Patent ID: 8733564
Filing Date: 2014-05-27
Classification: A47B,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A shelving apparatus comprising: a plurality of support columns; a plurality of shelves, each having an upper shelf surface; a plurality of shelf-supporting beams attachable to respective ones of said columns for supporting a respective shelf with said upper shelf surface extending in one horizontal plane; each of said beams having a top edge and a lower edge and said beams being selectively attachable to said respective columns in one of two selected positions; said beams each including a shelf-supporting flange extending therefrom, each said flange disposed closer to a respective top edge of each said beam than to a respective lower edge of each said beam, and each said flange having first and second opposed shelf supporting surfaces; in a first position, said top edge of a beam is disposed above said lower edge thereof, and in a second position, said lower edge of a beam is disposed above said top edge; said top edge of a respective beam being flush with said upper shelf surface in said plane when said respective beam is attached to said respective columns in said first position and said shelf is disposed on said first shelf supporting surface of said flange of said respective beam, and said lower edge of another respective beam being disposed above said upper shelf surface in said plane wherein said other beam is attached to said respective columns in said second position and said shelf is disposed on said second shelf supporting surface of the flange of said other respective beam; said shelves each being supported by four of said beams independently attached to said support columns, each of said four beams oriented respectively in any of said first or second positions independently of the orientation of any of the other of said four beams, with said upper shelf surface disposed in said horizontal plane.