Goppion S.p.a.

Goppion S.r.l.

Alessandro Goppion

Sergio Matteo Savaresi

Mara Tanelli

Silvia Carla Strada

A method for construction of a museum display case is presented. The museum display case has a platform and a case above the platform, the case having at least one opening door. The method includes: providing glass panes, applying first metal beams to the glass panes beforehand by gluing, forming wall units, providing second metal beams at the opening door, forming the case by assembling the wall units together by means of the first and second metal beams, so that the first and second metal beams form a load-bearing structure only when the wall units have been assembled, and fixing the load-bearing structure of the case to the platform. With this method, the load-bearing structure of the display case is not formed by a frame to which the fixed and opening walls are then applied, but by the first and second metal beams, the former being already pre-glued to the glass panes of the fixed walls of the display case. This method makes the assembly of the display case easier and faster.

Self-supporting museum display case, related construction method and wall unit

A museum showcase includes a base, with a laterally accessible technical compartment and an upper platform, and an exhibition space above the platform, delimited by vertically extended glass walls. The glass walls include at least one multi-layered special glass wall, formed of an inner glass pane and an outer glass pane. The inner glass pane extends downwards to cover the base and includes an opening at the technical compartment. The outer glass pane extends downwards only to a height such that the opening in the inner glass pane remains free. The special glass wall includes an openable door shaped and sized to form an extension of the outer glass pane downwards to cover the base. In this way, the opening of the technical compartment is accessible by opening the door, without having to open access to the exhibition space. The inner glass pane ensures that the exhibition space remains closed.

Museum showcase with hidden access to technical compartment

The museum showcase includes a base, a horizontal guide system placed along a sliding direction, and a case mounted on the horizontal guide system; the case is divided into at least two modules and each module comprises two vertical side walls connected to an upper horizontal top panel and to a lower horizontal bottom; each module is mounted on the horizontal guide system to slide in direction (A); the modules each comprise two end modules and each end module includes a vertical end wall, the vertical end walls being connected to the vertical side walls, to the top panel and to the bottom in the respective module (). An abutment profile is on each of the modules, that is directed towards another adjacent module and extends at a free edge of the bottom, the top panel and the vertical side walls; and a single exhibiting plane.

Museum showcase divided into modules

A museum showcase includes a guide system for a sliding door, including upper and lower guide mechanisms. The upper guide mechanism includes primary and secondary rails. The upper guide mechanism also includes a first slide unit and a second slide unit. The first slide unit has a rolling member on an upper horizontal track of the secondary rail, and a sliding block engaged on a vertical track of the secondary rail. The second slide unit has a rolling member on a lower horizontal track of the primary rail, and a sliding block engaged on a vertical track of the primary rail. Thereby, the upper guide mechanism is extremely strong. The weight of the door, entirely supported by the secondary rail, is discharged on the first rail by the two slide units to transmit both vertical and horizontal loads.

Museum showcase with a guide system for a sliding door

A display case for preserving and displaying objects in a protected environment. The display case includes: a display space, delimited by separating walls including a lower plane, side walls and a ceiling; and means for adjusting and controlling air climate in the display space. The means for adjusting and controlling include: a hygrometric probe for detecting the relative humidity inside the display space: a control unit, connected to the hygrometric probe and a first relative humidity control electrolytic membrane, located in a first opening formed in one of the separating walls, activated by the control unit.

Museum display case with improved relative humidity control and related control method

The museum showcase comprises a casing with at least one open side, a sliding door for closing the open side of the casing, a guide system to allow the horizontal displacement of the sliding door with respect to the casing, and an actuation system to cause the displacement of the sliding door on the guide system. The actuation system comprises a rack, integral with the sliding door and extending in the direction of its width, two drive pinions rotatably mounted on the casing and in meshing engagement with the rack. The two pinions are arranged spaced apart from each other in the direction of the width of the open side of the casing. It follows a very wide opening of the showcase.

Museum showcase with a rack and pinion drive system for a sliding door

This museum showcase comprises a bearing frame and fixed and/or openable walls supported by the bearing frame. The bearing frame comprises a platform that includes joints connected to horizontal beams. The fixed and/or openable walls of the showcase are supported only by the joints. The weight of the walls is supported by the joints, whereas the horizontal beams are not subjected to significant stresses. It is thus possible to design the showcase in a particularly simple and therefore quick manner, choosing the lengths of each beam according to the dimensions of the showcase and leaving the support of the weights to just the joints.

Museum showcase with a bearing platform

This showcase () for conserving and displaying objects in a protective environment comprises a frame (), at least one drawer (), a pair of sliding guides () for each drawer (), and a motorised actuation system () formed by a first arm () and an actuator (). The showcase () with this motorised actuation system () makes it possible to minimise the vibrations and the sudden movements of the drawers () when opening and closing, hence it limits accelerations at any point of the travel, thus allowing the correct conservation of the objects displayed in the drawers ().

Museum showcase having drawers with a motorized actuation system

This showcase for conserving and displaying objects in a protected environment comprises a case, fixed walls, an openable wall and a gasket housed in a seat formed in part in the fixed walls and in part in the openable wall, open towards the interior of the showcase. The showcase ensures better security, since the gasket cannot be reached from the outside (unless the showcase is open) and therefore any possibility of tampering is avoided.

Museum showcase with an invisible gasket

A showcase includes a fixed case, an openable sliding door, closable on the fixed case, a compression sealing gasket, between the fixed case and the openable door, an upper guide and a lower guide mounted on the fixed case. The openable door is slidably mounted on the upper and lower guides, and both the upper guide and the lower guide are movable between respective extracted positions and respective retracted positions with respect to the fixed case. The showcase also includes lower actuation means, and upper actuation means. The upper actuation means are operatively connected to the lower actuation means and/or to the lower guide.

Showcase with sliding and compression closure

A showcase for preservation and display of objects. The showcase has a fixed casing and at least one openable panel made of glass, mounted through opening supports on the fixed casing, openable externally towards a first side of the showcase. The opening supports have an upper asymmetric quadrilateral and a lower asymmetric quadrilateral having the same geometry, respectively comprising a short upper rod and a long upper rod and a short lower rod and a long lower rod; the lengths of the short rods are equal to each other, as well as the lengths of the long rods are equal to each other. The opening takes place in a single roto-translation step. The asymmetric quadrilateral system formed by the uneven rods determines a roto-translational movement of the openable panel towards the first side of the showcase, so that the openable panel leaves the opening space completely free.

Showcase with rototranslatory opening

A display showcase includes a base, fixed side walls supported by the base, at least one openable side wall, an upper horizontal beam mounted at the openable side wall, an upper ceiling mounted on the fixed side walls and on the beam, and a beam, a longitudinal tubular element, two head groups abutted at opposite ends of the tubular element, a tie rod longitudinally extended in the tubular element in a lower region thereof, coupled to the two head groups and taut therebetween.

Display showcase with reinforced supporting beam of the upper ceiling

This museum showcase comprises a display space visible to the public for receiving objects, at least a detection sensor of a parameter of the showcase and at least one of an alarm and an actuator for adjusting a parameter of the showcase. The museum showcase further comprises a processing unit and a showcase interface; the showcase interface is operatively connected between the sensor, the adjusting actuator and/or the alarm and the processing unit, in order to transmit information from the sensor to the processing unit and to transmit commands from the processing unit to the adjusting actuator and/or the alarm. The museum showcase is therefore completely controllable by means of the processing unit, which receives information from one or more dedicated sensors that is considered necessary for the specific showcase and which manages actuators and alarms so as to maintain the desired conditions and/or signal abnormal situations, according to the information received.

Museum showcase, having detection sensors, adjustment actuators, alarms and a processing unit connected together

This showcase for the preservation and display of objects in a protected environment, comprises a bell, a base and pantograph mechanisms housed in lateral end regions of the base and formed by arms, pairs of arms and lower arms, the latter with a curvilinear configuration. The pantograph mechanisms are actuated by actuation systems housed at the bottom of the lateral end regions of the base. The showcase ensures an easier recovery of the space otherwise occupied by the actuation systems and at the same time an appropriate opening of the showcase.

Bell-type museum showcase, having pantograph lifting mechanisms

A display case has a first display case portion with walls configured so that each wall of a plurality of first fixed walls has a coupling edge arranged at the same coupling framework between the first portion and a second portion of the display case. The coupling edges of the first fixed walls are coplanar to one another and at least two of the first fixed walls are adjacent to each other and fastened together through gluing along a corner substantially perpendicular to the plane of the coupling edges. A groove is formed longitudinally on the coupling edge of each of the first fixed walls, the grooves of the first fixed walls jointly defining a channel along the coupling framework; a hoop cable is housed in the channel, closed on itself. The hoop cable contributes to keeping the walls coupled together at the coupling framework, ensuring that the walls stay in position even in the case in which the gluing with which the first fixed walls are fastened together partially or even totally gives way.

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Milan, Italy

Alessandro Goppion