Supports: racks – Shelf type – Knockdown
Patent
1996-11-18
1998-06-30
Johnson, Blair
Supports: racks
Shelf type
Knockdown
211144, 211 4112, 108180, 1081531, A47B 4700
Patent
active
057720550
ABSTRACT:
The present invention provides a rotatable tower for holding and displaying books, video cassettes, and like articles on a plurality of square shelves which extend in horizontal planes and are supported in vertically spaced relation to one another by a plurality of vertically extending rods, groups of which are interconnected into L-shaped configurations by L-shaped, horizontally extending rods. The shelves include an elongated slot formed from the midpoint of each edge inwardly towards the shelves' geometric center, and two laterally spaced notches formed in each edge to one side of the slot. Each edge of the shelves includes a downwardly extending flange along their entire lengths and an upwardly extending flange along a portion of the length to the opposite side of the slot in which the notches are formed. Each L-shaped group of vertically extending rods is comprised of four rods, two rods forming each leg of the L. The rods in each group are spaced from one another a distance corresponding with the length and spacing of the slot and notches formed in each edge, thereby permitting one group of rods to engage the slot and notches formed in each edge of each shelf. Each shelf can be slid downwardly on the rods until they engage the adjacent horizontally extending L-shaped rods which interconnect the vertically oriented rods. The shelves' downwardly extending flanges will prevent the horizontally oriented rods, and hence the vertically oriented rods, from becoming disengaged from the shelves. Moreover, the engagement of one set of L-configured rods with each edge of each shelf systematically divides each shelf into four distinct article supporting regions.
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Ackley Robert W.
Crispin Donald J.
Dokoupil James R.
Dubos Jerome A.
Lewis Linda
Johnson Blair
McGuire George R.
The Croydon Company, Inc.
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