US3606027A - Adjustable storage rack - Google Patents

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US3606027A
US3606027A US771198A US3606027DA US3606027A US 3606027 A US3606027 A US 3606027A US 771198 A US771198 A US 771198A US 3606027D A US3606027D A US 3606027DA US 3606027 A US3606027 A US 3606027A
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47B—TABLES; DESKS; OFFICE FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; GENERAL DETAILS OF FURNITURE
    • A47B57/00—Cabinets, racks or shelf units, characterised by features for adjusting shelves or partitions
    • A47B57/30—Cabinets, racks or shelf units, characterised by features for adjusting shelves or partitions with means for adjusting the height of detachable shelf supports
    • A47B57/40—Cabinets, racks or shelf units, characterised by features for adjusting shelves or partitions with means for adjusting the height of detachable shelf supports consisting of hooks coacting with openings
    • A47B57/402—Hooks attached to a member embracing at least two sides of an upright, e.g. an angle bracket

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  • This invention relates to an adjustable storage rack Which is intended primarily for industrial and commercial use.
  • Racks of this type each of which comprises a plurality of spaced, vertical columns and a plurality of horizontal support rails adjustable connected to the columns in a manner such that their positions can readily be altered to suit the particular requirements of different users and also the varying requirements of each individual user, have hitherto been extensively used but these hitherto used arrangements suffer from various disadvantages which it is a primary object of the .present invention to overcome or mitigate.
  • the vertical columns which are generally of hollow construction, each consist of opposed, parallel side walls interconnected by a planar front wall disposed substantially at right angles to the side walls, the columns being subject to considerable damage caused by vehicles colliding with the corners of the columns between the front and side walls thereof.
  • the risk of such damage occurring is increased where the racks are used to store pallets on which the goods being stored are stacked, the loaded pallets being placed on and removed from the racks using fork lift trucks which must manoeuvre and turn in close proximity to the columns and are therefore particularly liable to damage the columns in the manner referred to above.
  • the horizontal support rails have generally been connected to the vertical columns by the engagement of appropriately formed means presented by the ends of the rails with vertical rows of apertures formed in the columns and it is a further object of the invention to provide a storage rack wherein the vertical columns each have a lesser number of vertical rows of apertures formed therein than has been required in many of the hitherto proposed arrangements, such as the arrangements disclosed in US. Pats. Nos. 2,937,767 to Butler et al. and 3,151,745 to Reilly, thereby reducing the manufacturing cost of the rack but without reducing the rigidity of the assembled rack or the ease with which the rack may be assembled and dismantled.
  • An adjustable storage rack comprises the combination of a hollow column, a connection bracket and a support rail.
  • the column includes opposed side walls and a front wall interconnecting the side walls and formed with a plurality of vertically aligned aperture means.
  • the connection bracket comprises a first portion, a second portion and lug means projecting from a rearward edge of the second portion, the first and second portions being adapted, respectively, to embrace one of the side walls of the column and an adjacent portion of the front wall of the column, which adjacent portion of the front wall of the column is disposed at an acute angle to said one of the side walls of the column, with the lug means in engagement, rearwardly of the interconnection between the front wall and said one of the side walls of the column, with the aperture means in the front Wall of the column, and the support rail having an end which is secured to said first portion of the bracket.
  • Said second portion of the bracket is disposed at an acute angle relative to said first portion of the bracket, which acute angle is substantially equal to the acute angle between said one of the side walls of
  • FIG. 1 is an isometric view of a portion of a storage rack according to a preferred embodiment of the invention, the view showing one end of one support rail operatively connected to a column and one end of a further support rail in a condition prior to connection of the column;
  • FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view on the line 22 of FIG. 1, but drawn to an enlarged scale;
  • FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view on the line 33 of FIG. 1, drawn to the same enlarged scale as FIG. 2;
  • FIG. 4 is an isometric view, drawn to a reduced scale, of the storage rack a portion of which is shown in FIG. 1.
  • the storage rack comprises a plurality of spaced, substantially vertical hollow columns 10 only one of which is shown in FIGS. 1, 2 and 3 of the accompanying drawings, the columns 10 being, for example disposed in spaced pairs with the columns 10 of each pair thereof interconnected by cross beams 10 and with the pairs of columns 10 spaced from one another in a direction substantially at right angles to the plane containing the columns 10 of each pair thereof.
  • each column 10 comprises opposed, parallel side walls 12, a front wall which is denoted generally by the reference numeral 13 and which interconnects the side walls 12, and rear flanges 14 which project inwardly from the side walls 12 and which are disposed at the back of the column 10.
  • the front wall 13 consists of a centrally disposed, longitudinally extending portion 15 which is in a plane substantially at right angles to the planes of the side walls, 12 and two side portions 16 which are separated by the centrally disposed portion 15 and which are each disposed at an acute angle to the adjacent one of the side Walls 12 of the column 10, the acute angle which is indicated by the reference on in FIGS. 2 and 3 being approximately of the order of 60.
  • the hollow column is thus substantially M-shaped in cross-section.
  • the support rails 11 are each of box form in crosssection and each end thereof is secured, as by welding 18, to a first portion 19 of a connection bracket which is denoted generally by the reference numeral each bracket 20 comprising the first portion 19, a second portion 21 and lug means denoted generally by the reference numeral 22.
  • the second portion 21 of each bracket 20 is disposed, relative to the first portion 19 thereof, at an acute angle which is substantially equal to the acute angle at which each of the side portions 16 of the front wall 13 of the column 10 is disposed relative to the adja cent side wall 12, the acute angle between the second portion 21 and the first portion 19 of each bracket 20 therefore being approximately of the order of 60.
  • each bracket 20 is thus adapted to embrace, respectively, one of the side walls 12 of the column 10 and the adjacent side portion 16 of the front wall 13 of the column 10, as is shown in relation to the left-hand bracket 20 illustrated in FIG. 1.
  • the lug means 22 project from the longitudinal, rearward edge of the second portion 21 of each bracket 20 remote from the first portion 19 thereof and comprises, in the preferred embodiment illustrated in the drawings, a plurality of teeth each of which comprises a first limb 23 projecting from the second portion 21 of the bracket and a second limb 24 disposed substantially at right angles to the first limb 23, the second limb 24 being downwardly directed from the first limb 23 and being disposed in spaced relation to the second portion 21 of the bracket.
  • each bracket 20 comprises three such teeth 22 but it is to be understood that in alternative embodiments of the invention each bracket 20 may comprise a greater or lesser number of teeth 22 and there may, in fact, be only one tooth 22 presented by each bracket 20.
  • each tooth 22 is chamfered, as shown at 25, on the side thereof adjacent to the second portion 21 of the bracket 20 thereby to facilitate engagement of the tooth 22 with the appropriate aperture 17, as is hereinafter described in detail.
  • each bracket 20 are preferably disposed in a plane parallel to the plane containing the first portion 19 of the bracket, the teeth 22 having a width which is not greater than half the width of the apertures 17 in the centrally disposed portion 15 of the front wall 13 of the column.
  • the support rails 11 are each adjustably connected to the column 10 by being raised to the deseired one of the height settings at which the teeth 22 are in horizontal alignment with apertures 17 of the plurality thereof, the teeth 22 being equidistantly spaced apart by a distance which is equal to the distance by which the apertures 17 are spaced apart.
  • the support rail 11 is then moved horizontally until the teeth 22 contact one or other of the side portions 16 of the front wall 13 of the column 10. Continued horizontal movement of the rail 11 results in the teeth 22 sliding across the appropriate side portion 16 and being guided towards the above-mentioned apertures 17 through which the teeth 22 then pass.
  • each bracket 20 and the lower part of the first portion 19 of each bracket 20 are urged into tight frictional engagement with the adjacent part of the appropriate side portion 16 of the front wall 13 and with the adjacent part of the appropriate side wall 12 of the column 10 thereby ensuring rigidity of the storage rack.
  • the loading which is transferred from each bracket 20 to the column 10 to which it is connected, this loading being applied in the plane of the apertures 17, is considerably closer to the longitudinal neutral axis of the column 10 than in the hitherto used arrangements in which the loading is applied to the column at a peripheral position, the loading, as is shown in FIGS. 2 and 3 wherein the longitudinal neutral axis of the column 10 is indicated by the reference numeral 26, being preferably substantially coincident with the axis 26 thereby substantially to eliminate intermediate bending in the column.
  • a hollow column comprising opposed side walls and a front wall interconnecting the side walls and formed with a plurality of vertically aligned aperture means, the front wall comprising a portion connected to and extending rearwardly from each of the side walls so that said portions converge in a rearward direction, the converging portions being interconnnected at their rearward edges near the neutal axis of the column, and the aperture means being formed in the front wall at the interconnection between said converging portions thereof, a connection bracket comprising a first portion, a second portion and lug means projecting from a rearward edge of the second portion, the first and second portions being adapted, respectively, to embrace one of the side walls of the column and one of the converging portions of the front wall of the column, with the lug means in engagement with said aperture means rearwardly of the interconnection between the front wall and said one of the side walls of the column and near the neutral axis of the column so that the lug means intersects the front wall of the column
  • a storage rack as defined in claim 1 wherein the lug means comprises at least one tooth having a first limb projecting from the second portion of the bracket and a second limb disposed substantially at right angles to the first limb, the second limb being downwardly directed from the first limb and being disposed in spaced relation to the second portion of the bracket.
  • An adjustable storage rack comprising a plurality of spaced, substantially vertical columns and a plurality of substantially horizontal support rails adjustably connected to the columns; wherein each column is hollow and substantially M-shaped in cross-section and comprises opposed parallel side walls and a front wall, the front wall of the column consisting of a centrally disposed, longitudinally extending portion which is in a plane substantially at right angles to the planes of the side walls of the column, and two converging side portions which are separated by said centrally disposed portion and which are connected to, and are each disposed at an acute angle relative to the adjacent one of the side walls of the column, and the centrally disposed portion of the front wall of the column being formed with a plurality of equidistantly spaced, vertically aligned apertures 'which are substantially coincident with the longitudinal neutral axis of the column; and wherein a connection bracket comprising a first portion and a second portion disposed at an acute angle to said first portion of the bracket is mounted on each end of each support rail by securement of said first

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US3999875A (en) * 1973-01-12 1976-12-28 Mavil S.A.-Z.A.I. Upright and cross-piece assembly for collapsible racking or the like
US3888441A (en) * 1974-04-08 1975-06-10 Unistrut Corp Support arrangement
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US4158998A (en) * 1976-05-12 1979-06-26 The Mead Corporation Shelf support structure
US4180003A (en) * 1976-05-12 1979-12-25 The Mead Corporation Shelf support structure
US4708252A (en) * 1983-12-16 1987-11-24 The Kingston-Warren Corporation Storage rack system
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