Detachable lighting housing with lighting unit for product display systems

• US 10,441,093 B2
• Filed: 05/18/2017
• Issued: 10/15/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 10/14/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Stein Industries Inc
• Original Assignee: Stein Industries Inc
• Inventors: Chenoweth, Mark, Duellman, Dan
• Primary Examiner(s): Safavi, Michael
• Application Number:
  US15/599,097
• Publication Number:
  US 20180103773A1
• Time in Patent Office: 880 Days
• Field of Search: 362655, 362642, 362652, 362647, 362457, 362368, 362370, 362632, 362634, 362656, 36221714
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 2220/0077 Lighting for furniture, e.g. cupboards and racks
• CPC Class Codes: A47F 1/126 the pushing device being urged by spring means
• CPC Class Codes: A47F 3/001 Devices for lighting, humidifying, heating, ventilation
• CPC Class Codes: A47F 5/0093 movable in a substantially horizontal direction
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 21/08 Devices for easy attachment to any desired place, e.g. clip, clamp, magnet
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 21/088 Clips; Clamps

Abstract

This document provides product display systems for displaying merchandise. Exemplary product display systems disclosed herein include a base, a first side wall and a second side wall each slidably coupled to the base, a first support plate and a second support plate, a pusher mechanism, a front plate positioned at the front of the base, a first hanger bracket and a second hanger bracket each slidably coupled to the base, and a front bracket unit connected to the first and second hanger brackets. Some embodiments of product display systems disclosed herein include a lighting unit, e.g., having a LED lighting source. This document also provides selectively detachable lighting housings that can be attached to product display systems.

Claims

1. A selectively detachable lighting housing, comprising:

a product display attachment portion;

a rectangular prism shaped lighting unit comprising an LED, a single side tab on a first face of the rectangular prism shaped lighting unit, and a single actuatable release tab on a second face of the rectangular prism shaped lighting unit that is opposite the first face;

a side tab catch configured to engage the side tab; and

a release tab catch configured to engage the actuatable release tab,

wherein the release tab catch and the side tab catch are configured to removably couple the lighting unit.

2. The selectively detachable lighting housing of claim 1, wherein the product display attachment portion includes one or more elongated tabs.

3. The selectively detachable lighting housing of claim 2, wherein the one or more elongated tabs are releasably insertable into one or more elongated apertures present on a product display system.

4. The selectively detachable lighting housing of claim 1, wherein the product display attachment portion includes one or more elongated apertures.

5. The selectively detachable lighting housing of claim 4, wherein the one or more elongated apertures are releasably engagable by one or more elongated tabs present on a product display system.

6. The selectively detachable lighting housing of claim 1, wherein the product display attachment portion includes one or more peg holes.

7. The selectively detachable lighting housing of claim 6, wherein the one or more peg holes are releasably engagable by one or more pegs present on a product display system.

8. The selectively detachable lighting housing of claim 6, wherein the one or more peg holes are releasably engagable by one or more screws inserted from or through a product display system.

9. The selectively detachable lighting housing of claim 6, wherein the one or more peg holes are releasably engagable by one or more bolts inserted from or through a product display system.