US2286785A - Display cabinet - Google Patents

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June 16, 1942.

- G. A. CARLSON DISPLAY CABINET Filed Aug. 17, 1939 fiverzfar' Patented June 16, 1942 UNITED STATES DISPLAY CABINET Gustav A. Carlson, Chicago, 111., assignor to The Boye Needle Company, Chicago, 111., a corporation of Illinois Application August 17, 1939, Serial No. 290,690 2 Claims. (01. 206-72) This invention relates to a display cabinet. It is useful for the display of articles of. various types and particularly for articles supported within boxes or packages.

An object of the invention is to provide a case of open construction adapted to support boxed merchandise, etc. in display positions While permitting the passage of light through the cabinet with respect to any portions not filled with merchandise. A further object is to provide a cabinet provided with a minimum of supporting ledges or surfaces and which collect substantially no dust while at the same time being adapted to be supported upon a fiat surface such as the glass top of a shop cabinet. Other specific objects and advantages will appear as the specification proceeds.

The invention is illustrated in a preferred embodiment, by the accompanying drawing, in Which Figure 1 is a plan view of the cabinet shown partially filled with merchandise boxes; and

Figure 2, a longitudinal section view, the section being taken as indicated at line 2 of Figure 1.

The cabinet has two long sides ID, a back end wall H and a front end wall l2. There is no bottom or top. Any suitable number of longitudinal partition walls may be used. In the illustration given, there are three partition walls 13.

The forward ends of the side walls ID are cut away and an inclined front piece [4 is secured across the lower portion of such inclined ends.

In order to secure the packaged goods at an inclination within the open cabinet, I provide inclined rails or cleats along the sides of the walls I0 and partitions l3. The cleats are thin and project only slightly into the interior of the compartments formed by walls I0 and partitions l3. The cleats, however, are suflicient to engage the edges of the boxes containing merchandise and thus support the merchandise at an inclination within the cabinet.

In order to space the boxes, I provide cross platform strips I6 which extend transversely of the cabinet and which are inclined upwardly at their forward ends.

For the purpose of illustration, rectangular cardboard boxes I! containing zipper strips 18 are shown supported within the compartments. These long boxes have a width substantially equal to the width of the compartments and their sides are engaged by the narrow ledges or cleats [5. The squared ends of the boxes have their corner portions resting upon the inclined platform I6, as illustrated more clearly in Figure 2, with the result that the boxes assume a position rendering all of them visible to the purchaser and in a position where they may be readily withdrawn.

It will be observed that the case is practically open in those portions not filled with merchandise. The platforms 16, by reason of their inclination, shut off very little light and occupy little space on a horizontal plane, While the cleats l5 extend only slightly beyond the walls l0 and partitions l3. Thus light passes readily through those portions of the cabinet not filled with merchandise and is utilized in the glass merchandise cabinets or cases in the storeupon which the glass cabinet rests. There is little tendency for dust to collect upon the cabinet because of the slight or thin edges exposed and because of the inclination of the supporting surfaces.

In the operation of the device, the packages or boxes I l are inserted according to sizes or other distinctions in the appropriate compartments, the inclined cleats 15 providing one support and the inclined platform [6 providing the other support, Each cleat also serves the purpose of preventing one of the boxes supported in the compartment behind it from tilting too far rearwardly. When it is desired to examine the numbers or other information on the bottom of the boxes contained in an intermediate tier or compartment, it is only necessary to lift the boxes in the compartment ahead of it, thus bringing into view the bottom portions of the boxes in question. The side cleats which support the boxes do not interfere with a full view of the top-most boxes supported in the compartment behind;

The case is extremely light and, by reason of the inclination of its supporting parts, provides little surface for the collection of dust and permits the passage of light through unoccupied portions of the case. It is, thus, especially adapted for resting upon a glass merchandise case.

While in the foregoing description, I have set forth certain details as illustrative of the invention and certain boxes or packages as illustrative of the merchandise adapted to be supported in the cabinet, it will be understood that Wide variation may be made in such details without departing from the spirit of my invention.

I claim:

1. In a display cabinet of the character set forth, a case having rear and side walls and being open at its bottom and top sides, said rear and side walls being of substantially the same height, partition walls spaced from said side walls, aligned pairs of cleats carried by said partition walls and side walls for supporting merchandise boxes at an inclination, and platform strips extending between said cleats and providing supports for the bottom of said boxes, said cleats extending at a rearward inclination from said platforms, said platform strips being inclined forwardly and upwardly.

2. A display cabinet of the class set forth,

comprising: a flat case open at its top and bottom, partition walls extending longitudinally of said case, inclined cleats arranged in pairs and

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