US 10,441,075 B2Granted

Bottle rack and kit for bottle-supporting assembly

AssigneeStact Wine Displays Inc.

InventorsJamie Dennis Kasza, Eric John Pfeiffer

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Abstract

A bottle rack includes a bottle-supporting assembly having an elongate portion and support bars connected to the elongate portion, with the support bars being spaced longitudinally along the elongate portion and suitable to support bottles therebetween; and a panel having support bar apertures suitable for the support bars of the bottle-supporting assembly to extend through. The bottle-supporting assembly is secured onto the panel with the support bars extending through the apertures of the panel and the support bars are suitable to support the bottles such that the bottles are substantially perpendicular to the support panel. The bottle supporting assembly may be supplied in the form of a kit.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A bottle rack comprising:

a bottle-supporting member having an elongate portion and a plurality of support bars for connecting to the elongate portion, wherein, when the support bars are connected to the elongate portion, the support bars are:
spaced-apart and aligned in a row along a bottle-facing side of the elongate portion;
cantilevered from the elongate portion;
and positioned to support wine bottles therebetween such that a longitudinal axis of each of the wine bottles is substantially parallel to the support bars;
and
a pair of spaced-apart mounting brackets for mounting the bottle rack to a wall, wherein the elongate portion is connectable to the mounting brackets such that, when the elongate portion is connected to the mounting brackets, the elongate portion extends between and is supported by the mounting brackets, wherein each of the mounting brackets comprises at least one keyhole-shaped aperture, and wherein the elongate portion has at least a pair of spaced-apart, peripherally positioned protrusions insertable within the keyhole-shaped apertures for selectively connecting the elongate portion to the mounting brackets, wherein the protrusions are provided on a rear side of the elongate portion, wherein the rear side is opposite the bottle-facing side,
wherein each mounting bracket of the pair of mounting brackets comprises:
a wall-abutting portion to abut the wall when the mounting bracket is mounted to the wall, wherein the wall-abutting portion comprises one or more apertures;
and
a portion for abutting the elongate portion, comprising the at least one key-hole-shaped aperture,
and wherein the bottle rack further comprises one or more fasteners for inserting through the one or more apertures of the wall-abutting portion of each of the mounting brackets, to fasten the mounting brackets to the wall.

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A bottle rack comprising a bottle-supporting member having an elongate portion and a plurality of support bars for connecting to the elongate portion, wherein, when the support bars are connected to the elongate portion, the support bars are:

spaced-apart along the elongate portion;
cantilevered from the elongate portion;
and positioned to support wine bottles therebetween, wherein each of the support bars has a first end and a second end, the elongate portion has a plurality of bar slots on a first side of the elongate portion and spaced longitudinally along the elongate portion without extending through the elongate portion, each of the bar slots being shaped to snugly receive the first end of a support bar, each support bar being fastenable to the elongate portion by a first fastener when the first end is inserted in one of the bar slots, and wherein each support bar has a uniform cross-section from the first end to the second end.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/883,852Filed 30 Jan 2018 · continuation
Priority: 16 Jun 2012
Published: US 2018/0146781 A131 May 2018
Granted: 15 Oct 2019
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification14 codes

A47B 73/006
Bottle cupboards; Bottle racks: with modular arrangements of identical units
A47B 96/067
Brackets or similar supporting means for cabinets, racks or shelves: horizontal rails as suspension means in a cantilever arrangement
A47B 47/022
Racks or shelf units: with cantilever shelves
A47B 57/42
Consisting of hooks coacting with openings: the shelf supports being cantilever brackets

Family

Application61/660,714Us provisional application · filed 16 Jun 2012
Application13/658,568Parent of this continuation · filed 23 Oct 2012
Application14/837,563Parent of this continuation · filed 27 Aug 2015
US 9,149,115 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 6 Oct 2015
Application15/395,848Parent of this continuation · filed 30 Dec 2016
US 9,565,933 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 14 Feb 2017
US 2018/0146781 A1Pre-grant publication · published 31 May 2018
US 9,949,563 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2013/0334155 A1Published application
US 2015/0366341 A1Published application
US 2017/0105522 A1Published application
US 10,441,075 B2This patent

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