US2545156A - Garment hanger - Google Patents

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Mach 13, 1951 w, RT 2,545,15fi

GARMENT HANGER Filed Feb. 21, 1947 INVENTOR.

Patented Mar. 13, 1951 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE GARMENT HANGER William E; Martin, Kewanee, Ill.

Application February 21, 1947, Serial No. 729,988

Claims. (Cl. 22391) This invention is directed to clothes hangers and more specifically concerns an improvement in the construction of the conventional type of metal wire hanger to increase the efficiency and utility thereof.

Metal wire hangers are being used constantly and. are increasingly in demand. Metal wire hangers are on of the main business accessories for tailoring and cleaning establishments and subsequently their use is continued in the home.

However, it has been one of the problems of th tailor or cleaner to make the conventional type Of hanger sufiice for all types of garments which involves the use of other items such as clamps, pins, etc. Dresses, suit coats, vests, jackets and like garments can be thrown over the hangers without difiiculty, 'but' womens skirts, mens slacks, trousers or'items of this kind cannot be efficiently accommodated by the ordinary hanger.

Trousers or slacks lower run of the hanger, but if they ar not reasonably centered the hanger is unbalanced causing shifting of th supported garments into a wrinkled concentration at oneor the other corners of the supporting hanger. Ladies skirts or like garments are usually pinned to the hanger from the waist bands, but when so carried they are also subjected to bunching by slippage to either corner of th hanger. This occurs with skirts, slacks, trousers, etc., whether other garments are carried upon the 'hangers over the aforementioned garments or not. Furthermore, continual handlingduring loading of cleaners trucks causes shifting of the clothing carried upon the hangers. during deliveries further tends to dislodge the garments. As a result, many garments ar delivered in wrinkled condition and are sent back by the recipient for re-pressing, etc.

It is one of the main objects of the present invention to provide a general utility hanger that will serve to hold all of the normal run of garments with facility and efficiency.

Another object of the hanger is to eliminate the .use of accessories for fastening the garments to the hanger. H

The hanger, has th added featureof being constructed from single wire stock, thereby simplifying the structure and permittingthe manufacture thereof under negligible additionalexpense.

Another advantage of the hangeris the introduction of self-clamping garment holders that also function to centralize and hold garments in The motion of the trucks are usually draped over the a position to balance the hanger load preventing the tendency to side slip supported clothing.

The newly designed hanger deviates little from the conventional construction of hanger as to the thickness thereof whereby such hangers when stacked or when closely hung for use will require very littleadded space.

All other objects and advantages relating to the hanger of the present design shall hereinafter appear in th following detailed description having reference to the accompanying drawings disclosing a preferred construction of hanger and forming a part of this specification.

In the drawings:

Fig. l is a side elevational View ofv the clothes hanger of this. invention as the same would appear while supporting a womans skirt from its waist band;

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary enlarged side elevational view of the opposite side of the hanger to illustrate certain details of construction thereof;

Fig.3 is a bottom edge view of th fragmentary hanger shown in Fig. 2;

Fig. 4 is a vertical cross sectional view of the hanger as seen substantially along the line 4-4 in Fig. 2;

Fig. 5 is a similar cross sectional view but taken along-the line 55 in Fig. 2;

Fig; 6 is afragmentary view of the lower run of the metal wire hanger illustrating a modified arrangement to counteract slippage of garments;

and V Fig. '7 is a detail view of a modified construction of loop that may be-used in place of the loops of Figs. 4 and 5.

The hanger is preferably constructed of a single. length of metal wire formed as an open wire loop comprising a lower run l, extending the full width of the hanger, a pair of vertical legs 2 and 3 terminating in diagonally disposed garment shoulder. supporting wires 4 and 5, respectively; and the diagonalwire 5 terminates in a hanger supporting hook 6, while the end 1 of the wire is coiled about a portion of the base of the hook b to complete the hanger structure.

Intermediate/the extent of the lower run I of the hanger are formed a pair of spaced and up standing loop 8 and 9. Loops 8 and 9 are made to lie in plan-eseach disposed at an angleto the general plane of the hanger and may pe formed in parallel planes as shown or in'non-parallel planes if desired. Loops 8 and 9 divide the lower run 1 into sections ill, H and i2 which are laterally offset as best seen in Figs. 2 and 3..

3 the vertical loops 8 and 9, the latter being well shown in Figs. 4 and 5. Sections Ill and 12 are aligned while the section H is laterally positioned as shown in Fig. 3.

With the natural inherent resiliency of the metal wire, the loops and 9 are normally almost closed at 13 and Id, or slightly spaced for easy entry of the garment to be supported within such loops from the lower run I of the hanger. The upper ends of the loops 8 and 9 may have parallel legs or they may be disposed to spread as shown at 15 and 15 in Fig. 4 or at I? and (8 in Fig. to be joined by the curved terminal ends it and 28 respectively. Thus more clearance for waist bands and the like prevails and by making the sweep of the curved ends [9 and 23 larger, better spring action is available with a corresponding amount of greater clearance range within the confines of the loops 8 and 9. The spring action of the loops is supplemented by the stiffness of the sections it, H and 12 of the lower run I of the hanger.

In order that the full width of the hanger may provide ample handling clearance, the legs 2 and 3 are made to extend vertically to points above the upper extremities of the loops 8 and 9. With the staggered or oifset sectional structure of the bottom run I of the hanger it is possible to support a garment that is of greater width than the overall width of the hanger since the end sections and I2 and the legs 2 and 3 will not interfere with the garment when properly supported by the clamping loops 8 and 9 between the sections iii and I2 and the section II. The plane of support is generally indicated by the dot and dash lines (1-1) in Fig. 3.

A hanger constructed as described fulfills a need for a universal garment support having the ability to hold and carry numerous garments without slippage and without wrinkling. The skirt S in Fig. i may be readily inserted at l3: and it into the two spaced loops 8 and 9. Slacks or trousers may also be supported in similar fashion, but for mens suits the trousers may be draped over the section H of the lower run I of the hanger and between the spaced loops 8 and s which act to center the supported trousers to balance the hanger. Ties or belts and other small items may be draped over the end sections i0 and I2 of the hanger.

As an additional feature, the lower sections IE3, H and E2 of the hanger may be deformed or suitably serrated to provide a frictional means to reduce slippage and displacement of garments. In Fig. 6, such serrations are shown at 2 l, 22 and 23 on the sections Iii, ii and 12. Such deformations or serrations 2|, 22 and 23 are formed upwardly from the lower run ll of the wire, but may be formed laterally as well if desired, the purpose being to frictionally engage the draped or otherwise adjacent/1y held and supported garments of the hanger.

A further modification in the hanger design may be introduced by applying deformations in well as the substitution of equivalent means are all contemplated. Such variations shall be governed by the breadth and scope of the language in the appended claims defining the features of the hanger of the present design.

What I claim is:

1. A hanger having a part thereof adapted for supporting a garment comprising a horizontal wire having spaced wire loops formed therein and disposed in planes at right angles to the wire, said spaced loops having downwardly open ends to receive garments from beneath and to suspend the same therefrom, said wire loops being equidistant from the middle of said hanger to centralize garments draped over said horizontal wire between said wire loops, and said horizontal wire having integral portions thereof bodily deformed radially with respect to the wire to provide a tortuous wire to frictionally engage the adjacent portions of any garment draped over said horizontal wire of the hanger to prevent rolling slippage of the garment about the axis of said horizontal wire between the loops of said hanger.

2. A hanger having a part thereof adapted for supporting a garment comprising a wire having spaced wire loops formed therein and positioned in planes angularly disposed with respect to said wire, said loops each having a pair of legs to provide adjacent parts to receive a garment therein and to suspend the same from said wire, and said wire loops each having said adjacent parts thereof bodily deformed to provide a tortuous passageway for said garment within which to frictionally engage opposite side portions of the garment when the same is inserted into the wire loops of said hanger, said deformed parts comprising coacting undulations in each of said legs of the loop disposed transversely of said hanger for operative engagement with a garment in the plane of the wire loop.

3. A wire garment hanger having one wire run thereof arranged for supporting and holding skirts or other similar garments comprising a pair of aligned and longitudinally spaced wire sections each terminating intermediate the overall length of the wire run, said run having an intermediate Wire section longitudinally disposed and extending between the ends of said first pair of spaced wire sections from the terminal end of one to the terminal end of the other thereof, and garment grasping'wire loops each connecting a terminal end of said spaced wire sections with an adjacent end of said intermediate wire section respectively to support garments sandwiched between the aforesaid spaced wire sections and said intermediate wire section.

4. An open centered wire garment hanger having one wire run thereof arranged for supporting skirts or other garments comprising a pair of wire sections each forming a part of said run, and a second offset wire section to complete the wire run by extending directly between the terminal ends of said pair of sections, and wire garment holders interposed between the adjacent terminal portions of said wire sections to support garments, each of said holders comprising an open wire loop having a pair of garment grasping legs, the free ends of the latter being directly connected respectively with the adjacent end portions of the wire sections and said legs having a loop to join the other ends thereof, said wire holders projecting upwardly from the wire run of the hanger with the loops being located in planes angularly disposed with respect to the wire sections comprising the wire run.

5. Garment holding means connected with the lower run of a metal wire hanger comprising a pair of spaced wire garment holders formed integrally from said lower run of wire, said holders each comprising a single open wire loop having separated upstanding legs positioned in a plane disposed angularly with respect to the general plane of the hanger, each loop terminating at its closed portion in a curved spring end to urge the legs of the loop together and to provide means to limit the upward insertion of the garment, each loop having an open lower end positioned in line with the lower wire run of the hanger to receive a garment therein from beneath, and

said loops being positioned to support one end of a garment in a plane substantially coincident The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 1,605,918 Buchanan Nov. 9, 1926 2,145,120 Loveless Jan. 24, 1939

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