Patent ID: 8517189
Filing Date: 2013-08-27
Classification: A47B

Abstract:
1. A floor-standing shelving system installed standing on a floor and against a wall, the wall having a skirting board installed adjacent the floor with a gap between a lower edge of the skirting board and the floor, the shelving system comprising a plurality of uprights and a plurality of vertically spaced shelves supported on the uprights, the system having at least one anchoring device that extends rearwardly from a floor-standing base of an upright of the anchoring system to anchor under the skirting board, wherein the anchoring device comprises a rigid anchor plate that extends rearwardly from at or near the base of the upright and which is inserted under the skirting board and which anchor plate presses upwardly into the underside of the skirting board when the shelving is tilted forwards by a forward tilting force on the shelving to thereby restrain the shelving from tilting over.