Product securement and management system

• US 9,375,100 B2
• Filed: 10/02/2013
• Issued: 06/28/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 02/03/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: RTC Industries Incorporated
• Original Assignee: RTC Industries Incorporated
• Inventors: Dipaolo, Tony, Wildman, John, Hardy, Stephen N.
• Primary Examiner(s): Atala, Jamie
• Assistant Examiner(s): TRUONG, NGUYEN T
• Application Number:
  US14/044,361
• Publication Number:
  US 20140117818A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,000 Days
• Field of Search: 312/139
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A47F 1/12 dispensing from the side of an approximately horizontal stack A47F1/087 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A47F 1/126 the pushing device being urged by spring means
• CPC Class Codes: A47F 2003/008 with pivoting front glass panel
• CPC Class Codes: A47F 3/002 Devices for protection against sunlight or theft
• CPC Class Codes: A47F 3/004 adjustable, foldable or easily dismountable
• CPC Class Codes: A47F 3/02 with dispensing arrangements A47F1/04 takes precedence; for cigars or cigarettes A24F15/04; for cigarette papers A24F17/00; for hand towels or toilet paper A47K; for photographic paper G03B; coin-freed G07F
• CPC Class Codes: A47F 3/125 Doors for show cases

Abstract

A merchandising system that improves the merchandising of product by limiting the number and the frequency with which product can be removed from, for example, a merchandising shelf. The merchandising system may include a base configured to support product and a housing configured to engage the base. The housing may comprise a top wall, a first side wall, a second side wall, and a front retaining wall. The merchandise system may be configured to hold a number of products, such as cans (for example, baby formula cans) in the merchandise system that would be accessible to the customer one at a time out of the front of the merchandise system. The front of each merchandise system may include its own individual security window attached to the merchandise system that allows the customer to remove one can at a time.

Claims

1. A merchandising system, comprising:

a first merchandise system that includes;

a first base configured to support product,

a first housing configured to engage the first base,

a first pusher movably mounted on the first base,

a first window rotatable from a closed position to an open position about a hinge point adjacent to the top wall of the first housing, and

a first trigger axle that includes a first male connector on one end and a first female connector on an opposite end to the first male connector, wherein when the first window is rotated, the first trigger axle is rotated; and

a second merchandise system that includes;

a second base configured to support product,

a second housing configured to engage the second base,

a second pusher movably mounted on the second base,

a second window rotatable from a closed position to an open position about a hinge point adjacent to the top wall of the second housing, and

a second trigger axle that includes a second male connector on one end and a second female connector on an opposite end to the second male connector, wherein when the second window is rotated, the second trigger axle is rotated,

wherein the first male connector engages the second female connector and further

wherein when the first trigger axle rotates, the second trigger axle is rotated.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the first trigger axle includes a first cantilever that is attached to the first trigger axle.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein when the first window is rotated, the first cantilever is rotated.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the first merchandise system further includes an audio box configured to sound an alarm.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein when the first window is rotated, the first trigger axle rotates against a switch trigger located on the audio box to sound the audio box.

6. The system of claim 4, wherein when the second window is rotated, the second trigger axle rotates, thereby rotating the first trigger axle to rotate against a switch trigger located on the audio box to sound the audio box.

7. The system of claim 1 wherein the first merchandise system further includes an audio box configured to sound an alarm, wherein the first trigger axle includes a first cantilever that is attached to the first trigger axle, wherein when the first window is rotated, the first cantilever rotates against a switch trigger located on the audio box to sound the audio box.

8. The system of claim 7 wherein when the second window is rotated, the second trigger axle rotates, thereby rotating the first trigger axle and the first cantilever rotates against a switch trigger located on the audio box to sound the audio box.