Footwear storage and display assembly

Abstract

A footwear storage and display assembly includes a pair of side support frames and one or more tiers of shoe mounts interconnecting the side support frames. Each tier includes a pair of horizontal support rods, one or more lateral support rod interconnecting the horizontal support rods, and a plurality of inverted U-shaped shoe mounts extending upwardly the horizontal support rods. Each of the shoe mounts has a trough formed in an upper portion thereof. Each of the shoe mounts preferably extends angularly from its horizontal support rod in the direction of the other horizontal support rod. In operation, each of the shoe mounts is capable of supporting a shoe suspended from the trough. The assembly can further include a top shelf that extends horizontally between the upper portions of the side support frames.

1 . A footwear storage and display assembly comprising: 
 (a) a pair of horizontally spaced apart, vertically extending side support frames; and    (b) at least one tier of shoe mounts interconnecting said side support frames, said at least one tier comprising: 
 a pair of laterally spaced apart, horizontally extending tier support rods,  
 at least one lateral support rod interconnecting said horizontal support rods, and  
 a plurality of inverted U-shaped shoe mounts extending upwardly from at least one of said tier support rods, each of said shoe mounts having a trough formed in an upper portion thereof, whereby each of said shoe mounts is capable of supporting a shoe suspended from said trough.  
   
   
   
       2 . The assembly of  claim 1  further comprising: 
 (c) a top shelf extending horizontally between the upper portions of said side support frames.    
   
   
       3 . The assembly of  claim 1  wherein each of said shoe mounts extends angularly from said at least one tier support rod in the direction of the other tier support rod.  
   
   
       4 . The assembly of  claim 1  wherein each of said tier support rods has a plurality of said inverted U-shaped shoe mounts extending upwardly therefrom and each of said shoe mounts extends angularly from its respective tier support rod in the direction of the other tier support rod.  
   
   
       5 . The assembly of  claim 1  wherein said at least one tier of shoe mounts comprises a plurality of vertically spaced apart tiers interconnecting said side support frames.  
   
   
       6 . The assembly of  claim 1  wherein each of said side support frames comprises a continuous piece of wire bent into an inverted U-shaped configuration and a lateral support rod connecting the open bottom ends of said wire.  
   
   
       7 . The assembly of  claim 1  wherein said at least tier support rod has pins extending downwardly from opposite ends thereof and wherein each of said side support frames has tubular sleeves attached thereto, said sleeves alignable with said pins such that insertion of said pins into said sleeves removably connects said at least one tier support rod to said side support frames.  
   
   
       8 . The assembly of  claim 2  wherein said top shelf has pins extending downwardly from opposite ends thereof and wherein each of said side support frames has tubular sleeves attached thereto, said sleeves alignable with said pins such that insertion of said pins into said sleeves removably connects said top shelf to said side support frames.