US2876940A

US2876940A - Garment hanger

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Publication number: US2876940A
Application number: US637451A
Authority: US
Inventors: Louis S Reller; Lucille S Reller
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1957-01-31
Filing date: 1957-01-31
Publication date: 1959-03-10
Anticipated expiration: 1976-03-10

Description

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GARMENT HANGER Filed Jan. 31, 1957 for Her 5. 62m w Fflfllf/IJ United States Patent Office 2,876,940 Patented Mar. 10, 1959 GARMENT HANGER Louis S. Reller and Lucille S. Reller, Washington, Iowa Application January 31, 1957, Serial No. 637,451

4 Claims. (Cl. 223-93) This invention relates to a garment hanger that is capable of rigidly anchoring a garment thereto against accidental detachment, and is an improvement on the hanger disclosed in our co-pending application, Serial No. 607,153, filed August 30, 1956.

Coat or garment hangers are very old. They usually consist of an arcuate horizontal bar and a centrally located hook portion which is adapted to detachably extend over a horizontal supporting rod. While such hangers are successful in holding relatively heavy buttoned coats, they are not successful in holding lightweight, flimsy garments, such as dresses, blouses, formals, slips, or like. With such garments the shoulder strap portions slide downwardly and outwardly on the arcuate bar and, having passed the outer end or ends of the bar,

drop from the hanger. Furthermore, lifting the hanger and garment onto or from a horizontal closet supporting bar is most difiicult to accomplish without the garment slipping off of the hanger. Also in removing or replacing other adjacent loaded hangers, the garments are often accidentally removed and dropped from their respective hangers. Some attempt has been made to solve this problem by forming slot hooks in the top ends of the horizontal bar. However, such slot openings are fixed as to position and when used have a tendency to distort and/or wrinkle the garment being held. While the de vice of our co-pending application, herebefore identified, did maintain a garment on the hanger wings, it had a tendency to wrinkle the garment being held.

Therefore, the principal object of this invention is to provide a garment hanger having a garment securing means that will successfully hold the garment on the hanger without wrinkling the garment.

A further object of our invention is to provide a garment hanger having a garment securing means that may be easily and quickly adjusted to accommodate different types of garments and different widths of garments between the shoulder strap portions.

A still further object of our invention is to provide a garment hanger that has a fastening means that is easily and quickly actuated.

Still further objects of this invention are to provide an efficient garment hanger that is economical in manufacture, durable in use, and refined in appearance.

These and other objects will be apparent to those skilled in the art.

Our invention consists in the construction, arrangements, and combination, of the various parts of the device, whereby the objects contemplated are attained as hereinafter more fully set forth, specifically pointed out in our claims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Fig. 1 is a front view of our garment hanger in use,

Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the garment securing means, and more fully illustrates its construction,

Fig. 3 is a cross sectional view of the fastener means taken on line 3-3 of Fig. l, and

Fig. 4 is a modified form of construction of the spring loaded garment fastening means.

In our drawings we show only one fastening means for engaging one strap of a dress or like. However, if desired, two fastening means may be used for securing both garment straps. However, as both fastening means would be identical, We will only designate the single unit fastener.

We have used the numeral 10 to designate the horizontal curved hanger bar. This bar is of the common type and, as well known, curves downwardly and outwardly in both directions from its hook 11. We will first describe the structure shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3. On'

this bar 10 and at one side of the hook 11, we form a vertical slot opening 12. This elongated slot opening extends vertically completely through the bar, as shown in Fig. 3. The numeral 13 designates a coil spring vertically arranged in the slot 12. On the lower end of the the top surface of the coat hanger rod 10, as shown in Fig. 2. The plate 16 is elongated and extends longitudinally of the hanger bar 10. The point on the underside of the plate where the spring 13 is secured is 'later ally centrally located and closer to the end of the plate that is adjacent the hook 11 than it is to the end most distant from the hook. The coil spring 13, by being anchored to the stop foot 14, yieldingly holds the plate 16 downwardly onto the top of the hanger bar. Any suitable handle or grip means may be placed on the plate 16 to facilitate the manual lifting upwardly of the plate away from the hanger bar and against the action of the spring 13. In the drawings we show two

handle ears

17 and 18, back to back and curved away from each other, as shown in Fig. 3. By manually grasping these two ears, the plate may be slidably moved (with the spring 13 and foot 14) outwardly or inwardly on the hanger bar to accommodate different types and sizes of garments being supported on the hanger. In Fig. 1 we use the numeral 19 to designate a garment having a portion 20 extending over one end portion of the bar 10. After the garment is so placed, the

ears

17 and 18 are grasped and our device positioned so that the free end portion of the plate will extend over the garment portion 20. The coil spring will yieldingly pull the plate downwardly on the garment shoulder area, thereby yieldingly clamping it to the hanger bar and thus preventing the accidental detachment of the garment from the hanger. To release the garment it is merely necessary to raise the plate and permit the garment to be removed in the usual manner. Inasmuch as the garment is only clamped between the top surface of the hanger bar and the plate, there is no chance of damaging, harming, or wrinkling the garment. In Fig. 4 we have formed an elongated slot 25 horizontally through the hanger bar instead of vertically as shown in Fig. 2. The numeral 26 designates an inverted U-housing slidably embracing the top of the hanger bar. A pin 27 extends through the slot 25 and the housing 26. Pivoted to the housing 26 is a tongue plate 28. This tongue plate extends outwardly on the top of the bar 10, and then upwardly to form a handle portion 29, as shown in Fig. 4. This tongue plate has a width substantially that of the hanger bar. The numeral 30 designates a spring means on the housing and contacting the tongue plate for yieldingly holding the tongue plate downwardly onto a garment sleeve portion of a garment on the hanger. The action is substantially the same as described for the structure shownin Fig. 1. a The device shown in Fig.-'rnay be also slid outwardly or inwardly on the bar 10 for adjustrnent. To remove a garment nan b'eifigheld, the

handle portion 29 is lifted thereby raising the tongue plate from the garment.

Some changes maybeniade in theconst ruc tion and arrangerrrent of our garment han ger without departing from the real spirit and purpose of our invention, and it is our intention tocover by our claims, any modified forms of str icture or use of mechanical equivalents which may be reasonably included with their scope.

We claim:

1. In combination, a coat hanger having an elongated ssr'pornon having an elongated vertical slot extending longitudinally thereof, a plate above the top of said bar portion, a foot stop below the bottom of said bar pornan, and a means extending in said slot connected to said plate and said foot step for moving said plate in a direction toward the top of said bar anics; said plate, said'foot stop and said means capableof beingjadjustably slidjre'lative to the longitudinal length of said bar.

2. In combination, a coat hanger having an elongated ba'r portion having an elongated vertical slot extending longitudinally thereof, a plate above the top of said bar portion, a foot stop below the bottom of said bar portion, and a resilient means extending in said slot' connected to said plate and said foot stop for moving said plate in a direction toward the top of said bar portion;-

said'plate, said foot stop and said resilient niea'ns' capable of being adjustably slid relative to the longittidinal length of said bar.

4' '1 3: In combination, a coat' hanger having" an elor'igatd bar portion having an elongated vertical slot extending portion, a foot stop below the bottom of said bar portion, and a resilient means extending in said slot connected to said plate and said foot stop for moving said plate in a direction toward the top of said bar portion; said foot stop having a portion extending upwardly into said slot; said plate, said foot stop and said resilient means capable of beingadjustably slid relative to the longitudinal'length of said bar.

ReEerences'Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 1,316,618 Johnson Sept. 23, 19 19 1,610,194 Begy Dec. 7; 1 2Z 1,712,899 Nickerson May 14:, 19 2 9 2,015,281 Obrdw Sept. 24, 1935