Vertical roll wrap product tray kit

• US 8,915,381 B2
• Filed: 05/30/2012
• Issued: 12/23/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/01/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: American Greetings Corporation
• Original Assignee: American Greetings Corporation
• Inventors: Brozak, Emory, Santarelli, Anthony
• Primary Examiner(s): Michener, Joshua J
• Assistant Examiner(s): BARNETT, DEVIN K
• Application Number:
  US13/483,093
• Publication Number:
  US 20120305508A1
• Time in Patent Office: 937 Days
• Field of Search: 211/85.5, 211/13.1, 211/45, 211/50, 211/59.4, 211/60.1, 211/62, 211/85.18, 211/85.28, 211/126.2, 211/126.1, 211/126.6, 211/126.13, 211/133.1, 211/189, 211/195, 211/184, 108/60, 108/61, 206/390, 206/443, 312/35
• US Class Current: 211/60.1
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 96/021 Structural features of shelf bases
• CPC Class Codes: A47F 5/005 Partitions therefore horizontally adjustable A47B57/58; constructional details of drawers A47B88/90
• CPC Class Codes: A47F 5/0056 made of tubes or wire
• CPC Class Codes: A47F 5/01 made of tubes or wire A47F5/0807 takes precedence foldable or adjustable A47F5/13
• CPC Class Codes: A47F 7/0021 for long or non-stable articles, e.g. fishing rods, pencils, lipsticks or the like; Compartments or recesses as stabilising means A47F7/14, A47F7/28, A47B81/005 take precedence

Abstract

A vertical roll wrap tray kit of the present invention includes at least one product tray, a plurality of spacer clips, a plurality of wire dividers and a plurality of push clips. The product tray can be attached to various types of retail display units. The product tray contains two slot walls which are sized to accommodate insertion of the wire dividers. The dividers are used to divide the tray into segments or compartments in which the roll wrap material is stored and displayed in a vertical arrangement. The width of the rows or compartments can be varied based on the diameter of the roll wrap product. Spacer clips are used to hold two adjacent dividers into place. The tray is angled slightly in a backwards direction to avoid accidental removal of the vertical roll wrap.

Claims

1. A vertical roll wrap tray comprising:

at least one tray having a top surface, a bottom surface, a first slotted wall located at the back of the at least one tray opposite a second slotted wall located at the front of the tray, both the first and second slotted walls having a plurality of adjacent slots, the first and second slotted walls both extend upwardly from the top surface of the at least one tray;

wherein the top surface of the least one tray slopes downwardly from the second slotted wall towards the first slotted wall;

a plurality of apertures formed in the top surface of the tray;

two or more wire dividers, each wire divider having a first attachment post opposite a second attachment post and each wire divider having a vertical height of at least 16 inches;

one or more attachment clips removably attached to the two or more wire dividers;

wherein the first attachment posts of the two or more wire dividers are each inserted into a corresponding aperture located within a respective slot of the first slotted wall and the second attachment posts of the two or more wire dividers are each inserted into a corresponding aperture located within a respective slot of the second slotted wall and directly across from the corresponding apertures into which the first attachment posts are inserted.

2. The vertical roll wrap tray of claim 1, wherein the one or more attachment clips each have two or more slots.

3. The vertical roll wrap tray of claim 2, wherein two of the wire dividers are inserted into two corresponding slots on one of the attachment clips.

4. The vertical roll wrap tray of claim 1, wherein the at least one roll wrap tray is attached to a retail display fixture via one or more push clips.

5. The vertical roll wrap tray of claim 1, wherein the at least one tray contains two t-shaped slots located on one side of the at least one tray and two t-shaped tabs located on an opposite side of the at least one tray.

6. The vertical roll wrap tray of claim 5, wherein two trays are connected by inserting the two t-shaped tabs from a first tray into the two t-shaped slots of a second tray.

7. The vertical roll wrap tray of claim 1, further comprising a flange on one side of the at least one tray having a plurality of openings thereon for attachment to a retail display fixture.

8. A vertical roll wrap tray comprising:

a substantially rectangular tray having a top surface, a bottom surface, a first side located at a rear of the tray opposite a second side located at a front of the tray and a third side opposite a fourth side, the first and second sides each having a slotted wall extending upward therefrom, wherein the top surface of the tray slopes downwardly from the front of the tray towards the rear of the tray;

the bottom surface of the tray is configured to be mounted to a display fixture having a base and a back wall;

wherein top surface of the tray is inclined rearwardly towards the back wall of the display fixture, when the tray is attached to the display fixture;

the slotted walls each have a plurality of vertical slots contained thereon, each vertical slot has an opening;

a plurality of divider wires, each divider wire having a first end which is configured to frictionally fit within corresponding openings of the corresponding vertical slots on the slotted wall located on the first side of the tray and a second end which is configured to frictionally fit within the corresponding openings of the corresponding vertical slots on the slotted wall located on the second side of the tray;

wherein each adjacent pair of the plurality of divider wires inserted into the slotted walls of the tray creates a linear row into which one or more roll wrap products may be inserted.

9. The vertical roll wrap tray of claim 8, wherein a said tray is a first tray and said first tray is attached to a second tray by inserting at least one t-shaped tab contained on the first tray into at least one t-shaped slot contained on the second tray.

10. The vertical roll wrap tray of claim 8, further comprising one or more

spacer clips, each spacer clip having one or more slots for insertion of one or more of the plurality of divider wires.

11. The vertical roll wrap tray of claim 10, wherein the one or more spacer clips are removably attached to the one or more divider wires;

each spacer clip having a first end and a second end;

wherein the first end of one spacer clip is attached to a first divider wire and the second end to the one spacer clip is attached to a second divider wire which is located adjacent to the first divider wire.

12. The vertical roll wrap tray of claim 8, further comprising a flange which is attached along the first or second side of the tray, the flange containing one or more openings thereon.

13. The vertical roll wrap tray of claim 12, wherein the tray is attached to the retail display fixture by inserting one or more push clips through the corresponding one or more openings on the flange and into the retail display fixture.

14. The vertical roll wrap tray of claim 8, wherein each of the plurality of slots on the slotted walls are numbered to ensure that the plurality of divider wires are inserted into matching slots of the opposed slotted walls.

15. A vertical roll wrap tray comprising:

a substantially rectangular base having a top surface, a bottom surface, and a front edge which is at a higher elevation than an opposed rear edge;

wherein the top surface of the base is sloped backwards towards the rear edge of the base;

the base having a first slotted wall located at the rear edge of the tray and

a second slotted wall opposite the first slotted wall located on the front edge of the base;

the first and second slotted walls each having a plurality of uniform-sized slots contained thereon, every other slot having an aperture formed in the top surface of the base within said every other slots;

a plurality of wire dividers each having one rear side which has a length which is longer than that of an opposite front side of said corresponding wire dividers and a top that connects said opposed front and rear sides together such that each of the tops of the plurality of wire dividers slopes downwardly from the rear side to the front side;

wherein the bottom surface of the base is configured to be mounted to a display fixture having a back wall;

the front and rear sides of each wire divider are configured to snugly fit into corresponding apertures within every other slot of the first and second slotted walls;

wherein two adjacent wire dividers are inserted into corresponding apertures within corresponding slots of the first and second slotted walls to form a compartment into which a plurality of roll gift wrap products may be contained.

16. The vertical roll wrap tray of claim 15, wherein when in use, the plurality of roll wrap products contained between two adjacent wire dividers are arranged in a single vertical row.

17. The vertical roll wrap tray of claim 15 further comprising a plurality of spacer clips which are removably attached to each pair of adjacent wire dividers.

18. The vertical roll wrap of claim 15, wherein the base is configured to be attached to other vertical roll wrap tray base.

19. The vertical roll wrap tray of claim 15, wherein pairs of adjacent wire dividers may be inserted into corresponding apertures within respective slots of the first and second slotted walls at non-uniform distances, creating non-uniformly sized compartments.