Modular shelf
AssigneeWhitmor, Inc.
InventorsJames Tabujara, Sandy Felsenthal
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Abstract
A shelf or storage rack includes a top defined by a pair of elongated members held at a spaced distance from one another by a pair of frame end members and at least two frame cross-members respectively disposed at a spaced distance from each of the pair of frame end members to define a plurality of spaced slots. A left side support and a right side support are each defined by elongated support members held by at least one support cross-member, wherein at least a portion of the elongated support members has a first end including a protrusion and an adjoining support ledge and an opposed second end including a notch or groove. The protrusions and notches or grooves interact to provide a vertically stackable modular shelf or storage rack system.
Claims17
A shelf or storage rack, comprising:
- a top comprising a frame defined by a pair of elongated frame side members held at a spaced distance from one another by a pair of frame end members, a plurality of elongated top members each disposed in an interior of the frame at a spaced distance from one another, and at least two frame cross-members respectively disposed at a spaced distance from each of the pair of frame end members to define a plurality of spaced slots;
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- a left side support and a right side support each comprising a plurality of elongated support members held at a spaced distance from one another by at least one support cross-member, wherein at least a portion of the plurality of elongated support members has a first end including a protrusion and an adjoining support ledge, further wherein each protrusion is dimensioned and positioned to be received in a cooperating slot of the plurality of spaced slots.
A shelf or storage rack assembly, comprising:
- at least two cooperating vertically stackable shelf units each comprising:
- a top comprising a frame defined by a pair of elongated frame side members held at a spaced distance from one another by a pair of frame end members, a plurality of elongated top members each disposed in an interior of the frame at a spaced distance from one another, and at least two frame cross-members respectively disposed at a spaced distance from each of the pair of frame end members to define a plurality of spaced slots;
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- a left side support and a right side support each comprising a plurality of elongated support members held at a spaced distance from one another by at least one support cross-member, wherein at least a portion of the plurality of elongated support members has a first end including a protrusion and an adjoining support ledge and an opposed second end including a notch or groove.
A shelf or storage rack assembly, comprising:
- at least two cooperating vertically stackable shelf units each comprising:
- a top comprising a frame defined by a pair of elongated frame side members held at a spaced distance from one another by a pair of frame end members, a plurality of elongated top members each disposed in an interior of the frame at a spaced distance from one another, and at least two frame cross-members respectively disposed at a spaced distance from each of the pair of frame end members to define a plurality of spaced slots;
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- a left side support and a right side support each comprising a plurality of elongated support members held at a spaced distance from one another by at least one support cross-member, wherein at least a portion of the plurality of elongated support members has a first end including a protrusion dimensioned and positioned to be received in a cooperating slot of the plurality of spaced slots and an adjoining support ledge and an opposed second end including a notch or groove;
- further wherein each notch or groove is dimensioned to be nested atop at least a portion of a cooperating protrusion of a vertically adjacent elongated support member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.