Display device

• US 7,131,543 B2
• Filed: 12/05/2003
• Issued: 11/07/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 01/22/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: NEW Dimensions Research Corporation (Westminster Capital, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: NEW Dimensions Research Corporation (Westminster Capital, Inc.)
• Inventors: Mason, Timothy L.
• Primary Examiner(s): Chilcot, Jr., Richard E.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Newton, Jared W.
• Application Number:
  US10/728,483
• Publication Number:
  US 20040195195A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,068 Days
• Field of Search: 220/761, 211/59.2, 211/151, 211/189, 211/135, 280/79.3, 312/249.8, 312/349, 312/351.11, 222/902, 206/123, 221/82, 248/240.1
• US Class Current: 211/59.2
• CPC Class Codes: A47F 5/0018 Display racks with shelves or receptables racks per se A47B; storage devices for warehouses B65G1/02

Abstract

A display device for at least one modular merchandise unit having a substantially flat base includes a base, a housing supported by the base, a cover, at least one wheel connected to the base, and at least one shelf supported in the housing for receiving the base of the merchandise unit. The housing includes parallel first and second side walls and a third side wall connected to the first and second side walls. The cover is disposed on an upper portion of the first, second and third side walls.

Claims

1. A display device for at least one modular merchandise unit having a substantially flat base comprising:

(a) a base comprising parallel first and second base walls and parallel third and fourth base walls connected to said first and second base walls;

(b) a housing supported by said base comprising parallel first and second side walls and a third side wall connected to said first and second side walls, said third side wall comprising a plurality of support openings arranged in at least two parallel rows of support openings in said third side wall;

(c) at least one shelf supported in said housing for receiving the base of a merchandise unit, with each shelf being supported in at least two support opening;

(d) a cover disposed on an upper portion of said first, second and third side walls;

(e) at least two-wheels connected to said base and disposed in wheel wells provided in said base;

wherein said first and second base walls are aligned with said first and second side walls, and said third base wall is aligned with said third side wall;

each of said first and second base walls has a guide opening and a guide member for alignment of said display device with first and second additional display devices; and

said third base wall further comprises wheel guide openings adjacent to said wheel wells for alignment of said display device with a third additional display device.

2. The display device according to claim 1 wherein said third side wall further comprises an opening for use as a handle to pivot said device on said at least two wheels.

3. The display device according to claim 1 further comprising a plurality of slots disposed in said cover for receipt of advertising material.