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US 4,611,720 AGranted
Display rack system for candles
AssigneeLancaster Colony Corporation
InventorRobert J. Staab
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AssigneeLancaster Colony Corporation
InventorRobert J. Staab
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A merchandise display system is provided having a plurality of modular display racks adapted to be disposed in longitudinally aligned relationship and having a pair of elongated mounting ribs adapted to be disposed in longitudinally aligned relationship to the racks and to mechanically interconnect with the racks. The rails are adhesively secured to a supporting structure and fix the display racks with respect to that structure. Each display rack includes a generally horizontally disposed base support surface and an upstanding wall that is inclined rearwardly to form an upwardly opening, longitudinally extending V-shaped article supporting surface on which elongated articles of merchandise such as candles may be displayed in an upstanding position on the base support surface and reposed against the supporting wall. The base surface and supporting wall are formed with alternating rib and groove conformations that cooperate with the candles to prevent their displacement and cooperate with partition plates inserted in respective grooves in frictional engagement with spaced pairs of plates defining compartments for segregating of the different types of candles.
A merchandise display system comprising a display rack of predetermined longitudinal extent having an article supporting surface adapted to receive and support thereon articles of merchandise of elongated, rod-shaped configuration is upstanding relationship on their bottom ends, said article supporting surface including a generally horizontally disposed base support surface and an article supporting wall projecting upwardly with respect to said base support surface with said base support surface and article supporting wall extending longitudinally of the rack and cooperatively defining an upwardly opening channel of V-shaped cross section, said article supporting wall being inclined with respect to a vertical plane in a direction away from said base support surface whereby elongated articles of merchandise positioned on said base support surface in upstanding relationship may repose against said article supporting wall, said base support surface and said article supporting wall having formed therewith a plurality of alternatingly disposed rib and groove conformations extending transversely thereacross to cooperatively engage with articles of merchandise positioned on said rack and restrain the merchandise against movement longitudinally of said rack, said grooves each being of a width less than the transverse dimension of the articles of merchandise to receive only a peripheral portion of the merchandise with respective ones of the grooves in said article supporting wall and said base support surface being longitudinally aligned, and at least two partition plates each having marginal edge portions thereof adapted to interfit in a selected groove and to be thereby supported in upright relationship to said article supporting surface and extending a predetermined distance therefrom to form a compartment between each two adjacent partition plates for retaining articles of merchandise therebetween, said rack including an elongated, upstanding front wall extending longitudinally in spaced relationship to said article supporting wall and having a plurality of rib and groove conformations formed therein in alignment with respective ones of the ribs and grooves of said article supporting wall and base support surface and adapted to mechanically interengage with said partition plates.
A merchandise display system comprising a display rack of predetermined longitudinal extent having an article supporting surface adapted to receive and support thereon articles of merchandise of elongated configuration in upstanding relationship, said article supporting surface including a generally horizontally disposed base support surface and an article supporting wall projecting upwardly with respect to said base support surface with said base support surface and article supporting wall extending longitudinally of the rack and cooperatively defining an upwardly opening channel of V-shaped cross section, said article supporting wall being inclined with respect to a vertical plane in a direction away from said base support surface whereby elongated articles of merchandise positioned on said base support surface in upstanding relationship may repose against said article supporting wall, and mounting means adapted to be secured to a supporting structure in fixed relationship and to cooperatively interengage with said display rack for restraining said rack against transverse movement in a horizontal plane, said mounting means including at least one elongated mounting rail having coupling means for releasably interengaging with at least one display rack in mechanically interlocked relationship.
A merchandise display system comprising a display rack of predetermined longitudinal extent having an article supporting surface adapted to receive and support thereon articles of merchandise of elongated configuration in upstanding relationship and upstanding wall elements connected with said article supporting surface in depending relationship for support thereof with said wall elements having bottom edge portions, said article supporting surface including a generally horizontally disposed base support surface and an article supporting wall projecting upwardly with respect to said base support surface with said base support surface and article supporting wall extending longitudinally of the rack and cooperatively defining an upwardly opening channel of V-shaped cross section, said article supporting wall being inclined with respect to a vertical plane in a direction away from said base support surface whereby elongated articles of merchandise positioned on said base support surface in upstanding relationship may repose against said article supporting wall, and mounting means adapted to be secured to a supporting structure in fixed relationship thereto and to cooperatively interengage with said display rack for restraining said rack against movement in a horizontal plane, said mounting means including at least one elongated mounting rail having coupling means for mechanically interengaging with said upstanding wall elements to restrain said display rack and including an elongated upwardly opening channel adapted to receive therein bottom edge portions of said wall elements in mechanically interlocked relationship.
A merchandise display system comprising a display rack of open-bottom, hollow-shell configuration and predetermined longitudinal extent having an article supporting surface adapted to receive and support thereby articles of merchandise of elongated configuration in upstanding relationship, said article supporting surface including a generally horizontally disposed base support surface and an article supporting wall projecting upwardly with respect to said base support surface with said base support surface and article supporting wall extending longitudinally of the rack and cooperatively defining an upwardly opening channel of V-shaped cross section, said article supporting wall being inclined with respect to a vertical plane in a direction away from said base support surface whereby elongated articles of merchandise positioned on said base support surface in upstanding relationship may repose against said article supporting wall, said article supporting surface formed as a wall and said display rack includes at least two upstanding wall elements connected with said article supporting surface wall in depending relationship thereto at opposite sides for support thereof and having bottom edge portions adapted to be positioned on a supporting structure, said opposed wall elements being relatively convergent in an upward direction to thereby result in a configuration adapted to at least partially receive another rack interiorly thereof whereby a plurality of said display racks are enabled to be stacked one upon another in nested relationship.
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