Patent ID: 8720349

Claim:
A pole shelf for mounting on a pole, comprising: a bracket comprised of a first and a second bracket piece, each of which is comprised of a bracket upper hub protrusion rib with a bracket upper hub inner wall; a bracket lower hub protrusion rib with a bracket lower hub inner wall; a lip extending substantially perpendicularly outwardly from, and located between, the upper and the lower hub protrusion ribs, said lip having an outer cam edge with a plurality of detents; a pair of male mating sleeves; a pair of female mating sleeves; wherein each of the first and the second bracket pieces have two of the four of the pairs of male and female mating sleeves connected below an underside of the lip of said each of the first and the second bracket pieces, said pairs of male and female mating sleeves being capable of slidingly engaging with each other; and a pair of fasteners for locking the pair of male mating sleeves in the pair of female mating sleeves in a locked state in which the bracket upper and lower hub inner walls are held tightly against the pole so as to secure the bracket to the pole; a shelf comprised of a first shelf piece and a second shelf piece, each of which is comprised of a shelf upper protrusion rib; an outer wall; a shelf bottom extending between the shelf upper protrusion rib and the outer wall, said shelf bottom having an upper shelf bottom surface and a lower shelf bottom surface; a retention post connected to the lower shelf bottom surface; a first connector for releasably connecting a first end of each of the first and the second shelf pieces to each other; and at least one shelf bottom connector for releasably connecting the shelf bottoms of the first and the second shelf pieces to each other; wherein the bracket can be removably secured to a plurality of poles having a different outer diameter by adjusting the amount of sliding engagement existing between the pairs of male and female mating sleeves; wherein the shelf is in a closed shelf state when the first connector and the at least one shelf bottom connector are each secured in a connected state; and wherein the shelf in the closed shelf state about the pole is secured to the bracket which is secured to the pole by engaging the retention post of the first and second shelf pieces with the outer cam edges of the first and second bracket pieces and rotating the shelf so that said outer cam edges become removably locked into said retention posts.