Supports: racks – Elements
Patent
1994-03-11
1996-07-02
Gibson, Jr., Robert W.
Supports: racks
Elements
211 592, 211184, 211 74, A47F 500
Patent
active
055313361
ABSTRACT:
Abutment stops for adapting a gravity-fed shelving unit of a type commonly used in refrigerated displays to accommodate bottles having a contoured profile and a higher center of gravity than common cylindrical cans is disclosed. One such abutment stop includes a vertical wall having a slot for resting the device on a side wall of a channel of the shelving unit. The device is stabilized by a bifurcated mounting column extending back from the slot. The top of the abutment stop provides a support or rest for a portion of a frontmost bottle at a point higher than that at which the bottle would be supported by the shelving unit alone. A pair of such abutment stops, one on each side wall of the channel, may be provided at or near the front of the channel to support bottles within the channel. Optional variations include supports that extend into only channel, or into both adjacent channels, break away tabs at the bottom of the abutment stop to provide a height adjustment, and a top which may extend either in back of or in front of the vertical wall of the abutment stop. The abutment stop may also cooperate with a sliding stair-step-like support that rests on the same channel wall to provide another method of height adjustment. An alternate version of the device having a contoured front and back face, the front face contoured to fit against the front of the channel, and the back face contoured to support a bottle, is also described. This one-piece contoured version may be fit in the front of a single channel, and has a height greater than the front wall of the channel to provide support to a higher portion of a bottle than is possible with the front wall alone. Non-adjustable versions of the abutment stop may also be formed as an integral part of a shelf unit.
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Parham Dennis E.
Sampson Mark J.
Gibson , Jr. Robert W.
The Mead Corporation
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