Patent ID: 9549622
Date: 2017-01-24
CPC Classifications: A47F,Y10T

Claim:
1. A shelf divider system comprising: a shelf base defining a support that includes an upper surface configured to receive multiple products thereon, which base has a front and a rear and multiple parallel elongate slots in the base defined by a multiplicity of spaced parallel ribs, which slots extend in a direction from front to rear in multiple sets of at least two aligned slots, the base having a forwardly outstanding integral formation at the front of the shelf base; an upstanding transversely extending front stop including a lower stop mount, the front stop mounted to the shelf base at said front by releasable engagement of the lower stop mount to the outstanding integral formation, the front stop having an upper edge and a plurality of notches formed in the upper edge, the respective notches associated with said sets of at least two aligned slots; and a plurality of dividers each having a bottom edge with a more rearward rearwardly extending protrusion and a more forward depending tab means having at least one lateral protrusion, and a front edge with an upper forwardly extending protrusion having a downturned or return portion; whereby each divider is selectively releasably engageable with any of said sets of at least two aligned slots by locating said rearwardly extending protrusion under a rear edge of a rear slot and pivoting the divider downwardly to locate the tab means in a front slot and the forwardly extending protrusion in an associated notch on the front stop firmly locating the front stop between the downturned or return portion and the front edge of the divider and locking the lateral protrusion under an adjacent rail when the divider is pushed down, whereupon the divider is not disengageable except by reversing said pivoting action; and whereby the outstanding integral formation is configured to mount the front stop and permit a number of bases to be joined front to rear, the rear of a forward positioned base joining to the outstanding integral formation at the front of a rear positioned base, with the outstanding integral formation on the forward-most base engaging with the front stop.