Pole assembly for installing closet shelves

Claim 1

A pole assembly for locating and supporting shelves in a closet comprising: a substantially rigid, vertically elongated pole structure; and a plurality of shelf support clips attached to said pole structure at vertically spaced positions along one side, each of said clips defining a recess which is open at the top for receiving an edge rod on the front of a shelf; said pole assembly being adapted to be positioned against a wall of the closet with said one side of the pole structure extending perpendicular to the wall to position each of said clips along the wall for the insertion of a pencil or the like to mark the position on the wall for the attachment of a wall-mounted shelf support clip; said pole assembly being adapted to be positioned away from said wall of the closet with said one side of the pole structure facing toward said wall and positioing said clips in the pole assembly to hold the outer end of shelves whose inner ends are in support clips on said wall; said pole structure comprising: upper and lower vertically elongated pole members of hollow rectangular cross-section extending end-to-end in vertical alignment; and a dowel received snugly in the adjoining ends of said pole members and holding them end-to-end in alignment.