Knockdown closets

Claim 1

A knockdown closet comprising a first elongated body of substantially rigid sheet material having opposed top and bottom edges and, extending between said edges, a plurality of parallel score lines along which said body is folded into a condition where said body has a rear wall, a pair of opposed sidewalls extending forwardly from said rear wall, and a front wall extending swingably from one of said sidewalls and terminating adjacent the other of the sidewalls to form a door, an upper body of substantially rigid sheet material forming a top wall for the closet and a lower body of substantially rigid sheet material forming a bottom wall for the closet, means releasably fixing said upper and lower bodies to said rear and opposed sidewalls of said first body of sheet material, a pair of brackets carried by said opposed sidewalls at the region of said upper body, and a hangar rod extending between and carried by said brackets in the interior of the closet enclosure formed by said bodies of sheet material, said brackets being respectively in the form of metal plates having upper channel-shaped portions embracing an upper edge of each sidewall and having an inner downwardly extending wall portion, said upper body being formEd with opposed slots through which said downwardly extending portions of said brackets extend into the interior of the space between said sidewalls, said downwardly extending portions of said brackets being respectively formed with inwardly directed loops, and said hangar rod being in the form of an elongated channel member having an upper web and downwardly directed sidewalls extending downwardly from said upper web, said upper web extending beyond said sidewalls and terminating in tabs which extend through said loops of said brackets so that said hangar rod can be removably supported by said brackets.