Patent ID: 7857152

Claim:
A shelving system comprising: a plurality of vertically-extending uprights arranged as a first pair of uprights spaced in a transverse direction and a second pair of uprights spaced in the transverse direction, the second pair of uprights being spaced from the first pair of uprights in a longitudinal direction that is perpendicular to the transverse direction to form a generally rectangular horizontal shelving space between the uprights; a plurality of crossbars extending in the longitudinal direction and joining the first pair of uprights with the second pair of uprights; shelves suspended on said crossbars; and a flue spacer provided separately from said crossbars and said shelves, the flue spacer comprising a spacer surface extending in the transverse direction and first and second legs extending from said spacer surface and being adapted to attach said spacer surface to said first pair of uprights such that said spacer surface is offset in the longitudinal direction from the first pair of uprights to form a vertical flue space within the storage rack; wherein at least one of said first and second legs is adapted to attach to a lateral surface of at least one of said first pair of uprights, and wherein said flue spacer is selectively movable along the first pair of uprights among a plurality of vertically-spaced mounting locations located between two adjacent vertically-spaced shelves.