Article supporting rack
OwnerJames M. Matheisinventor
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Abstract
An article supporting rack particularly adapted for being attached to a door, e.g., the inner side of a closet door. The device includes a plurality of dowel rods which are supported at either end thereof by being received in selected ones of numerous holes provided in frame members which are attached to the door. The dowel rods may thusly be installed in various arrangements selectively compatible with various articles intended to be supported by the device in an optimum array for easy and ready access thereof. The dowel rods may be arranged to constrain tall or top-heavy articles as well as slender or bulky articles.
Claims7
An article supporting rack especially adapted for being attached to a door, said article supporting rack comprising first and second confrontingly arranged planar rigid frame members and an intermediate planar rigid frame member, means for attaching said frame members to said door, said frame members being substantially perpendicularly disposed with the plane of said door and having an optimum spaced distance therebetween;
- each of said frame members being provided with numerous uniformly sized holes, said frame members having co-acting portions wherein at least a portion of said holes provided in said first and second frame members are aligned with at least a portion of said holes provided in said intermediate frame member so as to establish companion holes for said co-acting portions with the companion holes having a common horizontal axis, and a plurality of dowel rods compatibly sized for a snug fitting relationship selectively with any of said companion holes, each of said dowel rods having a length sufficient for spanning the distance between adjacent ones of said frame members as the opposite ends thereof are received in selected ones of said companion holes thus becoming affixed to said frame member, at least one of said dowel rods having a length insufficient for spanning the distance between said first and second frame members, the various arrangements of said dowel rods within said companion holes being selectively compatible with various articles enabling said dowel rods to selectively be used in supporting such articles in an optimum array.
An article supporting rack especially adapted for being attached to a swingably hinged door having a door knob to enable numerous selected articles of various sizes and shapes to be stored on the inner side of the door, said article supporting rack comprising first and second confrontingly arranged planar rigid frame members and an intermediate planar rigid frame member, means for attaching said frame members to the inner side of the door, said frame members being substantially perpendicularly disposed with the inner surface of the door and having an optimum spaced distance therebetween with said second frame member positioned adjacent the door knob;
- said frame members being provided with numerous uniformly sized holes arranged in at least three vertical rows thus establishing an outer row, an inner row, and at least one intermediate row;
- said frame members having co-acting portions wherein at least a portion of said holes provided in said first and second frame members are aligned with at least a portion of said holes provided in said intermediate frame member so as to establish companion holes having a common horizontal axis, and a plurality of dowel rods compatibly sized for a snug fitting relationship selectively with any of said companion holes, each of said dowel rods having a length sufficient for spanning the distance between adjacent ones of said frame members as the opposite ends thereof are received in selected ones of said companion holes thus becoming affixed to said frame members, at least one of said dowel rods having a length insufficient for spanning the distance between said first and second frame members, at least two of said dowel rods being disposed in a side-by-side relationship thus establishing a shelf therefrom whereby various articles may be restingly supported thereon, and with at least one of said dowel rods being disposed in companion holes which are situated in said outer row but at a spaced distance above those establishing the shelf with the latter dowel rod(s) establishing a railing for constraining any such supported articles in a substantially fixed disposition irrespectively of any swinging action which the door may experience.
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