Storage rack for wine bottles

Claim 1

A storage rack for wine bottles with the rack being of modular construction permitting addition or removal of rack components to accommodate a fluctuating number of bottles, said rack comprising, a plurality of bottle supporting members of different lengths each being of elongate shape having top and bottom edges, end walls and being of a uniform thickness, said bottle supporting members having arcuate recesses evenly spaced along their top and bottom edges to define bottle receiving areas, said bottle supporting members additionally having irregular surface areas evenly spaced at uniform intervals along their top and bottom edges intermediate each arcuate recess, to permit connector means disposed between stacked bottle supporting members to engage the irregular surface areas in the opposing top and bottom surfaces of two or more vertically spaced bottle supporting members regardless of the differing length of said members, connector means joining horizontally spaced bottle supporting members and having top and bottom edges with irregular surface areas thereon for interlocking rested engagement with corresponding irregular surface areas of the bottle supporting members, said irregular surface areas of the connector means spaced apart at the same distance as consecutive irregular areas on said bottle supporting members, and said irregular areas on said bottle supporting members and said connectors being of square configuration and of the same interval to permit bottle supporting members to rest at right angles upon subjacent bottle supporting members thereby functioning in a dual manner as connectors while also permitting bottles to be stored pointing in two or more mutually perpendicularly related directions.