US1364754A - Clothes-hanger - Google Patents

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L. .D, HENDERSON. CLOTHES HANGER.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. I7, 1920.

1 364,754. Patented Jan. 4, 1921.

Z. Zlflegyid arson UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LI'LIAN DUBPSTADT HENDERSON, OF CREEKSIZDE, PENNSYLVANIA.

CLOTHES-HANGER.

Application filed February 17, 1920.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, LILIAN DUPLSTADT HENDERSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Creekside, in the count of Indiana and State of Pennsylvania, iave in vented new and useful Improvements in Clothes-l-Iangers, of which the following is a specification.

The ordinary clothes supporting means in wardrobes, closets and the like is in the nature of a hook which is screwed either in the top, but more often in the sides of the wardrobe or closet. Wearing apparel suspended upon such hooks is supported at one point only, the weight of the garment caus ing an impression to be left at the point thereof engaged by the hook, and such garments soon lose their shape. To obviate this clothes hangers have been supported by the hooks, or arranged on suitable supports for slidable movement in the wardrobe or closet. The clothes hangers take up considerable room, and quite an amount of time is required in properly draping garments thereon.

t is an object of the present invention to produce a garment support which shall be in the nature of an element fixed in a closet or the like and which is provided with spring jaws that will efiectively engage a garment and retain the same in proper shape.

The drawings illustrate a simple and satisfactory embodiment of the improvement reduced to practice, and in which Figure 1 is a fragmentary sectional perspective view of a closet, wardrobe or the like illustrating the application of the improvement.

Fig. 2 is a perspective View of the improvement.

Fig. 3 is a view of the jaw member of the improvement.

Fig. 4L is a view of the body member of the improvement.

Preferably and as disclosed by the drawings my improved garment support or hanger is constructed from two strands of suitable wire to provide a body 1 and a jaw 2.

The jaw member is bent to provide a sub stantially rectangular element, and the upper arms 3 whereof being rounded upon themselves to provide a plurality of longitudinally arranged contacting eyes or coils 1. The free ends of the strand constituting Specification of Letterslatent.

Patented Jan. 4., 1921.

Serial No. 359 293.

the jaw are disposed at the front ends of the coiled or eye portions 1 and for distinction the said ends are indicated by the numeral 5.

The body member 1 has one of its end strands threaded as indicated by the numeral 6. This strand will hereinafter, for the purpose of convenience be referred to as the stem of the device. The stem may be bent angularly as indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. 2 of the drawings or will be retained straight, in any event the threaded stem is designed to be inserted in a suitable support, such as illustrated in Fig. 1. The second end strand, is indicated by the numeral 7, and both of the strands are bent at right angles in opposite directions to provide the upper arms 8 of the body. These upper arms pass through the eyes or coils on the upper arms of the jaw and extend a suitable distance over the end members 8 of the jaw. The strands 8, at the corners of the body are twisted upon themselves and bent upwardly to provide loops 9, and are from thence extended downwardly to provide the sides 10 of the body, the said sides being bent to provide the lower arm 11 of the body. This arm 11 is disposed in the path of contact with the sides 8 of the jaw 2. The loops, when the stem 6 is disposed at an angle, contact with the support and hold the body a suitable distance away from such support so that a garment engaged between the jaw and body will not contact with the support.

When the parts are assembled as above described the strands 5 of the jaw and the end strand of the body are twisted or coiled around the straight portion of the stem 6. As the jaw member embodies an inherent resiliency it will be apparent that the jaw is both hingedly supported from the body and secured thereto in a manner to permit of the same springing inwardly thereagainst.

The device may be of a length to effectively su port a garment thereon, but as a number of the same are employed in a closet or other support and are preferably arranged in parallelism, two of the clamping members may be employed for supporting a single garment. It is believed that the simplicity of the construction and the advantages of the device will be apparent to those skilled in the art to which such inventions appertain without further detail description.

Having thus described the invention,what I claim is A garment clamp constructed from two.

strands of resilient wire to comprise a body and a jaw, one of the end strands of the body being threaded and extended beyond the other end strand, both the said strands being bent angularly in opposite directions and having their ends coiled and extended upwardly to provide loops and downwardly to provide sides for the body, a connecting element for the sides, the jaw having coiled portions adjacent its ends which are received on the upper portion of the body, the said strands outward of the coils being extended 15 and bent downwardly to provide the ends of the jaw which are disposed inward of the ends of the body and which contact with the lower member of the body, a connecting member for the lower portions of the ends, 20 and the end strands of the jaw, the shorter end strand of the body being bent around the threaded end strand of the said body.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

LILIAN DUPPSTADT HENDERSON.

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