US1010102A - Garment-hanger. - Google Patents

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G. 11. WHEARY. GARMENT HANGER.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 12, 1911.

1,010,102. Patnted Nov. 28, 1911.

I Witnesses Inventor y I Attorneys GEORGE H. WHEARY, or ancmn, WISCONSIN.

GARMENT-HANGER.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented NOV. 28, 1911.

Application filed June 12, 1911. Serial No. 632,659.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE H. WHEARYM a citizen of the United States, residing at; Racine, in the county of Racine and State of Wisconsin, have invented anew and useful.

Garment-Hanger, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improvement in garment hangers.

The primary object of the present invention is to provide a clamping device for garments, which the garment may be readily inserted and clamped.

A further object of the invention is to provide a device of this character in which the latch members which support a pivoted clamping member also serves as a suspension means for the hanger.

In the drawings :Figure 1 is a view of the device in its suspended position. Fig. 2 is an enlarged view of the clamping members. Fig. 3 is an edge view of said members. Fig. 1 is a view of the blank from which the socket is formed. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the socket member.

Referring to the drawings, 10 designates the stationary clamping member which is preferably formed of wood and which is a width suflicient to contact with the garment without creasing the same. Each end of the member 10 enters a socket member 11 which is formed of a single piece of sheet metal so bent as to engage all but the upper edge of the end portion of the member 10, the portion of the socket which would normally embrace the upper edge of the member 10, being bent to form a hook 12, the hooks of the two socket members as shown in Fig. 1 embracing pegs or nails to support the hanger. The other of the members which form the garment clamp consist of a strip of material 13 which may be thinner than the stationary clamping member 10, the member 10 being of a length in excess of the length of the member 18, the member 13 extending approximately the distance between the sockets. Each end of the member 13 is provided with a metallic plate 14, the edge of which adjacent the top of the plate is vcontinued to form an car 15. The ears 15 of the plate 13 are adapted to rest within the socket members, the socket members being pressed outwardly to form a housing for said ears. In the preferred form of the device one of the ears is pivotally supported within the housbetween the clamping portions of ing 16 of one of the socket members, the ear on the plate at the other end of the. member 13 being freely lifted out of its socket in order to swing themember' 13 on its pivot to place a garment between the clamping members. Thus it will be noted that the sockets form a support for the garment hanger and at the same time ooact to support one of the clamping members.

Particular attention is called to the fact that the socket members at either end of the member 10 are identical in construction the only difference in the finished hanger being the pin 17 which passes through the outwardly bent portion of one of the sockets, extending through the ear on one of the plates 14: to pivotally support the member 13, thus it will be seen that the socket members may be constructed as shown in Figs. 4 and 5, the blank as shown in said figures being so cut that it may be bent to embrace both sides of the member 10, one edge and its end portion, the portion 18 of said blank which would normally embrace the upper edge of the member 10, being bent to form a supporting hook. The member 10 is provided with a loop 19 to receive the hook 20 of a coat hanger 21.

The many advantages of a garment hanger of this construction will be clearly apparent and particular attention is called to the fact that the metallic parts of the hanger may be economically constructed, each part, the socket members and the plates carried by the pivoted clamping members being formed of a single piece of metal.

What is claimed is 1. A garment hanger consisting of a plurality of gripping members, a socket incasing each end of one of said members, said socket receiving projections carried by the other member and a hook formed integral with each of said sockets.

2. A garment hanger consisting of a plurality of clamping members, one of said members being of a length in excess of the other member, a socket arranged on each end of the longer member, one wall of said socket being bent to form a hook, a plate secured to each end of the other member, said plates being provided with a projection arranged to enter an outwardly bent portion of one of the sockets.

3. A garment hanger consisting of a plurality of clamping members, a socket arranged on each end of one of said clamping members, said socket being formed of a single piece of sheet metal bent to embrace a projection carried by the other of the clamping members.

4. A garment hanger consisting of a plurality of clamping members, one of said members being of a length in excess of the other, a socket member arranged on each end of the longer member, one of said sockets forming a pivotal support for the shorter member, said sockets being provided with means for suspending the hanger.

5. A garment hanger consisting of a plurality of clamping members, a socket arranged on each end of one of said members, said socket being formed With suspension hooks, a plate arranged on each end of the other member, each of said plates being provided With an ear, one of said ears being pivotally supported Within one of said sockets.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto aflixed my signature in, the presence of two Witnesses.

GEORGE H. WHEARY.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C. Q

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