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Gravity feed combined display and storage unit

US4310097A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateAug 5, 1980
Grant dateJan 12, 1982
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Expiry dateAug 5, 2000

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
  • CPC primaryA47F7/285
  • WIPO fieldFurniture, games
  • WIPO sectorOther fields

Abstract

A gravity feed combined display and storage unit for use in a professional salon type environment. The unit is divided into a plurality of compartments separated by a series of bottle supports, T-shaped in configuration, which includes an upright divider member and outwardly depending shoulders. The supports slope dowwardly from the back to the front of the unit where they abut a plurality of bottle stops. The sides of the shoulders are spaced apart a sufficient distance, to support a bottle by the underside of its angle and neck feed, the bottle supports being positioned at a sufficient height so that the bottles hang free and clear from any base surface. The shoulders terminate a sufficient distance from the back wall to that bottles may be placed in the rear, the shoulders supporting a number of bottles. The bottle stops terminate just below the shoulders and the bottle neck, exposing the entire front panel. The edge of adjacent stops form a channel whose width is less than the diameter of the bottle neck, with intermediate setbacks, then forming a channel whose width is greater than the width of the neck and the cap. The distance from the bottom of the stop to the setback is su…

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