US1768744A - Clothes hanger - Google Patents

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D. CARLIN 1 CLOTHES HANGER Y July 1, 11-930.

' Filed Jan. 29. 1929 Patented July 1, 1930 UNITED STATES DAVID CARLIN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CLOTHES HANGER Application filed January 29, 1929. Serial No. 335,814.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in clothes hangers, especially that type provided with a horizontal bar to support a dress or pair of trousers. Usually, the bar of thistype of hanger has its ends within the ends of the coat supporting member, and when relatively wide dresses or trousers are arranged upon the bar, they will be forced inwardly at their edges, resulting in the wrinkling of the same.

The primary object of my invention is to equip a generally conventional clothes hanger with a supporting bar for a dress or pair of trousers wherein the length of the bar is at least as great as the length of the coat hanging bar, and in view of the fact that the width of the shoulder portion of a coat is always as great, if not greater than the width of a dress or pair of trousers, complernentary thereto, the dress or trousers can be so supported upon the bar as not to wrinkle.

An additional object is to provide novel and simple means whereby the ends of the horizontal bar can be properly associated with the ends of the coat supporting member of the hanger, and the ends of the bar properly maintained in spaced relation with the ends of the coat supporting member.

In the drawing:

Figure 1 is an elevation of my improved hanger, a pair of relatively wide trousers and knickerbockers being arranged in unwrinkled position upon the horizontal supporting bar.

Figure 2 is a fragmentary elevation of one end of the coat member of the hanger, disclosing one embodiment of the means whereby my improved horizontal bar may be attached thereto, the attaching means being illustrated in cross section.

Figure 3 is an end elevation of my im- 7 proved hanger.

Figure 4 is a View similar to Figure 2, disclosing a modified manner of attaching the ends of the horizontal bar to the coat member of the hanger, and

Figure 5 is a perspective of said horizontal bar.

Now, having particular reference to the drawing, 5 designates the usual coat supporting member of a clothes hanger usually consisting of two similar sections interconnected at their abutting ends as at 6 and provided at their abutting ends with a supporting hook 7. In carrying out the present invention, I provide a bar 8 of metal or suit able material, and of a length substantially equivalent to the length of-the coat member 5. At the ends of thisbar thereis provided inturned members 99 of a predetermined length, the extreme ends thereof being preferably flattened as at 10, and these flattened ends engaged within notches at the ends of the coat member 5, asdisclosed in Figure 2, and designated by the reference character 11.

The flattened portion of each inturned member is provided with a counter-sunk opening in order that it may be rigidly secured to the coat member 5 by a screw or the like 12. The length of the inturned members 9-9 of the bar 8 is such as to provide a satisfactory spaced relation between the bar 8 and the ends of the coat member, so that when trousers or other relatively wide garments are arranged upon the bar, they will not abut at their side edges the ends of the bar and I become'wrinkled. Furthermore, by reason of the bar 8 being of increased length, wide trousers, kinckerbockers and the like may be supported thereon in an unwrinkled condition.

In Figures 4 and 5, there is illustrated a slightly modified method of attachment of the horizontal bar to the ends of the coat member. In this modification, 5 designates fragmentarily the coat member, and 8 the trouser Y supporting bar member. Here also, the bar 8 is of a length substantially equivalent to the length of the coat member, and is provided at its opposite ends'with upturned members 9', the extreme free ends of which are provided with right angle inwardly extending pins 13.

Each end of the coat member 5 is provided with a notch or groove 14:, the inner end thereof communicating with a right angle socket 15, the notch receiving the inner end of the member 9' and the socket slidably receiving the pin, as clearly illustrated in Figure 4.

In this instance also, the ends of the bar 8 will be maintained in spaced relation with the ends of the coat member, so that the trousers arranged thereon will not contact with said coat member and furthermore, in view of the increased length of the bar over those of the conventional clothes hangers, relatively wide trousers and knickers can be disposed thereon, without being crumpled at their ends, which forms wrinkles throug out the width thereof.

Even though I have herein shown and dey scribed my invention as consisting of certain structural elements, it is nevertheless to be understood that modifications not illustrated or described can be had without affecting the spirit and scope of the appended claim.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

In a clothes hanger of the character described, a coat'supporting member of conventionaldesign having supporting means associated therewith, a horizontal dress and trouser supporting bar for association with the, ends of said coat member, said bar being ofa len 'th substantially equivalent to the length 0? the coat member, upwardly extending members at the ends of the said bar, inwardly turned right angularly disposed pins for securing the free ends of these members with the ends of the coat member so as to maintain said bar in spaced relation with the ends of said coat member, the extreme ends of said coat member being grooved or socketed for the reception of the free ends of said members, and the pins, said pins slidably extending into the sockets and the free ends of the upturned members being positioned in the groove in a manner to rigidly couple the bar to the coat member.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

DAVID CARLIN.

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