Abstract: A cooler for cooling individual beverage containers and the liquid therein using ice has a pedestal fastened to a coaster base. The pedestal has a truncated bell shape and is wider at its top than at its bottom The top portion of the pedestal contains a tub. A dome shaped lid is attached to the top portion of the pedestal. When the lid is closed, the lid covers the tub.

Abstract: A pusher apparatus pushes articles on a shelf in a display case forward when the front article is removed. The pusher apparatus has a partition panel dividing the shelf into first and second segments. The partition panel has front and rear end portions, first and second top rails, and first and second bottom rails. A first pusher panel has a top channel riding on the first top rail and a bottom channel riding on the first bottom rail, and a second pusher panel has a top channel riding on the second top rail and a bottom channel riding on the second bottom rail. A first coil spring has one end portion fastened to the front end portion of the partition panel and has the other end portion in contact with the first pusher panel. The first spring coils to move the first pusher panel from the rear end portion of the partition panel toward the front end portion of the partition panel.

Abstract: A display rack for holding bottles by the neck has stackable units with keyways for holding the bottles. Each unit has a vertically extending central hub with a horizontally extending flange attached thereto. A downwardly extending skirt is attached to the flange. The keyways are formed in the skirt alone or in the flange and skirt. An upper portion of each hub has a smaller dimension than a lower portion of the hub so that one unit may be stacked on top of another unit to accommodate a desired number of bottles.

Abstract: A rack for flanged articles comprises a pair of front and rear opposed parallel transverse support members, and a pair of longitudinal members extending between the front and rear support members. Each of longitudinal member is formed of a wire strip and comprises a straight portion and an upturned forward end portion. The straight portions of the longitudinal members extend forward from the rear support member to positions below the front support member. The straight portions are disposed to form a pair of spaced parallel rails for receiving therebetween a row of articles such that the articles are slidably engaged at the undersides of their flanges with the rails, and thereby the articles are suspended by their flanges for movement along the rails. The upturned forward end portions of the longitudinal members extend upward to the front support member and secured to the same to form a brace for interconnecting the rails and the front support member.

Abstract: The merchandising device includes an elongate track that defines a pathway extending therealong to support a row of articles, an arrangement for feeding the articles toward the front end of the track as leading articles in the row are successively removed one by one from the pathway, a stopper provided at the front end of the track, an attraction device for performing an attention-attracting activity, and a sensor for detecting movement of the articles in the row. The articles when supported by the track are movable along the pathway and are removable therefrom via the front end of the pathway. The stopper engages the leading articles so that all the articles in the row are prevented from being accidentally removed via the front end of the track. Due to the stopper, the leading articles are stopped and presented for removal from the pathway when arriving at the front end of the track.

Abstract: In a transportable display module for a plurality of containers, a base member supports a first layer of containers, and a plurality of layers each comprising a tier sheet alternate with a plurality of layers of containers. The tier sheets are identical, with a circumferential skirt surrounding each tier sheet. The top surface of each tier sheet includes an array of container bottom receiving recesses. The bottom surface includes an array of container top receiving recesses disposed concentric with the bottom receiving recesses. Each tier sheet has about its circumferential skirt an outwardly extending flange, and the module is surrounded by plastic film. The base member is a single piece including an upper portion having an additional one of the tier sheets, with a lower portion affixed thereto and including a plurality of supporting legs. Overlay sheets provide for loading other forms of containers, and a cap sheet enabling stacking of multiple modules is disclosed.

Abstract: A refrigerant charging tool for use with conventional size freon cans, the tool being a hand-held implement adapted to nest about a can in a socket with extending lever arms normally spaced apart and adapted by squeezing to be biased toward one another to cause a piercing element to pierce the can and wherein the piercing element includes a valve to control flow from the can.

Abstract: A display stand having a base and a back extending upwardly from the base together with a plurality of vertically spaced shelves secured to the back of the stand is attached along one side thereof to a wing unit having a wing base and a wing back extending upwardly from the base together with a divider wall extending upwardly from the wing base and disposed immediately adjacent the display stand together with a header unit overlying the display stand and the wing unit and including an outer generally U-shaped peripheral structure the prongs of which are secured to upper parts of the back and of the wing back which are remote from each other, the header unit including a generally horizontal translucent structure supported by the peripheral structure and parts of the peripheral structure being translucent and other parts constituting sign boards.

Abstract: A manually operable valve apparatus capable of temporary attachment at one end directly to a refrigeration apparatus which is to be charged with a pressurized refrigerant, such as from a portable source of refrigerant, the present valve apparatus can be attached at its opposite end to a hose or the like to communicate with a pressurized source of refrigerant. The valve comprises an internal spring-loaded valving element having pins at each end which each contact a needle element at opposite ends of said valving element. One of the needle elements is directly biased by a cam twisted by finger manipulation against one of the pins of the valving element to displace against spring pressure the other pin, thereby displacing the other needle element to allow pressurized refrigerant to flow from the refrigerant source through the valve apparatus.

Abstract: A system is first established by connecting apparatus which implements system operations to a digital computer system using an interface system. Machine readable definitions of the system operating configuration are then prepared and fed into the computer system. Included among these definitions are definitions which define designators or names for a number of the system logical variables. These definitions may also include alarm information pertaining to the variables to which they relate and a message which is to be printed out when the related variable enters an alarm state. As each of these definitions is fed into the system, alarm checking of the related variable is immediately commenced. In addition, any system job definition fed into the system at a later time may refer to the variable by designator only, and linkages to the variable are automatically established.