US1760352A - Garment hanger - Google Patents

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May 27, 1930. H. A. FEIGELMAN GARMENT HANGER Filed Deo. 19. 1928 2 Sheets-Sheet l H. A. FEIGELMAN GARMENT HANGER May 27, 1930.

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UNITED STATES HERMAN A. FEIGELMAN, F PATERSON, JRSEY GARMEN T HANGER Application led December 19, 1928. Serial No. 327,075.

The object of this invention is to provide a garment hanger which may be `cheaply made and yet will be strong, light, durable and capable of being packed with other articles,

as with clothing in a trunk, without occupying appreciable space. While the hanger may be made of other sheet material, it is so constructed as to have ample strength, at least for the support of certain lighter garments when made of cardboard.

In the drawings,

Fig. 1 is a plan of the blank from which the device is formed; x

Figs. 2 and 3 show the device in section in substantially a vertical centralplane in two stages of its development from the blank;

Fig. 4 is a front elevation of the completed device;

Figs. 5 and 6 are sectional views on line 5-5 and 6 6, respectively, Fig. 4;

Figs. 7 and 8 are a plan of the blank and a front elevation of the finished device, showing a slight modification;

Figs. 9, 10 and 11 are, respectively, a plan of the blank, a front elevation 'and a section on line 11, Fig. 9, showing another modification; and

Figs. 12 and 13 show a modication, Fig. 12 being an elevation and Fig. 13 a section on line 13-13, Fig. 12.

A blank of flexible but stiff sheet material, as cardboard, is formed with an elongated body portion 1 having a pair of opposite tongues 2a, 2b, which may be either shaped as hooks, Figs. 1 to 8, or as loops or eyes, Figs. 9 to 11, since they are to afford in the completed article the suspendin means thereof. Said body portion is to be olded on the longitudinal line, as 3, to form` the hanger bar or body part a (Fig. 4) of the device, and coinciding with sa1d line is a slot 4; in one (1b) of the plies or leaves 1, 1b, resulting from such folding a longitudinal slit may be formed to afford another slot 5.

To form the device in the example shown the body portion 1 is folded on line 3, producing the said plies or leaves 1a, 1", and consequently the hanger bar a. Tongue 2b is then bent toward leaf 1a and so as to extend between the plies or leaves land through slot 4 (Fig.

2), a fold being preferably formed at 6b at the base of the tongue 2b. Tongue 2 is next bent toward the leaf 1b but so as to extend around said bend 6b and outwardly of leaf 1b and also through lirst slot 5 and then through slot 55 4 (Fig. 3), a fold being preferably formed at 6a atthe base of such tongue 2a (Fig. 5). )Vhen the device is formed in this particular manner it has considerable stability and strength, the different parts being firmly seeo cured in their final arrangement and the device being two-ply throughout excepting the zone where the tongues cross the leaves 1a, 1b, where it has desirable extra (four-ply) thickness.

At a distance from the outer longitudinal margin of each leaf or ply equal to the transverse dimension of the latter each tongue has shoulders 7 which in the'completed hanger bear within and against the fold at line 3 70 (Fig. 4). If it is desired to bevel or slope the upper corners of the hanger bar of the hanger this may be done by folding downward and between the plies on lines inclined downwardly toward the terminals of the hanger bar portions of said plies, as by slitting the material of the hanger bar at 8 on lines coincident with line 3 and folding the material inwardly and downwardly on the converging lines 9.4 In the case of certain womens garments havs0 ing shoulder straps, the latter may be accomnodated in notches 10 formed in the hanger In Figs. 9 to 11 a hanger is shown for sup porting mens suits, including trousers. In this case the hanger bar has spaced depending slings or loops, and a bar is carried by these slings and is adapted to support the trousers. In the particular construction shown the plies or leaves l, lb'have at their 90 ends extensions 11 of which one at each end of either ply is opposed by an extension at the corresponding end of the other leaf. Both such extensions are folded on lines 12 extending parallel with line 3 toward each 95 other, one folded extension embracing the other, and one has a lateral tab or hook 13' which may be folded back on lines 14 and engaged and locked in a slit 15 in such extension. Thus is formed a loop or sling closed fat the outer side but open at the inner side "and such two 'slings are adapted to receive the" ends of a bar 16 for supporting the trousers.

"e In Fi s. 12 and 13 a suitably-formed blank is folde on line 17, the same having a tongue or tongues 18 which project in transverse relation to said line and are opposite each other; the blank also has on one ply each side of one tongue tabs 19 which after folding the blank to form the two plies are bent over the edge of the other ply and entered into slits 20 in the latter, thus locking the two plies together.

In the broadest aspect of my invention the garment hanger consists of a blank of flexible stiff sheet. material having a tongue projection to form a suspender (for instance 2b in Fig. 1 or either tongue in Fig. 13) extendin from one edge of the blank and said blank eing folded on a line transverse of the direction in which the tongue projection extends and thus forming a two-ply hanger bar, and having means (for instance, tongue 2a inl Fig. 1 engaged in slit 5 or the tabs 19 in Fig. 18 entered into slits 20) to lock the two plies together.

Having thus fully described my invention, what l claim is:

1. A garment hanger consisting of a blank of flexible stiff sheet material folded to form an elongated two-ply hanger bar and having a tongue extending from one ply of the hanger bartransversely of the line of fold and said tongue rebent and protruding lthrough the part of said material forming the hanger bar and forming the of the hanger.

2. A garment hanger consisting of a blank of flexible sti' sheet material folded to form an elongated two-ply hanger bar and having a tongue extending from one ply of the hanger bar transversely of the line of fold and said tongue rebent and protruding suspender lthroughy the part of said material forming the hanger bar in substantial coincidence with the line of the' fold and forming the sus-- pender of the hanger. 3. A garment hanger consisting of a blank of iexible stiff sheet material Jfolded to form an elongated two-pl hanger bar and having tongues extending rom the respective plies oppositely to each other and said tongues rebent and their rebent ortions protruding through the part ofsaid material forming the hanger bar and thereby forming suspending means for the hanger.

4. A garment hanger consisting of a blank of flexible stii' sheet material folded to orm and their rebent portions both protruding' through said aperture and from said portion and thereby forming suspending means for the hanger.

5. A garment hanger consisting of a blank of flexible stiff sheet material folded to form an elongated two-ply hanger bar and having tongues extending from the respective plies oppositely to each other and said tongues rebent toward each other and their'rebent portions protruding through the part of said material forming the hanger bar and thereby forming suspending means for the hanger.

6. A garment hanger consisting of a blank of iexible stiff sheet material folded to form an velongated two-plyhanger bar and having separate apertures in its hanger-bar-forming portion and also having tongues extending from the respective plies and said tongues rebent and their rebent portions protruding said portion and thereby forming suspending means for the hanger.

7. A garment hanger consisting of a blank of flexible stiff sheet material folded to form an elongated two-ply hanger bar and having two apertures, one substantially coincident with the line of fold and one in one ply, said blank also having tongues extending from the respective plies and rebent toward each other, the ton ue whichextends from' the ply having the atter aperture being arranged to protrude through the first aperture and the other tongue being arranged to extend outwardly of such ply and then to protrude rst through the second and then through the first aperture and said tongues thus forming suspending means for the hanger.

8. A garment hanger including a two-ply hanger bar formed by folding a blank of iexible sti sheet material and having means to suspend the hanger bar with the fold upward, portions of the plies at both ends of the hanger bar being folded downward and between the plies on lines inclined downwardly toward-'the terminals of the hanger bar, thus forming upper slopes on said ends.

9. A garment hanger including a two-ply hanger bar formed by folding a blank of flexible stili' sheet material and havingmeanS to suspend the hangerbar with the fold upward, said hanger bar having spaced depending slings, and a bar carried by said slings.

10. A garment hanger including a two-p131 hanger bar formed by folding'a blank of liexible stiff sheet material and having means to suspend the hanger bar with the fold upward, the blank having at the ends of the hanger bar spaced 'downward loop extensions, and a bar received in and carried by said loop extensions.

11. A garment hanger consisting of a blank of flexible stiff sheet material having a tongue projection to form a sus-pender ex-i blank being folded on a line transverse f the direction in which the tongue pro'ection extends and thus forming a. two-ply anger bar and having means to lock the two plies of the hanger bar together.

In testimony whereof I aiiix my signature.

HERMAN A. FEIGELMAN.

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