US 4,396,237 AGranted

Package displaying dispenser

OwnerJoseph D. Henryinventor

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Abstract

A cabinet for displaying and dispensing vertical stacks of small packages, such as packs of cigarettes, is adapted to be mounted over a store's check-out counter. The shopper's side of the package displaying dispenser is transparent, so that the shopper can see the merchandise. The clerk's side of the package displaying dispenser has an upper opening which permits loading of packages onto the stacks and a lower slot which permits the clerk to withdraw one package at a time from the bottom of any selected stack. A similar package displaying dispenser is mounted on the rear side of the one just described, so that the packages in the rear one can be seen through the one in front, and so that the clerk can withdraw packages from both.

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Dependent claims

In combination:

a front package displaying dispenser;
a rear package displaying dispenser;
each of said package displaying dispensers having:
a transparent front in the form of a vertically situated window surrounded by a frame,
said frame comprising two ends, a top and a bottom;
said frame extending rearwardly of said transparent front to define, with said window, the front to rear depth of the respective package displaying dispenser;
the rear portion of said frame being substantially open and unobstructed;
a plurality of spaced vertical partitions situated perpendicularly to the plane of said window, thereby dividing the space behind said window into a plurality of vertically disposed channels, adapted for vertical stacking of packages in said vertically disposed channels;
each of the said ends of said front package displaying dispenser having wings which project rearwardly in the plane of the respective ends;
means on said wings for supporting the transparent front of said rear package displaying dispenser against the substantially open rear of said front package displaying dispenser;
whereby said two dispensers display their respective stacks of packages in one row behinder another row,
said one row being visible through two windows and said another row being visible through one window.

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