Assembly of variable-width gravity-feed beverage-container dispenser array from single-lane components

摘要

In the rack mounting and display of chilled beverage containers, for ready access and withdrawals by retial customers, the gravity-feed forwardly-inclined shelving having multiple parallel lanes for upright presentation of the containers is formed by combinations of laterally-interlocked identical molded-plastic modules. Each elongated narrow module is of a high-strength ribbed construction and exhibits an upstanding narrow guide wall fully along one edge; when several such modules are joined side-by-side, via separable fastening provisions such as those composed of integral pegs depending from along one edge and accommodating recesses disposed in a narrow ledge along the other, the single guide walls cooperate to define the individual lanes or paths along which the containers must slide from back to front. Widths of the shelf assemblies are determined by the numbers of modules which are locked together, thereby allowing for fits within different widths of available space, and for adjustments of displays to offer something other than a standard number of selections.