Title: Concealed hardware for adjustable shelving

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1. In a shelving structure having similar spaced cooperating normally vertical stanchions adjustably supporting plural normally horizontal shelves therebetween, substantially concealed hardware adjustably connecting the shelves and stanchions, comprising, in combination:

plural elongate bracket supports of a width not greater than stanchion thickness, with a planar back and with plural spaced grooves in the face thereof defined by sides perpendicular to the longer dimension of the bracket support to receive a supporting leg of a shelf bracket in a slidable fit, one of said supports being mechanically fastened to each side edge of each vertical stanchion in such position that the grooves of all cooperating bracket supports on a set of cooperating stanchions are substantially co-planar when the stanchions are in supporting position, and;

plural shelf brackets, each having a relatively thin planar body of length substantially equal to the distance between the oppositely facing surfaces of opposed cooperating grooves of the bracket supports carried by one stanchion, with similar paired opposed supporting legs extending perpendicularly from the ends of the body, said supporting legs configured to slidably fit within cooperating grooves of the opposed bracket supports on a vertical stanchion and with a relatively thin planar tenon extending perpendicularly away from the body in the opposite direction from the supporting leg extension, the length of said tenon being no greater than the width of the body and the orientation of its major aerial surface being substantially horizontal when the shelf bracket be carried by a stanchion in normal vertical supportative position;

a plurality of horizontal shelves of width substantially equal to that of the vertical stanchion, each shelf having a groove in the medial part of each end, said grooves being configured to slidably receive the tenons of opposed cooperating shelf brackets carried by opposed cooperating vertical stanchions when the shelf be interposed therebetween; and

plural trim pieces configured to cover and mechanically fasten to each bracket support and the exposed edges of shelves to cover said surfaces.

2. The invention of claim 1 wherein the shelf bracket is compoundedly formed from extrudable elements characterized by:

the stanchion facing side of the body being formed with a channel configured to slidably receive and support

supporting legs comprising L-shaped elements having one leg of the L-shaped element configured to slidably fit within and be retained by the channel of the body and the other leg to serve as a supporting leg of the shelf bracket.

3. The invention of claim 1 further characterized by:

the bracket supports being slightly smaller than the vertical edges of the stanchions covered thereby and being medially positioned on the stanchions to leave an uncovered peripheral area of the stanchion about the bracket support; and

the stanchion support trim pieces being relieved on the stanchion facing surface to fit about the bracket support and immediately adjacent to the uncovered peripheral area of the vertical stanchion.

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Inventors: Roberts, Wallace M. (Missoula, MT, US)

Application Number: 619665
Filing Date: 1975-10-06
Publication_date: 1976-04-20
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Primary Class(es): 108/109 211/186, 248/247
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US Patent Ref:

754817	Mar, 1904	Schriefer	108/109.
2005593	Jun, 1935	Onions et al.	108/109.
2375726	May, 1945	Bales	108/109.
2846080	Aug, 1958	Freeman	248/247.
3326149	Jun, 1967	Mitchell et al.	211/148.
3401652	Sep, 1968	Thor	108/106.
3606227	Sep, 1971	Klein	248/243.
3612289	Oct, 1971	Zink	211/148.

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Primary Examiner: Foss, J. Franklin
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