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As the U.S. stock market hits new highs, investors have been piling into the pantry and fridge for financial comfort food. Hormel Foods HRL -0.059154096421177166% Hormel Foods Corp. U.S.: NYSE USD33.79 -0.02 -0.059154096421177166% /Date(1480975394265-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 3810008 AFTER HOURS USD33.75 -0.0399999999999992 -0.11837821840781296% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 19866 P/E Ratio 20.564786075101942 Market Cap 17892286157.0448 Dividend Yield 2.0124297129328204% Rev. per Employee 460059 More quote details and news » (ticker: HRL) and Campbell Soup CPB -0.15616866215512754% Campbell Soup Co. U.S.: NYSE USD57.54 -0.09 -0.15616866215512754% /Date(1480975247148-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 2563217 AFTER HOURS USD57.54 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 14859 P/E Ratio 27.141509433962263 Market Cap 17723819452.3338 Dividend Yield 2.4330900243309004% Rev. per Employee 482424 More quote details and news » (CPB) are up 30% apiece so far this year, General Mills GIS 0.31178208073514935% General Mills Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD61.13 0.19 0.31178208073514935% /Date(1480975271742-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 2088848 AFTER HOURS USD61.13 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 44126 P/E Ratio 22.22909090909091 Market Cap 36038878940.0563 Dividend Yield 3.140847374447898% Rev. per Employee 417003 More quote details and news » (GIS) 22% and Hershey HSY 0.8343634116192831% Hershey Co. U.S.: NYSE USD97.89 0.81 0.8343634116192831% /Date(1480975325269-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 692721 AFTER HOURS USD97.89 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 13753 P/E Ratio 25.896825396825395 Market Cap 20068264752.4865 Dividend Yield 2.5252834814587803% Rev. per Employee 387154 More quote details and news » (HSY) 20%. The Standard & Poor's 500 index is up 12%.
There's much to like about food stocks, including reliable earnings and healthy dividends. But investors can find similar attributes at lower valuations in nonfood names. Good bets include Boeing BA -0.059113300492610835% Boeing Co. U.S.: NYSE USD152.16 -0.09 -0.059113300492610835% /Date(1480975245424-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 2794239 AFTER HOURS USD151.81 -0.349999999999994 -0.23002103049421663% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 61707 P/E Ratio 23.168280650465924 Market Cap 93963525878.9063 Dividend Yield 2.8654048370136698% Rev. per Employee 587720 More quote details and news » (BA), Travelers TRV 0.19022913964548205% Travelers Cos. Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD115.87 0.22 0.19022913964548205% /Date(1480975298261-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1998265 AFTER HOURS USD115.87 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 43247 P/E Ratio 11.79938900203666 Market Cap 32851422682.28 Dividend Yield 2.3129369120566152% Rev. per Employee 878997 More quote details and news » (TRV), L-3 Communication LLL 0.7822934554474337% L-3 Communications Holdings Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD158.46 1.23 0.7822934554474337% /Date(1480975322369-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 915259 AFTER HOURS USD158.46 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 32204 P/E Ratio 42.75192229866451 Market Cap 12155293442.207 Dividend Yield 1.7670074466742396% Rev. per Employee 273500 More quote details and news » (LLL), Stanley Black & Decker SWK 0.7781442950181849% Stanley Black & Decker Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD119.15 0.92 0.7781442950181849% /Date(1480975325456-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 789077 AFTER HOURS USD119.15 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 10820 P/E Ratio 18.135464231354643 Market Cap 17815960427.4228 Dividend Yield 1.9471254720939992% Rev. per Employee 221110 More quote details and news » (SWK), and Occidental Petroleum OXY 0.1834862385321101% Occidental Petroleum Corp. U.S.: NYSE USD70.98 0.13 0.1834862385321101% /Date(1480975326713-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 4759662 AFTER HOURS USD70.98 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 173779 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap 54142717803.6682 Dividend Yield 4.282896590588899% Rev. per Employee 907568 More quote details and news » (OXY).
If company valuations reflect growth potential, giant food makers should have moderate ones based on their tendency to increase yearly earnings by 5% to 8%. Yet the aforementioned names now sell for a pricey 17 to 23 times current-year earnings forecasts. The group's average is 19 times—more expensive than fast-growing Google (GOOG) at 17 times, not to mention the S&P 500 at 14 times. "I've never seen price-earnings multiples rise so high so quickly," says Robert Moskow, a food analyst with Credit Suisse. He calls the group's hold on investors "Bieber-esque," as in teen pop star Justin Bieber. It could also be described as Buffett-esque; the Berkshire Hathaway head's participation in a buyout of Heinz (HNZ), announced in February, has made the group look more appetizing.
It's not just food, of course. Household-products makers like Colgate-Palmolive CL -0.13906056860321384% Colgate-Palmolive Co. U.S.: NYSE USD64.63 -0.09 -0.13906056860321384% /Date(1480975268913-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 4270631 AFTER HOURS USD64.63 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 131140 P/E Ratio 42.24183006535948 Market Cap 57525921182.6697 Dividend Yield 2.4137397493424104% Rev. per Employee 405620 More quote details and news » (CL), Clorox CLX -0.19294860550780565% Clorox Co. U.S.: NYSE USD113.8 -0.22 -0.19294860550780565% /Date(1480975264855-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1077151 AFTER HOURS USD115 1.2 1.054481546572935% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 9417 P/E Ratio 22.90337512830318 Market Cap 14679390823.6133 Dividend Yield 2.81195079086116% Rev. per Employee 726750 More quote details and news » (CLX), and Procter & Gamble PG 0.7160194174757282% Procter & Gamble Co. U.S.: NYSE USD82.99 0.59 0.7160194174757282% /Date(1480975265968-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 8189572 AFTER HOURS USD82.99 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 407971 P/E Ratio 23.088693523258403 Market Cap 220501820684.804 Dividend Yield 3.2268948066032053% Rev. per Employee 621810 More quote details and news » (PG) have gotten similarly pricey. Faced with ultralow interest rates, cautious savers have bought consumer staples stocks for their relative safety and income, but the group now looks "overstretched" and "vulnerable to a significant correction," wrote Tom Graves, an analyst with S&P Capital IQ, in a research note this past week.
One reason investors love these stocks is that if the economy slips back into a slump, shoppers will still presumably buy their Cheerios, Campbell's chicken noodle and Tide detergent. On the whole, consumer-staples companies have indeed produced steadier earnings than the typical S&P 500 company during the stress test of the past six years, based on a statistical analysis by Barron's. But many non-food companies in cyclical industries, including International Business Machines IBM -0.1124859392575928% International Business Machines Corp. U.S.: NYSE USD159.84 -0.18 -0.1124859392575928% /Date(1480975304748-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 3365938 AFTER HOURS USD159.95 0.109999999999985 0.06881881881881882% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 81114 P/E Ratio 13.026470204720303 Market Cap 152155818037.1 Dividend Yield 3.5035035035035036% Rev. per Employee 212324 More quote details and news » (IBM), Caterpillar CAT -0.725247004414547% Caterpillar Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD94.45 -0.69 -0.725247004414547% /Date(1480975224003-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 4907384 AFTER HOURS USD94.45 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 72951 P/E Ratio 54.91279069767442 Market Cap 55663844677.0795 Dividend Yield 3.2609846479618847% Rev. per Employee 378363 More quote details and news » (CAT), and ExxonMobil XOM 0.5055147058823529% Exxon Mobil Corp. U.S.: NYSE USD87.48 0.44 0.5055147058823529% /Date(1480975221729-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 10719430 AFTER HOURS USD87.51 0.0300000000000011 0.03429355281207133% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1021644 P/E Ratio 40.87850467289719 Market Cap 360928151296.411 Dividend Yield 3.429355281207133% Rev. per Employee 2604050 More quote details and news » (XOM), were steadier still—and trade much more cheaply.
The income advantage food stocks have long enjoyed over the broad market has narrowed, notes Graves. Dividend yields shrink as share prices rise. The average food stock now yields 2.3%. Among S&P 500 companies that pay dividends, which make up more than four-fifths of the index, the average is the same, 2.3%. There's also the matter of dividend growth potential. The median food company paid out half its earnings over the past year as dividends, versus one-third for all S&P 500 dividend-payers. Dividend payments have been surging, but in coming years, companies that currently pay out less of their earnings as dividends may have the most room for increases.
It's not all bad for food. This year's corn crop looks likely to be much larger than last year's, which should keep ingredient costs in line, and projections for food companies to increase their earnings by 7% this year look achievable, says Credit Suisse's Moskow. But investors seeking safe harbors should scrap the notion that some industries are inherently safe regardless of price. Price is a key predictor of future performance, which makes it a key measure of safety. The food business remains stable, but its extreme popularity has made it, if not unsafe for investment, less safe.
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Boeing has long attracted negative attention for delays in bringing its new Dreamliner to market, followed by battery malfunctions that grounded the planes. But jumbo jets aren't smartphones; new models sell for decades and mechanical glitches in early runs are common. The Dreamliner's fuel efficiency and passenger comfort continue to bode well for sales, and while the stock has risen of late as investors come around to that view, it's still cheap. That's because the Dreamliner, which is burning free cash now, will begin adding to it next year. Free cash flow will double to around $12 a share by 2015, says Wells Fargo Securities. That's 14% of the current stock price, which makes Boeing's dividend, at 2.2%, look likely to take flight.
Travelers takes a conservative approach to managing its investment portfolio and balance sheet, which helped it avoid steep losses during the Great Recession. It's reputation for stability has also allowed it to charge premium prices for its insurance. One downside for insurers in general is that, as ordinary investors know well, putting cash reserves to work at safe, reasonable interest rates has rarely been more difficult than now. On the other hand, a lack of ability to rely on portfolio winnings to boost earnings has made insurers more finicky about keeping basic insurance underwriting profitable. Margins are on the rise. Travelers goes for 12 times earnings and yields 2.1%.
L-3 Communications isn't immune to the steep, pending budget cuts known as the sequestration. Management says they could trim 65 cents a share from earnings, or around 8%. But the company has been active in pruning its diverse portfolio of defense programs of ones that are most vulnerable to cuts, according to Deutsche Bank analyst Myles Walton. He points out that L-3 has the best free cash yield among its peers, 13%, and that it combines a 2.6% dividend yield with a stock repurchase program that can reduce the share count by 7% a year. For investors, that's like owning the target of a slow-moving takeover.
House prices are rebounding and housing starts are up. Both signs bode well for toolmaker Stanley Black & Decker, but according to Morgan Stanley, an even better predictor of Stanley's sales success is the pace at which construction payrolls are rising. Construction has been one of the strongest contributors to job growth in recent months. Accordingly, Wall Street expects revenue for Stanley to rise 9% this year. Shares go for 15 times earnings and yield 2.5%.
Occidental Petroleum has underperformed this year amid a squabble over leadership, detailed extensively last week ("What Occidental Petroleum is Really Worth," April 8, 2013). The board, led by a former chief executive, said in February it's looking for a replacement for Stephen Chazen, who is only the company's third chief exec in a half-century, but has been on the job less than two years. Analysts found the timing of the announcement odd. Chazen, 66, was expected to step down anyway within a few years. He has cut costs but also presided over an unremarkable run for the stock. Despite the drama, shares look cheap at 11 times earnings and a 3% dividend yield. Oxy's stability is enhanced by its limited use of leverage and its predictable business of scooping up older oil deposits and using advanced drilling technology to exploit them.
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Alienation and Hidden Shame by Thomas J. Scheff (Continued)
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In France during the period 1871-1914, the role of mass media in both generating and reflecting collective humiliation and anger is quite blatant. The French public and its leaders experienced their defeat in the Franco-Prussian War (l870-71), and the Treaty of Frankfurt, which ended the war, as humiliating (Kennan, l984, Sontag, l933, Weber, l954).
Going against Bismarck's warnings (he feared revenge), the Germans had annexed two French provinces (Alsace and Lorraine). Revenge brought about through the return of the two lost provinces,revanchisme, became the central issue in French politics of the whole era.
Leading political figures such as Gambetta and General Boulanger talked about revenge openly in their campaigns (Boulanger was known in the popular press as "General Revenge.") Vengeance against Germany was a popular theme in newspapers, magazines, poetry and fiction.
Revenge themes were common in the popular literature of the time. The poetry and novels of that era serve as examples. The war poems of Deroulede, Chants du Soldat (Songs of a Soldier, l872) were wildly popular. Here is a sample stanza (quoted in Rutkoff, l981, p. l61):
Revenge will come, perhaps slowly
Perhaps with fragility, yet a strength that is sure
For bitterness is already born and force will follow
And cowards only the battle will ignore.
Note that this poem not only appeals to the French to seek revenge, but also contains a coercive element. In the last line, anyone who might disagree with the poet's sentiments is labeled a coward. There are many other instances of appeals to vengeance, honor, and glory in the other poems: these are the main themes. By l890 this little book had gone through an unprecedented 83 editions, which suggests that it had a vast audience.
The extraordinary acclaim that greeted Chants du Soldat (Soldiers' Songs) prompted Deroulede to publish further books of similar thrust, most of them devoted to military glory, triumph and revenge. For example, in l896 his Poesies Militaires (Military Poetry) continued in the same vein. The following is a representative stanza:
French blood! -- a treasure so august
And hoarded with such jealous care,
To crush oppression's strength unjust,
With all the force of right robust,
And buy us back our honor fair...
Although revenge is not mentioned explicitly, the last line implies what might be called the honor-insult-revenge cycle (Scheff and Retzinger, l991).
Also indicative of open revanchism was the rash of novels about the plight of Alsace and Lorraine under German occupation, which became popular in the l5 years preceding WWI. The best-known author of this genre, Maurrice Barres, published two: In the Service of Germany (l905) and Collette Baudoche (l909). These books, like many others of their ilk, were not works of art, but "works of war," to use the phrase of Barres' biographer (Boisdeffre 1962).
Websdale's idea of a type of multiple killer who not acting in a fit of rage, but carefully and with considerable planning seems to be applicable to wars like WWI. The ruling emotional spiral is not shame-anger, but shame-shame. A person or a nation can become so lost in a spiral of being ashamed of being ashamed that it becomes the dominant force in their existence, as it seems to have been in the French nation 1871-1914. The violence that results is not because of loss of control, but submerging the inhibitions that prevent killing. In an eerily prophetic letter to Ruge in 1843 about nationalism, Marx wrote:"...if a whole nation were to feel ashamed it would be like a lion recoiling in order to spring." (Tucker 1978).
The alienation loops in the case of collective violence are more complex than those of persons in two different ways. The first way has already been mentioned, the loop that develops between the media and the public. The second complexity is that a double type of alienation develops between the contending groups: isolation between the groups (too far) and engulfment within them (too close). My earlier study (1994) named this double type of alienation bimodal, and proposed that it is a necessary condition for aggressive wars, that is wars that don't involve self-defense.
The idea of bimodal alienation has already been discussed with respect to pairs of multiple killers, suggesting that just as they were isolated without, they were engulfed within. This idea might help understand the type of multiple killing that Websdale called civic respectable, a spouse calmly killing a spouse and one or more of the children. In ordinary terms, it seems difficult to understand any killing, but especially a parent who would kill his or her own children. The theory presented here suggests the possibility that the civil reputable parent who kills is so engulfed with his family, and so isolated without, that he or she projects his own unbearable emotional pain on the family members. If that were the case, the killer would think that he or she is helping by ending their pain.
The philosopher of emotions Robert Solomon suggested a parallel but much broader idea: "emotionworlds." For example, he compares the loveworld to the angerworld. The loveworld (1981, p. 126) is "woven around a single relationship, with everything else pushed to the periphery..." By contrast, in the angerworld "one defines oneself in the role of the offended' and someone else….as the offender. [It] is very much a courtroom world, a world filled with blame and emotional litigation..." Perhaps in the shameworld of the civic reputable killer, where the family receives nothing but insults and rejections, life is not worth living. It may be that Solomon omitted a significant part of the motivation: in social and emotional loops the pain generated can be so overwhelming that life seems worthless.
Films and Courses
This section will outline a course on emotions that could be made available to everyone: both students and non-students. The shape of this course is based on my own experience in teaching emotions. To bring attention to the new courses, films could be made for public broadcast, as discussed below.
I have been teaching emotions/relationships classes to undergraduates for many years. My intention was to help students discover their own emotions. The course uses discussion, rather than lectures. Basically we talk about the student's real life dialogues, the most difficult of them, what they might mean in emotions terms, and how they might do better.
The first step was to get men into the course. If the course title included the word emotion or relationship, men would not enroll. So when I named the class "Communicating," a few men would show up. The next step was to have male and female students register for different classes. They then discover that these classes meet in the same place and time. Before I hit upon this device, women, quick to enroll, would grab most of the seats. Under the new method, men can dawdle but still find a seat.
The last problem was to keep the men's eyes from glazing over when we started discussing emotions openly. After many attempts, I finally found a solution: explain that emotions are like sex. It needs to be said only once to draw the men back in.
There are two crucial ways in which emotions are like sex. At its best, sex involves cooperation between two partners. The point can then be made that exploring emotions within and between two people is much broader than sex, since it doesn't require a romantic relationship. It can happen between any two persons. Exploration of emotions can be done alone, but is more effective in pairs, whether in romantic, family, friendship, psychotherapy, or even educational settings.
The second way that emotions are like sex is not at all obvious. In fact, it is necessary to go out on a limb to make the point, since there is no agreement among experts. I propose that emotions are also like sex in the sense that they are bodily processes that can be resolved through a climax, parallel to the idea of orgasm. The emotion of grief can serve as an example. (As is often the case with emotion words in English, other words are also used to designate what seems to be the same emotion: sadness, sorrow, inability to mourn and so on). I try not to use the idea of catharsis, which is actually valid, because experimental psychologists have mistakenly dismissed it.
We now know that unresolved grief is quite common among adults. How does grief get resolved? Through mourning. But this answer isn't specific enough, because it doesn't explain the specifics of mourning. What is necessary in mourning if it is going to resolve grief?
Suppose that the feeling of grief arises out of bodily preparation to cry. A state of grief or sadness occurs when the body prepares to cry, but actual crying is delayed. Grief counselors are often told by their clients that they are embarrassed by crying, even in therapy. Most people have a long history of unresolved grief.
Another frequent complaint is that outside of therapy their intimates, after a week or two, become impatient with their mourning. If, as suggested here, a "good cry" resolves unresolved grief, most people don't have much opportunity for resolving grief, except in therapy. Even there, sometimes other matters are given precedent. Mourning has many components, of course, but it appears that to resolve grief, both men and women must have good cries. Men find it hard to resist the idea that crying is the orgasm of grief.
My courses based on these ideas have always been highly successful over the forty years that I have taught them. Students often comment that everyone probably needs such a course. Many of the male students learned to cry, although not necessarily in public.
Films for the Public
Films could be made to interest the public. One type of film would use actors, portraying the best and most productive episodes in actual classes. This kind of film would represent an idealized image, since real classes are apt to wander at times. But the dramatized version might interest the viewers in enrolling in a class, or at least seeing a documentary of a real class.
In schools, these courses need not begin as late as college, but could begin early in grammar and high school, then in universities and professional schools. Most of the students who enrolled in my classes were profoundly ignorant of their own emotions and the social-emotional world, but they were quick to learn.
- Shame can be dangerous only when it is hidden, as it almost universally is in modern societies. Because it is hidden, it becomes ubiquitous.
- Hidden shame and alienation, in conjunction, are the main causes of both withdrawal and violence.
- Feedback loops of shame, shame/anger, and alienation give rise to the extraordinary power of violence.
- Feedback loops are also produced by avoiding emotions: avoidance gives rise to backlogs of emotion that get larger and more frightening the larger they grow.
These four processes, in combination, are threats to the continued existence of our civilization, unless steps are taken to reduce their power. One approach would be to teach classes on emotions for both students and adults. One such class is outlined.
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This invention relates to systems and apparatus for displaying goods or articles to prospective purchasers in stores and shops.
In retail stores, such as supermarkets and the like, where articles to be purchased are selected "off the shelf" by the shopper, it is customary to display merchandise on shelves which render it open to view and easily removable. Traditionally, in supermarkets for example, the shelves are arranged in long rows forming aisles through which the shoppers pass. In such arrangements, many different products are displayed in successive sections of the rows of shelves, sometimes making it difficult to locate a specific article that the shopper wishes to purchase. The usual aisle arrangement also limits the effectiveness of so-called "point of purchase" advertising displays, designed to attract shoppers to a particular product.
To overcome these problems, merchants occasionally employ individual shelf displays or islands, free-standing and set off from the aisles formed by the row of shelves, so that they are more visible to the shopper. Such individual units lend themselves to prominent display of a single product and can support point-of-purchase advertising effectively to attract the customer's attention.
Various forms of such free-standing display units are known in the prior art. Some types employ a plurality of vertical standards between which shelves or display racks are suspended; others employ a single post to which shelves or display racks are fastened. The latter type has a particular advantage in that it provides greater visibility for the product displayed, since the display structure itself is less prominent. Heretofore however, such single post shelving units have not become popular because of the complexity required of those known constructions to render them stable and capable of supporting substantial loads, and the attendant high cost.
The present invention provides a free-standing display system of the single post-type that overcomes the shortcoming of prior art arrangements. The shelves are supported from the post in a manner that not only renders the construction stable and capable of supporting substantial loads but allows ready assembly and disassembly without special tools, providing a practical and versatile system.
The display system according to the invention can be varied as to number and spacing of shelves, as well as the size of the shelves, to suit the requirements of the particular product being displayed. A single post is supported in an upright position from a base member which provides the requisite stability. A plurality of pairs of mounting holes are longitudinally spaced along the post for supporting sets of wedge members where desired, each of the wedge members having a pair of lugs or pins for engaging the mounting holes. The wedge members thus supported from the post provide downwardly diverging outer surfaces around the post which mate with similarly divergent surfaces forming the walls of an opening provided in each of the shelves. The shelves themselves may be formed from structural foam plastic in a single piece, or other materials, sufficiently strong to support substantial loads.
With the wedges in place at any given location along the post, a shelf is then mounted by sliding it down the post, with the post extending through the opening in the shelf, until the inclined walls of the shelf opening meet in wedging engagement with the outer inclined surfaces of the wedges. This maintains the shelf firmly positioned at the desired height and addition of load to the shelf, i.e., the goods to be displayed, serves to increase the wedging action and more rigidly secure the shelf to the post. No tools are required for assembling the shelves to the post.
In a typical system according to the invention, three or more shelves would be secured to the post by means of the wedge arrangement described above. The shelves may be equal in size and shape or of different sizes and the opening in each shelf may be central of the shelf or, for example, near one edge to support the shelf in near cantilever fashion, bearing in mind the need for stability of the final assembly. In assembling such a system, it will be obvious that the lower shelf would be positioned first, the next lower following, and then the uppermost shelf, in that order. Finally, a header unit having surfaces for bearing point-of-purchase advertising messages would be secured to the upper-end of the post as a means of attracting shoppers to its location.
In the accompanying drawings:
FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the display system of the invention in assembled form;
FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view through the base assembly of the display system of the invention taken along the lines 2--2 of FIG. 1;
FIG. 3 is a partial cross-sectional view taken along the line 3--3 of FIG. 1, showing the shelf mounting arrangement according to the invention;
FIG. 4 is an exploded view in partial section illustrating the manner of mounting the shelves of the display system of the invention on the post;
FIG. 5 illustrates, by perspective views of opposite sides, a wedge member in accordance with the invention;
FIG. 6 illustrates a shelf usable in the present invention; and
FIG. 7 illustrates an alternative form of shelf usable with the present invention.
Referring to the drawings, the display system of the invention is shown in assembled form in FIG. 1. The system includes a base assembly 10 designed to rest on the floor or other flat surface and to support a continuous post 20 of extruded aluminum tubing, for example, in an upright position. A plurality of shelves 30 are mounted on the post at desired spaced locations along its length to carry the articles to be displayed. Finally, a header 50 is secured to the upper end of the post to provide surfaces 54 for carrying eye-catching product identifying indicia or advertising messages that can draw shoppers to the location. In a useful form of the invention, the post is square in cross-section and the base assembly, shelves and header are all square in shape as illustrated in the drawings, but other polygonal or curved configurations are equally feasible.
Seen more clearly in FIG. 2, the base assembly 10 has a base member 12, which may be formed for example, from structural foam plastic, e.g., polystyrene, which provides an upper flat surface and smooth sidewalls. Preferably, the base member is not solid but formed as a shell of sufficient thickness to give the rigidity required. It, of course, could be made of other materials such as wood or metal.
The base member is provided with an opening 13 for receiving the lower end of the post 20. The opening 13 may be central of the base member, as shown in FIG. 1, or may be offset from the center as will be discussed below. The opening 13 has the same shape as the cross-sectional shape of the post 20 and is defined by walls which are inclined, converging downwardly from the top as shown in FIG. 2. The size of the opening 13 is such as to readily receive the end of the post 20, but with minimum play.
To lend structural rigidity and weight to the base member, a plate or pan 14, preferably of sheet metal, is provided. As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the pan 14 includes a relatively flat upper surface with a downturned peripheral flange 15 abutting the four interior surfaces of the base member. A central opening is also provided in the pan 14 with downturned interior flanges 17 to accommodate the post 20 snugly. The flanges 17 include inwardly extending foot portions for engaging the lower end of the post 20. In assembling the base member and post, the post is first inserted through the pan 14 to rest on the foot portions of the flanges 17 and secured on one side by a sheet metal screw 16 or the like. The base member 12 is then slid down the post 20 until its bottom edges meet the pan 14. The base member is secured to the pan by screws and nuts 18 in the four sides. Finally, to take up any clearance between the post and the base assembly, metal wedges 19 are driven in between the post and the base member 12 with a mallet or hammer.
As shown in FIG. 2, the foot portions of the flanges 17 are slightly (e.g., 1/8 inch) above the lower edges of the member 12 and the peripheral flange 15. When the system is loaded, the pan will flex so that the foot portions rest on the supporting surface, introducing a slight concavity in the pan and increasing its rigidity.
As indicated in FIG. 1, the post is provided with a plurality of pairs of openings or holes 22 in each of its surfaces. These pairs of holes are spaced longitudinally along the post at intervals and, as will be explained hereinafter, enable the shelf positions to be selected to suit the particular needs of the product to be displayed, thereby enhancing the versatility of the system. The holes 22 that are visible in FIG. 1, are those not being used in the shelf arrangement shown. The shelves illustrated conceal from view other sets of holes 22 which have been provided in the post 20.
Turning more particularly to FIGS. 3, 5 and 6, the shelf and shelf-mounting arrangement of the present invention are seen in greater detail. Each of the pairs of openings 22, one pair being on each of the four sides of the square cross-section post illustrated, are sized to receive snugly correspondingly spaced lugs or pins 46 extending from one side 42 of a wedge member 40. The wedge member, shown in detail in FIG. 5, is preferably formed of a plastic and has a post engaging side 42 from which the lugs 46 extend perpendicularly, and an outer inclined surface or wedge surface 44 for engaging the shelf. At the lower extremity of the wedge surface 44, a foot portion 48 is provided extending outwardly of the inclined surface 44. The width of the wedge member 40 is selected to be less than the transverse dimension of the post with which it is used and its overall height is just slightly more than the depth of the shelf to be supported thereon. The tabs 49 provide visual indication that wedges are in place in the shelf assembly. As shown in FIG. 5, the wedge member 40 may be integrally molded in shell form to provide the continuous wedge surface 44 and the ribbed post-engaging surface 42, to save materials. It could also be formed from other suitable materials, such as wood or metal, if desired.
With the post 20 in its upright position, on the base assembly 10, the manner in which the shelves 30 are mounted to the post is shown in FIG. 4. The first step is to mount four wedge members 40 on respective sides of the post 20 by inserting the wedge lugs into the corresponding openings 22. In FIG. 4 only two such wedges are shown but it will be understood that additional wedges will be on the front and rear surfaces of the post. With the wedges in place, as shown in FIG. 3, the shelf 30 is then ready to be put in place.
Shelf 30 may be rectangular as shown, although other shapes may be selected, and is formed preferably of a structural foam plastic. Typically, such shelves are molded as a shell with a smooth flat upper surface 32 and a lower surface 34 provided with ribs such as indicated at 35 in FIG. 6. These ribs lend structural strength to the shelf and may be arranged in various patterns to suit the load bearing requirements. The shelf is also provided with an opening 36 extending through the shelf which is shaped and dimensioned to fit freely around the post 20. The walls 38 defining the shelf opening are inclined, diverging outwardly from top to bottom at the same angle as the wedge angle of the surface 44 of the wedge member 40 (FIGS. 3 and 4). As seen in FIG. 4, the minimum dimensions of the opening 36 in the shelf provide clearance between the shelf and the post for accommodating the wedge thickness in all sides.
To assemble the shelf to the post with the wedges inserted, the shelf is lowered along the post 20, with the post extending through the opening 36, until the surfaces 38 contact the wedge members 40 on the post. The angles and dimensions of the shelves and the mating wedges are chosen such that a snug wedge fit is achieved between the interior walls 38 of the shelf opening 36 and the outer surfaces of the wedge members 40. Ordinarily, such wedging fit would be sufficient to support the shelf firmly on the post and prevent it from dropping under load. However, as a safety factor in the event of deformation of the plastic or manufacturing errors, a foot portion 48 is provided at the bottom of the inclined outer surface of the wedge members to provide an added stop or detent to limit downward movement of the shelf. When in place, the shelf conceals the wedge members from view except for the tabs 49, which show that the wedge members are properly in place.
In assembling an overall display system such as shown in FIG. 1, it will be obvious that the lowermost shelf is first secured to the post in the manner described above and then the succeeding shelves similarly secured in ascending order. Finally, the header 50 may be secured to the top of the post by means of fastening brackets 52 screwed into the post.
It will be realized from the above that the shelves may be mounted on the post entirely without tools and the only tools necessary to mount the base member and header are a screw driver and a hammer or mallet. Thus the system lends itself to ready erection in a market by salesman or market personnel and likewise, to ready disassembly and movement or removal from the market. By affording a choice of shelf locations on the post, a single system may be adapted to display products of varying sizes and configurations. Although shelves of two different sizes are shown in the assembly of FIG. 1, it will be apparent that all of the shelves may be of the same size or all may be of different sizes depending on the desires of the market manager or salesman, as long as gross unbalances are avoided. Since in the arrangement of FIG. 1, equal capacity and access on all four sides of the shelves is available, this configuration is specially suited to an "island" application.
A variation of the system shown in FIG. 1, particularly adapted for placing against a wall, is available simply by employing shelves such as shown in FIG. 7, with a similarly configured base member. Specifically, in the shelf of FIG. 7, the opening 36 is provided near one edge of the shelf so that when supported on the post in the manner described in connection with FIGS. 3 and 4, the shelf is cantilevered on three sides of the post. The other side is then placed against the wall and maximum shelf area is available for the product to be displayed.
As can be appreciated, virtually unlimited variations of shelf size combinations, spacings, shapes etc., are available with the present invention. Although in the preferred embodiment the post 20 is square in cross section and formed of an extruded aluminum tubing, for lightness, the post may be of various polygonal or curved cross sectional shapes, the wedge members 40 and the openings 36 in the shelves being appropriately shaped to conform. Likewise, the shelves 30 may have peripheries of various configurations as desired.
Many different variations of the inventive concepts illustrated in the preferred embodiments will occur to those skilled in the art and it is to be understood that the invention is limited only as set forth in the appended claims.
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