Goods display unit

• US 6,497,326 B1
• Filed: 05/30/2000
• Issued: 12/24/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 11/28/1997
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: KAWAJUN Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: KAWAJUN Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Osawa, Shinichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Stodola, Daniel P.
• Assistant Examiner(s): NOVOSAD, JENNIFER ELEANORE
• Application Number:
  US09/555,373
• Time in Patent Office: 938 Days
• Field of Search: 211/59.2, 211/59.3, 211/151, 211/162, 211/175, 211/49.1, 312/42, 312/45, 312/71, 193/35.R, 193/35.C, 193/33, 193/34, 193/2.R, 414/276
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: A47F 7/28 for containers, e.g. flasks, bottles , tins, milk packs racks or containers with dispensing arrangements A47F1/04; for lipsticks or markers A47F7/0021; for audio/video cassettes or booklike articles A47F7/14

Abstract

A commodity display unit has at least two forward delivery rail frames, each having a plurality of rollers mounted thereon and inclined downwardly. There are at least two side panel sections, one of each being disposed in a middle portion of each of the rail frames and configured to guide therebetween a plurality of commodities over a space separating two adjacent rail frames. There are also at least two end plates, one of each being disposed on each of the side panel sections and being positioned at a rear part of the rail frames. A distance between two adjacent side panel sections may be adjusted to accommodate a width of the plurality of commodities being guided therebetween over the space separating the two adjacent rail frames by moving at least one of the two adjacent rail frames laterally towards or away from the other of the two adjacent rail frames.

Claims

1. A commodity display unit comprising:

at least two adjacent forward delivery rail frames, each having a plurality of rollers mounted thereon and inclined downwardly;

at least two adjacent side panel sections, one of each being disposed in a middle portion of each of the rail frames and configured to guide therebetween a plurality of commodities over a space separating the two adjacent rail frames; and

at least two end plates, one of each being disposed on each of the side panel sections and being positioned at a rear part of the rail frames;

wherein a distance between the two adjacent side panel sections is adjustable to accommodate a width of the plurality of commodities being guided therebetween over the space separating the two adjacent rail frames by moving at least one of the two adjacent rail frames laterally towards or away from the other of the two adjacent rail frames.

2. A commodity display unit according to claim 1, further comprising:

a pitch-fixing plate configured to position the rail frames at a selected angle of inclination, said pitch-fixing plate being provided as a single integral body.

3. A commodity display unit according to claim 1, further comprising:

a commodity fall-prevention panel disposed at a front part of the rail frames and provided with an engagement groove.

4. A commodity display unit according to claim 1, wherein:

said plurality of rollers is mounted on each of the rail frames and is inclined downwardly by mounting the plurality of rollers substantially horizontally on each of the rail frames and by inclining each of the rail frames downwardly towards a commodity take-out section when the rail frames are in use.

5. A commodity display unit according to claim 1, wherein:

said plurality of rollers moves along a sliding surface of each of the rail frames.

6. A commodity display unit comprising:

at least two adjacent forward delivery rail frames, each having a plurality of rollers mounted thereon and inclined downwardly;

at least two adjacent side panel sections, one of each being disposed in a middle portion of each of the rail frames and configured to guide therebetween a plurality of commodities over a space separating the two adjacent rail frames;

a jagged engagement section provided on a bottom of each of the rail frames; and

a slide plate being configured to position one of the two rail frames discrete from another one of the rail frames and having an engagement section which slidably engages with the jagged engagement section;

wherein a distance between the two adjacent side panel sections is adjustable to accommodate a width of the plurality of commodities being guided therebetween over the space separating the two adjacent rail frames by moving at least one of the two adjacent rail frames.

7. A commodity display unit according to claim 6, further comprising:

at least two end plates, one of each being disposed on each of the side panel sections and being positioned at a rear part of the rail frames.

8. A commodity display unit according to claim 6, further comprising:

a commodity fall-prevention panel disposed at a front part of the rail frames and provided with an engagement groove.

9. A commodity display unit according to claim 6, wherein:

said plurality of rollers is mounted on each of the rail frames and is inclined downwardly by mounting the plurality of rollers substantially horizontally on each of the rail frames and by inclining each of the rail frames downwardly towards a commodity take-out section when the rail frames are in use.

10. A commodity display unit according to claim 6, wherein:

said plurality of rollers moves along a sliding surface of each of the rail frames.