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EP0427552B1
EP0427552B1 EP19900312237 EP90312237A EP0427552B1 EP 0427552 B1 EP0427552 B1 EP 0427552B1 EP 19900312237 EP19900312237 EP 19900312237 EP 90312237 A EP90312237 A EP 90312237A EP 0427552 B1 EP0427552 B1 EP 0427552B1
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47G—HOUSEHOLD OR TABLE EQUIPMENT
    • A47G25/00—Household implements used in connection with wearing apparel; Dress, hat or umbrella holders
    • A47G25/14—Clothing hangers, e.g. suit hangers
    • A47G25/48—Hangers with clamps or the like, e.g. for trousers or skirts
    • A47G25/50—Hooks on hangers for supporting trousers or skirts

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  • This invention relates to garment hangers. It is particularly concerned with hangers adapted for the display in a retail store of garments such as lingerie.
  • any garment hanger should be inexpensive and of virtually universal application; in particular, it must be capable of supporting garments of different sizes, for example knickers with a different size waist band. It is simply unacceptable, both in terms of the labour cost involved and in terms of the need to maintain a variety of different stocks, to support garments of different sizes on hangers of different sizes.
  • GB-A-2181046 A further approach is exemplified by GB-A-2181046 in which there are a plurality of support elements inboard of the outer extremities of the hanger. Either the garment is suspended between two such support elements separated by a width corresponding to the size of the waist band (obviously there must be a degree of stretch or the garment will not be supported); or, as suggested in GB-A-2181046, the garment may be mounted about the outer most support element, with the return portion looped about one of the more inboard supports.
  • a garment hanger designed to mount a set of garments, such as a bikini top and pants or to mount any one of a variety of garments is proposed in GB-A-2,206,041. To achieve this it is provided with a plurality of gripping means or clips at each end of a support bar.
  • GB-A-2,206,041 discloses a hanger comprising: a support bar; suspensions means (in the form of a hook) for supporting a central portion of the support bar from a hanging rail or the like, so that the support bar is supported generally horizontally in operation; and respective gripping means (in the form of clips) at opposite distal extremities of the support bar, adapted to receive and releasably hold a thickness of material of a garment supported by the hanger.
  • the hangers described in detail in GB-A-2,206,041 each have three clips at each end of the support bar, two of which extend lengthwise of the support bar (one above and one beneath), with their openings directed inwardly, and the third positioned vertically, with its opening directed downwardly.
  • the purpose of this plurality of clips is that the hangers described may be used to support a variety of different garments. There is no provision expressly provided for the purpose of accommodating garments of widely different sizes.
  • Document BE-A-1000523 discloses the prior art portion of claim 1 and offers a partial solution to the problem of accommodating larger sized garments by providing a pair of auxiliary clips inboard of the clips at the distal ends of the support bar.
  • the garment is held by the clips at the distal ends and excess material is held under the auxiliary clips.
  • the clipping occurs only at one discrete position inboard from the distal extremity.
  • the excess material will not reach inboard to the auxiliary clips and so will leave an untidy loose flap of material.
  • substantially oversized garments while the excess material will be held by the auxiliary clips, there will still be an untidy flap of excess material inboard of the auxiliary clip.
  • the present invention has arisen from our work in seeking to resolve these difficulties in the provision of improved garment hangers.
  • a garment hanger comprising: a support bar; suspension means adapted for supporting a central portion of the support bar from a hanging rail or the like, the support bar being supported generally horizontally in operation; respective gripping means coupled to the support bar at or adjacent the opposite distal extremities of the support bar and adapted to receive and releasably hold a thickness of material of a garment supported by the hanger; and location means integral with the support bar and arranged to receive widthwise excess material of a garment exceeding the length of the support bar from one gripping means to another; the hanger being characterised in that said location means comprise location bars which are connected to the said central portion and extend generally alongside the support bar on either side of the central portion towards the opposite distal extremities of the support bar for a major portion of the length of the support bar, the spacing between each location bar and the associated portion of support bar and the resilience of each location bar being such that the location bar is adapted for locating a garment in the spacing defined between each location bar and the associated portion of
  • the suspension means comprises a hook
  • the gripping means comprises a one-piece plastics crocodile clip with its opening directed downwardly when the hanger is suspended and adapted for receiving a waist band of a garment of the kind formed with a waist band
  • further gripping means also preferably in the form of one-piece plastics crocodile clips, are formed on the upper surface of the support bar, preferably with their openings directed inwardly towards the central portion of the support bar, which further gripping means are adapted for receiving, for example, straps of a second garment, whereby the said garment hanger is adapted alternatively for supporting a garment of the kind having a waist band or a garment of a kind having a pair of straps, or a set of garments comprising one of each, such as a camisole top and French knickers set or a two-piece bathing suit.
  • the preferred embodiment of garment hanger constructed in accordance with the present invention illustrated in the accompanying drawings is suitably moulded from plastics material such as polypropylene or nylon and comprises a support bar generally indicated 1 and a suspension means, here in the form of a conventional hook 2.
  • the support bar 1 has a central portion 3 to which the hook 2 is attached and portions 4 extending outwardly from the central portion on opposite sides thereof. At the distal extremity of each such portion 4 of the support bar are located respective gripping means 5.
  • the gripping means 5 may take various forms but are preferably, as here illustrated, of a conventional form, namely a one-piece plastics crocodile clip in which the respective jaws 6 and 7 which are formed with serrations 8 may be separated to insert a thickness of material of a garment to be supported by the hanger, the inherent resilience of the material of the clip serving to bias the clip 5 towards its closed configuration, thereby releasably to hold the said thickness of material.
  • the opening between jaws 6 and 7 points generally downwardly when the hanger is suspended from the hanging rail or the like by means of the hook 2.
  • each location bar 9 Extending generally alongside the portions of the support bar 4 on opposite sides of the central portion 3 are respective location bars 9. As can be seen, the location bars extend along a substantial portion of the length of the support bar on either side of the central portion. As the extreme distal end portion 10 of the support bar forming in effect one jaw 7 of the crocodile clip 5 points generally downwardly, the end portion 11 of each location bar 9 is similarly curved to extend downwardly.
  • both the support bar and the location bar are formed with a generally I-shape in section. This configuration provides a good balance between strength and lightness.
  • the hook is generally similarly formed. It will be noted from Fig. 5, however, that end portion 11 of each location bar is formed with a lesser overall thickness than the location bar over the greater part of its length, being connected with the main portion of the location bar by a region 12 which has a tapered overall width.
  • the garment is laid across the hanger and received by the crocodile clips 5.
  • Either the full thickness of the garment i.e. two layers
  • jaw 6 may extend down within the waist band so that only one thickness of material is received between the jaws, the other passing around the outside of the clip.
  • the length of the support bar is less than the width of the garment, this will leave a return portion which is taken behind the hanger and then pushed back through the gap between the support bar and the location bar.
  • the spacing between the support bar and each location bar and the resilience of each location bar (which, at least in the end portion 11 is determined by the extent by which the thickness of this region is reduced compared with the main length of the location bar) is such that when the extreme portions of the garment width are received between the support bar and location bar as described above, this is sufficient to hold the said extreme portions in position.
  • the garment hanger can readily accommodate garments of widely varying width. Moreover, the illustrated garment hanger can achieve this without stretching a waist band. There are no moving parts which might go wrong, as in the case of a telescopic hanger.
  • the illustrated hanger is readily adaptable to moulding in one piece from plastics material and is therefore essentially inexpensive in construction.
  • Afurther preferred feature is the provision of further gripping means 13 which may be of similar construction to the gripping means 5 but are formed on the upper surface 14 of the support bar.
  • the jaws of the gripping means 13 open towards the central portion of the hanger.
  • This construction is particularly adapted for supporting garments of the kind having a strap, such as the strap of a full-length slip, bikini top, or so on.
  • the embodiment of hanger illustrated is sufficiently inexpensive to produce that one and the same hanger may be used alternatively for supporting garments having a waist band orforsupporting garments having a strap when previously two quite different constructions of hanger would have been required by a retailer for supporting these different types of garment.
  • a particularly preferred feature of he illustrated embodiment is that a single hanger can support a set of garments such as a set of camisole top and French knickers, or a two-piece bathing costume.
  • a set of garments such as a set of camisole top and French knickers, or a two-piece bathing costume.
  • the garment with a waist band is held by the clips 5 with the return portions located between the locating bars and the support bar and the garment of the set having straps is supported from the clips 13.

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1. Un cintre caractérisé par: un support en forme de barre; un moyen d'accrochage à une tringle suspendue ou à un objet ayant la même fonction, tous deux solidaires de la partie centrale du support, celui-ci étant généralement en position horizontale lors de son utilisation; des moyens de préhension accouplés aux extrémités opposées de la barre support ou adjacents à celle-ci, congrus pour recevoir, maintenir et libérer une épaisseur de tissu d'un vêtement suspendu au cintre; un dispositif de présentation partie intégrante du support et congru de façron à recevoir en largeur l'excès de tissu d'un vêtement plus grand que l'espace séparant sur le support les moyens de préhension, ledit dispositif de présentation comportant deux barres parties intégrantes du support, avec lequel elles sont solidaires en sa partie centrale, s'étendant de part et d'autre de ladite partie centrale vers les extrémités opposées dudit support, l'espacement entre chaque barre de présentation et la partie correspondante du support ainsi que l'élasticité de chaque barre étant tels que les barres de présentation permettent de placer un vêtement dans l'espace défini entre ces dernières et la partie correspondante du support.
2. Un cintre selon la revendication 1 dans lequel la barre support et les barres respectives de présentation des vêtements sont généralement parallèles.
3. Un cintre selon les revendications 1 ou 2, dans lequel la barre support a des extrémités recourbées dirigées généralement vers le bas lorsque le cintre est suspendu.
4. Un cintre selon la revendication 3 dans lequel chaque barre de présentation a des extrémités recourbées dirigées généralement vers le bas lorsque le cintre est suspendu.
5. Un cintre selon la revendication 4 dans lequel l'extrémité recourbée de chaque barre de présentation a une épaisseur d'ensemble moindre que celle de la partie horizontale de ladite barre.
6. Un cintre selon la revendication 5, dans lequel l'extrémité recourbée de chaque barre de présentation est reliée à la partie principale de celle-ci par une partie ayant une forme d'ensemble fuselée.
7. Un cintre selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, dans lequel chaque moyen de préhension est une pince en forme de mâchoire de crocodile dont l'ouverture est dirigée vers le bas lorsque le cintre est suspendu.
8. Un cintre selon la revendication 7 jointe à la revendication 3, dans lequel les extrémités recourbées de la barre support sont en forme de pince à mâchoire de crocodile.
9. Un cintre selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, dans lequel des moyens supplémentaires de préhension formés sur la surface supérieure de la barre support, comprennent deux pinces à mâchoire de crocodile disposées chacune à chaque extrémité de la barre support, et chacune ayant son ouverture dirigée vers l'intérieur de la partie centrale de la barre support.
10. Un cintre selon les revendications 8 ou 9, intégralement moulé d'une seule pièce dans des matières plastiques, chaque pince en forme de mâchoire de crocodile comprenant deux mâchoires ayant une pluralité de dents, les mâchoires étant reliées entre elles par une partie flexible, une partie du vêtement pouvant être placée entre les dents desdites mâchoires, la libération de ladite portion de vêtement à partir de latide pince étant empêchée par un effet d'interférence entre lesdites dents.
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GB8925214A GB2237985B (en) 1989-11-08 1989-11-08 Garment hanger
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AUPN002694A0 (en) * 1994-12-13 1995-01-12 Ciavarella, Luigi Improvements in and relating to hangers for garments
GB2312833A (en) * 1996-05-09 1997-11-12 Karner Batts Limited Garment hanger
DE29815070U1 (de) * 1998-08-25 1999-02-11 W. Willpütz Kunststoffverarbeitungsgesellschaft mbH, 50996 Köln Wäschebügel mit federnder Fixierzunge

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