Price channel flag & pocket

• US 4,716,669 A
• Filed: 07/18/1985
• Issued: 01/05/1988
• Est. Priority Date: 07/18/1985
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: The Fast Mind LLC
• Original Assignee: Jacob Fast
• Inventors: Fast, Jacob
• Primary Examiner(s): Swiatek, Robert P.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Stone, Cary E.
• Application Number:
  US06/756,235
• Time in Patent Office: 901 Days
• Field of Search: 40/10 R, 40/10 D, 40/16.2, 40/16, 40/11 R, 248/220.2, 248/221.4
• US Class Current: 40/650
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 3/20 for adjustable, removable, or interchangeable labels

Abstract

Price channel flags for the display of merchandise information are provided with improved features whereby such flags may be adequately retained in price channels which are somewhat wider than the nominal price channel width, and whereby replacement labels may be used in a depending pocket portion of a price channel flag which is adequately supported by the price channel to allow a bar code on a label received therein to be adequately read by a bar code reader.

Claims

1. A price channel flag comprising a card of resilient sheet material having at least a rectangular price channel-engaging portion with an upper edge and a lower edge and a transverse bend line extending across the entire width of the price-channel-engaging portion adjacent one of the said edges, the distance between the bend line and the other of said edges conforming to the size of the regular oversize price channel flag adapted to be flexed into concave form so as to be retained in a substantially conforming concave price channel of nominal width, said bend line defining a flag portion between the bend line and said one edge for flexing about the bend line so as to make the flag adjustable in height for retention in price channels somewhat wider than the nominal width, wherein the flag includes a depending portion, a channel shaped slit defining the lower edge of the price channel-engaging portion and limbs at opposite ends of the slit connecting said portions, wherein the depending portion comprises a two-panel sheet with a fold line between the respective panels for forming the depending portion into a pocket-like configuration, and wherein the lower edge of the depending portion is formed with a cutout which is substantially a mirror image of the channel shaped slit and defines respective tabs at the ends thereof for supporting the depending portion against a price channel when folded into the pocket-like configuration.

2. The invention of claim 1 wherein the bend line is formed adjacent the lower edge of the price channel-engaging portion.

3. The invention of claim 1 wherein the depending portion comprises a single-panel sheet.

4. A price channel flag comprising a rectangular card of resilient sheet material divided by a transverse channel shaped slit into an upper price channel-engaging portion and a lower depending portion connected to the upper portion by respective limbs at opposite ends of the slit, the depending portion comprising a pair of panels connected by a transverse bend line and the depending portion having a lower edge defining a cutout which is substantially a mirror image of the slit and which defines respective tabs at opposite ends thereof.

5. The invention of claim 4 wherein the upper portion of the flag has a fold line adjacent one of an upper and lower edge thereof for adjusting the effective height of said upper portion.

6. In combination with a price channel of generally concave form having upper and lower tag-retaining lips, a tag for providing product information, the tag comprising a card of resilient sheet material flexed into substantially conforming concave form in the channel, the tag having a transverse fold line adjacent one of an upper and lower edge thereof about which fold line the tag is bent to provide a flexed portion engaging one of said channel lips, wherein the tag has a dependent portion projecting below the price channel, the dependent portion being connected to the card by respective limbs at opposite sides of the card, and wherein the dependent portion comprises a pair of panels folded into a pocket-like configuration for receiving a product label, one of said panels terminating in a free edge defining tabs at opposite ends thereof supported against a lower lip of the price channel behind the other of said panels.