Display and pull-out tray assemblies for integrated modular store fixture system

• US 4,771,898 A
• Filed: 09/10/1987
• Issued: 09/20/1988
• Est. Priority Date: 02/17/1987
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sara Lee Corporation
• Original Assignee: Sara Lee Corporation
• Inventors: Howard, Fred, Edson, Sydney
• Primary Examiner(s): Gibson, Jr., Robert W.
• Application Number:
  US07/095,411
• Time in Patent Office: 376 Days
• Field of Search: 211/59.1, 211/126, 211/193, 211/59.2, 211/59.3, 211/57.1, 211/133, 211/151, 211/187, 211/182, 108/108, 108/109
• US Class Current: 211/59.2
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 96/00 Details of cabinets, racks or shelf units not covered by a single one of groups A47B43/00 - A47B95/00; General details of furniture doors E06B
• CPC Class Codes: A47F 5/103 Display shelving racks with the uprights aligned in only one plane

Abstract

An integrated modular store fixture system has at least two spaced apart parallel vertical members at the rear of the system with side surfaces facing each other and having a series of aligned holes therein. A display assembly or a pull-out tray assembly is engageable with holes into members for holding merchandise to be displayed at the front of the system. The assemblies include two side support elements, each extending from the rear to the front of the system when in the mounted position with one end at the rear having members projecting transverse to the support elements and each projecting member inserted into one hole in one vertical member. The side support elements are releasably retained in the mounted position by a horizontal elongated stretcher member having downwardly depending pins and which are slidably received in tubular members on each support element. A tray or J-hook is mounted on the support elements for holding merchandise to be displayed.

Claims

1. In an integrated modular store fixture system having means for the display of merchandise and having at least two spaced apart upstanding members with side surfaces facing each other and having a plurality of spaced mounting means, at least two side support elements each extending from the rear to the front of the system and each provided with first means for engaging preselected mounting means on respective ones of said upstanding members to non-rotatably connect together the said support element and said upstanding member, and a spacer extending between adjacent ones of said side support elements to maintain said side support elements in place on said upstanding member.

2. The system of claim 1 and connecting means for connecting said spacer with said support elements.

3. The system of claim 2, in which said connecting means includes means for releasably connecting said spacer with the rear of said support elements.

4. The system of claim 1, in which said mounting means comprise a plurality of holes in said upstanding members, and said first means comprises at least one projection engageable in a selected one of said holes.

5. The system of claim 4, in which said first means comprises at least two spaced projections engageable in correspondingly spaced holes.

6. The system of claim 2, in which said connecting means comprises a projection at each end of said spacer, and receiving means on said support element for receiving said projection therein.

7. The system of claim 6, in which said spacer comprises a rod having depending pins at the ends thereof, and said receiving means comprises a tubular element adapted to slidingly receive said pin therein.

8. The system according to claim 1, wherein each side support element comprises a wire frame having a rear portion comprising a right triangle with one side forming a base, another side forming said one end and the hypotenuse above the base and a linear front portion extending downwardly from the hypotenuse to a free end.

9. The system according to claim 8, wherein said mounting means comprises a plurality of holes and said first means comprises a C-shaped member having two arms extending from a connecting member, wherein the connecting member forms said other side of the triangle and the two arms form the projecting members.

10. The system according to claim 9, wherein the spacer comprises a C-shaped elongated member having two arms forming pins, said support elements having tubular members, and said pins being configured to be received in the tubular members and a portion connecting the two arms.

11. The system according to claim 1, wherein each side support element has an inside face and means forming a slide channel sloping downwardly from the rear to the front of the system and means forming a detent along the slide channel at a lower front portion thereof.

12. The system according to claim 11, wherein the means for holding merchandise to be displayed comprises a tray having front and rear portions, two sides and a base, and means forming two slide members at both sides and under the base of the tray and slidably received in the slide channels of two side support elements, wherein one slide member is disposed at the front portion at both sides and one slide member is disposed at the rear portion at both sides and wherein the slide members are resilient and each includes a rear portion parallel to the base and a front portion depending downwardly at an acute angle from the rear portion and having a leading edge coactive with the detent to prevent forward movement of the tray and manually bendable upwardly to move the leading edge above the detent and permit forward movement of the tray, whereby the tray is movable between a display portion wherein the slide members at the front portion of the tray coact with the detents and a leading position herein the slide members at the rear portion of the tray coact with the detents.

13. The system according to claim 12, wherein the means forming the slide channel includes means forming a relaxation area in the channel at a rear portion thereof comprising a widening of the channel and wherein the relaxation area corresponds to the position of the front portions of the rear slide members when the tray is in the display position.