Patent ID: 8016128

Claim:
A retail pusher and divider system for retail merchandise, comprising: a front stop; a pair of partitions adapted to provide in combination with the front stop merchandise channel therebetween, the merchandise channel extending toward the front stop; a pusher assembly interposed in said merchandise channel and movable toward and away from the front stop; the pusher assembly including at least one wheel allowing for wheeled translation of the pusher assembly toward and away from the front stop; a pusher body defined by a front wall having a front face which faces the front stop, said front face being in contact with the retail merchandise, a pair of sides in opposed space relation to each other and transverse to the front wall, an open top, and a bottom, wherein the front wall, side walls, open top, and bottom form a spring chamber; at least one axle connected to the at least one wheel; a spring element being held within the spring chamber, the spring element having a distal end protruding through an aperture in the pusher body, the distal end of the spring element being secured proximate to the front stop, wherein the spring element is increasingly unwound as the pusher assembly is moved away from the front wall, and rewound as the pusher assembly is moved toward the front wall.