US1930978A

US1930978A - Metallic shelving and the like

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Publication number: US1930978A
Application number: US599528A
Authority: US
Inventors: Alexander S King
Original assignee: DAVID LUPTONS SONS CO
Current assignee: DAVID LUPTONS SONS CO; DAVID LUPTON'S SONS Co
Priority date: 1932-03-17
Filing date: 1932-03-17
Publication date: 1933-10-17
Anticipated expiration: 1950-10-17

Description

Oct. 17, 1933. A. s. KING METALLIC SHELVING AND THE LIKE Filed March 17, 1952 l N V EN TOR: M14701" ATTORNEYS.

. out or shift undo Patented Oct. 17, 1933 UNITED STATES PATENT. OFFICE:

METALLIC SHELVING AND THE LIKE Alexander S. King, Philadelphia, Pa., assignor to David Luptons Sons Company, Philadelphia, Pa., a corporation of Pennsylvania Application March 17, 1932. Serial No. 599,528

3 Claims. (Cl. 21171) This invention relates to metallic furniture or supports, and especially shelving, for containers whose contents are desired to be accessible from the front. It is an aim of the invention to provide for supporting and maintaining such containers in convenient position for access, preferably sloping, so that their contents will not fall the influence of gravity. Other objects and advantages that can be realmed through the invention will appear from the description hereinafter.

In the drawing, Fig. I is a fragmentary side View, partly in vertical section, showing one pre-- ferred form of embodiment of the invention.

Fig. II a fragmentary vertical section illustrating provisions for holding the container in position, on a larger scale than Fig. I. i

Fig. III is a plan view of a shelf and its container-holding means. 1

I shows a portion of a vertical stack of shelves 10, one above another. They are supported by uprights 11, of channel, T, or other suitable cross-section, which have upward-directed tongues 12 punched and offset inward from their webs, for engaging end flanges 13 on theshelves. Preferably, the shelves have their front and rear portions 15, 16 at an angle to one another, the front portions 15 sloping upward and forward as shown, and the rear portions 16 being substantially horizontal. tions 15 have depending front flanges 17, channeled to receive labels or label-holders (not shown). I

The containers 20 are shown as ordinary paper-board cracker boxes, resting sidewise on the sloping shelf portions 15. They are each of them equipped with the usual detachable metal frame 21 carrying a glazed swinging lid 22 suitably hinged or pivoted to the frame. The frame 21 affords a shoulder at the lower side of the box which coacts with holding means on the sloping shelf portion 15 to maintain the box in position on the slope 15. As shown in Figs. I and II, the frame 21 is of sheet metal, extending down around the box 20 and having its lower margin folded inward flat on itself at 23 so as to engage or interlock with the outward-folded portion 24 of the pasteboard wall ofrthe box 20. As will readily be apparent fromFigs. Iand II, the lower.

ing from the shelf 10, and may be formed by shearing and punching out the sheet metal of said shelf along a U-outline (see also Fig. 111). As shown in Figs. 11 and HI, the root 26 of an ear or tongue 25, where it joins the flat surface of the The front shelf porgo, the shoulder at the edge of the frame 21 engages against the shoulder or offset 26 at the root of the tongue '25, which limits the rearward movement of the box 20 and assures a definite position of its front (as represented by the lid 22) relative to the front shelf edge 1'7, regardless of just how deep said boxmay be. The outstanding tongue prevents accidental disen- 1 gagement of the shoulder afforded by the frame 21' from the shelf shoulder 26. However, the box 20 can be very easily pulled forward so. as

to disengage and free its frame 21 from the tongue 25, when it is desired to remove it from the shelf 10.

Having thus described my invention, I claim: 1. A shelf of thecharacter described for forward-opening containers, comprising front and rear portions extending at an angle to one another and having end flanges adapted to hook behind supporting clips and having on itsfront portion outstanding ears for holding a container in position thereon when the shelf is mounted with said front portion sloping rearward.

2. A structure of the type described comprising uprights of standardsection having integral up wardly-directed tongues offset inward therefrom for support of removable shelves, each said shelf embodying front and rear portions extending at an angle to one another with end flanges adapted to hook behind the upright tongues aforesaid and outstanding on its front portion clips for holding a container in inclined. position when saidshelf is mounted with its front portionsloping rearward. T

3. A structure of the type described comprising uprights of standard metal sections having integral upwardly-directed tongues offset inward i from a web portion thereof for supporting removable shelves, each said shelf being of sheet metal and embodying front and rear portions extending at an angle to one another with end .flanges adapted to hook behind the uprighttongues aforesaid, said shelfalso embodying outstanding clips on its front portion for holding a container in inclined position when theshelf is mounted with its front portion sloping rearward, and each shelf clip being in the nature of. an offset tongue struck from the sheet metalshelf along a'U-outline with the root portion reinforced by asloping embossed rib. 1 ALEXANDER S. KING.