Abstract: In an article of furniture, a captive nut base adjustment device is used for height and leveling adjustment. The device comprises a C-shaped retainer for captively holding a nut in contact with a horizontal flange of a base beam attached to the article of furniture. The nut receives a threaded shank of an adjustable foot. The shank extends through aligned holes in the flange and the retainer. The retainer and base beam include a T-shaped plate and an L-shaped slot which cooperate to prevent the nut and retainer from being removed while the nut is in place, and which permit removal of the retainer when the nut is not in place. The furniture can be painted before the nut, retainer and foot are attached, thereby preventing paint from contacting the threads of the nut. After painting, the retainer, nut, and foot are easily attached and adjusted. The retainer and beam are designed with vertical surfaces forming a pocket for receiving the nut and holding it in alignment with holes in the flange and retainer.

Abstract: An adjustable dispenser for holding and dispensing various size cups including the so-called jumbo cup. Radially adjustable retainers within a flanged storage tube frictionally hold the rim of the forwardmost cup against discharging until manually pulled out. Each retainer is locked in a serrated surface within the flange by a thumbscrew.

Abstract: A protective cover for the stepped-down shelf of a step-front cabinet is provided by a transparent plastic cover sheet, a pair of cover sheet supports which engage the cover sheet at its opposite ends, and a pair of forwardly-extending rods fixed to the cabinet. When the supports are slid onto the rods, the cover sheet cannot be removed.The cover sheet can be used in conjunction with a condiment tray situated on the shelf and held in engagement with a vertical panel of the cabinet by means of flanged bushings on the cabinet in engagement with keyhole slots in a rear wall of the tray. The protective cover overlies the rear wall of the tray when the cover is in place, and prevents the keyhole slots from being disengaged from the flanged bushings.

Abstract: An overhead cigarette merchandizing device for checkout counter use comprises a plurality of lowerable wire cages, each mounted on a guide wire in a frame, and each cage having a resilient slide movable vertically along the guide wire. Each cage is held in its uppermost position by engagement of its slide with an enlargement on the guide wire. By exerting a sufficient manual downward force, the cage can be lowered for loading. Front and rear horizontal rods of the frame, and side wires on the frame located near the lower end of each cage prevent the cage from swinging about the point at which its slide engages the enlargement on the guide wire. The frame is supported by engagement of ends of its horizontal rods in end plates, which are secured to an inverted U-shaped cover in such a way that the ends of the rods are hidden in a space between the end plates and the side walls of the cover.

Abstract: A display-type shelving unit comprises stacked, factory-assembled modules, each of which comprises four vertically elongated hinges connected by horizontal connecting elements and unfoldable from an exaggerated rhomboidal condition in which the connecting members are essentially parallel to one another to a condition in which the connecting elements define a rectangle. Shelves may be dropped into frames formed by the connecting elements to hold the modules in a rectangular condition. Hinge pins project upwardly from each hinge, and a corresponding pin-receiving recess is provided at the bottom of each hinge, so that the hinge pins are used to hold the modules in vertical alignment. The hinges have trim retaining tabs which are appropriately spaced, when the shelf module is in the unfolded condition, to engage slots along the edges of vertically elongated trim strips which serve to hide the knuckles of the hinges from view.

Abstract: A cabinet door comprises a sheet metal door panel having a flange extending rearwardly along one vertical edge, and a sheet metal handle of uniform horizontal cross-section extending vertically along the flange and secured thereto. The handle itself forms part of the closure. Because of symmetry, the handle and the door panel can be used in both right and left handed configurations. The handle can be grasped at any location along its height, and is advantageous for cabinets at hard-to-reach locations.

Abstract: In this tubular cup dispenser, resilient cup-engaging fingers are secured to the inner wall of a tubular housing and extend both forwardly toward a front opening and radially inwardly. At the foremost end of each finger is a radially outwardly extending leg. Each leg has a forwardly extending foot which is guided by a radially extending slot in a ring attached to the tubular housing and surrounding the front opening. The inner face of the ring and the legs have interengaging teeth which, when engaged, prevent radial movement of the cup-engaging fingers. Disengagement of the teeth and adjustment of the fingers is accomplished by manipulation of the forwardly extending feet.

Abstract: This kiosk display unit comprises a pedestal consisting of three identical sheet metal panels which are secured together, to form a structure closed upon itself, by interengaging hook tabs and tab-receiving openings in flanges along edges of the panels. Because the panels are identical, to engage second and third panels to opposite edges of a first panel, the second panel must be moved relative to the first panel in one direction and the third panel must be moved relative to the first panel in the opposite direction. To engage the second and third panels with each other, a twisting movement is imparted to the assembly to allow the hook tabs and openings of the second and third tabs to become engaged with each other. Trapezoidal tabs and openings are used to facilitate entry of the tabs into the openings when the structure is twisted.The display unit also comprises a closed display section comprising three panels and three posts.