US 5,313,891 A · Beverage aisle unit

Abstract

A beverage aisle unit is designed to link together end-to-end with commonly shared uprights supporting adjacent shelves and back panels. Each upright includes a series of vertical slots in a recess opening outward from the uprights to receive shelf brackets with hook portions projecting inwardly for attaching the shelves in the slots at selected elevations. The hook portions are completely inserted to provide an unobstructed juncture between adjacent back panels. Slotted adapters slidable onto each upright enable mounting of back panels and shelves on the opposite side. The slots are of sufficient width to permit adjacent bracket hook portions to share the same slot in an end-to-end unit arrangement. The base of the uprights may extend from one or both sides of the upright. An alternate embodiment includes symmetrical flanges and recessed slots on both sides of the upright for mounting like shelves and panels on either side of a unit.

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Dependent claims

An aisle unit for display of beverages and like merchandise, and suitable for stand-alone assembly or end-to-end assembly with adjacent units, comprising in combination:

a pair of parallel-spaced posts, each post comprising a pair of unitary upright members in opposing, spaced, relation to each other, the upright members having upper and lower ends, a first base member fixed to and extending outwardly from the lower ends of said upright members, and a discrete, unitary spacer means, having a vertical series of slots in equally spaced increments, connected from one to the other of the upright members of each pair of said upright members, and, with said upright members, forming a recess;
and
shelves disposed in vertically spaced relation between said upright members, each of said shelves having brackets with inwardly projecting hook portions substantially completely inserted in the recesses formed between the upright members of the posts and interengaging selected ones of the slots in the spacer means of the posts.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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