US3601346A - Display fixture frame - Google Patents
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- US3601346A US3601346A US824998A US3601346DA US3601346A US 3601346 A US3601346 A US 3601346A US 824998 A US824998 A US 824998A US 3601346D A US3601346D A US 3601346DA US 3601346 A US3601346 A US 3601346A
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
- A47B—TABLES; DESKS; OFFICE FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; GENERAL DETAILS OF FURNITURE
- A47B57/00—Cabinets, racks or shelf units, characterised by features for adjusting shelves or partitions
- A47B57/30—Cabinets, racks or shelf units, characterised by features for adjusting shelves or partitions with means for adjusting the height of detachable shelf supports
- A47B57/40—Cabinets, racks or shelf units, characterised by features for adjusting shelves or partitions with means for adjusting the height of detachable shelf supports consisting of hooks coacting with openings
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
- A47B—TABLES; DESKS; OFFICE FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; GENERAL DETAILS OF FURNITURE
- A47B91/00—Feet for furniture in general
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
- A47F—SPECIAL FURNITURE, FITTINGS, OR ACCESSORIES FOR SHOPS, STOREHOUSES, BARS, RESTAURANTS OR THE LIKE; PAYING COUNTERS
- A47F5/00—Show stands, hangers, or shelves characterised by their constructional features
- A47F5/10—Adjustable or foldable or dismountable display stands
- A47F5/101—Display racks with slotted uprights
- A47F5/103—Display shelving racks with the uprights aligned in only one plane
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- the invention relates to a frame for a display fix- [54] ggzp g ture or the like.
- Frames of this type have vertical posts or stan- "wing dards and extending laterally from each standard and con- [52]
- U.S.Cl 248M883, nected thereto with hooks are a pair of structural members 21 1/l77,21 1 183 known as base arms.
- the hooks are subjected to relatively [51] Int. Cl ..Fl6m 11/20 heavy compressive and tensile forces due to loads applied to [50] Field of Search 248/188.8, the base arms.
- the base arms are dished on their inboard ends 188.1,250, 158; l08/108;2l H148, 176, 177, 182,
- Display fixtures of the type found in department stores must, in addition to their aesthetic appearance, be sufficiently strong, rigid and rugged to hold merchandise displayed thereon and to withstand a certain amount of abnormal abuse at various times that any article used in serving the public is subjected to. Although absolute strength required for a display fixture is admittedly relatively small it is of course highly desirable to achieve the required strength as economically as possible.
- the present invention is directed to the improvement of the base arms of display fixtures and it has been found that a simple change effected with a forming operation produced greatly improved results in the form of an increased moment of inertia which resulted in a substantial reduction in size of the base arm. 4
- a main object of the invention is to provide a new and improved frame for a display fixture and particularly to an improvement in the base arms thereof which results in a lighter, stronger and more rigid structure which effects a substantial economy in the manufacture thereof.
- FIG. 1 is a fragmentary perspective view of a frame for a display fixture having base arm assemblies embodying the invention
- FIG. 3 is a plan view of the assembly shown in Fig. 2 except that the vertical standard has been omitted in this view;
- FIGS. 4 and 5 are sectional views taken on lines 4-4 and 5-5, respectively, of Figs. 1 and 2.
- the fragmentary perspective view shows a partial frame assembly for a display fixture or the like which includes two vertically extending, slotted standards and 11.
- Standards.10 and 11 are of tubular construction and have generally rectangularly shaped cross sections.
- Standard 10 is an end-type standard having on each opposite side thereof one vertically extending column of vertically spaced apart slots 12.
- Standard 11 is an intermediatetype standard having on each opposite side thereof two horizontally spaced apart columns of vertically spaced apart slots 13 and 14. Additional intermediate-type standards 11 could be added to increase the length of the display fixture frame and an end-type standard 10 would be added at the opposite or far end of the fixture frame such that there would be any desired number of intermediate-type standards 11 disposed between two end-type standards 10.
- base arms 20 and 21 On opposite sides of end standard 10, extending laterally therefrom,are base arms 20 and 21.
- the base arms 20 and 21 have or may have exactly the same construction except that one is the reverse or mirror image of the other. A description of one base arm will thus also serve as a description of the other.
- the base arm 20 has an overall generally rectangular shape and may be formed by molding, as with a plastic, or by using sheet metal material and performing cutting, bending and stamping operations on the sheet metal used. These forming operations will not be described as it is only the ultimate form of the base arm that is of interest relative to the invention.
- a major portion of the base arm 20 comprises a sheet material wall portion 22 which occupies a generally vertical plane. Extending from one end of the base am: and attached to the wall portion 22 are a plurality of hooks 26 to 30. Each of the hooks has a flange portion 31 and a downwardly extending portion 32, their hook portions being in the same plane as wall portion 22.
- Horizontally extending upper and lower right angle flanges 35 and 36 extend laterally from the upper and lower sides respectively of wall portion 22.
- a vertically extending right angle flange 37 extends laterally from the end of the wall portion 22 opposite the hook end thereof.
- the flanges 35 to 37 all extend in the same lateral direction relative to the wall portion 22 and function in a normal manner to provide overall strength and rigidity for the base arm.
- the flange 36 has a screw-type leveling base 38 attached at'the outboard end thereof for leveling purposes.
- the bulge construction has a further use and function when two base arms are joined to form a base arm set as is best shown in Fig.3.
- the bulges 41 on adjacent base arms 20 and 21 are in abutting engagement and loads applied to the base arm set cause the bulges 41 to react against each other and thereby causes an increase in the effective overall moment of inertia of the base arm set to a value greater than twice the moment of inertia ofa single base arm 20 or 21.
- the base arm set construction shown in Fig. 3 Another advantage of the base arm set construction shown in Fig. 3 is that the two sets of hooks may be spaced apart a distance equal to the spacing between the two columns of slots 13 and 14 in the standard 11.
- the hooks and flanges thereof thus remain in the plane of the base arm wall portions 22 and the hook flange portions 31 thus functioning as struts in resisting the compression and tensile loading forces referred to above.
- the alternative to this construction would be to form two right-angle bends in the hook flange portions 31 to facilitate the above referred to lateral spacing between the respective sets of hooks on the base arms 20 and 21 corresponding to the spacing between the standard slots 13 and 14.
- each hook flange portion 31 would have a built-in lever arm which would permit distortion of the form thereof with much lower compression and tensile loading forces.
- a base arm assembly for the frame of a display fixture or the like comprising a first base arm for said frame-having a generally rectangularly shaped sheet material wall portion in a vertical plane, a plurality of vertically arranged and spaced hooks in said plane extending from one side of said wall portion, each of said hooks having a neck portion and a downwardly extending portion attached to said neck portion, horizontally extending upper and lower right-angle flanges ex tending from the upper and lower sides of said wall portion,
- said wall portion having a dished portion adjacent said hooks forming a depression on the flange side of said wall portion and a bulge on the opposite side of said wall portion, said dished portion being generally rectangularly shaped and in spaced relation to said horizontally extending flanges, said dished portion having a vertically extending edge adjacent said hooks and in spaced relation to said horizontally extending flanges, said vertically extending edge of said dished portion being of a height so that it extends at least from the level of one of said hook neck portion to the level of another of said hook neck portions, a second base arm which is the mirror image of said first base arm, vertically extending standard means having two spaced apart columns of slots, said base arms being attached together with their bulges in abutting relation and the respective hooks thereof being spaced apart the same distance as said columns of slots, and the ends of said base arms opposite said hooks being in abutting engagement.
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US82499869A | 1969-05-15 | 1969-05-15 |
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Cited By (7)
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US4193233A (en) * | 1978-05-24 | 1980-03-18 | Steelcase Inc. | Adjustable panel stabilizer |
EP0715823A3 (en) * | 1994-12-05 | 1999-05-19 | ROSSS MARKET S.n.c. di Bettini Rossano e Gabbriello | Joining and reinforcing piece for joining together base and upright of metal shelving units |
WO2002071901A1 (en) * | 2001-03-14 | 2002-09-19 | Storeconcept Ladenbau Gmbh | Free-standing self-service shelf |
US20100059467A1 (en) * | 2008-09-05 | 2010-03-11 | Target Brands, Inc. | Flexible shelving system |
US20120067838A1 (en) * | 2010-09-21 | 2012-03-22 | Whalen Storage, Inc. | Industrial frame rack support assembly |
US10299593B2 (en) * | 2016-04-28 | 2019-05-28 | Witron Logistik + Informatik Gmbh | Rack, load carrier and method of production |
US11717097B2 (en) * | 2020-05-22 | 2023-08-08 | American Business Forms, Inc. | Moveable base for retail gondola |
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US2919034A (en) * | 1956-12-28 | 1959-12-29 | Reflector Hardware Corp | Merchandise display assembly |
US2956688A (en) * | 1958-11-20 | 1960-10-18 | Russell E Maintain | Shelving assembly |
US3186668A (en) * | 1963-01-03 | 1965-06-01 | Birkenwald Company S | Shelf unit support |
US3194408A (en) * | 1962-10-09 | 1965-07-13 | Palmer Shile Co | Adjustable storage rack and beam constructions therefor |
US3244127A (en) * | 1963-12-26 | 1966-04-05 | Aurora Equipment Co | Cantilever shelving |
US3263821A (en) * | 1964-12-11 | 1966-08-02 | Hermsdorf Fixture Mfg Company | Shelf assembly |
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- 1970-04-20 CA CA080491A patent/CA932702A/en not_active Expired
- 1970-05-14 GB GB23533/70A patent/GB1291348A/en not_active Expired
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US2919034A (en) * | 1956-12-28 | 1959-12-29 | Reflector Hardware Corp | Merchandise display assembly |
US2956688A (en) * | 1958-11-20 | 1960-10-18 | Russell E Maintain | Shelving assembly |
US3194408A (en) * | 1962-10-09 | 1965-07-13 | Palmer Shile Co | Adjustable storage rack and beam constructions therefor |
US3186668A (en) * | 1963-01-03 | 1965-06-01 | Birkenwald Company S | Shelf unit support |
US3244127A (en) * | 1963-12-26 | 1966-04-05 | Aurora Equipment Co | Cantilever shelving |
US3263821A (en) * | 1964-12-11 | 1966-08-02 | Hermsdorf Fixture Mfg Company | Shelf assembly |
Cited By (11)
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US4193233A (en) * | 1978-05-24 | 1980-03-18 | Steelcase Inc. | Adjustable panel stabilizer |
EP0715823A3 (en) * | 1994-12-05 | 1999-05-19 | ROSSS MARKET S.n.c. di Bettini Rossano e Gabbriello | Joining and reinforcing piece for joining together base and upright of metal shelving units |
WO2002071901A1 (en) * | 2001-03-14 | 2002-09-19 | Storeconcept Ladenbau Gmbh | Free-standing self-service shelf |
US20100059467A1 (en) * | 2008-09-05 | 2010-03-11 | Target Brands, Inc. | Flexible shelving system |
US8028846B2 (en) * | 2008-09-05 | 2011-10-04 | Target Brands, Inc. | Flexible shelving system |
US20120018392A1 (en) * | 2008-09-05 | 2012-01-26 | Target Brands, Inc. | Flexible shelving system |
US8646618B2 (en) * | 2008-09-05 | 2014-02-11 | Target Brands, Inc. | Flexible shelving system |
US20120067838A1 (en) * | 2010-09-21 | 2012-03-22 | Whalen Storage, Inc. | Industrial frame rack support assembly |
US8443992B2 (en) * | 2010-09-21 | 2013-05-21 | Whalen Furniture Manufacturing, Inc. a California corporation | Industrial frame rack support assembly |
US10299593B2 (en) * | 2016-04-28 | 2019-05-28 | Witron Logistik + Informatik Gmbh | Rack, load carrier and method of production |
US11717097B2 (en) * | 2020-05-22 | 2023-08-08 | American Business Forms, Inc. | Moveable base for retail gondola |
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DE2022100B2 (en) | 1977-01-20 |
FR2047840A5 (en) | 1971-03-12 |
GB1291348A (en) | 1972-10-04 |
CA932702A (en) | 1973-08-28 |
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AS | Assignment |
Owner name: LITTON BUSINESS SYSTEMS, INC. Free format text: MERGER;ASSIGNOR:STREATER INDUSTRIES, INC.;REEL/FRAME:004150/0305 Effective date: 19720705 |
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AS | Assignment |
Owner name: JOYCE INTERNATIONAL, INC. A CORP OF DE Free format text: ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNORS INTEREST.;ASSIGNOR:LITTON BUSINESS SYSTEMS, INC., A NY CORP;REEL/FRAME:004285/0245 Effective date: 19840522 |
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Owner name: SECURITY PACIFIC BUSINESS CREDIT INC., A DE CORP Free format text: CONDITIONAL ASSIGNMENT;ASSIGNOR:JOYCE INTERNATIONAL, INC., A DE CORP.;REEL/FRAME:004311/0487 Effective date: 19840525 |
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Owner name: MANUFACTURERS HANOVER COMMERCIAL CORPORATION,NEW Y Free format text: SECURITY INTEREST;ASSIGNOR:JOYCE INTERNATIONAL, INC., A DE. CORP.;REEL/FRAME:004686/0003 Effective date: 19861021 Owner name: MANUFACTURERS HANOVER COMMERCIAL CORPORATION, 1211 Free format text: SECURITY INTEREST;ASSIGNOR:JOYCE INTERNATIONAL, INC., A DE. CORP.;REEL/FRAME:004686/0003 Effective date: 19861021 |