Abstract: An auxiliary clothes hanger support for attachment to a shelf in a clothes closet or the like to increase the clothes storage capacity of the closet. The support has a bracket to be secured to the shelf and a normally horizontal hanger support rod slidable endwise in the bracket for forward extension of the rod beyond the front edge of the shelf to provide a clothes hanger support and rearward retraction of the rod to an out of the way position when not in use.

Abstract: An improved display system for maximizing the display surface of garments visually seen by a customer. The improved display system includes at least a pair of planar members displaced each from the other in parallel relation. The planar members are connected each to the other by a hanger support device which is mounted on opposing ends thereof to the planar members and form an acute angle between the extended length of the hanger support device and each of the opposing planar members. The entire structure provides for a parallelogram geometry which allows the garments hung thereon to have a cascading effect which results in an extended visual area of a series of garments which are being exhibited.

Abstract: A portable, lightweight clothes drying rack, adapted to be erected over a shower stall or bathtub enclosure to extend between a shower curtain rod and an opposing vertical enclosure wall; the device comprising a rigid, unitary member having a linear portion which is operationally supported near one end by the shower curtain rod and is formed with an upturned portion at its opposite end which is engageable with the enclosure wall at an elevation above the shower curtain rod. A stop means, adjustably movable along the member to accommodate variations in the shower curtain rod to wall distance, also serves to couple the linear portion to the curtain rod and stabilize the device in operating position.

Abstract: A support rail has openings extending therethrough throughout its length to receive tobacco sticks with tobacco stalks thereon with adjacent openings having the tobacco sticks supported from opposite sides to balance the support rail. The support rail is mounted on a carrier or sled to enable the support rail with the tobacco sticks to be pulled into a tobacco barn by a tractor, for example. The support rail is mounted in vertically spaced relation to a base of the carrier so that the tobacco carried by the support rail will not engage the ground or the base. The support rail has a hook at the end of each of two ropes extending from its upper side to enable cables connected to a winch, which is mounted in the barn, to be connected thereto to lift the support rail from the carrier when the winch is activated.

Abstract: A display apparatus for supporting merchandise items detachably connected to at least a pair of vertically oriented and spaced apart supporting members having slots. Such apparatus includes a pair of end brackets, each having at least one projecting lug for detachable connection with the slots and having a pair of spaced apart openings. A first supporting bar connected to and between the brackets includes latching arrangements projecting from opposite end surfaces of the bar and each formed generally on the opposite side of a longitudinal axis of the bar from the other. The latch arrangement defines a notch and forms a forward tongue portion which is adapted to removably and transversely extend through respective ones of the openings. The notches are sized to enable vertical, longitudinal and tilting displacement of the bar relative to the bracket means for permitting the assembling and disassembling of such bar to the bracket.

Abstract: Rising from the opposite ends of an elongated rectangular base structure equipped with casters are two tubular uprights interconnected at their upper ends by a cross bar having opposite overhanging ends and brackets projecting therebeyond. The lower portions of these uprights are detachably bolted to upstanding upwardly convex arcuate braces secured to the opposite ends of the base structure. The cross bar and its end brackets are similarly detachable as a unit from the upper ends of the uprights whereby the truck may be disassembled into a compact space for return to its starting point. The base structure is so constructed as to nest with the base structures of similar trucks, so that when the articles transported from the warehouseto the destination have been delivered by several such trucks, these may be disassembled in the foregoing manner and their base structures stacked one upon the other for compactness of shipment or storage.

Abstract: A pot rack has a horizontal rack member which is made by pressing a tube length to a generally flattened shape. The width of the die used in the pressing operation is less than the flattened width of the tube, and the outside edge portions of the flattened tube which are not engaged by the die provide longitudinally extending flanges. The resulting flanged rack member is quite rigid and highly resistant to twisting or deflection in use. It is produced at substantially less cost than the conventional flat bar type of pot racks.

Abstract: A display arrangement for articles suspended from hanging devices includes a rod-like horizontal support having a plurality of longitudinally spaced, slot-like channels formed on both the upper and lower surfaces of an elongated rigid rod or pole. The slot-like channels are parallel to each other and are disposed at an acute angle relative to the longitudinal axes of the pole. The slot-like channels on the upper surface are in line with the slot-like channels formed on the lower surface. The channels space and arrange in parallel relationship the hanging devices at an acute angle to the axis of the support.

Abstract: Components for making a rail, for fixing in a horizontal attitude so as to support articles, including lengths of tube and mounting members, the tube being of uniform cross section with substantially flat front and rear faces which converge slightly towards each other upwards, and each mounting member including a pair of oppositely directed spigots for engaging in the adjacent ends of lengths of tube, and means at the junction of the spigots, by which the member can be fixed to a wall or the like.

Abstract: Apparatus and manner for the display of pleated drapery samples and the like. A hanger specially adapted for supporting drapery samples by receiving the pleats thereof is provided. The hanger may be supported on a hanging rod having surface manifestations which provide for orientation of articles being displayed by the hangers at an angle of substantially less than 90.degree. with respect to the direction of elongation of the rod.

Abstract: A clothes hanger support and storage assembly for conventional type wire clothes hangers is described and having an elongate base support member to which are connected a hanger support rod and a hanger retaining member such that clothes hangers positioned with their head portions on the hanger support rod contact the hanger retaining member and are prevented from tangling.

Abstract: A display card holder assembly for displaying articles, such as articles of jewelry, comprising a plastic card having a pair of flanges extending rearwardly therefrom, and a display bar specifically constructed so as to releasbly and slidably receive said card, said bar having a longitudinally extending slot therein receiving one of said card flanges, with the other flange frictionally engaging the bottom of said bar to maintain the card in depending relation with respect to said bar.

Abstract: A portable hanging rod adapted to extend between two parallel walls includes a rod with means of automatic self adjustment for variations in wall parallelism, separation and squareness. On one end of the rod a cap is positioned and on the opposite end a spring loaded suction cup is attached. The spring load urges the cap and the suction cup into firm engagement with the walls.

Abstract: Exercising apparatus having a frame made of detachably, telescopically coupled tubular members. In a free standing version of the invention, a U-shaped exercising cross bar has vertical end sections coupled to a spider member at each side of the frame. These vertical end sections are adjustable up and down to selectively vary the usable height of the cross bar and are locked in proper adjusted positions by pin and aperture connections. A pair of downwardly diverging legs are coupled to the spider on each side of the frame. Horizontal tubular feet extend across the frame at the front and back and connect the lower ends of corresponding legs together. A pair of horizontal, floor level tension rods interconnect the front and back feet to keep them from moving apart and the legs from spreading when the cross bar is loaded. A door-stabilized, floor-supported version of the invention is made by combining some of the parts of the free standing version.