Patent ID: 9144326
Filing Date: 2015-09-29
Classification: A47F

Abstract:
1. A display rack comprising: a plurality of generally cylindrical products all having substantially equal diameters; first and second chutes supporting the products passing therethrough by rolling or dropping impelled by force of gravity, a forward side of the display rack having a forward-facing product loading opening therein, and both chutes communicating with and extending generally rearwardly from the forward-facing product loading opening and receiving the products loaded into the chutes through the product loading opening, and each chute having a respective dispensing end below the product loading opening such that the cylindrical products when placed in the product loading opening proceed by force of gravity through one of the chutes to the dispensing end thereof; the dispensing end of the second chute being situated between the product loading opening and the dispensing end of the first chute; wherein the chutes each have a respective stop structure supported adjacent the respective dispensing end that blocks forward movement of the products in the chute beyond said stop structure such that the products can be removed from the dispensing end of the chute by being elevated above the stop structure; and wherein the stop structure of the second chute stops the products in the second chute rearward of the product loading opening, said second chute having a clearance space above the stop structure thereof such that a forwardmost one of the products resting thereagainst can be elevated by a user above the stop structure and removed from the second chute; and the stop structure of said second chute being disposed above the dispensing end of said first chute a vertical distance and offset rearwardly from the stop structure of said first chute a horizontal distance greater than the diameter of the products such that, when a forwardmost product of the products in the first chute is removed from the first chute by lifting said forwardmost product up to a level above the stop structure of the first chute, the forwardmost product is at least in part horizontally forward of the dispensing end of the second chute.