CA2143562A1 - Gravity fed bottle dispensing and display rack - Google Patents
Gravity fed bottle dispensing and display rackInfo
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- A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
- A47F—SPECIAL FURNITURE, FITTINGS, OR ACCESSORIES FOR SHOPS, STOREHOUSES, BARS, RESTAURANTS OR THE LIKE; PAYING COUNTERS
- A47F7/00—Show stands, hangers, or shelves, adapted for particular articles or materials
- A47F7/28—Show stands, hangers, or shelves, adapted for particular articles or materials for containers, e.g. flasks, bottles, tins, milk packs
- A47F7/285—Show stands having fixation means, e.g. hanging means, slidable fixations, frictional retaining means, theft prevention
Abstract
A gravity fed bottle dispensing and display rack is comprised of a support frame having front and rear transverse horizontal rigid members. A straight bottle support channel is interconnected between the transverse horizontal rigid members and inclined downwardly from a rear end thereof to a front open end.
The support channel has a longitudinal slot defined longitudinally thereof in a lower end and extends between opposed support flanges. The support channel has a dispensing front section adjacent the front open end. Attachment brackets are provided for securing the support channel to the front and rear transverse horizontal rigid members. An arresting element is provided to abuttingly engage a forwardmost bottle suspended by a neck thereof by the channel at the dispensing front section to arrest the forwardmost bottle at the front open end of the support channel.
An abutment element is provided in the dispensing front section of the channel at a predetermined location to releasably engage an upper end of the forwardmost bottle.
The support channel has a longitudinal slot defined longitudinally thereof in a lower end and extends between opposed support flanges. The support channel has a dispensing front section adjacent the front open end. Attachment brackets are provided for securing the support channel to the front and rear transverse horizontal rigid members. An arresting element is provided to abuttingly engage a forwardmost bottle suspended by a neck thereof by the channel at the dispensing front section to arrest the forwardmost bottle at the front open end of the support channel.
An abutment element is provided in the dispensing front section of the channel at a predetermined location to releasably engage an upper end of the forwardmost bottle.
Description
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GRAVITY FED BOTTLE DISPENSING AND DISPLAY RACK
TECHNICAL FIELD
The present invention relates to a gravity fed 5 bottle dispensing and display rack wherein the rack and the bottle support ch~nn~l s are displaceably connected to the rame to accommodate bottles of different widths and lengths, and to prevent prolonged storage of bottles within the display rack BACKGROUND ART
Gravity fed bottle dispensing and display racks are well known in the art and examples of such can be found in U.S. patents 1,973,854; 4,318,485 and 4,367,818. These prior art patents illustrate racks wherein bottles are suspended by a collar formed below the bottle cap, or by the bottle cap itself, and gravity fed, due to the ~nrl;ned securement of the support channels, to a front dispensing end of the 20 rack. All of these patents disclose systems wherein the chAnn~lq are fixed at predetorm;necl locations in the rack, and wherein the ~h;~nn~ are equidistantly spaced both in the vertical and horizontal planes.
Accordingly, the racks can accommodate bottles of 25 speci~ic sizes only and longer bottles cannot be used, nor bottles of larger width or circumference. A still further disadvantage of such racks is that, because it is common to load the racks from the front end of the rh;~nnel ~, often a bottle will be pushed back in the 3 0 channel and remain in the rack f or a very long period of time thereby causing the liquid within the bottle, usually a soft drink, to go bad.
~ still further disadvantage of such racks is that the frame is usually welded or otherwise 35 permanently secured in an assembled condition, therefore making it awkward to transport or to relocate, as it cannot be assembled on site. Another ~ 21~3~6~
disadvantage of such racks iB that they have a complex structure and are difficult to construct and assemble.
SUM~ARY OF TNVF NTION
It is a feature of the present invention to provide a gravity fed bottle dispensing and display rack which substantially overcomes the above disadvantages of the prior art and which provides f urther advantages .
According to the above feature, from a broad aspect, the present invention provides a gravity fed bottle dispensing and display rack which comprises a support frame having front and rear transverse horizontal rigid members. A straight bottle support channel is interconnected between the transverse horizontal rigid members and inclined downwardly from a rear end thereof to a front open end. The bottle support channel has a longitudinal slot defined longitudinally thereof in a lower end and which extends between opposed support flanges. The support channel has a dispensing front section adjacent the front open end . Attachment means is provided f or securing the support channel to the f ront and rear transverse horizontal rigid members. Arresting means is provided to abuttingly engage a forwardmost bottle suspended by a neck thereof by the channel at the dispensing front section to arrest the forwardmost bottle at the front open end of the support channel. An abutment element is provlded in the dispensing front section of the channel at a prede~r~ined location to releasably engage an upper end of the forwardmost bottle.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF PRAWINGS
A preferred embodiment of the present invention will now be described with re~erence to the accompanylng drawings in which:
21~3562 FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the gravity fed bottle dispensing and display rack of the present invention and showing bottles retained by the support ~h~nn~l R;
FIG. 2 is a simpli~ied perspective view showing the construction of the rear arcuate channel section which interconnects straight bottle support ~h:lnn~l ~ of a U-shaped channel member;
FIG. 3 is a side view showing the position of a forwardmost bottle held by the support channel and the arresting bar;
FIG. 4 is an exploded view illustrating the construction of the 3upport channel and its support brackets;
FIG 5A is a fragmented perspective view showing a modif ication of the manner in which the support channel is secured to the support frame;
FIG. 5B is a perspective view of a modified arresting tab; and FIG. 6 is an enlarged view of the open end o~
the support channel illustrating the location of the abutment tab3 provided in the support f langes at the front open end of the support channels.
DESCRIPTIO~I OF PREFERRED EI~BO~IrqR~TS
Referring now to the drawings, and more ~pecifically to Fig. 1, there is shown generally at 10 the gravity fed bottle dispensing and display rack of the present invention. The rack compri3es a support frame 11 formed of corner posts 12 interconnected by front and rear transver3e horizontal rigid members 13 and side members 45. One or more straight bottle support ~h;lnn~ 14 are interconnected between the front and rear horizontal members 13 ' and 13", re3pectively, by attachment brackets 15 ' and 15" . A
plurality of bottles 16 i8 retained by their necks 17 in the 3upport ch~nn~ 14 As herein shown, the ~ 2143~62 bottle support rhAnn~l ~ are inclined downwardly towards a front open end 18 thereof whereby the bottles 16 are fed by gravity. A forwardmost one of the bottles, namely bottle 16 ', is arrested in its forwardmost position by an arresting means herein provided by an elongated arresting bar 19 connected at opposed ends 20 thereof to connecting slots 21 provided in the ront wall 12 ' of the corner posts 12.
Referring now additionally to Figs. 2 to 4, there will be described the construction of the bottle support rh;~nn~l A 14. As shown in Figs . 1 and 2, the support channel is formed as a U-shaped channel constituted by a pair of ~traight bottle support channel members 14 ' which are held in side-by-side parallel relationship by a rear arcuate channel section 22, as more clearly shown in Fig. 2. The rear arcuate channel section 22 may be welded or preferably removably connected to a rear end of the straight channel members 14' whereby single straight rhAnn~l~ as well as U-shaped rhAnn~l ~ may be removably connected in the frame. As shown in Fig. 5A, the channel member may also be constituted by single straight channel members 14 ' interconnected between the horizontal members 13, as shown in Fig. 5A.
Each of the channel members 14 ' is provided with a longitudinal slot 23 formed in a lower end thereof and extends between opposed support f langes 24 which are formed by an inwardly turned end section of the slde walls 25 of the channel member 14. The channel member is also formed with an angled dispensing front section 26. A connecting slot 27 is provided in the top wall 28 of the channel member 14 to receive a connecting lip 28 of a front support bracket 29. A
rear support bracket 30 is secured to the rear end of the channel in the same manner whereby its connecting lip 31 is received in the connecting slot 32 provided in the top wall 28 of the channel member 14 adjacent 214~562 the rear end thereof . Additional slots 27 ' and 32 ' are also provided to adapt the ~h~nnPl R to narrow frames .
A flexible U-shaped strip 33 having a low friction surface thereon may also be clamped to the support flanges 24 whereby the bottles 16 can slide freely thereon with very little resistance.
Referring again to Fig. 1, it can be seen that the front horizontal rigid member 13 ' is secured in a horizontal plane which is lower than the rear horizontal rigid member 13". This is so in order that the channel member 14 be sloped downwardly from the rear end thereof to the front dispensing section 26 which lies substantially in a horizontal plane, as shown in Fig. 3. As also shown in Fig. 3, the channel member is sloped at an angle of about 12 whereby the bottles which are positioned within the channel members are fed forwardly towards the dispensing front section 26 by gravity. However, depending on the weight and types of bottles used, different angulations may be preferred. In order to load the channel members with bottles 16, the bottles are inserted from the front open end 18 of one of the straight channel sections 14 ' until no f urther bottle can be added in the channel .
As shown in Fig. 2, when the bottles are pushed in one of the straight channel sections 14 ' of a U-shaped channel member, they will move into the other straight channel section through the rear arcuate channel section 22 This arrangement provides for the rear bottle, herein bottle 16", to move into the adjacent channel so that the rear bottle 16" does not remain suspended within the channel member f or a long period of time. It is important to recycle the bottles within the rack, and this is achieved by the rear arcuate channel section. The person loading these channel 3 5 members would be instructed to load only one of the channel members so that the rear bottles are recycled quickly through other straight channel member.
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As shown in Fig. 6, the front open end 18 of the channel can also be provided wi~h an arresting means, herein in the orm of abutment tab 34, punched out of the flanges 24 to extend within the channel to 5 abut against the collar 35 or cap 36 of the forwardmost bottle 16 ', as shown in Fig . 3 .
It is pointed out that, because the support brackets are connected to the channel members by connecting lips 28, 31 engaged within slots 27, 32 10 formed in the top of the ~.hi~nn~ , this provides a hinge connection whereby the channel members may be hinged at a steeper angle depending on the nature of the bottles to be supported thereby . The f ront and rear support brackets 29 and 30 also have a channel 15 section 37 and 37 ' respectively whereby they are slidingly engaged on the horizontal rigid members 13 ' and 13" respectively, so that the channel member 14 may be displaced laterally within the support rack. This i3 particularly useful when the ~h~nnelc are provided 20 as straight sections, as shown in Fig. 5A, so that different numbers of channel members may be provided in each horizontal stack to hold bottles of different shapes. With the rack of the present invention it is also seen that the spacing between the rows of bottle 25 support /-h;~nnl~l ~ may vary to support bottles of different length. This provides for less loss of space within the rack and also provides the user with a means to structure a rack having more visual appeal to his customers. He can stack small and larger bottles in 30 the same rack and in close spacing.
With the embodiment as shown in Fig. 5A, it can be seen that the rear support bracket 30 ' is connected under the straight channel member 14 ' and the horizontal rigid members 13 ' and 13 " are supported in 35 substantially the same plane. The angulation of the channel member is provided simply by the f act that the rear bracket is located under the channel member and the front one over the channel member. As herein shown, the arresting means is a friction tab 40 (see Fig. 5B) formed of plastics material or any other suitable material, such as a short length of extruded 5 aluminum material, and defines a front wall 41 on which identif ication sticker ( not shown ) can be applied to identiy the bottles thereabove. The front wall has an extenslon lip 42 on which the forwardmost bottle 16 ' abuts (see Fig. 5A) to prevent the bottle from forward 10 movement. It is also possible to use other means than the lips 42 to arrest the forwardmost bottle. For example, a leaf spring 50 ( see Fig . 6 ) may be secured to the sidewalls or top wall of the channel adjacent the open front end to frictionally engage the top end 15 of the bottle. By pulling the bottle the spring would bend to cause the bottle to be removed. It also defines a channel portion 43 which is frictionally retained on the front horizontal rigid member 13 ' and may be displaced therealong to align same in a vertical 20 plane with the front open end 18 o the channel member 14. As herein shown, reinforcing transverse members 45 are also removably securable as the members 13 ,13 ' .
Diagonal braces 46 may also be connected to the corner posts 12 to provide added rigidity to the structure and 25 these may also be soldered.
It i3 within the ambit of the present invention to cover any obvious modif ications of the pref erred ~ ,Q,~iment described herein, provided such modif ications f all within the scope of the appended 30 claims. For example, the channel members may be formed from wire members or metal or plastic channel members.
Similarly, the support brackets may be formed of plastics material as well as the arresting member 19 or 40. It is also conceivable that the entire rack could 35 be formed from structural plastic members, although in thi~ embodiment they are f ormed by steel members .
GRAVITY FED BOTTLE DISPENSING AND DISPLAY RACK
TECHNICAL FIELD
The present invention relates to a gravity fed 5 bottle dispensing and display rack wherein the rack and the bottle support ch~nn~l s are displaceably connected to the rame to accommodate bottles of different widths and lengths, and to prevent prolonged storage of bottles within the display rack BACKGROUND ART
Gravity fed bottle dispensing and display racks are well known in the art and examples of such can be found in U.S. patents 1,973,854; 4,318,485 and 4,367,818. These prior art patents illustrate racks wherein bottles are suspended by a collar formed below the bottle cap, or by the bottle cap itself, and gravity fed, due to the ~nrl;ned securement of the support channels, to a front dispensing end of the 20 rack. All of these patents disclose systems wherein the chAnn~lq are fixed at predetorm;necl locations in the rack, and wherein the ~h;~nn~ are equidistantly spaced both in the vertical and horizontal planes.
Accordingly, the racks can accommodate bottles of 25 speci~ic sizes only and longer bottles cannot be used, nor bottles of larger width or circumference. A still further disadvantage of such racks is that, because it is common to load the racks from the front end of the rh;~nnel ~, often a bottle will be pushed back in the 3 0 channel and remain in the rack f or a very long period of time thereby causing the liquid within the bottle, usually a soft drink, to go bad.
~ still further disadvantage of such racks is that the frame is usually welded or otherwise 35 permanently secured in an assembled condition, therefore making it awkward to transport or to relocate, as it cannot be assembled on site. Another ~ 21~3~6~
disadvantage of such racks iB that they have a complex structure and are difficult to construct and assemble.
SUM~ARY OF TNVF NTION
It is a feature of the present invention to provide a gravity fed bottle dispensing and display rack which substantially overcomes the above disadvantages of the prior art and which provides f urther advantages .
According to the above feature, from a broad aspect, the present invention provides a gravity fed bottle dispensing and display rack which comprises a support frame having front and rear transverse horizontal rigid members. A straight bottle support channel is interconnected between the transverse horizontal rigid members and inclined downwardly from a rear end thereof to a front open end. The bottle support channel has a longitudinal slot defined longitudinally thereof in a lower end and which extends between opposed support flanges. The support channel has a dispensing front section adjacent the front open end . Attachment means is provided f or securing the support channel to the f ront and rear transverse horizontal rigid members. Arresting means is provided to abuttingly engage a forwardmost bottle suspended by a neck thereof by the channel at the dispensing front section to arrest the forwardmost bottle at the front open end of the support channel. An abutment element is provlded in the dispensing front section of the channel at a prede~r~ined location to releasably engage an upper end of the forwardmost bottle.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF PRAWINGS
A preferred embodiment of the present invention will now be described with re~erence to the accompanylng drawings in which:
21~3562 FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the gravity fed bottle dispensing and display rack of the present invention and showing bottles retained by the support ~h~nn~l R;
FIG. 2 is a simpli~ied perspective view showing the construction of the rear arcuate channel section which interconnects straight bottle support ~h:lnn~l ~ of a U-shaped channel member;
FIG. 3 is a side view showing the position of a forwardmost bottle held by the support channel and the arresting bar;
FIG. 4 is an exploded view illustrating the construction of the 3upport channel and its support brackets;
FIG 5A is a fragmented perspective view showing a modif ication of the manner in which the support channel is secured to the support frame;
FIG. 5B is a perspective view of a modified arresting tab; and FIG. 6 is an enlarged view of the open end o~
the support channel illustrating the location of the abutment tab3 provided in the support f langes at the front open end of the support channels.
DESCRIPTIO~I OF PREFERRED EI~BO~IrqR~TS
Referring now to the drawings, and more ~pecifically to Fig. 1, there is shown generally at 10 the gravity fed bottle dispensing and display rack of the present invention. The rack compri3es a support frame 11 formed of corner posts 12 interconnected by front and rear transver3e horizontal rigid members 13 and side members 45. One or more straight bottle support ~h;lnn~ 14 are interconnected between the front and rear horizontal members 13 ' and 13", re3pectively, by attachment brackets 15 ' and 15" . A
plurality of bottles 16 i8 retained by their necks 17 in the 3upport ch~nn~ 14 As herein shown, the ~ 2143~62 bottle support rhAnn~l ~ are inclined downwardly towards a front open end 18 thereof whereby the bottles 16 are fed by gravity. A forwardmost one of the bottles, namely bottle 16 ', is arrested in its forwardmost position by an arresting means herein provided by an elongated arresting bar 19 connected at opposed ends 20 thereof to connecting slots 21 provided in the ront wall 12 ' of the corner posts 12.
Referring now additionally to Figs. 2 to 4, there will be described the construction of the bottle support rh;~nn~l A 14. As shown in Figs . 1 and 2, the support channel is formed as a U-shaped channel constituted by a pair of ~traight bottle support channel members 14 ' which are held in side-by-side parallel relationship by a rear arcuate channel section 22, as more clearly shown in Fig. 2. The rear arcuate channel section 22 may be welded or preferably removably connected to a rear end of the straight channel members 14' whereby single straight rhAnn~l~ as well as U-shaped rhAnn~l ~ may be removably connected in the frame. As shown in Fig. 5A, the channel member may also be constituted by single straight channel members 14 ' interconnected between the horizontal members 13, as shown in Fig. 5A.
Each of the channel members 14 ' is provided with a longitudinal slot 23 formed in a lower end thereof and extends between opposed support f langes 24 which are formed by an inwardly turned end section of the slde walls 25 of the channel member 14. The channel member is also formed with an angled dispensing front section 26. A connecting slot 27 is provided in the top wall 28 of the channel member 14 to receive a connecting lip 28 of a front support bracket 29. A
rear support bracket 30 is secured to the rear end of the channel in the same manner whereby its connecting lip 31 is received in the connecting slot 32 provided in the top wall 28 of the channel member 14 adjacent 214~562 the rear end thereof . Additional slots 27 ' and 32 ' are also provided to adapt the ~h~nnPl R to narrow frames .
A flexible U-shaped strip 33 having a low friction surface thereon may also be clamped to the support flanges 24 whereby the bottles 16 can slide freely thereon with very little resistance.
Referring again to Fig. 1, it can be seen that the front horizontal rigid member 13 ' is secured in a horizontal plane which is lower than the rear horizontal rigid member 13". This is so in order that the channel member 14 be sloped downwardly from the rear end thereof to the front dispensing section 26 which lies substantially in a horizontal plane, as shown in Fig. 3. As also shown in Fig. 3, the channel member is sloped at an angle of about 12 whereby the bottles which are positioned within the channel members are fed forwardly towards the dispensing front section 26 by gravity. However, depending on the weight and types of bottles used, different angulations may be preferred. In order to load the channel members with bottles 16, the bottles are inserted from the front open end 18 of one of the straight channel sections 14 ' until no f urther bottle can be added in the channel .
As shown in Fig. 2, when the bottles are pushed in one of the straight channel sections 14 ' of a U-shaped channel member, they will move into the other straight channel section through the rear arcuate channel section 22 This arrangement provides for the rear bottle, herein bottle 16", to move into the adjacent channel so that the rear bottle 16" does not remain suspended within the channel member f or a long period of time. It is important to recycle the bottles within the rack, and this is achieved by the rear arcuate channel section. The person loading these channel 3 5 members would be instructed to load only one of the channel members so that the rear bottles are recycled quickly through other straight channel member.
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As shown in Fig. 6, the front open end 18 of the channel can also be provided wi~h an arresting means, herein in the orm of abutment tab 34, punched out of the flanges 24 to extend within the channel to 5 abut against the collar 35 or cap 36 of the forwardmost bottle 16 ', as shown in Fig . 3 .
It is pointed out that, because the support brackets are connected to the channel members by connecting lips 28, 31 engaged within slots 27, 32 10 formed in the top of the ~.hi~nn~ , this provides a hinge connection whereby the channel members may be hinged at a steeper angle depending on the nature of the bottles to be supported thereby . The f ront and rear support brackets 29 and 30 also have a channel 15 section 37 and 37 ' respectively whereby they are slidingly engaged on the horizontal rigid members 13 ' and 13" respectively, so that the channel member 14 may be displaced laterally within the support rack. This i3 particularly useful when the ~h~nnelc are provided 20 as straight sections, as shown in Fig. 5A, so that different numbers of channel members may be provided in each horizontal stack to hold bottles of different shapes. With the rack of the present invention it is also seen that the spacing between the rows of bottle 25 support /-h;~nnl~l ~ may vary to support bottles of different length. This provides for less loss of space within the rack and also provides the user with a means to structure a rack having more visual appeal to his customers. He can stack small and larger bottles in 30 the same rack and in close spacing.
With the embodiment as shown in Fig. 5A, it can be seen that the rear support bracket 30 ' is connected under the straight channel member 14 ' and the horizontal rigid members 13 ' and 13 " are supported in 35 substantially the same plane. The angulation of the channel member is provided simply by the f act that the rear bracket is located under the channel member and the front one over the channel member. As herein shown, the arresting means is a friction tab 40 (see Fig. 5B) formed of plastics material or any other suitable material, such as a short length of extruded 5 aluminum material, and defines a front wall 41 on which identif ication sticker ( not shown ) can be applied to identiy the bottles thereabove. The front wall has an extenslon lip 42 on which the forwardmost bottle 16 ' abuts (see Fig. 5A) to prevent the bottle from forward 10 movement. It is also possible to use other means than the lips 42 to arrest the forwardmost bottle. For example, a leaf spring 50 ( see Fig . 6 ) may be secured to the sidewalls or top wall of the channel adjacent the open front end to frictionally engage the top end 15 of the bottle. By pulling the bottle the spring would bend to cause the bottle to be removed. It also defines a channel portion 43 which is frictionally retained on the front horizontal rigid member 13 ' and may be displaced therealong to align same in a vertical 20 plane with the front open end 18 o the channel member 14. As herein shown, reinforcing transverse members 45 are also removably securable as the members 13 ,13 ' .
Diagonal braces 46 may also be connected to the corner posts 12 to provide added rigidity to the structure and 25 these may also be soldered.
It i3 within the ambit of the present invention to cover any obvious modif ications of the pref erred ~ ,Q,~iment described herein, provided such modif ications f all within the scope of the appended 30 claims. For example, the channel members may be formed from wire members or metal or plastic channel members.
Similarly, the support brackets may be formed of plastics material as well as the arresting member 19 or 40. It is also conceivable that the entire rack could 35 be formed from structural plastic members, although in thi~ embodiment they are f ormed by steel members .
Claims (12)
1. A gravity fed bottle dispensing and display rack comprising a support frame having front and rear transverse horizontal rigid members, a straight bottle support channel interconnected between said transverse horizontal rigid members and inclined downwardly from a rear end thereof to a front open end, said support channel having a longitudinal slot defined longi-tudinally thereof in a lower end and extends between opposed support flanges, said support channel having a dispensing front section adjacent said front open end, attachment means for securing said support channel to said front and rear transverse horizontal rigid members, arresting means to abuttingly engage a forwardmost bottle suspended by a neck thereof by said channel at said dispensing front section to arrest said forwardmost bottle at said front open end of said support channel, abutment means secured inwardly of said support channel in said dispensing front section at a predetermined location to releasably engage an upper end of said forwardmost bottle.
2. A rack as claimed in claim 1 wherein said dispensing front section of said channel being retained in a substantially horizontal plane.
3. A rack as claimed in claim 2 wherein said attachment means are displaceably connected to said front and rear transverse horizontal rigid members to position said channel at a desired location in said support frame.
4. A rack as claimed in claim 2 wherein said bottle support channel is a U-shaped channel, said U-shaped channel having a pair of said straight bottle support channels held in side-by-side parallel relationship and two of said front open end spaced from one another; and a rear arcuate channel section interconnecting said straight bottle support channels whereby when a plurality of bottles are retained by their necks in one of said pair of bottle support channels and further bottles are introduced by said front open end thereof, rear ones of said plurality of bottles will be transferred to spaces in said other of said pair of bottle support channels automatically through said rear arcuate channel section.
5. A rack as claimed in claim 2 wherein said abutment means is disposed on a top surface of one or both of said support flanges at a predetermined location in said front open end to abuttingly engage an upper end of said forwardmost bottle.
6. A rack as claimed in claim 2 wherein said attachment means comprises a rear clamp secured to a rear end of said bottle support channel and said rear transverse horizontal rigid member for maintaining said rear end of said support channel elevated from said dispensing front section, and a front clamp for securement to said front section for securement to said front transverse horizontal rigid member.
7. A rack as claimed in claim 6 wherein said front and rear transverse horizontal members are flat rectangular bars, said rear and front clamps being slidingly engaged with a respective one of said rectangular bars for translational displacement of said bottle support channel.
8. A rack as claimed in claim 7 wherein said front and rear transverse horizontal members are detachably secured to vertical corner posts of said support frame, said horizontal members lying in a common horizontal plane.
9. A rack as claimed in claim 7 wherein said front and rear transverse horizontal members are detachably secured to vertical corner posts of said support frame, said rear horizontal member being disposed elevated from said front horizontal member.
10. A rack as claimed in claim 2 wherein said arresting means is an arresting bar secured to said support frame and protruding forwardly of said frame, said dispensing front section of said support channel having at least a section thereof protruding forwardly of said frame.
11. A rack as claimed in claim 2 wherein said arresting means is a friction tab displaceably engageable with said front transverse horizontal rigid member and vertically aligned with said front open end of said support channel.
12. A rack as claimed in claim 7 wherein said front and rear transverse horizontal members are detachably secured to vertical corner posts of said support frame, said corner posts having a plurality of vertically aligned connecting means for receiving a complementary connector of said front or rear transverse horizontal rigid members whereby two or more horizontal rows of said channels may be secured to said frame and at predetermined spacings to accommodate bottles of different lengths.
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