Disclosed is a wine rack, large versions of which are adapted to be
installed against a wall of a room or as a free standing wall separated
from the walls of a room, which is a monolithic flat rigid sheet to which
has uniformly mounted in rows through holes therein a like number of wine
bottle support rods which project perpendicularly and parallel to each
other from one or both faces of the sheet so that two wine bottles of
varying sidewall diameter can be stored on three of the rods without their
side-walls touching and whose essential elements can be fabricated offsite
by forming uniform rows of holes in a monolithic sheet of stainless steel;
fitting in the holes machine bolts whose threaded shank ends project
beyond a face of the steel sheet; bonding the heads of the bolts to the
opposite face of the steel sheet so that their threaded ends project
axially perpendicularly, rigidly and parallel to each other; and forming a
female threaded cavity in one end of a plurality of wine bottle support
rods. The thus-fabricated structural parts of the wine rack are then
transported to the installation site, where the rods are coupled to the
projecting ends of the bolts. A plurality of the thus-fabricated wine rack
are mounted side-by-side vertically on a wall of a room at the
installation site or one of them can be installed as free standing version
which is stabilizing from bending or swaying at its base. A free standing
version with wine bottle support rods projecting from both faces thereof
can similarly be produced using short lengths of threaded steel rods
which, when inserted in the holes in the steel sheet, its ends project a
short distance beyond each face of the steel sheet so that the internally
female threaded ends wine bottle support rods can be mounted on both ends
thereof.
