Support rod for multiple clothes hangers

Claim 1

A support rod for supporting a plurality of clothes hangers comprising an elongated rigid bar having a pair of opposed planar surfaces with a plurality of first bores spaced apart in the elongated direction of said bar and extending between and through said planar surfaces, each said first bore arranged to receive a single hanger so that the hanger can be removably suspended from said bar, said rigid bar having a second bore at each of the opposite ends thereof spaced apart in the elongated direction with said second bores extending between and through said planar surfaces, a hook-shaped single unit member fitted into and secured within each of said second bores with the end of said hook-shaped member within said second bore extending perpendicularly to said planar surfaces, each said hook-shaped member being freely rotatable through 360° within the corresponding said second bore about the axis of the end of said hook-shaped member extending through said second bore and said hooks are constructed dimensioned and arranged to be held by a human hand for suspending said bar when said hooks are moved toward each other and extend in the long direction of said bar.