US 6,955,268 B2 · Merchandise display

Abstract

A modular display system for polyhedron shaped merchandise, such as DVD's, software, computer games, CD's and the like, and a method for manufacturing such a display. In a preferred embodiment, the system comprises a plurality of individual pocket constraints configured as integral modules aligned and retained in a set of cascading shelves. The individual pocket modules are an integral form having side constraints, a connecting portion extending between the side portions, and a pushing portion having a merchandise engagement portion connecting to a bias-providing portion. The cascading shelves are, in a preferred embodiment, formed from a plurality of stackable shelves. Each shelf, in a preferred embodiment, has a horizontal lower base, a vertical back side, a vertical front portion, and a horizontal top piece forming generally a G-shape in the cross-section. The shelves are cascaded such that each successive higher shelf is set rearwardly from the shelf below.

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Dependent claims

A display rack for holding a matrixical arrangement of groupings of polyhedron shaped products and for minimizing simultaneous removal of multiple of polyhedron shaped products in combination with a plurality of the polyhedron shaped products, the polyhedron shaped products having a thickness and a height, the rack comprising:

a plurality of vertically stacked shelves, each shelf sized for receiving a row of pocket modules thereon, each shelf that is above a lower shelf offset rearwardly from said lower shelf;
a plurality of pocket modules positioned on the shelves in a matrixical arrangement, each individual pocket module formed of a single piece of clear plastic sheet material and having two sidewall portions, a front portion, and a back pusher portion, all integral with one another wherein each portion connected to another portion is connected at a fold formed in the single piece of clear plastic sheet each of said portions having a uniform thickness and the sidewall portions and the front portion defining a pocket for receiving therein one of the groupings of products, the pusher portion having a spring portion that when deflected rearwardly by the product grouping in said pocket provides a forward bias acting on said grouping;
a plurality of the polyhedron shaped products arranged in grouping in a plurality of the pocket modules, each grouping having a forwardlimost product;
and the pocket modules and vertically stacked shelves arranged such that only the forwardlimost product in each grouping can be raised and removed vertically from each respective pocket.

1 more element

A display in combination with a backwardly extending aligned grouping of a plurality of like shaped products, the display comprising a plastic pocket module having a front side, a back side, a left side, a right side, a top, and a bottom, the pocket module comprising a pair of sidewall portions located at the left side and right side respectively, a portion extending between the sidewall portions, a pusher portion extending from the back side forwardly to substantially the front side to position the grouping against the front side of the pocket module, the pusher portion having a product piece engagement portion and a spring portion whereby when the product piece engagement portion is displaceable rearwardly, a forward bias is provided to the product piece engagement portion by the spring portion, and wherein the sidewall portions, the portion extending between the sidewall portions, and the pusher portion are all formed from a single piece of plastic sheet material and wherein each portion connected to another portion is connected at a fold formed in the single piece of clear plastic sheet whereby the portions are all integral with one another.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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