Patent ID: 7566037
Filing Date: 2009-07-28
Classification: A47F

Abstract:
1. A pusher accessory for a conventional elongated product display hook configured at one end for anchorage on a supporting panel or board and supporting in suspended fashion along its length a multiplicity of product items for removal from the opposite free end of said hook by a customer, which comprises a stationary component adapted to be attached in fixed position adjacent the free end of said hook; a movable component mountable on the hook at a point spaced from the stationary component for free sliding movement back and forth along the hook length and including a product-contacting face; and extensible spring means affixed at one end to the stationary component and carried at the other end by the movable component, said spring means being extended when the movable component is separated from the stationary component by intervening product packages suspended from the hook to apply spring tension force to the movable component and as product packages are removed from the free hook end one-by-one by customers to advance along the hook length the movable component and by its product-contacting face product packages intervening between the two components until the leading product package of those packages remaining on the hook reaches the free hook end, said spring means being a flat coil spring having a length extending from the spring coil parallel to the hook length with its free end affixed to said stationary component, and said movable component includes two brackets having coil-contacting surfaces extending parallel to the hook length, said surfaces being spaced apart laterally of the hook length a distance sufficient to support the coil of said spring there between for said free uncoiling and re-coiling movement and further includes guiding means generally perpendicular to said bracket surfaces for guiding the extended spring length along a fixed path parallel to the hook length as said spring coil uncoils and re-coils.