US3040904A - Frame construction for racks with adjustable shelves - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to storage and dispensing racks of the type commonly used in retail estab-lishments operating on the self-service system.
- the particular object is to provide a frame and cooperating accessories permitting the ready adjustment of the relative positions and inclinations of supporting shelves through a series of small steps.
- FIG. 1 is a perspective of ya unit storage rack
- FIG. 2 is a fragmentary elevation of a part of one of the front supports partly Ibroken away and showing how the -front edge of the shelf is supported;
- FIG. 3 is -a similar view showing how the rear edge is supported
- FIG. 4 is a perspective of the bracket or clip by which the rear edge of the shelf is engaged
- FIG. 5 is a horizontal section of the upright and bracket. The sectioning plane cuts the bracket along line 5-5 of FIG. 4;
- FIG. 6 shows two laligned uprights with their webs and flange developed or opened out into a plane and showing the relationship thereto of the brackets;
- FIG. 7 is a schematic view showing how the brackets may Ibe formed from a strip of metal.
- the present invention relates more particularly to a 3,040,904 Patented June 26, 1962 ICC construction of frame providing for the support of shelves in desired positions of elevation and with desired angles of slope.
- the purpose is to provide for a very line range of adjustment.
- the situation is quite different from that of ordinary horizontal shelves, such as those in a bookcase where positioning of the shelves with a spacing varying by increments of, say, one inch is provided Iby a movable series of lbrackets inserted in vertical series of holes on one-inch centers.
- the sides of the shelves, Ias 10, may be formed by angle irons with vertically depending anges 26 at their outer sides and extending between the inwardly facing flanges 20f of a front member 20 and 22,]c of a rear upright 22, which flanges are in the same plane.
- the front ends of the shelves are supported -by headed pins 28 projecting from flanges 26 and engaging in one of a series of bayonet slots 30' in the adjacent flange 201 of member 20.
- This provides a pivotal connection and permits Ithe shelf to lie at a variable angle determined by the point of support at the rear as on upright 22.
- the supporting means 'for the rear of the shelf is shown in FIG. 3 and comprises brackets 30 movably and adjustably mounted on the adjacent ange 22f of upright 22 by means of an array of slots 32 in the latter flange as will more fully appear.
- brackets 30 movably and adjustably mounted on the adjacent ange 22f of upright 22 by means of an array of slots 32 in the latter flange as will more fully appear.
- the major portions of the brackets 4 are at the further side of the liiange of u-pright 22 and yappear dotted in the figure.
- the bracket (see FIG. 4) has two horizontal shoulders 34 to underride the vertical flange 26 of the side member of the shelf, which, when sloped, rests on the forward one of these shoulders, and a tongue 36 arising from these shoulders overlies the flange 26 which latter is confined between the tongue and the inwardly facing ilange 22) of the channeled upright 22. Projecting beyond these shoulders are downw-ardly -facing hooks 3-8 which pass through selected slots 32 in the flange of the upright and interlock with their lower edges. 'Iihe dimensions of the throats -39 of the hooks is substantially equal to the thickness of the ange of the upright. There are two only of these hooks, one on each side of the bracket, which are vertically offset for reasons which will appear.
- the brackets are identical. 1N o rights and lefts are required.
- FIG. 7 shows a strip of metal with the outlines of blanks for the brackets indicated thereon and shows how they may be formed from such a strip, rolled into shape and severed one from another.
- the channel uprights as 22 are of identical construction (not rights and lefts) and if faced the same way, open side lforward in the figures, can serve indifferenti-ally as right hand, intermediate or left hand uprights. However considered alone they are not completely symmetrical but the right lhand lfacing ange '-221 is different (in the' arrangement of slots therein) from the left hand facing tlange 221.
- FIG. 6 the point of view is from the front and we are looking toward the open side of channeled uprights 22.
- the -gure illustrates the anges 22]c of the channel as i-f folded back into the plane of the web and what we See is the interior of the anges.
- At right and left of the gure we see simultaneously the interiors of the two uprights 22 which are in -fact at opposite sides of the shelf.
- the slotted areas at the extreme right and left would not be utilized for connection of the shelf to the uprights.V
- Each flange is pierced-by three vertical vcolumns of aligned slots 32 with their elements staggered. That is the slots are disposed inech'elon to provide ranks of aligned slots at an inclination tothe vertical as indicated by the lines 40 'at the left of FIG. 6 which pass lthrough the centers of the slots of two "such ranks. I The-vertical spacing of the centersof-adjacen't pairs of slots approximates their lengths. Therefore two horizontally aligned slots have their upper andlower ends substantially/coinciding with the lower and upper ends of slots atrespeetiyely higher and lower levels.
- brackets facin surfacethe center (viewingtheig'ure) and right vertical-col-V lurnns. If the hooks-are shifted upwardly and tol the left in the rank, the brackets take .the dotted line'po'sition with the hooks receive ⁇ d"in slots ofl the- ⁇ left hand and center vertical columns. I'he bracket is Athus adjusted to '46 positions spaced zby little ⁇ over half the vertical'dist-ance between the slots in a column When a bracket is turned around a vertical aX'ist-he upper and lower hooks exch-ange sides.
- a framed' construction comprising at least one pair of 4 uprights supporting the vends of a transverse shelf-like element extending between theuprights, the uprights' of the pair having right and left facing portions between which said element 'is received; ⁇ each uprigh'tf"consistingofA a thickness of metal having three vertical columns of verticallyelongated slots disposed inlechelon ⁇ to provideranks of aligned slots at an inclination-: to the vertical',
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US11160374B1 (en) * | 2019-10-11 | 2021-11-02 | Raymond E Davis | Height and angle adjustable commercial shelving |
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