General purpose, elongated horizontal support system

A general purpose, elongated, horizontal support assembly, comprising a rod subassembly supported at opposed extremities by a pair of holding subassemblies, said rod subassembly, from which various articles can be suspended, including an elongated, hollow rod having, along its length, an upper recessed zone similar in cross section to a circular segment, said upper recessed zone, being flanked by a pair of continuous, capturing recesses;

• said elongated, hollow rod, except said upper recessed zone, being provided lengthwise, on its external surface, with longitudinal corrugations;
• an upper protection insert, having such a size and a shape as to fill said upper recessed zone, is provided at its lateral extremities with longitudinal, conveniently chosen profiles for interengaging with said continuous, capturing recesses, said upper protection insert being longitudinally inserted by a sliding fit, so as to be removably retained in said continuous, capturing recesses;
• said pair of holding subassemblies incorporating end attaching brackets, adaptable to be secured to a pair of opposed walls or to a pair of opposed furniture vertical panels, and sleeve flanges;
• said end attaching brackets and said sleeve flanges being so designed, as to be readily and firmly interengageable;
• said attaching brackets basically including a wedge-shaped element extending downwardly and laterally into an annular segment, somewhat larger than a lower larger part of said wedge-shaped element;
• said wedge-shaped element having a configuration similar to a trapezoid defined laterally by a pair of identical, outwardly slopping sides, outwardly ending into a pair of chamfered towards the back edges;
• said annular segment having lateral extremities, adjacent to said pair of chamfered towards the back edges, and forming a pair of horizontal contacting surfaces;
• said wedge-shaped element ending at its top narrow side with a flat contacting zone, said attaching brackets being provided as well with means for fixing on and to vertical recipient surfaces of said pair of opposed walls or to said pair of opposed furniture vertical panels;
• said sleeve flanges including sleeves and flanges, said sleeves having an internal configuration so profiled as to correspond to an external configuration of said elongated, hollow rod with said upper protection insert attached;
• said flanges, extending outwardly from an extremity of said sleeves, are defined by a peripheral line extending outwardly, beyond an external configuration of said sleeves, and are intended for surrounding said sleeves, except a bottom zone used for locating said annular segment;
• said flanges being also centrally provided with a wedge-shaped recess having slopping margins directed downwardly and outwardly and provided with chamfered lips backwardly directed;
• said flanges being conveniently recessed as to be able to complimentarily interengage said wedge-shaped elements, thus, when said wedge-shaped elements are vertically and downwardly inserted and, thus, received into said wedge-shaped recesses, said chamfered towards the back edges and said chamfered lips complimentarily and frictionally interengage, while said horizontal contacting surfaces and said flat contacting zones of said wedge-shaped elements matingly engage corresponding areas provided in said wedge-shaped recesses.

A holding subassembly, for use in a general purpose, elongated horizontal support assembly, comprising

• a rod subassembly, from which various articles can be suspended, including an elongated, hollow rod having along its length an upper recessed zone, substantially similar in cross section to a circular segment, said upper recessed zone being flanked by a pair of continuous, capturing recesses;
• an upper protection insert, having such a size and a shape as to fill said upper recessed zone, is provided at its lateral extremities with longitudinal, conveniently chosen profiles for interengaging with said continuous, capturing recesses, said upper protection insert being longitudinally inserted by a sliding fit, so as to be removably retained in said continuous, capturing recesses;
• said holding subassembly, used separately at both extremities of said rod subassembly, comprising an end attaching bracket, adaptable to be secured to a wall or a furniture's vertical panel, and a sleeve flange, said end attaching bracket and said sleeve flange being so designed, as to be readily and firmly interengageable;
• said attaching bracket basically including a wedge-shaped element extending downwardly and laterally into an annular segment, somewhat larger than a lower larger part of said wedge-shaped element;
• said wedge-shaped element having a configuration similar to a trapezoid defined laterally by a pair of identical, outwardly slopping sides, outwardly ending into a pair of chamfered towards the back edges;
• said annular segment having lateral extremities, adjacent to said pair of chamfered towards the back edges, and forming a pair of horizontal contacting surfaces;
• said wedge-shaped element ending at its bottom larger side, with a flat contacting zone;
• said attaching bracket being also provided with means for fixing on and to a vertical recipient surface;
• said sleeve flange including a sleeve and a flange, said sleeve having its internal configuration so profiled as to correspond to an external configuration of said elongated, hollow rod, when said upper protection insert is attached to said elongated, hollow rod;
• said flange extending outwardly from an extremity of said sleeve and, being defined by a peripheral line extending outwardly beyond an external configuration of said sleeve, surrounds said sleeve, except a bottom zone used for locating said annular segment;
• said flange being centrally provided with a wedge-shaped recess having slopping margins directed downwardly and outwardly;
• said slopping margins ending with chamfered lips backwardly directed;
• said flange being conveniently recessed as to be able to complimentarily interengage said wedge-shaped element, when the latter is vertically and downwardly inserted and, thus, received into said wedge-shaped recess, said chamfered towards the back edges and said chamfered lips complimentarily and frictionally interengage, while said horizontal contacting surface and said flat contacting zone of said wedge-shaped element matingly engage corresponding areas provided in said wedge-shaped recess.