A47F 1/12
Dispensing from the side of an approximately horizontal stack
Official title: dispensing from the side of an approximately horizontal stack {(A47F1/087 takes precedence)}
A47F1/12 (Dispensing from the side of an approximately horizontal stack) appears on 1,034 US grants and 999 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A47F- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 999
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- 351
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- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Anti-theft pusher with incremental distance detection15 Sep 2026US 12,733,753 B2Fasteners for Retail, Inc.
- Retail merchandise tray18 Aug 2026US 12,708,223 B2Fasteners for Retail, Inc.
- Product divider assembly11 Aug 2026US 12,702,228 B2Fasteners for Retail, Inc.
- Merchandise security system4 Aug 2026US 12,696,987 B2Fasteners for Retail, Inc.
- Retail merchandise tray and display incorporating same30 Jun 2026US 12,667,206 B2Fasteners for Retail, Inc.
- Anti-theft pusher with incremental distance detection8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305842 A1Fasteners for Retail, Inc.
- Display tray, product display apparatus, and control method therefor1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294135 A1NEC Corporation
- Product presentation device with a storage structure for placing objects and with a sensor for detecting inventory1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294136 A1VusionGroup Deutschland GmbH
- Merchandise display device1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294137 A1Bruegmann GmbH & Co. KG
- Retail merchandise tray and display incorporating same24 Sep 2026US 2026/0283379 A1Fasteners for Retail, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Modular manual lift dispenser security systems and methods for assembling, manufacturing and/or utilizing said security systems596US 9,392,885 B2Marketing Impact Limited · 2016
- Shelf organizer display320US 5,673,801 AMarkson Rosenthal & Company · 1997
- Pusher device for dispensing articles319US 5,634,564 AThe Mead Corporation · 1997
- Display tray for aligned articles318US 5,111,942 A1992
- Gravity feed shelving system with track and pusher312US 6,142,317 A2000