ERGONOMIC BOTTLE DISPLAY

摘要

A product display displays bottles each suspended by its neck. The apparatus is usually a rack display with several shelf frames that each has a number of sliding bottle support structures with left and right slide structures spaced laterally so as to define a slot of substantially uniform width over at least a lengthwise portion of the slide structures. That width is such that the necks of the bottles extend upwardly through the slot and a widened portion of the bottle's neck rests on both the slide structures and slides forward and rearward. The left and right slide structures in the lengthwise portion are inclined forwardly and downwardly at a downward angle relative to level that is in a range of 3 to 7 degrees. Friction between the bottles and the slide structures is low enough that the bottles, by virtue of their weight, t, slide forwardly on the slide structures. A lower frame shelf provides a bumper rail that prevents the bottles in the shelf rack above from sliding off the front end of the slide structure. A bridging structure may link adjacent bottle support structures such that bottles are pushed to the rear of one support structure and then proceed slopingly downward on slide tracks in the bridging structure and the next adjacent bottle support structure.

主权项

1. A product display apparatus for displaying a plurality of bottles each having a respective neck with a first width at a first height of the bottle and a wider portion thereabove, said apparatus comprising:
a sliding bottle support structure including left and right slide structures spaced laterally so as to define a slot of substantially uniform width over at least a lengthwise portion of the slide structures, wherein said uniform width is such that the necks of the bottles extend upwardly through the slot and the widened portion rests slidingly on both the slide structures for forward and rearward sliding movement thereon; wherein the left and right slide structures in said lengthwise portion are inclined forwardly and downwardly at a downward angle relative to level that is in a range of 3 to 7 degrees; wherein friction between the bottles and the slide structures is low enough that the bottles by virtue of weight thereof slide forwardly on the slide structures.