Shelving mount system
AssigneeKnape & Vogt Manufacturing Company
InventorWalter L. Bessinger
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Abstract
A shelving assembly having vertical standards and cantilever brackets, and an elongated generally U-shaped cover over each standard. The cover flanges laterally stabilize the bracket. The brackets have V-shaped upper recesses interfitting with slotted hemispherical shelving mounts fitted in the upper edge recesses of the brackets, each mount having a tapered slot configuration complementary to the recess configuration, and having an upper adhesive pad and a vertical jack for temporarily holding a shelf up off the adhesive. The jacks are shiftable down under limited predetermined force to lower the shelf onto the adhesive for anchoring.
Claims19
A shelving standard and bracket assembly comprising:
- vertical standards to be mounted to a wall in spaced parallel relationship to each other;
- said standards each having a front face and a pair of spaced side faces;
- said front face having a plurality of vertically spaced slots and intermediate webs for attachment of the lugs of cantilever brackets thereto;
- cantilever brackets having lugs extending through said standard slots to anchor on said webs;
- said brackets having recesses in the top thereof;
- shelving mounts supported in said bracket recesses, each mount having an upper portion to retain an upwardly facing adhesive surface to engage a shelf placed on said brackets;
- a shelf-elevating jack projecting upwardly from said mount and extending above an adhesive surface on said upper portion to temporarily retain a shelf above the adhesive surface;
- said jack being shiftable downwardly under force to allow a shelf to be lowered onto the adhesive surface.
A mount for supporting a shelf on cantilever brackets comprising a body having an upper means for retaining an upwardly facing adhesive surface to engage a shelf placed on said brackets;
- a shelf-elevating jack projecting upwardly from said mount and extending above an adhesive surface on said upper portion for temporarily retaining a shelf above the adhesive surface;
- said jack being shiftable downwardly under predetermined force to lower the shelf onto the adhesive surface;
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- said mount having a slotted underside for straddling a cantilever bracket.
A cantilever shelf bracket and shelf mount subassembly comprising:
- a plate-type bracket having connector means at one end for attachment to a standard, and having an upper edge;
- configurated recesses in said upper edge, each said recess having a generally V-shaped configuration;
- shelf support mounts in said recesses, each said mount having an upper shelf support surface, and having a slot in the bottom thereof for receiving said bracket upper edge, said slot having a pair of side walls and a base, said base having its lowest portion in the central region of said slot, and extending diagonally upwardly and outwardly therefrom to interfit with said V-shaped grooves;
- said mounts each having an upper adhesive layer and each of said mounts including a shelf elevating jack projecting upwardly from said mount and above said adhesive layer to temporarily retain a shelf above said adhesive layer, and being shiftable downwardly under a predetermined force to lower the shelf onto said adhesive layer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.