US 6,095,348 AGranted

Supermarket goods display rack and cart therefor

OwnerMasashi Karashimainventor

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Abstract

A supermarket goods display rack and display carts therefor with each cart having a cart body with upper and lower faces, defining four corners and having casters fitted to each corner and to the central portion of the lower face. Each cart body also having an upper edge potion including a jointing member which defines a jointing hook and a lower edge portion including a jointing member which defines a jointing hole, so that the jointing members connect when the carts are laterally joined. A passage (a.sub.1) is formed within a base portion of a goods display rack (a). A goods display cart (1) is placed into the passage, the cart displaying thereon a plurality of goods (j.sub.2) in a direction from a front side toward a rear side of the base portion. When the goods on the front side of the base portion on the cart are sold out, the cart is drawn out of the passage of the base portion, the cart having remaining goods thereon. The cart is then turned around and returned into the passage, thereby changing the goods remaining on the cart from the rear side to the front side of the base portion. The method may also include placing new goods on the front side of the goods remaining on the cart before turning the cart around and returning the cart into the passage to add new goods on the rear side of the base portion.

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Dependent claims

A supermarket goods display rack device, comprising:

a goods display rack having a base portion and an empty space at said base portion;
and
a goods display cart that can be moved into and moved out of the empty space at said base portion of the goods display rack;
wherein said goods display cart comprises:
a cart body comprising a bedplate, said cart body having a lower face, an upper face for carrying goods thereon, four corner portions and a central portion at a center of said lower face and centered with respect to said four corner portions;
a caster fitted to each of said corner portions on said lower face of said cart body;
and
an auxiliary caster fitted to said lower face at said central portion of said cart body;
wherein said cart body further comprises a front portion, a rear portion and price label rails at both said front portion and said rear portion, said price label rails being formed of a synthetic resin material integral with said cart body;
further comprising at least two jointing members having different widths, wherein:
each of said at least two jointing members comprises jointing hooks on laterally opposite sides thereof;
said cart body comprises an upper edge portion that projects laterally from an upper portion of one side of said cart body, the upper edge portion having a lower face and a jointing hook extending from said lower face;
said cart body comprises a lower edge portion that projects laterally from a lower portion of another side of said cart body opposite to the one side of said cart body, said lower edge portion having a jointing hole formed therein;
whereby one of said at least two jointing members can connect with said jointing hole of said lower edge portion of said cart body with one of said jointing hooks on one of the laterally opposite sides thereof to enable connection with another cart body, and said jointing hook of said lower face of said upper edge portion of said cart body can connect with a jointing hole of another cart body.

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A goods display cart arrangement, comprising:

a cart body comprising a bedplate, said cart body having a lower face, an upper face for carrying goods thereon, four corner portions and a central portion at a center of the lower face and centered with respect to said four corner portions;
a caster fitted to each of said corner portions on said lower face of said cart body;
and
an auxiliary caster fitted to said lower face at the central portion of said cart body;
wherein said cart body further comprises a front portion, a rear portion and price label rails at both said front portion and said rear portion;
further comprising at least two jointing members having different widths, wherein:
each of said at least two jointing members comprises jointing hooks on laterally opposite sides thereof,
said cart body comprises an upper edge portion that projects laterally from an upper portion of one side of said cart body, the upper edge portion having a lower face and a jointing hook extending from said lower face;
said cart body comprises a lower edge portion that projects laterally from a lower portion of another side of the cart body opposite to the one side of said cart body, said lower edge portion having a jointing hole formed therein;
whereby one of said at least two jointing members can connect with said jointing hole of the lower edge portion of said cart body with one of said jointing hooks on one of the laterally opposite sides thereof to enable connection with another cart body, and said jointing hook of said lower face of said upper edge portion of said cart body can connect with a jointing hole of another cart body.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.