Shelf for showcase

• US 8,276,772 B2
• Filed: 02/28/2008
• Issued: 10/02/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/12/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Seidae Industries Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Seidai Industrial Company Limited
• Inventors: Kim, Deok Rae
• Primary Examiner(s): NOVOSAD, JENNIFER ELEANORE
• Application Number:
  US12/593,961
• Publication Number:
  US 20100072152A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,678 Days
• Field of Search: 211/151, 211/162, 211/59.2, 211/59.3, 312/42, 312/45, 312/71, 198/861.1, 198/35.R, 198/35.J, 198/35.C, 414/276
• US Class Current: 211/151
• CPC Class Codes: A47F 1/12 dispensing from the side of an approximately horizontal stack A47F1/087 takes precedence

Abstract

A shelf for a showcase in which a roller unit is formed with holding grooves on both sides of a bottom surface of a U-shaped roller plate. Fixing frames coupled with the roller plate include a bottom part, formed with a vertical rib to be fitted into the holding groove of the roller plate, and a vertical wall surrounding an outside of the roller plate and formed with a horizontal rib closing opened parts of fitting grooves of the roller plate, so that the fixing frames are mounted on both sides of the roller plate of the roller unit in pair correspondingly to each other. The vertical walls are formed with screw-coupling holes at front and rear ends in accordance with screw holes punched at both side walls of the end caps so as to be integrally coupled together by coupling screws.

Claims

1. A shelf for a showcase comprising:

a roller unit including a U-shaped roller plate having two opposing side walls and an adjoining bottom surface, the two side walls each having a plurality of fitting grooves, the bottom surface of the roller plate having two holding grooves;

a plurality of rollers having opposing side ends and a mounting shaft protruding from each side end of each roller, each mounting shaft being rotatably inserted into a fitting groove of the plurality of fitting grooves;

two fixing frames, a fixing frame of the two fixing frames being mounted on each side wall of the roller plate, each fixing frame including a bottom part formed with a vertical rib configured to fit into a holding groove of the two holding grooves, each fixing frame having a vertical wall configured to surround an outside of the roller plate, each fixing frame having a horizontal rib that closes an opening of each fitting groove of the plurality of fitting grooves to prevent deviation of the plurality of rollers after the plurality of rollers is fitted into the roller unit; and

a first end cap fitted to a front end of each fixing frame; and

a second end cap fitted to a rear end of each fixing frame.

2. The shelf as claimed in claim 1 wherein the vertical rib is a first vertical rib, wherein the bottom part of the fixing frame includes a second vertical rib formed on an opposite side of the vertical wall from the first vertical rib and configured to fit into a holding groove of a second roller plate, the horizontal rib being configured to close an opening of each fitting groove of a plurality of fitting grooves in the second roller plate.

3. The shelf as claimed in claim 2, further comprising between one and five additional roller units, each roller unit being coupled to at least one or more other roller unit using one or more fixing frames.

4. The shelf as claimed in claim 1, wherein the vertical wall of each fixing frame includes an upper part and a lower part, the upper and lower parts of the vertical walls each having a holding protrusion, the holding protrusions of each vertical wall being configured to be horizontally coupled to holding protrusions of another fixing frame.

5. The shelf as claimed in claim 4 wherein the vertical rib is a first vertical rib, wherein the bottom part of the fixing frame includes a second vertical rib formed on an opposite side of the vertical wall from the first vertical rib and configured to fit into a holding groove of a second roller plate, the horizontal rib being configured to close an opening of each fitting groove of a plurality of fitting grooves in the second roller plate.

6. The shelf as claimed in claim 5, further comprising between one and five additional roller units, each roller unit being coupled to at least one or more other roller unit using one or more fixing frames.