Peg board hooking support rod

Claim 1

A display hanger for a pegboard having a front and a rear face and provided with rows of bores, said hanger comprising a hook member and a mounting bracket for releasably connecting the hook member to the pegboard; said mounting bracket defining a main body provided at its top end with a pair of transverse anchoring fingers, said fingers being of arcuate-shape and adapted to engage a pair of horizontally-aligned pegboard bores and to rest against the pegboard rear face with the main body thereof flatly abutting against the pegboard front face; said hook member including: an elongated support rod member, having a horizontal top leg and a downturned leg projecting from the inner end portion of the top leg thereof, and a connector plate, having a horizontal top leg projecting from and anchored to the top face of said support rod member inner end portion and a downturned leg; further including a sleeve member mounted to the upper portion of said mounting bracket main body; said sleeve member defining a channel, said channel releasably frictionally engageable by said connector plate downturned leg; wherein upon hanging on said support rod member horizontal top leg a number of relatively heavy articles to be displayed, said hook member is prevented from downwardly collapsing under the load by the combined action of said rigid connector plate, the horizontal top leg of which is under tension by the weight of said hung articles, and of the resistance to flexion of said support rod member downturned leg which rests against said sleeve member; and wherein the support rod member is easily removable from said mounting bracket without having to remove said hung articles and with minimal vertical clearance.