Patent ID: 8365928

Claim:
A cap for a face of a gondola standard, said face having a plurality of vertically spaced holes for selective receipt of at least one bracket to form a support for a horizontally-spaced set of shelving, the cap comprising: a substantially planar piece of molded material substantially corresponding in width dimension to a face of a gondola standard and having a plurality of vertically-spaced knock-out tabs corresponding in size and spacing to vertically spaced holes of said face of the gondola standard to allow connection of one or more horizontal shelves to the gondola standard through said knock-out tabs of said cap, and having at least one gondola securing mechanism secured to a rear of said molded material for capturing and securing said cap to said face of the gondola standard by having said mechanism frictionally held within at least one of said vertically spaced holes, wherein said gondola securing mechanism comprises a pair of rearwardly extending and opposed flanges and curved wall fingers extending towards one another which cam said mechanism into said at least one of said vertically spaced holes when said cap is pushed onto said face of said gondola standard until said opposed flanges are located between opposed walls of said at least one of said vertically spaced holes of said gondola standard into which said mechanism is pushed and the rear of said planar piece of molded material is substantially flush with the face of said gondola standard.