July 6, 1937.
L. s. CHADWICK
2,086,118
ADJUSTABLE SHELF FOR REFRIGERATORS OR THE LIKE
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Patented July .I 6, 1937
UNITED STATES PpATENT OFFICE
2,086,118
ADJUSTABLE SHELF FOR REFRIGERATORS
OR THE LIKE
Lee, S. Chadwick, Shaker Heights, Ohio, assignor
to Perfection Stove Company, Cleveland, Ohio,
a corporation of Ohio
Application November 22, 1935, Serial No. 51,128
' 3 Claims.
(Cl. 211-153)
This invention is an adjustable shelf for re
front to rear, are approximately the length of
frigerators and similar enclosures in which it is
the bearing portions a and a’.
necessary or desirable to alter the spacing of the
shelves from time to time to accommodate ob
be arranged between opposed shelf supporting
jects of different heights between them.
The purpose of the invention is to provide a
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As illustrated in Figs. 4 to '7, each shelf A may
means or ledges b in three different positions:
?rst, as shown in detail in Fig. 5, with its’ ends
simple and inexpensive construction affording a
that constitute the bearing portions a resting
wide range of adjustment and facilitating the ac
upon said means or ledges; secondly, as detailed
complishment thereof.
A typical and thoroughly practical embodiment
of the invention is illustrated in the accompany
ing drawings forming a part hereof wherein Fig. 1
is a front elevation, Fig. 2 a fragmentary plan
view, and Fig. 3 a side elevation of my improved
shelf; Fig. 4 is a front elevation of a refrigerator
incorporating the invention, and Figs. 5, 6, and 7
in Fig. 6, in a more elevated position with its
bearing portions a’ resting upon the shelf sup 10
porting means or ledges b; and, thirdly, in an
inverted position at a level below its ?rst eleva
tion with its bearing portions 0.’ again contacting
the shelf supporting means or ledges b.
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Inasmuch as the shelf supporting means or
ledges b of each side wall 5 are spaced apart a
are sectional details through a wall of the refrig
eration compartment or enclosure and thead
distance corresponding approximately to three
times the vertical spacing of the bearing por
jacent end of the shelf, showing, respectively, the
tions 0. and a.’ of a shelf, the shelves may be 20
According to the present embodiment of the
invention, the shelf, designated generally by the
tions equally spaced apart between the high
position of the top shelf and the low position of
the bottom shelf.
Having thus described my invention, what I
20 shelf adjusted to three different elevations.
letter A, consists of a rectangular frame I, made
of a stiff, heavy gauge wire, and cross bars 2 that
25 are relatively narrow in plan but are of a depth
substantially equal to the diameter of the wire
from which the frame I is constructed, the oppo
site‘ ends of the cross bars being suitably secured
to the opposed portions of the frame I with the
30 top and bottom edges of the bars substantially
?ush with the corresponding sides of the frame
thereby to avoid a marginal obstruction to the
sliding of objects onto or off the shelf regardless
of which side of the shelf is up. The ends of the
35 frame I constitute bearing portions a.
A wide and relatively shallow U-shaped mem
ber 3, preferably constructed of material or stock
identical with that from which the frame I is
made, is secured to the underneath side of the
.40 frame (as the same is positioned in Fig. 1) a short
distance from each end thereof. The straight
central section of each member 3 constitutes a
bearing portion a’, and the same is offset lat
erally into the vertical plane of the adjacent
45 bearing portion a.
While the invention‘ is applicable to different
classes of enclosures, I have shown it in Fig. 4
as incorporated in a refrigerator B. The side
walls 5 of the refrigeration compartment 6 are
50 provided with shelf supporting means or ledges
b, the corresponding means or ledges on the op
posed walls being in the same horizontal plane,
and the adjacent ones of each wall have their
shelf supporting surfaces spaced apart preferably
5.5 three times the vertical distance between the
bearing portions 0. and a.’ of the shelves A. The
shelf supporting means or ledges b, as best shown
in Figs. 5 to 7, are desirably formed of outward
depressions of the sheet metal from which the
60 walls 5 are constructed, and, in a direction from
adjusted in the manner above described to posi
claim is:
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1. An invertible shelf comprising a rectangular
frame, and relatively wide U-shaped members or
rod-like material having their ends rigidly se
cured to opposed portionsof the same side of the
frame at locations inset from the ends thereof,
the central portion of each U-shaped member
being substantially parallel with and offset into
the vertical plane of the adjacent end of the
frame.
2. An invertible fabricated shelf consisting of 35
an open frame, cross members disposed between
and connected at their opposite ends to the op
posed sides of the frame, the top and bottom
surfaces of said members being substantially
?ush with the corresponding faces of the frame, 40
and relatively wide U-shaped members construct
ed of round wire having their ends secured- to
opposed portions of the same face of the frame
at locations inset from the ends thereof, the
central portion of each U-shaped member being 45
substantially parallel with and offset into the ver
tical plane of the adjacent end of the frame.
3. An invertible fabricated shelf consisting of
an open frame, cross members disposed between 50
and connected at their opposite ends to the op
posed sides of the frame, and relatively wide U
shaped members constructediof wire having their
ends rigidly secured to opposed portions of the
same face of the frame at locations inset from 55
the ends thereof, the central portion of each
U-shaped member being substantially parallel
with and offset into the vertical plane of the ad
jacent end of the frame.
LEE S. CHADWICK.
CERTIFICATE OF CORRECTION.
Patent No. 2,086, 118.
July 6,1957.
LEE S.
CHADWICK. '
It is hereby certified that error appears in the printed specification
of the above numbered patent‘requiring correction as follows: Page 1,
second column, line 27, claim 1, for the word "or" read of; and that the
said Letters Patent should be read with this correction therein that the
same may conform to the record of the case in the Patent Office.
Signed and sealed this 51st day of August, A. D. 1937.
(Seal)
Acting Commriessslilcgelirraoyiellfjatents.