Patent ID: 8196761

Claim:
A shelving system comprising: a first and a second lateral support element for supporting a plurality of shelves, said shelves being formed from metal wires secured together to form a mesh structure and comprising a base wall and at least two mutually parallel side walls, said support elements and shelves comprising, respectively, connecting means and counter-means for removably connecting said shelves to said support elements; wherein: said two side walls are connected to said base wall and are shaped to enable one shelf to be stacked on another with the base walls of the shelves mutually superposed, one in contact with another, to reduce the overall size of the system when disassembled, wherein the support elements and the shelves are dimensioned such that, when the shelves are stacked one on another with their base walls in mutual contact, said support elements are completely housed within the stacked shelves, each of said shelves comprises, on a lower face of the base wall, at least one shelf sunken seat being sunken with respect to said side walls, to at least partly house at least a portion of one of said support elements, wherein said one of the support elements is totally received within the sunken seat defined by the base wall and by lower portions of the side walls of the lowermost shelf of the stacked shelves, said shelves being shaped for housing, in an upper face of said base wall between said side walls, at least a portion of the other support element, to further reduce the overall size of said system when disassembled, said other support element resting on the upper face of the base wall of the uppermost shelf of the stack, and being completely received between an upper portion of the side walls of said uppermost shelf.