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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:
Nov. 03, 1992
Filed:
Feb. 21, 1991
Applicant:
Inventor:
Arthur L Torrence, Newtown, CT (US);
Assignee:
Mechtronics Corporation, Stamford, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
2989522 ; 29418 ; 29434 ;
Abstract
The method of making a roller shelf for the display and dispensing of wares which includes molding a plurality of groups of molded parallel axles and rollers as a unit and with a common mold runner, the groups each having the same number of axles, providing a pair of side rails having opposed complementary bearing recesses, the number of the bearing recesses being an integral multiple of the number of axles in the groups, simultaneously inserting the axles of a group into the bearing recesses, fixing the axles in the recesses, and breaking off the runner. The roller shelf can have spaced rollers or interleaved and overlapping rollers.