US2144907A

US2144907A - Garment bagging apparatus

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Publication number: US2144907A
Application number: US169872A
Authority: US
Inventors: Charles S Allen
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1937-10-19
Filing date: 1937-10-19
Publication date: 1939-01-24
Anticipated expiration: 1956-01-24

Description

Jan. 24, 1939. c. s. ALLEN 2,144,907

GARMENT BAGGING APPARATUS Filed Oct. 19, 1937 v Charles 5 IN VEN TOR.

A TTORNEYS.

Patented Jan. 24, 1939 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 4 Claims.

With the above and other objects in view, which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it beingunderstood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed, may be made within the scope of what is claimed, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying drawing:

Fig. 1 shows in elevation, a device constructed in accordance with the invention;

Fig. 2 is a top plan of the cross arm and attendant parts;

Fig. 3 is a side elevation showing the suspension rod, the cross arm and attendant parts;

Fig. 4 is a top plan of the clip that holds the bag, the suspension rod being in section.

In the ceiling l of a closet, or in any other suitable elevated place, is mounted a hook 2 which is detachably engaged with a hook 3 on the upper end of a suspension rod 4, which may be a piece of wire, the suspension rod being supplied at its lower end with an eye 5 detachably engaged with a hook 6 on a hanger l of any desired and common form, the hanger being adapted to carry a garment 8.

A cross arm 5 is secured to the suspension rod 4, near to the upper end of the suspension rod, and is of plate-like form, the cross arm having backwardly extended ears ID in which are mounted round-edged grommets l I which will not fray a flexible element or cord [2 which is rove slidably through them, the flexible element being supplied at one end with a handle M.

The numeral l5 marks a resilient pinch clip or holder, adapted to engage an open-bottomed bag 2|, the pinch clip being released by arms [6 and being of ordinary construction, the arms having holes ll. One end of the flexible element 12 is formed into a first loopl8 engaged through the holes I! in the arms IS, the flexible element being knotted at 19 to form a laterally extended second loop or guide 20, slidably mounted on the suspension rod 4. With the parts arranged as shown in Fig. 1, the operator eases off on the flexible element l2, the flexible element runs through the grommets II, and the bag 2| descends, the bag receiving and covering the garment 8.

One of the reasons for having the second loop or guide 28, engaged slidably with the suspension rod 4, is to keep the bag 2| in'proper place, so that when it moves downwardly, it will receive and cover the garment 8. Another reason for having the second loop or guide 20 is that if the pinch clipi5 is detached from the bag 2|, and, especially, if the flexible element [2 happens to be located with respect to the cross arm 9 so that each portion of the flexible element I2 is of considerable length, the parts of the flexible element will tend to become entangled with each other and with the suspension rod 4.

When the operator desires to use the garment 8, all that he has to do is to haul on the flexible element l2, by means of the handle M, the bag 2| being raised to the position shown in Fig. 1, and the garment 8 being exposed.

Having thus described the invention, What is claimed is:

1. In a device of the class described, a suspension member having means at its upper end for engaging a support and having means, at its lower end for carrying a garment hanger, a flexible element, means on the suspension member for carrying the intermediate portion of the flexible element slidably, a bag holding pinch clip having arms provided with openings, one end of the flexible element being formed into a loop engaged through the openings, and the loop being extended to form a guide slidably mounted on the suspension member, the opposite end of the flexible element being under the control of an operator.

2. In a device of the class described, a suspension member having means at its upper end for engaging a support and having means at its lower end for carrying a garment hanger, a flexible element, means on the suspension member for carrying the intermediate portion of the flexible element slidably, a bag holding member having an opening, one end of the flexible element being formed into a loop engaged through the opening, and the loop being extended to form a guide slidably mounted on the suspension member, the opposite end of the flexible element being under the control of an operator.

3. In a device of the class described, a suspension member having means at its upper end for engaging a support and having means at its lower end for carrying a garment hanger, a flexible element, means on the suspension member for carrying the intermediate portion of the flexible element slidably, a, bag holding member having an opening, one end of the flexible element being formed into a loop engaged through the opening, and the loop being knotted together, intermediate its ends, to form an eye slidably mounted on the suspension member, the opposite end of the flexible element being under the control of an operator.

4. In a device of the class described, a cross arm provided near its ends with backwardly extended ears, grommets mounted in the ears, a

flexible element slidable through the grommets, one end portion of the flexible element being under the control of an operator, bag engaging means carried by the opposite end portion of the flexible element, a suspension member secured to the rear surface of the cross arm, between the ears, the suspension member having means at its upper end for engaging a support and having means at its lower end for carrying a garment hanger, and the grommets being set back far enough so that when the flexible element slides through the grommets, the flexible element will be out of contact with the suspension member.

CHARLES S. ALLEN.