Display equipment
OwnerElena P. Varfolomeevainventor
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Abstract
A display equipment system for use in stores for displaying merchandise such as non-perishable foods on standing or hanging racks with lightweight open wire baskets or containers. The racks are assembled from interfitting parts and disassembled readily for placement in different areas of the store at different heights for display of the goods. The number of containers on each rack can be varied in height as well as in length. Unique two-part fasteners with or without hooks are employed to hang the baskets on the racks and hold the rack frame parts together.
Claims20
A display equipment system for exhibiting merchandise comprising:
- a rectangular wire basket having:
- a straight front bottom wire rail;
- a straight rear upper wire rail including a straight rear wire rail segment;
- a bottom wire rail having two straight side rail segments perpendicular to said straight rear wire rail segment, wherein said rear upper wire rail is connected at its ends to said front bottom wire rail at its ends to form a rectangular support frame with front corners;
- two side wire rails with raised mid-sections with their front portions connected at the front corners of the rectangular support frame and their rear portions connected to the straight upper rear wire so as to incline the two side wire rails;
- at least one intermediate separating wire rail with a raised mid-section connected perpendicularly at its ends to each of said front bottom and upper rear wire rails;
- a flat rectangular plate;
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- a plurality of parallel stepped support wires connected perpendicularly at their front ends to said rectangular plate and their rear ends to the upper rear wire rail for supporting merchandise;
- whereby merchandise can be separately displayed for impulse purchasing.
A display equipment system for exhibiting merchandise in compartmentalized baskets comprising:
- a plurality of rectangular wire baskets having compartments inclined from the front portion to the rear portion for displaying merchandise separated according to brand and size;
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- at least two vertical tubular and segmented frame posts comprising frame segments alternating with extension segments being connected by first fasteners which fasten the frame and extension segments together and hasten the plurality of rectangular wire baskets to each frame segment.
A fastener for display equipment posts having square holes for securing wire baskets comprising:
- a rod having a front threaded end and a rear end;
- a flat circular plate attached to the rear end of the rod;
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- an apertured and threaded circular button with a square portion threadably attachable to the front end of the rod;
- whereby the fastener passing through square holed posts of the display equipment for securing the wire baskets.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.