Patent ID: 7806280

Claim:
A portable clothes-hanging rod comprising: a wall-mounted plate attached to a vertical support surface; a pair of telescoping rods pivotally attached to said mounting plate, wherein said pair of telescoping rods comprises a first rod having a pair of holes formed in an inner end thereof and a second rod; a rod clamping means rotatably attached to an outer surface of an outer end of said first rod, further comprising a bushing means to provide a smooth extension of said second rod therefrom said first rod and a securing means to secure a desired position of said second rod; a cable having opposed top and bottom ends respectively, said top end of said cable being attached to said mounting plate while said bottom end of said cable is attached to said first rod of said pair of telescoping rods; a storage clip attached to an inner surface of said mounting plate, said storage clip being located adjacent to a top end of said mounting plate and extending away therefrom; a pivot bracket attached to said inner surface of said mounting plate, said pivot bracket being located adjacent to a bottom end of said mounting plate and having a pair of laterally opposed tabs extending outwardly therefrom, each of said tabs having a bore formed therein, each of said bores having a centrally registered axis oriented perpendicular to a longitudinal length of said mounting plate; a pair of cable crimps integrally attached to said respective top and bottom ends of said cable such that each of said crimps cooperates with each of said top and bottom ends respectively of said cable to form an upper cable loop and a lower cable loop respectively; said top end of said cable being attached to said mounting plate via an eyelet bolt statically connected to said inner surface of said mounting plate and extending away therefrom, said eyelet bolt being located subjacent to said storage clip, said upper cable loop of said cable being slidably attached to said eyelet bolt; and, said bottom end of said cable is attached to said first rod of said pair of telescoping rods via a rod bracket statically affixed to said outer surface of said first rod, said rod bracket being located adjacent to said outer end of said first rod, said lower cable loop of said cable being removably attached directly to said rod bracket; wherein said clothes-hanging rod folds into a vertical position when in a retracted state and extends horizontally outward in a telescoping manner when in a deployed state, said clothes-hanging rod being supported in said deployed state by said cable extending from said outer end of said first rod of said pair of telescoping rods back to said mounting plate at a 45° angle to support existing clothing and hangers and other articles respectively thereon.