US 5,632,389 AGranted

High-density, archive storage-rack assembly

AssigneeMorgan Marshall Industries, Inc.

InventorPhillip Rosenband

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Abstract

An archive, storage-rack assembly which is relatively easy to assemble, which provides considerable space-savings, which is relatively less costly to make, and which is relatively more stable. The archive storage-rack assembly of the invention is provided with four, specially-designed, corner-column supports. Operatively, and removably, associated therewith are shelf-clip units for supporting shelves. Each shelf-clip unit is one integral unit having two, end clip-sections for placement into respective openings of two, corner-column supports and for supporting a shelf-corner, an elongated, reinforcing angle-bracket section integral with, and interconnecting, the two, end-clip sections, and an elongated, box-guide section integral with, and projecting upwardly from, the elongated, reinforcing angle-bracket section. Each clip-assembly has a length extending in the direction of the depth of the rack-assembly, with a lateral pair of end-column supports supporting it via the two, integral, end-clip sections. Since the clip-assembly is one, complete, integral unit, it is assembled directly to the column-supports, after which, a shelf is placed thereon, in contrast to the prior art, where the individual component parts must first be fastened to the shelf proper.

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Dependent claims

A storage rack-assembly for mounting at least one shelf, comprising:

a main frame comprising four, upstanding corner-posts;
each said corner-post comprising a surface having a plurality of vertically-aligned holes formed therein;
a pair of shelf-clip mounting means for mounting a shelf having corners for support, each one of said pair of shelf-clip mounting means being operatively associated with and mounted by a separate pair of said corner-posts, so that the ends of the shelf may be supported by the spaced-apart, shelf-clip mounting means;
each one of said pair of shelf-clip mounting means comprising a substantially vertical, main, elongated portion having a first end, a second end, an exterior-facing surface, and an interior-facing surface;
each of said first and second ends of said main elongated portion having retaining means projecting from said exterior-facing surface thereof for reception in at least one hole of a respective said corner-post, whereby said shelf-clip mounting means is removably mounted to said pair of corner-posts;
each one of said pair of shelf-clip mounting means further comprising a substantially horizontal, shelf-supporting member having an upper surface projecting from said main, elongated portion upon may be supported an end of the shelf;
each one of said pair of shelf-clip mounting means further comprising a pair of shelf-end clip means for insertion into the corners of the shelf to be supported;
each said, shelf-clip mounting means comprising an upstanding member projecting upwardly from a portion of said substantially horizontal, shelf-supporting member and spaced horizontally from said interior-facing surface of said substantially vertical, main, elongated portion.

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A shelf-clip support for mounting a shelf, comprising:

a substantially vertical, main, elongated portion having a first end, a second end, an exterior-facing surface, and an interior-facing surface;
each of said first and second ends of said main elongated portion having retaining means projecting from said exterior-facing surface thereof for reception in at least one hole of a corner-post of an assembly-rack frame;
a substantially horizontal, shelf-supporting member having an upper surface projecting from said main, elongated portion upon which may be supported an end of a shelf having corners and a top supporting surface;
and a pair of shelf-end clip means for insertion into a corner of the shelf to be supported;
each said shelf-clip mounting means comprising an upstanding member projecting upwardly from a portion of said substantially horizontal, shelf-supporting member and spaced horizontally from said interior-facing surface of said substantially vertical, main, elongated portion.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.