Patent ID: 7878340

Claim:
A system for the assembly of a wine rack apparatus comprising parts for the construction of a wine rack apparatus that is capable of being configured to fit into a variety of differently-sized storage spaces each having side surfaces, a floor and ceiling surface, and a width, comprising, at least two pairs of substantially vertical supports, including a left pair and a right pair wherein at least one pair must be affixed to at least one surface of the desired storage space other than its floor and each vertical support is a compression fit channel member with the channel extending the length thereof; at least one wine rack row comprising a pair of substantially horizontal supports including a forward support and a rearward support, capable of supporting 12 full bottles of wine having a volume of at least 750 milliliters when supported by the vertical supports at each end of each horizontal support, each horizontal support capable of being cut to achieve lengths so as to fit the available width of storage space between the pairs of vertical supports; and wherein the assembly supports each wine rack row loaded with up to 12 full bottles of wine having a volume of at least 750 milliliters, and separates a wine rack row vertically from the next nearest substantially horizontal surface whether it is the floor of the storage space or a neighboring vertically-adjacent wine rack row by a uniform distance and wherein the assembly is the combination of the compression fit channel of each of the vertical supports configured to exert sufficient compression force on the ends of the horizontal supports to enable the horizontal supports to hold up to 12 full bottles of wine having a volume of at least 750 milliliters in a stable manner and a plurality of uniform vertical spacers configured to vertically space the horizontal supports from the floor or from subsequent vertically neighboring horizontal supports, wherein the resulting apparatus is stationary, sturdy, flexible, and vertically modular.