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A rack assembly of storage bins has a back wall, series of vertical slots in the back wall, partition members having tongues for fixing the partition member to the back wall. Extending between the partition members are bin floors, the edges of the floor members located in slots in the partition memb

A rack assembly of storage bins has a back wall, series of vertical slots in the back wall, partition members having tongues for fixing the partition member to the back wall. Extending between the partition members are bin floors, the edges of the floor members located in slots in the partition members. The spacing of the slots in the back wall and of the slots in the partition members is selected to permit a range of spacings of horizontally adjacent partition members and a range of spacings of vertically adjacent floor members. By suitable selection of the spacings, a large variety of bin sizes can be obtained.

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1. A rack assembly comprising: a support;first and second pluralities of partition members: the partition members of one of the pluralities of partition members demountably mounted to the support, the partition members of said one plurality of partition members extending generally vertically; andthe

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A rack assembly comprising: a support;first and second pluralities of partition members: the partition members of one of the pluralities of partition members demountably mounted to the support, the partition members of said one plurality of partition members extending generally vertically; andthe partition members of the other plurality of partition members demountably mounted to respective ones of the partition members of the one plurality of partition members, the partition members of the other plurality of partition members extending generally horizontally;first mounting fixtures on the support, the first mounting fixtures positioned as a plurality of vertically extending series, each series of first mounting fixtures horizontally spaced from an adjacent series of first mounting fixtures by a predetermined distance L;second mounting fixtures on the partition members of said one plurality of partition members;respective pairings of the first and second mounting fixtures interengageable to demountably mount the partition members of said one plurality of partition members to the support;third mounting fixtures on the partition members of the one plurality of partition members;fourth mounting fixtures on the partition members of the other plurality of partition members;respective pairings of the third and fourth mounting fixtures interengageable to demountably mount partition members of said other plurality of partition members to partition members of said one plurality of partition members; anda plurality of bins, each bin having opposed side walls and opposed upper and lower floor members, the side walls each comprising at least a part of respective partition members of said one plurality of partition members, the floor members each comprising a respective partition member of said other plurality of partition members, each bin having side walls in common with immediately laterally adjacent bins and floor members in common with immediately vertically adjacent bins. 2. A rack assembly as claimed in claim 1, wherein the support is a back panel, each first mounting fixture comprising a generally vertically extending slot in the back panel. 3. A rack assembly as claimed in claim 2, wherein each second mounting fixture comprises a tongue for insertion into a corresponding one of the slots. 4. A rack assembly as claimed in claim 3, wherein the weight of each partition member of said one plurality of partition members acts to retain such partition member in the corresponding slot. 5. A rack assembly as claimed in claim 4, wherein each floor member has a width n×L where n is an integer between 1 and N and where N×L is the width of the rack. 6. A rack assembly as claimed in claim 1, the rack assembly further comprising a function zone, the function zone having a vertical and horizontal extent, the support over the extent of the function zone having no partition members mounted thereat, and at least one function module mounted to the support at the function zone. 7. A rack assembly as claims in claim 6, the function module indirectly mounted to the support, the rack assembly further comprising a sub-panel having fifth mounting fixtures enabling demountable mounting of the sub-panel at corresponding ones of the first mounting fixtures of the support, the function module demountably mounted to the sub-panel. 8. A rack assembly as claimed in claim 6, the function module directly mounted to the support at one or more of the first mounting fixtures. 9. A rack assembly as claimed in claim 6, the function module being one of a pill counting unit, a pill singulating unit, a pill dispensing unit, a bulk material mixing unit, a bulk material reconstituting unit, a bulk materials mixing unit, a bulk materials reacting unit, and a bulk material diluting unit. 10. A rack assembly comprising: a support;first and second pluralities of partition members: the partition members of one of the pluralities of partition members demountably mounted to the support, the partition members of said one plurality of partition members extending generally vertically; andthe partition members of the other plurality of partition members demountably mounted to respective ones of the partition members of the one plurality of partition members, the partition members of the other plurality of partition members extending generally horizontally;first mounting fixtures on the support;second mounting fixtures on the partition members of said one plurality of partition members;respective pairings of the first and second mounting fixtures interengageable to demountably mount the partition members of said one plurality of partition members to the support;third mounting fixtures on the partition members of the one plurality of partition members;fourth mounting fixtures on the partition members of the other plurality of partition members, each fourth mounting fixture vertically spaced from an adjacent fourth mounting fixture by a distance H;respective pairings of the third and fourth mounting fixtures interengageable to demountably mount partition members of said other plurality of partition members to partition members of said one plurality of partition members; anda plurality of bins, each bin having opposed side walls and opposed upper and lower floor members, the side walls each comprising at least a part of respective partition members of said one plurality of partition members, the floor members each comprising a respective partition member of said other plurality of partition members, each bin having side walls in common with immediately laterally adjacent bins and floor members in common with immediately vertically adjacent bins. 11. A rack assembly as claimed in claim 10, each bin floor member separated from a next vertically adjacent bin floor member by a height m×H, where m is an integer between 1 and M and M×H is the height of the rack. 12. A rack assembly as claimed in claim 10, wherein the fourth mounting fixture comprises a generally horizontally extending slot. 13. A rack assembly as claimed in claim 12, each partition member of said one plurality of partition members formed from a pair of parallel plates, respective plates having spaced, non-contact regions within which the generally horizontally extending slots are formed and contacting regions at which the plates are fixed to one another. 14. A rack assembly as claimed in claim 13, wherein each of the floor members and the partition members of said one plurality of partition members are respectively formed with corresponding interengagable first and second locking formations to permit locking of the floor members to corresponding ones of the partition members of said one plurality of partition members. 15. A rack assembly as claimed in claim 12, wherein each third mounting fixture is an edge part of the corresponding floor member for insertion into a corresponding one of the generally horizontally extending slots. 16. A rack assembly comprising: a support;first and second pluralities of partition members: the partition members of one of the pluralities of partition members demountably mounted to the support, the partition members of said one plurality of partition members extending generally vertically; andthe partition members of the other plurality of partition members demountably mounted to respective ones of the partition members of the one plurality of partition members, the partition members of the other plurality of partition members extending generally horizontally;first mounting fixtures on the support;second mounting fixtures on the partition members of said one plurality of partition members;respective pairings of the first and second mounting fixtures interengageable to demountably mount the partition members of said one plurality of partition members to the support;third mounting fixtures on the partition members of the one plurality of partition members;fourth mounting fixtures on the partition members of the other plurality of partition members, each fourth mounting fixture vertically spaced from an adjacent fourth mounting fixture by a distance H;respective pairings of the third and fourth mounting fixtures interengageable to demountably mount partition members of said other plurality of partition members to partition members of said one plurality of partition members;a plurality of bins, each bin having opposed side walls and opposed upper and lower floor members, the side walls each comprising at least a part of respective partition members of said one plurality of partition members, the floor members each comprising a respective partition member of said other plurality of partition members, each bin having side walls in common with immediately laterally adjacent bins and floor members in common with immediately vertically adjacent bins; anda function zone having a vertical and horizontal extent, the support over the extent of the function zone having no partition members mounted thereat, and at least one function module mounted to the support at the function zone. 17. A rack assembly as claims in claim 16, the function module indirectly mounted to the support, the rack assembly further comprising a sub-panel having fifth mounting fixtures enabling demountable mounting of the sub-panel at corresponding ones of the first mounting fixtures of the support, the function module demountably mounted to the sub-panel. 18. A rack assembly as claimed in claim 16, the function module directly mounted to the support at one or more of the first mounting fixtures. 19. A rack assembly as claimed in claim 16, the function module being one of a pill counting unit, a pill singulating unit, a pill dispensing unit, a bulk material mixing unit, a bulk material reconstituting unit, a bulk materials mixing unit, a bulk materials reacting unit, and a bulk material diluting unit.