Patent ID: 8540091

Claim:
A blank in the form of a starting plate which can be folded into a rack with sides and shelves, said starting plate made of a permanently deformable material and formed with side elements and shelf elements connected each along one side to a remainder of the starting plate by a bending region in the form of a number of segments and openings, while at least one remaining sides of each side element and each shelf element is free, whereby the rack is folded by bending the side elements and the shelf elements about their respective bending regions so that the side elements become the sides of the rack which are perpendicular to the remainder of the starting plate and the shelf elements become the shelves, each shelf being formed as a cantilevered bar restrained by its associated bending region, wherein each side element includes a flap separated from the remainder of the starting plate by a slit whereby when the starting plate is folded into a rack the flaps extend from the remainder of the starting plate in a direction opposite the shelf elements and a remainder of the side elements for support against a surface for the rack.