Neck-hanging cooler door shelf device

• US 7,066,340 B2
• Filed: 09/22/2004
• Issued: 06/27/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 09/22/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Display Industries LLC
• Original Assignee: Display Industries LLC
• Inventors: Robertson, James David
• Primary Examiner(s): Chilcot, Jr., Richard E.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Maguire, Lindsay M.
• Application Number:
  US10/947,467
• Publication Number:
  US 20060060548A1
• Time in Patent Office: 643 Days
• Field of Search: 211/74, 211/59.2, 211/162, 211/71.01, 211/75, 211/164, 248/312, 248/312.1, 312/72, 312/36, 312/73, 206/139, 404/46, D65/74
• US Class Current: 211/74
• CPC Class Codes: A47F 3/0486 for charging, displaying or discharging the articles
• CPC Class Codes: A47F 7/285 Show stands having fixation means, e.g. hanging means, slidable fixations, frictional retaining means, theft prevention

Abstract

A shelf device for an inside surface of a cooler door has a bottle neck-hanging device and a display panel. The bottle neck-hanging device has a sidewall with at least two slotted openings therein. The display panel is adjacent the sidewall and has slotted openings therein aligned with the openings of the sidewall. At least two suction cups attach the sidewall and display panel to the cooler door. Each of the suction cups has a protrusion extending through one of the openings in the display panel and a corresponding opening in the sidewall.

Claims

1. A shelf device for an inside surface of a cooler door, comprising:

a gravity feed bottle neck-hanging device having first and second opposed downwardly slanted sidewalls adapted to hold a row of bottles with each bottle of the row of bottles held by its neck as the bottle slides downward along said slanted sidewalls, said first sidewall having at least two openings therein;

a display panel adjacent said first sidewall having openings therein aligned with said openings of said first sidewall; and

at least two suction cups for attaching said first sidewall and said display panel to said cooler door, each of said suction cups having a protrusion extending through one of said openings in said display panel and a corresponding opening in said first sidewall.

2. A shelf device, as set forth in claim 1, wherein said display panel is attached to said first sidewall.

3. A shelf device, as set forth in claim 1, wherein said display panel has a lower portion configured as a downward pointing arrowhead.

4. A shelf device, as set forth in claim 1, wherein said display panel has an upper portion configured to display a product brand.

5. A shelf device, as set forth in claim 1, wherein said sidewall has a lower portion configured as a downward pointing arrowhead.