EP0732074A1 - Cintre à vêtements - Google Patents

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EP0732074A1
EP0732074A1 EP95107655A EP95107655A EP0732074A1 EP 0732074 A1 EP0732074 A1 EP 0732074A1 EP 95107655 A EP95107655 A EP 95107655A EP 95107655 A EP95107655 A EP 95107655A EP 0732074 A1 EP0732074 A1 EP 0732074A1
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hanger
clothes hanger
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Heinrich Wilms
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    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E05—LOCKS; KEYS; WINDOW OR DOOR FITTINGS; SAFES
    • E05B—LOCKS; ACCESSORIES THEREFOR; HANDCUFFS
    • E05B69/00—Devices for locking clothing; Lockable clothing holders or hangers
    • E05B69/006—Lockable hangers or hanger racks
    • 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
    • A47G25/1407—Clothing hangers, e.g. suit hangers with identification means
    • 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
    • A47G25/28—Hangers characterised by their shape
    • 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

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  • the invention relates generally to the handling of textiles, in particular items of clothing such as outer garments, and particularly relates to a hanger.
  • Hangers are known in numerous embodiments and in use. They usually comprise two bow arms and a middle bow neck connecting them, in which the suspension hook is located. In certain embodiments, there is additionally a web extending below the suspension hook at right angles to this between the free ends of the bracket arms.
  • plastic clothes hangers are predominantly used as transport hangers, on which the items of clothing are hung above all in transport vehicles, warehouses and retail stores. After purchasing a garment, only a few of these hangers, especially plastic hangers, are reused, the vast majority of them are disposed of as single-use items after a single use.
  • the invention has for its object to provide a hanger of the type specified, the pure Carrying function for the garment has an increased use and is therefore suitable as a reusable item.
  • the clothes hanger is combined with an electronic, clothing-specific data-containing information storage device to form a use unit and is provided with a fastening device, preferably detachable only by means of a special tool, for a distance-variable fixing on a piece of clothing.
  • the electronic information storage device which, according to the invention, is assigned to the hanger as a use part, is in the narrower sense a read-only or read-only memory (ROM or PROM), as they are generally formed by an integrated circuit from which Applying binary input signals to this assigned binary information can be read out.
  • ROM or PROM read-only or read-only memory
  • Such memories are commonly known as IC chips.
  • the data to be stored are entered using the techniques known to those skilled in the art.
  • the data contained in the information storage device are primarily clothing-specific data, such as, for example, manufacturer, clothing size, price and material of the garment, but it is also possible for additional hanger-specific data, such as, for example, type, year of manufacture and material of the hanger, to be entered.
  • the releasable fastening device is designed in the manner of a clip or a seal, which enables mechanical attachment to the garment, which can preferably only be released by the authorized personnel using a special tool, so that in this way, an anti-theft device is also provided.
  • the information storage device can further comprise a circuit for triggering an alarm signal, to which an electronic monitoring device, for example in the exit area of a department store, responds and emits an optical and / or acoustic warning signal.
  • alarm circuits are generally based on magnetic, RF or microwave systems and are generally known to those skilled in the art in their training and application, also with regard to the deactivation aspect, after proper purchase.
  • the distance-variable fixing of the clothes hanger on the garment which is carried out in particular via a rubber band or the like.
  • Elastic strand element allows the garment to be tried on before purchase in the shop without the fastening device having to be released.
  • the hanger held by the fastening device on the garment moves by its own weight while elongating the elastic band according to its elasticity and length by a predetermined amount of about 1 to 1.5 m down to the floor, so that trying on the garment is not hindered by the hanger, but its connection to the garment is preserved.
  • the stretched elastic band automatically retracts due to its spring elasticity, so that the fastening device returns to a position close to the hanger that it normally holds when the garment is on the hanger.
  • the electronic information storage device makes it possible for the customer to be able to query the information of the memory when trying it on using a suitable reading device with a display. Additional labels to inform the buyer have become unnecessary on the garment.
  • the reader during the fitting process can, for example, also be combined with a garment-specific counting device that registers and saves each try-on process for a specific garment. In the same way, the purchase price of the item of clothing can be read out from the store with a suitable reading device at the checkout and displayed when the item of clothing is purchased at the checkout.
  • the clothes hanger designed in accordance with the invention not only simplifies the selection, trying on and paying for a piece of clothing in the retail store, but also incoming goods inspection and packaging in general, since the scope of the invention provides that the information storage device is already attached to the associated clothes hanger by the manufacturer of the article of clothing and is fastened to the item of clothing by means of the fastening device, so that later in the warehouse and for sale no more labor-intensive checks and labeling work have to be carried out when appropriate reading devices are used. With the help of appropriate reading and control devices, such information storage devices can also be used to efficiently carry out the internal transport of the items of clothing in the state connected to the associated clothes hanger in the large warehouse or in extensive distribution centers.
  • the hanger designed according to the invention is suitable as a reusable hanger without further ado, since that in the information storage device contained clothing-specific data when they are no longer needed, can be deleted and replaced with new ones, or the clothes hanger receives a new storage device.
  • the hanger-specific data contained in the storage device facilitate the sorting and feeding of the hanger to a new use by taking up an appropriate item of clothing.
  • Suitable auxiliary devices are also used in these processes, which record the data from the memory of the clothes hanger and, if necessary, pass them on as signals.
  • the principle of the invention can in principle be applied to every hanger, regardless of whether it is made of plastic, wood, metal wire or other suitable materials.
  • the application of the invention is not limited to newly manufactured hangers with a specific shape and new items of clothing; rather, hangers already in circulation or in use in various forms can also be retrofitted with units comprising the information storage device and thus to a use unit according to the invention made of hangers and information storage device that can be used not only in department stores and clothing stores, but also, for example, in clothing cleaning companies and clothing magazines in general.
  • the invention also encompasses a structural unit comprising the electronic information storage device and the fastening device as a mark carrier for the items of clothing or correspondingly handled textiles in general, which replaces the conventional labels or awards and preferably in conjunction with a hanger, but also independently of this as independent unit can apply.
  • the clothes hanger shown in the drawing is mainly formed by a plastic molded body designated as a whole by 1, which is produced in particular by the injection molding process.
  • the molded body 1 comprises, in one piece, two bracket arms 2 and a middle bracket neck 3 connecting them, on the upper side of which a suspension hook 4 made of metal is pivotally fixed via a bearing sleeve 5 integrally formed on the bracket neck 3.
  • the bracket arms 2 On their underside, have, in their free end regions, integrally molded receiving sleeves 6 for engaging pins (not shown) of a web 7 extending transversely to the suspension hook 4, which is pressed into the receiving sleeves 6 by means of its engaging pins.
  • the cross-section of the bow arms 2 and the bow neck 3 has an L-shaped basic shape in the exemplary embodiment according to FIG. 1, the long leg 8 of the L-profile being directed downward substantially parallel to the longitudinal extension of the fastening shaft 9 of the suspension hook 4, during the short leg 10 of the L-profile with its upper side to the long leg 8 essentially forms a right-angled upper contact surface for the garment to be picked up (not shown).
  • the contact surface for the garment is completed in a manner known per se by the outside of the L-profile leg 8.
  • a middle holding and guiding member 12 for an electronic information storage device 13 is inserted into the bow neck 3.
  • the leg 8 is provided with a longitudinal slot, in which the holding member 12 is firmly inserted with an edge area.
  • the information storage device 13 in particular an IC chip in a suitable housing, forms a usage unit together with the clothes hanger on the basis of the clothing-specific and preferably also hanger-specific data stored in the information storage device, which allow rational use of this usage unit and also multiple use of the clothes hanger.
  • the information storage device 13 forms a structural unit 14 with a fastening device 15, which is used for releasably fastening the utility unit formed by the clothes hanger and by the information storage device 13 to an item of clothing.
  • the fastening device 15 has the form of a clamping device or a clip, as are known in principle from braces.
  • the clamping levers of such a fastening device enable a marginal area of a garment to be securely clamped.
  • the fastening device can preferably be released only by means of a special tool in order to form an anti-theft device.
  • the clip shown can be provided with a locking element which holds the two clamping levers of the clip in the clamping position blocked against opening, this locking member can only be removed or destroyed with a special tool.
  • the structural unit 14 thus serves as an award carrier for the items of clothing and is held on the clothes hanger or the shaped body 1 in a variable manner by means of a rubber band 16 or the like.
  • the elastic band 16 is provided with an elastic fabric jacket and is supported on the molded body 1 along the bracket arms 2 and the bracket neck 3, running on the inside 11 of the profile leg 8.
  • the structural unit 14 is attached. In the example shown, the attachment to the housing of the information storage device 13 is carried out.
  • the rubber band 16 has a length of about 1 to 2 m and is fixed in a multiple strand arrangement on the molded body 1 in such a way that it lengthens and the clothes hanger 1 can perform a spacing movement of about 1 to 1.5 m under its own weight to the floor when the garment with the unit 14 attached to it is removed from the hanger 1.
  • the individual strands 17 of the rubber band 16 are guided in a parallel basic orientation to one another and in two adjacent planes one above the other around end deflecting members of the bracket arms 2, which are formed by their sleeves 6, the individual rubber band strands 17 being able to perform a sliding movement around the outer circumference of the sleeves 6.
  • the elastic band 16 is fixed at one end to one of the sleeves 6 by means of a loop 18.
  • the middle holding and guiding member 12 is designed as a perforated disk for guiding the individual rubber band strands 17 in the above-mentioned parallel basic orientation in two superimposed planes.
  • the perforated disc 12 has four arranged in the corner points of an imaginary square Through openings 19 (Fig. 2) through which the individual rubber strands 17 can move through.
  • the assembly 14 In a position close to the bracket, as shown in solid lines in FIG. 1, the assembly 14 lies on the underside of the perforated disk 12, and thus close to the molded body 1, with a suitable locking engagement, which can be easily released if necessary, in such a way that the information storage device 13 lies on one side of a central plane of symmetry of the clothes hanger containing the fastening shaft 9 of the hanging hook 4.
  • This position corresponds in particular to the state in which the hanger is without a piece of clothing hanging on it.
  • the clothes hanger can then be detected undisturbed by the metal (steel) of the suspension hook 4 through the plastic of the molded body 1 using suitable readers or detectors for data output by the information storage device as detection signals.
  • a position 14 ′ of the structural unit 14 that is somewhat more distant from the molded body 1 is indicated by dash-dotted lines in FIG. 1.
  • This position corresponds approximately to a position as is given when the assembly 14 is fastened to the edge of a garment by means of the fastening device 15.
  • the position 14 ' is achieved by pulling the rubber band 16 out of the perforated disk 12 with elastic elongation of the rubber band 16, this elongation becoming correspondingly greater when the garment is removed from the hanger and this strives to fall down due to its own weight.
  • the elongated rubber band 16 here maintains the cohesion between the assembly 14 and the hanger, so that when the garment is hung again on the hanger, due to its resilient restoring force, the assembly 14 is returned to the near-hanger position 14 or near-hanger position 14 ' to return.
  • the outer fabric jacket of the Rubber band 16 prevents the rubber band 16 from overstretching and tearing during the lengthening or stretching movements of the rubber band due to the stretch limit formed by the fabric jacket.
  • the plastic molded body 1 has a hollow or U-profile which is open at the bottom and which forms the bow arms 2 and the bow neck 3.
  • the two U-legs 19 of the hollow profile take up the perforated disk 12 in slots, which is adapted with its adjacent edges to the alignment of the U-legs 19.
  • this embodiment corresponds to that of FIG. 1, as is indicated by the use of the same reference numbers for identical or matching components.
  • the formation of the plastic molded body 1 'with a hollow profile or U-profile which is open at the bottom creates the possibility that in a position close to the frame, the assembly 14 or at least the information storage device 13 is completely accommodated by the cavity in the frame neck 3.
  • a suitably shaped cover (not shown) in order to prevent easy access to the structural unit 14 or the information storage device 13.
  • Such a cover can also be used as a support for the structural unit 14 and for the holding and guiding member 12 of the rubber band, possibly including its outer deflecting members 6, and as such can subsequently be inserted into existing clothes hangers without retrofitting and locked with them.
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