Article Support Rack

Abstract

An article support rack with accessorial article support racks directly assembled therewith includes a main article support rack, at least one conical lantern ring and at least one accessorial article support rack with split rings. Several flutes are defined in the support legs of the main article support rack. The conical lantern ring consists of two taper-collets and at least one protuberant rib is formed on an inner wall of the taper-collets so that the flutes engage with the ribs when two taper-collets are assembled to be a conical lantern ring around the support leg of the main article support rack, thereby achieving the function of stopping slip up and down. Since the accessorial article support rack can be assembled directly to the main article support rack without disassembling the main article support rack in advance, the extension function of the article support rack is greatly improved.

1 . An article support rack, comprising:
 a main article support rack having a plurality of support legs, at least one flute being formed in the support leg;   at least one conical lantern ring having a outer conical surface, the inner diameter of the conical lantern ring being no smaller than the outer diameter of the support leg, and the outer diameter of the top portion of the conical lantern ring is smaller than that of the bottom portion of the conical lantern ring, at least one protuberant rib being formed on an inner wall of the conical lantern ring for engaging with the flute of the support leg; and   at least one accessorial article support rack having a split ring with a inner conical surface for engaging with an outer wall of the conical lantern ring, the split ring having a split whose chord length is no smaller than the outer diameter of the support leg, any inner diameter of the split ring at any height of the split spring being no smaller than the outer diameter of the top portion of the conical lantern ring, but at least one inner diameter of the split ring at a certain height of the split spring being smaller than the outer diameter of the bottom portion of the conical lantern ring;   the inner conical surface of the split ring and the outer conical surface of the conical lantern ring have a same taper.   
   
   
       2 . The article support rack as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein the accessorial article support rack is selected from a group consisting of net type article support rack, pothook type article support rack, and balustrade type article support rack. 
   
   
       3 . The article support rack as claimed in  claim 2 , wherein the rib of the conical lantern ring is annular or point mode. 
   
   
       4 . The article support rack as claimed in  claim 3 , wherein the conical lantern ring consists of two engaged taper-collets, one side of each of the taper-collets has a notch and the other side of each of the taper-collets has an extension arm, the notch of one of the taper-collets engages with the extension arm of the other taper-collet. 
   
   
       5 . The article support rack as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein the flute of the support leg of the main article support rack is annular. 
   
   
       6 . The article support rack as claimed in  claim 5 , wherein the flute is defined in at least two positions of the support leg of the main article support rack. 
   
   
       7 . The article support rack as claimed in  claim 6 , wherein the flutes defined in the support leg of the main article support rack are parallel.