Merchandise display assembly
OwnerMorris A. Wolf, Leo Wolfinventors
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Abstract
A merchandise display assembly comprising a frame of posts and struts defining recesses for groups of mens' shirts, by sizes, each recess having a pair of display racks on an extendable slide. The display racks have hinged wickets comprising elongated, channel-shaped trays, with downturned end tabs pivoted to the sidewalls of bases of the racks, and upright supports formed by rods at each end bent to form front and rear legs for supporting the shirts. The front leg has a forward closed-loop bend at its upper end and the rear leg has a laterally offset V-shaped return for rear support, and an integral bend between the legs is clamped against the open end tab of the tray by a rivot which also forms the pivot. An individual rack also shown is for countertop use.
Claims19
A merchandise display assembly for holding a plurality of groups of merchandise in stored positions and presenting each group for access and individual inspection of the items of merchandise in that group by a prospective purchaser, said display assembly comprising:
- a plurality of display racks each comprising an elongated base adapted to be disposed in a horizontal position and having a plurality of upstanding merchandise-holding wickets on the base, said wickets being pivotally mounted at their lower ends on the base for rocking back and forth longitudinally of the base between forward and rearward angularly spaced positions, and each having support means including an elongated, channel-shaped tray extending across the lower end of the wicket for supporting the lower edge of an item of merchandise thereon and having upstanding front and rear holding members on the support means for engaging the front and rear sides of the item of merchandise, said holding members having spaced upper ends for insertion and removal of the merchandise;
- each of said trays of said wickets having two downturned tabs at its opposite ends straddling the base of the display rack and pivotally connected thereto to support the wicket above the base for pivoting between said forward and rearward positions;
- and a display frame having frame members defining a plurality of recesses for said display racks, each of said display racks being disposed in a retracted position in one of said recesses and movable relative to said display frame for extension from the retracted position out of the display frame into an extended position for inspection of the merchandise on the rack;
- said display racks and said wickets being disposed substantially outside of said display frame when in said extended positions for access to the wickets by prospective purchasers, whereby rocking of the wickets in front of any particular item to the forward positions exposes that item to the purchaser for inspection and removal.
In a merchandise display rack having a base adapted to be disposed in a horizontal position and a plurality of merchandise-holding wickets for extending upwardly from said base and rocking back and forth between two angularly spaced positions, the improvement which comprises:
- each of said wickets having a lower end portion in the form of an elongated, channel-shaped tray disposed above said base and having a tab at each end extending downwardly to the base, each of said trays comprising a bottom wall for engaging the lower edge of an item of merchandise and front and rear flanges for retaining the merchandise on the wicket;
- and a pivot between said tabs and said base supporting said trays above said base for rocking between said two positions, said trays having front and rear edges forming stops engageable with said base to limit rocking in said two positions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.