Warehouse displayer panel system and hinge
OwnerMichael J. Callejainventor
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Abstract
A displayer panel system comprises a universal hinge that can be used for top, middle, and bottom, and either left and right. The hinge has a parallelogramatical post that sticks out and bears the weight of a frame on a plastic wedge shaped disk attached to the frame bosses. A set of pins through the bosses, the plastic wedges, and the posts allow the frame to swing left and right out from a storage rack column. A double-pronged hook allows left or right corner face attachment of the hinge to slots in the storage rack column.
Claims12
A universal hinge for attaching displayer panels to warehouse storage racks, comprising:
- a base that can be attached to a column of a storage rack;
- a parallelogramatical cross-section post attached to the base and perpendicular to said column and having similar top and bottom triangular faces;
- a hole provided through the middle of the post and providing for a vertically oriented axle pin;
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- a swinging wedge shaped cam through which said axle pin is disposed and that rides up and down said top face of the post such that an attached panel will be forced to fold to one side.
A merchandising display system, comprising:
- a swinging frame that provides a mount for panel-type products to be displayed in a warehouse store;
- a pair of hinge bases that can be fixed to a column of a storage rack in said warehouse store;
- a parallelogramatical cross-section post attached to each of the hinge bases and that is perpendicular to said column and having similar top and bottom triangular faces;
- a hole provided through the middle of each of the posts and providing for a vertically oriented axle pin;
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- a pair of swinging wedge shaped cams attached to swinging frame and through which a corresponding said axle pin is disposed, and that rides up and down said top face of the post such that the swinging frame will be automatically forced to fold to one side.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.