Patent ID: 7954914

Claim:
A household consumer product comprising: a cabinet having a peripheral wall that partially defines an interior space for the cabinet and includes an opening that provides access to the interior space; a track mounted to the cabinet and located in the interior space, and having a distal mount; a hanging rod having a slide coupled to the track for movement through the opening between a fully extended position, where an end of the hanging rod extends exteriorly beyond the peripheral wall, and a retracted position, where the end does not extend exteriorly beyond the peripheral wall; and an actuator operable between a locked condition and an unlocked condition and comprises a stationary portion fixed to the distal mount and having a first cam, a movable portion carried by the slide and having a first cam follower, and a biasing element carried by the movable portion; wherein, when the end of the hanging rod is depressed toward the interior space from the retracted position, the first cam follower moves relative to the first cam to change the state of the actuator from the locked condition to the unlocked condition and the biasing element is released from a compressed state and biases the slide along the track to move the end of the hanging rod to an intermediate position between the retracted and fully extended positions in which the hanging rod is accessible to a user to manually move the slide further along the track to move the hanging rod to the fully extended position.