Patent ID: 8579127
Filing Date: 2013-11-12
Classification: A47B

Abstract:
1. A storage system comprising: at least first and second uprights wherein each upright of said first and second uprights has vertically extending front and rear edges and a pair of side faces extending between said front and rear edges, and wherein a spaced apart array of substantially identical groups of holes are formed along at least one of said pair of side faces on each said upright, and wherein each group of said groups of holes includes at least one receiving stub-shaft receiving aperture and one fastener aperture, and wherein said groups of holes in said array are alternatingly staggered along each of said uprights so that, counting downwardly from an uppermost first said group located adjacent said rear edge of said each upright, a second said group is located adjacent said front edge and at an elevation which is lower than said first group by a first vertical spacing, and wherein a third said group is located adjacent said rear edge and at an elevation which is lower than said second group by a second vertical spacing, said second vertical spacing greater than said first vertical spacing, and wherein a fourth said group is located adjacent said front edge and at an elevation which is lower than said third group by said first vertical spacing, a plurality of sets of mounting brackets wherein each set of mounting includes at least four mounting brackets and wherein each mounting bracket within each set of said mounting brackets includes a base member, a stub-shaft extending from said base member, and at least one fastener aperture, wherein said stub-shaft is sized for snug fitment into said stub-shaft receiving apertures, and wherein said base member, when mounted against a corresponding said side face of a corresponding said upright with said stub-shaft journalled fully into a corresponding said stub-shaft receiving aperture, and with a fastener mounted through said fastener aperture and into corresponding said fastener receiving aperture, has an upper end and an opposite lower end, at least one planar panel having a pair of side edges at opposite sides thereof wherein each side edge has an indentation formed on said panel adjacent a corresponding said side edge; a rear edge and an opposite front edge of said panel extending between said pair of side edges, and wherein at least one of said upper and lower ends of said base member has a protuberance thereon which mates into a corresponding said indentation on said panel, wherein, with one set of mounting brackets mounted to corresponding said first and second groups of holes, and with said rear edge of said panel inserted between said mounting brackets when mounted into said first and second groups of holes, said panel having a thickness so as to snugly fit into said first vertical spacing, and with said rear edge of said panel substantially flush with said rear edges of said uprights, an upper surface of said panel adjacent said rear edge of said panel abuts upwardly against said lower ends of said mounting brackets mounted to said first set of holes, and a lower surface of said panel adjacent said rear edge of said panel abuts downwardly against said upper ends of said mounting brackets to mount to said second set of holes, and said protuberances mated into said corresponding said receiving indentation on said panel.