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.

What is claimed is:  
     
         1 . A shoe rack for hanging on an upright surface, 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 support arms projecting outwardly therefrom and terminating in free ends displaced from said frame members; and    a plurality of shoe-retaining bars, extending between said side frame members, for retaining shoes, wherein said shoe-retaining bars are oriented in tiers, such that each tier has a first bar, a second bar and a third bar, wherein said first bar is located higher and closer to said upright surface than said second and third bars, and wherein at least said second and third bars are located on said projecting support arms and form a parallel pair of bars located on said free ends of said arms, whereby a shoe resting on a said tier is angled upwardly toward said upright surface and engages all three of said bars.