Patent ID: 6530486
Filing Date: 2003-03-11
Classification: A47F

Abstract:
A pegboard assembly in combination with hook and rod devices, each of said devices having a connecting portion including a pair of laterally spaced rearwardly extending hooks each terminating in an upwardly extending finger and an article supporting portion including a forwardly projecting member connected at its base with said connecting portion, said assembly comprising; a body including a generally vertically oriented base adapted to contact a vertical supporting surface for attachment thereto, a generally vertically oriented face plate connected to said base and spaced forwardly therefrom, and a top plate disposed rearwardly of said face plate, both said face plate and said top plate having a plurality of laterally spaced openings wherein vertically adjacent openings of said top plate and said face plate are generally aligned with each other for receipt of the hooks of one of said hook and rod devices, such that when said hook fingers of said device are inserted into a pair of said openings in said face plate and when said article supporting portion of said device is oriented perpendicularly with respect to the plane of said face plate, the hook fingers additionally extend upwardly through the respective openings in the top plate thereby positioning said device with respect to said assembly.