Warehouse construction employing independent rack units

Claim 1

IN A WAREHOUSE CONSTRUCTION, A PLURALITY OF INDEPENDENT RACK UNITS SERVING AS A VERTICAL LOAD BEARING MEANS AND ALSO SERVING AS A STORAGE STRUCTURE, IN COMBINATION WITH TWO FLOOR DECKS SPACED-APART VERTICALLY, EACH INDEPENDENT RACK UNIT COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF VERTICAL MEMBERS SPACED-APART IN LONGITUDINAL ROWS AND EXTENDING INTERMEDIATELY OF THE FLOOR DECKS, A PLURALITY OF HORIZONTAL MEMBERS SPACED-APART VERTICALLY AND EXTENDING LONGITUDINALLY AND TRANSVERSELY BETWEEN THE ROWS OF VERTICAL MEMBERS, SAID HORIZONTAL MEMBERS RIGIDLY INTERCONNECTING THE VERTICAL MEMBERS TO SUPPORT EACH VERTICAL MEMBER AGAINST LATERAL DISTORTION AT POINTS INTERMEDIATE THE LENGTH THERE OF AND SAID HORIZONTAL MEMBERS DIVIDING EACH VERTICAL MEMBER INTO UNSUPPORTED LENGTHS OF LESS THAN THE DISTANCE BETWEEN SAID FLOOR DECKS, SAID VERTICAL MEMBERS BEARING ON THE LOWER FLOOR DECK, AND THE UPPER FLOOR DECK BEARING DIRECTLY ON CERTAIN ONES OF THE VERTICAL MEMBERS, SAID VERTICAL MEMBERS BEING OF LIGHTWEIGHT STRUCTURAL DESIGN SUCH THAT WITHOUT THE HORIZONTAL MEMBERS, THE VERTICAL MEMBERS COULD NOT SUPPORT THE UPPER FLOOR DECK, AND MEANS FOR DETACHABLY CONNECTING THE CERTAIN ONES OF THE VERTICAL MEMBERS TO THE UPPER FLOOR DECK, SAID INDEPENDENT RACK UNITS BETWEEN ADJACENT FLOOR DECKS BEING SPACED-APART HORIZONTALLY TO PROVIDE AISLES THEREBETWEEN.