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Coathook rack

Coathook rack description/claims

The present invention relates to a rack to support clothes and/or personal items.

Systems for hanging up coats, hats and related personal items are known and often take the form of a row of wall mounted hooks. A disadvantage of these known systems is that the number of garments that may be supported is limited. Furthermore, when a garment is being supported by a hook and a further garment is placed on a neighbouring hook it is likely that part of the new garment will partially rest on the previously hung garment. Consequently, if the previously hung garment is then removed there is a possibility that it will cause the neighbouring garment to remove from its hook thereby causing the neighbouring garment to fall on the floor.

With typical hook spacing, garments placed on a row of hooks may be more or less obscured by overlapping garments on adjacent hooks. Thus, finding a particular garment can cause some difficulty and will take time. Furthermore, an exposed row of hooks presents a potential safety hazard, particularly in areas used by children.

A conventional coat hook rack is illustrated in FIG. 1. A mounting rail 101 is attached to a wall. Metal coat hooks 102, 103 and 104 are attached to rail 101 at regular intervals. Clearly, the intervals are chosen so as to maximise the number of coats or similar articles that may be supported by the rail. This tends to result in a degree of overlapping such that, in this example, coat 105 obscures part of coat 106. Consequently, if coat 106 is removed there is a likelihood that this action will also result in the unintentional removal of coat 105.

The present invention relates to a rack to support clothes and/or personal items, comprising: a mounting rail fitted with garment supports; a plurality of extending members also fitted with garments supports; and a second rail substantially parallel with said mounting rail such that said second rail encloses said extending members and said garment supports.

In a preferred embodiment, the members extend from said supports at a substantially perpendicular angle. Preferably, the rail fitted with garment supports has extending members and garment supports fixed alternately along its length. In a preferred embodiments, the extending members have garment supports fixed on each side in a position at 90° to the garment supports are fixed to the mounting rail.

FIG. 1 shows a conventional (prior art) coathook rack;

FIG. 2 shows a coathook rack embodying an aspect of the present invention;

FIG. 3 shows the embodiment of FIG. 2 in use;

FIG. 4 shows the embodiment of FIG. 2 in greater detail;

FIG. 5 shows a horizontal view of the embodiment of FIG. 2;

FIG. 6 shows an alternative configuration;

FIG. 7 shows a second alternative configuration;

FIG. 8 shows a third alternative configuration;

FIG. 9 shows a forth alternative configuration; and

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