US 11,696,640 B2Granted

Shelving system

AssigneeLego A/S

InventorsRikke Høgstrup Mølgaard, Søren Hansen Hinge, Søren Holm

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Abstract

A shelving system comprising at least one back panel and at least one block element, the back panel comprises a substantially planar surface, and where the at least one block element is mounted on the back panel, wherein the back panel comprises at least two areas, a first area of the at least one back panel comprising protrusions; the protrusions being mutually identical and positioned on the planar surface in grid points of a regular two dimensional grid; and a second area of the at least one back panel comprises the at least one block element, the block element extending in a distance corresponding to one or multiple of a standard module size in a plane parallel to the planar surface of the back panel in two mutually perpendicular directions defined by grid points of a regular two dimensional grid.

Claims19

Dependent claims

A shelving system comprising:

at least one back panel defining a planar surface, the at least one back panel comprising circular projections positioned on the planar surface in grid points of a two dimensional grid;
at least one block base coupled to the back panel and devoid of any circular projections, the at least one block base having a plurality of upstanding block base support walls forming a foundation with an internal cavity;
and
at least one block element defining a plurality of block element side walls forming a cover, the block element side walls aligned complementary to an alignment of the upstanding block base support walls such that the block element side walls are configured to snugly enclose the upstanding block base support walls within the cover,
wherein:
the at least one block element extends a distance corresponding to a multiple of a standard module size in a plane parallel to the planar surface of the at least one back panel in two mutually perpendicular directions defined by the grid points of the two dimensional grid, and
the at least one back panel is configured to mount vertically such that a portion of the plurality of block element side walls serve as shelving space.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/637,222Filed 16 Aug 2018
Priority: DK PA 2017 7062818 Aug 2017
Published: US 2020/0229594 A123 Jul 2020
Granted: 11 Jul 2023
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

A47B 47/0091
Cabinets, racks or shelf units, characterised by features related to dismountability or building-up from elements: modular arrangements of similar…
A47B 96/028
Cantilever shelves: characterised by support bracket location means, e.g. fixing means between support bracket and shelf
A47B 47/00
Cabinets, racks or shelf units, characterised by features related to dismountability or
A47B 47/047
Made mainly of wood or plastics: modular arrangements of similar assemblies of elements