Patent ID: 8117972

Claim:
A kit from which a plurality of parts are selected and arranged to provide storage areas for at least one of work tools, equipment and supplies in a motor vehicle, the kit comprising: a plurality of plastic shelves, each of the shelves including: a reinforced thermoplastic composite panel, each of the panels having: a load-bearing upper skin made of reinforced thermoplastics material; a cellular core of a thermoplastics material; and a bottom skin made of reinforced thermoplastics material wherein each of the skins includes woven fibers or a mat of fibers and a matrix of temperature-degraded polypropylene which wets the fibers to ensure high mechanical performance of the composite panel and wherein the temperature-degraded polypropylene of the skins and the thermoplastics material of the core molecularly bond together to bond the skins to the core, each of the panels having front, back and side edge portions; and a first shelf support of a thermoplastics material and having an outer facing surface and an inner channel dimensioned to receive and retain a first one of the edge portions of the panel, the first edge portion of the panel being bonded to the first shelf support within the inner channel by a molecular bond between the temperature-degraded polypropylene of the skins and the thermoplastics material of the first shelf support; and a pair of side shelf support mechanisms for supporting the shelves in a desired spaced overlapping relationship at the side edge portions of the panels, each of the mechanisms including: an end panel having an inner surface; and a plurality of hangers for hanging the shelves at selectable desired heights on the inner surface of the end panel in the desired spaced overlapping relationship, each of the hangers receiving and retaining a side edge portion of one of the shelves therein wherein each of the supported shelves is capable of supporting 250 pounds of weight with not more than 8 mm of deflection without a need for additional supports provided in enclosed areas on an undersurface of each of the shelves and wherein each of the shelves is fully recyclable.