CA1272990A - Garment hanger - Google Patents

Garment hanger

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CA1272990A
CA1272990A CA000584221A CA584221A CA1272990A CA 1272990 A CA1272990 A CA 1272990A CA 000584221 A CA000584221 A CA 000584221A CA 584221 A CA584221 A CA 584221A CA 1272990 A CA1272990 A CA 1272990A
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garment
garment hanger
support portion
hanger according
support
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Kevin Cardinal
Gregory Hayes
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CARDINAL KEVIN 211 SUMAC ROAD E KELOWNA BRITISH COLUMBIA V1X 7E
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CARDINAL KEVIN 211 SUMAC ROAD E KELOWNA BRITISH COLUMBIA V1X 7E
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    • AHUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47GHOUSEHOLD OR TABLE EQUIPMENT
    • A47G25/00Household implements used in connection with wearing apparel; Dress, hat or umbrella holders
    • A47G25/14Clothing hangers, e.g. suit hangers
    • A47G25/28Hangers characterised by their shape
    • A47G25/32Hangers characterised by their shape involving details of the hook
    • AHUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47GHOUSEHOLD OR TABLE EQUIPMENT
    • A47G25/00Household implements used in connection with wearing apparel; Dress, hat or umbrella holders
    • A47G25/14Clothing hangers, e.g. suit hangers
    • A47G25/24Clothing hangers, e.g. suit hangers made of wire

Abstract

ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE

A garment hanger is disclosed which is in the form of a unitary rod-like structure. The structure includes a triangular yoke portion with a pair of similar slanting arms for supporting a garment, and a support portion substantially parallel to the yoke portion and adapted to be secured to a vertical support surface such as a wall or door. The yoke portion is maintained in a spaced location from the support surface by a connector portion which extends between the yoke and support portions.

Description

The present invention relates to a device for supporting articles of clothing, e.~. jackets, coats, sweaters, robes and dress shirts, that are commonly tailored with a front vertical opening extending from a collarband down to a lower hem. To wear the article, the two sides are separated while the clothing article is being pu-t on, then brought together, and fastened with buttons, snaps or zipper.
When not in immediate use, or when a ~arment is used intermittently, it is desirable to store the described garments. They are often cared for by supporting them from various types of hangers constructed from wood, plastic, bent wire or the like. It is also desirable to store a garment in a correct and proper fashion that takes into consideration features of the garment such as intended folds, creases, parts and the like.
The most common, and probably the earliest, method of securing articles of clothing is to place them on a hook or nail projecting from a wall or other ~lat vertical surface. In this way, the inside collar portion of the garment rests upon the hook. There are, however, two drawbacks to this method.
Firstly, the garment i5 placed upon a single suspension point and tends to sag, since no support i5 provided to the basic shape or contour of the ~arment, e.g. shoulder and collar structureO This results in unnecessary wrinkling and may eventually distort the intended aesthetic appearance o~ the garment.
Secondly, due to the ~act that the entire weight of the garment is suspended from one point, the hook can often leave an impression in the garment, and, depending on the fabric, may actually project through the material and damage the garment by leaving a permanent warp or hole.
There i5 however one advanta~e to this method.
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quick and easy access to ~uspend and then remove suspended articles.
Another common method of securing articles of clothing is to use a conventional triang~lar shaped hanger provided with a hook shaped element adapted to rest upon a circular rod or dowel. This shape provides support to the natural contour of the garment. However, its use involves removing the hanger from the rod, which is usually located inside a closet, securing an article on or removin~ it from the hanger, and then returning the hanger ba~k to the rod. This procedure is time consuming and involves unnecessary effort.
A number of prior patents have attempted to address one or more of the above disadvantages. Canadian Patent No. 6~9 ,125 ~Warmath) discloses a ~arment hanger for simultaneously supporting a plurality of garments.
Thi~ hanger is provided with a hook to suspend the whole garment hanger in conventional manner. Canadian Patent No. 715,898 (Rubin et al) describes a wire coat hanger with a hook and provided with loop means for engaging garment straps. Canadian Patent No. 848, 292 (Wagar et al) relates to a garment hanger formed from a single length of wire with a hook portion formed at one end and an eye at the other. Finally, Canadian Patent No. 1,141,346 (Kohlhapp) describes a multi-functional wall hanger capable of simultaneously accepting a jacket or the like, pants, and a hat or the like, and including an upper shelf portion for receiving small articles, such as keys and chan~e. The whole structure can be secured to a wall.
However, all of these prior desîgns fail to avoid the drawbacks discussed above.
It is an object of the present invention to utilize the advantages of both prior methods, while at the same time eliminating their inherent disadvantages. It is a further object of the invention to provide a means of supporting articles of clothing which affords sufficient support to the aforementioned garments and allows them to .. .... . .
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be placed upon and removed from a hanger with relative ease.
A~cordingly, the invention provides a garment hanger in the form of a one-piece, unitary rod-like structure, comprising a generally triangular yoke portion with a pair of similar slanting arms for supporting a garment and generally horizontal base, a support portion substantially parallel to and laterally spaced from the plane of said yoke portion, and adapted to permit the hanger to be secured to a vertical support surface, and a laterally extending connector portion connecting the base of the yoke portion with the support portion.
The hanger is preferably constructed from a metal or plastic rod of circular cross-section, for example from about 0.2 to 0.6 inch (0.5 to 1.5 cm) in diam~ter. The yoke portion advantageously comprises two symmetrical slanting arms separated at the top by a central portion dimensioned to accept the collar portion of a garment. The support portion is advantageously formed from the ends of the unitary rod-like structure, one end extending substantially vertically and the other end extendiny substantially horizontally. The slanting arms of the yoke portion are turned inwardly at their lower ends to form parallel inwardly extending portions which comprise the horizontal base and which connect to said connector portion. The connector portion comprises two portions of the rod-like structure which extend between the ends of the inwardly extending portions of the yoke portion and the inner ends of the support portion.
Conveniently, the ends forming the support portion are provided with means to facilitate securing of the support portion to a vertical surface. The ends forming the support portion are preferably half rounded with the flat surface capable of lying flush against a vertical surface, such as a door or wall, and are screwed or otherwise secured thereto.
In a preferred embodimant, the hanger consists of a triangular shaped frame constructed from a circular ..r ~

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being appropriately bent to shape. Prior to the rod being bent, its total length i5 suitably approximately 37-43 inches (95 to llO cm~.
The han~er is desi~ned to be secured to a flat vertical surfa~e, such as a wall or door, and may be secured by a variety of conventional means, such as screws, for example by four screws that thread through a vertic~l and a horizontal arm of the ~upport section.
These two base supports are half rounded (semicircular in cross section) with the flat portions flush mounted to a mou~tin~ sur~ace.
The triangular frame is displaced outward from th0 mounting surface and maintained~ parallel thereto by the laterally extending connector portion, which may comprise two projections, each approximately 5 to 8 cm in length, extending outwardly from the mounting surface at 9O degrees.
When positioned, the front of a garment, i.e.
breast or lapel, faces the mounting surface. The gap between the triangular frame and wall allows the ga~ment to be draped around and over the two slanting arms. Thus, the shoulder portion o~ the garment i5 supported on its underside by these two arms much like a conventional clothes hanger.
A garment with a button-down collar, such as a dress shirt, will be able to have its top two buttons fastened prior to being suspended. Fastening of the uppermost buttons assists in maintaining the circular form of the collarband when not in use. While suspended, the fastened portion joins together above the connector portion. The collarband itself res~s upon the upper section of the yoke portion, circling around a center bend therein which connects the two slanting arms. While suspended, the unfastened sides drape down to the outside of the lateral arms comprising the connector portion.
The hanger of the invention also has a particular advantage when securing wet garments such as raincoats, or any washed garment to be allowed to air dry.

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In addition to the benefits noted above, the hanger spreads the garment for faster drying and allows wet articles to dry separate~.y from dry clothes in a closet.
Embodiments of the invention will now be described, by way of example, with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:
Figure 1 is a front view of an embodiment of garment hanger; and Fi~ures 2, 3, 4 and 6 are front views of further embodiments of garment hanger.
Turning now to Figure 1, a garme~t hanger 1 comprises an elongated bent metal rod with two slanting, symmetrical arms 2, 3 separated by a curved central portion 4 ditnensioned to accept the collar portion of a garment supported on the arms 2 and 3. At their lower ends 5 and 6, the arms 2 and 3 are bent inwardly to define inwardly extending portions ~ and 8 which terminate adjacent each other and slightly spaced. The inner ends of the portions 7 and 8 communicate with lateral portions 9 and 10 which e~tend normal to the overall plane of the arms 2 and 3 and the portions 7 and 8. The lateral portions 9 and 10 merge -through 90 angles with support portions 11 and 12, the portion 11 being vertically oriented towards the central portion 4 of the hanger and the support portion 12 being horizontally oriented parallel to the portion 8. The support portlons 11 and 12 are semicircular in cross-section with the flat surface at the rear for flush contact wi~h a vertical surface and are provided with recessed holes 13 for accepting screws (not shown), whereby the garment hanger can be securely fastened to a vertical surface, such as a door or wall.
The arms 2 and 3 and central portion 4 effectively comprise a yoke-like structure capable of accepting and supporting a variety of garments, such as coats, shirts, jackets, blouses and sweaters. In use, the front of the garment (not shown), i.e. breast or lapel, faces the mounted surface with the shoulder portions of the garment supported on the underside thereof by the arms 2 and 3.

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Due to the free-standing nature of the structure and the absence of a hook above central portion 4 to support the hanger 1 on a rail, a garment can be more ea~ily and quickly placed on or removed from the hanger. Both hands o~ a person hanging the garment are free to hold the garment when placing same on the hanger, which assists in the case of wet garments and sweaters with restricted neck openings which are difficult to arrange on conventional hangers.
Further embodiments of the garment hanger are shown in Figures 2 to 5. The hanger in Fi~ure 2 is provided with a U-shaped central portion 14, which aligns more precisely the location of a collar portion of a garment. In addition, in the hanger shown in Figure 2, support portions 15 and 16 are oriented symmetrically in the form of an upward V-shape, The hangers shown in Figures 3, 4 and 5 each illustrate further embodiments of the support portion, namely a circular or elliptical portion 17 as shown in Figure 3, an inverted U-shaped port~on 18 as shown in Figure 4, or a triangular support portion 19 which corresponds substantially to the shape of the hanger, but on a smaller scale, as shown in Figure 5.
Naturally, a variety of alternative conf~gurations would also be feasible.

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Claims (8)

THE EMBODIMENTS OF THE INVENTION IN WHICH AN EXCLUSIVE
PROPERTY OR PRIVILEGE IS CLAIMED ARE DEFINED AS FOLLOWS:
1. A garment hanger in the form of a one-piece, unitary rod-like structure, comprising a generally triangular yoke portion with a pair of similar slanting arms for supporting a garment and generally horizontal base;
a support portion substantially parallel to and laterally spaced from the plane of said yoke portion, and adapted to permit the hanger to be secured to a vertical support surface; and a laterally extending connector portion connecting the base of the yoke portion with the support portion.
2. A garment hanger according to claim 1, wherein the yoke portion comprises two symmetrical slanting arms separated by an upper central portion dimensioned to accept the collar portion of a garment.
3. A garment hanger according to claim 1, wherein the support portion is formed from the ends of the unitary rod-like structure, one end extending substantially vertically and the other end extending substantially horizontally.
4. A garment hanger according to claim 3, wherein the slanting arms of the yoke portion are turned inwardly at their lower ends merge with said base, which is in the form of parallel inwardly extending portion which connect to said connector portion.
5. A garment hanger according to claim 4, wherein the connector portion comprises two portions of the rod-like structure which extend between the inner ends of the inwardly extending portions of said base and the inner ends of the support portion.
6. A garment hanger according to claim 3, 4 or 5, wherein the ends forming the support portion are provided with means to facilitate securing of the support portion to a vertical surface.
7. A garment hanger according to claim 3, 4 or 5, wherein the ends forming the support portion are half rounded, with a flat surface capable of contacting a vertical surface, and are provided with holes to permit screw mounting.
8. A garment hanger according to claim 3, 4 or 5, wherein the one-piece, rod-like structure has a substantially uniform diameter of between about 0.5 to 1.5 cm and an overall length of from about 95 to 110 cm.
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US6006964A (en) * 1997-11-14 1999-12-28 White; Michael J. Garment hanger

Cited By (1)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US6006964A (en) * 1997-11-14 1999-12-28 White; Michael J. Garment hanger

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