The Stanley Works

William F Ryczek

Kenneth K Kellems

Douglas R Smith

A drawer has oppositely facing flanges extending from the top of each side wall, perpendicular to each side wall, and a pair of rollers at each rear corner. Two drawer runners are mounted below a surface in alignment with the drawer side walls, each runner having oppositely facing flanges for engaging the drawer-mounted wheels and a pair of wheels for engaging the drawer-mounted flanges. The drawer runners have depressions for holding the drawer wheels in a closed position and ramps for slowing the drawer wheels before reaching the opened position. The drawer is assembled from parts which snap together. The drawer runners are specifically designed to snap into place below a set of horizontal steel planks forming a shelf.

Drawer and drawer suspension system

Shelf

A modular shelving system has a pair of vertical supports for a central stack of shelves. Each shelf is supported by a pair of shelf support brackets extending between the vertical supports and the back wall of a closet, for example. Each shelf has a plurality of sheet metal planks of generally trapezoidal cross section which elastically snap into complementary bosses along the tops of the shelf support brackets. Similar shelves extend from the central stack to side walls of the closet and are supported there by side wall brackets which also have bosses along the top complementary to the cross section of the planks. Some of the brackets have sockets for receiving the ends of hanger bars beneath the shelves.

Growing community of inventors

Azusa, CA, United States of America

William F Ryczek