Patent ID: 7131547

Claim:
A shelf unit for use with a wire rack, said wire rack having at least two parallel, spaced-apart support rods and a plurality of parallel, spaced-apart, support wires fastened at right angles to said support rods with adjacent, parallel, spaced-apart support rods and adjacent, transverse, parallel, spaced-apart wires forming rectangular openings in said wire rack; said shelf unit comprising: a) a substantially flat, elongated member capable of transversely contacting said support wires of said wire rack; and b) a cleat: 1) attached transversely to said substantially flat, elongated member; 2) sized to fit within one of said rectangular openings formed by said adjacent, parallel, spaced-apart support rods and said adjacent, transverse, parallel spaced-apart wires of said wire rack when said cleat is placed over said one of said rectangular openings and moved directly downward within said one of said rectangular openings; and 3) extendable downward within said one of said rectangular openings sufficiently to bring said elongated flat member in a resting position on said support wires; and (4) wherein said cleat is formed as a first cleat section and a second cleat section, said first cleat section and second cleat section being spaced-apart from each other sufficiently to accept a support rod of said wire rack between said first and second cleat sections.