Information display element for shelf and price channel use

• US 4,713,899 A
• Filed: 10/07/1986
• Issued: 12/22/1987
• Est. Priority Date: 10/07/1986
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: The Fast Mind LLC
• Original Assignee: Jacob Fast
• Inventors: Fast, Jacob
• Primary Examiner(s): Mancene, Gene
• Assistant Examiner(s): NOT, DEFINED
• Application Number:
  US06/916,368
• Time in Patent Office: 441 Days
• Field of Search: 40/10 R, 40/359, 40/360, 40/124.1, 248/205.3, 248/339, 211/57.1
• US Class Current: 40/661.08
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 3/20 for adjustable, removable, or interchangeable labels
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 3/201 Enclosures enveloping completely the labels G09F3/203 - G09F3/207 take precedence

Abstract

A display element is disclosed which can be used for displaying product information forwardly of an apertured product display shelf and which can be used selectively as a price channel flag for securing in a price channel in a supermarket and the like. The element is formed from a blank of plastic sheet having rectangular display and attachment panels with a transverse fold line extending therebetween. The attachment panel has a slit which forms a depressable arrow-shaped head for secruing in an aperture of the shelf adjacent the forward edge. Sections of the attachment panel adjacent the head engage the upper surface of the shelf thereby precluding upward tilting of the element. The display panel is folded down in front of the shelf and can be provided with an information display card or label. The blank also has a transverse channel-shaped slit which provides a portion of the blank located between the slit and a free upper edge of the attachment panel which can be flexed into a concave price channel so that the display panel extends below the price channel to form a price channel flag.

Claims

1. A display element for attachment to an apertured shelf for displaying product information at a forward edge of the shelf, the display element comprising a plastic sheet having a display panel and an attachment panel with a fold line extending transversely across the sheet substantially at a junction between the panels, the attachment panel including a slit defining a depressable head for working into an aperture of the shelf adjacent to the forward edge and thereby attaching the element to the shelf in a manner allowing the display panel to be folded down about the fold line in front of the shelf, the slit further defining sections of the attachment panel adjacent the head for engaging an upper surface of the shelf and precluding upward tilting of the element wherein the sheet includes a generally transversely located channel-shaped slit having an elongate base portion adjacent and parallel the fold line, and orthogonal limbs extending from the base portion toward a free end edge of the attachment panel to form a portion of the sheet defined between the base portion of the slit and said free edge for flexing into a concave price channel with the display panel extending below the price channel to form a price channel flag.

2. In combination with an apertured product display shelf, a display element for displaying product information at a forward edge of the shelf, the display element comprising a plastic sheet having a display panel and an attachment panel with a fold line extending across the sheet substantially at a junction between the panels, the attachment panel including a slit defining a depressable head engaged into an aperture of the shelf adjacent the forward edge thereby attaching the element to the shelf with the display panel being folded down about the fold line in front of the shelf and sections of the display panel adjacent the head engaging an upper surface of the shelf and substantially precluding upward tilting of the element.

3. The invention as defined in claim 2 wherein the dislay panel includes securing means for an information label, card, and the like.

4. The invention as defined in claim 3 wherein the securing means comprises peripherally located slits in the display panel defining edge tabs for the label, card, and the like.

5. The invention as defined in claim 2 wherein the sheet includes a generally transversely located channel-shaped slit having an elongate base portion adjacent and parallel the fold line, and orthogonal limbs extending from the base portion toward a free end edge of the attachment panel.

6. The invention as defined in claim 2 wherein the attachment panel and the display panel are each of substantially rectangular shape and the attachment panel is somewhat narrower than the display panel.