Material or article handling – Process
Reexamination Certificate
2000-12-04
2002-12-17
Matecki, Kathy (Department: 3652)
Material or article handling
Process
C108S147000, C312S306000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06494669
ABSTRACT:
The present invention relates generally to a point-of-sales rug display device in the operating mode of which, from a stack of rugs, one rug at a time is separated from the stack and displayed to a prospective customer, thereby obviating the heretofore necessity to exert a great deal of physical effort in unrolling or moving rugs by hand so that. the successive rugs might be seen, and for which usually the services of two or more men are needed for this purpose.
EXAMPLES OF THE PRIOR ART
The replacement by automation of the hand manipulation of rugs to facilitate customer selection is the focus of numerous prior patents, as exemplified by U.S. Pat. No. 2,577,366 for “Machine For Displaying Rugs” issued to E. Reiss et al. on Dec. 4, 1951 and U.S. Pat. No. 3,289,860 for “System For Handling Stacked Sheets” also applicable for rugs, issued to G. A. Dean on Jun. 9, 1964, to mention but a few.
In the aforesaid and all other known prior patents, the stack is worked from the top down, with each top rug removed to a clearance position exposing the next in line rug, until an exposed rug is satisfactory to a customer, removed and, of course, replaced, and the integrity of the stack restored to repeat the selection process. While the working of the stack from the top down involves only the handling of one rug, its removal to an out-of-way clearance position providing an unobstructed view of the next underlying rug is a complication which has resulted in a correspondingly complicated mechanism.
Broadly, it is an object of the present invention to provide an effective reverse order stack separation of successive rugs overcoming the foregoing and other shortcomings of the prior art.
More particularly, it is an object to raise the stack en masse and release from the bottom thereof, using to advantage guided gravity descent, to display at floor level successive rugs, all, as will be better understood as the description proceeds.
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patent: 3339795 (1967-09-01), Cappel
patent: 4790611 (1988-12-01), Craner
patent: 5129611 (1992-07-01), Grover et al.
patent: 5152590 (1992-10-01), Dukes
patent: 03-277314 (1991-12-01), None
Bernard Andre
Bernard Scott
Kwon Michael J.
Matecki Kathy
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