US2615602A - Garment hanger and form board - Google Patents

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Oct. 28, 1952 5, THOMPSON HAL 2,615,602

GARMENT HANGER AND FORM BOARD Filed April 10, 1950 2 SHEETS-SHEET l Ernes/ .S. Thompson .Narman A. Wei/z INVENTORS Oct. 28, 1952 Filed April 10, 1950 E. S. THOMPSON E'F-AL GARMENT HANGER AND FORM BOARD 2 swims-SHEET 2 Ernes; S. Thompson Norman A. Wei/z I N VEN TORS 401 2;.

Patented Oct. 28, 1952 GARMENT HANGER, AND FORM 130mm.

1 ,Ernest S.,}Ihonipson,a nd than Weitz,

Application 'i o', 1 950, swim; 154,898

" ciiinilolfz z' sv) 1 I 2 This invention relates to garment hanger and out portion 20, a pair of narrow slots 22 are proform board improvements. vided and wherein a folded garment is placed An important object of this invention is to with the heavy belt-line seam or trouser cuffs of provide a garment hanger and form board that the arment on one side and the rest of the is readily stamped, out, or molded from chip 5 arm nt han ing down on the other'side, the board, card board or other suitable sheet Seam 35 eep g t e garment from slipping material, through, as best shown in Figure 5. The form A further object of this invention is to proboard I2 is made of suitable length determined vide a structure that readily accommodates both y th of the box into which it is to be male and female apparel through the steps of p e Both the arment hanger and form manufacturing, packing, and hipping, and ,board have all corners rounded to eliminate teareliminates excessive unbuttoning and buttoning. g and snagging Common to tandard ha ge s common to standard hangers. new in use.

A stillfurther object of this inventionflis to Along the center line of the hanger but below provide a, device that give the garment sup-'- the diameter of the cut-out portion, an inverted ported thereby a tailored, bloused and appealing P l 24 i S amped leaving a tongue 26. appearance when used in display, 7 thetongue 2B is bent to form a hanger peg 28.

Various other objects and advantages will be U e hanger p a form be d, d cated apparent from the detailed description to follow. 00 generally at is supportede orm board The invention is illustrated in the accompany- H has a slot 30 to receive the ton e 26 0f the ing drawings, wherein: hanger peg, and a pair of shoulders 32 suitably Figure 1 is a front view of the invention showocated on the board to provide ans for suping a dress mounted thereon; portin the garment at the hip portions. After Figure 2 is a front view of the present inventhe gar t h e n pl d On the h r Ill. tion with the form board in stapled position and the form board I2 is raised so that the vr ov s the dress assuming abloused look; 23 e alignede p P ns of the Figure 3 is a front, View of Figure 2 but with garment will be carried by the shoulders 32 and the hook and garments shown in packing W111 g1ve the garment a bloused appearance as position; at 33. The board is stapled in this position at Figure 4 is a vertical sectional view taken sub- Stantiany along line of Figure Figures 3 and 4 show the hook of the garment Figure 5 is a vertical sectional view of the hanger folded over for 91 5 and the hanger and board with a garment being held ,hanger and board also folded by t t; and into packing POSltlOn.

Figure 6 is a perspective view of the present 35 Figure 5 shows a garment m folded positlon invention in exploded position with part of the form board broken away.

Referring more particularly to the drawings wherein like numerals designate like parts throughout the figures, numeral [0 generally designates the garment g and ,desig' It will be seen that with the garment hanger nates the form board Lookmg at Figures 1 and and form board made separately, each part may 6, the garment hanger I0 has a pair of downbe fitted into positionmthe garment wardly sloping shoulders l4 upon which the By making the invention from Sheet material sholf-mer pomons of the garment restf 9 the hangers can be stacked one upon the other, 1s provlded to support the entlfe devlcewith or without garments, and will not become Directly below the hook I6,- a slot I8 is stamped entang1e By having the cut out portion, a com to Provide a weakened portionlvhereby Q venient handle is provided which obviates the may be bent Over when desned 0 m practice of lifting the hanger and garment by and the rest of the garment folded about the form board.

It is believed that from the above description 40 and the drawings various advantages will readily occur to one skilled in the art.

purposes. holding the collar and hanger together, which The m pqr n f h g r hanger has objectionably crushed and soiled the collars.

a center portion cut r Stamped out Semi- It will also be seen that the novel folding arcircular form 20 to provide a hand gr p p rangement will allow compact packing for ship- At the extremities of the diameter of. the cut ping and storage.

' with the heavy seam on one side of the slots 22,

Some changes may be made in the construction and arrangement of the parts of our device without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention covered by our claim.

Having described the invention, what claimed as new is:

A hanger comprising a sheet of bendable material having a horizontal slot therein for the reception of a garment and further having a notch at an intermediate point in the lower wall of the slot, a form board for suspension from the lower portion of the sheet, said form board having a horizontal slot in its upper portion, said sheet still further having a substantially U-shaped slit in its lower portion defining an integral, upstanding, laterally bendable tongue engageable in the second named slot for temporarily Number REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Name Date 1,584,000 Thomas May 11, 1926 2,014,299 Shafarman Sept. 10, 1935 2,169,552 Bellin Aug. 15, 1939 7 2,366,533 Kahn Jan. 2, 1945 2,387,681 Reed et a1. Oct. 23, 1945 suspending the board from the sheet, said board

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