Abstract: A strip merchandiser of plastic sheet for hanging from the front edge of a display shelf has a cutout defining an upwardly pointing hook to suspend products from the strip. In order to reinforce the hook and enable more than one product to be suspended therefrom, the hook and reinforcement section of the strip below the hook are folded back about the longitudinal center line of the strip. Opposite sides of the reinforcement section are secured together behind the strip.

Abstract: A product information and display tag has a mounting portion particularly designed for use in attaching the tag to a flip lock-type elongate product display hook. The mounting portion of the tag has panels which can be folded into a wedge-like configuration to be trapped between a pivotal hook bracket and an apertured board when mounting prongs on the bracket are inserted through adjacent board apertures. The respective panels forming the wedge are provided with aligned apertures for receipt of the hook prongs and a cut-out is provided at the top of a front panel for accommodating the top shoulder of the hook when attaching the structure to the apertured board.

Abstract: A product information and display tag for presenting product information at the forward end of a horizontal product suspension hook has a mounting portion specifically designed for use with a particular type of hook known as a Snaplock Slat hook which has a plastic bracket at its proximal end for releasably securing the hook on a slatted wall panel. The mounting portion of the tag has an opening through which the bracket is partially inserted in order to secure the tag on the bracket, and the width of the opening is sufficient to preclude the tag from working off the bracket when in use.

Abstract: A merchandise information tag for use with a wire-type rack of a refrigerator or like case in supermarkets and other stores, has attachment elements enabling the tag to be suspended either from longitudinal front-to-back extending rods of the rack or to transverse rods, with the body of the tag still being oriented toward the front of the rack. The tag has suspension elements forward on fold-back tabs which enable the alternative suspension modes dependent on the orientation of the tabs.

Abstract: A label holder particularly for uswe on an elongate broom hook in a store display for providing product information in relation to brooms suspended from the hook is formed from a sheet of plastic material having an elongate strip element which is looped around the hook and secured thereto by self adhesion of a contact adhesive on one surface of the strip. The strip has a flange at one end that extends laterally from the hook and a label attachment with a label panel depends from the flange. The label provides a customer with substantially unobstructed vision of the product information and does not inpede access to brooms on the hook.

Abstract: A product identification tag is made of transparent plastic and takes the form of a planar card from which one or more integrally-formed support portions project. In one embodiment, the support portion is slotted to receive J-hook or peg hook portions so as to be suspended from the hook, whereby an attached pressure-sensitive adhesively backed label is visible. In another embodiment, the support portions are flexible anchor arms which can be folded out of the card plane, each arm including a distal end with wing-like projections that can be flexed to permit insertion of the wings in the peg board holes and unflexed so as to anchor against the back surface of the peg board. The tags are die-cut from plastic sheets, preferably with adjacent tag edges sharing common die-cuts in order to conserve material.

Abstract: A product information display tag structure for presenting product information at the distal end of an elongate product display hook having a proximal end bracket for attaching the hook to a horizontal elongate support bar. The tag has a proximal end mounting portion for securing same to the bar over the bracket and the mounting portion is adaptable to accommodate a variety of such brackets. The tag is made from die-cut plastic sheet material.

Abstract: A mailbag tag made of plastic sheet material is formed to fit on the encircling leather strap of a standard mailbag for providing a stable surface to support a routing bar code for scanning by a bar code reader. The tag has a flexible sidearm which is inserted through the strap hasp to form a hasp lock and the tag is designed to have sufficient strength enabling it to be used as a handle for carrying a filled mailbag.

Abstract: A label holder for a product information label is suspended from a wire rod forming part of a wire basket, wire shelf, or the like containing the product, the label holder having elongate tabs along the upper margin which loop around the rod and attach to the body of the holder. The tabs have adhesive inner surfaces which are pressed into engagement with the rod so as to stabilize the label holder against swaying when traversed by a bar code reader.

Abstract: A label holder of plastic sheet material is particularly adapted for use on wire rod structures having a horizontal wire rod and one or more vertical wire rods depending from the horizontal rod. The label holder has a central label panel and upper and lower attachment portions. Each attachment portion has a tab with a rod-engaging aperture and slit. The upper attachment portion is folded over the top of the horizontal rod and its aperture is engaged with a vertical rod from behind. The aperture of the lower attachment portion is engaged with the vertical rod from the front. The angle of the label panel is set by adjusting the degree of folding between the label panel and the lower attachment portion.

Abstract: Several embodiments of a product identification and display tag for use in connection with a product-suspending hook extending substantially horizontally from a support surface are disclosed. In each case the tag comprises first and second parts. The first part has a mounting portion for attachment to the hook adjacent the support surface, and an elongate portion extending from the mounting portion for overlying the hook. The second part of the tag comprises a display portion for hanging vertically at the forward end of the hook to receive a product information and identification label or the like. The second part of the tag is releasably attached to the first part by male and female connector elements so that when a label is to be replaced, the second part of the tag can be removed and replaced with another second part having a new label, thereby avoiding the need to replace the tag as a whole.

Abstract: A strip merchandiser for suspending apertured products from a product display shelf has a versatile form of mounting portion providing optional forms of attachment for the strip merchandiser to the display shelf. The mounting portion is in the form of a panel which can be flexed so as to secure the panel in a concave price channel on the forward edge of a shelf. Further, the mounting panel is provided with a depressable head which can be used for attaching it in an aperture of a display shelf.

Abstract: Price channel flags for the display of merchandise information are provided with improved features whereby such flags may be adequately retained in price channels which are somewhat wider than the nominal price channel width, and whereby replacement labels may be used in a depending pocket portion of a price channel flag which is adequately supported by the price channel to allow a bar code on a label received therein to be adequately read by a bar code reader.

Abstract: Elongate product information and display tag blanks of plastic sheet material are disclosed having a mounting portion for securing the blank at a proximal end of a horizontally extending support hook, an elongate portion adjacent the mounting portion for extending over the hook to present product information at a distal end thereof, and longitudinal reinforcement, in the form of rows of perforations or lengthwise creases extending at least along the elongate portion of the blank for strengthening it against lengthwise flexure or sagging.

Abstract: A display element is disclosed which can be used for displaying product information forwardly of an apertured product display shelf and which can be used selectively as a price channel flag for securing in a price channel in a supermarket and the like. The element is formed from a blank of plastic sheet having rectangular display and attachment panels with a transverse fold line extending therebetween. The attachment panel has a slit which forms a depressable arrow-shaped head for secruing in an aperture of the shelf adjacent the forward edge. Sections of the attachment panel adjacent the head engage the upper surface of the shelf thereby precluding upward tilting of the element. The display panel is folded down in front of the shelf and can be provided with an information display card or label.

Abstract: A multipurpose display card holder is formed from a rectangular blank of plastic sheet. The blank is divided by three transverse crease lines into four contiguous panels namely a base forming panel at one end of the blank, a first card holder panel adjacent the base forming panel, a bridging panel adjacent the first card holder panel and a second card holder panel adjacent the bridging panel at the other end of the blank. The respective card holder panels are provided with card holder flaps opening toward the bridging panel. The first card holder panel is longer than the second card holder panel and the base forming panel is longer than the bridging panel.

Abstract: A product information tag for use in connection with a ladder rack-type display assembly having a product suspension hook projecting from adjacent an upright rod of a ladder rack, is formed from an elongated blank of sheet plastic which has in-line panels for folding into a depending triangular-shaped wedge at the back end of the tag, cut-outs bridging the bottom and back edges of the wedge for press-fitting the wedge respectively onto a proximal portion of the hook adjacent the rod and onto a portion of the rod adjacent the hook. The two-point press-fit type attachment provides excellent lateral stability to the tag which extends forwardly over the length of the hook to provide product information at its front end.

Abstract: A merchandise information tag for mounting face-to-face against a surface of a perforated board has projections for fitting in respective holes of the perforated board to retain the tag on the board. The projections are slit longitudinally into fingers which are squeezed together in the respective holes so that the projections are held in the holes by friction.

Abstract: An elongate product information and display tag of plastic sheet is disclosed for use in association with a skyhook structure having a vertical limb extending upwardly from a mounting bracket secured to a perforated board and a horizontal limb extending forwardly from a hump-like bend which joins the limbs. The information and display tag has a mounting portion particularly designed for securing the tag on the hook structure at the hump-like bend, an elongate portion for extending over the horizontal limb of the structure and a product information and display portion at the distal end of the elongate portion for displaying product information forwardly of the horizontal limb. The mounting portion has an inboard section with apertures connected by an axial slit which is pressed down over the hump-like bend, and an outboard section which is bent down behind the hump-like bend and into engagement with the vertical limb of the hook structure by means of a further axial slit and aperture in the outboard section.

Abstract: Product information tags formed from plastic sheet are adapted to engage a merchandise support hook between two arms of an angle iron hook support member. In one form of the invention a mounting portion of the sheet is divided into two panels with a transverse fold line therebetween and apertures in the respective panels connected by a longitudinal slit which allows the mounting portion to be pressed down over a part of the hook within the angle-iron support and snapped into place with the respective panels juxtaposed with the limbs of the support. In a second form of the invention the mounting portion of the tag is formed of four panels which fold to provide a triangular-section wedge with similar apertures and longitudinal slit allowing the wedge to be snapped over the hook into the angle iron support.