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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 11, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2018
Trion Industries, Inc, Wilkes-Barre, PA (US);
Joseph F. Kologe, Scranton, PA (US);
Marc D. Huntington, Berwick, PA (US);
Trion Industries, Inc., Wilkes-Barre, PA (US);
Abstract
A tray for dispensing product containers, particularly yogurt containers, which vary widely in size and shape and frequently are stacked several high. The tray is of adjustable width and of extruded construction. The tray comprises two main components, one forming a bottom part and a high wall, the other forming a bottom part and a low wall. The high wall has a flanged track running lengthwise and the low wall has a T-shaped rail for reception in the flanged track of an adjacent tray. An array of trays are thus connected such that the high wall of one tray serves as a second high wall for an adjacent connected tray while allowing a tray to be pulled forward, supported by its neighbors, for restocking. A pusher and pull strip are provided in which an L-shaped pusher can be reversely oriented and thereby optimized for round or rectangular containers.