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A spiral tie and accessory rack includes an elongate supporting member that defines both a curved hook portion for supporting the rack from a closet rod and a downwardly extending straight core portion for rotatably receiving and supporting a plurality of annular pole segments thereon. The pole segm

A spiral tie and accessory rack includes an elongate supporting member that defines both a curved hook portion for supporting the rack from a closet rod and a downwardly extending straight core portion for rotatably receiving and supporting a plurality of annular pole segments thereon. The pole segments each carry at least one support arm and are provided with interlocking, angularly phase-shifted male and female features on their lower and upper surfaces, respectively. When the pole segments are properly stacked around the core portion so as to be mated to one another, the tie support arms are arranged to spiral around the inner supporting member. The rack may be supplied in kit form, and may also be converted to a table-top rack or a wall-mounted rack.

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1. A rack for supporting personal accessories comprising:an elongate supporting member which includes a top mounting portion and a downwardly extending core portion, the top mounting portion being adapted to be supported by an external support structure, and the downwardly extending core portion hav

1. A rack for supporting personal accessories comprising:an elongate supporting member which includes a top mounting portion and a downwardly extending core portion, the top mounting portion being adapted to be supported by an external support structure, and the downwardly extending core portion having a radially extending stop disposed at lower part thereof; and a plurality of annular pole segments rotatably received on the core portion and stacked one on top of another above the stop to form a pole segment stack that includes pairs of adjacent annular pole segments; wherein the annular pole segments each include two diametrically opposed generally radially extending personal accessory support arms; wherein each pair of adjacent annular pole segments in the pole segment stack includes interlocking male and female coupling features which engage each other for rotatably interlocking the pair of adjacent annular pole segments together; wherein the interlocking male and female coupling features of each pair of adjacent annular pole segments engage each other and cooperate together in such a manner that the personal accessory support arms of the adjacent annular pole segments in the pole segment stack are angularly phase-shifted relative to each other; and wherein the interlocking male and female coupling features comprise projections and recesses, respectively, and wherein the projection, and recesses are substantially hemispherical in shape.