Dual modular hinged access display and dispensing structure

• US 5,492,398 A
• Filed: 05/17/1994
• Issued: 02/20/1996
• Est. Priority Date: 05/17/1994
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Schafer Systems, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Schafer Systems, Inc.
• Inventors: Schafer, Christopher E.
• Primary Examiner(s): Cuomo, Peter M.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Anderson, Gerald A.
• Application Number:
  US08/243,819
• Time in Patent Office: 644 Days
• Field of Search: 312/34.4, 312/34.7, 312/34.1, 312/34.8, 312/34.22, D20/2, 206/409, 206/393, 206/394, 206/824
• US Class Current: 312/34.7
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 35/0006 Article or web delivery apparatus incorporating cutting or line-perforating devices

Abstract

A dual modular device for the display and dispensing of tickets is provided that includes a box type unit with two storage sections and a rear door that is pivotally mounted by a mounting assembly formed of cylindrical posts attached to each lower corner of the door and receivably journaled in cavities located in the lower rear portion of each sidewall of the unit. The door further includes side and top flanges that overlie the sidewalls and roof of the unit when the door is in a closed position to secure the sidewalls of the unit from being forced apart to gain access to the interior of the unit. The lower portion of the door also includes offset side edges to provide a door with approximately the same dimension as the inside measurement between the two sidewalls of the unit so that the lower portion of the door acts as a positioning guide when closing the door.

Claims

1. A dual modular hinged access display and dispensing device comprising:

(a) a unit of box-like configuration having a floor, a roof, a pair of sidewalls, a front end and an open rear end;

(b) a divider portion located within said unit to divide said unit into at least two side-by-side storage sections for the material to be dispensed;

(c) a unit door pivotally and demountably attached at a lower portion of the rear end of said unit by way of posts protruding from either the lower corners of said door or the lower portion of the unit sidewalls and cavities journaled in either the lower rear corners of said door or the lower portion of the sidewalls wherein the door unit is provided with a lower portion offset forward of the rear edges of the units sidewalls so as to line up with the pivot axis of the door, with the width of the offset portion of said door being slightly less than but approximately the same as an inside measurement between the two sidewalls to allow the lower portion of said door to act as a positioning guide when closing said door; and

(d) means for semi-permanently attaching the door to the opposite upper portion of the rear end of said unit so that the door serves as a rear wall for said unit when in a closed position.

2. A display device according to claim 1 wherein the cylindrical posts are of such size and the unit sidewalls are formed of a material having sufficient flexibility and resiliency to allow for the mounting of said door to and demounting of said door from said unit by hand without adversely affecting the structural integrity of the pivotal attachment.

3. A display device as recited in claim 1 wherein said divider portion is medially located in said unit to divide said unit into two storage sections.

4. A display device according to claim 1 that further includes the unit door having flanges on each vertical edge of said door that extend forward to overlie the rear edges of the unit sidewalls.

5. A display device according to claim 1 wherein said posts are formed as part of the door and said cavities are formed as part of the unit sidewalls.

6. A display device according to claim 5 wherein said posts and cavities are cylindrically shaped.

7. A display device according to claim 1 that further includes the unit door having a flange on the top that extends forwardly to overlie the rear edge of the unit roof.

8. A dual modular hinged access display and dispensing device comprising:

(a) a unit of box-like configuration having a floor, a roof, a pair of sidewalls, a front end and an open rear end;

(b) a divider portion located within said unit to divide said unit into at least two side-by-side storage sections for the material to be dispensed;

(c) a unit door pivotally and demountably attached at a lower portion of the rear end of said unit by way of posts protruding from either the lower corners of said door and the unit sidewalls or the lower portion cavities journaled in either the lower rear corners of said door or the lower portion of the sidewalls, said unit door having a horizontally aligned exit means having sidewalls and a top edge extending outwardly from an outer surface of said door;

(d) a slotted post fixedly attached to each said exit means sidewall;

(e) a roller slidably mounted on each of the slotted posts, said roller having an axial through bore with a first portion of the length of the bore having a diameter in close tolerance with the slotted post and a second portion of the length of the bore having a diameter somewhat larger than the first diameter to increase the resiliency of said roller; and

(f) means for semi-permanently attaching the door to the opposite upper portion of the rear end of said unit so that the door serves as a rear wall for said unit when in a closed position.

9. A dual modular hinged access display and dispensing device comprising:

(a) a unit of box-like configuration having a floor, a roof, a pair of sidewalls, a front end and an open rear end;

(b) a divider portion located within said unit to divide said unit into at least two side-by-side storage sections for the material to be dispensed;

(c) a unit door pivotally and demountably attached at a lower portion of the rear end of said unit by way of posts protruding from either the lower corners of said door or the portion of the unit sidewalls and cavities journaled in either the lower rear corners of said door or the lower portion of the sidewalls, wherein in the unit door is provided with flanges on each vertical edge of said door that extend forward to overlie the rear edges of the unit sidewalls a sufficient distance to prevent outward biasing of the sidewalls sufficient to remove said posts from said cavities located in said sidewalls when the unit door is in a closed position, and wherein said flanges do not overlie said cavities a sufficient distance to prevent outward biasing of the sidewalls a sufficient distance to insert said posts into said cavities when unit door is in an open position; and

(d) means for semi-permanently attaching the unit door to an opposite upper portion of the rear end of said unit so that the unit door serves as a rear wall for said unit when the unit door is in said closed position.