Trigger unit for shopping cart display

• US 6,012,244 A
• Filed: 05/05/1998
• Issued: 01/11/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 05/05/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Klever Marketing Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Klever Marketing Incorporated
• Inventors: Geiger, Mark A., Begum, Paul G.
• Primary Examiner(s): Knight, Anthony
• Assistant Examiner(s): Dolce, Marcus
• Application Number:
  US09/073,001
• Time in Patent Office: 616 Days
• Field of Search: 40/649, 40/651, 40/661.03, 40/666
• US Class Current: 40/661.03
• CPC Class Codes: B62B 3/1408 Display devices mounted on it, e.g. advertisement displays
• CPC Class Codes: B62B 3/1416 mounted on the handle
• CPC Class Codes: B62B 3/1424 Electronic display devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 21/04 by land vehicles

Abstract

A shelf mounted display sign designed in particular for supermarkets having product shelves with pricing tracks, the display sign having a mechanical shelf clip connected to a vertical battery canister that has a cap with indicator lights and a vertical sign bracket with a flexible sign having a side edge engaged in the vertical sign bracket, the shelf mounted display sign also including in one embodiment the electronic circuitry and components to function as a triggering device to remotely activate a product promotion or advertisement on a display or a shopping cart proximate the triggering device.

Claims

1. A shelf-mounted display sign for a store shelf having a horizontal pricing track comprising:

a mounting bracket having a mounting member connectable to the horizontal pricing track of the store shelf;

an elongated battery canister connected to the mounting bracket with the elongated battery canister having a top and a longitudinal axis, wherein the axis is oriented substantially perpendicular to the horizontal pricing track when the mounting member is connected to the pricing track;

a canister cap connected to the top of the canister, the canister cap having at least one indicator light;

a battery pack containable in the battery canister, the canister and cap having an electronic circuit electrically connecting the indicator light and battery pack, and lighting the indicator light;

a fixed, vertically oriented signboard bracket on the canister; and

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a frameless, flexible signboard having side edges with a single side edge engageable with the signboard bracket wherein the side edge is vertically oriented along the longitudinal axis of the canister.

2. The shelf-mounted display sign of claim 1 wherein the canister cap includes electronic circuitry and at least one signal transmitter element for activating a display advertisement on a shopping cart display.

3. The shelf-mounted display sign of claim 2 wherein the transmitter element comprises an infra red diode.

4. The shelf-mounted display sign of claim 1 wherein the mounting member of the mounting bracket has a pivot member wherein the canister is connected to the pivot member and vertically positionable on an incline pricing track.

5. The shelf-mounted display sign of claim 1 wherein the mounting bracket has a threaded adjustment bolt for securing the mounting member to the pricing track.

12. The shelf-mounted display sign of claim 1 wherein the signboard comprises a laminated sheet.

6. A shelf-mounted display sign for a product shelf having a horizontal pricing track comprising:

an elongated battery container having a longitudinal axis;

means for attaching the battery container to the pricing track with the longitudinal axis of the battery container vertically oriented;

at least one indicator light, the battery container having a top with means for mounting the indicator light on the top of the battery container for viewing by persons near the shelf-mounted display sign;

a battery means in the battery container for powering the indicator light;

a frameless and flexible signboard having side edges and;

means fixed to the battery container for fixedly securing a single side edge of the signboard to the battery container with the side edge being aligned with the longitudinal axis of the battery container.

7. The shelf-mounted display sign of claim 6 wherein the signboard comprises a plastic laminated paper sheet having product marking indicia.

8. The shelf-mounted display sign of claim 7 wherein the battery container includes signal emission means for triggering the display of product information on a shopping cart display displaced from the display sign.

9. The shelf-mounted display sign of claim 8 wherein the top of the battery container comprises a cap, the cap being hingedly connected to the container.

10. The shelf-mounted display sign of claim 9 wherein the cap includes circuit means connected to the battery means for powering the signal emission means.

13. The shelf-mounted display sign of claim 6 wherein the signboard comprises a laminated sheet.

11. A display sign for mounting to a support structure in a store near products for sale comprising:

a mounting bracket having a mounting means connectable to a support structure in a store for mounting the display sign near products for sale;

an elongated battery canister connected to the mounting bracket with the elongated battery canister having a top and a longitudinal axis, wherein the axis is oriented substantially perpendicular when the mounting member is connected to the support structure;

a canister cap connected to the top of the canister, the canister cap having at least one indicator light;

a battery pack containable in the battery canister, the canister and cap having an electronic circuit electrically connecting the indicator light and battery pack, and lighting the indicator light;

a fixed, vertically oriented signboard bracket on the canister; and

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a frameless, flexible signboard made of a bendable material having side edges with a single side edge connected to the signboard bracket wherein the side edge is vertically oriented along the longitudinal axis of the canister.

14. The display sign of claim 11 wherein the signboard comprises a laminated sheet.