US2624468A - Clothes pole supporting bracket - Google Patents

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Jan. 6, 1953 w. P. MccAuLEY 2,624,468

CLOTHES POLE SUPPORTING BRACKET Filed March 27, 1950 LA. INVENTOR.

WAL TERE M 05A ULEY QWLC/ ATTUR Y Patented Jan. 6, 1953 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 1 Claim. 1

This invention relates to a combined clothes pole and shelf support employed in clothes closets and the like and has for the primary object the provision of a specially constructed brace, whereby the pole and shelf are supported one with the other.

The usual clothes closet is provided with a shelf for retaining articles thereon and with a pole horizontally positioned in proximity thereto for carrying garments, which garments are positioned on conventional hangers having hooks adapted to be connected to the pole, whereby the hangers are suspended therefrom. The shelf and pole longitudinally extend in parallelism the full length of the closet and are secured to or otherwise supported on the rear and side walls thereof. In the majority of closets the length of the poles are such as to be unable to support a large quantity of clothes without sagging in the central portion thereof or breaking. The ends of the poles also often pull out of their supports when an excessive amount of weight is carried on the same.

An object of the present invention is the provision of two specially constructed brackets, one of which is secured to the front edge portion of the shelf and another to the back end wall of the closet and beneath the shelf and to extend a brace, preferably in the form of a rod, between the two brackets and to provide means on the brackets for carrying the rod, whereby the rod is rigidly supported.

Another object of the present invention is to construct the device in a manner enabling the parts to be adjusted for accommodating the pole in different spaced locations from the shelf.

A further object of the present invention is the provision of an improved combined clothes pole and shelf support that is durable, simple in construction, economical to manufacture, and highly efficient and serviceable in use.

Other objects and advantages will be apparent during the course of the following description.

In the accompanying drawing forming a part of the specification, wherein for the purpose of illustration like numerals designate like parts throughout the same,

Fig. 1 is a side View of the device shown partly in section and partly in elevation,

Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the front bracket,

Fig. 3 is a front end elevational view of the device, looking in the direction of the arrow 3,

Fig. 4 is a front elevational view of the rear bracket employed in the invention, and

Fig. 5 is a top plan view of the shelf and pole.

Referring in detail to the drawing and numerals thereof the numeral 1 designates a conventional hook strip provided on the rear wall 8 of a clothes closet, disclosed in Fig. 1, form.- ing a part of said wall numerals 9 and I0 designate the side walls of the closet, disclosed in Fig. 5, and numeral II a shelf supported on the same. The shelf bracket is illustrated in Fig. 1 and consists of a channel shaped member 12 adapted to snugly fit on the front edge portion of the shelf and is secured thereto by suitable screws I3. An elongated vertical lug I4 is formed on the front end portion of the bracket and an angular extending boss [5 is formed on the front portion. A threaded aperture I6 vertically extends through the lug l4 and a smooth aperture I1 is formed in the angular extending boss It. The rear or wall bracket is designated by the numeral I8, is provided with an angular extending foot is threadedly apertured, as at 2B, and secured to the hook strip 1 by suitable screws 2|. A brace 22 preferably in the form of an elongated round rod, externally threaded, as at 23, is provided and the upper end portion is positioned in the aperture H in the shelf bracket I2 and the lower end portion threaded into the angular extending foot [9 provided on the wall bracket [8. The clothes pole is designated by the numeral 24 and is supported by the bracket l2, a suitable clamp 25, having a fixed threaded bolt 26, functioning to secure the clamp to the bracket.

From the foregoing description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawing it will be apparent the shelf is rigidly supported by the brace 22 extending in the shelf bracket 12 and wall bracket l8, respectively, and the clothes pole 24 depending from the said bracket I2 is rigidly supported and prevented from sagging, pulling loose or breaking when considerable weight is carried on the pole. One or any other suitable number of braces can be employed to properly support the shelf and pole.

It is to be understood that the form of my invention herewith shown and described is to be taken as a preferred example of the same and that various changes relative to the shape, size, material and arrangement of parts may be resorted to without departing from the spirit of the invention or the scope of the subjoined claim.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

A device for supporting a clothes pole in a clothes closet adjacent to the clothes shelf of the closet, comprising a channel shaped bracket 3 adapted to be mounted on the front end portion or the shelf and removably secured thereto, an upwardly extending angular bracket spaced beneaththe clothes shelf and adapted to be removably secured to the rear wall of the clothes closet, a rod extending at an angle between the two brackets and adjustably supported in apertures therein, the said channel shaped bracket having a threaded vertical aperture therein, a clamp for supporting the clothes pole and being equipped with a threaded rod for engagement with the threaded vertical aperture in said channel shaped bracket.

WALTER P. McCAULEY.

4 REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 1,002,063 Jasper Aug. 29, 1911 1,028,206 Gilmore June 4, 1912 1,379,934 Paschke May 31, 1921 1,836,126 Luce Dec. 15, 1931 2,033,109 Blunt Mar. 10, 1936

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