Product display and article dispensing device

• US 3,923,159 A
• Filed: 09/16/1974
• Issued: 12/02/1975
• Est. Priority Date: 09/16/1974
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Charles Kleiman, Robert C. Taylor
• Original Assignee: Charles Kleiman, Robert C. Taylor
• Inventors: Taylor, Robert, Kleiman, Charles
• Primary Examiner(s): Tollberg, Stanley H.
• Application Number:
  US05/506,345
• Time in Patent Office: 442 Days
• Field of Search: 211/181,106,88,49R,148,49D 221/301,3
• US Class Current: 211/59.2
• CPC Class Codes: A47F 1/082 the container being made of tubes or wire A47F1/085, A47F1/087, take precedence

Abstract

A device for dispensing articles such as cans which comprises a rack having a lower can receiving and dispensing portion, and an upper carton supporting portion. The rack is adapted to support a disposable carton in substantially an upright position thereby providing an unobstructed view to a purchaser of pictorial and written material on the face of the carton relating to the product contained therein. Articles, such as cans, in the carton automatically feed themselves into the rack through an opening in an end of the carton. A movable gate, having a sound producing element such as a bell attached thereto, is provided for the rack. The gate requires a purchaser to manually move it to an open position before an article can be removed from the rack. The sound producing element is activated when the gate is moved.

Claims

1. A portable, self-supporting product display and article dispensing device suitable for positioning on a counter or the like, comprising a one-piece, unitary, wire framework having an article receiving portion and a carton supporting portion, said article receiving portion having side members for supporting article holding means therebetween, said side members having a forwardly extending base section which serves as a support for the device when it is placed on a counter, or the like, and an upwardly extending rear section to which the carton supporting portion of the framework is secured, said carton supporting portion having upper and lower carton engaging means for supporting an article containing carton in a substantially upright position on the framework, said lower carton engaging means including a freely supported extension positioned in transverse relation with respect to the side members of the carton supporting portion, said extension providing an elevated, rearwardly extending, downwardly inclined surface on which a partly opened end of an article containing carton rests and which serves as the main supporting surface for said carton, said surface acting to maintain said end of the carton in vertically spaced relation with respect to the article holding means supported between the side members of the article receiving portion of the framework whereby articles in the carton can pass downwardly through an opening in said end of the carton into the article receiving portion of the device.

2. A device according to claim 1 whereiN a gate is provided for the device, said gate being swingably attached to the carton supporting portion and so positioned in relation to the article receiving portion as to require that the gate be grasped and swung clear of the article receiving portion to enable an article to be removed therefrom.