Patents Assigned to RHC/Spacemaster
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Patent number: 6302279Abstract: An in-store product display area gondola array for positioning between a pair of parallel aisles and an end aisle and arranged for rear loading. An end cap rack is moveable away from a row of two or more fixed racks into the end aisle to provide loading access of the end cap rack from the rear. The fixed racks are disposed between the parallel aisles, face one of the parallel aisles and mount a row of two or more moveable racks facing the other of the parallel aisles. A pocket adjacent the end cap is aligned with the row of moveable racks to receive one of the moveable racks to provide access to the rear surface of a fixed rack for rear loading thereof.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 1998Date of Patent: October 16, 2001Assignee: RHC/SpacemasterInventor: Claude J. Robolin
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Patent number: 5947303Abstract: A consumer display and dispensing rack having a front and a back, and a container rail inclined downwardly and forwardly from the back to the front for supporting a series of bottles thereon is disclosed. The rail provides a spaced apart pair of support flanges for supporting a series of bottles adjacent their tops. Adjacent the front end of the rail, a control lever is pivotally mounted to intercept and engage the tops of bottles supported on the support flanges as they reach the front end of the rail to control removal of bottles from the rail and to control movement of succeeding bottles as they slide along the support flanges.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 1998Date of Patent: September 7, 1999Assignee: RHC/ Spacemaster CorporationInventor: Claude J. Robolin
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Patent number: 5845788Abstract: A bicycle storage and display system having a frame, a first chain mounted on a first side, and a second chain mounted on a second side of the frame. A plurality of sprockets rotatably support the first and second drive chains. The sprockets are arrayed to support the drive chains for concurrent movement in parallel vertical planes. A plurality of elongated, horizontally positioned support bars having first and second ends supported, respectively, on the first and second drive chains, support a plurality of horizontally spaced bicycles thereon. A plurality of two point bicycle hangers are suspended from the support bars, means on each of the hangers releasably engage each bicycle at two points thereon to secure and suspend the bicycles in a generally horizontal orientation for storage and display and for releasing the bicycles for ready removal therefrom.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 1997Date of Patent: December 8, 1998Assignee: RHC/Spacemaster CorporationInventor: Claude J. Robolin
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Patent number: 5370248Abstract: A garment rack having a pedestal base and parallel posts extending upwardly therefrom. Each post telescopically receives an extender which mounts a garment support at its upper end. A cap receives and houses the upper ends of the posts. The bases of the extenders provide guides for stabilizing them in the posts against wobble relative to the posts.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 1992Date of Patent: December 6, 1994Assignee: RHC/Spacemaster CorporationInventor: Claude J. Robolin
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Patent number: 5336097Abstract: An electrical power distribution system is provided with an elongate track and a plurality of power tap assemblies that are engageable with the track. The power tap assemblies may be moved to any desired location along the track. Power may be fed into the track through one of the assemblies and taken out of the track through another of the assemblies. Receptacles may be mounted to one or more of the power tap assemblies. A latch system can hold the power tap assemblies in (1) a fully inserted, electrically engaging orientation and (2) an electrically disconnected orientation wherein the components are still supported on the track. The components employ spring terminals which establish electrical contact through a surface-to-surface butt engagement with a conducting member. Mechanical key systems are provided for preventing improper mounting of the components on the track and for preventing the connection of more than one power in-feed to the track.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 1993Date of Patent: August 9, 1994Assignee: RHC/Spacemaster CorporationInventors: Lawrence J. Williamson, Jr., Donald C. Smith, Charles R. Snyder