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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 28, 1982
Filed:
Mar. 11, 1980
Applicant:
Inventor:
William B Taylor, Chamblee, GA (US);
Assignee:
Leggett & Platt, Incorporated, Carthage, MO (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A47F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
211 / ; 211 43 ;
Abstract
A display device for feeding a column of objects forwardly on a shelf as the forwardmost objects are removed. The device comprises a bracket adapted to be secured to the front of the shelf and a flexible belt wrapped around a roller rotatably mounted within the bracket. Preferably, a low friction surface tape is secured to the top surface of the shelf over which the belt is movable. The device contains a torsion spring for maintaining a forward feed bias on the belt and a mechanism for adjusting the tension on the spring so as to vary that spring bias to enable the device to forward feed differing size and weight objects.