Cantilever shelving

• US 5,074,422 A
• Filed: 09/21/1990
• Issued: 12/24/1991
• Est. Priority Date: 09/21/1990
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Jonathan J. Holtz
• Original Assignee: Jonathan J. Holtz
• Inventors: Holtz, Jonathan J.
• Primary Examiner(s): GIBSON, ROBERT W
• Application Number:
  US07/585,976
• Time in Patent Office: 459 Days
• Field of Search: 211/187, 211/90, 211/193, 248/243, 108/108, 108/107, 108/152
• US Class Current: 211/187
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 57/10 the grooved or notched parts being the side walls or uprights themselves

Abstract

A storage device with cantilever mounted shelves using double walled support posts which in a rear wall has a four-sided slot to receive a hook on the shelf and in front wall has a three-sided slot functioning as a seat for the shelf, thus supporting the shelf in a cantilever fashion and obviating inadvertent disengagement because of the rear shelf hook which requires tilting of the shelf for its removal from the support posts.

Claims

1. A cantilever mounting for shelves comprising, in combination, a shelf support consisting of at least two vertically oriented support posts each having an inwardly facing U-shape in cross section defined by a rear wall, a front wall, and a connecting wall therebetween of a prescribed size, a plurality of four sided slots in a vertically spaced relation in said rear wall, a plurality of inwardly facing C-shaped three sided slots in said front wall each in horizontal alignment with a cooperating one of said four sided slots, and plural rectangular shaped shelves each having opposed end bars having smooth, generally planar horizontal upper and lower edges aligned with the upper and lower surfaces of the shelves, each of said side walls having adjacent its rear edge a hook means in its upper edge having an operative position projected through a cooperating one of said four sided slots in hooking relation under an upper edge of said four sided slot and, in a forwardly spaced relation from said hooking means the same distance as said size of said connecting post wall, an inverted V-shaped notch in said end bar lower edge having an operative position seated over a bottom edge of a cooperating one of, said horizontally aligned three sided post slots, whereby each said shelf so engaged in said four sided and three sided post slots extends in cantilever supported relation between and forwardly of said support posts.

2. A cantilever mounting for shelves as claimed in claim 1 wherein said shelf has said hook means and said inverted V-shaped notch in an opposite side thereof.