Cabinet storage racks

Claim 1

A gravity feed storage rack comprising a frame for storage and dispensing several side-by-side rows of cylindrical containers, adapted to be mounted to vertical support structure, comprising: two outside upper ramp-defining members, each comprising (a) generally upwardly extending first flange means disposed essentially in a vertical plane, which first flange means help retain a row of cylindrical containers within the rack and define the direction of gravity displacement of said row of cylindrical containers through part of the rack, and (b) an inwardly directed second flange means extending from the first flange means essentially normal thereto to define one side of an upper sloping ramp; two outside lower ramp-defining members each comprising (a) first flange means disposed essentially in one of said vertical planes, below one outside upper ramp-defining member a distance greater than the diameter of the cylindrical containers being stored, which first flange means help retain said row of cylindrical containers within the rack and further define the direction of gravity displacement of said row of cylindrical containers through another part of the rack, and (b) an inwardly directed second flange means extending from the lastmentioned first flange means essentially normal thereto to define one side of a lower sloping ramp; a plurality of spaced intermediate upper ramp-defining members disposed at space locations between and extending generally parallel to the outside upper ramp-defining members, each intermediate upper ramp-defining member comprising (a) generally upwardly extending first flange means disposed essentially in a vertical plane which first flange means help retain two rows of cylindrical containers within the rack and define the direction of gravity displacement of said two rows of cylindrical containers through part of the rack, (b) one outwardly directed second flange means extending from the lastmentioned first flange means essentially normal thereto toward one outside ramp-defining member to define one side of an upward sloping ramp for cylindrical containers, and (c) an outwardly directed third flange means extending from the lastmentioned first flange means essentially normal thereto toward the other outside upper ramp-defining member to define one side of another upper sloping ramp for cylindrical containers, said last-mentioned second and third flange means terminating forward of the back end the last-mentioned first flange means to define in part a chute through which cylindrical containers pass by force of gravity; a plurality of spaced intermediate lower ramp-defining members disposed at spaced locations between and generally parallel to the outside lower ramp-defining members, each intermediate lower ramp-defining member comprising ((a) generally upwardly extending first flange means disposed essentially in one vertical plane containing but below the first flange means of one intermediate upper ramp-defining member a distance greater than the cylindrical containers being stored, which first flange means of said intermediate lower ramp-defining member help retain two rows of cylindrical containers within the rack and further define the direction of gravity displacement of said two groups of cylindrical containers through another part of the rack, (b) one outwardly directed second flange means extending from the last-mentioned first flange means essentially normal thereto toward one outside lower rampdefining member to define one side of a Lower sloping ramp for cylindrical containers, (c) an outwardly directed third flange means extending from the last-mentioned first flange means essentially normal thereto toward the other outside lower rampdefining member defined one side of another sloping ramp for cylindrical containers; structure bridging between lower and upper ramp-defining members further defining said chute; structure supporting the ramp-defining members in fixed relation one to another.