US 6,866,352 B2Granted

Shelf apparatus for showcase

AssigneeSanden Corporation

InventorsKiyoshi Fujii, Nobuo Kanbayashi, Akifumi Kanouchi, Shoichi Yamazaki

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Abstract

A shelf apparatus for a showcase includes a shelf plate; a shelf support for supporting the shelf plate; and a connecting member having a movable portion and a fixed portion connected to the shelf plate and the shelf support, respectively. The movable portion has a hard locking member, and the shelf support has a concave portion which can lock and unlock the locking member. When the shelf plate is held on the shelf supports, the locking member is locked to the concave portion. When commodities are resupplied onto the shelf plate, the locking member is unlocked from the concave portion. Thereby, the movable portion of the connecting member is detached from the shelf support. Then, the shelf plate is pulled out forward and commodities are resupplied onto the pulled-out shelf plate.

Claims5

Dependent claims

A shelf apparatus for a showcase, comprising:

a shelf plate on which commodities are placed;
a shelf support on which said shelf plate is supported;
and
a connecting member having a movable portion connected to said shelf plate and a fixed portion connected to said shelf support for enabling said shelf plate to slide in a depth direction,
wherein one of the movable portion of said connecting member and said shelf support has a hard locking member, and the other has a locked portion which can lock and unlock said locking member, said locking member being formed of a turnable rod material extending from said movable portion to said shelf support, and at one end of said locking member is provided a locking portion which can be locked to and unlocked from said locked portion by the turning of said locking member, and at the other end of said locking member is provided an operating portion which can be turned by hand.

2 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 10/379,900Filed 6 Mar 2003
Priority: JP 2002-07453218 Mar 2002
Published: US 2003/0173876 A118 Sep 2003
Granted: 15 Mar 2005
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification3 codes

A47F 5/0093
Show stands or display racks with movable parts: movable in a substantially horizontal direction
A47F 3/063
With movable or removable shelves or receptacles: with pull-out receptacles, e.g. drawers
A47F
Special furniture, fittings, or accessories for shops, storehouses, bars, restaurants or the