Patent ID: 8887932

Claim:
A shelving assembly, comprising: a plurality of rectangular shelves having opposing ends and sides, each shelf having a pair of adjacent inner and outer slats both of which extend along a different one of the opposing sides of the shelf, each of the pairs of the adjacent inner and outer slats having opposing distal ends each joined by a respective connecting rod limiting movement of each of the pairs of the adjacent inner and outer slats toward each other at the respective connecting rod, the distal ends having a rectangular cross section having a width and height; a plurality of corner posts having opposing inner and outer sides with aligned inner and outer recesses on those inner and outer sides of the corner post, respectively, the recesses located at predetermined distances from a bottom of the corner posts where the shelves are to engage the corner posts, each recess sized and shaped to correspond to the distal end of one of the inner and outer slats and snuggly receive that distal end during use, each of the pairs of adjacent inner and outer slats being sufficiently flexible and close enough together that a user can grab each of the pairs of adjacent inner and outer slats at a location inward of the one of connecting rods and squeeze them toward each other enough to spread the distal ends of the squeezed slats apart an amount sufficient to fit those distal ends into corresponding ones of the aligned inner and outer recesses in the corner posts.