Knape & Vogt Manufacturing Company

Clarke-gravely Corporation

Walter L Bessinger

Casey L Carlson

William E Stumpf

Keith A Hoffman

Richard S Knape

Robert E Sorenson

Gene R Clement

Michael J Hogan

Jerry D Rutledge

A shelving assembly having vertical standards and cantilever brackets, and an elongated generally U-shaped cover over each standard. The cover flanges laterally stabilize the bracket. The brackets have V-shaped upper recesses interfitting with slotted hemispherical shelving mounts fitted in the upper edge recesses of the brackets, each mount having a tapered slot configuration complementary to the recess configuration, and having an upper adhesive pad and a vertical jack for temporarily holding a shelf up off the adhesive. The jacks are shiftable down under limited predetermined force to lower the shelf onto the adhesive for anchoring.

Shelving mount system

A shelving assembly having vertical standards and brackets thereon suspending shelves therebetween by telescopic mounting connectors telescopically fitted into and projecting from openings as in reinforcing beams recessed into the bottom of the shelves. The mounting connectors extend into openings in the brackets. These openings are in alternate pairs to allow the shelf to be in either of two positions, preferably horizontal or tilted diagonally. The connectors have peripheral grooves configured to interengage with the plate type brackets, there being three such grooves so they can support one end of one shelf on a bracket or the adjacent ends of two shelves on a common bracket. Glass shelves can be mounted on these book end brackets using socket shelf mounts having a receiving socket in a body, an outer shelf support surface, and a resilient clip for attachment to the shelf.

Book end bracket and shelving system

A shelving assembly having vertical standards and cantilever brackets, and an elongated cover over each standard. The cover has slots coinciding with the standard slots but of greater length. The cover webs between the slots are shorter than the standard webs. The bracket holds the cover vertically in place. The cover flanges laterally stabilize the bracket. The brackets have lugs that extend through slots on the cover and slots on the standard, and engage behind webs on the standard between the slots. The spaces between the lug front faces and the rear edge of the bracket have receiving portions of a width to receive both standard webs and cover webs. The bracket rear edge also has abutment portions adjacent the bottom of the bracket engaging exposed standard web surface not covered by cover web.

Interlock shelving bracket and standard cover

A shelving assembly having vertical standards and brackets thereon suspending shelves therebetween by steel mounting pins projecting from channels in reinforcing beams recessed into the bottom of the shelves. The mounting pins extend into openings in the brackets. These openings, when in the form of recesses in the upper edge of the brackets, are configured with an overhand lip to prevent shelf tipping. These openings, when in bookend brackets are in alternate pairs to allow the shelf to be horizontal or tilted diagonally. The pins have a steel core, preferably jacketed with polymer having an integral peripheral flexible fin for a friction fit in the channels. These pins have peripheral grooves configured to interengage with plate type brackets. The pins have three such grooves so that they can serve to support one end of one shelf on the bracket or the adjacent ends of two shelves on a common bracket. Glass shelves can be mounted using pin socket shelf mounts having a pin receiving socket in a body, an outer shelf support surface, and a resilient clip for attachment to the shelf.

Beam and telescopic connector shelving system

Combined corner shelf and bracket

A shelving assembly having vertical standards and cantilever brackets, an elongated generally U-shaped cover over each standard, its legs being resiliently biased toward the standard, and there being a space extending in from the apex of the cover and straddled by flanges which integrally join a cross piece forming webs and vertically spaced slots generally coinciding with slots in the standard. The legs hold the cover on the standard. The bracket holds the cover vertically in place. The cover flanges laterally stabilize the bracket. Caps and collars project from the ends of the standards. The brackets have slotted shelving mounts fitted in upper edge recesses of the brackets, each mount having an upper adhesive pad and a vertical jack for temporarily holding a shelf up off the adhesive. The jacks are shiftable down under limited predetermined force to lower the shelf onto the adhesive for anchoring. A wire clip for guiding an electric wire is attachable to the standard by lug engagement.

Aesthetic shelving system

A cantilever shelf bracket assembly, of which the vertical wall engagement member, the horizontal platform and the overhanging retention member together define the respective inner end, bottom and top of a shelf receiving throat; a resilient cushion and interlock member adhered to the shelf with one leg extending between the shelf inner edge and the inner end of the throat, and the second leg being between the top of the shelf and the overhanging retention member; there being mutually facing interlock grooves extending in from the ends of the bracket, removable end caps and protrusions that interfit into the interlock grooves for securing the shelf in the bracket.

Interlock shelf and bracket

The specification discloses a lift-out drawer slide having a lock to positively prevent accidental or inadvertent removal of the drawer from the cabinet. As is conventional in lift-out slides, the drawer rail can be vertically cocked with respect to the supporting rail to bypass the stop mechanism and remove the drawer. The present slide includes a movable lock which can be positioned within the clearance space between the rails to prevent relative cocking of the rails and thereby prevent bypassing of the stop mechanism.

Drawer slide lift-out lock

A support bracket assembly for a glass or marble shelf panel has a laterally oriented throat and a generally U-shaped resilient interface strip fitted over the rear edge of the shelf panel and received within the shelf bracket. The top of the interface strip is biased against the top of the throat to retain the shelf panel in the support bracket.

Resilient sleeve glass shelf bracket

A shelf bracket assembly for cantilever mounting shelves of varying thickness and selected material, including a bracket having a horizontal shelf support platform and a vertical wall engaging member, a clamping element engageable with a shelf on the platform and movable on the bracket to clamp a shelf thereto, and fastening means for securing the clamping element to lock the clamping element against a shelf on the platform.

Clamp plate cantilever shelf

A support bracket for supporting in a cantilever fashion a glass or marble shelf has a laterally oriented throat to receive the rear portion of a shelf panel and an adjustment screw extending from the throat bottom to bias the shelf rear portion into restraining engagement with a support surface on the throat top. Cushioning means are provided in association with the adjustment screw to distribute the biasing force of the screw uniformly over an area of the shelf surface. In some embodiments the cushioning means is a separate resilient member between the screw and a shelf and in other embodiments the screw is made of a polymeric material to provide the cushioning means.

Resilient threaded retention glass shelf bracket

A support bracket for a glass or marble shelf panel has a laterally oriented receiving throat defined by an upper support member and a lower support member, both extending horizontally from a vertical wall mounting plate. One of the support members is flexibly joined to the mounting plate by a reduced thickness portion and the other support member is rigidly joined to the mounting plate. Adjusting means rotate the movable support member so that the shelf panel is grasped between the two support members.

Flexible glass shelf bracket

A shelf bracket assembly that includes a shelf bracket and a wall bracket. The shelf bracket is mountable to the bottom of a shelf, and has downwardly depending and rearwardly extending tapered members that are received by recesses in the wall bracket and are engaged with like tapered surfaces in said recess for slidably rearwardly engaging said brackets. Adjacent the interengaged components are locking pin receiving spaces. Locking pins are shown attached to end panels. Insertion of the pins locks the brackets together and retains the end panels in place.

Lock pin cantilever shelf

There is disclosed a cantilever shelf support having a bracket with a laterally oriented throat to receive the rear portion of a shelf, the throat having a lower support platform, an upper overhang, and an inner end, a resilient insert in the throat, the insert having depending fingers resiliently flexible by an inserted shelf, a depending compression pad deeper in said throat than the fingers for supporting the inserted shelf, and a resilient skirt depending in front of the throat inner end for protective abutment with the rear edge of the shelf.

Shelf anchor

The specification discloses an improved self-closing drawer slide including integral scales to facilitate installation. More particularly, separate scales are provided on the cabinet channel assembly and the drawer channel assembly, and each scale indicates the height to which one end of the channel assembly must be elevated above the other end of the channel assembly to mount the channel at a desired inclination from horizontal.

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Grand Haven, MI, United States of America

Walter L Bessinger