Sliding necktie rack

Claim 1

A NECKTIE RACK CAPABLE OF BEING REMOVABLY MOUNTED IN ANY ONE OF A PLURALITY OF POSSIBLE POSITIONS ON A CLOSET CLOTHES HANGER ROD OF CIRCULAR CROSS SECTION WITHOUT DEFACING THE SAME, INCLUDING: (A) AN ELONGATE RIGID BAR; (B) A PLURALITY OF LONGITUDINALLY SPACED NECKTIE HANGERS DEPENDING FROM SAID BAR, WHICH HANGERS ARE POSITIONED INWARDLY SUBSTANTIAL DISTANCES FROM THE LONGITUDINAL EDGES OF SAID BAR; (C) A FIRST ELONGATE BLOCK HAVING A FIRST TRANSVERSE SEMICIRCULAR RECESS FORMED THEREIN OF A LESSER RADIUS OF CURVATURE THAN THAT OF SAID HANGER ROD WITH WHICH IT WILL BE USED, WHICH BLOCK ALSO HAS A RECESS OF TSHAPED TRANSVERSE CROSS SECTION FORMED THEREIN THAT EXTENDS LONGITUDINALLY THROUGH THE LOWER PORTION THEREOF TO DEFINE TWO LATERALLY SPACED TRACKS, SAID RECESS BEING OF SUCH CROSS SECTION THAT IT SNUGLY AND SLIDABLY ENGAGES SAID BAR WHEN SAID BAR RESTS ON SAID TRACKS, WITH A VERTICAL PORTION OF SAID T-SHAPED RECESS BEING OF SUFFICIENT WIDTH THAT SAID HANGERS CAN EXTEND DOWNWARDLY THERETHROUGH; (D) A SECOND BLOCK DISPOSED ABOVE SAID FIRST BLOCK THAT HAS A SECOND TRANSVERSE RECESS FORMED THEREIN WHICH IS COMPLEMENTARY TO SAID FIRST RECESS AND IN VERTICAL ALIGNMENT THEREWITH, WITH SAID FIRST AND SECOND BLOCKS BEING OF SUFFICIENT WIDTH THAT WHEN THE SURFACE PORTIONS THEREOF DEFINING SAID FIRST AND SECOND RECESSES ARE BROUGHT INTO PRESSURE CONTACT WITH SAID HANGER ROD, SAID ROD WILL NOT BE DEFACED; (E) HINGE MEANS PIVOTALLY CONNECTING THE REAR ENDS OF SAID FIRST AND SECOND BLOCKS FOR REMOVABLY PLACING SAID BLOCKS IN POSITIONS ADJACENT SAID HANGER ROD WHERE SAID FIRST AND SECOND RECESSES CAN BE BROUGHT INTO PRESSURE CONTACT THEREWITH; (F) MANUALLY OPERABLE MEANS FOR PIVOTING SAID FIRST AND SECOND BLOCKS TOWARDS ONE ANOTHER TO THE EXTENT THAT SAID FIRST AND SECOND BLOCKS FRICTIONALLY GRIP SAID HANGER ROD WITH A FORCE SUFFICIENT TO PREVENT ROTATION OF SAID BLOCKS RELATIVE THERETO, EVEN WHEN SAID ROD IS WITHDRAWN FROM SAID BLOCKS TO ITS OUTERMOST POSITION THEREON; AND (G) STOP MEANS FOR PREVENTING WITHDRAWAL OF SAID ROD BEYOND SAID OUTERMOST POSITION.