Rotatable display tower for compact discs and the like
AssigneeGressco, Ltd.
InventorLloyd Koeppel
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Abstract
A rotatable display tower, preferably for use as a merchandising rack for the original sale of packaged products, preferably compact discs. The tower provides, in a relative minimum of space, a large number of compact discs to be viewed "head or face on." The display tower securely holds the packages, in a tilted-back manner, yet allows the consumer to easily remove the same for purchase.
Claims6
A rotatable merchandise display tower for a box-like container of merchandise for rotation on a stationary support base comprising at least two identical, vertically spaced shelves having aligned axis of rotation, mounting means on each of the shelves for supporting the selves on top of one another, each of said shelves comprising two or more radial arms extending from said mounting means, each of said arms of said shelves having a pair of sloped walls extending downwardly and outwardly in opposite directions from a common peak, said sloped walls having a bottom edge, spaced metal rods extending from the peak of a first of said arms of a first of said shelves to the peak of an arm located immediately above the first of said arms, said metal rods disposed in a vertical plane passing through said peaks of said first arm and said arm immediately above, and a bottom support surface extending upwardly and outwardly from said bottom edge of said opposed sloped walls;
- said rods and said bottom support surfaces providing tilted back support to said container;
- said metal rods, said opposed slope walls, and said bottom support surfaces of said first arm cooperating with said opposed slope walls of said arm located immediately above to define two opposed merchandise holding pockets on either side of said peak, each of said pockets being substantially open to allow said container of merchandise to be viewed face-on, an uppermost of said vertically spaced shelves having an upwardly extending exposed end on said mounting means of said uppermost shelf coaxial with said axis of rotation and a lowermost of said vertically spaced shelves having a downwardly extending exposed end on said mounting means of said lowermost shelf co-axial with said axis of rotation, said exposed ends receivable in said stationary support base for enabling the display tower to be supported for rotational movement.
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