Tie rack device

Claim 1

A tie rack apparatus for clip on ties of the type having a knot with a hook on the knot, said apparatus comprising a horizontally elongated mounting panel adapted to be fixed to a vertical wall, a ladder like frame, said frame having a pair of vertical extending spaced legs with lateral rods extending horizontally between said legs at spaced intervals along said legs to form rungs for said ladder like frame, said rungs each having a plurality of U-shaped notches projecting downward and located at intervals along said rungs, said downward extending notches each having a horizontal width which is less than the width of the knot of the tie and greater than the width of the hook to securely detachably mount the clip on ties to the rungs, said notches extending downward at less than a 45* angle from vertical whereby when the ties are attached to the notches, the upper ends of the ties will not project outward to as great an extent when the lower end of the ties are tucked behind the next lower rung so that the ties Will hang more vertically, said ladder like frame having a first pair of horizontal legs mounted to said vertical legs at its upper end and a second pair of horizontal legs mounted to said vertical legs at its lower end and extending laterally inward with respect to said frame to space the upper as well as the lower ends of said frame away from said wall in vertical equally parallel relation whereby said upper and lower horizontal legs will space all of the rungs on said ladder like frame equally and sufficiently far away from said wall whereby any ties on any of said rungs will not contact the wall, said upper pair of horizontal legs having their inner ends pivotally mounted to said panel, whereby the frame including the upper and lower horizontal legs may be pivoted upward about the pivotal mounting at the inner ends of the upper horizontal legs relative to the wall.