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US 12,468,994 B2Granted
Optimal merchandise selection and merchandising design display methods and systems
AssigneeThe Hershey Company
InventorsGreg Gressel, Eric Lawrence
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Abstract
The novel invention provides methods and systems for automated production of merchandising displays. The displays can be assembled in whole, shipped in whole and filled with customer-selected products in customer-selected amounts, filled with criteria-selected products in criteria-selected amounts or both.
Claims7
A free-standing modular merchandise display, comprising:
- a plurality of display towers;
- a plurality of cartons arranged on the display towers, the cartons having removable panels;
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- a wrap to hold the plurality of cartons in the display towers in a manner that provides lateral and vertical support to the cartons to prevent the cartons from falling out of the free-standing modular merchandise display, the wrap having a back panel, a first sidewall panel extending from a first side of the back panel for integral connection to the back panel at a first fold line, and a second sidewall panel extending from a second, opposite side of the back panel for integral connection to the back panel at a second fold line,
- wherein the back panel has a plurality of alignment apertures and a bottom edge with vent cuts extending inwardly from the bottom edge to form a shape in the bottom edge that provides the wrap with vertical stability when the wrap is joined with the cartons.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.