Book restraint assembly for shelving

Claim 1

A book restraint assembly in combination with a book shelf assembly comprising: a pair of vertically oriented post members that are laterally spaced apart a predetermined distance, said post members each having a front wall, a right side wall and a left side wall, said front wall having a plurality of end tab slots spaced at predetermined vertical intervals; at least one shelf assembly having a horizontal platform whose opposite ends are each attached to vertically oriented end wall members, said end wall members having a rear edge with a pair of tab members extending rearwardly therefrom, said tab members being removably engaged in the end tab slots of said post members; and a book restraint assembly having an elongated tubular restraint member having a left end, a right end and a predetermined length, a left end plate and a right end plate having means of detachably securing them to the respective left and right ends of said tubular restraint member, an end tab extending rearwardly from each of said end plates and they are detachably received in the end tab slots of said post members so that said end plates may be pivoted upwardly a predetermined height to allow the tubular restraint member to clear the height of any books on the shelf platform thus allowing them to be removed.