US2298491A

US2298491A - Garment drying hanger

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Publication number: US2298491A
Application number: US266955A
Authority: US
Inventors: Lamar Emil
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1939-04-10
Filing date: 1939-04-10
Publication date: 1942-10-13
Anticipated expiration: 1959-10-13

Description

Oct. 13, 1942. E. LAMARv 2,298,491

GARMENT DRYING HANGER Filed April 1o, 1939 INVENTOR EMILIA/#HR ATTORNEY Patented Oct. 13, 1942 UNHTED STATES @TNT OFEIC 9 Claims.

The invention relates to a hanger for use in effecting the drying and airing of clothing, particularly athletic wear. Y

An object of the invention is to provide a unitary hanger which is particularly adapted for the support of breeches or some other garment in an open and expanded condition thereof for the free circulation of air through its interior to dry and air the garment.

Another object is to provide a hanger of the class described wherein the supporting engagement of the hanger with a breeches or pants is simultaneously operative to effect the desired open condition of the garment.

A further object is to provide a hanger which is arranged for simultaneously supporting for drying all of the elements of athletic apparel such as a foot-ball suit.

The invention possesses other objects and features of advantage, some of which, with the foregoing, will be set forth or be apparent in the following description of a typical Vembodiment thereof, and in the accompanying drawing, in which,

Figures l and 2 are plan and end views respectively of a hanger embodying the features of present invention.

Figure 3 is an elevation showing the hanger operative as a support means for various elements of a foot-ball suit, garments thereof being shown fragmentarily and/or in partial section.

Figure 4 is a fragmentary partly sectional view taken on the broken line 4--4 in Figure 3.

Figure 5 is a perspective view of the hanger structure.

Various garments used by players of such games as foot-ball, and particularly those garments having padded and/ or reinforced areas, are preferably dried while in an opened-out condition whereby drying may take place directly from the inside as well as from the outside. Over considerable periods, such garments are dried just as they are taken off by the player, since washing tends to deleteriously affect any padding or rubber or leather parts of the garment. On the other hand, a removed garment is frequently moist on the inside from the players perspiration which, while damp, tends to rot the garment parts both directly and through the encouragement of mildewing. The most practical course for the preservation of such a garment is to dry it as quickly as possible and thereafter permit a continuous free air circulation along its interior sur faces as well as over its exterior, and the present hanger unit has been designed with this preservative drying and airing of the garment in mind.

While the'features of present invention are of more general application, the present hanger unit 'l is disclosed and described as particularly designed and utilized for the drying and airing support of the pants 8 and shirts 9 and the shoulder-pad assembly IE! of a foot-ball players apparel. The hanger unit essentially comprises a support bar structure I2 for depending mounting on a suitable element such as a clothes pole or closet hook with the bar generally horizontal In the present instance, a wire hook I3 is pivotally secured to the top of the bar I2, said hook having a shank of such length that the top of the hanger bar may be free beneath the primary support (not shown) which is engaged by the hook I3. The bar I 2 preferably comprises a rigid truss-like open frame, formed of rust-proof material and providing certain structural and operative features of present value. v

Referring to the disclosed structure of the bar I2, it will be seen that the same includes a pair of like side members I4 symmetrically arched or offset above straight chord members I5 of like length, and arm members I6 extending from the members at the opposite side thereof from the generally dat loops of the members Ill. The tw-o similar assemblies of members I-l and I5 and I are secured opposite each other with the members I5 in mutually parallel relation by means of spreader or spacing bars Il at the junctures of the members I4 and I5, spreader bars I8 joining the members I5 at about the quarter points thereof, and a spreader bar I9 connecting the members I4 at the central upper point of the latter. The bar I9 is intermediately looped to provide an eye 2l for receiving the securing loop for the hook I3. The various members I4 to IS inclusive are all formed of Wire of suitable size and finish, and are mutually Welded together at their jointures.

The truss-like structure of the bar I 2 is completed by a plate 24 which extends between central points of the members I5 and the upper spreader bar I9, and is fixed to all three elements as a central spacing and tie means for the members I4 and I5. As shown, the plate 2li has an integral foot-flange portion 25 which extends perpendicularly from it and spans the space between the members I5 to which it is secured by welding. The corners of the plate 24 at its other end are welded to the bar I9, and the plate is notched out between said corners thereof to receive the loop 2| of the bar.

Besides serving as the central member of the truss-like bar structure I2, the plate 24 may conveniently bear an identifying number for the hanger. As shown, side extensions 23 of the plate 24 are turned inwardly opposite the plate and above the flange 25 to define the sides of a pocket for receiving an identity card (not shown) for the athlete to whom the particular hanger has been assigned for use. The members I4 are preferably further apart at their top than at the plane of the mutually parallel members I5 Whereby the planes of the members AIII make an acute angle with each other, and the hanger is widest at the center of its top to have the parts of the members I4 at the different sides of the frame center converging toward the ends of the hanger bar structure.

It will now be noted that the bar assembly I2 is arranged to support a pair of breeches or knee pants 8 in inverted position and by utilizing the xed and depending members I6 of its structure while the ends of the pants legs I I are held open by a suitable means. In the present instance, the xed arm members I6 are cooperative with arm members 26 which depend from the members I5 laterally of and between the members I6 and are movable along the bar structure toward and from the members I6. In the present instance, the members 26 comprise the sides of inverted and generally U-shaped elements 21 which are intermediately fixed to sleeves 39 slidably mounted on the frame members I5 at the portions thereof between the bars I1 and I8, this mounting of the arms 26 being particularly designed to prevent any rotation of the arms. A tension spring 28 directly connects the two elements 21 at their top for constantly urging an engagement of the inner ends of the sleeves 30 with the bars I8 as a stop means therefor.

The free ends 29 of the garment-engaging members I6 and 26 may be formed as loops or otherwise provided with enlarged bearing surfaces thereat, and are arranged for their simultaneous disposal and engagement within the extremities of the pants legs. In plan, the arrangement of the loops 29 of a set defines a polygon of four sides whereby the engagement of lower portions of the members I6 and 26 and their bearing ends 29 within the knee end of la pants leg will fully open and expand the leg thereat. Movement of the members I6 and 26 of a set toward each other for their initial disposal within the pants leg must be accomplished against the action of the spring 28 on the elements 21 which provide the members 26, whereby said spring is thereafter constantly reactive through the members 26 to forcibly urge an opening and expansion of the pants legs portions engaged by the loops 29. Since the upper portions of the pants tends to remain open when the pants are suspended from the leg ends, the suspended pants will provide the desired free air passage longitudinally through them for facilitating their interior drying and constant airing.

The constant and forcible engagement of the loops 29 inwardly of the extreme end of a pants leg is arranged to also provide the support means for the pants, whereby the members I6 and 26 both expand and support a pants leg engaged by them. For aiding the cooperative supporting function of the members I6 and 26 of a set, these members and their bearing ends 29 are turned outwardly of the longitudinal axis of their assembly as may be required and in the manner shown, whereby to insure the forcible engagement of only the bearing ends 29 with the goods of the pants leg inwardly of the leg extremity, and provide an overhang of the pants leg portions at the ends 29 to support the pants thereat. Since the end edge of the pants leg may carry a usual and constricting elastic band or tape, the desired supporting overhang may be provided in part by such a band or tape. 'Ihe relative lengths of the members I6 and 26 are such as to provide for the operative engagement of the loops 29 in a plane which is generally parallel to the end of the pants leg, it being noted, for instance, that the legs of foot-ball pants are slightly longer at the front than at the back.

It will now be noted that the shoulder pad assembly I0 comprises mutually connected inner plates 3I defining a neck opening between them, shoulder-tip plates 32, and intermediate plates 33 overlapping the plates 3| and 32, all unitarily connected in a usual relation. The present arrangement of the support bar members I4 with a greater spacing at their top portions provides a suitably shaped seat for supporting the pad assembly on the bar for its airing and drying, it being recalled that the plates are usually of leather. When the shoulder pad assembly is supportedly mounted on the bar, the supporting hook I3 extends centrally through and from the neck opening for the assembly.

The present hanger bar may also support other garments which comprise part of an athletes apparel. Thus, a shirt of the slip-on type and mounted on a separate hanger 35 which more or less opens the mounted shirt for its drying, may have its hook 36 supportedly engaged with some point of the bar frame. As shown, elongated members 31 of wire are pivoted to top points of the members I4 adjacent the hook I3 for .depending disposal outwardly of and against the elements 3| of the mounted shoulder pad assembly, and provide terminal eyes 38 for receiving the hooks of the hangers 35. Particularly while they support hangers 35 carrying shirts or other articles, the members 31 are operative to more or less clamp the shoulder pad assembly in place on top of the bar structure I2.

As shown, the eyes 38 of the members 31 are provided as loops which extend outwardly of the members when the same are operatively disposed. As is shown in Figures l and 2, each member 31 may be swung about the member I4 which mounts it to overlie and engage the other member in an inoperative position therefor, and the loops of the eyes 38 are so spaced from the pivotal axes of the members that they may be snapped over the outer side of the second member and frictionally held in place. The members 31 are short enough for their swinging through the neck opening of the shoulder pad assembly I0.

From the foregoing description taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, the advantages of the construction and use of the present hanger will be readily understood by those skilled in the art to which the invention appertains. While I have described the features and the principle of operation of a structure which I now consider to be a preferred embodiment of my invention, I desire to have it understood that the showing is primarily illustrative, and that such changes may be made, when desired, as fall within the scope of the following claims.

I claim:

1. A hanger for supporting a pair of pants in inverted position for its airing and drying, comprising a rigid and elongated support frame, pairs of mutually spaced and substantially coplanar arm members depending fixedly from spaced points of the frame in planes transverse to the length of the frame and arranged for their insertion in the free ends of the different legs of the pants, movable arm members mounted on the frame between the pairs of fixed members and arranged for their insertion in the free ends of the diierent legs, and means urging the movable members toward each other for their cooperation with the xed members to forcibly expand the pants legs thereat and eifect the support of the pants from the members.

2. A structure in accordance with claim 1 wherein the last means comprises a tension spring connecting the movable members.

3. A structure in accordance with claim 1 wherein the frame is of open structure and has its exterior members formed of wire.

4. A hanger for supporting a nether garment in inverted position for its airing and drying, comprising an elongated support bar, arm members depending fixedly from spaced points of the bar and arranged for their insertion in the free ends of the different garment legs and providing garment-engaging portions, movable arm members mounted on the bar between the fixed arm members and arranged for their insertion within the free ends of the different garment legs, said fixed arm members being arranged in pairs and said movable arm members being arranged in pairs, a pair of fixed arm members cooperating with a pair of movable arm members for insertion in a garment leg, said pairs of fixed and movable arm members being located in planes which lie transversely of the length of said support bar, and means urging the movable arm members toward each other for their cooperation with the xed arm members to forcibly open and expand the garment legs thereat and effect the support of the garment from the members.

5. A hanger for supporting a nether garment in inverted position, comprising an elongated support bar for horizontal disposition, arm members depending fixedly from spaced points of the bar and arranged for their simultaneous insertion in the free ends of the different garmeniv legs and providing garment-engaging portions, arm members depending from the bar opposite the first arm members respectively for insertion in the garment legs and movable to and from the latter, and means yieldingly urging the movable said arm members away from the fixed said arm members to forcibly open and expand the garment legs and effect the support of the garment jointly from the members.

6. In a hanger for supporting a nether garment in inverted position for the direct interior airing and drying of its interior, a rigid support bar, pairs of mutually spaced members depending fixedly from the bar in common planes with each pair of members arranged for insertion within a different leg of the garment, members movably mounted on the bar opposite the different pairs of fixed members for movement transversely of their planes and arranged for insertion within the garment legs with the cor-I responding rst members, and means to urge the second members away from the first to forcibly expand the engaged legs while supporting the garment.

7. A hanger for supporting a nether garment in inverted position for its airing and drying, comprising a rigid and elongated support frame, pairs of mutually spaced and substantially coplanar alrm members depending xedly from spaced points of the frame in planes transverse to the length of the frame and arranged for their insertion in the free ends of the different legs of the garment, movable arm members mounted on the frame for movement toward or from the planes of the different pairs of fixed members and arranged for their insertion in the free ends of the diierent legs, and means urging the movable members away from the respective pairs of fixed members for cooperation therewith to forcibly expand the engaged garment legs thereat and effect the support of the pants from the members.

8. In a hanger for supporting a nether garment in inverted position for the direct interior airing and drying of its interior, a support bar, mutually spaced members depending fixedly from the bar with each of the members arranged for insertion within a different leg of the garment, pairs of fixedly related and mutually spaced and coplanar members movably mounted on the bar opposite the different i'xed members for movement toward or from the latter members and arranged for their insertion within the garment legs with the corresponding first members, and means to urge the second members away from the rst to forcibly expand the engaged legs while supporting the garment.

9. In a hanger for supporting a nether garment in inverted position for the direct interior airing and drying of its interior, a support bar, pairs of mutually spaced and coplanar members extending from the bar with each pair of members arranged for insertion within a different leg of the garment, members extending from the bar at points opposite the different pairs of first members and arranged for insertion within the garment legs with the corresponding first members, means mounting the first members and second members on the bar for the relative movement of the cooperative said members transversely of the planes of the opposed rst mem-