SHELVING ASSEMBLIES

• US 3,631,821 A
• Filed: 09/11/1969
• Issued: 01/04/1972
• Est. Priority Date: 09/11/1969
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Basil Zachariou
• Original Assignee: Basil Zachariou
• Inventors: Zachariou, Basil
• Primary Examiner(s): Foss, J. Franklin
• Application Number:
  US04/857,031
• Time in Patent Office: 845 Days
• Field of Search: 248/243,235,241,244,245,247,248 108/106,107,109,110,152,108 211/148,148A,177
• US Class Current: 108/152
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 2220/0038 Brackets having a pincer shape supporting a cantilever shelf
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 57/42 the shelf supports being cantilever brackets
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 96/027 Cantilever shelves
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 96/063 C-shaped brackets for gripping the shelf edge
• CPC Class Codes: A47F 5/12 Tiltable stands

Abstract

The invention is concerned with shelving assemblies including supporting brackets which brackets are in the form of channelsectioned clips shaped to engage upright columns and to hold the rear edge of a shelf member, the brackets being readily adjusted and interchangeable and being also of short length.

Claims

1. A shelving assembly comprising uprights and shelf supporting brackets, said brackets having located formations on the rear face thereof adapted to releasably and adjustably engage the uprights and having a forwardly projecting horizontal channel section with the free ends of the channel flanges bent inwardly toward each other with the upper flange shorter than the lower, said lower flange having an upwardly projecting free end, a shelf member shaped to engage the bent portions of the channel flanges to hold the shelf at a desired disposition forwardly of the supporting bracket, said shelf member being provided with a formation adapted to engage at least said free end of said lower flange.

2. A shelving assembly as claimed in claim 1 in which separate supporting brackets are provided for each upright.

3. A shelving assembly as claimed in claim 1 in which the support brackets are formed from metal extrusions.

4. A shelving assembly as claimed in claim 1 in which the support brackets are formed from metal pressings.

5. A shelving assembly as claimed in claim 1 in which the locating formations are hook members having stops in spaced relation thereto with the hook members and stops pOsitioned to engage in appropriate openings formed in the uprights.

6. A shelving assembly as claimed in claim 1 in which the shelf carries a stay pivotally secured at one end to the shelf with the other end shaped to engage in an opening in the upright.

7. A shelving assembly comprising uprights having a plurality of spaced-apart openings and shelf support brackets adapted to engage said opening, each said bracket having at least one hooked projection on the rear face thereof adapted to engage an upright in at least one of said openings, said bracket being substantially '"'"''"'"''"'"''"'"'U'"'"''"'"''"'"''"'"' shaped in top view to present two forwardly projecting sections, each said section being substantially '"'"''"'"''"'"''"'"'C'"'"''"'"''"'"''"'"' shaped with the upper flange of the '"'"''"'"''"'"''"'"'C'"'"''"'"''"'"''"'"' shorter than the lower flange so that a shelf member may be supported between said flanges.

8. The assembly of claim 7 in which the bracket has two downwardly facing hooked projections on the rear face.

9. The assembly of claim 8 in which the projections are side by side.

10. The assembly of claim 8 in which the projections are located one above the other.

11. The assembly of claim 9 including two additional projections, one located directly under and in spaced relation from each of the side-by-side projections.

12. The assembly of claim 11 in which the said two additional projections are of hooked configuration and face downwardly.

13. A bracket for a shelf assembly having uprights with regularly spaced openings therein, said bracket being substantially '"'"''"'"''"'"''"'"'U'"'"''"'"''"'"''"'"' shaped in top view having at least two rearwardly facing downwardly hooked members and a pair of forwardly facing substantially '"'"''"'"''"'"''"'"'C'"'"''"'"''"'"''"'"' shaped projections with the upper flange of each '"'"''"'"''"'"''"'"'C'"'"''"'"''"'"''"'"' being shorter than the lower flange.