DISPLAY AND DISPENSING BIN

• US 3,744,866 A
• Filed: 07/29/1971
• Issued: 07/10/1973
• Est. Priority Date: 07/29/1971
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Cook, Robert L.
• Original Assignee: Cook, Robert L.
• Inventors: Cook, Robert L.
• Primary Examiner(s): Mitchell, James C.
• Application Number:
  US05/167,153
• Time in Patent Office: 712 Days
• Field of Search: 312/42 211/184,49D 108/60,61
• US Class Current: 312/42
• CPC Class Codes: A47F 1/08 dispensing from bottom

Abstract

Display, storage and dispensing rack for packages having a parallelogram shape and laterally moveable and adjustable flanged partitioning elements to enclose packages of any selected size in a stack, the partitioning elements having extending diagonally disposed points insertable in oppositely paired upper and lower grooves to secure the partitioning elements.

Claims

1. A display, storage and dispensing rack having an upper closure and lower supporting elements, both of said elements being laterally horizontal extending members for enclosing packaged commodities to be dispensed therefrom, said upper closure and lower supporting members being canted upward from rear to front at an angle of about 10 to 20*, a series of laterally corresponding spaced grooves in the upper surface of said supporting element and in the lower surface of the closure element extending between front and rear, vertical partitioning elements supported between a pair of said corresponding upper and lower grooves laterally spaced each to form supporting side walls for vertical stacks of commodities between partitioning elements, said partitioning elements having their upper and lower ends angularly tapered to substantially correspond to the canted closure and support members.

2. A display, storage and dispensing rack as defined in claim 1 wherein said partitioning elements have parallel vertical edges joined by parallel tapering ends forming a parallelogram having upper and lower diagonally disposed point corners comprising acute angles, both said upper and lower closure and support elements having grooves aligned with respect to each other and extending laterally along the horizontal surfaces thereof, whereby at least said diagonally opposite extending points of each tapering end lies within an upper and lower aligned groove.

3. Display, storage and dispensing rack as defined in claim 1 wherein said upper closure element is parallel to said lower support element, said elements having their front and rear edges disposed in planes common to both elements, said rack having a wall in the rear plane, the vertical back edge of each partitioning element lying within said rear plane and bearing against said wall to provide additional support for the partitions in groove-engaged position of said points.

4. Display, storage and dispensing rack as defined in claim 3 wherein the angle of said taper is about 15*.

5. Display, storage and dispensing rack as defined in claim 1 wherein the grooves are disposed in a series in each surface laterally separated a distance of about one-fourth to one-half inches.

6. Display, storage and dispensing rack as defined in claim 3 wherein said partitioning elements have flanges mounted across their forward edges and extending vertically therealong, terminating at lower and upper points substantially above and below the respective levels of the lower and upper support elements, said flanges extending laterally on both sides of each partition a substantial distance toward but less than about one-half the normal distance between the lateral disposition of partitions, whereby to form in a plane of the front edges of said support elements a substantial closure of said rack to enclose packages in a stack between a pair of adjacent partitioning elements.

7. Display, storage and dispensing rack as defined in claim 1 wherein said closure and support elements have front and rear edgEs disposed in planes common to both elements, said rack having a wall in the rear plane, the vertical back edge of each partitioning element lying within said rear plane and bearing against said wall to provide additional support for the partitions in groove-engaged position of said points, the upper and lower diagonally opposite disposed points of said partitioning elements comprising acute angles with said tapering upper and lower ends whereby said partitioning elements have a parallelogram shape corresponding in shape with said rack, the tapers of upper and lower ends of a partition being at a substantial angle to its vertical sides whereby diagonally opposite extending points each lie within an upper and lower aligned groove.

8. The rack as defined in claim 7 having legs at forward edges of each end, each of a height to support the said upwardly tapered lower surface of said rack.

9. A display, storage and dispensing rack comprising upper and lower parallel horizontal support elements secured between vertical ends angularly forming a parallelogram in end section, both said upper and lower support elements having grooves aligned with respect to each other and extending laterally along the horizontal surfaces thereof, a plurality of partitioning elements each mounted for support between an aligned pair of upper and lower grooves, each partitioning element having diagonally disposed upper and lower extending points each lying in a respective upper and lower groove of an aligned pair, vertically supporting a partitioning element therebetween.