Knock-down garment rack with selectively positionable wheels

Claim 1

A knock-down garment rack comprising a planar open frame, a garment support structure, means to removably support said garment support structure on said frame in a plane substantially normal to the plane of said frame, said frame including a plurality of interconnected support members, at least two of said support members being tubular and non-circular and extending parallel to each other and laterally beyond the lateral extremities of other members of the frame, a wheel mounting assembly operatively associated with the lateral extensions of said non-circular tubular support members, each wheel mounting assembly including a wheel mounting member complimentarily in shape to said tubular support member with which it is associated, each of said wheel mounting members having a wheel mounted thereon, each of said wheels being mounted on a swivel pin carried by the wheel mounting member extending substantially normal to the axis of said wheel mounting member, each wheel mounting member being mounted for telescoping engagement with the lateral extension of said non-circular tubular support member of said frame in a first position wherein said swivel pin is substantially normal to the plane of the frame for engagement of the wheels on a surface and a second position wherein said swivel pin is substantially coplanar with the plane of the frame to allow the wheel to swivel to a plane coplanar with the plane of the frame, whereby the rack may be disassembled and the frame arranged with the wheels coplanar with the support members to provide minimum thickness configuration.