EP0530282B1 - Clothes-hanger - Google Patents

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EP0530282B1
EP0530282B1 EP91910138A EP91910138A EP0530282B1 EP 0530282 B1 EP0530282 B1 EP 0530282B1 EP 91910138 A EP91910138 A EP 91910138A EP 91910138 A EP91910138 A EP 91910138A EP 0530282 B1 EP0530282 B1 EP 0530282B1
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clothes
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Arne Wilhelmsson
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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
    • A47G25/622—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 at least one gripping member comprising an arm urged outwardly by a spring member

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  • the present invention relates to a clothes-hanger which comprises a centrepiece, and two end pieces which, with guide portions, are telescopically accommodated and secured in each respective end portion of the centrepiece and insertable therein against spring force, the centrepiece having a substantially U-shaped, at least partly downwardly open cross section and being, at each end and at a lower portion, provided with a support and guide surface for the end pieces. See WO-A-8604797
  • the centrepiece has, at its ends facing away from one another, sleeves in which the end pieces are insertable.
  • the end pieces have a projecting pin or plug which is relatively short but which is intended to act as a spring anchorage.
  • the other end of the spring supports against a transverse wall interiorly in the centrepiece, this wall also closing that sleeve in which the end piece is shiftable.
  • a clothes-hanger of this type cannot be manufactured at low cost, since the tool which is intended for producing the centrepiece requires displaceable jaws which render such production considerably more expensive.
  • the present invention has for its object to realize a clothes-hanger of the type mentioned by way of introduction, the clothes-hanger being designed in such a manner that it may be produced in a plastic forming tool without the employment of displaceable jaws in the tool.
  • the present invention further has for its object to realize a clothes-hanger which permits extremely simple and rational assembly after manufacture of the different component parts included in the clothes-hanger.
  • the present invention has for its object to realize a clothes-hanger in which adequate guiding is provided for the spring which strives to eject the end pieces out of the centrepiece.
  • the present invention also has for its object to realize a clothes-hanger which, in general terms, displays a high degree of mechanical strength and functional dependability and which in particular permits reliable guiding of the end pieces in the centrepiece without any play occurring.
  • the clothes-hanger disclosed by way of introduction is characterized in that the support surfaces are, in the longitudinal direction of the centrepiece, located outside the outer ends of the upper defining wall of the centrepiece.
  • a clothes-hanger of this type is produced in a moulding tool in which the parting line is parallel with the upper defining wall of the centrepiece.
  • the centrepiece is provided, a distance from each end and at a lower portion, with inner support and guide surfaces for cooperation with the end pieces, and that the upper defining wall of the centrepiece has apertures in the region of each respective inner support and guide surface.
  • Fig. 1 shows a left-hand portion of a clothes-hanger according to the invention, and it will be apparent from this Figure that the clothes-hanger has a centrepiece 1, only the left-hand end portion thereof being shown, but it being assumed that the right-hand end portion of the centrepiece is designed as a mirror image of the left. It will also be presupposed that the centrepiece is provided with a suspension device (not shown) such as, for example, a suspension hook or its equivalent.
  • a suspension device such as, for example, a suspension hook or its equivalent.
  • an end piece 2 which is provided with a suitably designed suspension device 3 for fixedly retaining, for instance, a skirt.
  • the end piece 2 is telescopically disposed in the centrepiece 1 and is, therefore, displaceable according to the double arrow D.
  • Fig. 1 the end piece is shown in its position inserted furthest into the centrepiece.
  • the centrepiece 1 may roughly be described as a U-profile which is turned with its opening to face downwards so that it has two mutually spaced apart side walls 4 which may preferably be parallel to one another or be at slightly greater spaced apart relationship at the lower edge than the upper edge.
  • the U-profile is further provided with an upper defining wall 5 which interconnects the side walls 4.
  • Each end piece 2 has portions which extend into the centrepiece and which there shiftably guide against the inner defining surfaces of the centrepiece. It will be apparent from the Drawing that these portions of the end pieces extending into the centrepiece consist of an upper guide member 6 which is in the form of an elongate rod or bar whose cross sectional configuration is substantially complementary to the shape which is defined by the adjacent defining surfaces of the centrepiece 1. On the underside, the upper guide member is, via a gap 7, separated from a spring guide 8 which is in the form of an elongate rod which is substantially parallel with the upper guide member 6.
  • the spring guide 8 may be of circular cross section, but this is not necessary; instead the cross section may be cruciform, polygonal or be of any other appropriate shape which, with slight friction, may be accommodated interiorly in a compression spring of the helical type.
  • This compression spring is schematically illustrated in Fig. 1 at reference numeral 9.
  • a lower support and guide surface 12 which abuts against the underside of the lower guide member 11.
  • This lower support and guide surface 12 is placed, seen in the longitudinal direction of the centrepiece 1, outside (in the Figure to the left of) the outer end of the upper defining wall 5 of the centrepiece, so that thereby the entire support and guide surface is, when the end piece 2 is dismounted, freely visible when the clothes-hanger is observed straight from above.
  • This placing of the support and guide surface 12 is possible in that both side walls 4 of the centrepiece 1 are provided with obliquely downwardly and outwardly directed end edges, as illustrated by the broken line 13.
  • the centrepiece At a certain distance in from the outer end of the centrepiece 1, there is disposed, along the lower edge of the side walls 4, an inner support and guide surface 14 which is in the form of a transverse bridge interconnecting the lower edge portions of the side walls 4.
  • the upper defining wall 5 of the centrepiece is provided with an aperture 15 in register with the support and guide surface 14. That tool part which defines the inside (upwardly facing) of the support and guide surface 14 can be passed through this aperture 15.
  • the centrepiece 1 is further provided with abutment surfaces 16 for cooperation with the end of the spring 9 which strives to eject the end piece 2 out of the centrepiece 1.
  • abutment surfaces 16 are intimated in Fig. 1 by a broken line.
  • the abutment surfaces are created in that the side walls 4 have inwardly directed bulges or thickened portions whose outwardly facing end edges form the abutment surfaces 16.
  • the inner distance between the side walls 4 will be considerably smaller in between the strip-shaped projections which carry the abutment surfaces 16.
  • These strip-shaped projections are suitably transversely directed in relation to the longitudinal direction of the centrepiece, but may especially be at right angles thereto.
  • Fig. 5 clearly shows the cross section through the clothes-hanger in the region of the abutment surfaces 16. It will be clearly apparent how the side walls 4 have bulges or thickened portions whose mutual spacing approximately correponds to the diameter or cross sectional dimension of the spring guide 8, whose contour is shown by broken lines. It will also be apparent from this Figure how the inner support and guide surface 14 extends as a bridge between the side walls 4. The contours of the cross section of both the upper guide member 6 and the lower guide member 11 are further apparent from the Drawing.
  • the lower guide member 11 has an inner narrow portion 17 whose width corresponds to the inner dimension between the strip-shaped projections forming the abutment surfaces.
  • this inner narrow portion is slidable between the strip-shaped projections.
  • the end piece 2 is prevented from being wholly ejected out of the centrepiece 1 under the action of the force of the spring 9.
  • the end piece will have a well-defined maximum projecting position.
  • the inner arrest member 11 is spiculated at the inner end by being provided with wedge surfaces 20.
  • the purpose of these wedge surfaces is to realize a deformation in the side walls of the centrepiece so that these are flexed away from one another on mounting of the end piece 2.
  • This mounting operation is quite simply effected in that the end piece is pressed with some force into the centrepiece so that the locking catch formed by the wedge surfaces 20 and the arrest surfaces 18 is forced past the strip-shaped, transversely directed members which have the abutment surfaces 16 and the arrest surfaces 19.
  • the lower guide member 11 has an outer, somewhat thicker portion whose side edges directly abut and guide against the insides of the side walls 4.
  • the transition region between the thicker and the narrower portion 17 is intimated at 21.
  • the upper guide member 6 it might be mentioned that this has the same cross section throughout its entire length, since the strip-shaped members carrying the abutment surfaces 16 need not be present along the upper portion of the inner surfaces of the side walls 4. Hereby, the upper guide member 6 will also be guided towards the upper end surfaces 22 on the strip-shaped members.
  • Fig. 3 shows how the outer support and guide surface 12 extends as a bridge between and interconnects the side walls 4 of the centrepiece 1. It will correspondingly be apparent from Fig. 4 that the cross section of the centrepiece 1 is substantially U-shaped, where the bottom of the U consists of the upper defining wall 5.
  • the spring is placed on the spring guide 8 and runs no risk of falling off, since the spring can, in the expanded state, be of approximately the same length as, or possibly shorter length than the spring guide.
  • the end piece 2 is quite simply slid with some force into the centrepiece 1 so that the arrest surfaces 18 pass the strip-shaped members on the side walls 4. It is naturally an advantage if assembly can be carried out while the centrepiece is still slightly warm and thereby possesses better resilience properties.
  • the inner support and guide member 14 has been described above as a bridge which interconnects the lower edges of the side walls 4.
  • the inner support and guide member 14 may be provided with a breach so that it is formed only by bosses extending (towards one another) inwardly from the lower edges of the side walls 4. These bosses must be of such an extent inwards towards the centre plane of the centrepiece 1 that they can support the narrower portion 17 on the lower guide member 11.
  • this embodiment facilitates mounting of the end pieces, since the side walls 4 may more readily flex away from one another on insertion of the end piece.
  • strip-shaped members which are provided with the abutment surfaces 16 and the arrest surfaces 19 be placed straight above the inner support and guide member.
  • these strip-shaped members may be offset in the longitudinal direction of the centrepiece 1.
  • the aperture 15 and the inner support and guide member 14 must unconditionally be located in register with each other.
  • the strip-shaped members In order to improve release in the plastic moulding tool in which the present invention is produced, it may be appropriate to form the strip-shaped members with the abutment surfaces 16 and the arrest surfaces 19 slightly wedge-shaped, with the smallest width, seen in the longitudinal direction of the centrepiece, at the lower edge of the centrepiece.

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SE9001838A SE468460B (sv) 1990-05-22 1990-05-22 Klaedhaengare
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PCT/SE1991/000298 WO1991017688A1 (en) 1990-05-22 1991-04-26 Clothes-hanger

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DE (1) DE69105727T2 (sv)
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GB2259644B (en) * 1991-09-18 1995-09-06 Geoffrey Thomas Crane Clothing expander
GB9503566D0 (en) * 1995-02-23 1995-04-12 Braitrim Uk Ltd Garment hanger

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US3474943A (en) * 1967-02-21 1969-10-28 Frank Mcbain Skirt hanger
SE453631B (sv) * 1985-02-18 1988-02-22 Karner & Co Ab Kjol- eller byxhengare
US4729498A (en) * 1987-03-26 1988-03-08 Batts, Inc. Telescopic garment hanger

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SE9001838L (sv) 1991-11-23
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