Abstract: A dispenser to accommodate, store and display cup lids and straws. A base plate and a cabinet plate form the bottom and side surfaces of the dispenser. Support brackets are adjustably fastened to the base plate, and are shaped to impart to the dispenser a face-up attitude so that the cup lids and straws contained in the dispenser rest against the back restraining surface. Divider sections are fastened to one or more spaced openings in the base plate to separate stacks of lids, and may be easily and quickly repositioned to accommodate changes in sizes and assortments of lids. A straw compartment section may also be fastened to the base plate for orderly storage of straws.

Abstract: A display stand having two pair of uprights with each upright having an inwardly facing flat face portion. Horizontal beams connect each pair of uprights with each beam having an upstanding tab extending from near each end thereof defining a space between the tab and the adjacent flat face of the associated upright. A display shelf has integral mounting means extending perpendicularly from the shelf in registry with each upright and having an arcuate lip portion adjacent each upright with a slot therein. There is a slot in the shelf in vertical alignment with each slot in the mounting means, and each slot is sized snugly to receive the associated upstanding tab on said horizontal beams. Also disclosed is an extension shelf slideable with respect to the main shelf with detent latching means preventing disengagement of the shelf extension.

Abstract: A work table having a table top with a uniform planar upper surface, truncated corners and a frame on the underside thereof. Depending from the frame are corner collar members with a respective tapered bore therein. The table top is supported by corner support posts each of which include recesses at least adjacent to the respective upper ends thereof. A pair of matingly engaging sleeve sections clamp around each support post. The sleeve sections, when joined, provide a corresponding tapered exterior surface. A protusion, internally of the sleeve sections, locks into an associated recess on the support posts. The corner collar members receive the respective pairs of sleeve sections and urge them into secure clamping engagement of the support posts. The work table can include a frame support therebelow or an adjustable shelving therebelow.

Abstract: An adjustable shelf unit for use in a storage rack and having at least two shelf panels supported on laterally spaced forwardly extending support members. Each panel is slidable over the panel behind it and each panel but the front panel has a indentation across its forward edge the depth of which is equal to the thickness of a transversely extending lip on the rear of the panel in front of it. The side flanges of the panels have tabs which engage one another when the panels are extended to limit the forward travel of the panels. Also disclosed is a cable which is looped around sheaves fixed to the support members. The cable is fixed to each side of the front panel so as to maintain proper alignment of the panels.

Abstract: A corrugated paper merchandising display device for use at the end of a store aisle for displaying large quantities of merchandise. The device comprises three interconnected panels, each of which is in the form of a closed corrugated paper box. The boxes may be opened and overlaid one upon the other for shipment in a flat knock-down condition. When erected, the three boxes form a pair of wing panels and a center panel. Merchandise supporting spring-away shelves are attached to opposite sides of the center panel.

Abstract: An article supporting rack particularly adapted for being attached to a door, e.g., the inner side of a closet door. The device includes a plurality of dowel rods which are supported at either end thereof by being received in selected ones of numerous holes provided in frame members which are attached to the door. The dowel rods may thusly be installed in various arrangements selectively compatible with various articles intended to be supported by the device in an optimum array for easy and ready access thereof. The dowel rods may be arranged to constrain tall or top-heavy articles as well as slender or bulky articles.

Abstract: The present invention provides a multiple-partitioned shelf unit comprising a rigid open-ended shelf having a four-sided, substantially horizontal floor, a four-sided substantially horizontal ceiling, and means supporting said ceiling above said floor. The supporting means includes two spaced-apart upstanding members defining therebetween the horizontal extent of the shelf open end. The ceiling further includes a downwardly-extending lip. The free end of the lip and floor define therebetween the vertical extent of the shelf open end. The shelf unit further includes a fiberboard shell having an upstanding rear panel hingedly connected to two upstanding side panels. The shell is positioned within the shelf with said rear panel rearward of the shell's open end and the free ends of the side panels each being disposed at opposite ends of shelf open end, each adjacent and inward of one of the upstanding members, and at least a portion of each of the side panels extends behind the lip.

Abstract: A temporary display stand comprising the combination of corner post units and shelf units, all the units being formed from sheet material such as pressed laminated paperboard folded to provide a double ply thickness of material, in which corner portions of each shelf unit are united with respective corner post units by integral connector arms provided by one of the units and secured by retaining sleeves formed by overlapped portions of the other of said units.

Abstract: A gravity feed shelf for use as a component of a display device for primary packages such as bottled soft drinks in retail outlets includes a substantially rigid support frame which is forwardly and downwardly inclined and which includes front and rear support surfaces and an intermediate support surface therebetween, the support surfaces being disposed in an imaginary downwardly and forwardly inclined straight line and with elongated channel shaped chutes of extruded plastic material mounted in downwardly inclined side-by-side relation on the frame so that rows of articles such as bottles may be mounted in each chute whereby removal of the front bottle in a chute allows the remaining bottles to slide downwardly so as to render the bottles more readily accessible at the front of the shelf.

Abstract: A multi-shelf display stand formed from a paperboard tube.

Abstract: A cabinet having a rear wall, two side walls and a frame-shaped front wall to form a box-like structure. All the walls are interconnected by means of special shaping of the adjacent edge portions in order to assemble the cabinet without the use of fastening means, but in a manner to prevent separation of said walls. The cabinet is provided with a top surface which can be readily mounted on the box-like structure without the aid of fastening devices, and also functions as a work surface. The addition of the top part to the cabinet further stabilizes the box-like structure.

Abstract: A cabinet having a rear wall, two side walls and a frame-shaped front wall to form a box-like structure. The adjoining edges of the side walls and rear wall are formed in such a manner that they can be interconnected together without the use of fastening means, and wherein the walls are prevented from separation. The walls are so constructed that the cabinet which is formed allowing outer walls in which the outer surface are in a common plane. The interconnected portions on the interior of the cabinet are so constructed that portions thereof serve as means for receiving shelf supports. A part of the rear wall has an edge which is inwardly bent and adapted to slide in a groove formed by a bent edge portion of one of said side walls.

Abstract: An improved sheet metal shelf is disclosed which may be made without welding, thus allowing prepainted or finished metal sheet to be used. The shelf is a one piece metal shelf having a top panel, side walls and end walls extending down from the sides and ends respectively of the top panel, and co-operating means on the side and end walls for mechanically joining the side and end walls together at the corners of the shelf.

Abstract: A wide variety of lightweight, simple to assemble furniture items are formed from rigid load bearing (normally vertical) members, rigid cross rods (normally horizontal) fastened to the rigid load bearing members and flexible sheet material. The sheet material interconnects at least two rods to form a shelf, ledge, seat or other holder or support. The flexible members have spring-locking engagement with the rod members and a frictional engagement with the load bearing members. These three elements form a rigid unit when fastened together.

Abstract: The knock down corrugated board floor display illustrated in FIG. 2 with shelves and side walls pivotally secured to a rear wall, and side wall attached ropes supporting the shelves in the display erected position. Corner panels on the side walls pivot partially inward upon collapse of the display and the balance of the side walls pivot fully to lie parallel to rear wall, sandwiching the shelves and ropes between side walls and rear wall, the corner panels becoming the sides of the reasonably flat box-like structure into which the display collapses.The display is formed from relatively thin corrugated board panels, which panels are doubled over in creation of side walls and shelves for esthetic and structural purposes, with reinforcement pieces of corrugated board being sandwiched inside the doubled over panels wherever structural reinforcement is desirable.

Abstract: This display stand, of the rack or the revolving-stand type, for sewing-tad spools or like articles, comprises a plurality of superposed shelves or trays each provided with projections adapted to engage the central cavity of a hub of a relatively large spool constituting a support for either a plurality of other, smaller spools on which the product to be displayed is wound, or a plurality of small boxes containing the articles to be displayed, the shelves or trays consisting of resiliently deformable material, said support also comprising projections engageable in the hub cavities of said smaller spools or boxes, the latter being adapted to be removed from said relatively large support-forming spool, and the latter from said shelves or trays, by momentarily altering the shape of said supports or shelves or trays, respectively.

Abstract: Pies within pie pans are received within circular cut-out portions of removable shelves which are supported vertically apart within a pair of side-by-side compartments of a portable pie case. The shelves are formed from relatively thin sheet metal and include stiffening flanges on their sides and rear and bordering the circular cut-out portions. The side flanges are bent down at an angle of about 45.degree. from the general plane of the shelf. These flanges are received within complementary slideway slots formed in the side walls of the compartments. The central front portion of each shelf is cut away to facilitate placement and removal of the pies. The portion of each shelf bordering the circular cut-out extends about the pie an angular distance substantially greater than 180.degree.. The bottom, top, rear and side walls of the pie case are cast monolithically from a structural plastic.A throw-away cardboard front panel closes both compartments.

Abstract: A shelf system having a series of support surfaces which are retained in cooperative, spaced relation by an article constructed from a blank of material which is cut and scored in a predetermined manner so that it may be subsequently folded into the finished product which may be utilized to stabilize an assembly of support columns which in turn are associated with said shelving system.

Abstract: An integrally molded, one-piece, plastic shelf unit which can be mounted directly on a surface either singly, or adjacent similar units, without the need for separate mounting structures such as brackets, and which is nestable for convenient shipment and storage is disclosed. It has a flat horizontal support wall, an integral front wall which extends downwardly from the front edge of the support wall, integral sidewalls which extend downwardly from the side edges of the support wall, and an integral external mounting flange wall which extends outwardly from the rear edges of the support wall and the sidewalls to provide an unobstructed rear opening in which a similar unit may be nested.

Abstract: The invention concerns a shelf comprising a shelf panel and at least one flange consisting of a first portion dependent from the panel and a second portion laid against the inside of the first portion and closely against a marginal portion of the underside of the panel. Advantageously an inwardly projecting hollow bulge is provided at the lower edge of the flange. Holes may be provided in the shelf panel and flange for receiving supporting means for a shelf divider. A shelf assembly may comprise a shelf with flanges at front and back, and a shelf divider mounted upon the shelf by rods which are carried by the divider and engage in holes in the shelf panel and in the front and back flanges respectively.

Abstract: A shelf and divider assembly comprising a rigid shelf unit with a plurality of shelves includes removable and collapsible fiberboard inserts which partition the shelf spaces laterally and vertically and which lock in place behind the corner posts of the shelf unit.A literature storage fiberboard insert is removably installed between rigid shelves by downward and inward folding of end locking segments on horizontal shelf panels to positions wherein the locking segments clear the corner posts of the shelf unit. After the fiberboard insert is in place between shelves, the end locking segments are folded outwardly to their normal positions of use wherein they extend behind the front corner posts.A fiberboard insert having vertical dividers for lateral filing is removably installed between rigid shelves by moving dividers on opposite ends of the insert into locking positions behind the corner posts of the shelf unit after the insert has been placed between rigid shelves.

Abstract: A support for a slab or tray intended to be secured to an upright, such as a metallic leg of a table including at least two trays. The support has the general shape of a triangle of which the top of the corner adjacent to the leg has a suitable profile adapted to mate closely with part of the half-periphery of the leg, while each of the sides adjacent to the profile bears a substantially right-angled flange. The fixing of the support to the leg is effected either by welding or by screwing through a small plate fixed to said support. The invention is particularly apt for the construction of tea trolleys, occasional tables and television stands.

Abstract: A retorting tray for sterilizing material sealed in flexible pouches. The tray comprises a base portion which forms a conduit for circulation of a heating medium therethrough. The base portion has edges extending therefrom terminating in a stackable feature whereby one tray can stack on the other. The base also has protuberances therefrom for spacing apart the flexible pouches in a substantially unmovable manner to control the maximum cross-section of the pouch and for providing a space for circulation of a heating medium about the flexible pouches to sterilize the contents.