Display rack with slidable channel trays

• US 7,469,791 B2
• Filed: 08/10/2005
• Issued: 12/30/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 08/13/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sung H.O. Phoy
• Original Assignee: Sung H.O. Phoy
• Inventors: Phoy, Sung Ho
• Primary Examiner(s): NOVOSAD, JENNIFER ELEANORE
• Application Number:
  US11/200,888
• Publication Number:
  US 20060032827A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,238 Days
• Field of Search: 211/59.2, 211/126.15, 211/94.01, 211/162, 211/151, 211/175, 211/187, 211/126.1, 312/35, 312/72, 312/73, 312/334.27, 312/334.28, 312/334.32, 312/334.34
• US Class Current: 211/59.2
• CPC Class Codes: A47F 1/12 dispensing from the side of an approximately horizontal stack A47F1/087 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A47F 5/0093 movable in a substantially horizontal direction

Abstract

A display rack comprises a plurality of display rack modules connected with each other laterally side-by-side to be fixed on wire shelves in a display case. A display rack module comprises a channel base secured on a wire shelve of a display case, and a channel tray mounted slidably on the channel base. The channel tray has a pair of guide grooves along the longitudinal sides of the bottom, a front stopper and a rear stopper formed between the pair of guide grooves. The channel base has a pair of L shaped longitudinal projections on the upper surface to be slidably engaged with the guide grooves, and has at least a stopper at the front of the upper surface, which contacts the front stopper in displaying mode and contacts the rear stopper in refilling mode.

Claims

1. A display rack module comprising:

a channel base including an upper surface, longitudinal sides and a bottom surface to be fixed on a wire shelf of a display case, and

a channel tray including at least a front wall, side walls and a bottom defined by a front end, longitudinal sides and a rear end for holding articles therein, and mounted slidably on the channel base to be slid out forwardly from the channel base in a refilling mode and returned backwardly onto the channel base in a displaying mode,

wherein said channel tray further includes;

a pair of guide grooves extended downwardly along the longitudinal sides of the bottom, and opened outwardly from the longitudinal sides of the bottom, respectively;

a front stopper and a rear stopper which are protruded downwardly from the bottom in parallel with each other between and across the pair of guide grooves, with the front stopper positioned at the front end of the bottom and the rear stopper positioned near the rear end of the bottom,

wherein said channel base further includes;

a pair of L shaped longitudinal projections which are erected from longitudinal sides of the channel base and bent inwardly to be inserted into the guide grooves of said channel tray, respectively; and

at least one stopper protruded upwardly at a front of the upper surface, which contacts with the front stopper of said channel tray in the displaying mode and contacts with the rear stopper of said channel tray in the refilling mode, and

wherein said channel tray further includes at least one projection, respectively, which is positioned behind the rear stopper and protruded upwardly against the L shaped longitudinal projection of said channel base in the guide groove in order to prevent said channel tray from being dropped out of said channel base in the refilling mode.

2. The display rack module as claimed in claim 1, wherein said channel tray further includes a plurality of reinforcement members formed downwardly between and across the pair of guide grooves, in parallel with the front and rear stoppers, and positioned from behind the front stopper to the rear end of the bottom, and

the reinforcement members formed between the front stopper and the rear stopper have at least a passage through which the stopper of said channel base passes when said channel tray is slid out forwardly from said channel base in the refilling mode and returned backwardly onto said channel base in the displaying mode.

3. The display rack module as claimed in claim 1, wherein said channel tray further includes:

an opening at the front wall to view a lead article, the opening defined by a pair of supporting lips extended respectively from upper parts of the side walls of the channel tray; and

a knob extended forwardly from the front end of the bottom.

4. The display rack module as claimed in claim 1, wherein said channel base further includes at least a key and a key-hole at the longitudinal sides respectively, and

said channel tray further includes at least a groove at a top of the side walls to be mated with the key of said channel base.

5. The display rack module as claimed in claim 1, wherein said channel base further includes at least two hooks which are extended downwardly from the bottom surface and are bent toward the front of said channel base.

6. A display rack comprising a plurality of display rack modules as claimed in claim 1 connected with each other laterally side-by-side to be fixed on wire shelves in the display case.