US1900550A - Hanger for fur - Google Patents

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March 7, 1933.

M. GRAY I HANGER FOR FUR Filed May 24, 1950 Patented Mar. 7, 1933 @NHTED STATES MAX GRAY, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA HANGER FOR FUR Application filed May 24,

My invention has for its object to provide an improved hanger for animal-headed furs having pivoted spring lever clips on their fur heads; and to this end my invention consists of a wire hanger having the novel features hereinafter described and pointed out in the claim. 7

The preferred form of my improved hanger is illustrated in the accompanying drawing. In said drawing like notations refer to like parts throughout the several views.

Fig. 1 is a view chiefly in side elevation, but with some parts shown in section, with the hanger in fur suspending position and the position of the fur shown partly in dotted lines;

Fig. 2 is a vertical section on the line 22 of Fig. 1 with some parts broken away;

Fig. 3 is a cross section on the line 33 of Fig. 1, and

Fig. 4 is a view in side elevation showing the lower portion of a slightly modified type of hanger detached.

The numeral 5 represents partly in dotted lines, an animal-headed fur with the lower portion of the fur broken away. Such furs, when in condition for use by wearers, usually have pivoted spring lever clips secured to the under aw portions of the animal heads. These clips are usually made u of a base piece 6 of metal and a lever piece 7 of metal covered by embroidered fabric 7 a and pivoted to the base piece and subject to a spring 8 so applied that it tends to keep the forward 5 ends of the clip members in closed position, bearing against each other. To this end, the base piece 6 has ear-like bearing lugs 9 and the top or lever piece 7 has cooperating ear lugs 10 and which two sets of lugs are pivotally connected together by the pivot pin 11 passing therethrough as best shown in Fig. 3. The spring 8 has its body portion coiled around the pivot pin 11 and its ends extend- 4 ing therefrom and bearing respectively against the base 6 and the top or lever piece '4'. The said spring 8 is applied under tension so that its opposite ends tend to throw the rear ends of said parts 6 and 7 apart F from each other and their front ends together.

In other Words, the structure and function 1930. Serial No.- 455,258.

of these parts is that of an ordinary spring clip. Such a clip may be secured to the fur 5 in any suitable way, but this is ordinarily done by cutting a slit in the hide of thefur 1 at'the jaw of the animal and another slit in the nose part of the hide and then inserting the base portion Goof the clip underneath the hide through the said slits and then sewing up the slits, so that the clip will thereby be securely heldto the fur by the if engagement of its base with the hide of the fur. With such a clip, 'so applied, to'the head portion of the fur, the pivot lugs 9 and 10 and the pivot pin 11 will project a short distance outward fromthe fur at the jaw portion of the animal headand the pivoted spring pressed lever 7 will be. in position for manipulation by the hand.

My improved hanger was designed for. application to such a clip equipped fur. I form the hanger, as shown-in Figs. 1 to 3, from a single piece of resilient wire 13 which is bent twice .upon itself to aiford at its lower end on open-mouthed resilient wedge-shaped loop 1 1, which is narrower at its mouth than it is at its body portion and which loop 14 v is adapted to engage with the pivot lugs 9 and 10 of the spring clip on the fur head. This engagement is eifected by sliding movement of the hanger relative to said pivot lugs of the clip so as to bring the loop of the hanger into the position shown in Fig. 1. The double bends of the loop 14 in the wire 13 will spring apart at the mouth of the loop 14 far enough to permit the said loop to be 5 readily placed in position for engaging said l pivot lugs and then will again close toward each other, under the spring action far enough to prevent the hanger and fur from accidental separation. The said resilient wire 13 is also bent upon itself to afiord, at i its upper end, a portion 15 adapted to engage with an overhead support 16, asshown in Fig. 1, to hold the hanger and the fur in suspended position. As shown, the said portion 15 is in the form of a hook adapted to engage over the support 16, but said portion might be in the form of an eyeadapted to engage over a nail, screw or other projection.

The said wire 13 is also bent upon itself-to afford, in its median portion, an eye-like loop 17 for the attachment of a tag 12 for displaying the price or the identification of the fur.

In Fig. 4 the lower portion of a slightly different form of hanger 18 is illustrated. The hanger 18 is formed from wire and is bent twice upon itself to form an openmouthed resilient loop 19 similar in all respects to the loop 14, with the exception that the loop 19 instead of being wedge shaped, has a narrow straight mouth portion joining 'a wide straight inner or receiving portion.

The resiliency of the mouth portion will hold the loop 19 in engagement with the lugs 9 and 10 of the spring clip.

My improved hanger above described is cheap to make and easy to apply to the spring clip on the fur without injury of any kind to the fur and without tearing or wearing the embroidered fabric 7a covering the lever piece 7 of the spring clip.

The efliciency of my improved hanger has been demonstrated by the actual usage thereof for suspending animal headed furs.

What is claimed is A hanger for animal headed furs having spring lever clips on the fur heads, which hanger consists of a single piece of resilient Wire having a shank portion and a pair of vertically spaced, laterally projecting, reversely bent, portions joining the lower end of said shank portion and forming therebetween an open mouthed, resilient loop engageable with the pivot lugs of the spring clip, the outer ends of said reversely bent portions being more closely vertically spaced than the inner ends thereof.

In testimony whereof I aflixmy signature.

MAX GRAY.

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