Engaged Apertures Horizontally And Vertically Spaced Patents (Class 248/220.42)
  • Patent number: 11944213
    Abstract: A shelving rack system with a wireframe base and at least one wireframe divider having a rear hook that is received into an aperture on a rear support and a front leg that is received down into an aperture on a front support. The divider is locked into position by first pulling the divider forwards such that the rear hook locks in position and then rotating the divider downwards such that front leg locks into position. Next, a front stop bar is inserted through aligned apertures on a front bracket on the divider, a locking column on one side of the wireframe base and a side support column on an opposite side of the wireframe base. Finally, a fastening pin is inserted down into the locking column to secure the front stop bar into a locked position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: THE ONDRASIK FAMILY TRUST DATED 11/3/1999
    Inventor: V. John Ondrasik, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11767868
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a modular furniture system comprising a modular unit capable of being removably affixed to a furniture member via at least one bracket assembly, the bracket assembly comprising a first bracket disposed on the modular unit and having a first magnetic component and at least one locking means; and a second bracket disposed on the furniture member and having a second magnetic component and a receiving means capable of engaging the at least one locking means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Inventor: Scott Jerome Klingler
  • Patent number: 11708938
    Abstract: A foldable bracket moveable between opened and folded positions. The foldable bracket including first and second bracket arms rotatably coupled to each other, where the second bracket arm includes a second bracket arm slot, a bracket arm linking member rotatably coupled to the first bracket arm and slidably coupled to the second bracket arm, first and second pins slidably disposed in the second bracket arm slot, where the second pin slidably couples the bracket arm linking member to the second bracket arm, a pin connecting member having an aperture and a pin connecting member slot, where the second pin is disposed in the aperture and the first pin is slidably disposed in the pin connecting member slot, and a release lever rotatably coupled to the second bracket arm and adapted to rotate between first and second positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: GEM Products, LLC
    Inventor: Nicholas Vanderlinde
  • Patent number: 11511379
    Abstract: Various embodiments of a storage system for use with weight distribution trailer hitches are disclosed. The storage system would be used by someone with a towing vehicle, a boat or RV, and a trailer hitch to link these two. During the times these items are not in-motion, these weight distribution hitches have large parts and take up a lot of space. Such a customer can put their extra hitch-parts in the storage system, which keeps the weight distribution system nicely stored for example on the trailers beams AKA the trailer's A-frame rails or frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: TRN Industries
    Inventors: Terry Nehring, Daniel Nehring, Tyler Ernst, Jennifer Ernst
  • Patent number: 11413715
    Abstract: Various embodiments of a storage system for use with weight distribution trailer hitches are disclosed. The storage system would be used by someone with a towing vehicle, a boat or RV, and a trailer hitch to link these two. During the times these items are not in-motion, these weight distribution hitches have large parts and take up a lot of space. Such a customer can put their extra hitch-parts in the storage system, which keeps the weight distribution system nicely stored for example on the trailers beams AKA the trailer's A-frame rails or frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: TRN Industries
    Inventors: Terry Nehring, Daniel Nehring, Tyler Ernst, Jennifer Ernst
  • Patent number: 11304545
    Abstract: A perforated board and hanger storage system is provided, the system comprising a perforated board and one or more hangers. The perforated board comprises a board portion, a perimeter rib structure, an interior rib structure, and evenly spaced board through openings. The perimeter and interior rib structures extend from a wall facing surface. Adjacent to the perimeter rib structure are a plurality of tube portions adapted to receive fasteners. The hangers comprise a vertical member, an extension member, an upper peg and a lower peg. The upper peg extends rearward from an upper portion of the vertical member. The lower peg extends frontward and downward from a lower portion of the vertical member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Inventor: Larry Currey
  • Patent number: 10265630
    Abstract: In one example, a panel includes a series of hollow ribs arranged generally parallel to each other, and the hollow ribs define part of a first side of the panel. A flexible web is disposed between each two successive ribs of the plurality of ribs. The panel is made of plastic and is in the form of a unified single-piece structure in which the flexible webs are integral with the plurality of ribs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: LIFETIME PRODUCTS, INC.
    Inventors: Lynn D. VanDyke, Jacob Kearl
  • Patent number: 9157463
    Abstract: A hanging structure includes a main body, two first hooks and a second hook. The main body has an outer surface, and the outer surface has a first end. The two first hooks are disposed on the first end. The second hook is disposed on the first end. The second hook is located between the two first hooks, and the length of the part of each of the two first hooks above the outer surface is longer than the length of the part of the second hook above the outer surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignees: INVENTEC (PUDONG) TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION, INVENTEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yu-Huan Lin, Lin-Wei Chang
  • Publication number: 20150129730
    Abstract: A peg hook staple is used in conjunction with at least one peg hook and a perforated wall board so that the at least one peg hook can be firmly secured to the perforated wall board through a first extremity and a second extremity of the peg hook staple. A handle portion of the peg hook staple allows the users to easily install and remove the peg hook staple. The peg hook staple eliminates lateral, upward, and outward movement of the at least one peg hook as a plurality of indentations of the peg hook staple secures the at least one peg hook to the perforated wall board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Inventor: Thomas Elliott GOLD
  • Patent number: 9022330
    Abstract: An overhead slatwall mounting bracket that has an anchoring surface and a biasing surface. The anchoring surface attaches the mounting bracket to a generally horizontal installation surface. The biasing surface may either define or provide one or more elongate slots. The mounting bracket is capable of securely supporting slatwall accessories that include one or more cantilever tabs. Each cantilever tab of the slatwall accessory may be inserted into one of the one or more elongate slots and thereby mount the slatwall accessory to the mounting bracket. The invention provides a means to suspend, mount or temporarily affix the tabbed slatwall accessory from an overhead or horizontal surface by insertion and subsequent rotation of the one or more cantilever tabs extending from the slatwall accessory into the one or more elongate slots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Inventor: Roland Edward Heersink
  • Patent number: 8776414
    Abstract: A media display assembly comprises a support and a sign holder. The support defines a substantially vertical section, a substantially horizontal section, and a bent transition section extending between the substantially vertical section and the substantially horizontal section. The support is formed in a substantially L-shape. The sign holder includes a first panel and a second panel sized substantially identically to the first panel. The first panel and the second panel are coupled to one another along a closed edge of the sign holder and define a slot therebetween them for receiving a sign. The second panel of the sign holder is coupled to the substantially vertical section of the support on a side of the substantially vertical section opposite the substantially horizontal section. The second panel of the sign holder extends in a plane substantially perpendicular to the substantially horizontal section of the support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Target Brands, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeremy A. Clark, Amy M. Bacskai, Robert G. Logan, David Cheney
  • Patent number: 8596595
    Abstract: A device for displaying an article on a peg-board, including first and second housing portions securable to the front face of the peg-board, a recoil mechanism for a cable, and an adapter plate secured to the cable distal end and securable to an article to be displayed. The housing first portion has L-shaped prongs at its top with a distal end extending upwardly adjacent the peg-board back. The housing second portion has L-shaped prongs at its bottom with a distal end extending downwardly adjacent the peg-board back. The housing portions define a substantially enclosed space adjacent the peg-board front face, and the housing first portion defines a housing front face with an opening through the housing front face to the enclosed space. The recoil mechanism is biased toward retracting the cable into the recoil mechanism and disposed in the base housing enclosed space with the cable extending through the housing front face opening with the cable distal end outside the housing enclosed space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Inventor: John P. DeVito
  • Patent number: 8302339
    Abstract: A display system utilizing a graphics box as a primary component is disclosed. The graphics box greatly increases the flexibility and aesthetic appeal of displayed graphics cards. The ability to mass produce the graphics box, use multiple graphics boxes to deliver displays of different size and information content and, especially, the ability to reuse the graphics boxes, means that costs of the disclosed display system are relatively low and are achievable without a decrease in the aesthetic appeal of the entire display. Structures for supporting the graphics box to further increase the flexibility of the display system are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Inventors: Randy Pender, Van Stry Erik
  • Patent number: 8282058
    Abstract: The present invention relates to mounting devices, and in particular to a mount for mounting a device or other object on a suitable support structure such as a slatwall. In one embodiment, the mount comprises a support structure interface engageable with a support structure, the support structure interface comprising a base having a first side and a second side opposite the first side, and at least one engagement member extending from the first side for engaging the support structure, and a mounting slot at the second side of the base. The mount further comprises a separate device interface comprising at least one male portion receivable into the mounting slot of the support structure interface and at least one connector portion connectable to a device that is to be mounted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Evans Consoles Corporation
    Inventors: Shannon Lundrigan, Matko Papic
  • Patent number: 8191845
    Abstract: A multi-function hook is provided. The multi-function hook includes a hook unit and a plug unit. The hook unit includes a fixing board and at least one hook body. The fixing board includes a first L-shaped sheet and a second L-shaped fixing sheet having a hole respectively. The fixing board further includes at least one first protruded hook member, and an assembling hole disposed corresponding to the second L-shaped fixing sheet. The hook body is fixed on the front surface of the fixing board. The plug unit is assembled to the assembling hole and is fixed on the fixing board. The plug unit includes a cover and at least one second protruded hook member connecting with the cover. The cover includes a hollow hole disposed corresponding to the second L-shaped fixing sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Clair Home Products Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen Yu
  • Publication number: 20120025044
    Abstract: A mounting structure for a continuity testing unit is provided in which the plurality of continuity testing units can easily be mounted to or removed from a test board without using the bolt or the intricately-shaped pin, and which improves the efficiency of restoring the mounting arrangement of the continuity testing units. The mounting structure for a continuity testing unit includes a plurality of parallely-arranged rails arranged at a frame, a joint block arranged on the respective rails and a plurality of continuity testing units each including a plate portion and a pin portion arranged at the plate portion. The joint block includes a plurality of holes into which the pin portion is fitted in a disengageable manner. The plurality of holes is arranged in two lines. The plate portion is placed on the joint blocks on the two adjacent rails.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2011
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Applicant: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventor: Kozo Kogasumi
  • Publication number: 20120018601
    Abstract: A device for displaying an article on a peg-board, including first and second housing portions securable to the front face of the peg-board, a recoil mechanism for a cable, and an adapter plate secured to the cable distal end and securable to an article to be displayed. The housing first portion has L-shaped prongs at its top with a distal end extending upwardly adjacent the peg-board back. The housing second portion has L-shaped prongs at its bottom with a distal end extending downwardly adjacent the peg-board back. The housing portions define a substantially enclosed space adjacent the peg-board front face, and the housing first portion defines a housing front face with an opening through the housing front face to the enclosed space. The recoil mechanism is biased toward retracting the cable into the recoil mechanism and disposed in the base housing enclosed space with the cable extending through the housing front face opening with the cable distal end outside the housing enclosed space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2011
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Inventor: John P. DeVito
  • Patent number: 8042776
    Abstract: A mounting bracket for supporting an electrical box or other electrical device to a wall stud is adapted to contact an opposing wall to resist movement of the bracket. The bracket includes a front plate and a support plate extending perpendicular to the front plate and having a length to engage the opposing wall. The extension plate is integrally formed with the support plate and can be folded to an outward extended position to increase the effective length of the stabilizing plate to accommodate wall cavities of different depths. The extension plate includes fold lines so that an end portion can be bent to shorten the effective length of the extension plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: Hubbell Incorporated
    Inventor: Steven J. Johnson
  • Patent number: 7992330
    Abstract: A display for printed materials includes a pocket mounting panel having a plurality of indexing holes, which may be arranged in columns and rows, and a plurality of pockets adapted to receive printed materials. The pockets include at least one rearwardly extending pocket engaging clip having a resiliently deformable member that is adapted to be received by an indexing hole. Pockets may be installed in a vertically cascading arrangement and individual pockets may be removed from the pocket mounting panel without removing adjacent installed pockets by manually engaging and deforming the resiliently deformable member(s) of the target pocket through access windows provided in the rear panels of the pockets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: The Sherwin-Williams Company
    Inventors: Mary M. DaRif, Edwin P. Miller
  • Patent number: 7946066
    Abstract: A sign holder holding an end of each of two signs includes a first wall, a second wall spaced from the first wall, and a connecting wall located between the first and second walls and secured thereto. A first sign holding section is defined by first portions of the first and second walls and is located on a first side of the connecting wall. A second sign holding section is defined by second portions of the first and second walls and is located on a second side of the connecting wall. A channel is defined on the second wall for engaging an associated bracket used to mount the sign holder on a support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: Fasteners For Retail, Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen D. Wamsley
  • Patent number: 7871048
    Abstract: A television mounting system includes a wall plate, at least one monitor arm mountable on the wall plate, and a locking element permanently connected with the wall plate and being movable between an unlocked position for enabling dismounting of the at least one monitor arm from the wall plate and a locked position for preventing dismounting of the at least one monitor arm from the wall plate. The locking element may be pivotally attached to the wall plate for pivoting between the unlocked and locked positions. The at least one monitor arm cannot be removed from the wall plate when the locking element is in the locked position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: Bell'O International Corp.
    Inventors: Steven J. Sculler, Michael P. Zambelli, Jimmy An, In-Young Jang
  • Patent number: 7694925
    Abstract: A storage accessory is configured for selective attachment to a wall support member. The storage accessory includes a hanging tab and a locking tab. The locking tab is movable between an unlocked position and a locked position. In the unlocked position, the locking tab is configured not to penetrate a groove in a wall support member and thus to allow removal of the hanging tab from a wall support member. In the locked position, the locking tab is configured to penetrate a groove in a wall support member and thus to prevent removal of the hanging tab from a wall support member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2010
    Assignee: Schulte Corporation
    Inventors: John Kokenge, Jonathan Doench, Bryan Goodpaster
  • Patent number: 7644899
    Abstract: A saw horse comprises a pair of frames each assembled from a plurality of wooden struts joined by metal formings of sheet stock. Fabric hinges join the frames at their upper ends. The metal formings are positioned and closed around the beams with piercings engaging the fabric hinges. Spreader struts are also hinged by a fabric strap that permits the spreader struts to lay in horizontal positions when the frames are pulled into an A-shape, and to be oriented in side-by-side vertical positions when the frames are folded together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2010
    Inventor: Anthony Fasanella
  • Patent number: 7497344
    Abstract: A supporting bracket is designed to connect to a wall-mount rack by inserting hooks provided at a rear end of the bracket into holes provided on a front side of a vertical post of the wall-mount rack. The supporting bracket includes two parallelly spaced side wall portions, on top edges of which retaining slots are formed to enable the support of two shelves at two opposite lateral sides of the bracket. Two rails may be connected to two sides of the bracket for supporting a drawer-type container. A hanger may be connected to a lower side of the bracket to support a crossbar for holding suit hangers. The supporting bracket is therefore a multipurpose and highly efficient supporting member very practical for use on the wall-mount rack for supporting different types of holding members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2009
    Assignee: Protrend Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Henry Chen
  • Patent number: 7481406
    Abstract: A pegboard assembly is secured in a spaced relation against a wall. The pegboard assembly has a plurality of pegboard members, in which a first pegboard member is coupled to a second pegboard member by a connector. The pegboard member has a front side and a rear side, and has a plurality of holes defined therethrough. The rear side has an integral spacer element and is adapted to contact the wall such that the holes are adapted to be spaced from the wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2009
    Assignee: Newell Operating Company
    Inventors: Gerard William Lang, Benjamin M. Harvey, Eric Sugalski, Brian Brigham
  • Patent number: 7441736
    Abstract: A bracket assembly for use with a vertical display having regularly spaced apertures includes a generally planar surface, at least one finger extending rearward from the generally planar surface and adapted to mount the generally planar surface to the display via an aperture, at least one fastener, at least one guide extending forward from the generally planar surface, and a stop. The at least one fastener is configured to extend through the generally planar surface and adapted to engage the display via an aperture to selectively secure the generally planar surface to the display. The stop extends forward from the generally planar surface, wherein the stop and the at least one guide together are adapted to vertically receive and position a standard generally in parallel with the generally planar surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2008
    Assignee: Target Brands, Inc.
    Inventor: Rohland Wiltfang
  • Patent number: 7331473
    Abstract: A cable management assembly, and method related thereto, including a riser panel having an interface portion and a plurality of cable management devices. The interface portion having a plurality of shaped apertures. The cable management devices having attachments that correspond to the shaped apertures to secure the cable management devices to the panel at selected vertical and horizontal locations. The cable management assembly being configured to extend between two adjacent telecommunications racks or to couple to the end of a telecommunications rack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2008
    Assignee: ADC Telecommunications, Inc.
    Inventors: Trevor D. Smith, James J. Solheid, Timothy J. Haataja, Michael J. Wentworth, David E. Rapp, Michael Jay Follingstad, Michael John Shorter
  • Patent number: 7083051
    Abstract: A cable management assembly, and method related thereto, including a riser panel having an interface portion and a plurality of cable management devices. The interface portion having a plurality of shaped apertures. The cable management devices having attachments that correspond to the shaped apertures to secure the cable management devices to the panel at selected vertical and horizontal locations. The cable management assembly being configured to extend between two adjacent telecommunications racks or to couple to the end of a telecommunications rack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2006
    Assignee: ADC Telecommunications, Inc.
    Inventors: Trevor D. Smith, James J. Solheid, Timothy J. Haataja, Michael J. Wentworth, David E. Rapp, Michael Jay Follingstad, Michael John Shorter
  • Patent number: 6737148
    Abstract: A perforated panel having a grid of perforations or holes formed at least partially therethrough for disposing hangers for holding objects thereon and having at least a black color pattern disposed on a surface thereof for camouflaging the perforations and for reducing the appearance of damage and/or stains occurring through use is provided. It is desired to have a base finish formed on the panel and a first color pattern and the black color pattern formed by spattering of paint on the panel, screen printing, or attaching a lamina having the first color pattern and the black color pattern thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2004
    Assignee: Walls Across Texas, Inc.
    Inventor: Philip Ray Smith
  • Publication number: 20040031890
    Abstract: A dual-purpose hanger for mounting an article to a slot wall or to an upright post includes a main body portion defining a first plane, first and second retaining elements spaced from one another extending from a first side of the main body portion and configured for engagement with non-common slots in the upright post, and a transverse flange defining a second plane extending from a second side of the main body portion opposite the first side and configured for engagement with the slot wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2002
    Publication date: February 19, 2004
    Inventor: Nestor T. Haluzak
  • Patent number: 6688567
    Abstract: A label holder or label/sign holder to be secured to a merchandise-supporting shelf devoid of a C-channel on its depending front lip. An adaptor element is secured to the supporting surface of the shelf as by push pins and has a forwardly extending portion defining a hook member engageable in a lip member defined at the upper edge of the body panel of the label holder without interfering with movement of a transparent cover member on the label holder to insert or remove labels from a pocket defined therebetween. Various embodiments of rearwardly extending flanges on the back of the body panel are adapted to secure the lower portions of the label holder to or around a rearwardly extending flange on the bottom of the shelf lip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2004
    Assignee: Fast Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Jacob Fast, Michael G. Lowry, Robert Fast
  • Patent number: 6622979
    Abstract: A locking hook assembly is provided for securely displaying merchandise on a vertical support. The locking hook assembly generally comprises a mounting bracket structured for connection to the vertical support. A hook of generally circular cross-section has an inner end fixed to the mounting bracket and projects outwardly therefrom to an outer end. The hook's outer end has a reduced diameter portion of generally semi-circular cross-section, and the reduced diameter portion includes a notch. To prevent removal of merchandise at the outer end, a lock has a semi-circular opening shaped to receive the reduced diameter portion and selectively engage the notch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2003
    Assignee: Southern Imperial, Inc.
    Inventor: Stanley C. Valiulis
  • Patent number: 6575657
    Abstract: A device for fastening of attachment elements, such as mounting rails, mounting plates, deposit plates and the like on a frame leg of a switchgear cabinet rack, wherein the frame legs are designed symmetrically in relation to their cross-sectional diagonal line and are aligned with the latter with the diagonal line of the rack. On the inside of the frame legs oriented toward the interior of the rack, the frame legs form a fastening receiver with two fastening profile sides which are disposed vertically in respect to each other and extend parallel to the facing outsides of the switchgear cabinet rack. The frame legs form system fastening receivers in the form of square or rectangular openings and fastening bores and make transitions into additional profile sides having corresponding rows of fastening receivers, which extend perpendicular to the facing exteriors of the switchgear cabinet rack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2003
    Assignee: Rittal-Werk Rudolf Loh GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Reuter, Rolf Benner
  • Patent number: 6502706
    Abstract: Peg board merchandise display space expanders increase usable display space by attaching flat panels having holes of the same size and separation as those in peg board to vertical channels with downwardly extending clasps that are inserted into slots in the channels. Misalignment with existing peg board displays may be prevented by support stabilizers that fit into the channel slots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2003
    Assignee: Knight Manufacturing Co., Inc.
    Inventor: Wayne Kent
  • Patent number: 6481678
    Abstract: A modular office system incorporating a housing bracket for retaining wiring running through the office system. The bracket includes a pair of cooperating housing members adapted to be secured to a support member of the furniture. The housing members are joined to form a passageway through which the wires are run. The housing bracket is detachably connected to the support for simple relocation. Hooks on each of the housing members are received in corresponding slots of the support member. The housing members are joined by a fastener to form the wire passageway. A mounting plate secured to the bracket can be used to mount accessories such as power strips within the modular furniture assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2002
    Assignee: The Marvel Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Jonathan Chee Yeen Chong
  • Patent number: 6460393
    Abstract: A method and tool for forming convexities (3, 4) in a plate body (1), which plate body (1) comprises a main face (2) and a plurality of side edges. The plate body (1) is inserted between two tool halves (11, 12), which are brought together and interact to press a first set of convexities (3) in a first direction relative to the main face (2) of the plate body (1) and a second set of convexities (4) in a second, opposite direction relative to the main face (2) of the plate body (1). The convexities (3, 4) are formed along a straight line across the plate body (1) between two of the side edges thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2002
    Inventor: Gunnar Sundhagen
  • Patent number: 6354546
    Abstract: A sign holder assembly for holding signs for displaying prices and other information on merchandise display racks, shelves and peg hooks includes a base, a support member and a holder body for selectively accommodating a sign. The holder body is pivotable in relation to the base via a hinge located in the support member. In one embodiment, the base includes a resilient fastener and, spaced therefrom, a finger which are both secured to the bottom surface of the base. The resilient fastener and the finger engage a wall surface adjacent a respective hole in a display rack or shelf. In another embodiment, the base can be mounted on a peg hook. The holder body can include a bottom wall, a pair of side walls and a top wall which together define a frame-like element. These walls cooperate to form a socket allowing a sign to be selectively secured within the holder body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2002
    Assignee: Fasteners For Retail, Inc.
    Inventor: Paul A. Mueller
  • Patent number: 6336615
    Abstract: Device for mounting a speaker on a display having a back cover and a cabinet mounted on a front of the back cover, including a plurality of bosses formed on an inside surface of the cabinet, vibration attenuation means coupled to the bosses, and holding projections on the speaker fixed to the vibration attenuation means, thereby, attenuating vibration from the speaker by the vibration attenuation means, whereby preventing flickering of an image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2002
    Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc.
    Inventor: Chang Wook Jeon
  • Patent number: 6289618
    Abstract: A multi-component, interchangeable display system is connectable with a support member such as an upright rail or a horizontal shelf. The display system provides for the display of a variety of signs and merchandise items on interchangeable display members which may be pivotally connected or non-pivotally connected to a support bracket. The support bracket includes a planar support member having a plurality of spaced fingers which selectively engage openings in the support member. An upwardly open housing is mounted on the support member. The housing includes a bore. The display member includes a stem which is selectively received in the bore of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2001
    Assignee: Fasteners For Retail, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel J. Kump, Paul A. Mueller, Stephen D. Wamsley
  • Patent number: 6199706
    Abstract: A merchandising display assembly mounted to a vertical support surface, the support surface having a number of spaced apart and apertured receiving portions formed therethrough. At least one horizontally extending member is mounted to and extends from the support surface. The horizontally extending member includes first and second telescoping and elongated portions and axially adjusting means for establishing an overall length between the elongated portions. An elongated display member is secured to an outer end of the second telescoping portion and extends in parallel fashion relative to the vertical support surface at a spaced distance. The axially adjusting means permit the display member to be adjusted to a desired spaced position relative to the vertical support surface and the display member is capable of supporting large volumes of small sized merchandise without obscuring additional merchandise located on the vertical support surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2001
    Inventor: Thomas M. Shea