Display Case - Q-Class | Goppion

Goppion designs, develops and builds display cases and museum installations. The company works with curators and exhibit designers to develop solutions to individual projects with a collaborative approach.

Q-Class are high-performance, highly customizable display cases providing a wide scope for personalization, with multiple door opening systems, concealed hinges, and high airtightness.

Types

Qv1 type
The doors on these display cases swing open on Goppion’s articulated quadrilateral hinges. They can be made with a low or high base and are available with either a glass top or metal light attic (to house the lighting equipment or provide anchoring for interior fittings).

Mating surfaces can be specified with the following gaskets:

• Half-round in edge-to-face joint
• Cast-in-place in edge-to-face joint
• Cast-in-place in miter joint
• Magnetic in edge-to-face joint, with external door
• Magnetic in miter joint

Ceiling:

• Glass top
• Glass top with metal profile
• Center dropped metal light attic
• Full metal light attic

Dimensions:

This system is recommended when there is sufficient room for the door to swing open completely.

Qv2 type

These cases have a tilt-and-slide door opening system and are available with a glass top or metal light attic. To open, the lower portion of the door is pulled out, while the upper part is tilted within guide rails. The door then slides horizontally along tracks and heavy-duty bearings at the bottom, while the top slides along a rail. The door slides in two directions across 50% of its width.

Mating surfaces use half-round in edge-to-face joint gaskets

Ceiling types:

• Glass top with metal profile
• Inset metal attic

Dimensions:

Qv4 type
These vertical display cases are available with low or high bases. Miniaturized tilt- and-slide apparatus is installed in the metal light attic or glass top.

The door is tilted by pulling the lower edge out further than the upper, with the aid of pantographs, which powerfully compress gasket when the door closes; the door then slides horizontally along tracks with an extremely low friction coefficient.

This system is recommended when a hinged door would not have sufficient clearance and when the length and shallowness of the case would make it impossible to include mechanisms to support the weight of the open door.

In glass-topped display cases, the pull-and-slide opening system with concealed opening mechanism is set into the thickness of the glass top and concealed in the base by a backpainted strip. This system provides over 60% two-directional opening when self-supported and up to 80% with the use of the supporting device, or up to 80% one-directional self-supported opening.

Mating surfaces can be specified with the following gaskets:

• Cast-in-place in miter joint
• Magnetic in edge-to-face joint, with external door
• Magnetic in miter joint

Ceilings:

• Glass top
• Glass top with metal profile
• Inset metal attic
• Integrated metal attic

Dimensions:

Qv5 type

These vertical display cases’ pull-and- slide opening systems use pantographs and heavy-duty tracks. The cases are available with either a low or high base and come with either a glass top or metal attic housing the lighting equipment.

On closing, the pantographs powerfully compress the sealing gaskets.
On opening, the pantographs pull the door out then allow the door to be slid horizontally along tracks with an extremely low coefficient of friction. This system is recommended for when a hinged door would not have sufficient clearance and when the length and shallowness of the case would make it impossible to install a mechanism to support the weight of the open door.

Mating surfaces can be specified with the following gaskets:

• Half-round in edge-to-face joint
• Cast-in-place in edge-to-face joint
• Cast-in-place in miter joint
• Magnetic in edge-to-face joint, with external door
• Magnetic in miter joint

Dimensions:

Qv6 type

Qv6 cases offer complete opening of the glass front. In the model with symmetric arms, the door is supported by four arms of equal length, two below and two above, which shift the pane sideways, parallel to the front of the case, as they rotate. With asymmetric arms, the door is supported by four arms that provide a rototranslatory action as they rotate, bringing the door parallel to the side of the case, thus opening the front completely. This option is recommended for when the size of the room does not enable the door to be swung perpendicular to the front of the case. Symmetric-armed cases are equipped with a metal attic, while asymmetric-armed cases have a glass top and metal perimeter profile.

Mating surfaces can be specified with the following gaskets:

• Half-round in edge-to-face joint
• Cast-in-place in edge-to-face joint
• Cast-in-place in miter joint
• Magnetic in edge-to-face joint, with external door
• Magnetic in miter joint

Dimensions:

Qv7 type

These vertical display cases’ push-and- slide opening systems use pantographs and heavy duty tracks. The cases are available with either a low or a high base and have a metal light attic. Qv7 cases require at least two doors in series across the opening face.

Sustainability

Goppion uses ecologically-correct methods and makes efforts to use sustainable materials as well as research new materials and manufacturing processes with low environmental impacts. Goppion designs cases to last over time to reduce the need for replacement and recycling of industrial products.