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US 11,849,864 B2Granted
Retail merchandise tray with mounting, spacing, and locating
AssigneeFasteners for Retail, Inc.
InventorThomas O. Nagel
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Abstract
The retail merchandise tray has a load bearing member formed from a rail attached to a mounting plate. The mounting plate and rail form a downward opening notch for mounting to a tray support structure. The tray may have a locating flange that carries a locating pin that engages a tray support structure. The locating pin locates the tray along the tray support structure. The tray may have at least one divider assembly. The divider assembly includes outward extending offset projections that can prevent an adjacent tray from contacting the divider wall.
Claims30
A retail merchandise tray comprising:
- a product support structure extending along a first axis between a front end and a rear end including:
- first and second load bearing members being spaced apart about a second axis perpendicular to the first axis, each of the first and second load bearing members including:
- a rail extending longitudinally generally parallel to the first axis between a first end and a second end, the first end being closer to the front end than the second end, the second end being closer to the rear end than the first end, the rail having opposed inner and outer sides, the rail including a downward depending abutment that is offset from the second end along the first axis towards the first end, the downward depending abutment facing the second end;
- a mounting plate attached to the rail proximate the second end, the mounting plate extending along the second axis outward beyond the outer side and inward beyond the inner side of the rail, the mounting plate being spaced apart from the downward depending abutment along the first axis forming a downward opening notch therebetween;
- a product support surface supported by the load bearing members;
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- a pusher mounted to the product support structure and movable along the first axis.
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A retail merchandise tray comprising:
- a product support structure extending along a first axis between a front end and a rear end including:
- first and second load bearing members being spaced apart about a second axis perpendicular to the first axis, each of the first and second load bearing members including a downward opening notch;
- a product support surface supported by the load bearing members;
- a locating flange extending downward below the product support surface, the locating flange being spaced forward of the downward opening notch along the first axis;
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- a locating pin extending rearward of the locating flange and into axial overlap with the downward opening notch along the first axis;
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- a pusher mounted to the product support structure and movable along the first axis.
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A retail merchandise tray comprising:
- a product support structure extending along a first axis between a front end and a rear end including:
- first and second load bearing members being spaced apart about a second axis perpendicular to the first axis, each of the first and second load bearing members including:
- a rail extending longitudinally generally parallel to the first axis between a first end and a second end, the first end being closer to the front end than the second end, the second end being closer to the rear end than the first end, the rail having opposed inner and outer sides, the rail including a downward depending abutment that is offset from the second end along the first axis towards the first end, the downward depending abutment facing the second end;
- a mounting plate attached to the rail proximate the second end, the mounting plate extending along the second axis outward beyond the outer side and inward beyond the inner side of the rail, the mounting plate being spaced apart from the downward depending abutment along the first axis forming a downward opening notch therebetween, the mounting plate including a slot formed therein, a portion of the rail extending into the slot;
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- a product support surface supported by the load bearing members.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.