Patent ID: 7823733

Claim:
An article display tray provided with a movement guide device, comprising: an article display tray including a pair of left-right storage chambers and a rear-end communication portion which communicatively connects rear end portions of said pair of left-right storage chambers to each other, cylindrical articles that are circular in cross section being movable between said pair of left-right storage chambers through said rear-end communication portion; and a base member mounted on said rear-end communication portion, said base member including an arc shaped front portion facing said storage chambers, a rocking member positioned inside said rear-end communication portion of said article display tray and capable of rocking about a rocking shaft extending in a vertical direction, said rocking member having an arc shape surface facing said storage chambers, the rocking shaft extending through said base member and a central portion of said rocking member, said rocking shaft rotatably supporting said rocking member, wherein said rocking member includes a pair of force-applied portions which are positioned at left and right ends of said rocking member on imaginary extension lines of said pair of left-right storage chambers, respectively, and an arraying guide surface positioned between said pair of force-applied portions, wherein, when one of said pair of force-applied portions is pushed rearward by one of said cylindrical articles which is placed in one of said pair of left-right storage chambers, and the other of said pair of force-applied portions pushes another of said cylindrical articles forward which is placed in the other of said pair of left-right storage chambers, and wherein, upon said one of said cylindrical articles pushing said one of said force-applied portions rearward so as to come into engagement with said arraying guide surface, said arraying guide surface returns said rocking member to a neutral position where said pair of left-right storage chambers are aligned in a leftward/rightward direction.