Claims
- 1. A vertically elongated container for transporting an apparatus for suspending slender articles of clothing, said apparatus including a rotatable load bearing means, a frame having a plurality of individual outwardly extending tines, and a support bracket attached to the geometric center of said frame, said apparatus being completely positionable within the container while carrying the slender articles of clothing, said container comprising:
- an upright standing container having rigid walls;
- said container interiorly divided into a plurality of vertically extending compartments by partitining elements the number of compartments corresponding to the number of individual outwardly extending tines, each partition element having a centrally located recess extending downwardly from a top edge thereof; and
- a top closure;
- whereby the slender articles of clothing carried by the apparatus are simultaneously contained within the container and supported by the edges of the walls forming the vertically extending compartments in a manner allowing the apparatus to be directly and easily removed from the container and suspended from a horizontally extending bar or rod, without the slender articles of clothing being wrinkled, soiled or otherwise damaged.
- 2. The invention of claim 1, wherein said container, said top closure and/or said interior partitions are made of corrugated cardboard.
- 3. The invention of claim 1, wherein said container, said top closure and said interior partitions are made of dissimilar materials.
- 4. The container of claim 1, wherein said container, said top closure and said interior partitions are transparent.
- 5. The container of claim 1, wherein said articles of clothing are neckties.
- 6. The container of claim 1, wherein said upright standing container has a rectangular cross-section.
- 7. The container of claim 1, wherein said upright standing container has a square cross-section.
- 8. The container of claim 1, wherein said support bracket is attached to the geometric center of said frame via a telescoping member.
- 9. The container of claim 8, including a positioning member, disposed in the space located between the top of said slender articles of clothing suspended from said frame and the underside of said top closure, said positioning member having a centrally located opening through which protrudes said hook or bracket, said positioning member substantially covering the top of said slender articles of clothing, said positioning member being held in place by friction fit with the interior sides of said container, such that said positioning member reliably maintains the position of said hanging slender articles of clothing.
- 10. The container of claim 1, wherein said apparatus further comprises:
- a horizontally disposed quadrangular wire frame supporting said plurality of individual outwardly extending tines, said frame having a geometric center;
- a means for attaching, perpendicularly, a first end of said rotatable load bearing means, to the geometric center of said horizontally disposed wire frame;
- said means for attaching said first end includes a telescoping intermediate member; and
- a means for attaching a second end of said rotatable load bearing means to a horizontally extending bar or rod, such that, when said slender articles of clothing are suspended from said tines, said apparatus is entirely rotatable in the horizontal plane.
- 11. The container of claim 10, wherein said means for attaching the second end of said rotatable load bearing means to said horizontally extending bar or rod comprises a hook.
- 12. The container of claim 11, wherein said hook incorporates a set screw for fastening said hook to said horizontally extending bar or rod.
- 13. The container of claim 10, wherein said means for attaching the second end of said rotatable load bearing means to said horizontally extending bar or rod comprises a bracket and clamp.
- 14. The container of claim 10, wherein said means for attaching, perpendicularly, the first end of said rotatable load bearing means to the geometric center of said horizontally disposed wire frame comprises a load bearing snap-on C-ring or cotter pin and a self-lubricating washer interposed between said C-ring or cotter pin and said geometric center.
- 15. The container of claim 14, wherein said self-lubricating washer comprises nylon.
- 16. The container of claim 10, wherein the distal end of each of said outwardly extending tines includes a decorative sphere or disc.
- 17. The container of claim 10, wherein the distal end of each of said outwardly extending tines includes an upwardly turned hook.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
This is a Divisional of application Ser. No. 07/912,984 which was filed on Jul. 14, 1992, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,249,668.
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