Elizabeth R Cooper

US Patent:

55953107, Jan 21, 1997

Filed:

Mar 3, 1995

Appl. No.:

8/518741

Inventors:

William S. Spamer - Roswell GA
J. Marshall Suttles - Elberton GA
Elizabeth T. Cooper - Atlanta GA

Assignee:

The Mead Corporation - Dayton OH

International Classification:

A47F 700

US Classification:

211 592

Abstract:

A display device has an article dispenser having front and rear opposite edges and designed to support articles. The dispenser includes a plurality of parallel tracks extending from the front edge of the dispenser toward the rear edge. Each track receives a row of articles for movement along that track. The dispenser also includes a diverting pathway extending substantially transversely of the tracks. The pathway interconnects the rear ends of the tracks and receives articles for movement therealong so that articles are allowed to be transferred from the pathway to each track and vice versa. The dispenser further includes a guide member disposed adjacent to the rear end of one of the tracks. When the articles in the track associated with the guide member are moved backwards along that track, they are brought into contact one after another with the front surface of the guide member and guided laterally along the front surface into the pathway.