Article support/display device

Claim 1

An article holding device comprising: (A) a first portion incorporating a plurality of elongated tracks; (B) a second portion incorporating (a) a front surface in juxtaposed spaced relationship to said first portion and slanted with respect thereto with the lower edge of the front surface closer to said first portion than the upper edge of the front surface, and (b) a plurality of hook support zones formed in the front surface in juxtaposed spaced relationship to said elongated track; (C) a plurality of anchoring members slidably engaged engaged within the elongated tracks of the first portion; and (D) a plurality of sets of hook members (a) individually secured at one end thereof to one of said anchoring members and extending therefrom to a forward holding position with a portion thereof engaging said support zone of said second portion, (b) each member of a set having a substantially equal length, and at least two of said sets having different lengths, and (c) each set of hook members being engaged in one of said tracks with the shortest length set engaged in the track wherein the distance between the second portion and the first portion is the smallest, and the longest length set engaged in the track wherein the distance between the second portion and the first portion is the largest; whereby said hook members can be positioned at any location along the track for variable engagement in a plurality of different positions along said hook support zone thereby enabling articles depending from one set of hook members to be positionable thereon without interfering with any other set of hook members.