Patent ID: 8480194

Claim:
A shelf for an item of furniture, comprising: a panel for supporting articles; a plastic frame that encloses the panel, the frame allowing the shelf to be fitted into a body of the item of furniture; and at least one retaining member for retaining the panel at a lower face thereof, wherein the retaining member is insertable laterally through a hole made in a rib of the frame, the rib running along the panel while being offset internally relative to an external peripheral edge of the frame, the rib projecting beyond the panel, the retaining member being fastenable onto or behind a border wall of the hole, the retaining member bearing, in the fastened position, against the panel, and wherein the retaining member is insertable into the hole via an internal side of the rib relative to the panel, wherein the frame includes a rigid rim that extends along a surface of the panel, such that an edge of the panel is secured between each of the rigid rim and the at least one retaining member, and wherein the constituent material of the retaining member has a thermal expansion coefficient lower than the thermal expansion coefficient of the constituent material of the frame.