Shelving assembly
AssigneeThe Mead Corporation
InventorJoseph J. Clement
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Abstract
Shelving assembly includes vertically disposed corner posts interconnected at their bottom ends by base panels secured to the posts by disjointable connecting means and interconnected at their top ends by header panels disjointably secured to the posts together with a plurality of vertically spaced clips disjointably mounted to each post and arranged to support a plurality of shelves except for the bottom shelf which is arranged for disposition in a horizontal attitude and which also is tiltable by virtue of its support along its rear edge by a tilt beam, the shelf which is disposed immediately above the lowermost shelf being arranged to form a tiltable back portion for the device which is disposed in approximately perpendicular relation to the lowermost shelf when tilted.
Claims2
In combination, a plurality of support posts, a plurality of shelves disposed one above the other and supported by said support posts, support structure connected with said support posts for supporting a tiltable shelf disposed below said plurality of shelves and having front, back and side edges, said support structure comprising a front base panel having a horizontal support surface arranged to engage and support the front portion of the shelf, a pair of side base panels spaced apart sufficiently to receive the shelf therebetween and with the side edges of the shelf in close juxtaposition thereto, an elongated horizontally disposed primary shelf support ledge disposed at substantially the same level as said support surface of said front base panel and arranged to engage the rear edge of the shelf so as to support the shelf in a substantially horizontal attitude, and an elongated horizontally disposed tilting ledge disposed at a level substantially below said primary shelf support ledge and forwardly thereof and arranged to engage the rear edge of the shelf so as to support the shelf in a rearwardly tilted attitude, the lowermost one of said plurality of shelves being disjointedly mounted on said support posts and being movable to a tilted position at the rear of said tiltable shelf to form a tilted back support therefor.
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