Patent ID: 6401942
Filing Date: 2002-06-11
Classification: A47F

Abstract:
A display and holding device comprising:a. a plurality of primary bays, each of said plurality of primary bays being defined by a portion of a front wall, a first side wall and a second side wall, a portion of a bottom wall, and a portion of a back wall, said front wall being parallel to the back wall, said front wall further having a bottom edge connected to a front edge of the bottom wall, the bottom wall further having a back edge connected to a bottom edge of the back wall, and each of the side walls being perpendicular to and extending from the front wall; and b. a plurality of object advancers equal in number to the number of said plurality of primary bays, one of said plurality of object advancers being disposed in each of said plurality of primary bays, each of said plurality of object advancers being moveable along and aligned with a path extending between a forward position proximate to the front wall and an aft position proximate to the back wall, wherein, at least one of the first side wall and the second side wall is selectively moveable laterally between a primary position in which the selectively moveable at least one of the first side wall and the second side wall is disposed between two adjacent paths and a secondary position in which the selectively moveable at least one of the first side wall and the second side wall is disposed in a line parallel with the length of one of the two adjacent paths while the object advancer aligned with said one of the two adjacent paths is disposed in the aft position, whereby, as the object advancer aligned in said one of the two adjacent paths is disposed proximate to the aft position and the selectively moveable at least one of the first side wall and the second side wall is moved to the secondary position, the forward movement of the object advancer aligned in said one of the adjacent paths is secured in an immobile position proximate the back wall by said selectively moveable at least one of the first side wall and the second side wall disposed in the secondary position.