US2805767A - Device for protecting and hanging trousers - Google Patents

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Sept. 10, 1957 s. H. MARKS 2,805,767

DEVICE FOR PROTECTING AND HANGING TROUSERS Filed May 10, 1955 INVENT SAUL H. MA 5 |s BY DEVICE FOR PROTECTING AND HANGING TROUSERS Saul H. Marks, Brooklyn, N. Y., assignor to Phoenix Closet Accessories, Inc., New York, N. Y a corporation of New Jersey Application May 10, 1955, Serial No. 507,269

3 Claims. (Cl. 206-7) This invention relates to What might be termed trouser hanging devices. More particularly, the invention deals with a device of this type and kind including an enclosure, having an opening controlled by a separable fastener to facilitate insertion and removal of the trousers and to protect the trousers when in storage or, further, in handling the same when in transit.

The novel features of the invention will be best understood from the following description, when taken together with the accompanying drawing, in which certain embodiments of the invention are disclosed and, in which, the separate parts are designated by suitable reference characters in each of the views and, in which:

Fig. l is a broken perspective view of a device made according to my invention, with part of the construction broken away.

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of the upper portion of a modified form of structure which I employ, the section being substantially on the line 22 of Fig. 3; and

Fig. 3 is an enlarged section substantially on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2, with part of a garment shown diagrammatically in elevation.

In the structure shown in Fig. 1 of the drawing, I employ a trouser hanger 10, preferably made from a single piece of wire, which is bent to form, at each end of the hanger, a pair of upstanding U-shaped trouser cuff engaging members 11, which are integrally joined in a depending elongated loop 12. At the inner portions of the members 11 are depending rods 13 which are of sufficient depth to freely extend the members 11 into the cutfs of a pair of trousers and extending downwardly and inwardly from the rods 13 are converging rods 14, which are welded or otherwise joined, as at 15, one of the rods 14 including an integral upstanding long shank 16, at the upper end of which is a hook-shaped hanger 17.

In the use of the hanger adjacent cuff portions of the trouser legs are placed in the members 11, in other words, the forward members 11 would engage the cuif of one trouser leg; whereas, the rear members 11 would engage the cuflf of the other trouser leg. The members 11 will be positioned close to the pressed creases of the trouser legs, thus maintaining the trouser legs in an extended position operating to hold the trouser legs in pressed condition.

At 18 I have shown an enclosure for protection of the trousers supported on the hanger 10. This enclosure, descriptively speaking, may be termed a protector element. The element is preferably formed from lightweight transparent or translucent plastic material, but can be formed from any desired material. It comprises two wide sides 19, which taper or flare from the upper hanger end to the lower end, as clearly indicated by the wide showing in the broken view of Fig. 1.

The sides 19 are joined by a narrow top wall 20, side walls 21 and 22 and a bottom wall. The top wall has, centrally thereof, an eyelet 23, through which the hook 17 and shank 16 of the hanger 10 is adapted to pass, in the manner diagrammatically shown. The side wall 22 has a longitudinal opening therein, which is closed by a separable slide fastener, diagrammatically indicated at 24, the slider of this fastener being diagrammatically indicated at and, in the closed position, would assume a position adjacent the top wall 20, as indicated. By moving the slider 25 downwardly, the side 22 is T opened for the insertion and removal of trousers from the hanger 10.

If the hanger 10 is arranged upon a hanger rod, the trouser legs can be removed from the members 11. On the other hand, in some instances, the hook end portion 17 of the hanger 10 can be passed through the eyelet 23 in removal of the trousers from the element 18 and, then, the hook can be recoupled with the element.

In Figs. 2 and 3 of the drawing, I have shown a slight modification, in which a different type of garment hanger 26 is employed and, wherein, the element 18' is generally similar to the structure of the element 18 with two exceptions. For example, the element 18 will be of sufficient length to hang the trousers full length from a support; whereas, in Fig. 2 of the drawing, the element 18' would be approximately one-half the length of the element 18 to facilitate support of the trousers in folded position upon the hanger 26, which will be later described. The other variation in the element 18' consists in suitably fixing upon the inner surface of the top wall 20 of the element 18' a suitable cushioning strip 27.

The hanger 26 comprises an elongated roller 28 extending the major portion of the width of the element 18, as indicated in Fig. 2 of the drawing, the roller being of sufficient diameter to support folded trousers thereon, part of which are diagrammatically seen at 29 in Fig. 3 of the drawing, without danger of creasing. The roller 28 is supported upon a rod 30, the ends of which extend laterally, as indicated at 31 in Fig. 3 of the drawing.

These ends then extend toward each other to the central portion of the element 18 and are suitably welded or otherwise joined at 32. One of the rods extend upwardly from the juncture at 32, as indicated at 33, this rod then extending inwardly to the transverse central portion of the top wall 20, as indicated at 34, and, then, upwardly in a shank 35, similar to the shank 16, the shank 35 passing through an eyelet 23, similar to the eyelet 23. The shank 35, at its outer end, has a hook 36, similar to the hook 17.

It will appear from a consideration of Fig. 3 of the drawing that the cushioned strip 27 has a recess 37 therein 4 for receiving the part 34 of the rod and also an aperture 38 registering with the recess 37 and the eyelet 23', the aperture 38 receiving the shank 35.

Suflicient clearance will be provided in the recess 37 to facilitate free movement of the hanger 26 at the upper portion of the element 18', so that the trousers 29 can be moved into frictional engagement with the surface of the strip 27, as indicated at 29'. This engagement will prevent shifting of the garment 29 upon the roller, thus maintaining the two side portions of the folded garment in proper position on the roller 28 in the handing and handling of the assemblage.

In referring to handling of the assemblage, it will be understood that my improved protector elements 18, 18 facilitate transportation of trousers in travelling, protecting the trousers in such handling and also facilitating packaging or storage of the trousers in a motor car maintaining the trousers in good condition and against unnecessary creasing in the handling and transportation thereof.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A trouser hanging and protecting device, comprising an elongated container having a narrow hanging end and a wide lower end, said container being defined by simi- Patented Sept. 10, 19357 lar front and back walls joined and spaced by top, bottom and side walls, one side wall having a separable fastener closure to gain access to the interior of said container, the top wall having a central opening, a trouser hanger disposed in the, upperportion ofethe container and extending substantially the 'full width of the narrow end of thecontainer adjacent said top wall, said hanger in- 2. A trouser hanging and protecting device, comprising an elongatedcontainer having a narrow hanging end and a wide lower end, said container being defined by similar front and back walls joined and spaced by top, bottom and side walls, one side wall having a separable fastener closure to gain access to the interior of said container, the top wall having a central opening, a trouser hanger disposed in the upper portion of the container and extending substantially the full width of the narrow end of the container adjacent said top wall, said hanger including a hanger hook extending outwardly through the opening in said top wall, said hanger comprising an elongated rod, a roller mounted on said rod, the hook of said hanger joining the rod in angularly offset portions to dispose the hook in perpendicular alinement with the rod, and further to provide clearance for arranging a folded pair of trousers upon the roller of said rod.

3. A trouser hanging and protecting device, comprising an elongated container having a narrow hanging end and a wide lower end, said container being defined by similar front and back walls joined and spaced by top, bottom and side walls, one side wall having a separable fastener closure to gain access to the interior of said container, the top wall having a central opening, a trouser hanger disposed in the upper portion of the container and extending substantially the full width of the narrow end of the container adjacent said top wall, said hanger including a hanger hook extending outwardly through the opening in said top wall, the inner surface of said top wall including a cushioning pad, said hanger including a roller spaced below the cushioning pad of said top wall, and said hanger being movable vertically in the top wall to establishing frictional engagement of a pair of folded trousers arranged upon said roller with said pad.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS Re. 18,799 Lichtig Apr. 18, 1933 1,542,420 Stone June 16, 1925 1,591,538 Lenzikow July 6, 1926 2,092,634 Binns Sept. 7, 1937 r 2,236,115 Schwartzman Mar. 25, 1941 2,685,962 Druth Aug. 10,1954

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