US908772A

US908772A - Shelving.

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Publication number: US908772A
Application number: US43911608A
Authority: US
Inventors: Henry Hoffmann
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1908-06-18
Filing date: 1908-06-18
Publication date: 1909-01-05
Anticipated expiration: 1926-01-05

Description

' H. HOFPMANN.

SHELVING. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 18.1908.

jila) 0 2224104. 4:97am H a Patented Jan. 5,1909.

HENRY I-l OFFMANN, OF ST. LOUISJ'MISSOURL- SHE LVING.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed June 18, 1908. Serial No. 439,116.

Patented Jan. 5, 1909.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY HOFFMANN, a

citizen of the 'United States, residing at St. Louis,'Missouri,. have invented certain. new

'. description.

and useful Improvements in Shelving, of which the following is a clear, fu1l,.and exact My mvention relates to shelving, and its ob- -ject is to sim lifyand cheape'n the construction of the sa e, and also to make the differout parts thereof detachable and to increase the capacity of the sameas may'berequired,

It is also my object Ito provide an'arrange' ment whereliyshelires of many. different styles andadapteli to hold various articles of merchandise may be 'supported= For example, with my improvement shelves such as plain boardsforunhreakable articles or trays with a back, twdsides and an open front for breakable articles or flat trays with low projecting guards around the edge formiscellasu ported on shelving construction.

' tron. m My inven't'l ,n will be defined in the claim.

n the embodiment of my invention shown in the drawings I have only shown one referred form ofiwtray, which is constructed he an open topboigshaving the front side detach- 'able,but -1t is obvious that other forms of trays mayalso be used as desired without departing from spirit or scope'of my inven- In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view .of the entire frame; Fig. 21s a sectlon through the front standards of said frame and with a portion' of the fr nt -wall of the trays broken away; and'Fig. 3 is a erspective view of one endportion of a shel hanger. My shelf frame preferably consists of aseries of upright standards 1, said standards having formed therein several groups of apertures 4. at different heights, the, apertures of'each group being of the same height forsu orting op ositely arranged shelf hangere Each 'paii' of standards "is adapted to sup ort a shelf hangerwhich iscOnstructed as s own, and is composed ofa longitudinal angle bar 2 having projectingbosses 3 near the adjacent ends of. the same for insertion in the apertures of said standards. The

them in said apertures, and in the.- resent embodiment I have shown said bosses ormed into an ogee-shaped curve fo r this purpose. By this construction it is obvious that when these bosses 3 are inserted in the apertures 4 of the tubular standards, the o 'eeshaped curve retains them therein. At t e rear end of each angle-bar is a turned-up ortion '7 shown in Fig. 3, which forms a bac stop for the trays as they are pushed upon the hangers. The tray consists of an ordinary receptacle having an open to for thepurpose of receiving bottles or'ot erfsimilar articles of breakable nature used in tray quanbosses 3 are provided with -s tities. The front of each tray is made removable and forthis purpose has at one end an ordinary bolt, and at the bottom and other end projecting dowels to fit in sockets prepared for the same in the.bottom and side of the receptacle. neous articles, may all be interchangeably My shelf frame is assembled as follows. An angle bar is first attached topairs of oppositely facing standards. In order to attach the angle bar to said standards it is obvious that the angle bar thereof is held upwardly until the ogee portion has been inserted in the a er'ture of the standards, and then the ang e'portion is permitted to drop and rest against the sides of the standards, the ogee portions retaining'them thereon. When several angle bars have thus been attached to the standards, the trays or shelves are ushed in to rest upon the horigcntal portions of oppositely arranged angle bars 'to brlng up against the rear backstop 7 of each angle bar' It is obvious-that the capacity of-my frame may be easily increased by adding more angle bars and shelves.

What I claim is:

In 'a shelving construction in combination, a series of'vertical standards having groups of apertures therein, at difierentheights the apertures of each group being of the same height, pairs of oppositely arranged shelf hangers mounted on said standards at equal heights, each hanger composed of 1011 gitudinal angle bars having a horizontal portion for supporting shelves, and avertical portion throughout its entire length proof said hangers being turned 111p vertically vided with vertically projecting ogee shaped to form a back stop for said she ves. 10 rods adapted to be inserted in the apertures Signed at the city of St. Louis,.eMo., this of said supporting standards and retained 15th day of June, 1,908. 7 5 therein for supporting said hangers, .and a HENRY HOFFMANN.

series of shelves adapted to rest u on the Witnesses: v I horizontal portions of said shelf angers, JOHN ALFRED VEAzEY, one end of said horizontal portions of each RICHARD T. SHUnz.