Adjustably tiltable wall shelf assembly
AssigneeUnited Plastic Technologies, Inc.
InventorsJohn Bartus, Vincent Dicioccio
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Abstract
A shelf system utilizes a hingedly mounted shelf, and an assembly including a brace piece having a back portion contoured to provide elements disposed progressively inwardly with respect to a vertical axis. Securing the brace piece at any of several transverse positions on the shelf, relative to the vertical reference, will vary the angular attitude of the shelf; normally, the vertical reference will be the wall to which the shelf is attached and against which the contacting element of the brace piece will rest for supporting the shelf.
Claims15
An assembly for supporting a bracket in each of a multiplicity of angular orientations, comprising:
- a brace piece having an upper portion with a substantially rectilinear top face extending along a first axis, and a back portion with a contoured end face, said end face having an upper element that is outermost on said brace piece and that lies adjacent said first axis on a second axis that is perpendicular thereto, and said end face having a plurality of lower elements below said upper element and accessible for direct contact on an adjacent flat surface, said lower elements being spaced inwardly from said second axis by distances that increase progressively with increasing distance from said first axis, so that any one of said lower elements that is disposed further from said first axis than any other of said lower elements will also be spaced further from said second axis than is said other lower element;
- a mounting piece said upper portion said brace piece in each of a multiplicity of relative position along said top face;
- and means for disengageably affixing said brace piece to said mounting piece in each of said relative positions.
A wall shelf system, including a shelf and at least one supporting assembly disposed on a bottom surface thereof, said supporting assembly comprising:
- a brace piece having an upper portion with a substantially rectilinear top face extending along a first axis, and a back portion with a contoured end face, said end face having an upper element that is outermost on said brace piece and that lies adjacent said first axis on an axis that is perpendicular thereto, and said end face having a plurality of lower elements below said upper element and accessible for direct contact on an adjacent flat surface, said lower elements being spaced inwardly from said second axis by distances that increase progressively with increasing distance from said first axis, so that any one of said lower elements that is disposed further from said first axis than any other of said lower elements will also be spaced further from said second axis than is said other lower element;
- a mounting piece said upper portion of said brace piece in each of a multiplicity of relative positions along said top face;
- and means for disengageably affixing said brace piece to said mounting piece in each of said relative positions, said mounting piece of said supporting assembly being secured to a bottom surface of said shelf.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.