Cantilever Support Patents (Class 108/108)
  • Patent number: 5167191
    Abstract: An upright shelf unit with cantilevered shelves for mounting to the carriage of a mobile storage system. The shelf unit is assembled from a pair of end uprights mounted to the carriage and spaced apart from each other, and at least one interior upright mounted to the carriage between the end uprights, to form pairs of adjacent uprights. Each of the uprights has slots formed therein to accommodate a plurality of shelves. Each shelf has hooks at each end for engaging with the slots of an upright at each end. The interior upright is constructed of a pair of channels facing together. Welded between the two channels is a trapezoidal gusset and above that a rectangular reinforcing member, both having the same thickness. The top end of the gusset and the bottom end of the reinforcing member butt together about halfway up the upright. The width of the reinforcing member and the top end of the gusset are approximately the width of the channels, the thickness being the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 1, 1992
    Assignee: Spacesaver Corporation
    Inventor: James C. Muth
  • Patent number: 5161701
    Abstract: An installation shelf arrangement or like storage arrangement comprising cantilever arms projecting substantially horizontally from substantially vertical uprights, in particular for the storage of long material, wherein the cantilever arms are each connected to the respective upright by a bolt-like member which passes through openings in the cantilever arm and apertures in the upright is to be simplified and made suitable for use for higher loads. For that purpose the upright (14) which carries the cantilever arms (16) has two channel-like profiles (24) which face towards each other with their open sides, and at least one transverse member (26, 27) which connects the profiles at a spacing (a) and which is fixed at both ends to a pair of substantially aligned profile limbs (38).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 1990
    Date of Patent: November 10, 1992
    Assignee: Sipag Storage Systems and Industrial Products AG
    Inventor: Roger Berny
  • Patent number: 5156096
    Abstract: An anti-rotational outdoor shelf (1) where an unobstructed surfaces (3) is supported from below. Multi-dimensional stability is provided by legs (4) angled with respect to a central axis (C--C) to transform load forces into stabilizing forces. Undesirable tipping, rotation, and revolution about a support member are addressed. A gap between surfaces (3) and the natural support, such as a tree, together with smooth legs (4) allows vertical sliding to avoid the need for tight attachment. The design compacts when not temporarily installed through slidable connections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 1991
    Date of Patent: October 20, 1992
    Inventor: John P. Lamprey
  • Patent number: 5154388
    Abstract: Disclosed is a bracket or adapter for a shelving system using slotted mounting supports, in which the bracket has a single tab to provide a universal fit; a shelving system using such bracket; and a method for creating a shelving system with such a bracket to eliminate the need for inventorying a wide variety of brackets to fit the mounting supports of different manufacturers. The bracket has a notch between a main body of the bracket and the tab, with the lower end of a slot to be accommodated in the notch, the tab being passed into the slot. The tab has a supporting surface to provide against an inside face of the mounting support over a wide variety of slot sizes, and the main body has an elongated rearwardly facing surface to abut against an outside face of the mounting support. The tab is configured to facilitate insertion into slots of various lengths and various depths. A flange on the bracket is provided with elongated slots to compensaate for different shelving lengths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 1991
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1992
    Assignee: C. A. Reed Incorporated
    Inventor: Frank M. Magaro
  • Patent number: 5125727
    Abstract: An improved adjustable assembly for supporting a monitor or the like under a transparent window portion of a desk top member or like structure. The assembly incorporates a shelf member which is supported at each lateral end thereof by a side support. The shelf member is preferably so supported by a locking block arrangement for each of a total of four supporting shaft members that outwardly extend from the shelf member. The position of the shelf member in relation to the side support is adjustable for height and tilting purposes. The shelf member and the side supports are formed of wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1991
    Date of Patent: June 30, 1992
    Assignee: Nova Office Furniture, Inc.
    Inventors: John N. Lechman, Thomas Wegman
  • Patent number: 5116007
    Abstract: An eccentric disc lock bracket for releasable engagement with a support member having a plurality of vertically spaced slots comprises an eccentric disc lock and a cantilever bracket including an end portion having an axle receiving aperture and a pair of seating hooks outwardly extending from a rear edge of the end portion vertically positioned one above the other and dimensioned to be receivable into a pair of vertically spaced slots of the support member. The bracket is locked to the support member by an eccentric disc lock having an axle and a pair of wheels axially aligned to each other of essentially alike diameter on opposite ends of the axle spaced apart from each other a distance greater than the thickness of the cantilever bracket. The axle is positioned is an axle receiving aperture of the end portion of the bracket and may be retained therein by a retention nub on the outer periphery of the receiving aperture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 26, 1992
    Assignee: E.Z. Shelf Company
    Inventors: Lee L. Von Gunton, Glen C. Hook
  • Patent number: 5097771
    Abstract: A shelf unit includes side panels and top and bottom shelves that extend between the side panels. The shelves are coupled to the side panels. The side panels each have plural interior cavities that are open at the rear edges of the side panels. The cavities are adapted to receive wall mounting brackets that project out from a wall. The rear edge of each side panel has a channel for receiving a shelf standard or wall mounting strip. The shelf unit is installed onto a wall by pushing the unit towards the wall, with the brackets being received by the cavities and the mounting strips being received by the channels. When installed, the mounting hardware is concealed from view. Another embodiment utilizes side panels without interior cavities. Instead, the side panels each have a channel along their respective rear edges. Wall standards, having keyhole shaped slots, are received by the channels. Fasteners are located in each channel and are coupled to the side panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 24, 1992
    Inventor: J. Hatcher James, III
  • Patent number: 5083514
    Abstract: A vertically adjustable free-standing work station including a first pair of vertically oriented, free-standing, spaced rails (5) mounted on feet which rest on the floor, a second pair of vertically oriented rails (6) individually, slidably, interlockingly disposed in the first pair of rails (5), a pair of support brackets (3) individually mounted on the second pair of rails (6), a work surface (4) supported by the support brackets (3), a pair of interconnecting channels (7, 8) for respectively interconnecting the first and second pairs of rails (5, 6) and a drive mechanism coupled between the interconnecting channels to move the channels toward or away from each other so as to attendantly displace the work surface (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 28, 1992
    Assignee: Edtech Company
    Inventors: Edward M. Schwartz, Wilburn D. Everman
  • Patent number: 5080311
    Abstract: A unitary shelf bracket for mounting to vertically spaced holes in a vertical side member to support the ends of a shelf wherein the bracket is self-adjusting and shelf-locking. The bracket is formed of a tough resiliently flexible plastic and has a backplate portion having front and back surfaces and a shelf support member extending horizontally outward normal to the front surface adjacent a bottom end thereof. There is a first peg lying on a centerline of the backplate portion, sized to fit into the holes, and extending outward normal to the back surface adjacent a top end thereof. There is also a second peg similar to the first to fit into another adjacent hole. A plurality of first fingers extend downward from adjacent the top end of the backplate at an acute angle thereto and terminate in respective bottom edges parallel to the shelf support member at different spaced distances therefrom. A pair of upward tilted second fingers are disposed at respective side edges of the shelf support member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 14, 1992
    Inventor: Hartley A. Engstrom
  • Patent number: 5074422
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 24, 1991
    Inventor: Jonathan J. Holtz
  • Patent number: 5072839
    Abstract: A display stand assembly is provided which includes elongate upright support members and a plurality of horizontally disposed, vertically spaced product-support units removably mounted on the support members. Any unit may be readily assembled on or disassembled independently from the support members without disturbing adjoining units disposed above or below same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 17, 1991
    Assignee: Myco, Inc.
    Inventor: A. Jeanne Arnone
  • Patent number: 5069408
    Abstract: A shelving assembly having vertical standards and cantilever brackets, and an elongated generally U-shaped cover over each standard. The cover flanges laterally stabilize the bracket. The brackets have V-shaped upper recesses interfitting with slotted hemispherical shelving mounts fitted in the upper edge recesses of the brackets, each mount having a tapered slot configuration complementary to the recess configuration, and having an upper adhesive pad and a vertical jack for temporarily holding a shelf up off the adhesive. The jacks are shiftable down under limited predetermined force to lower the shelf onto the adhesive for anchoring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 3, 1991
    Assignee: Knape & Vogt Manufacturing Company
    Inventor: Walter L. Bessinger
  • Patent number: 5054404
    Abstract: Showroom furniture construction system, composed of: a in mounted situation vertical stand, consisting of two vertical profile beams (1), which, on the top and bottom, are connected by cross beams (2), whereby the two vertical profile beams (1) are fitted with a groove (3) in longitudinal direction, in the bottom of which at desired distances a number of pin holes (4) is fixed: distance blocks (6) of which the pins (5) fit into the holes (4) of the groove (3): place-tray at one side and at one end fitted with protruding pins or pin holes (9): place-tray (8) supporting beams (12), at the top fitted with pin holes of protruding pins (10): place-tray supports (11), at one end fitted with two protruding pins (10) at the side planes and the bottom of the side planes fitted with a rectangular recess: vertical, compound supporting beam, at the inner surfaces of two parallel vertical beams, fitted with grooves at regular distances and starting from the long sides: locking blocks (13 ), fitted with protruding pins at
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 8, 1991
    Inventor: George Melgers
  • Patent number: 5042398
    Abstract: A refrigeration apparatus includes a door shelf support system comprising an inner door panel and removable shelf trim pieces. The inner door panel includes vertical dikes having vertically spaced slots. The shelf trim piece includes rearwardly extending hooks receivable in the slots and having raised hemispheric detents which cooperate with the slots to provide a snap fit between the inner door panel and the hooks to provide a tight fit which ensures that the shelves stay in place during shipment and maintain the desired snug fit during the useful life.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 27, 1991
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: Robert G. Lau, Sam D. Lively, Vay G. Johnson, John F. Cobb
  • Patent number: 5038689
    Abstract: A book restraint assembly for shelving such as used in libraries. The book restraint assembly has a tubular restraint member that extends the length of the shelf assembly. End plates are positioned adjacent the opposite end of the tubular restraint member and each have a rivet that passes through an aperture therein with the shank of the rivet being received into the respective opposite ends of the tubular restraint member and secured therein. The rear ends of the end plates have a tab extending rearwardly and downwardly and these tabs are detachably received in the end tab slots of post members of a range library book shelf so that the end plates may be pivoted upwardly a predetermined height to allow the tubular restraint member to clear the height of any book on the shelf platform thus allowing them to be removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 1990
    Date of Patent: August 13, 1991
    Inventor: James C. Duffy
  • Patent number: 5022539
    Abstract: A display for supporting merchandise includes a two-sided tray having a flat surface on one side and on the reverse side, a surface adapted to engage peg hooks. The tray is pivotably connected to a vertical support structure by means of a bracket that connects at one portion to the tray and at another portion to the support structure. In one position of the tray, the flat surface is horizontal and merchandise may be placed on top of the tray. In a second position of the tray, the tray is vertical with the hook engaging means exposed. Latching means maintains the tray in the vertical position when the hook engaging mode of use is desired. A plurality of trays are supported, one over the other on the support structure and each tray may be positioned individually in the horizontal or vertical position without regard to the orientation of any other tray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 1990
    Date of Patent: June 11, 1991
    Assignee: Marlboro Marketing, Inc.
    Inventors: Tatsuo Rushing, Christopher Kidd
  • Patent number: 5022541
    Abstract: In a soft drink merchandising gondola, a base shelf is convertible from a horizontal to a forwardly or rearwardly inclined condition by a reversible adapter interposable between the base shelf and a base shelf support. The adapter comprises a pair of wedges and a brace, and can be taken down, reassembled in compact form, and stowed underneath the base shelf when the base shelf is horizontal. The brace engages the elements of the base shelf support, to prevent horizontal movement of the brace along the direction of its length. Each wedge-shaped element has a split tab, receivable in either of two slots in the upper surface of a base shelf support element, and accessible by a screwdriver from the side of the base for spreading the tab elements to lock the tab in its slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 11, 1991
    Assignee: The Mead Corporation
    Inventor: O. Timothy White
  • Patent number: 5020758
    Abstract: A shelf bracket having an open mouth in the form of a U-shaped member which is adapted to be connected to a surface and extend outwardly therefrom, the lower flange of the bracket extending beneath a shelf, when the shelf is positioned and having a brace which extends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 1990
    Date of Patent: June 4, 1991
    Assignee: B. R. Products Pty. Limited
    Inventor: Bert Rawlyk
  • Patent number: 5014952
    Abstract: A one-piece clip simultaneously supports and grips a shelf when the clip is secured between a support pole and the shelf edge by a screw which penetrates the pole, the clip and the shelf consecutively. The longitudinal clip is die-cut and has a central base portion which abuts an indentation in the pole. An aperture centered in the clip base portion is aligned with screw holes horizontally penetrating the pole prior to insertion of the screw. Parallel arms extend up from the base portion of the clip, elbows attached thereto connect angled arms which extend outwardly and terminate in clip ends which flushly abut the exterior surface of the support pole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 14, 1991
    Assignee: Adestia Corporation
    Inventor: Dimitri Petrohilos
  • Patent number: 5004201
    Abstract: A shelving assembly having vertical standards and cantilever brackets, and an elongated cover over each standard. The cover has slots coinciding with the standard slots but of greater length. The cover webs between the slots are shorter than the standard webs. The bracket holds the cover vertically in place. The cover flanges laterally stabilize the bracket. The brackets have lugs that extend through slots on the cover and slots on the standard, and engage behind webs on the standard between the slots. The spaces between the lug front faces and the rear edge of the bracket have receiving portions of a width to receive both standard webs and cover webs. The bracket rear edge also has abutment portions adjacent the bottom of the bracket engaging exposed standard web surface not covered by cover web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 1989
    Date of Patent: April 2, 1991
    Assignee: Knape & Vogt Manufacturing Company
    Inventor: Walter L. Bessinger
  • Patent number: 5004200
    Abstract: A fitting for boards, particularly for shelf boards. The fitting includes a support member arranged in the board and a fastening member which engages a groove of the support member and is adapted to be mounted on the wall component. The fastening member has a groove-like recess which extends transversely of the direction of insertion of the fastening member. A locking disk is rotatably mounted in the support member for engaging the recess of the fastening member. The locking disk releases the fastening member when the locking disk is in the unlocked position. In the locked position, the fitting cannot be disengaged when an impact occurs from below.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 1989
    Date of Patent: April 2, 1991
    Assignee: Hafele KG
    Inventor: Rudiger Walz
  • Patent number: 5004202
    Abstract: A shelving assembly having vertical standards and brackets thereon suspending shelves therebetween by telescopic mounting connectors telescopically fitted into and projecting from openings as in reinforcing beams recessed into the bottom of the shelves. The mounting connectors extend into openings in the brackets. These openings are in alternate pairs to allow the shelf to be in either of two positions, preferably horizontal or tilted diagonally. The connectors have peripheral grooves configured to interengage with the plate type brackets, there being three such grooves so they can support one end of one shelf on a bracket or the adjacent ends of two shelves on a common bracket. Glass shelves can be mounted on these book end brackets using socket shelf mounts having a receiving socket in a body, an outer shelf support surface, and a resilient clip for attachment to the shelf.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 1989
    Date of Patent: April 2, 1991
    Assignee: Knape & Vogt Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: William E. Stumpf, Casey L. Carlson, Richard S. Knape, Walter L. Bessinger
  • Patent number: 5002248
    Abstract: A shelving assembly having vertical standards and brackets thereon suspending shelves therebetween by steel mounting pins projecting from channels in reinforcing beams recessed into the bottom of the shelves. The mounting pins extend into openings in the brackets. These openings, when in the form of recesses in the upper edge of the brackets, are configured with an overhand lip to prevent shelf tipping. These openings, when in bookend brackets are in alternate pairs to allow the shelf to be horizontal or tilted diagonally.The pins have a steel core, preferably jacketed with polymer having an integral peripheral flexible fin for a friction fit in the channels. These pins have peripheral grooves configured to interengage with plate type brackets. The pins have three such grooves so that they can serve to support one end of one shelf on the bracket or the adjacent ends of two shelves on a common bracket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 26, 1991
    Assignee: Knape & Vogt Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Richard S. Knape, William E. Stumpf, Casey L. Carlson, Walter L. Bessinger
  • Patent number: 4984759
    Abstract: A container support for supporting a plastic bag having straps is formed by two plastic elongate arm members each having slots for receiving the straps. The elongate arm members are attached to a supporting surface such as a wall or the back surface of a cabinet door by using screws or the like. The arm members are formed with cavities for storing the screws such as during shipping. The arm members are formed by vertical and horizontal reinforcing ribs which are sandwiched by solid flat plastic faces. The slots have a tapering shape with bottom portions that are wider than the adjoining portion of the slot, so that the bag straps are prevented from working out of the slots. At an end of the arm members remote from the supporting surface, apertures are formed for supporting a dowel or rod or the like to support a dish towel or the like. The arm members are also adapted for receiving a plastic shelf member having legs which fit into the slots, instead of the straps of the bag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 1989
    Date of Patent: January 15, 1991
    Inventor: Sigmund Perlant
  • Patent number: 4966343
    Abstract: A shelving assembly having vertical standards and cantilever brackets, an elongated generally U-shaped cover over each standard, its legs being resiliently biased toward the standard, and there being a space extending in from the apex of the cover and straddled by flanges which integrally join a cross piece forming webs and vertically spaced slots generally coinciding with slots in the standard. The legs hold the cover on the standard. The bracket holds the cover vertically in place. The cover flanges laterally stabilize the bracket. Caps and collars project from the ends of the standards. The brackets have slotted shelving mounts fitted in upper edge recesses of the brackets, each mount having an upper adhesive pad and a vertical jack for temporarily holding a shelf up off the adhesive. The jacks are shiftable down under limited predetermined force to lower the shelf onto the adhesive for anchoring. A wire clip for guiding an electric wire is attachable to the standard by lug engagement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 30, 1990
    Assignee: Knape & Vogt Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Walter L. Bessinger, William E. Stumpf, Casey L. Carlson
  • Patent number: 4951908
    Abstract: A closet shelf bracket pair formed of sheet metal having a flat main body with channels and supports defined in the main body by tabs bent from the main body for the purpose of guiding and supporting a load bearing member and a shelf board. Also, the main body of the shelf bracket pair provides a means for attachment of the shelf bracket pair to the interior opposing side walls of a closet and aligning the mounting hardware used for attachment with an interior wall stud. Each bracket is identical in features except they are a mirror image to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 1989
    Date of Patent: August 28, 1990
    Assignee: James H. Kallio
    Inventor: James H. Kallio
  • Patent number: 4934645
    Abstract: A shelving assembly mountable on conventional vertical, slotted standards. The shelving assembly includes a shelf and brackets permitting movement of the shelf on the brackets between a rear merchandising position and a forward stocking position, and permitting movement into selected horizontal and inclined merchandising positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 19, 1990
    Assignee: RTC Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: David S. Breslow
  • Patent number: 4934642
    Abstract: A support bracket comprises a substantially vertical wall, an upper horizontal wall extending substantially transversely to the vertical wall, the upper horizontal wall having a lower surface, and a lower horizontal wall substantially parallel to the upper horizontal wall, the lower horizontal wall having an upper surface. The upper and lower horizontal walls define a space which, in use, receives a shelf to be supported by the upper and lower walls in cantilever fashion. Track means are provided in the lower surface of the upper horizontal wall and the upper surface of the lower horizontal wall. Adjuster insert means are used in cooperation with the track means, the adjuster insert means having a tracking portion which registers with the track means to securely hold the adjuster insert means relative to the upper and lower horizontal walls respectively. The track means comprise a recess with a projection therein dividing the recess into two channeled grooves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 19, 1990
    Assignee: Australian Slatwall Industries Pty Ltd.
    Inventors: Peter Baron, Brian Levy
  • Patent number: 4928832
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to an adjustable merchandise display rack and, more particularly, to a display rack having a base structure, vertical standards extending upwardly at spaced positions along the base structure, and angled legs fixed to the base structure outwardly of the vertical standards at their lower end and which at their upper end are attached to the vertical standards in a manner accommodating some lateral misalignment of the leg with respect to the standard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 1988
    Date of Patent: May 29, 1990
    Assignee: Hamilton Fixture Company
    Inventor: John L. Overmann
  • Patent number: 4929116
    Abstract: A coupler assembly is disclosed which is adapted for interconnecting pieces of corrugated sheet material and includes a female member having a back wall and receiving portion mounted on one side of the back wall. A male connecting member couples to the female member and includes front and rear flanges, with the rear flange dimensioned to rotatably fit within the receiving portion, and so that the members may be connected in a selected rotational orientation. A hub interconnects the flanges and a flat planar tab is joined to the side of the front flange opposite the hub for insertion within corrugated sheet material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1988
    Date of Patent: May 29, 1990
    Assignee: Chesapeake Display and Packaging Company
    Inventor: Robert R. Mahl
  • Patent number: 4909465
    Abstract: A shelf clip for removably mounting a shelf on a wall, bookcase or the like. The shelf clip has two mounting posts extending rearwardly from an upstanding member for insertion into a pair of holes in the mounting wall. Retaining members extend from the front face of the upstanding member and are spring biased into an outward position. The retaining members include sharp ridges for engaging the edgewall of the shelf. When a shelf is placed on the clip, a force exerted by the shelf on the retaining members displaces them backwards towards the mounting wall and at least partially into a pair of slots formed in the upstanding member behind the retaining members. This creates a force on the upper mounting post to more firmly seat the post into the mounting wall hole and causes the retaining members to securely bit into the shelf edgewall. The retaining members have a shaped knife-like edge to prevent lateral movement of the shelf.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1988
    Date of Patent: March 20, 1990
    Assignee: Ly-Line Products
    Inventor: Leon B. Lyman
  • Patent number: 4901965
    Abstract: A support assembly in which a standard and a support bracket are provided with interengaging components for securing the support bracket in a selected vertical position relative to the standard. The standard has two opposed, spaced surfaces between which are received a pair of locking tabs projecting from one side of the support bracket. Each locking tab is generally rectangular in cross section and is angled to present a sharp horizontally extending corner. When these locking tabs are positioned between the faces of the standard, and the free end of the support bracket is tilted downwardly, the upper latching tab moves toward and bites into a pair of ribs projecting from one of the opposed surfaces while the lower latching tab moves in the opposite direction to bite into a pair of projecting ribs from the opposite surface. When this occurs, the support bracket is fixed relative to the standard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 20, 1990
    Inventor: Thomas C. Bowman
  • Patent number: 4895331
    Abstract: A cantilevered shelf support for installation on a vertically extending channel having a face containing a longitudinally extending slot bordered by inwardly projecting flanges. The shelf support has a mounting bracket which is aligned and bolted to the vertical channel. A support bracket having a horizontally shelf engaging surface is aligned and assembled to the mounting plate without further hardware.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1989
    Date of Patent: January 23, 1990
    Assignee: Unistrut International Corp.
    Inventor: Charles O. Nehls
  • Patent number: 4881708
    Abstract: The shelf is constructed, so that it can easily be dismantled, from a frame which can be suspended on a supporting device (1) and which consists of a pair of lateral brackets (3, 3') and of a front and a rear longitudinal member (4, 5), and from a resting surface releasable from the frame. The brackets and longitudinal members are connected to one another, to form a torsion-resistant constructional part, and can be equipped with selectively usable resting surfaces, to make it possible to satisfy changing requirements as regards the display of articles at a very low outlay in terms of assembly time, stockkeeping and investment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 1987
    Date of Patent: November 21, 1989
    Assignee: Protoned B.V.
    Inventor: Herbert Walter
  • Patent number: 4871136
    Abstract: A cantilever shelf bracket assembly, of which the vertical wall engagement member, the horizontal platform and the overhanging retention member together define the respective inner end, bottom and top of a shelf receiving throat; a resilient cushion and interlock member adhered to the shelf with one leg extending between the shelf inner edge and the inner end of the throat, and the second leg being between the top of the shelf and the overhanging retention member; there being mutually facing interlock grooves extending in from the ends of the bracket, removable end caps and protrusions that interfit into the interlock grooves for securing the shelf in the bracket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 1987
    Date of Patent: October 3, 1989
    Assignee: Knape & Vogt Manufacturing Co.
    Inventors: Walter L. Bessinger, Michael J. Hogan
  • Patent number: 4854535
    Abstract: A shelf mounting system (100) is provided for releasably coupling a display shelf (10) to a substantially vertical planar surface (44) of a vertical support (40). The shelf mounting system (100) includes a bracket member (30) having a substantially vertically directed slot (38) at a first end (37). The bracket member (30) is adapted for coupling to a slotted standard (40) by a pair of hook shaped projections (32and 34) on a second end (39). Shelf mounting system (100) further includes an adaptor assembly (20) wherein an adaptor (22) is fixedly coupled on a first end (21) to a display shelf (10) and releasably coupled to the bracket member (30). The adaptor (20) further includes a pin (28) fixedly coupled within a pair of aligned poles (25 and 27) which engages the slot (38) of mounting bracket (30).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 1987
    Date of Patent: August 8, 1989
    Assignee: Russell William, Ltd.
    Inventors: Russell K. Winter, Thomas D. Harvey, Nedim Savas, Richard S. Kain
  • Patent number: 4850285
    Abstract: Sheet metal convenience store shelving utilizes shelf-supporting frame-modules, each of which comprises a prefabricated frame rigidly connectable to a pair of shoes to provide free-standing units. Shelves are supportable on both sides of the frames, and the rear edges of the shelves are notched to receive the frame uprights. Each frame holds a removable backing panel, and additional backing panels extend between adjacent frames, being held in side channels of the frame uprights.The shelves are mounted on the uprights by the engagement of generally horizontally sheet metal shelf tabs with T-shaped slots in the uprights. The tabs extend laterally almost the full interior width of the uprights for optimum strength. As the shelves extend beyond the frame uprights, provision is made to prevent accidental disengagement due to excess weight on an overhanging part of a shelf.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 1984
    Date of Patent: July 25, 1989
    Assignee: Royston Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventor: James M. Suttles
  • Patent number: 4830323
    Abstract: A shelf support (10) for supporting a shelf perpendicular to a cabinet wall is disclosed. The shelf support comprises a body portion (20) provided with a post (32) by which the shelf support can be secured to the cabinet wall with the back of the body portion against the wall, a ledge member (12) projecting from the front of the body portion (20) for supporting the edge portion of a shelf, and an upper portion (16) carried by the body portion and having a shelf-engaging edge (18) which projects outwardly from the front of the body portion and is spaced from the ledge by substantially the thickness of the shelf whereby the shelf can be supported on the ledge and engaged from above by the shelf-engaging edge (18). The body portion (20) includes two limbs (22, 24) which support the upper portion (16) at its lateral extremeties, and the upper portion includes a V-shaped part which provides the shelf-engaging edge (18).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 1988
    Date of Patent: May 16, 1989
    Assignee: Titus Tool Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: David N. Harley
  • Patent number: 4821892
    Abstract: A shelving system comprising a shelf, a vertical support structure, and a shelf bracket. The shelf bracket consists of a base member and a fastener to secure the base member to a vertical support structure, a lower support ledge extending outwardly from the base member, and an upper gripper arm also extending outwardly from the base member. The upper gripper arm and lower support ledge are arranged to form an opening therebetween for the reception of a shelf. A knife edge is formed an integral part of the upper gripper arm and is arranged to penetrate and mechanically interlock with the shelf, which interlocking increases with increased cantilever loading of the shelf.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 1988
    Date of Patent: April 18, 1989
    Assignee: Newell Co.
    Inventor: Harold M. Randall
  • Patent number: 4819900
    Abstract: A heavy duty garage shelf assembly having shelf brackets that may be easily moved up or down and adjusted in place. The assembly is comprised of two steel vertical support tubes that are each bolted to a wall by a clamp at the top and a shoe-clamp at the bottom; and a number of shelf brackets. The shelf-brackets are made of steel tubing welded to form a cantilevered right triangle, with the base of the triangle being a tube that fits over the vertical support tubes and can slide up and down. The shelves are 0.75 in. thick in 1 in. thick wood plywood and are bolted to the shelf brackets. The garage shelf assembly, when using 11/2 inch diameter vertical support tubes, is capable of supporting up to 200 pounds total load on its shelves. For heavier loads, larger diameter vertical support tubes of 1.75 inch or 2 inches diameter should be used. The shelves can be extended in length by the addition of a vertical support tube and shelf brackets a distance apart at either end of the assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 1988
    Date of Patent: April 11, 1989
    Inventor: George W. Funk
  • Patent number: 4817538
    Abstract: Construction system for shelves comprising shelves and rear panelling plates, and in which the shelves at their rear end are insertable in upright or wall mounted consoles from which the shelves are cantilevered. The consoles are hidden behind the vertically extending rear panelling plates which are mounted horizontally spaced from the uprights or from the wall. Each console constitutes a horizontally mounted profile support rail for continuously supporting at least one shelf along its rear edge engaging its top side and its bottom side along rear edge zones of which the top side edge zone is closer to the rear edge of the shelf than the bottom side edge zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 1984
    Date of Patent: April 4, 1989
    Assignee: Bang & Olufsen of America, Inc.
    Inventor: Jorgen Michaelsen
  • Patent number: 4805863
    Abstract: A brace for a shelf support extending outwardly from an upright includes an elongated member having first and second ends, a first means on the first end of the elongated member for releasably securing the brace to an upright at a position below the shelf support, a second means on the second end of the elongated member for releasably securing the brace to the shelf support, the second means being pivotally connected to the elongated member so as to provide adjustablility of the angle between the elongated member and the second means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 1987
    Date of Patent: February 21, 1989
    Assignee: Armstrong Store Fixture Corporation
    Inventors: Bruce Armstrong, William Pfeifer
  • Patent number: 4799434
    Abstract: A free-standing shelf assembly includes a plurality of interchangeable corner shelf members which are supported in cantilever fashion around the outside corners of the box-like support structure. The walls of the support structure include arrays of elongate, horizontally-oriented slots. Brace members inside the support structure include a plurality of pockets which correspond to the slots and are coplanar therewith. The corner shelf members each include a pair of projecting tangs which are adapted to pass through the slots in adjacent walls and are received in the pockets of the brace members to provide in-line cantilever support for the corner shelf members, including the portions which extend around the corners. An alternative embodiment without brace members employs the cooperation between a slot and a tang associated with one wall to provide cantilever support for the portion of the corner shelf associated with the adjacent wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 1987
    Date of Patent: January 24, 1989
    Assignee: Newood Products of Oregon, Inc.
    Inventor: Gerald S. Moshofsky
  • Patent number: 4793267
    Abstract: A v-shaped shelf structure has a horizontal shelf part with one end adapted for mounting to a wall and a brace part extending downwardly and rearwardly for the second end of the shelf part, the brace part having an end which rests on the wall, thereby providing support for the shelf part. The shelf structure is provided with mounting means which are invisible when the shelf structure is attached to the wall. The shelf structure in one embodiment contains a honey comb member which comprises the inner portion of the shelf structure, thereby providing a lightweight yet strong shelf.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 1986
    Date of Patent: December 27, 1988
    Inventor: Benjamin Birillo
  • Patent number: 4777888
    Abstract: A shelf arrangement adapted to be mounted on an upright wall in cantilevered relationship thereto, which arrangement includes a wire shelf releasably supported by a pair of underlying brackets. The brackets attach to and project in cantilevered relationship from the wall by wall clamps which fixedly attach to the wall. Each bracket has upper and lower legs which, at their rearward ends, terminate in a pair of sidewardly-spaced leg portions which terminate in a pair of sidewardly-spaced hooks which engage a respective wall clamp. The wall clamp has sidewardly-spaced hook receiving parts, and also has a center part which accommodates fasteners for direct attachment to a wall, particularly to an underlying wall stud. A pair of shelf supports project upwardly from the bracket and have, at their upper ends, rearwardly-opening hook parts which engage front and rear support rods which are fixed to the shelf and extend longitudinally thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 18, 1988
    Assignee: United Steel & Wire Company
    Inventors: Dewey J. Waterman, David V. Kavnor
  • Patent number: 4775125
    Abstract: A retainer for securing a shelf support to a wall. The retainer comprises a base having a first side for facing a wall and an oppositely facing second side. First and second spaced, generally parallel projections, extend generally perpendicularly outwardly from the second side of the base. A recess-engaging section extends generally perpendicularly outwardly from the second side of the base, between and generally parallel to the projections, and is adapted to be received within a recess in an end of a shelf support when the end of the shelf support is received between the projections. Means are disposed on the base for variably spacing the retainer from a wall. When the shelf support is disposed between the projections of the retainer, and the wall engaging means of the shelf support is inserted within a groove in the planar surface of the wall and engages a vertical member disposed within the wall, the projections inhibit lateral movement of the shelf support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 1987
    Date of Patent: October 4, 1988
    Assignee: Armstrong Store Fixture Corporation
    Inventor: William Pfeifer
  • Patent number: 4756430
    Abstract: A gravity feed shelf includes a plurality of chutes mounted on a rectangular frame having front and rear cross supports interconnected at their ends with a pair of side supports, the corner junctions between adjacent ends of the rear cross support and the side supports being formed by a lost motion connection in which front and back tabs on a support panel integral with each side support slide in slots formed in downwardly projecting elements of the rear cross support to accommodate sidewise motion of the side supports relative to the rear cross support so that variations in the horizontal spacing between vertical support posts on which the shelf is mounted due to manufacturing or installation procedures may be accommodated since the interconnection between these support posts and the shelf is via the rear ends of the side supports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 1987
    Date of Patent: July 12, 1988
    Assignee: The Mead Corporation
    Inventors: William S. Spamer, David S. Leverette
  • Patent number: 4736997
    Abstract: A household refrigerator shelf assembly comprising a removable rigid unitary frame having two spaced apart shelf brackets, a front horizontal support member and a rear horizontal support member, both being rigidly attached to and spanning the distance between the brackets. The rear horizontal support member as viewed in lateral cross-section has a vertical wall at the top and a depending rearwardly directed horizontal flange terminating in a downwardly directed terminal end portion spaced rearwardly from the vertical wall, the bottom of the vertical wall having a forwardly directed horizontal flange with a downwardly directed rib. There is a reflector member attached to the rear horizontal support member and spanning the distance between the brackets. The reflector member as viewed in lateral cross-section has an upper vertical portion with a right angle bend at the bottom and a bottom portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1987
    Date of Patent: April 12, 1988
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: John K. Besore, Bruce L. Ruark
  • Patent number: 4733841
    Abstract: A hanger bracket for attaching a furniture component to an upright wall. The component has end panels each provided with a substantially identical bracket adapted for engagement with slots formed in an upright. The bracket is formed in one piece of a thin sheetlike metal plate which is oriented vertically closely adjacent the respective end panel. The bracket has a forward end fixed to the end panel, and a cantilevered spring part which projects rearwardly adjacent the end panel in sidewardly spaced relationship so that it can be sidewardly resiliently deflected. This spring part, at the rearward edge thereof, has L-shaped hooks projecting rearwardly for engagement with the respective slotted upright. The spring part also has a locking finger integrally associated therewith adjacent the free edge thereof, which locking finger has a rearwardly protruding hose which registers with and projects into one of the slots only when the hooks are seated on the upright.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 1986
    Date of Patent: March 29, 1988
    Assignee: Haworth, Inc.
    Inventor: Harold R. Wilson
  • Patent number: D295950
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 1986
    Date of Patent: May 31, 1988
    Assignee: Arbell Inc.
    Inventor: Robert J. Johnston