Patents by Inventor Mark T. Beeler

Mark T. Beeler has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 5746328
    Abstract: An apparatus for displaying products at retail on a pegboard having spaced holes includes at least two pegboard connection elements each including a wedge-shaped back plate, upper and lower inward-facing grooves spaced apart a first distance and prongs spaced apart by a distance equal to spacing between holes in the pegboard. Knife brackets have upper and lower outwardly-facing flanges engageable with a corresponding pegboard connection by lateral insertion of the flanges in the grooves to engage the knife brackets with the pegboard connection elements and a plurality of indentations along a direction extending from the pegboard. A tray supported on the knife brackets has a catch shaped to be received in one of the indentations to permit the spacing of the tray from the pegboard to be adjusted to a desired distance. The tray includes front and rear walls having downward-facing ledge elements with one of the ledge elements being resiliently mounted to its respective wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 5, 1998
    Assignee: Decision Point Marketing, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark T. Beeler, Brian H. Welker
  • Patent number: 5596880
    Abstract: A beverage container adapted to hold ice and beverages separate from water formed from melted ice includes a receptacle having an interior cavity for holding ice and beverages; a float having a density less than water adapted to support the ice and beverages and move upwardly within the cavity as the ice melts; a cover mounted on the receptacle by a hinge having three slots including a recess and an opening at a depth in the recess, and a tubesign base having three tabs having distal ends, lobes on the distal ends and lengths from bases of the tabs to their lobes corresponding to the depth, so as to enable removable attachment of the tubesign base to the hinge by insertion of the tabs in the slots, with the lobes locking the tabs into the slots when inserted therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 28, 1997
    Assignee: Decision Point Marketing
    Inventors: Brian H. Welker, Mark T. Beeler, David M. Rogers
  • Patent number: 5353939
    Abstract: An apparatus for displaying packages in a retail environment includes a rack having vertical sidewalls and a bar interconnecting the sidewalls. A tray has protrusions from an underside thereof adapted to engage the bars to support the tray in a first, retracted package displaying position and a second, extended package loading position. A divider insert includes a plurality of parallel upright divider walls and is sized to releasably fit within the tray, thereby forming channels atop the tray. A plurality of product pushers are releasably connected to the tray in the channels. Packages to be displayed may be positioned in the channels for the product pusher to urge them to one end of the tray for retail purchase and the apparatus may be disassembled to arrange a different divider insert and a plurality of pushers differently in the tray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 1992
    Date of Patent: October 11, 1994
    Assignee: Decision Point Marketing, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark T. Beeler, Brian H. Welker
  • Patent number: 5351839
    Abstract: An apparatus for displaying goods in a retail environment includes a frame having sideboards, a rear board and a plurality of upright standards, each standard having a plurality of apertures spaced therealong, and a plurality of supports having knife brackets and crosswise-extending bars. Each support is affixed to two of the standards by insertion of its knife brackets into apertures of the standards and each includes forwardly-extending rails. A plurality of trays each include a plurality of location means across a width of the tray and is supported on the rails of one of the supports. The trays have first and second protrusions from their undersides, the first protrusion adapted to engage the crosswise-extending bar to support the tray in a first, retracted package-displaying position, and the second protrusion adapted to engage the bar to support the tray in a second, extended, package-loading position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 4, 1994
    Assignee: Decision Point Marketing, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark T. Beeler, Brian H. Welker