A - Human Necessities – 47 – F
Patent
A - Human Necessities
47
F
211/30
A47F 5/00 (2006.01) A47F 1/12 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 1059068
DISPLAY RACK WITH IMPROVED SHELF ASSEMBLY Abstract of the Disclosure A display rack with an improved shelf assembly that gravity feeds a column of containers one after another to the front edge of a shelf as that column's lead containers are successively removed by customers. The shelf assembly includes a conveyor belt oriented so that its travel path is generally perpendicular to the shelf's front edge, the belt being adapted to receive a plurality of containers, e.g., bottles or cans, in a vertical or stand-up fashion thereon. The inside surface of the belt rides over a support floor and has a low coefficient of friction, and the outside surface of the belt on which the containers rest has a high coefficient of friction, relative one to the other. When the lead container on the belt at the front edge of the shelf is removed, and because of the low friction coefficient on the belt's inside surface, gravity on the remaining containers causes the belt to slide or move forwardly over the stationary support floor, thereby moving all remaining containers in that column forwardly on the shelf until the next forward container abuts a bumper at the shelf's front edge. But the containers on the belt do not move relative to the belt as the belt moves or as it stops because of the high friction coefficient on the belt's outside surface, thereby preventing the containers from impacting against one another as the column moves forward after a customer removes the lead container thereon.
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