A47B 96/021
Structural features of shelf bases
Official title: {Structural features of shelf bases}
A47B96/021 (Structural features of shelf bases) appears on 443 US grants and 484 published applications in this corpus.
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Display rack for shelves211US 5,458,248 AGeorge S.A. · 1995
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