase. For instance, frozen foods such as ice cream and sherbet and refrigerated items such as custard pudding and yogurt can be displayed at the same time in a single showcase. Accordingly goods can be efficiently displayed even in a retail store having only a limited sales floor space.

Abstract: A showcase includes a showcase body having an upper face whose front end side is provided with a first waste heat air guide plate for guiding condensation prevention air upward that flows forward along an upper face of a top plate. The waste heat air is prevented from flowing into a goods-storing room through a front opening of the showcase body from the front end side of the top plate, thus positively preventing a reduction in cooling efficiency in the goods-storing room, whereby effective cooling in the goods-storing room can be achieved, without the need of providing an air curtain at the front face of the showcase body.

Abstract: A shelf apparatus for a showcase includes a shelf plate; a shelf support for supporting the shelf plate; and a connecting member having a movable portion and a fixed portion connected to the shelf plate and the shelf support, respectively. The movable portion has a hard locking member, and the shelf support has a concave portion which can lock and unlock the locking member. When the shelf plate is held on the shelf supports, the locking member is locked to the concave portion. When commodities are resupplied onto the shelf plate, the locking member is unlocked from the concave portion. Thereby, the movable portion of the connecting member is detached from the shelf support. Then, the shelf plate is pulled out forward and commodities are resupplied onto the pulled-out shelf plate.

Abstract: In a shelf apparatus for a showcase, which is provided with a shelf support for supporting a shelf plate on which commodities are placed so as to be slidable in a depth direction, the shelf apparatus is constructed so that the shelf support is provided with a locking plate extending in a width direction of the shelf plate, and the shelf plate is provided with a hooking member which is formed with a steel rod member which extends in the depth direction and whose rear portion further extends along the locking plate on a back surface side of the shelf plate, and also which enables the rear portion to be locked to and unlocked from the locking plate by being swayed vertically. When the shelf plate is held on the shelf supports, the rear portion of the hooking member is locked to the locking plate. By doing this, the shelf plate does not slide forward. When the shelf plate is pulled out forward, the hooking member is unlocked from the locking plate by being swayed vertically.

Abstract: A showcase includes air outlets provided at an upper rear end of a goods-storing room, and shelf ducts individually provided at lower faces of goods shelves. Cold air discharged from the air outlets is caused to descend along a rear plate of the goods-storing room, and then flows through the shelf ducts from rear ends towards front ends of the goods shelves while being partly discharged downward, whereby the cold air can be discharged downward from the shelf ducts to lower goods shelves, making it possible to efficiently cool goods placed on the goods shelves, even if no air curtain is formed in front of a showcase body. Accordingly, the visibility of upper goods shelves can be improved by using an upper face of the showcase formed by a transparent top plate.

Abstract: A showcase includes a showcase body having an upper face whose front end side is provided with a first waste heat air guide plate for guiding condensation prevention air upward that flows forward along an upper face of a top plate. The waste heat air is prevented from flowing into a goods-storing room through a front opening of the showcase body from the front end side of the top plate, thus positively preventing a reduction in cooling efficiency in the goods-storing room, whereby effective cooling in the goods-storing room can be achieved, without the need of providing an air curtain at the front face of the showcase body.

Abstract: In a shelf apparatus for a showcase, including a shelf plate on which commodities are placed; a shelf support on which the shelf plate is supported; and a connecting member having a movable portion connected to the shelf plate and a fixed portion connected to the shelf support for enabling the shelf plate to slide in the depth direction, the movable portion of the connecting member has a hard locking member, and the shelf support has a concave portion which can lock and unlock the locking member. When the shelf plate is held on the shelf supports, the locking member is locked to the concave portion. Thereby, the shelf plate is fixed to the shelf support via the connecting member. On the other hand, when commodities are resupplied onto the shelf plate, the locking member is unlocked from the concave portion. Thereby, the movable portion of the connecting member is detached from the shelf support.

Abstract: In a shelf apparatus for a showcase, which is provided with a shelf support for supporting a shelf plate on which commodities are placed so as to be slidable in a depth direction, the shelf apparatus is constructed so that the shelf support is provided with a locking plate extending in a width direction of the shelf plate, and the shelf plate is provided with a hooking member which is formed with a steel rod member which extends in the depth direction and whose rear portion further extends along the locking plate on a back surface side of the shelf plate, and also which enables the rear portion to be locked to and unlocked from the locking plate by being swayed vertically. When the shelf plate is held on the shelf supports, the rear portion of the hooking member is locked to the locking plate. By doing this, the shelf plate does not slide forward. When the shelf plate is pulled out forward, the hooking member is unlocked from the locking plate by being swayed vertically.

Abstract: The present invention relates to new stromelysin (human)-inhibitors, i.e., physiologically active substances BE-16627 represented by the general formula: ##STR1## wherein R represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, a process for the production and use thereof, and a microorganism producing the substance BE-16627.