US2936905A

US2936905A - Display bin supporting shelf

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Publication number: US2936905A
Application number: US661230A
Authority: US
Inventors: George I Welter
Original assignee: TOTE CART Co
Current assignee: TOTE CART Co
Priority date: 1957-05-23
Filing date: 1957-05-23
Publication date: 1960-05-17
Anticipated expiration: 1977-05-17

Description

United States epesses f Y. DrsrLAY uns snrronrnso snn'rr George I. Welter, Chicago, lll., assigner to Tote-Cart Company, la partnership Application May 23, 1957, Serial No. 661,230 2 Claims. (Cl. 2211-153) his invention relates to an improved means for supporting merchandise displays and in particular to a support for a display bin comprising Wire containers of the type shown in the copending application'of Harold I. Sides, Serial No. 636,667, led January 28, 1957, now Patent No. 2,868,391, wherein the merchandise is dumped into form of extensive solid, and hence heavy, shelves on which the merchanidse for sale is displayed. Naturally, extensive shelves of this nature are expensive and furthermore tend to be dirt and dust collectors. Moreover, solid shelving presents a visibility problem to the customer in that it tends to hide from View the merchandise on adjacent lower shelves.

The display bin support of this invention overcomes these problems in that it is much less expensive to produce and islight in weight. Moreover, a better visibility of merchandise is afforded While the support will easily hold as much weight as anyshelf commonly in use and does not collect dust.

lt is therefore, an object of this invention to Aprovide a display bin support adapted to be positioned between a pair of outwardly extending shelf supports which vcomprises an elongated wire or rod Spanner member, means on the Spanner member for mounting it on a shelf support, and `steadying means on the Spanner member coopf eratmg with the mounting means to prevent the Spanner from rolling on the shelf supports when a display bin is placed thereon.

Other objects of the invention will become apparent from the following description of one embodiment ofthe invention as disclosed in the accompanying drawings.

Of the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a partial perspective view of shelf supports with display bin supports of this invention positioned thereon and showing in dotted lines a complete and a partially broken away display bin of a common type.

Fig. 2. is an enlarged top plan view, partiallyvbroken, of the display bin support of this invention.

Fig. 3 is a side view ofthe support shown in Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is an end view of the support.

The display bin supports generally indicated at 10 are designed to be used with shelf supports 11 'which are commonly in use today. Normally, these shelf supports 11 are positioned in strengthened members 12 of partitions 13 which are either arranged against the walls (not shown) of the store or on islands used to divide the store into aisles. Theshelf supports 11 as shown in Fig. 1 are normally arranged so that solid wooden or metal shelves 19 may be positioned thereon to provide a merchandise display or to provide a support for merchandise containers such as baskets.

The display bin supports 10 of this invention which are designed to be positioned on the shelf supports 11 assises comprise an extensive metal Spanner wire or rod 14 which is designed to be slightly longer than the distance between the two adjacent shelf supports 11. The ends 14a of the meta-1 rod 14 are bent to form hooks or mountingsupports. The hooks 14a are arranged to t over the shelf supports 11 and prevent thespanner from moving longitudinally. A second metal rod 15 of substantially similar length to the metal rod 14 is provided as a strengthening member. The metal rod 15 has its ends 15a bent at substantially right angles so 'that the rod 15 may be welded to the rod 14 at 15b. Further strengthening throughout the entire length of the Spanner is provided by means ofa plurality of short metal rods 16 which are welded to the rods 14 and 15. Thus the display bin support of this invention provides suilicient strength to uphold equally as much display weight as was customarily available with solid shelving. K

1n using supports such kas the one described in this invention, a problem arose, however, since rounded metal rods have a tendency to roll when used between supports such as the shelf supports 11. Because the upper rod 14 is such a rounded metal rod, the flat metal pieces 17 are welded to the rod 14 at Vsubstantially right angles to the hooks 14a. Thus the at metal pieces 17 are substantially parallel to the base of a display bin 18 and are in contact therewith. Therilat metal pieces 17 distribute the portion of the weight concentrated on each display bin support equally on each side of the support and prevent it from rolling on the shelf supports 11.

The display bin supports 10 may also be used with solid shelves 19 by simply drilling holes 19a near the ends of the shelves 19 and dropping the .hooked ends 14a into the holes as shown in Fig. 1.

Having described my invention as relating to the em- Y `rather be construed broadly within its spirit and scope Vas set out in the accompanying claims.

I claim:

1. A display bin support adapted to 'be positioned be'- tween a pair of outwardly extending shelf supports, comprising an elongated Spanner member having a round cross section with its central portion adapted to extend between said supports in aysingle plane, said member having down-turned ends forming hooks beyond said supports and relatively thin flat pieces of material attached to the top portion of said Spanner member adjacent said end portions.

2. The display bin support of claim 1 wherein a lower rod is attachedto said Spanner member, the major portion of said lower rod being in a plane parallel to but spaced from said upper rod and with the ends of the lower rod being up-turned and secured to the upper rod wherein there is a plurality of short rods connecting said two rods.

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