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Gerald Conway & Company

Fasteners for Retail, Inc.

Gerald A Conway

Daniel J Kump

Danny J Kump

David B Schott

Anthony J Lammers

Kin G Cheng

An apparatus for supporting a sign element on a fixture includes a left side support member and a right side support member with each of the support members being separated from the other and being free standing. Each support member includes a support surface and an engagement surface that is oriented substantially transverse to the support surface. A substantially linear side groove is located along a length of the engagement surface of each of the left and right support members. A left side base and a right side base are provided on which a respective one of the support members is mounted. Preferably the bases each have a projection extending into a recess formed in a housing of the support member for engaging a wall of the housing.

Adjustable sign holders

A merchandise display strip includes an elongated plastic strip having a mounting portion and an article suspending portion. The article suspending portion includes a first panel, a second panel, and fingers on each of the panels for suspending an article from a respective one of the first and second panels. A fold line separates the first and second panels and enables these panels to be folded in relation to each other so that at least two articles can be supported by the article suspending portion, one from each of the two panels. A third panel is provided on the article suspending portion such that it is interposed between the first and second panels and the mounting portion. The mounting portion enables the merchandise display strip to be supported from a pricing channel, a shelf, or a hook. If desired, the first and second panels can be secured to each other by adhesive, by fasteners or by inter-engaging tabs.

Two sided merchandising strip

A foldable display box is made from a blank so that it may be shipped flat and assembled at its point of use. The blank includes a back panel, a bottom panel and a front panel hinged together along two fold lines. A pair of side panels extends from opposite edges of the front panel. The side panels each carry a flange which extends normal to the major plane of the sides and a pair of hook-shaped detent projections face the flange. Openings are formed in the back panel which receive the detent projection. The back panel is thus captured between the flange and the detent projection, holding the display box firmly assembled. An easel panel is formed to fold out of the back and bottom panels to support the display stand on a flat surface. The easel panel is divided into two portions by a hinge or fold line, with one portion forming an upstanding leg and the other portion being connectable to the bottom of the back panel. When in the folded out position the easel panel together with the back panel forms a triangular support to stabilize the assembled display box on a flat surface. The fold line in the easel panel is positioned coincident with the fold line which connects the back panel and bottom panel so that if the easel panel is not used, the box may still be readily assembled. The display box is formed of a rigid injection molded and preferably clear plastic material.

Plastic display box including an easel panel and foldable blank

A cotton basket unloading regulator is provided for transporting cotton from a conventional cotton basket into a trailer or the like. The regulator comprises a rotatable shaft having a plurality of fingers mounted thereon with a motor for rotating the shaft at variable speed. By varying the speed of rotation of the rotating shaft, the cotton being delivered from the cotton basket to the trailer may be regulated and the rotation of the shaft also serves to break up chunks and wads of cotton as well as stopping the discharge of the cotton from the basket. The present invention provides a regulator for regulating the unloading of cotton from a cotton basket into a trailer.

Cotton basket unloading regulator

A literature display box for supporting literature on a horizontal surface includes a center and two end parts which interfit with the center part so that they may be adjusted laterally to provide lateral expansion or contraction of the box. The back and bottom of the center part are provided with guide tracks which interfit with fingers or tines projecting from the end parts. Interengaging stops preclude separation of the parts but include cam surfaces facilitating assembly. The parts include rearwardly extending legs cooperating with the lower front edge of the center part to support the display box inclined somewhat rearwardly on a horizontal surface. The parts are preferably made of durable molded plastic.

Literature display box

A display for point of purchase items or packages includes a panel such as cardboard with one or more vertical rectangular slots with display hooks for supporting such items or packages mounted on the panel in the slots. The display hooks include front and rear rectangular mounting plates interconnected by a short narrow projection. The rear plate is somewhat thinner than the front plate and extends upwardly from the projection at a slight angle toward the front plate but above the front plate and forms a pad which extends generally parallel to the front plate. The lower end of the rear plate is spaced from the top of the projection slightly less than the width of the slot. Both plates are a width slightly less than the height of the slot. In this manner the hook is inserted by turning it on its side and inserting the top of the rear plate through the slot which springs away from the front plate. When the short projection engages the side of the slot the bottom of the rear plate snaps through the slot. The hook is then rotated to its upright position and slid downwardly until the short projection engages the bottom of the slot. Load moments on the hook do not produce any load moments on the edges of the slot which might be concentrated at the corners which would tend to tear the panel.

Display and method of forming

A point of purchase display including a sign and a fastener made of a flat formable strip of clear vinyl or like bendable plastic material with adhesive surface portions on each side which may attach to the sign or to surfaces such as a shelf, wall or a window. The fastener may be bent to form a loop around a wire or rod and the ends attached to either side of a sign, without any surface adhesive connection to the rod or wire. Alternatively, the sign may be supported from such wall or window with the respective end secured to the wall or window and the sign to form a wobbler. For convenience, the strips may be manufactured by scoring a continuous sheet transversely which sheet may be coiled for packaging.

A point of purchase flexible pad holder and display includes a stiff plastic sheet having an upper clear section which may snap into a price channel, be hung on a peg, snapped onto a horizontal wire, locked into the top of the exposed corrugations of cut packing boxes, cases, or the like, and which may be used in toto or in part to position and secure tear-off pads or displays to essentially any surface. The sheet is formed with two symmetrical holes having intersecting slits and fold lines which enable improved versatility and stability in application.

Pad holder and display

A point of purchase flexible pad holder and display includes an upper clear plastic section which may snap into a pricing channel or be suspended from a peg and a lower separable double-sided, front and back, adhesive section with the front of such section being employed to secure a tear-off pad while the back may secure the holder as a whole or separated in a variety of display locations. The connection and structure of the two sections enables stable support of the pad, ease of insertion into the pricing channel, and also ease of clean separation of the two sections. The back may also secure a second pad so that when the first is exhausted the holder need merely be turned around on the pricing channel or peg to present the second pad to the purchaser.

A shelf display clip for mounting display and/or informational literature and material is adapted to be secured to an elongate channel extrusion such as the type which is commonly provided on a stock shelf in a grocery store for retention of computer price cards and numerals. The display clip includes a main clip element having a center body portion and at least two radiating legs, each leg having integrally formed at the outer end thereof a wedge foot and being resiliently deflectable for insertion into a channel defined by opposed parallel lips on the front face of such channel extrusion with the feet being urged by the resilience of the legs into tight engagement with at least one of the lips firmly to hold the display clip to the extrusion. A male fastener element such as a dart or button fastener is receivable with a lock or friction fit in a forwardly opening bore in the center portion and/or an offset portion of the display clip for securing the display and/or informational material or a container for such material to the main clip element either with a perpendicular or flush mount.

Shelf display clip

The invention relates to a lightweight plastic ring clip useful as an inexpensive fastening and holding device and to a method of making such ring clips by injection molding. Each ring clip is molded into a solid shape which presents the appearance of a toroid with a small gap in it resulting from an incomplete revolution of the toroid-generating closed plane curve around the toroid-generating axis of rotation. The two ends of the ring clip, which define the small gap, are each flattened on a single side for a short distance along the ring in the area around and including the tips of the ring clip ends. The two flattened areas are on opposite sides of the ring and lie in planes parallel to each other and approximately normal to the toroid-generating axis of rotation. Projecting from and approximately normal to the flattened area of one of the ring clip ends, is an integrally formed pin which will fit snugly into a hole formed in the flattened area of the other ring clip end. The ring clip may be used to secure such items as drilled or perforated literature to wire baskets for display purposes or the like, by inserting such items into the small gap, inserting one of the ring clip ends through the drilled hole and forming a locked, closed ring by forcing the ring clip ends into an overlapping position and inserting the pin into the hole.

Injection molding resilient ring clip

A poster display and kit therefor provides an inexpensive point-of-sale advertising poster, with stiffening ribs which hold opposite vertical edges of the poster planar thereby preventing rolling or curling. Two telescoping sections with a rubber band stop provide an adjustable vertical pole support for the poster which may be attached thereto with adhesive strip. The pole of the poster display is held in an upright position by securing it to a cardboard, corrugated cut-case, or wire merchandising display using one or more specialized straps which encircle the lower pole section and hold the same to the cardboard merchandise container with an arrowhead tab, gummed plate, or, when the same is attached to a wire merchandising display or stand, by looping the strap around both the pole and a wire element of the display. The poster display kit, when disassembled into its component parts, may be packed for storage or shipping into the larger of the telescoping pole sections.

Display and kit therefor

Shown is a one-piece clip of resilient plastic material for supporting and dispensing a plurality of advertisement cards. The clip is adapted for use with an upright panel, such as pegboard, provided with a clip-engageable edge, and comprises a pair of downwardly extending legs which are connected by a loop portion pressing the legs against the opposite sides of the upright panel. The rear leg is longer than the front leg having a forwardly extending protrusion spaced from the free end of the front leg adapted to pierce the panel rear side. A projection in the shape of an arrow extends from the front leg arranged to hold and dispense said cards.

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Cleveland, OH, United States of America

Gerald A Conway