US2723063A

US2723063A - Garment hanger

Info

Publication number: US2723063A
Application number: US291537A
Authority: US
Inventors: Carr Stanly
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1952-06-03
Filing date: 1952-06-03
Publication date: 1955-11-08
Anticipated expiration: 1972-11-08

Description

S. CARR GARMENT HANGER Nov. 8, 1955 Filed June 5, 1952 Inventor STANLY CARR By M/ W Attorney United States Patent *Ofiice GARMENT HANGER Stanly Carr, Chevy Chase, Md.

Application June 3, 1952, Serial No. 291,537

9 Claims. (Cl. 223--91) The present invention relates to new and useful improvements in garment hangers and more particularly to such improvements in a pants or skirt hanger and to such a hanger combined with a coat hanger.

The conventional combined coat and pants hanger generally includes a bar traversing the coat supporting arms and over which a pair of pants may be hung in folded condition, although, of course, there are separate pants hangers employing a slidable link on two arms or employing some type of pivoted bar member with a cam action to grip the cuffs of the pants by clamping members.

An object of the present invention is to provide an improved garment hanger wherein the attachment and release of hanging garments, such as skirts or pants, is greatly facilitated and rendered more positive in its action.

Another object of the invention is to provide a combined coat and pants hanger wherein the pants hanger actuator may be gripped and shifted without removing a coat or the like from the transversely extending coat-supporting part of the hanger.

A further object of the invention is to provide an improved combined coat and pants hanger of the above type wherein two pairs of pants may be readily supported from the single hanger.

A still further object of the invention is to provide a combined coat and pants hanger of the above type wherein a central panel serves as a backing for the gripping members of the pants or skirt hangers.

A still further object of the invention is to provide a pants hanger having a one-piece clamping portion resiliently urged toward gripping position.

A still further object of the invention is to provide a pants hanger of the above type including a central panel against which two pairs of pants may be clamped, one on each side thereof, by means of a resilient clip carried by the handle with each side of the clip being separately operable for attachment or release of a selected pair of pants.

The invention still further aims to provide a garment hanger which is relatively simple and inexpensive to manufacture and which lends itself in certain embodiments to its formation substantially completely or partially from plastic material, and in other embodiments to the ready conversion of standard coat hangers into a combined coat and pants hanger.

In the drawings:

Figure l is a side elevation of one form of a combined coat and pants hanger;

Figure 2 is a sectional view taken substantially along the line 2- 2 of Figure 1;

Figure 3 is an end elevation showing a modified form of resilient clamping device for trousers; and

Figure 4 is a further modification showing a pants clamping device similar to Figure 3 but combined with a wire coat hanger.

Referring more in detail to the accompanying drawings, and particularly to Figures 1, 2 and 3 at this time, the combined coat and pants hanger is illustrated as being formed with a depending central panel portion having Patented Nov. 8, 1955 laterally extending coat supporting portions 12, the eiid portions 14 of which are directed outwardly and curved downwardly to provide more extensive transverse support than is customary in the ordinary wire hanger. The central portion of the panel 10 is extended upwardly, as at 16, and is provided with an eyelet device 18 adapted for the attachment of a hook 20 or the like by which the assembly may be hung from a closet bar or the like.

Strap portions

22, 22a are formed outwardly from each side of the central panel portion and are adapted to support pivot pins 24, 24a, respectively. Mounted on the pivot pin 24 is a depending clip or clamping member 26 having an upward and slightly outwardly flared central portion 28 which serves as the finger grip for urging the clamping portion 26 outwardly to the dotted position of Figure 2 to apply or release a pair of pants from between the free edge 30 thereof and the adjacent surface of the central panel portion 10.

A spring 32 is coiled around the central portion of the pin 24, the clamping member being cut away to receive the same, and one end bears against the adjacent surface of the central panel 10 while the other end bears against the adjacent surface of the finger grip portion 28 and the spring is positioned to normally urge the finger grip portion outwardly with resultant inward clamping movement of the clip portion 26 and its clamping end 30. On the opopsite side of the panel portion 10, a substantially identical clip portion 26a, and associated parts, is provided.

In Figure 3, there is shown a modification for pants alone wherein the panel portion 19a is provided with a transverse opening 34 into which is fitted and secured in suitable manner a clip 3.6 having integral depending and curved spring portions 37, 37a. This clip is formed of spring metalor like. resilient material so that the clampingportions 37, 37a are normally urged inwardly toward adjacent surfaces of the central panel portion 1.0g.

Finger grips

38, 38a are provided on the spring portions 37, 37a, respectively, and project upwardly and slightly outwardly from the adjacent surfaces of the top part 16 of the panel 10a so that either one may be selectively engaged in order toshift its associated clip portion in a direction outwardly from the adjacent surface of the panel portion to permit insertion or removal of a pair of pants or a skirt. As illustrated, each finger grip portion extends througha corresponding slot 40, 49a in the spring por ans and a a lower p r 1a of a sufiicient width to elamp a pair of pants and connected o e pring Po ascat -42 2athc fi e grip portions fulcrum against a side edge of one of the slots 40, 40a in urging the lower portion of a 'spring member outwardly against the spring action of the clip member 36. Instead, the spring portions 37, 37a may directly engage the garment, if so desired.

In Figure 4, there is shown a more or less conventional wire coat hanger, generally designated by the numeral 45, which has been converted to a combined coat and pants hanger of the type contemplated by the present invention. An almost completely circular spring clip 46', similar to the clip 36 shown in Figure 3, is welded or otherwise suitably secured to the wire portion of the hanger beneath the hook. Between the free clamping edges of the spring clip 46 there is inserted a panel portion 47 which may be welded to the inner surface of the central portion of the spring clip so that the entire pants or skirt hanging attachment is supported as a unit from the coat hanger. In this form of the invention, one side of the spring clip 46 is provided with an upwardly projecting finger grip portion 48 disposed at one side of the hanger wire and also at one side of the shank of the hook. Another finger grip portion 49 is disposed on the opposite side of the hanger wire and also at the opposite side of the hook shank. Thus, the finger grip portions are staggered with respect to the hook shank and each may be separately operated. One finger may engage the hook shank and the other the selected finger grip portion for selectively releasing either side of the clip from engagement with the panel portion 47 or a garment supported therebetween.

From the foregoing description, it will be seen that the present invention provides, particularly in Figures 1 and 2, a combined coat and pants hanger which may be substantially completely formed from plastic material. On the other hand, the form of pants hanger shown in Figure 3 may have the central panel thereof formed of plastic material and supporting the spring clamping garment hanger. Figure 4 illustrates the manner in which the present invention may be utilized in converting a conventional coat hanger to the combined arrangement contemplated by the present invention.

It is to be understood that the various embodiments may be combined in whole or in part with one another and it is to be further understood that while certain forms of the invention have been shown for purposes of illustration, the invention is not to be limited thereby but is to be measured by the spirit and scope of the appended claims,

I claim:

1. A garment hanger comprising a panel portion and associated hook means for suspending the same from a support, garment clamping means including an arcuate spring clip traversing the vertical supporting axis of the hook means and having the central portion passing through and secured to said panel portion with the free extremities normally urged toward adjacent opposite faces of said panel portion, and finger grip means adjacent said hook means and connected to said clip for selectively shifting the free extremities thereof away from adjacent faces of the panel portion to facilitate attachment or removal of garments.

2. A garment hanger as claimed in claim 1, wherein the spring clip is substantially a complete circle having garment clamping free edges adjacent opposite faces of said panel portion.

3. A garment hanger as claimed in claim 1, wherein the free extremities of the spring clip abut garment clamping members for securing a garment against the adjacent face of said panel portion and wherein said garment clamping members include divergent upward extensions forming the finger grip means.

4. A garment hanger comprising a panel portion and associated hook means for suspending the same from a support, garment clamping means including an arcuate spring clip longitudinally continuous between its ends which are substantially equidistant on opposite sides of hook means and said clip being centrally secured to said panel portion with the free extremities normally urged toward adjacent opposite faces of said panel portion for clamping garments thereagainst, and finger grip means adjacent said hook means and associated with said clip for selectively shifting the free extremities thereof away from adjacent faces of the panel portion to facilitate attachment or removal of garments.

5. A garment hanger as claimed in claim 4, wherein the finger grip means includes upward projections disposed in fore and aft spaced relation on opposite sides of and close to the hook means which serves as a finger grip for selective actuation of either projection.

6. A garment hanger as claimed in claim 4, and in combination with a wire coat hanger, wherein the spring clip is secured to the hanger wire in the region of the hook means with the panel portion depending between the arcuate portions of the spring clip.

7. In combination with a coat hanger having oppositely projecting coat supporting arms and a central suspension hook, the provision of a pants hanger including a substantially circular spring clip having free extremities normally urged toward each other, means securing the central portion of said clip to the coat hanger in the immediate vicinity of said suspension hook, and finger grip means adjacent said suspension hook and diverging upwardly from the spring clip for separating the free extremities thereof to facilitate attachment and removal of a pair of pants or the like.

8. The combination of claim 7, wherein a panel portion is disposed between the free extremities of the spring clip to permit the clamping of two pairs of pants or the like, one pair on each side of the panel portion.

9. The combination of claim 8, wherein the finger grip means includes upward projections spaced longitudinally of the spring clip and adjacent opposite sides of the hook means which serves as a finger purchase portion to facilitate the selective gripping of either projection whereby to facilitate selective shifting of either free extremity of the spring clip away from the adjacent face of the intermediate panel portion.

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