US2648468A

US2648468A - Clothes hanger

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Publication number: US2648468A
Application number: US198529A
Authority: US
Inventors: Tan Swie Hoo
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1950-09-23
Filing date: 1950-12-01
Publication date: 1953-08-11
Anticipated expiration: 1970-08-11

Description

Aug. 11, 1953 swn: H0O TAN CLOTHES HANGER 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed Dec. 1, 1950 INVENTOR.

Aug. 11, 1953 Filed Dec. 1, 1950 SWIE H0O TAN 2,648,468

CLOTHES HANGER 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 INVENTOR. SW/E H00 TAM /4 in/fr Patented Aug. 11, 1953 UNITED STATES rarsu'r OFFICE CLOTHES HANGER Swie H00 Tan, The Hague, Netherlands Application December 1, 1950, Serial No. 198,529 in the Netherlands September 23, 1950 7 (Jlaims.

The invention relates to a clothes-hanger, in particular for ladies and .childrens clothes for instance gowns, dressing gowns, blouses and the like.

lhe term clothes-hanger is used in this specification in the sense that the hanger supports garments rather than that the hanger is itself supported by a hook and except where the context requires otherwise is intended to include clothes-hangers supported by a stand from the floor and stands on which garments are hung for display purposes.

On the existing clothes-hangers for these garments, the clothes hang practically in a vertical plane. In big readymade-c1othes shops, for instance, they hang in a row in a long rack or in a long wardrobe.

In that case the clothes hang close upon one another. If a hanger with a gown. is taken from the row, and shown to the public, no proper view of the dress is obtained, because the bust curve and narrowing at the waist are absent. Consequently this way of showing a dress lacks a great deal of attraction and naturalness.

The purpose of the invention is to provide an improvement.

According to the invention the clothes-hanger is characterized by a figure of substantially convex-concave shape, the lower end of which lies in or approximately in the plane of the shoulder portion of the hanger and is adapted for so holding the garment that displays the shape of a waist, which shape, if desired, may be adjusted to various sizes.

Hereby the advantage is obtained that a dress which is being shown has an attractive and natural appearance.

By constructing the concave side of the convexconcave figure according to the invention congruent or substantially congruent to the convex side, the bust portion of a garment, hung on an adjacent corresponding hanger which hangs on a level with the preceding hanger can be accommodated in the cavity formed by the concave side of the first-named convex-concave figure.

By this feature practically the same number of dresses can be hung in a rack or in a wardrobe of the same dimensions as when using the existing hangers, because owing to the fact that the bust portions of the dresses fit in one another no space is wasted only the first dress of a row will take more space than the first dress of a row of dresses hung on the usual hangers owning to the curving of the convex-concave figure of."- the hanger. Th fi larger space, however, plays a very 2 minor part when one has a row of for instance 80-100 dresses.

If desired, th lower end of the convex-concave figure adapted to hold the garment gathered at the waist may be provided with adjusting members to adjust the figure to various waist sizes.

In a practical embodiment of a clothes-hanger according to the invention the convex-concave figure may consist of a striplike member forming a whole or united to form a whole; portions of which, curved in bust-shape project from the plane of the hanger and are connected at the lower end by a connecting strip, in or substantially in the plane of the hanger, which strip is provided with a slit in longitudinal direction, at the extremities of which slit two hooks having their open sides turned towards one another, are provided.

In another practical embodiment of a clotheshanger according to the invention the convexconcave figure may consist of a relatively stifi wire member, portions of which, curved in bustshape, are bent out of the plane of the hanger, at the lower end of said member, in or about in the plane of the hanger, in opposite directions; horizontal or substantia1ly horizontal portions being formed, which extend past on another and which, if desired, may be attached to one another, the extremities of said portions passing into hooks, the open side of which are turned towards one another.

It is also clearly possible to apply, instead of a single figure, for instance two congruent figure components, each constituting half of the single figure; this and similar variations fall within the scope of the invention.

The invention is elucidated by the drawing which shows two embodiments.

Figure 1 is a front view of a clothes-hanger according to the invention with a dress hung thereon;

Figure 2 shows this clothes-hanger with dress in side view, together with a second hanger without a dress suspended on the same rod at some distance from the first; in reality the distance between the two hangers is smaller and the bust portions of two dresses will fully fit into one another; only for clearness sake some distance has been kept in the drawing;

Figure 3 shows a detail of construction illustrating the adjustability of the waist portion of the clothes-hanger according to the Figures 1 and 2;

Figure 4 is a front view and Figure 5 is a side view of a second embodiment of a clothes-hanger according to the invention.

Of a clothes-hanger according to the Figures 1-3 the shoulder portion I with hook 2 is provided in the centre with two holes, through which are passed the legs of a web 3 of a wire figure, resting against the hanger, the centre of which wire figure is U-shaped, said legs being then first bent at the side of the hanger which lies at the back in Figure 1 and then running downwards in a diverging oblique direction and then bent forwards from the vertical plane of the hanger, afterwards to extend downwards and backwards in a converging oblique direction as far as the vertical plane of the hanger at the waistline.

The diverging parts 4 and 5 with the converging parts 6 and I give a bust-like curve to the bust portion 8 of a dress 9 suspended on the shoulder portion of the hanger. In the plane of the hanger the lower ends of the converging portions 6 and I are bent in opposite directions to form horizontal portions I and II which extend past one another and at the extremities pass into hooks I2 and I3, turned with their open sides towards one another, between which hooks the waist of a dress can be gathered. In the drawing for claritys sake these hooks have been shown as being slightly inclined in the horizontal plane.

In reality, generally when the hanger is suspended the portions I 0 and II will lie horizontal although this is not necessary.

From Figure 1 it appears clearly how a dress which is hung on a common hanger in no special shape is now gathered at the waist in a natural manner.

From Figure 2 it appears how the bust portions of dresses suspended on a row of hangers carried by a mutual suspending rod can fit in one another and therefore lie close to one another in the same way as this happpens when said dresses are suspended flat on the usual hangers. It can be seen how the dress shows a natural bust curve and therefore projects with regard to the waist-line.

The lower end of the convex-concave figure destined for holding the waist of a garment may be constructed so as to be open (for instance as in the embodiment according to Figures 1, 2, 4 and for introducing the dress waist, or closed (for instance cushion-shaped) for arranging the waist thereon, for instance, with pins although the latter embodiment is of course less desirable. According to Figure 3 only the lower portion of the convex-concave figure has been shown.

It is provided-as in the figure according to Figures 1 and 2with hooks I2 and I3 turned with their open sides towards one another. These hooks are, however, constructed in this case as separate members, which have their straight portions l4 and I5 respectively telescopically arranged in tubular portions I1 and I6, said tubular portions being provided at the lower ends of the converging portions 6 and I. The hooks can hereby be adjusted to various positions which may be fixed by means of clamping screws. The hooks may be shifted further towards one another in a position in which the waist is closed; by I8 a sleeve is indicated by means of which it is possible to obtain a closed waist also when the hooks are adjusted to a wider waist measure.

In the described embodiment a common wooden hanger has been used, on which the convex-concave wire figure has been suspended. As appears from the Figures 4 and 5 it is also possible to manufacture the convex-concave figure as constituting a whole with the shoulder portion, for instance by moulding, pressing or stamping out of a suitable material, such as synthetic resin, plate metal etc.

The clothes-hanger constructed as a stripshaped member also shows a shoulder portion I, provided with a suspending hook 2 the lower edge of which shoulder portion passes in the centre into a connecting strip l9, extending backwards and downwards in oblique direction with regard to the plane of the drawing, said connecting portion dividing and passing into the bust-shaped curved portions 4-6 and 5--I. The lower ends of the portions 6 and I are united by a connecting strip 20, which is provided with a longitudinal slit 2 I, on the extremities of which the hooks I2 and I3, having their open sides turned towards one another, are provided.

The clothes-hanger according to this second embodiment has the advantage that it may be manufactured in a simple manner by stamping out of plate metal or moulding or pressing out of a synthetic substance. It is also possible to stack a number of these clothes-hangers, which is an advantage when shipping them.

I claim:

1. In a garment hanger, a shoulder portion adapted to be received inside a garment and to support the garment by its shoulders, bust-shaping portions extending rearwardly from a central portion of said shoulder portion, then divergently downwardly and forwardly and then convergently downwardly and rearwardly, and a waist-gripping portion supported at the lower portion of said bust-shaping portions, the bustshaping portions being adapted to lie outside of and behind the garment and to press portions of the garment forwardly to shape the bust portion thereof and the waist-gripping portion being adapted to received the waist portion of the garment and gather it in.

2. In a garment hanger, a shoulder portion adapted to be received inside a garment and to support the garment by its shoulders, means for suspending said shoulder portion, bust-shaping portions extending upwardly and rearwardly from a central portion of said shoulder portion, then divergently downwardly and forwardly and then convergently downwardly and rearwardly, and a waist-receiving portion supported by the lower portion of said bust-shaping portions, the bust-shaping portions being adapted to lie outside of and behind the garment and press portions of the garment forwardly to shape the bust portion thereof and the waist-receiving portion comprising portions to receive and contract the waist portion of the garment.

3. In a garment hanger, a shoulder portion adapted to be received inside a garment and to support the garment by its shoulders, bust-shaping portions extending downwardly from a central portion of said shoulder portion and a waistreceiving portion carried by the lower portion of said bust-shaping portions, said waist-receiving portion comprising hook portions adapted to receive and contract the waist portion of the garment and said bust-shaping portions lying outside of and behind a garment supported on said shoulder portion and comprising portions that project forwardly from a plane connecting said shoulder portion and waist portion so as to press both the back and front of the garment forwardly and shape the bust portion thereof.

1. A garment hanger according to claim 3, in

which the hook portions of said waist portions are adjustable toward and away from one another.

5. In a garment hanger, a shoulder portion comprising a central portion and lateral portions extending divergently downwardly from said central portion, bust-shaping portions extending rearwardly from said central portion then downwardly and forwardly and then downwardly and rearwardly, and a waist portion supported by the lower portion of said bust-shaping portions, said bust-shaping portions lying outside of and behind a garment supported by the hanger and pressing the bust portion of the garment forwardly to shape it and said waist portion comprising means for receiving the waist of the garment and holding it rearwardly of the forwardly extending part of said bust portions.

6. In a garment hanger, a shoulder portion adapted to be received inside a garment and to support the garment by its shoulders, bust portions extending rearwardly from a central portion of said shoulder portion, then downwardly and forwardly and then downwardly and rearwardly, a waist portion carried by the lower portion of said bust portion, said shoulder portion, bust portions and waist portion being integral 6 and means on said waist portion for receiving and contracting the waist portion of the garment. said bust portions lying outside of and behind the garment and pressing the bust portion of the garment forwardly of a plane through the shoulder and waist portions.

7. In a garment hanger, a shoulder portion comprising a central portion and lateral portions projecting laterally and downwardly from said central portion, bust portions extending downwardly from said central portion and comprising portions extending divergently downwardly and forwardly and then convergently downwardly and rearwardly and a waist portion supported by the lower portions of said bust portions and connecting the lower ends of said converging portions.

TAN, SWIE H0O.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 1,741,750 Wordingham Dec. 31, 1929 2,303,585 Shafarman Dec. 1, 1942 2,536,187 Kosky et a1 Jan. 2, 1951