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A supplemental storage rack system expanding the storage capacity of a high density storage rack system includes a supplemental rack disposed along and extending parallel to a side rack of the high density storage rack system. The supplemental rack receiving and supporting items. The supplemental st

A supplemental storage rack system expanding the storage capacity of a high density storage rack system includes a supplemental rack disposed along and extending parallel to a side rack of the high density storage rack system. The supplemental rack receiving and supporting items. The supplemental storage rack system also includes an upper guide track, upper rollers rotatably mounted to an upper end of the supplemental rack and receiving therebetween the upper guide track for movement of the upper rollers therealong, outrigger support members attached to an upper end of a main rack of the high density storage rack system and extending outwardly therefrom beyond a side of the side rack to support the upper guide track above the upper end of the supplemental rack, a lower auxiliary extension guide track secured to a guide track for the side rack of the high density storage rack system and aligned generally parallel with the upper guide track, and lower rollers rotatably mounted to a lower end of the supplemental rack which movably contact the lower auxiliary extension guide track and thereby movably support the supplemental rack thereon. The lower rollers engage the lower auxiliary extension guide track as the upper rollers engage the upper guide track and thereby permit parallel movement of the supplemental rack along the high density storage rack system.

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[ I claim:] [16.] In combination with a high density storage rack system including a main rack having upper and lower ends and at least one side for receiving and supporting items, at least one side rack disposed along the one side of the main rack and having upper and lower ends and at least one si

[ I claim:] [16.] In combination with a high density storage rack system including a main rack having upper and lower ends and at least one side for receiving and supporting items, at least one side rack disposed along the one side of the main rack and having upper and lower ends and at least one side for receiving and supporting items and extending generally parallel to the one side of the main rack, and means for movably coupling the upper and lower ends of the side rack to the respective upper and lower ends of the main rack to permit movement of the side rack along the one side of the main rack, a supplemental storage rack system for expansion of the item storage capacity of the high density storage rack system, said supplemental rack storage system comprising:(a) a pair of supplemental racks, a first of said supplemental racks disposed along the one side of the side rack of the high density storage rack system, a second of said supplemental racks disposed along said first of said supplemental racks, each of said supplemental racks having upper and lower ends and at least one side for receiving and supporting items and extending generally parallel to the one side of the side rack of the high density storage rack system;(b) means for movably coupling said upper end of each of said supplemental racks to the upper end of the main rack of the high density storage rack system, said movably coupling means including(i) an upper guide track having a top wall and a pair of side walls connected to and extending downwardly from opposite edges of said top wall,(ii) a plurality of mounting brackets spaced apart for one another and attached to said upper end of each of said supplemental racks,(iii) a plurality of pairs of upper rollers, each of said pairs of upper rollers being rotatably mounted to one of said mounting brackets and receiving therebetween said respective side walls of said upper guide track for movement of said upper rollers along said respective side walls of said upper guide track, and(iv) a pair of outrigger support members attached to and spaced apart from one another along the upper end of the main rack of the high density storage rack system and extending in generally transverse relation to the main rack and side rack and to said supplemental racks and outwardly in cantilevered fashion from the upper end of the main rack over and beyond the side rack of the high density storage rack system to outer end portions of said outrigger support members being attached to said upper wall of said upper guide track so as to support said upper guide track above said upper ends of said supplemental racks; and(c) means for rollably guiding said lower end of said first of said supplemental racks along the lower end of the side rack of the high density storage rack system and for rollably guiding said lower end of said second of said supplemental racks along said lower end of said first of said supplemental racks such that said movably coupling means and said rollably guiding means cooperate to confine said first of said supplemental racks to movement substantially parallel along and relative to the one side of the side rack of the high density storage rack system and said second of said supplemental racks to movement substantially parallel along and relative to said one side of said second of said supplemental racks and said first and second supplemental racks to movement substantially transverse and relative to said outrigger support members, said rollably guiding means including(i) a pair of lower auxiliary extension guide tracks, a first of said lower auxiliary extension guide tracks being secured to a guide track for the side rack of the high density storage rack system and aligned generally parallel with said upper guide track, a second of said lower auxiliary extension guide tracks being secured to said first of said lower auxiliary extension guide tracks and aligned generally parallel with said upper guide track, and(ii) a plurality of lower rollers rotatably mounted to said lower end of each of said supplemental racks and movably contacting a respective one of said first and second lower auxiliary extension guide tracks and thereby movably supporting said respective supplemental racks thereon such that said lower rollers engage with said respective lower auxiliary extension guide tracks as said upper rollers engage said upper guide track and thereby permit parallel movement of said supplemental racks along the high density storage rack system.