Patents by Inventor Michael N. Vogler

Michael N. Vogler 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: 7566037
    Abstract: A pusher accessory for assembly conventional elongated product display hooks configured at one end for anchorage on a supporting panel or board and supporting in suspended fashion along their length a multiplicity of product items for removal from the opposite free end of said hook. The pusher accessory has a stationary component for attachment in fixed position adjacent the free hook end; a movable component mountable on the hook for free sliding movement there along; and an extensible tension spring affixed at one end to the stationary component and carried at the other end by the movable component. When extended by separation of the movable component and intervening product packages suspended from the hook, the spring applies spring tension force to the movable component and intervening packages and advances the latter as product packages are removed. Preferably, the spring is a flat coil spring carried at the coil end by the movable component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2009
    Inventor: Michael N. Vogler
  • Publication number: 20080203253
    Abstract: The invention relates to a pusher accessory that can be assembled with conventional elongated product display hooks configured at one end for anchorage on a supporting panel or board and supporting in suspended fashion along their length a multiplicity of product items for removal from the opposite free end of said hook by a customer. The pusher accessory has a stationary component adapted to be attached in fixed position adjacent the free end of said hook; a movable component mountable on the hook at a point spaced from the stationary component for free sliding movement back and forth along the hook length; and tension spring affixed at one end to the stationary component and carried at the other end by the movable component. When the spring is extended by the separation of the movable component along the hook from the stationary component by intervening product packages suspended from the hook, the spring applies spring tension force to the movable component and intervening packages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2007
    Publication date: August 28, 2008
    Inventor: Michael N. Vogler
  • Patent number: 7155852
    Abstract: A holder for displaying a thin advertising placard on a fixture exhibiting merchandise for sale, has an elongated shank shaped at one end for detachable fixation to the fixture, and carrying at the other end a three-dimensional head for holding the placard. The head has at least one, preferably more, substantially linear slot extending across a portion of its periphery and inwardly into its interior for receiving a marginal portion of the placard. Each such slot on its interior is shaped for gripping the placard portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2007
    Inventor: Michael N. Vogler
  • Patent number: 5803276
    Abstract: The present invention is a shelf divider for separating groups of products arranged on display shelves or the like and takes the form of a relatively thin vertical panel or partition which is self-maintained in upstanding condition on the shelf surface by laterally extending stabilizing feet adjacent each end and is preferably molded from tough, durable plastic. The partition is made of two (or more) co-planar sections interconnected in adjacent abutting pairs by at least one telescoping longitudinally extending mating elongated U-shaped tongue and slot connection permitting lengthwise adjustment of the sections to fit different shelving widths. The tongue and slot are held against lateral disengagement by shaping their proximate upper and lower edges as V-shaped (in cross-section) protrusions and grooves which mate together while permitting relative longitudinal movement of the sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 8, 1998
    Inventor: Michael N. Vogler
  • Patent number: 5625969
    Abstract: A display stand for display placards includes a support base formed of a preferably flat bottom wall, upstanding opposite side walls, and an interior partition wall defining between them two generally upwardly opening channels separated by the partition wall, and a cooperating pair of resilient transparent normally flat plastic sheets having their respective lower margins engaged in the channels with most of the remainder of their area in face-to-face planar contact for receiving the placard sandwiched therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 6, 1997
    Inventor: Michael N. Vogler
  • Patent number: 5442873
    Abstract: A unitary injection-molded plastic holder frame for displaying an advertising placard or the like has four frame sides connected at their ends into a rectangle, a contiguous trio of the sides having generally coplanar mutually directed shallow channels therein for receiving the side margins along three sides of the placard with the remaining frame side being slotted along its length to separate that side into two parallel frame strip. The slot is in coplanar relation to said shallow channels and communicates at its ends with the corresponding ends of the channels in two opposite frame sides whereby the placard can be inserted via the slot into the frame with the margins of its three sides protruding into said channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 22, 1995
    Inventor: Michael N. Vogler