Patent ID: 6726040
Filing Date: 2004-04-27
Classification: A47F

Abstract:
A sectional rack, comprising a plurality of vertical posts, a plurality of horizontal shelves, a plurality of connecting members, and a plurality of drawer-type baskets and channels for supporting the baskets;each said vertical post having an oblong cross section and being symmetrically provided at two opposite side surfaces with a plurality of identical, vertically equally spaced, horizontal slots; each said connecting member being symmetrically provided on two opposite straight inner wall surfaces with two pairs of ribs adapted to engage with said horizontal slots on two opposite sides of said vertical post and thereby attach said connecting member to said vertical post, and said connecting member having an outer wall surface gradually expanded from top to bottom; and each said shelf being provided at each comer with a short sleeve having an inner wall surface gradually expanded from top to bottom corresponding to said outer wall surface of said connecting member, such that said short sleeve could be seated over said connecting member to generate a downward compressive and binding effect on said connecting member and thereby hold said shelf to said vertical post at said connecting member wherein each of said channels has two vertically upward extending L-shaped lugs, and said horizontal slots are constructed to also allow said L-shaped lugs to be inserted therein so as to hang said channels on said vertical post, wherein each of said horizontal slots is configured to selectively receive each of the ribs of said connecting members and the lugs of each said channel to enable each of the shelves and the drawing baskets to be mounted at any location along the length of the vertical post.