Merchandising display

Abstract

A merchandising display system has gravity-feed containers that have a dispensing opening near the bottom in the front wall of the container, in which similar containers are arranged side-by-side and restrained from moving back and forth on the shelf by a cleat that restrains the container. A display bar that displays products such as electrical instruments is supported by pegboard and the products being displayed are dispensed from directly above the displayed product from a hook that extends from the pegboard.

1 . In a merchandising display in which products are dispensed from containers supported on a shelf, the improvement wherein a cleat having an upstanding restraint that extends laterally across the shelf in the width-wise direction of the container is fixed to the shelf and wherein the upstanding restraint is connected to the containers to restrain the containers from depth-wise movement relative to the shelf.  
   
   
       2 . The improvement of  claim 1 , wherein at least one of the containers is taller than it is wide.  
   
   
       3 . The improvement of  claim 2 , wherein at least one of the containers has a dispensing opening in the front wall of the container near the bottom of the container.  
   
   
       4 . The improvement of  claim 3 , wherein at least one of the containers has a re-loading opening near the top of the container.  
   
   
       5 . The improvement of  claim 4 , wherein the re-loading opening is in the front wall of the container.  
   
   
       6 . The improvement of  claim 4 , wherein the re-loading opening is in the top wall of the container.  
   
   
       7 . The improvement of  claim 3 , wherein at least one of the containers has graphics on the front wall pertaining to the product.  
   
   
       8 . The improvement of  claim 7 , wherein multiple such containers are arranged side-by-side and the arrangement of graphics from one container to the next is uniform.  
   
   
       9 . The improvement of  claim 1 , wherein the container is made of corrugated paperboard.  
   
   
       10 . The improvement of  claim 1 , wherein the cleat is an angle bracket and the restraint is an upstanding flange of the bracket.  
   
   
       11 . The improvement of  claim 1 , wherein the cleat runs for at least the length of the shelf on which containers of a product family are supported.  
   
   
       12 . The improvement of  claim 1 , wherein the cleat runs for a length substantially equal to the entire length of the shelf.  
   
   
       13 . The improvement of  claim 1 , wherein the cleat permits lateral shifting of the containers along the cleat while restraining depthwise shifting of the containers.  
   
   
       14 . In a merchandising display in which products are displayed and that runs parallel to an aisle in which consumers can walk, the improvement wherein a product display bar runs parallel to the aisle and is supported by being hooked to a pegboard.  
   
   
       15 . The improvement of  claim 14 , wherein products displayed on the display bar are lined up with the same type of product displayed from a hook that extends from the pegboard above the product displayed on the display bar.  
   
   
       16 . The improvement of  claim 14 , wherein the display bar is made of sheet metal.  
   
   
       17 . The improvement of  claim 14 , wherein the display bar displays electrical instruments.