Over-door shoe racks

Abstract

A shoe rack for mounting to an upright surface, or for hanging over a door, includes a pair of plastic, vertical side frame members and a plurality of shoe-retaining bars positioned between the side frame members upon which shoes, boxes and the like may be supported. A number of different embodiments are shown, each of which incorporates different features, and each of which may result in improved structural integrity over the prior art. Further, each embodiment may result in a product that is less expensive to manufacture and may result in a product which retains shoes on the shoe rack in a different, or better, manner.

1 . A shoe rack hanging on a door, said shoe rack for retaining shoes, said shoe rack comprising: 
 first and second opposed side frame members, each said side frame member having a main body section and a plurality of rigid support arms projecting outwardly therefrom, each said support arm having a distal end displaced from said side frame members;    a plurality of shoe-retaining bars extending between said support arms, wherein said shoe-retaining bars are oriented in pairs arranged to receive and hold shoes thereon with the shoes angled downwardly toward the door; and    a side barrier arm projecting outwardly from each said main body section and having a distal end displaced from said side frame members, wherein each said side barrier arm is angled such that said distal end thereof is coupled with the distal end of a corresponding support arm, and wherein said side barrier arm acts as a lateral barrier against movement of the shoes when the shoes are located on said shoe-retaining bars.