Combined Shelf-Supporting Bracket and Clothes-Rod Support

It is known to add to a shelf-supporting angle-bar a permanently installed depending rigid cup-shaped bracket for supporting a horizontal rod for holding clothes hangers (U.S. Pat. No. 3,865,336 to Robertson). But there is not known an angle-bar shelf-support having a wall-attachable depending web and being combined with a clothes-rod support comprising a depending sling-like flexible strap easily detachably connected at its upper ends to fingers struck-out from said depending web. It is the object of this invention to produce such a novel combination of elements.

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a preferred embodiment of the invention.

FIG. 2 is an enlarged fragmentary front elevational view of the left clothes-rod installation of FIG. 1.

FIG. 3 is a bottom plan view of the disclosure of FIG. 2 with the rod support shown in phantom.

FIG. 4 is an end elevational view of the showing of FIG. 2 in section taken on the line 4--4 of FIG. 2.

With reference now to the drawing, the numeral 11 designates a section of right-angle angle-bar having a horizontal web 13 for supporting an end edge of a shelf panel S, and having a vertical web 15 for attachment to a wall W of a clothes closet, by nails or screws (not shown) passing through holes 17 (FIG. 2). Optionally, one or more angle brackets 19 can be employed to support the shelf panel S against sagging.

Toward the front end of the each angle-bar web 15, a pair of tongues 21 are struck-out to serve as supports for the ends of depending sling-like flexible straps 23, which form pockets for receiving the ends of a conventional rod 25 for supporting conventional clothes hangers (not shown).

The ends of the straps 23 are doubled-back and stitched at 27 to form loops 24 that snugly slip over the tongues 21 and which are secured thereon by small upright tabs 29 formed on the tongues 21.

Either or both end(s) of the angle-bar sections 11 can be cut off to fit smaller closet spaces.