Merchandise display

• US 9,339,123 B1
• Filed: 12/03/2014
• Issued: 05/17/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/12/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Performance Display Group, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Performance Display Group, Inc.
• Inventors: Sgrignoli, John A., Seibert, Dane, Stoddard, David C. F.
• Primary Examiner(s): NOVOSAD, JENNIFER ELEANORE
• Application Number:
  US14/559,070
• Time in Patent Office: 531 Days
• Field of Search: 211/59.3, 211/54.1, 211/57.1, 211/59.1, 211/7, 211/4, 221/227, 221/255, 221/279
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A47F 1/04 Racks or containers with arrangements for dispensing articles , e.g. by means of gravity or springs
• CPC Class Codes: A47F 1/126 the pushing device being urged by spring means
• CPC Class Codes: A47F 1/128 for article hangers or brackets
• CPC Class Codes: A47F 5/0823 Article supports for peg-boards
• CPC Class Codes: A47F 5/0861 Anti-theft means therefor

Abstract

A merchandise display having a pegboard with a support track extending therefrom, multiple packages mounted on the support track, a pusher housing in face contacting relation with the packages, a coil spring to urge the pusher housing outwardly from the pegboard, the pusher housing having spaced surfaces, and multiple slots formed in the surfaces to vary the display angle of the packages.

Claims

1. A merchandise display comprising a back panel, a support track having a free end and extending outwardly from said back panel, said free end being opposite said back panel, said free end being angled upwardly, a coil spring secured to the underside of said support track, a package having an aperture formed in the upper portion thereof, said support track extending through said aperture, said coil spring being adapted to urge said package toward said free end, a pusher housing slidable on said support track and comprising a product control surface and an attitude surface spaced apart and being generally parallel, a front slot formed in said product control surface, said product control surface and said attitude surface comprising spaced upper end edges, a rear panel extending between said upper edges and joined thereto, a tilt slot formed in said rear panel, and a vertical slot formed in said rear panel and extending downwardly into said attitude surface.

2. The display according to claim 1 wherein a display pegboard is secured to said back panel.

3. The display according to claim 2 wherein said back panel comprises a rear surface and wherein a hook extends outwardly from said rear surface into interlocking relation with said display pegboard.

4. The display according to claim 3 wherein a stud extends outwardly from said rear surface into interlocking relation with said display pegboard.

5. The display according to claim 4 wherein said hook and said stud are offset vertically.

6. The display according to claim 4 wherein said hook and said stud are vertically aligned.

7. The display according to claim 4 wherein a knuckle is disposed on the free end of said stud and a cam lobe is attached to said stud and is in a tensional relation with said pegboard.

8. The display according to claim 3 wherein a knob is disposed adjacent the free end of said hook and extends laterally outwardly therefrom.

9. The display according to claim 1 wherein said pusher housing is disposed between said package and said back panel and in face contacting relation with said package.

10. The display according to claim 1 wherein a rear slot is formed in said attitude surface and wherein said support track extends through said front and rear slots.

11. The display according to claim 10 wherein said rear slot is in communication with said vertical slot.

12. The display according to claim 1 wherein said coil spring extends through said vertical slot and is disposed generally between said product control surface and said attitude surface.

13. The display according to claim 1 wherein said product control surface and attitude surface respectively comprise side edges and a pair of stiffening sides are joined, respectively, to said side edges on each side of said pusher housing.