Patent ID: 6996929
Filing Date: 2006-02-14
Classification: G09F

Abstract:
1. A folding sign system for attachment to a shelving system, said shelving system, including vertical hollow uprights proximate the front of said shelving system, and said shelving system including shelving proximate the tops of said vertical uprights, said folding sign system comprising: at least two vertical supports affixed to and supported by said uprights proximate the tops of said uprights; at least one elongated trough supported substantially horizontally between said vertical supports proximate the tops of said supports, said trough having a longitudinal slot therein proximate the bottom thereof of predetermined dimensions; at least one folding sign member carried by said trough, said sign member having a display position with said sign member fully extended and having a shelving accessibility position with said sign member folded; said folding sign member having a folding media portion sized to pass through said slot and to hang below said trough in said display position; said folding sign member having an integral top transverse sleeve proximate the top of said sign member; said folding sign member having an integral bottom transverse sleeve proximate the bottom of said sign member adjacent said media portion; at least one top elongated member at least partially housed within said top sleeve of said sign member, said top elongated member sized to provide lateral rigidity for said sign member and sized to prevent said top sleeve of said sign member from passing through said slot in said trough with said top elongated member in operative position, said top transverse sleeve housed within said trough; at least one bottom elongated member at least partially housed within said bottom sleeve of said sign member, said bottom elongated member sized to provide lateral rigidity for said sign member and sized to fit within said trough when said sign member is in said shelving accessibility position, said bottom elongated member of predetermined weight, said bottom sleeve housed within said trough when said sign member is in the shelving accessibility position; whereby, when said sign member is fully extended in said display position, goods stored on said top shelving are hidden by the media portion of said sign member, and when said sign member is folded in said shelving accessibility position and said bottom sleeve of said sign member is placed in said trough, access is provided to said stored goods on said top shelving.