Abstract: A sliding drawer system, containing two opposite facing slide members, two drawer glides, and a sliding drawer or wire basket. Each slide member contains a longitudinal interior channel running substantially the length of the slide member. The drawer contains an outer rim that engages and slides across a dome located at a front end of each slide member. The two drawer glides are attached to the drawer along the along the drawer's outer rim for slidable engagement with the longitudinal interior channel of the slide members. The apparatus contains features designed to reduce friction between the sliding parts so as to ease the inward and outward sliding of the drawer and to increase its effective life.

Abstract: A free-standing stacking shelf system is disclosed which includes at least two shelves, each of the shelves being provided with at least two stacking elements which are removably coupled thereto and extend downwardly therefrom. Each of the stacking elements is substantially U-shaped having first and second arms and a base extending therebetween. The arm members are removably coupled at the ends thereof to a respective shelf and include means for preventing relative vertical movement of the shelf and the stacking element coupled thereto. Each of the stacking elements also includes indented portions for engaging a next lower shelf so that the stacking element maintains adjacent shelves in vertically spaced relation. The stacking elements also preferably include a horizontally extending bar element on at least one arm thereof so as to maintain the stacking element and the shelf in a predetermined angular orientation.