Shelf divider

• US 5,161,704 A
• Filed: 12/02/1991
• Issued: 11/10/1992
• Est. Priority Date: 12/02/1991
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Southern Imperial Incorporated (FFR DSI Holdings, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Southern Imperial Incorporated (FFR DSI Holdings, Inc.)
• Inventors: Valiulis, Stanley C.
• Primary Examiner(s): GIBSON, ROBERT W
• Application Number:
  US07/801,002
• Time in Patent Office: 344 Days
• Field of Search: 211/184, 211/43, 108/60, 108/61, 248/225.1
• US Class Current: 211/184
• CPC Class Codes: A47F 5/005 Partitions therefore horizontally adjustable A47B57/58; constructional details of drawers A47B88/90

Abstract

A divider for separating a retail display shelf into specific zones and maintaining merchandise in an orderly and segregated arrangement while preventing the mingling of different merchandise. The divider includes an upright dividing panel made of plastic and formed with a laterally extending foot for helping support the panel in an upright position on the shelf. A plate with resilient tabs is formed integrally with the foot, extends downwardly from the front of the dividing panel, and is adapted to be snapped into a channel at the front of the shelf. The divider may be shifted to infinitely adjusted positions along the shelf by sliding the plate in the channel.

Claims

1. A shelf divider made from a single piece of resiliently flexible plastic, said divider having an elongated dividing panel disposed in an upright plane, said panel having upper and lower edges and forward and rear ends, a stabilizing foot integral with and projecting horizontally from the lower edge of said panel, a generally flat plate extending downwardly from said panel adjacent the forward end thereof and joined integrally to said panel, said plate being disposed in an upright plane located substantially perpendicular to the plane of said panel, said plate having integral tab means normally disposed in the plane of said plate and capable of being flexed rearwardly from the plane of said plate.

2. A shelf divider as defined in claim 1 in which said plate includes upper and lower edges, a connector integral with and extending upwardly from the upper edge of said plate and joined integrally to said panel, a pair of generally vertically extending slits formed through said plate, said slits being located on opposite sides of said connector and extending downwardly from the upper edge of said plate to points substantially short of the lower edge of said plate, said tab means comprising a pair of tabs located on opposite sides of said connector and capable of being flexed rearwardly from the plane of said plate by virtue of said slits.

3. A shelf divider as defined in claim 2 in which said foot is located adjacent the forward end of said panel and includes a forward edge, said connector including a generally horizontal portion integral with and extending forwardly from the forward edge of said foot and further including a generally vertical portion integral with said horizontal portion and the upper edge of said plate.

4. A shelf divider as defined in claim 3 in which said foot projects in one direction from said panel, and a second stabilizing foot integral with the lower edge of said panel adjacent the rear end thereof and projecting generally horizontally from said panel in a direction opposite from said one direction.

5. A shelf divider as defined in claim 1 in which said foot is located adjacent the forward end of said panel and projects in one direction from said panel, and a second stabilizing foot integral with the lower edge of said panel adjacent the rear end thereof and projecting generally horizontally from said panel in a direction opposite from said one direction.

6. A shelf divider made from a single piece of resiliently flexible plastic, said divider having an elongated dividing panel disposed in an upright plane, said panel having upper and lower edges and forward and rear ends, a stabilizing foot integral with and projecting generally horizontally from the lower edge of said panel adjacent the forward end thereof, said foot having a forward end, a connector integral with said foot and having a generally vertical portion extending downwardly from the forward end of said foot, a plate located forwardly of and below said panel and having an upper end joined integrally to the vertical portion of said connector, said plate having a lower end and being disposed in an upright plane located substantially perpendicular to the plane of said panel, a pair of generally vertically extending slits formed through said plate, said slits being located on opposite sides of said connector and extending downwardly from the upper end of said plate to points substantially short of the lower end of the plate, and tabs located alongside said slits and normally disposed in the plane of said plate, said tabs being capable of being flexed rearwardly from the plane of said plate by virtue of said slits.

7. A shelf divider as defined in claim 6 in which said foot projects in one direction from said panel, and a second stabilizing foot integral with the lower edge of said panel adjacent the rear end thereof and projecting generally horizontally from said panel in a direction opposite from said one direction.