US Patent 7392913 Self-adjusting volume display and merchandise dispensing system

An upstanding Self-Adjusting Volume Display and Merchandise Dispensing System designed to increase merchandise and order picking dispensing efficiency and solve major space problems in a direct marketing distribution facility and other product display situations. The inventive system includes a main high-volume, open-top storage bin or hopper with an inclined floor member slanting toward the front of the hopper and a companion, upstanding, telescoping, self-adjusting volume chute vertically and slidably engaged within the interior of the main hopper. The main hopper has a discharge opening at the bottom of the front panel in which a picking portal is inserted, allowing merchandise filled therein to slide forward to be extracted therefrom.