Patent ID: 8069994

Claim:
A trackless retail pusher system for biasing retail merchandise forward, the pusher system adapted to mount on a retail support structure, the pusher system comprising: a front wall structure; a pair of walls operably coupled to the front wall structure to define a retail merchandise receptacle; a pusher interposed between the pair of walls, the pusher movable toward and away from the front wall structure, wherein a spring acts upon the pusher to bias it forward toward the front wall structure; wherein the pusher system is free of a central track such that the pusher is configured for direct sliding contact with the retail support structure; further comprising a mounting clip, the mounting clip mounted to the front wall structure, wherein the spring is connected between the pusher and the mounting clip such that the pusher does not contact the mounting clip or the front wall structure when retail merchandise is interposed between the front wall structure and the pusher; wherein the spring is a coil spring having a coiled portion carried by the pusher with a free end of the coil spring extending from the pusher and connected to the mounting clip, the coil spring uncoiling from the pusher as the pusher is moved away from the front wall structure to form an uncoiled portion of the coil spring; and wherein the mounting clip includes a front end having a pressure rib, and a back end, wherein the free end of the spring is connected to the mounting clip between the pressure rib and the back end, the spring extending over the back end.