Shelf assembly

A shelving assembly having at least two horizontal wire shelves and vertical supports, each formed of intersecting wires secured together and said wire shelf comprising:

• a pair of transverse connection ribs at opposite ends of each said wire shelf;
• pairs of vertical supports for each said wire shelf and each support having a transverse connection rib on at least one of its ends, distal end portions of said transverse connection rib of said vertical supports being bent so as to be disposed parallel to the adjacent portion of said transverse connection rib;
• pairs of clamping means having apertures adapted to secure together each of said pair of transverse connection ribs of a wire shelf to a transverse connection rib and the distal ends thereof of each said vertical support;
• each of said clamping means comprising upper and lower clamps and fastener means, said upper clamps being positioned on and bridging across said transverse connection rib and said distal end portions thereof of each upper vertical support, the lower clamps being positioned underneath and bridging across said transverse connection rib and the distal ends thereof of each lower vertical support, and said fastener means passing through said clamping means and urging said upper and lower clamps tightly together in a generally parallel relation so as to form an overall rigid and sturdy shelf structure.

A shelving assembly having a plurality of horizontal shelves, each formed of intersecting wires secured together and said shelving comprising:

• an upper section and a plurality of intermediate sections with each section of shelving including a wire shelf and a pair of vertical supports;
• each of said wire shelves having a pair of transverse connection ribs at opposite ends of each said wire shelf;
• each of said vertical supports having a transverse connection rib on at least one of its ends, and the distal end portions of said transverse connection rib of said vertical supports being bent so as to be disposed parallel to the adjacent portion of said transverse connection rib;
• pairs of clamping means comprising fastener means and upper and lower clamps, and each of said clamps having apertures adapted to receive said fastener means for securing together each of said wire shelves to one or two pairs of vertical supports;
• the wire shelves of said upper section of said shelving assembly being assembled to a pair of vertical supports by upper clamps positioned on and bridging across each said pair of transverse connection ribs of a wire shelf, and by lower clamps positioned underneath and bridging across said transverse connection rib and said distal end portions thereof of a pair of vertical supports with said fastener means passing through said clamping means and urging said upper and lower clamps of said upper section to clamp tightly together in a generally parallel relation;
• and the wire shelves of said intermediate sections of said shelving assembly each being assembled to two pairs of vertical supports by upper clamps positioned on and bridging across said transverse rib and said distal end portions thereof of a first pair of vertical supports, and by lower clamps positioned underneath and bridging across said transverse connection rib and the distal ends thereof of a second pair of vertical supports coaxially disposed beneath said first pair of vertical supports, and said fastener means passing through said clamping means and between said transverse connection ribs of said wire shelf disposed between said first and second pairs of vertical supports so as to urge said upper and lower clamps tightly together in a generally parallel relation so as to form an overall rigid and sturdy shelf structure.