Patents Assigned to Paul Flum Ideas, Inc.
  • Patent number: 5910162
    Abstract: A product merchandising display device having variable/selectable product capacity adaptable for use in merchandising both chilled and non-chilled products, the present device including a tub member or receptacle having an internal cavity adapted for receiving and holding a quantity of product, and ice if so desired, and a product support floor member positionable at any one of a plurality of different elevated locations within the tub cavity for varying the product holding capacity thereof. A wide variety of constructions for supporting the product support floor member at the various plurality of different elevations within the tub cavity are disclosed herein, the preferred constructions including at least one shoulder portion located adjacent the tub sidewall at each of the respective elevated locations, the shoulder portions being engageable with at least one peripheral edge portion associated with the product support floor member for supporting the floor member at each of the elevated locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 8, 1999
    Assignee: Paul Flum Ideas, Inc.
    Inventors: Keith Harbour, Christopher C. Bidwell
  • Patent number: 5706956
    Abstract: An overhead guide channel stabilizer structure for use in cooperation with existing product merchandising display equipment so as to enable such existing equipment to more readily accommodate the merchandising of taller product containers therefrom, the present stabilizer structure being positionable within such existing equipment in spaced relationship above a product support area located therein and including a plurality of spaced, parallel guide members defining a plurality of guide channels therebetween for receiving and guiding the movement of the upper portions of product containers positioned therebetween and supported on the product support area located therebelow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 13, 1998
    Assignee: Paul Flum Ideas, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan L. Headrick, Keith Harbour
  • Patent number: 5695075
    Abstract: A gravity feed product merchandising display device for suspending a plurality of product containers in parallel rows therefrom, the display device comprising one or more adjacent product channels adaptable for receiving the cap or closure portion associated with a wide variety of product containers when positioned therewithin, each product channel including a pair of rail members for engaging the product containers positioned therebetween whereby the product containers are slidably movable therealong towards the front portion of the device for easy access and removal therefrom, and a stop member positioned adjacent the front portion of each product channel, the stop member including a generally forwardly facing aperture located in communication with each respective product channel, the stop member aperture being sized and shaped to engage the closure portion of the lead product container in each product channel so as to prevent its passage through the aperture when the product container is oriented in its su
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 9, 1997
    Assignee: Paul Flum Ideas, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul L. Flum, Dewalt W. Fowler, Keith Harbour
  • Patent number: 5645182
    Abstract: An adjustable shelf support structure adaptable for use in combination with existing refrigerated display coolers and other types of product merchandising display equipment including first and second members which are engageable with each other such that the first and second members can be moved relative to each other to change the overall width of the support structure, the first and second members further including a mechanism for varying the effective length of the support structure so as to change the overall depth thereof, the first and second members when engaged with each other being capable of both width and depth adjustment to accommodate the varying width and depth dimensions associated with existing product merchandising display equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 8, 1997
    Assignee: Paul Flum Ideas, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald J. Miller, Jr., Keith Harbour
  • Patent number: 5624042
    Abstract: A product support module adaptable for interlocking engagement with substantially similarly constructed modules to form a selectable width composite display assembly for merchandising products therefrom, each product module including a plurality of friction keeper members associated with one side edge portion of the module and a plurality of corresponding keying slots associated with its opposite side edge portion, the keeper members being substantially T-shaped in cross-section and each including a stem portion and an overhanging flange portion, the stem portion associated with at least the front keeper member being outwardly tapered along its entire length from bottom to top such that the mating surface formed between the stem portion and the overhanging flange portion forms an angle with the front wall side portion of the module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 29, 1997
    Assignee: Paul Flum Ideas, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul L. Flum, Dewalt W. Fowler, Donald J. Miller, Jr.
  • Patent number: 5450971
    Abstract: An adjustable shelf support structure adaptable for use in combination with existing refrigerated display coolers and other types of product merchandising display equipment including first and second members which are telescopingly engageable with each other such that the first and second members can be moved relative to each other to change the overall width of the support structure, the first and second members further including a mechanism for varying the effective length of the opposed side portions of the support structure so as to change the overall depth thereof, the first and second members when engaged with each other being capable of both width and depth adjustment to accommodate the varying width and depth dimensions associated with existing product merchandising display equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 19, 1995
    Assignee: Paul Flum Ideas, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew J. Boron, Donald J. Miller, Jr., Keith Harbour
  • Patent number: 5448844
    Abstract: An improved construction for mounting one or more changeable display panels in overlaying relationship to the outer surface of a product merchandising display unit or other supporting structure, the mounting construction including spaced opposed channel members and spaced opposed guide members positioned at predetermined locations on the outer surface of the display unit so as to cooperatively engage at least a portion of the respective top, bottom, and side edge portions of the display panel for holding the same in proper orientation on the display unit, the opposed channel members being constructed and dimensioned to provide additional maneuvering space therewithin so as to enable the opposed top and bottom edge portions of the display panel to be aligned and positioned for insertion therewithin, and at least one of the channel members including a step formed therein to facilitate the maneuvering of the display panel within the channel member preparatory to engaging and capturing both the top and bottom edg
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 1993
    Date of Patent: September 12, 1995
    Assignee: Paul Flum Ideas, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald J. Miller, Jr., Keith Harbour
  • Patent number: 5417333
    Abstract: A gravity feed display unit capable of being both vertically and horizontally arranged to achieve a wide variety of modular gravity feed configurations comprising a plurality of shelf members each having opposed side wall portions and a planar floor portion extending therebetween dividing each shelf member into respective upper and lower portions, a plurality of socket cavities integrally formed with the respective upper and lower portions of each of the shelf members, the shelf socket cavities being positioned at spaced locations adjacent the opposed side wall portions of each respective shelf member and each socket cavity including angularly oriented side wall portions, a plurality of elongated support members each having opposed end portions adapted to be insertably receivable within each of the shelf socket cavities so as to connect adjacent shelf members in spaced apart relationship one above the other, the planar floor portion of each shelf member being angularly oriented relative to a horizontal surfac
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 23, 1995
    Assignee: Paul Flum Ideas, Inc.
    Inventor: Paul L. Flum
  • Patent number: 5351838
    Abstract: A shelf member for displaying and merchandising shelved products therefrom including front, rear and opposed side walls and a floor portion extending therebetween, a plurality of parallel upstanding divider wall portions defining therebetween a plurality of adjacent product channels for receiving and organizing products positioned therewithin in parallel rows, the divider wall portions as well as the shelf side walls being constructed so as to be not only sufficiently tall to provide the necessary lateral support for merchandising taller products within the respective product channels, but, importantly, being also sufficiently flexible and/or resilient so as to enable such taller products to move within the respective product channels without binding, squeezing or otherwise hindering the product flow, particularly in gravity feed applications. The present flexible guide channel divider walls can also be relatively easily retrofitted onto existing prior art shelf members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 4, 1994
    Assignee: Paul Flum Ideas, Inc.
    Inventor: Paul L. Flum
  • Patent number: 5199584
    Abstract: A variable shelf organizer for merchandising products therefrom capable of being assembled to accommodate any shelf width and any product dimension including a substantially flat product supporting floor member having a plurality of channel-like spaces associated therewith for cooperatively receiving any one of a plurality of divider members, each divider member being selectively engageable with the channel-like spaces to form any number of segregated product guide channels for arranging products therebetween, the width of each such product guide channel being selectively adjustable by engaging the respective divider members forming the same with different pairs of the channel-like spaces thereby varying the distance between any two adjacent divider members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 6, 1993
    Assignee: Paul Flum Ideas, Inc.
    Inventors: Dewalt W. Fowler, Robert J. Swain
  • Patent number: D334859
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 1991
    Date of Patent: April 20, 1993
    Assignee: Paul Flum Ideas, Inc.
    Inventor: Ronald A. Homann
  • Patent number: D339270
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 1991
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1993
    Assignee: Paul Flum Ideas, Inc.
    Inventor: Ronald A. Homann
  • Patent number: D354640
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 24, 1995
    Assignee: Paul Flum Ideas, Inc.
    Inventor: Paul L. Flum
  • Patent number: D355793
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 1993
    Date of Patent: February 28, 1995
    Assignee: Paul Flum Ideas, Inc.
    Inventor: Paul L. Flum
  • Patent number: D358955
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 6, 1995
    Assignee: Paul Flum Ideas, Inc.
    Inventor: Dewalt W. Fowler
  • Patent number: D368396
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 2, 1996
    Assignee: Paul Flum Ideas, Inc.
    Inventor: Christopher C. Bidwell
  • Patent number: D406712
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 16, 1999
    Assignee: Paul Flum Ideas, Inc.
    Inventor: Christopher C. Bidwell
  • Patent number: D407928
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 13, 1999
    Assignee: Paul Flum Ideas, Inc.
    Inventor: Christopher C. Bidwell
  • Patent number: D412078
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 20, 1999
    Assignee: Paul Flum Ideas, Inc.
    Inventor: Christopher C. Bidwell
  • Patent number: D413217
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 31, 1999
    Assignee: Paul Flum Ideas, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher C. Bidwell, Jonathan L. Headrick, James P. Brauner