Rotating stand (carousel) bottle and tube holder

Abstract

A holder for displaying and conveniently using consumables is disclosed, in which a two or more disks having corresponding, but differently sized, holes, arranged in rows, are ganged into a pair of disks, thereby allowing users to place bottles and tubes containing consumables into such holes for easy storage and access. The pair of disks is provided with rotational means, additional pairs of disks may be added in a modular fashion to increase storage capacity, and the rows of holes may be non-radially arranged, or even spirally arranged, to increase view and access to bottles and tubes.

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD OF THE INVENTION [0001] The present invention relates to a holder for displaying and conveniently using consumables. More specifically, the present invention is rotating stand (referred to generally herein as the “Carousel”), which apparatus holds and displays consumables for easy storage and access. The carousel allows a technician to easily select the correct consumable from among many similar consumables differing in one or more characteristics. [0002] One very specific example of using the Carousel is the convenient storage of tubes and bottles of various shades of hair colors by a beautician (or beauty operator) on the carousel, the display of such hair colors on the carousel for easy viewing by the beautician and her client, the selection of a single hair color for such client among those residing on the carousel when the beautician and client choose a (or some) color for application to the client's hair, and the easy access to one or more tubes of the correct ...

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Benefits of technology

[0023] In its simplest form, the present invention is a holder or display for storing, displaying, and conveniently using Consumables. Such Consumables may include tubes or bottles of various shades of hair colors used by a beautician, or offered for sale at a retail counter. The holder or display comprises a rotating stand (referred to generally herein as the “Carousel”) comprising at least two disks into which holes are formed. Into the holes of the disks, consumables are placed for display, and for easy storage and access. The Carousel allows a technician or a purchaser to easily select the correct consumable from among many similar consumables differing in one or more characteristics, as such technician or purchaser may easily view such products, and select the appropriate shade (or other characteristic) from among the products displayed. The Carousel further allows a technician easily access and replace the correct consumable from among such consumables, as the holes formed in the disks of the invention are positioned to allow such consumables to be removed from their place within such holes, and placed or replaced within such holes without first moving other Consumables. While the invention in its simplest form as noted above produces the intended result, a number of features of the present invention provide assurance of clear view and easy access, as well as large storage capacity, whether the invention is employed in rendering beautician services, or a retail setting, or in other industrial settings.

Problems solved by technology

Oftentimes, Consumables are not of shapes suitable to allow stacking.

Stacking, of course, has significant disadvantages, including instability in the stack and consequent disarray, insufficient view of package names or colors for convenient selection and replacement, and similar disadvantages.

And oftentimes the outer containers for such consumables serve no useful purpose other than to provide an imperfect means to stack Consumables, and such containers are therefore soon discarded.

While holders of various kinds exist in prior for various containers, no apparatus appears to usefully grouped and conveniently hold tubes of consumables, by accommodating usual variations in shape and size of tubes and containers, and usual variations in shape and size of the caps and tops employed to close such tubes and containers.

Without such apparatus, a user who uses a variety of Consumables is left to stack tubes and containers in the rectangular boxes in which they come, or hold the tubes in other sub-optimal ways, with all the disadvantages attendant thereto.

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