Patent ID: 8439208

Claim:
A retail merchandise hook, comprising: a hook for hanging retail merchandise therefrom; a front stop separate from and arranged in spaced relation to the hook; a pusher movable relative to the hook and operable to bias retail merchandise hanging from the hook into engagement with the front stop; a track positioned above and separate from the hook, the track comprising a pair of opposed sidewalls, a top wall, and a bottom wall, wherein at least one of the opposed sidewalls and bottom wall includes a groove formed thereon, the groove providing a slide surface into which a track retainer of the pusher is received; wherein the front stop is disposed below the hook; a mounting bracket, the hook and the front stop being provided by separate wire structures that are commonly affixed to the mounting bracket, the hook extending from the mounting bracket and terminating in a first distal end, the front stop extending from the mounting bracket and terminating in a second distal end, wherein the first distal end extends beyond the second distal end relative to the mounting bracket; wherein the wire structure for the front stop has laterally spaced product retainers, one on each opposed lateral side of the hook, the product retainers extending toward the front stop, the product retainers arranged to prevent or limit lateral movement of product hanging on the hook while permitting forward and backward movement of product on the hook; and wherein the laterally spaced product retainers each include a top wire segment and a bottom wire segment extending between a back end and the front stop, the front stop being a front wire segment extending laterally between the product retainers, and wherein the top and bottom segments generally converge and thereby diminish a span of the product retainers as the top and bottom segments extend from the back end toward the front stop.