Paint brush merchandising display

Claim 1

A modular merchandising display for paint brushes having a variety of sizes, the display comprising: I. at least several modules all of which are identical to each other, each module being adapted to hold a stack of paint brushes and including: (a) two vertical side walls permanently joined together at a fixed horizontal spacing, the spacing being larger than the width of the handles of a variety of sizes of paint brushes but smaller than the width of the bristle portions of the variety of sizes of paint brushes, (b) a bottom wall, between said side walls near the lower edges of the latter, for supporting the lowermost paint brush in a stack between said side walls, said bottom wall extending forwardly beyond the front edges of said side walls and being inclined downwardly from back to front, (c) a strip of resilient material carried by each side wall along its front edge, said strips projecting toward each other and being spaced apart a distance smaller than the width of a paint brush handle so that they frictionally grip between them the handles of a stack of paint brushes between said walls, the compressability of said strips permitting each paint brush handle to move outwardly between the strips when a paint brush is removed from the module, II. a horizontally elongated support having a length many times the width of one of said modules, and III. mounting means carried by each of said modules and projecting beyond the external contours of its respective module for securing the module to said support at any point along the length of said support, whereby said modules may be mounted with any desired spacing between them.