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US 11,589,689 B2Granted
Divided shelf for modular greeting card rack
AssigneeVanguard Packaging, Inc.
InventorApryl McGill
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Abstract
A divided shelf for a display rack and related methods are provided. The divided shelf transforms from a knockdown configuration to an erected configuration. The divided shelf includes divider panels to divide the shelf into more than one separate compartments. The divided shelf is affixed to a display rack base.
Claims13
A divided shelf comprising:
- (a) an outer panel hingedly coupled to an inner panel;
- (b) side panels hingedly coupled to opposed ends of said outer panel;
- (c) a tab panel hingedly coupled to said outer panel, said tab panel comprising one or more horizontal tabs extending from an outer edge of said tab panel;
- and
- (d) a vertical tab extending from an outer edge of each of said side panels,
- wherein said vertical tabs are each formed with tab fingers extending from opposed sides of each vertical tab,
- wherein each tab finger is hingedly coupled to its respective vertical tab such that said tab fingers are capable of being folded with respect to said vertical tabs,
- wherein said inner panel is folded 180 degrees and fixed to said outer panel to form a vertical panel, and
- wherein said vertical panel comprises said outer panel and said inner panel, said side panels extending from said outer panel,
- wherein said inner panel comprises a proximal inner panel, a distal inner panel, and one or more divider panels.
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A display rack comprising:
- (a) a display rack base comprising
- (i) two or more vertical slots, and
- (ii) two or more horizontal slots;
- and
- (b) a divided shelf member comprising
- (i) an outer panel hingedly coupled to an inner panel;
- (ii) side panels hingedly coupled to opposed ends of said outer panel;
- (iii) a tab panel hingedly coupled to said outer panel, said tab panel comprising one or more horizontal tabs extending from an outer edge of said tab panel;
- and
- (iv) a vertical tab extending from an outer edge of each of said side panels,
- wherein each vertical tab is inserted into one of said two or more vertical slots, and each of said one or more horizontal tabs is inserted into one of said two or more horizontal slots,
- wherein said vertical tabs are each formed with tab fingers extending from opposed sides of each vertical tab,
- wherein each tab finger is hingedly coupled to its respective vertical tab such that said tab fingers are capable of being folded with respect to said vertical tabs so as to enable said vertical tabs to be inserted into respective vertical slots,
- wherein each set of tab fingers is capable of being unfolded so as to retain said vertical tabs within respective vertical slots, thereby securing said first shelf member to said display rack base;
- wherein said inner panel is folded 180 degrees and fixed to said outer panel to form a vertical panel,
- wherein said vertical panel comprises said outer panel and said inner panel, said side panels extending from said outer panel;
- and
- wherein said inner panel comprises a proximal inner panel, a distal inner panel, and one or more divider panels, said proximal inner panel being separated from said one or more divider panels by a proximal divider fold line and said distal inner panel being separated from said one or more divider panels by a distal divider fold line.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.