Supports: racks – Special article – Stacked articles
Patent
1979-11-30
1982-02-09
Frazier, Roy D.
Supports: racks
Special article
Stacked articles
193 2R, 211135, A47F 100
Patent
active
043146481
ABSTRACT:
A gravity feed shelf for use as a component of a display device for primary packages such as bottled soft drinks in retail outlets includes a substantially rigid support frame which is forwardly and downwardly inclined and which includes front and rear support surfaces and an intermediate support surface therebetween, the support surfaces being disposed in an imaginary downwardly and forwardly inclined straight line and with elongated channel shaped chutes of extruded plastic material mounted in downwardly inclined side-by-side relation on the frame so that rows of articles such as bottles may be mounted in each chute whereby removal of the front bottle in a chute allows the remaining bottles to slide downwardly so as to render the bottles more readily accessible at the front of the shelf. When unloaded each plastic chute is bowed upwardly and when loaded the chute is straightened so that its ends are disposed in contact with the front and rear support surfaces of the support frame and so that its intermediate portion is in contact with the intermediate support surface. This feature results in spring-like action when the front bottle in a row is removed whereby a slight upward movement of the chute occurs due to removal of the front bottle which results in jostling of the remaining bottles so that any friction which would tend to inhibit the downward and forward movement of the bottles is overcome by the jostling action of the chute.
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Frazier Roy D.
Gibson , Jr. Robert W.
The Mead Corporation
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