Shelf mounting system
AssigneeJohn Sterling Corporation
InventorsRichard G. Kluge, John R. Sterling
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Abstract
A shelf mounting system employing vertically oriented, elongated metal track members formed with parallel rows of laterally spaced slots for the attachment of cantilever or angle brace shelf support brackets thereto. The track members are detachably joined to anchor hook mounting brackets for hanging the track members from a horizontal wooden sill member located along the upper end of a vertical wall or to face mount brackets secured to a vertical wall. The face mounted brackets also are employed for hanging vertical track members from a floor or ceiling joints to support overhead mounted shelves.
Claims1
In a shelf mounting system for mounting shelves on a generally vertical wall, including a pair of parallel, horizontally spaced apart vertical track members, each of said track members being generally U-shaped in cross-section and having a front wall and two side walls, said two side walls of each said track member extending from a front face of said front wall and define a channel with a rear face of said front wall, said front wall of each said track member having a row of vertically spaced slots extending therethrough, a shelf supporting bracket, comprising:
- an elongated, rigid shelf support arm;
- a pair of vertically spaced connectors extending from one end of said arm for respective insertion into a pair of said vertically spaced slots in one of said track members, an uppermost one of said connectors being formed as an upwardly extending mounting ear;
- a rigid linear brace having an outer end pivotally joined to said support arm;
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- a single, downwardly extending mounting ear formed at an inner end of said brace, said downwardly extending mounting ear being positionable in one of said slots of said one of said track members, to thereby position said brace angularly between said support arm and said one of said track members.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.