Modular greeting card rack
AssigneeVanguard Packaging, Inc.
InventorJerry Ryan Frost
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Abstract
A rack display comprising a base having a front panel with a plurality of horizontal and vertical slots included thereon; left and right side panels extending from sides of the front panel; a back panel extending between the left and right side panels; and one or more shelf members including horizontal and vertical tabs. The shelf members are secured to the base by inserting the vertical and horizontal tabs within the vertical and horizontal slots respectively. The rack display is erected from a knockdown configuration by securing the shelf members to the front panel of the base via insertion of the horizontal and vertical tabs within the horizontal and vertical slots respectively.
Claims16
A rack display comprising:
- a base defining a plurality of slots;
- and
- a plurality of shelf members, each shelf member being moveable between an engaged configuration coupled to said base and a disengaged configuration displaced from said base,
- wherein a first shelf member of said plurality of shelf members comprises:
- a first panel hingedly coupled to a second panel, the first panel being generally horizontal and the second panel being generally vertical;
- side panels hingedly coupled to opposed ends of said second panel;
- and
- a vertical tab extending from a distal end of each of said side panels,
- wherein vertical slots of said plurality of slots of said base are configured to receive respective vertical tabs of said first shelf member as said first shelf member is moved towards its engaged configuration,
- wherein said second panel comprises an outer panel and an inner panel, said inner panel extending approximately vertically downward from a top edge of said outer panel towards a bottom edge of said outer panel, and
- wherein said base, said first panel, said inner panel, and said side panels define a pocket when said first shelf member is in an engaged configuration.
A rack display comprising:
- a base defining a plurality of slots, a front surface of said base being defined by a first plane;
- and
- a plurality of shelf members, each shelf member being moveable between an engaged configuration coupled to said base and a disengaged configuration displaced from said base,
- wherein first and second shelf members of said plurality of shelf members each comprise:
- a first panel extending away from said front surface of said base when the respective shelf member is in its engaged configuration, a top surface of said first panel being defined by a second plane;
- a second panel extending approximately vertically upward from a distal end of said first panel, an inner surface of said second panel being defined by a third plane and an outer surface of said second panel being defined by a fourth plane;
- and
- opposed left and right side panels, each side panel being hingedly coupled to a respective left and right side of said second panel,
- a vertical tab extending from a distal end of the left and right side panels, wherein each said vertical tab includes tab fingers extending from opposed sides of each vertical tab,
- wherein said tab fingers are capable of being folded and unfolded with respect to said vertical tabs,
- wherein said vertical tabs with tab fingers in a folded state are configured to be received by vertical slots of said plurality of slots of said base as the respective shelf member is moved towards its engaged configuration,
- wherein said first shelf member is secured to said base in a first position and said second shelf member is secured to said base in a second position above said first position,
- wherein the third plane of said first shelf member defines an exterior surface of a first pocket, said exterior surface being displaced from said base,
- wherein said fourth plane of said second shelf member extends into said first pocket, and
- wherein said second panel of said first shelf member comprises inner and outer panels, said inner panel extending approximately vertically downward from a top edge of said outer panel towards a bottom edge of said outer panel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.