Patent ID: 6142317
Filing Date: 2000-11-07
Classification: A47F

Abstract:
An apparatus including uprights for the mounting of shelves for display and storage of packaged products in a store environment, comprising:a shelf frame mountable to said uprights;at least one gravity feed unit supported by said shelf frame in a forwardly-projecting position from said uprights, each of said gravity feed units having a track for acceptance of a plurality of packaged products arrayed in a serial arrangement between a front and rear end of said track, said track having a recess having a pair of slot surfaces and a lower chamber portion, the recess extending between the front and rear ends, being oriented with its front end being displaced downwardly from its rear end, and having a product retainer located at the front end of said track;a pusher mounted upon said track for gravity-induced travel from said rear end to said front end, said pusher having a pusher face extending upwardly from said track for contact with a rearmost of said packaged products to maintain and deliver said product forwardly along said track to said front end and against said product retainer, a platform extending parallel to said track to accept packaged products thereon, at least one wheel mounted for rolling contact upon a top surface of said track, a guide wheel for rolling contact upon said slot surfaces within said recess and a guide post supporting a pad for retention with said lower chamber; andindicating means comprising a signal flag projecting forward from said pusher and resting in said recess below the top surface of the track as said pusher travels along the track and an aperture in said product retainer through which the signal flag projects for observation only when the pusher is at the front end of the track.