EP0516035B1 - Selbstglättende Vorrichtung für Kleidungsstücke - Google Patents

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EP0516035B1
EP0516035B1 EP92108833A EP92108833A EP0516035B1 EP 0516035 B1 EP0516035 B1 EP 0516035B1 EP 92108833 A EP92108833 A EP 92108833A EP 92108833 A EP92108833 A EP 92108833A EP 0516035 B1 EP0516035 B1 EP 0516035B1
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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
    • A47G25/62—Trouser or skirt stretchers or tensioners of the hanger type
    • A47G25/621—Trouser or skirt stretchers or tensioners of the hanger type for stretching or tensioning trouser leg ends or the trouser skirt waistband comprising gripping members being urged apart
    • A47G25/628—Trouser or skirt stretchers or tensioners of the hanger type for stretching or tensioning trouser leg ends or the trouser skirt waistband comprising gripping members being urged apart by the weight of the trouser or skirt
    • 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
    • A47G25/02—Dress holders; Dress suspending devices; Clothes-hanger assemblies; Clothing lifters
    • A47G25/06—Clothes hooks; Clothes racks; Garment-supporting stands with swingable or extending arms
    • A47G25/0664—Standing garment supporting racks; Garment supporting stands with swingable or extending arms
    • A47G25/0671—Dress valets
    • 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
    • A47G25/20—Clothing hangers, e.g. suit hangers with devices for preserving the shape of the clothes

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  • the present invention relates to a self-restoring device for articles of clothing.
  • the present invention relates to a self-restoring device for articles of clothing such as, for instance, skirts, jackets, trousers, costumes which are supported by said device which allows the normal using conditions of said articles to be automatically restored, both in what concerns their appearance and their shape.
  • the invention may mainly be applied in the field of furniture-building and household articles building industry.
  • Such kinds of device and/or appliance may substantially be subdivided into two large categories.
  • the first category comprises the dress-hangers, which are constituted by a roughly triangular-shaped tool having a curved hook at a vertex thereof, said hook being suitable for cooperating with a fixed supporting element, e.g. with a suitable bar housed within a wardrobe, the base of said tool acting, when present, as a support for a pair of folded trousers.
  • the second category comprises the suit hangers, which are constituted by an upright which is often assembled on swivelling wheels and which supports a generally wooden structure suitable for supporting and, apparently, to keep in a right and natural configuration various kinds of articles of clothing.
  • Some suit hangers are provided with further devices which, apparently, improve their performances such as, for instance, devices comprising a pair of plates suitable for keeping pressed and heated, thus well creased, a pair of trousers which are conveniently folded and disposed between said plates.
  • Document DE-U-8707072 discloses a supporting device for articles of clothing having a first upper supporting unit and a second lower supporting unit.
  • Said units are connected to a common supporting structure and may separately be adapted for supporting articles of clothing of different sizes.
  • this device does not have clothing-restoring capabilities; as a matter of fact, this device is only designed for supporting articles of clothing inside of a garment shop.
  • tailor's dummies are known in the art, which allow a suit or a dress to be adapted to a given size; however, these dummies may not be universally used, since they are expensive, bulky and not adaptable to articles of clothing having a different size from that of the dummy.
  • the present invention aims to obviate to the disadvantages and drawbacks which are typical of the background art, and to provide, therefore, for a device suitable for supporting articles of clothing which, in addition to carrying out the normal supporting functions of said articles, would automatically provide for an effective restoring operation of the normal configuration of said articles, thus keeping them in form, said device being at the same time adaptable to any size and producible at a low cost.
  • the self-restoring device for articles of clothing comprises a first, substantially tubular and rectilinear element, at an end thereof a hook is placed for hanging the device at a suitable supporting bar.
  • Said first element is suitable for forming a vertical sliding guide for a second element formed by a spider assembly which is constituted by a pair of tubular elements which are disposed at right angles in respect of said first element and by a further tubular element which slides on said first element.
  • each of the tubular elements belonging to said pair acts as a guide for a translating member comprising, at one end thereof a molding element which is pivotable about an axis perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of said pair of elements and acting, in operation, in the area where the sleeve is joined to the body of a jacket which placed in cooperation with the device according to the invention.
  • each of said translating members is provided with a pivot which supports one end of a lever, the other end of which is provided with a suitably shaped and knurled member suitable for cooperating, in operation, with the waistband area of a skirt or of a pair of trousers which is placed in cooperation with the device according to the invention.
  • each of said levers is further provided with a longitudinal slit in which acts, by means of a suitable pivot, one end of a further lever, the other end of which cooperates with a fixed pivot which is placed at the other end of said substantially tubular and rectilinear element.
  • a device of the kind described above is suitable, in operation, for supporting a jacket (or a coat) and a pair of trousers (or a skirt) in such a way as it automatically fits to the the shape and to the size of the articles of clothing which cooperate with it, thus carrying out the same functions of a tailor's dummy which were able to automatically adapt itself to articles of clothing of any shape and size, what is nowadays not possible by means of the known devices.
  • a further quality of the device according to the invention is constituted by the fact that the trousers (or the skirts) are supported by acting on the waistband, thus hanging them in their free and natural using position.
  • said first tubular and rectilinear element supports a further pair of molding members, which are placed opposed to the longitudinal axis of said first element and whose mutual distance is adjustable.
  • molding members are suitable to easily fit to any shape and/or size of jacket collar, thereby further improving the restoring action carried out by the device according to the invention.
  • reference sign 10 generally indicates a self-restoring device for articles of clothing according to the present invention.
  • Device 10 comprises a first tubular and rectilinear element 11 having a vertical axis A, one end of which is provided with a hook 12 suitable for hanging the device 10 to a supporting bar 13 (see figures 3 and 4), while the other end is provided with a first pivot 14, whose functions will be later described in detail.
  • said first element 11 acts as a guide for a ring 15 which is movable along said first element 11 ad which may be fastened to it through suitable screw means 16.
  • Said first element acts as a further guide for the translating movement along axis A of a second element 20 which is formed by a spider assembly constituted by a pair of tubular elements 21', 21'' which are perpendicular to axis A and by a further element 22 which is aligned and superimposed to said first element 11 which acts as a guide.
  • Each of the the elements 21', 21'' belonging to said pair acts as a guide for a movable tubular member 23', 23'' acting as a slider and which is provided at one end with a molding member 24', 24'' which is freely pivotable about an xis B placed at right angles in respect of said pair of elements 21', 21''.
  • each of members 23', 23'' is provided, within a zone comprised the centre and one of the ends thereof, with a pivot 25', 25'' to which is connected one end of a lever 31', 31'' belonging to a third element 30 for supporting a pair of trousers or a skirt.
  • Each of said levers 31', 31'' is provided, at its other end, with a suitably shaped and knurled member 32', 32'' suitable for cooperating with the waistband of a pair of trousers or of a skirt in a way which will later described in detail.
  • each of said levers 31', 31'' is provided with a slit 33', 33'' in which acts a pivot 34', 34'' which is connected to one end of a connecting rod 35', 35'', whose other end is connected to the previously described pivot 14.
  • Said first pivot 11 further supports a fourth element 40 suitable for keeping in its right form the collar zone of a jacket.
  • Said fourth element 40 comprises a supporting block 41, which is releasably connected to said first element 11 and which is provided with a pair of pivots 42', 42'' (see fig. 2) for guiding a pair of opposed brackets 43', 43'', each of which is provided with a slit 44', 44'' in which acts pivot 42', 42'', each of said brackets 43', 43'' being connected to a member 45', 45'' for supporting the collar zone by means of a pivot 46', 46''.
  • the device 10 according to the invention is operated as follows.
  • the first operation to be done is that of carrying out a pre-setting of device 10 in such a way as it would become suitable for supporting and restoring the suit 50 of that given size.
  • fig. 3 represents the device in its widest open position, which corresponds to the largest possible size
  • figure 1 represents the device in its smallest open position, which corresponds to a very small size, or to a size for children clothing
  • ring 15 is raised along first element 11 and it is fixed in a position for which the widest open position (which corresponds to the maximum distance between respective elements 24', 24'' and between respective knurled members 32', 32'' suffices for device 10 to keep slightly tensioned, thus to support in an effective way, both of the jacket 51 and the pair of trousers 52 cooperating with device 10.
  • jacket 51 is set to cooperate, in its collar zone, with said fourth element 40 (which element 40 keeps said collar in its right and natural shape by means of tilting members 45', 45'') and, in correspondence with the juncture zone of the sleeves, with elements 24', 24''.
  • the waistband of the trousers 52 is set into cooperation with knurled members 32', 32''.
  • device 10 is hanged, by means of hook 11, to a bar 12 belonging to a supporting structure 17 placed on the floor.
  • the jacket weight causes lowering of said second element 20 along the guide formed by said first element 11 and, simultaneously, widening of the angle formed by the pair of connecting rods 35', 35''.
  • pivots 34', 34'' which are placed at the respective ends of connecting rods 35', 35'', are moved within slits 33', 33'' which are formed inside of levers 31', 31'', thereby causing the double and interdependent effect of pushing away from axis A both the respective pair of elements 24', 24'' connected to the tubular members 23', 23'' and the respective pair of knurled members 32', 32''.
  • the device according to the invention carries out a self-restoring action on the articles of clothing placed on it, said restoring action resulting in the automatic pressing of said articles which takes place, for instance, during the night by means of the sole force of gravity.
  • t may be remarked that, when a damp, just washed, shirt is placed on device 10, within few hours the shirt will appear perfectly dry and ironed, on the grounds cited above.
  • the invention may economically fully replace a tailor's dummy and, furthermore, be adapted to any dress or suit size, what is possible, according to the prior art, only by providing a series of dummies.
  • the resilient means operate the simultaneous actions of raising the pressure on the jacket and of lowering the pressure on the trousers, said actions being automatically adjusted by means of the simultaneous movement of pivots 34', 34'' within their respective slits 33', 33''.
  • the invention comprises forms of embodiment according to which said third, skirt or trousers supporting element 30 and/or said fourth, collar zone supporting element 40, are not present.
  • connecting rods 35', 35'' are connected by one end to pivot 14, just as already described, while the respective opposed ends are directly connected to pivots 25', 25'', thereby causing elements 24', 24'' to move away from each other.

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  1. Selbstglättende Vorrichtung (10) für Kleidungsstücke, die ein erstes verlängertes Element (11) umfaßt, das mit einer ersten senkrecht stehenden Längsachse (A) ausgestattet ist, wobei das erste Element (11) eine Führung für die geradlinige Verschiebungsbewegung eines zweiten Elements (20) bildet, das von einem Kreuzgestell gebildet wird, das aus einem Element (22), das koaxial zum ersten Element (11) steht und aus zwei im wesentlichen rohrförmigen Elementen (21', 21'') besteht, die eine Führung für die geradlinige Verschiebung eines rohrförmigen Glieds (23', 23'') bilden, das an einem Ende ein geformtes Element (24', 24'') hält, das dazu dient, bei Benutzung ein Kleidungsstück wie eine Jacke, einen Mantel oder ähnliches zu tragen, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß ein Ende des ersten Elements (11) einen Drehzapfen (14) hat, mit dem ein Ende zweier Verbindungsstäbe (35', 35'') verbunden ist, wobei das andere Ende (34', 34'') eines jeden Verbindungsstabes (35', 35'') mit einem Zapfen (25', 25'') zusammenwirkt, der sich an einjedem rohrförmigen Element (23', 23'') befindet, wobei der Vorgang, ein Kleidungsstück wie eine Jacke über diese geformten Elemente (24', 24'') zu hängen erfolgt, indem das erste verlängerte Element (11) an einem Ende gehalten wird, wodurch an den Führungen eine direkte Bewegung der rohrförmigen Glieder (23', 23'') nach außen verursacht wird, die von diesen jeweiligen rohrförmigen Elementen (21', 21'') gebildet werden, wobei diese geformten Elemente (24', 24'') auf die Berührungsfläche des Kleidungsstücks einen Druck ausüben, der proportional dem Gewicht des Kleidungsstücks ist.
  2. Vorrichtung (10) nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß jedes dieser geformten Elemente (24', 24'') sich um eine zweite Achse (B', B'') senkrecht zur ersten Achse (A) dreht.
  3. Vorrichtung (10) nach einem der vorherigen Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß sie einen Ring (15) umfaßt, der das erste Element (11) umgibt und mittels Schrauben (16) am ersten Element (11) befestigt werden kann, wobei dieser Ring (15) dazu dient, die Verschiebungsbewegung von Element (22), das zum ersten Element (11) koaxial liegt, einzuschränken.
  4. Vorrichtung (10) nach einem der vorherigen Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß das andere Ende (34', 34'') eines jeden Verbindungsstabs (35', 35'') mit einem Hebel (31', 31'') verbunden ist, der zu einem dritten Element (30) zum Tragen von Kleidungsstücken wie Hosen und Röcke gehört.
  5. Vorrichtung (10) nach Anspruch 4, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß das andere Ende (34', 34'') eines jeden Verbindungsstabs (35', 35'') mit einem Zapfen zur Verschiebung in einen Schlitz (33', 33''), der sich am Hebel (31', 31'') befindet, versehen ist.
  6. Vorrichtung (10) nach einem der Ansprüche 4 und 5, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß ein erstes Ende des Hebels (31', 31'') so montiert ist, daß es am Zapfen (25', 25'') ein Gelenk bildet, das sich an einjedem rohrförmigen Glied (23', 23'') befindet.
  7. Vorrichtung (10) nach einem der Ansprüche von 4 bis 6, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß der Hebel (31', 31'') an einem Ende mit einem Organ (32', 32'') versehen ist, um einen seitlichen Druck auf die Gürtellinie von Rock oder Hose auszuüben.
  8. Vorrichtung (10) nach Anspruch 7, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß das Organ (32', 32'') eine Haftfläche darstellt, die vorteilhafterweise geformt und gerändelt ist.
  9. Vorrichtung (10) nach einem der vorherigen Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß das ausgerichtete und koaxiale Element (22) mit einem vierten Element (40) verbunden ist, um den Halsbereich eines Kleidungsstücks wie eine Jacke oder einen Mantel aufzunehmen.
  10. Vorrichtung (10) nach Anspruch 9, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß das vierte Element (40) einen Block (41) umfaßt, der an das koaxiale Element (22) befestigt werden kann, wobei der Block mit einem Zapfenpaar (42', 42'') versehen ist, und dadurch, daß ein Stangenpaar (43', 43''), wovon einjedes mit einem Element (45', 45'') zum Kragenstützen versehen ist, über Schlitze (44', 44'') verfügt, in denen die Zapfen (42', 42'') sitzen, wobei das Stangenpaar in irgendeine Richtung, die senkrecht zur ersten Achse (A) steht, verschoben werden kann.
  11. Vorrichtung (10) nach Anspruch 10, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß jedes Element (45', 45'') zum Kragenstützen durch einen Drehzapfen (46', 46'') mit der entsprechenden Stange (43', 43'') verbunden ist.
  12. Vorrichtung (10) nach einem der Ansprüche von 4 bis 11, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß sie elastische Mittel umfaßt, die mit den Hebeln (31', 31'') des dritten Elements (30) verbunden sind.
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