Label orienting display rack

• US 6,237,784 B1
• Filed: 12/06/1999
• Issued: 05/29/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 12/06/1999
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Display Industries LLC
• Original Assignee: Display Industries LLC
• Inventors: Primiano, Bernard
• Primary Examiner(s): Stodola, Daniel P.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Harris, Erica B.
• Application Number:
  US09/454,759
• Time in Patent Office: 540 Days
• Field of Search: 211/59.2, 211/59.3, 211/74, 312/35, 312/45, 312/72
• US Class Current: 211/59.2
• CPC Class Codes: A47F 1/12 dispensing from the side of an approximately horizontal stack A47F1/087 takes precedence

Abstract

A beverage display rack provides a track on which beverage containers slide forward for dispensing. A rib on the track engages a groove in the beverage container. The groove has a predefined relationship with the label on the container so that the label faces forward when the rib engages the groove. The rib can be an upstanding rib which extends upward from the bottom of the track or can extend inward from the sidewall of the track toward the center of the display rack to engage a groove in the beverage container. Existing display racks can be retrofitted with an insert that fits in the track and has a protruding rib to engage the beverage container.

Claims

1. A display rack, comprising:

an elongate track base having a plurality of upstanding ribs;

at least one article guiding sidewall upstanding from said track base to limit lateral movement of articles in said track; and

an insert positioned on said ribs of said track base for carrying a row of articles for sliding movement along said insert, said insert having an upstanding rib for engaging a groove in each article of said row of articles to thereby orient said articles, said rib of said insert being laterally positioned in the center of said track base, said insert having a plurality of secondary ribs parallel to said upstanding rib on said insert for sliding engagement with said articles, said secondary ribs having lower heights than said upstanding rib.

2. A display rack, as set forth in claim 1, including a plurality of tertiary ribs parallel to said upstanding rib on said insert but extending in an opposite direction from said upstanding rib for interstitial engagement with said ribs of said track base.