Patents by Inventor Albert Menz

Albert Menz has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 8056734
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a merchandising system and method that permits access from the front of a column of shelves and along a side of the column of shelves, the shelves in each column extending from the front of the merchandizing system to a back area of the merchandising system. Each shelf can be of any suitable design for supporting products or items. The merchandising system can have at least one flippable column comprising at least one shelf suitable for supporting a single row of items. Various front item stops are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: RTC Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Albert Menz, James McKay Duncan, Stephen Hardy
  • Publication number: 20080129161
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a merchandising system and method that permits access from the front of a column of shelves and along a side of the column of shelves, the shelves in each column extending from the front of the merchandizing system to a back area of the merchandising system. Each shelf can be of any suitable design for supporting products or items. The merchandising system can have at least one flippable column comprising at least one shelf suitable for supporting a single row of items. Various front item stops are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2007
    Publication date: June 5, 2008
    Applicant: RTC Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Albert Menz, James McKay Duncan, Stephen Hardy
  • Patent number: 6962260
    Abstract: An integrally molded display floor for a gravity feed display tray where the floor devoid of integrally molded side walls extending upward therefrom, has front and rear end walls, and a plurality of longitudinal ribs which can receive upward extending partitions which are releasably attachable to the floor and extend longitudinally, thus dividing the display tray into laterally spaced paths. Each display tray has opposite side walls extending downward, and transversely extending beams intersecting the longitudinal ribs. The end walls, side walls, and bottom surfaces of the longitudinal ribs thus establishing a basement where the bottom surfaces of the ribs constitute the ceiling of the basement. This basement is a space suitable for receiving downward extending tabs of the partitions to engage and stabilize such partitions with the display track.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2005
    Assignee: Display Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Richard Jay, Martin L. Illers, Peter Hanretty, Albert Menz
  • Patent number: 6955269
    Abstract: A weight-driven pusher for product on a gravity-fed display shelf includes a weighted frame. A front plate is mounted on the frame and manually adjustable in upper reach relative to the frame to accommodate product of varying height and preclude product from tipping rearwardly over the pusher. A leg assembly is retractably mounted on the frame adjacent the bottom thereof and biased to project rearwardly from the frame to preclude product from tipping the pusher over backwards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2005
    Assignee: Display Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Albert Menz
  • Publication number: 20050077259
    Abstract: A weight-driven pusher for product on a gravity-fed display shelf includes a weighted frame. A front plate is mounted on the frame and manually adjustable in upper reach relative to the frame to accommodate product of varying height and preclude product from tipping rearwardly over the pusher. A leg assembly is retractably mounted on the frame adjacent the bottom thereof and biased to project rearwardly from the frame to preclude product from tipping the pusher over backwards.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2003
    Publication date: April 14, 2005
    Inventor: Albert Menz
  • Publication number: 20030132178
    Abstract: This invention is an integrally molded display floor for a gravity feed display tray where the floor has no integrally molded side walls extending upward but has a plurality of longitudinal ribs which can receive upward extending partitions which are releasably attachable to the floor and extend longitudinally, thus dividing the display tray into laterally spaced compartments. Each display tray has opposite marginal side walls extending downward and transversely extending support beams intersecting the longitudinal ribs. The downward extending side walls extend below the bottom surfaces of the longitudinal ribs thus establishing a basement where the bottom surfaces of the ribs constitute the ceiling of the basement. This basement is a space suitable for receiving downward extending tabs of the partition to engage and stabilize such partition with the display track.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2002
    Publication date: July 17, 2003
    Inventors: Richard Jay, Marty L. Illers, Peter Hanretty, Albert Menz
  • Patent number: 6419100
    Abstract: A display unit has at least two laterally spaced apart pairs of telescoping uprights, each pair including an inner upright and an outer upright covering at least two adjacent sides of the inner upright, and for each pair a cover configured and dimensioned to be removably mounted on a bottom portion of the inner upright exposed when the pair is in an extended orientation such that the cover conceals the exposed bottom portion of the inner upright.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2002
    Assignee: Display Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Albert Menz, Bruce Gommermann
  • Patent number: D450726
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2001
    Assignee: Display Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Albert Menz
  • Patent number: D459738
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2002
    Assignee: Display Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Albert Menz