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Abstract

Abstract 8. A WALL ASSEMBLY COMPRISING UPPER AND LOWER RUNNERS DISPOSED IN SPACED-APART RELATIONSHIP FROM ONE ANOTHER GENERALLY IN THE SAME PLANE, A PLURALITY OF STUDS EXTENDING BETWEEN SAID RUNNERS WITH RESPECTIVE ENDS THEREOF ENGAGING SAID RUNNERS, SAID STUDS HAVING SURFACES FOR SUPPORTING PARTITION MEMBERS, A PLURALITY OF PARTITION MEMBERS MOUNTED IN ADJOINING EDGE-TO-EDGE RELATIONSHIP ON THE SUPPORTING SURFACES OF SAID STUDS, THE ADJACENT EDGE SURFACES OF ADJACENT PARTITION MEMBERS BEING SPACED APART FROM EACH OTHER SO AS TO DEFINE, IN COMBINATION WITH ONE OF SAID SUPPORTING SURFACES OF ONE OF SAID STUDS, AN ELONGATE SLOT, A PLURALITY OF BRACKET STANDARDS, EACH OF SAID BRACKET STANDARDS CONTACTING TWO ADJACENT EDGES OF SAID PARTITION MEMBERS, ATTACHMENT MEANS SECURING EACH OF SAID BRACKET STANDARDS TO ONE OF SAID STUDS WHEREBY SAID BRACKET STANDARDS HOLD SAID PARTITION MEMBERS IN CONTACT WITH SAID SUPPORTING SURFACE OF SAID STUDS, AND A PLURALITY OF SHELF BRACKETS REMOVABLY ENGAGING SAID STANDARDS BY EXTENSION OF A PORTION OF SAID SHELF BRACKET THROUGH SAID STANDARD AND INTO SAID ELONGATE SLOT, WHEREIN SAID STANDARD INCLUDES TWO LEGS EXTENDING THEREFROM BETWEEN SAID ADJACENT EDGE SURFACES TOWARD SAID STUD SURFACE, SAID LEGS BEING OF A LENGTH NO GREATER THAN THAT NECESSARY TO PERMIT SAID BRACKET STANDARD TO CONTACT SAID TWO ADJACENT EDGES OF SAID PARTITION MEMBERS, WHEREBY SAID LEGS SEPARATE SAID ADJACENT EDGE SURFACES BY A DISTANCE SUFFICIENT TO FORM SAID ELONGATE SLOT, AND INTEGRAL MEANS ENGAGING AND RESTRAINING THE FACE SURFACES OF ADJOINING PARTITION MEMBES.

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