US1605184A - Garment hanger - Google Patents

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, c. M. HEDDENs GARIVHEINIII HANGER vFiled May 3l, 1923 ClydeMHeddens INVENTOR A'ITORNIY Patented Nov. 2, 1926.

N uNlTlazp STAT CLYDE M. HEDDENS, F MILTON', PENNSYLVANIA.

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Application led Hay 81,

This invention relates'to garment hangers. The object is to provide a hanger particularly adapted for supporting trousers in a manner to retain the desired creases in the same, the device comprising a single unit capable of introduction into the bottoms of the legs of the trousers and of distending each leg and supporting the trousers, while in inverted position, so that the weight of the l0 trousers will maintain them in a stretched condition without danger of folding or wrinkling.

Another object is to provide a simple, cheaply manufactured and strong and durable devirJ of this character composed of a single, resilient distending member having a normal tendency to expand, the ends of the same being equipped with spaced arms for insertion into the opposite ends of the 530 stretched bottoms of the trousers, and provided with means for rictionally engaging the same in a manner to prevent the trousers from falling from the hanger.

A nal object is to provide a hanger which may be applied to legs of trousers of different widths, and which is of such small compass as to permit of several pairs of trousers on as many similar hangers being hung or supported on a single hook or nail.

A full and complete understanding of the invention may be obtained from a consideration of the following detailed description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawing forming part of this specification; it being understood that while the drawing shows a practical form of the invention, thelatter is not confined to strict conformity with the showing thereof, but may be changed or modified, so long as such changes or modifications mark no materialv departure from the salient features of the invention, as specifically pointed out in the appended claim.

' In the drawing, in which similar reference characters designate corresponding parts throughout the several figures,

Figure 1 is perspective view of the improved hanger shown applied to and supporting a pair of trousers;

Figure 2 is a similar view of the hanger removed from the trousers;

Figure 3 is a detail sectional view through one of the trouser-engaging members;

Figure 4 is a similar view taken on the line 4-4 of Figure 3.

Whilethe improved hanger has been illus- 1923. Serial No. 642,577,

trated and described as atrousers supporter or hanger, it will be readily seen that the same may be used with equal advantage for supporting ladies skirts or other garments, as the device may be made indifferent sizes for the purpose and, in the case ot skirts,

Referringto the drawing there is shown a spring wire supporting member' consisting of a centrally-disposed spring coil 1, the ends of the wire comprising the same being extended downwardly and at opposite sides of said coil to form resilient arms 2, the same being of equal length and normally spaced apart and with-a tendency to separate, owing to the resilient action of the coil 1. v

The terminals of the spring arms 2 are bent outwardly in substantial longitudinal alinement to form extensions 3 which, when the device is applied to trousers, or skirts, or other garments, are substantially horizontal, the outer ends of said extensions being a distance apart somewhat greater` than 'the width of the maximum sized trouser leg,

when the latter is in stretched position, or the aforesaid waistband of a skirt.

The outer terminal of each extension 3 is formed into an eye 4, as clearly shown in Figure 3 of the drawing, the said eye being arranged vertically, or'in line with the spring 1 and the same are introduced into the upper, closed end 5 of trouser-engaging members having the spaced, depending arms 6 connected thereto by means of rivets 7, passing through alined openings in said arms 6 and adjacent to the bend 5 forming the closed end thereof, said rivet also traversing the eye Land being headed over at each endon the outside of the arms, thus securely fastening the members to the ends of the extensions 3.

The trouser-leg engaging members are formed of suitable strips of appropriate, stiff metal, bent at an intermediate point as at 5, to comprise the spaced arms 6, and the anguiar relation between the said arms 6 and the extensions 3 is such, that when the device is pro rl attached to the trousers, as

. ward each other, by the legs of the trousers,

the said arms are substantially vertical or parallel to each A other and snugly fit, throughout their lengths, within the front and back, creased portions of said trousers le gIShe two arms 6 are adapted to be placed in se arate trousers legs, and act, in co-action w1th the opposite arms 6, to exert an outward stretching tendency on the legs of thc trousers, which are thus held in proper inverted position to eradicate all wrinkles and maintain the desired creases. The two arms 6 at each end of the device are lalso adapted to be placed together into one end of the folded waist-band of a skirt, while the opposite arms 6 engage the other end of the skirt waist band, as will be readily understood.

In order to increase the holding eifect of the arms 6. the outer edges of the same are provided with a plurality of shallow notches 8 which serve to prevent any slippin of the garment from engagement with the anger, and the lower, free ends of said arms have their inner and outer edges slightly tapered, as at 9, to facilitate their introduction into the trousers legs or skirt, while the device is under compression to bring the arms close enough together for the purpose. When pressure is released on the arms 2, after the device is applied in position, the expansive force of the arms 2 and the coil 1, forces the members 6 apart to engage within the garment to be supported, as will be readily understood, when the device may be hung upon a hook or nail by passing the eye 1 over 'my own,

the same, or a hook 10 may be suitably connected to the said eye, as indicated in dotted lines in Figure 2 of. the drawing and used for the purpose of suspending the hanger with the arment thereon.

From t e foregoing it will be seen that a simple, stron and durable device has been provided which may be readily applied to garments for supporting the same or detached therefrom by a simple operation, and that the same is of compact form to permit of a plurality of the same with garments theeon to be hung from a single hook or nai What is claimed is:

In a garment hanger comprising a supporting member formed of a single piece of spring wire bent to form an intermediate coil, then bent outwardly and downwardly from the coil to form two spring arms, then bent outwardly at the ends of the arms in opposite directions and substantially in longitudinal alinement to form extensions, the

outer terminals of each of which is provided with an eye arranged vertically, and U- shaped leg engaging members each formed of a single strip of stiff metal bent at an intermediate point to form two spaced arms, that portion of the strip where the material is bent being brought together so as to snugly embrace the said eye, a rivet passed through the arms and engaging the eye and forming a rigid connection between the said eye and said arms, said arms being offset where they connect with the eye, and spaced apart sufficiently to enter the trouser legs.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as I have hereto aflixed my signature.

CLYDE M. IIEDDENS.

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