Metro Industries, Incorporated

Intermetro Industries Corporation

Rodney E Brancher

Albert Kolvites

Robert J Cohn

John H Welsch

Willard J Sickles

David T Balazek

Robert M White

A modular 'knock-down' type shelving system having adjustable height shelves includes a plastic support post having a generally right equilateral triangular cross-section. The support post is composed of pultruded thermosetting plastic having unidirectional E Glass fibers extending therethrough and a thermoplastic coating bonded to the outer surface thereof. The inner surface of the interior side of the support post is bowed outwardly. As a result, when a wedge member is disposed on the interior side of the post and the support post and wedge member combination supports by wedge action a sleeve comprising an end beam and a collar, the interior side of the support post is urged outwardly and is supported by the wedge member. The collar is locked to the end beam when a tongue of the collar passes through a slot in the end beam into a rotatable lock in a blind hole in the bottom of the end beam. A plurality of shelves are adapted to be snap-fit over a rectangular support structure comprising two end beams, and two side beams and a center beam connecting the two end beams. In this manner the shelf can be easily assembled and disassembled and supported on a support post at a predetermined height.

Plastic frame system having a triangular support post

A shelf support system for a 'knock-down' type shelving system having adjustable height shelves includes a support post having a generally right equilateral triangular cross-section. A wedge member is disposed on the interior face of the support post by a snap-on operation, and is located at a predetermined height thereon by detent apparatus cooperating therebetween. A corner bracket is structurally associated with a corner of the shelf to be supported, and is formed with a tapered face for cooperating with the wedge member. A snap-on collar is provided for forming together with the corner bracket a triangular sleeve around the support post, the collar resiliently engaging the corner bracket, such that the sleeve may be seated on the wedge member by wedge action, thus the shelf may be supported on the support post at the predetermined height.

Shelf support system having a triangular support post

Wire shelf

A latching mechanism, for latching and unlatching a panel movable relative to a stationary panel of a container, includes a latch secured to one of the panels, and a structure defining an opening in the other of the panels through which the latch extends when the movable panel is in container-closing position. A latch keeper is positioned by a positioning device in operative position relative to the other of the panels to engage and retain the latch when the movable panel is in container-closing position. A keeper actuating device is operable to shift the latch keeper to latch-releasing position. The positioning device and the keeper cooperate to maintain the keeper in operative position and the keeper is manually shiftable from the operative position for disengagement from the other of the panels.

Latching mechanism

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Exton, PA, United States of America

Rodney E Brancher