Weighted pusher

• US 6,955,269 B2
• Filed: 10/13/2003
• Issued: 10/18/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 10/13/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Display Technologies, LLC (Leigh M. Rothschild)
• Original Assignee: Display Technologies, LLC (Leigh M. Rothschild)
• Inventors: Menz, Albert
• Primary Examiner(s): NOVOSAD, JENNIFER ELEANORE
• Application Number:
  US10/685,024
• Publication Number:
  US 20050077259A1
• Time in Patent Office: 736 Days
• Field of Search: 211/59.3, 211/184, 211/183, 211/59.2, 211/175, 312/42, 312/71, 312/61, 312/35, 248/910
• US Class Current: 211/59.3
• CPC Class Codes: A47F 1/125 with an article-pushing device

Abstract

A weight-driven pusher for product on a gravity-fed display shelf includes a weighted frame. A front plate is mounted on the frame and manually adjustable in upper reach relative to the frame to accommodate product of varying height and preclude product from tipping rearwardly over the pusher. A leg assembly is retractably mounted on the frame adjacent the bottom thereof and biased to project rearwardly from the frame to preclude product from tipping the pusher over backwards.

Claims

1. A weight-driven pusher for product on a gravity-fed display shelf with an associated back stop, comprising:

(A) a weight driven pusher frame defining a compartment containing a weight and adapted for sliding movement along the gravity-fed display shelf;

(B) a front plate mounted on said frame in a generally vertical orientation for bearing on the back of product, said front plate being manually selectively adjustable in upper reach relative to said frame to accommodate product of varying height and preclude product from tipping rearwardly over the pusher;

(C) a leg assembly retractably mounted on said frame adjacent the bottom thereof for retraction into said frame as the back of said leg assembly bears on the associated back stop of the shelf; and

(D) means biasing said leg assembly to project rearwardly from said frame when the back of said leg assembly is spaced from the back stop, thereby to preclude product from tipping the pusher over backwards.

2. The pusher of claim 1 wherein said leg assembly projects rearwardly in a generally horizontal plane.

3. The pusher of claim 1 wherein said front plate is manually selectively adjustable in a generally vertical plane to different vertical locations at which it is releasable retained.

4. The pusher of claim 3 wherein said leg assembly projects rearwardly in a generally horizontal plane.