Product management display system with trackless pusher mechanism
AssigneeRTC Industries, Inc.
InventorStephen N. Hardy
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Abstract
A product management display system for merchandising product on a shelf includes using a trackless pusher mechanism that travels along a surface on which product is placed and one or more dividers for separating product into rows. The one or more dividers may be engaged to a front rail in two different conditions, locked and unlocked. In a locked condition, the relationship between the divider and the front rail resists alteration in any direction with respect to each other. In the unlocked condition, the dividers may be freely slid laterally along the front rail, while remaining perpendicular to the front rail. The one or more dividers may lock to the front rail through the use of corresponding teeth, resilient surfaces, a locking tab, a locking bar and/or a cam.
Claims8
A merchandise display system comprising:
- a front rail comprising a plurality of teeth and a cam bar, wherein the front rail further comprises a cam bar lever that moves the cam bar within the front rail, and
- at least one divider configured to attach to the front rail, the at least one divider comprising a divider wall and a divider floor perpendicular to the divider wall, the at least one divider further comprising a plurality of teeth;
- wherein the teeth in the front rail are configured to releasably engage the teeth of the divider by a camming action of the cam bar between a locked position and a released position in the front rail;
- wherein the at least one divider is (a) movable in a lateral direction parallel to the front rail and (b) secured in a direction perpendicular to the front rail when the cam bar is in the released position, and
- wherein the at least one divider is (a) immovable in the lateral direction parallel to the front rail and (b) secured in the direction perpendicular to the front rail when the cam bar is in the locked position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.