Adjustable height shelf dividers
OwnerDouglas C Bryaninventor
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Abstract
A shelf divider that is vertically and horizontally adjustable. It has a base portion that slidingly adjusts along the length of a commercial shelf and supports a vertical blade. The vertical blade may be of different fixed heights, an incrementally adjustable height or a multiple stackable blade array height. The incrementally adjustable height embodiment utilizes a pair of matingly engageable vertical blades that are positioned with respect to each other to achieve the desired height and locked into position with a ratchet locking system.
Claims6
A vertically, incrementally adjustable one-piece shelf divider having a lowered vertical configuration and a variable raised vertical configuration, comprising:
- a lower blade base assembly having a slideable, adjustable horizontal shelf bracket and a lower blade which extends perpendicularly from a rear edge of a top face of said horizontal shelf bracket;
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- an, upper blade that is slidably constrained to said lower blade so as to make a one-piece shelf divider, and is incrementally vertically adjustable above a top edge of said lower blade;
- wherein said lower blade is vertically corrugated, having a first alternating series of vertical ridges and grooves formed there across;
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- wherein said upper blade has a second alternating series of vertical ridges and grooves formed there across;
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- wherein said first and said second alternating series of vertical ridges and grooves make said upper blade and said lower blade matingly engageable;
- wherein said upper blade and said lower blade reside adjacent and parallel to each other when said shelf divider is in the lowered configuration.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.