Product display rack

• US 5,439,122 A
• Filed: 01/03/1994
• Issued: 08/08/1995
• Est. Priority Date: 01/03/1994
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Miller Zell, Inc. (CDI Group Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Miller Zell, Inc. (CDI Group Incorporated)
• Inventors: Ramsay, Arlen R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Braun, Leslie A.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Purol, Sarah L.
• Application Number:
  US08/176,528
• Time in Patent Office: 582 Days
• Field of Search: 211/187, 211/128, 211/153, 211/193, 211/90, 211/134, 108/144, 108/111
• US Class Current: 211/187
• CPC Class Codes: A47F 5/0081 Show stands or display racks with movable parts A47F5/0037, A47F5/02, A47F5/05, A47F5/12 take precedence; show cabinets with movable parts A47F3/06
• CPC Class Codes: A47F 5/103 Display shelving racks with the uprights aligned in only one plane

Abstract

A product display rack for stocking and displaying products for sale, including a pair of upright stanchions having a series of laterally extending shelf supports attached thereto. Shelf assemblies are slidably mounted on the shelf supports such that the shelf assemblies can be moved from a retracted display position to an extended stocking position displaced from the stanchions. Better access to the rearward portions of the shelf assemblies is provided to enable efficient restocking of newer products rearwardly of older products on the shelf members without requiring removal of the older products prior to restocking.

Claims

1. A display assembly for supporting and displaying products, comprising:

upright stanchions spaced from one another each having an upper end and a lower end and a series of bores defined at spaced intervals along the length thereof;

a plurality of parallel shelf supports each comprising a substantially U-shaped rod having an open end adapted to engage and fit into said bores defined within said stanchions for mounting said shelf supports to said stanchions, a closed end opposite said open end and spaced upper and lower sections defining a guide along the length of each of said shelf supports, with said shelf supports projecting in a direction normal to the length of said stanchions; and

shelf means having a first surface for supporting and displaying products and a second surface opposed from said first surface, said shelf means being slidably mounted on said shelf supports, said shelf means including guides positioned along said second surface in which said shelf supports are received to mount said shelf means on said shelf supports and to enable said shelf means to slide along said shelf supports a predetermined distance to provide access to said shelf means for efficient stocking of fresh products rearwardly of older products displayed on said shelf means.

2. The display assembly of claim 1 and wherein said shelf means comprises a substantially rectangular plate formed from an extruded plastic material.

3. The display assembly of claim 1, and further comprising means for fastening said shelf means to said shelf supports to prevent said shelf means from being removed from said shelf supports.

4. The display assembly of claim 1, and wherein said guides comprise pairs of downward depending flanges defining a channel therethrough.

5. The display assembly of claim 4, and wherein said means for fastening comprises pins extending through said flanges and through said shelf supports.

6. The display assembly of claim 1 and wherein said shelf means comprises a basket formed from wire.

7. The display assembly of claim 1 and wherein said shelf means further includes a series of receptacles adapted to receive and maintain products in aligned rows of products.

8. The display assembly of claim 1 and further including a display basket mounted adjacent said upper ends of said upright supports and having a series of tiers for supporting products at varying elevations.

9. A product display rack for supporting products in a series of aligned rows of the type including a series of upright stanchions having upper ends and lower ends and a plurality of mounting bores formed along their lengths at spaced intervals, and a plurality of shelf supports adapted to engage said mounting bores in a locking relationship with each shelf support of each stanchion substantially aligned with a shelf support of the other stanchion, the improvement therein comprising:

a plurality of product display shelves each slidably mounted upon a pair of aligned shelf supports at spaced elevations along said stanchions, each having an upper surface for supporting a series of products and a lower surface including guides positioned across the width of said display shelves and adapted to receive the shelf supports therein such that said display shelves are slidably mounted upon the shelf supports so as to enable said display shelves to be movable between a retracted display position and an extended stocking position to enable easy and efficient restocking of products on said display shelves, wherein the shelf supports each comprise a substantially U-shaped rod having an open end adapted to engage and fit into said mounting bores for mounting said shelf supports to said stanchions, a closed end opposite said open end and spaced upper and lower sections defining a guide slot along the length of each of said shelf supports.

10. The product display rack of claim 9 and wherein said product display shelves comprise substantially rectangularly shaped plates formed from an extruded plastic material.

11. The product display rack of claim 9 and wherein said product display shelves comprise metal wire baskets.

12. The product display rack of claim 9 and further including a series of partitions formed at spaced intervals along the length of each of said display shelves, forming troughs for stacking products in separate, aligned rows.

13. The product display rack of claim 9 and further including fasteners projecting through said guides and through said guide slots of the shelf supports to secure said display shelves to said shelf supports and limit the travel of said display shelves along the shelf supports by the engagement of one of said fasteners with said closed ends of the shelf supports.

14. A display assembly for supporting and displaying products, comprising:

upright stanchions spaced from one another each having an upper end and a lower end and a series of bores defined at spaced intervals along the length thereof;

a plurality of parallel shelf supports mounted to said stanchions and adapted to engage at least one of said bores of said stanchions in a locking relationship, with said shelf supports projecting in a direction normal to the length of said stanchions; and

shelf means having a first surface for supporting and displaying products and a second surface opposed from said first surface, said shelf means being slidably mounted on said shelf supports, said shelf means including guides positioned along said second surface in which said shelf supports are received to mount said shelf means on said shelf supports and to enable said shelf means to slide along said shelf supports a predetermined distance to provide access to said shelf means for efficient stocking of fresh products rearwardly of older products displayed on said shelf means;

wherein said guides comprise pairs of downward depending flanges defining a channel therethrough; and

wherein said display assembly further comprises pins extending through said flanges and through said shelf supports, said pins acting to fasten said shelf means to said shelf supports to prevent said shelf means from being removed from said shelf supports.