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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 15, 1988
Filed:
Oct. 16, 1986
William C Jackle, III, Scottsdale, AZ (US);
Richard A Sherwood, Dallas, TX (US);
Frederick M Avery, Phoenix, AZ (US);
James V Seifert, Phoenix, AZ (US);
The Niven Marketing Group, Des Plaines, IL (US);
Abstract
A dispensing unit includes a tray system including front, rear and side walls with partitions dividing the system into a plurality of trays and a support slidably supporting the tray system between a product dispensing position and a product restocking position. Each tray has a slot in its bottom between the front and rear walls with a pusher plate slidably supported in the slot and biased toward the front wall. The support has a stop which moves all of the pusher plates toward the rear wall when the tray system is moved to the restocking position and a latch mechanism holds the tray in the product dispensing position.