US2034859A - Garment hanger - Google Patents

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March 24, B CAI-[N 5 L GARMENT HANGER Filed Sept. 18, 1934 |NVENTORS BIZ-den 14.3. am 11 E ATTORNEY Patented Mar. 24, 15) 36 I PATENT FE-ICE GARMENT HANGER Bernard Calm and Albert B. Cahn, San Diego, Calif.

Application September 18, 1934, Serial No. 744,547

1 Claim.

This invention relates to hangers and is directed particularly to a hanger of that character adapted to have a mans suit supported thereon.

Laundries, cleaners and dyers must have hangers upon which to support suits after cleaning and/or pressing and upon which the garments are delivered to the customer-the customer of course being allowed to retain the hanger for his own use.

This custom entails a great expense to the laundries, cleaners and dyers and in the trade a need is felt for a hanger which may be purchased at less cost than the customary wooden hanger. Any

such hanger would have to be as. strong as the wooden hanger and also have a cross bar of sumcient width to prevent unnecessary creasing of the legs of the trousers supported thereacross.

Suit hangers manufactured from relatively heavy wire have in the past been experimented with, but due to the narrow cross bar and the tendency of the wire cross bar to bend, these hangers have not been accepted by the trade.

It is therefore our principal object to provide a suit hanger manufactured from a relatively heavy cardboard, or as it is generally termed, fiber board-a very cheap material-and to provide a relatively wide trouser supporting cross bar on the hanger in order to prevent undue creasing across the legs of the trousers when supported by said cross bar and which would otherwise be had due to the initial thinness of the material from which the hanger is manufactured, as compared with wood.

A further object of our invention is to provide a fiber board hanger which will be manufactured from a single sheet of fiber board and as a result be capable of being sold to the trade at a cost below that of the present wooden hanger.

We also provide our improved hanger with the usual swivel hook construction of heavy wire mounted in connection with the hanger body by means of a. novel clamp.

A further object of the invention is to produce a simple and inexpensive device and yet one which will be exceedingly effective for the purpose for which it is designed.

These objects we accomplish by means of such structure and relative arrangement of parts as will fully appear by a perusal of the following specification and claim.

In the drawing similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several views:

Figure l is a side elevation of the body of the hanger as it appears when initially stamped from a fiber board blank.

Figure 2 is a side elevation of the complete hanger.

Figure 3 is a side elevation of the of the hanger.

Figure 4 is a sectional view taken on the line 5 44 of Figure 2.

Referring now more particularly to the characters of reference on the drawing, the numeral l denotes generally thebody of the hanger, said body comprising downwardly diverging and curved hanger arms 2 of conventional contour and a cross bar 3 extending between and connecting the divergent ends of the arms 2. The cross bar along its upper edge has formed integral therewith an-extension in the form of a flapor strip 4.

The entire body of the hanger I, including the flap 4, is of course stamped from a single sheet of fiber board. When removed from the die the hanger body I appears as shown in Figure 1.

In order that the cross bar 3 have suflicient strength against buckling when a. pair of trousers is supported thereon, and in order that the trouser engaging edge of the cross bar be sufficiently wide to prevent creases across the trouser legs, we construct the cross bar 3 as follows: I

The flap 4 initially upstanding from the cross bar 3 when removed from the die is folded down against one face of said cross bar 3, as illustrated in Figure 4, and then secured in place as by a suitable staple 5. The fold line is not creased and remains substantially circular and relatively wide, as shown in section in Figure 4.

' The body of the hanger l is rotatably suspended from the usual wire hook I by means of a metal plate 8 having a vertical and deep semi-circular groove 9 formed therein to receive the shank ID of the hook I. The metal plate 8 is secured in place over the shank III of the hook and against one face of the hanger body at the apex thereof 40 by means of bendable fingers H integral with the plate and bent over from the top and bottom of the plate to contact the other face of the hanger body. Our preferred construction is to provide opposite side two upper and two lower spaced fingers as shown.

An enlarged head 12 on the lower end of the shank prevents the hanger body and securing plate from falling or sliding away from the hook I.

In use the trousers are folded with legs together as usual and placed through the opening in the hanger and supported over the cross bar 3. Due to the novel manner in which we construct this cross bar it is sufiiciently strong to support the weight of the trousers and due to the relatively wide top edge of the said cross bar the trousers are not creased across the legs at the front. The coat and vest are also supported on the hanger as on any common wooden hanger.

From the foregoing description it will be readily seen that we have produced such a device as substantially fulfills the objects of the invention as set forth herein.

While this specification sets forth in detail the present and preferred construction of the device, still in practice such deviations from such detail may be resorted to as do not form a departure from the spirit of the invention, as defined by the appended claim.

Having thus described our invention what we claim as new and useful and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

In a garment hanger, a shanked hook to support the same, and means to secure the shank of the hook against one side of the hanger in frictional and rotatable engagement; said last named means comprising a metal plate formed with a vertical groove of substantially semi-circular cross section encasing the shank oi the hook, and bendable fingers formed integral with the plate and bent over the edges of the hanger.

BERNARD CAHN. ALBERT B. CAHN.

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