Clothing bar apparatus
OwnerBarbara A. Palmerinventor
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Abstract
A housing member is mounted within a roof portion of an associated automobile to include an elongate clothing support rod longitudinally and medially mounted within the housing member. Access to the clothing rod is effected through slide plates mounted through a bottom wall of the housing member providing for an unobtrusive clothing support bar structure within the associated vehicle. A modification of the invention includes a pneumatic bladder mounted about the clothing rod and inflation apparatus arranged for selective inflation and deflation of the bladder to enhance engagement of hanger members mounted about the support rod.
Claims7
A clothing bar apparatus arranged for positioning within a vehicle, wherein the vehicle includes a lower roof panel spaced from an upper roof panel, and the apparatus comprises,
- a housing member, the housing member including a housing member bottom wall positioned in alignment with the lower roof panel, and
- the housing member including a housing top wall spaced from the housing bottom wall, and
- a housing rear wall spaced from a housing front wall, and
- a housing first end wall spaced from a housing second end wall, and
- a support rod fixedly mounted to the housing first end wall and the housing second end wall positioned in a spaced relationship relative to the housing rear wall and the housing front wall and the housing top wall and the housing bottom wall, and
- a partition housing directed substantially medially between the housing first end wall and the housing second end wall, with the support rod directed therethrough, and
- the housing bottom wall including a plurality of housing bottom wall openings, with the partition housing positioned between the bottom wall openings, and
- a bottom wall slot positioned adjacent each bottom wall opening rearwardly of each bottom wall opening extending from each bottom wall opening to the housing rear wall, and
- a slide plate mounted within each bottom wall slot arranged for projection from the slot to the housing front wall and permitting reception of each respective slide plate within a respective bottom wall slot for access to the support rod.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.