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An adapter for enabling a vertical slotted standard in the form of a steel bar to be mounted to a pair of back-to-back assembled sheet metal channel-shaped studs in a wall, the adapter being disposed within the wall and hidden from the exterior of the wall. The exterior covering of the wall comprise

An adapter for enabling a vertical slotted standard in the form of a steel bar to be mounted to a pair of back-to-back assembled sheet metal channel-shaped studs in a wall, the adapter being disposed within the wall and hidden from the exterior of the wall. The exterior covering of the wall comprises aligned adjacent wallboard members whose vertical adjacent edges engage against a pair of forwardly extending entrance flanges for receiving therein the shelf-supporting hooked end brackets which enter and engage within the slots of the standard. The wallboard members are secured to the studs with the same fasteners that connect a pair of wallboard-receiving wings of the adapter to the studs. The invention is concerned with means for anchoring the standard within the adapter and a method of effecting such anchoring during the assembly of the adapter.

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An adapter including a slotted vertical standard for receiving shelve brackets in the slots thereof for connection with a pair of back-to-back sheet metal studs in constructing a wall, with the adapter being substantially hidden except for an entrance groove for said brackets leading to said standar

An adapter including a slotted vertical standard for receiving shelve brackets in the slots thereof for connection with a pair of back-to-back sheet metal studs in constructing a wall, with the adapter being substantially hidden except for an entrance groove for said brackets leading to said standard, the wall being covered with wallboard members, the adapter comprising: A. a box-like housing to be mounted between said studs, said housing having opposite side walls, a rear wall, wallboard receiving wings, a pair of parallel forwardly extending entrance forming flanges, a pair of interior flanges connected with respective opposite side walls and inward extensions of said wings, the entrance forming flanges being integral with said inward extensions, the inward extensions and interior flanges forming an elongate standard receiving channel having its center connecting with the space between the entrance forming flanges, B. a flat steel bar having a central line of slots engaged in the channel and forming said standard, said interior flanges being tightly engaged against said bar and clamping the bar between the flanges and the rear of the inward extensions, C. parallel rows of recesses in the rear surface of the bar and aligned with said interior flanges, there being protrusions on said flanges extending into said recesses and forming locking keys to hold said bar permanently in said channel.