Shelf

• US 3,986,616 A
• Filed: 06/24/1975
• Issued: 10/19/1976
• Est. Priority Date: 06/24/1975
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Robert Gray
• Original Assignee: Robert Gray
• Inventors: Gray, Robert
• Primary Examiner(s): Frazier, Roy D.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Lyddane, William E.
• Application Number:
  US05/589,860
• Time in Patent Office: 483 Days
• Field of Search: 108/107, 108/111, 108/153, 108/158, 108/106, 108/109, 108/161, 211/153, 211/135
• US Class Current: 211/153
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 57/18 consisting of screwbolts as connecting members
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 96/021 Structural features of shelf bases

Abstract

A shelf which includes a shelf body with downturned flanges along its longitudinal edges and with end caps in each end of the shelf. The end caps have inturned top and bottom walls and inturned side edge flanges. The end caps top walls are spot welded to the shelf. The end caps have holes in the side edge flanges through which bolts pass as well as through holes in the shelf flanges providing for attachment of the shelving to uprights with increased shear strength resistance at the points of attachment.

Claims

1. A shelf which comprises

a shelf body of sheet metal having

a horizontal top wall with downturned vertical flanges along the longitudinal edges of said wall, and

inwardly extending horizontal ribs attached to said flanges,

said flanges having spaced elongated slots adjacent their ends to provide for attachment of said shelf body, and

end caps at each end of said shelf body in contact therewith,

said end caps each having

an upper horizontal wall portion beneath and in contact with said horizontal top wall,

an outer vertical end wall portion extending from said upper wall,

vertical side flange portions extending from opposite end edges of said end wall portion inwardly along said vertical flanges beyond said elongated slots and having elongated slots aligned with the slots in said flanges.

2. A shelf as defined in claim 1 in which

said upper horizontal wall portions of said end caps and said top wall of said shelf body are secured together.

3. A shelf as defined in claim 1 in which

said end caps have horizontal bottom wall portions extending inwardly from the bottom edge of said end wall portion and disposed beneath and in engagement with said ribs.

4. A shelf as defined in claim 3 in which

said bottom wall portions of said end caps and said ribs are secured together.