Patent ID: 6871452

Claim:
A modular greenhouse or enclosure, comprising the combination of a free standing storage unit having several shelf components and a plurality of posts, each shelf components having angularly arranged peripheral side edges and means proximate the side edges to provide connections to said posts operable to hold said shelf components in separated generally parallel overlying association with each other and with the side edges in vertical alignment; a separate rigid modular frame having spaced end projections and a medial span extended between the end projections, and means to separably connect the end projections relative to the storage unit operable to hold said medial span in vertically separated overlying association with the uppermost shelf component; a cover in the form of a generally impervious and transparent plastic sheet having a medial portion adapted to overlie and be supported on the medial frame span and having a perimeter portion sized larger than the shelf components side edges and depending downwardly from the medial portion adapted to extend past the side edges of the shelf components and posts and enclose the storage unit, and said cover perimeter portion including a first section thereof lying closely adjacent certain shelf components side edges and having a second section thereof enclosing the remaining shelf components side edges; and the cover perimeter portion second section having a vertically elongated gap opening therein operable to provide access to said shelves within the enclosure, and a panel suited to cooperate with the cover perimeter portion to close the gap opening and enclosure and suited in a rolled up position to expose the gap opening and provide said shelf access.