US2924363A - Garment hanger - Google Patents

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Feb. 9, 1960 l.. s. RELLER ET AL GARMENT HANGER Filed Aug. 30, 1956 fvuuanot' au15 S. Qzllet Lucilla S. @auf d't''orngg ranma* GARMENT HANGER Louis S. Reller and Lucille S. Reller, Washington, Iowa Application August 30, 1956, Serial No. 607,153

3 Claims. (Cl. 223-93) This invention relates to garment hangers and more particularly to one providing means for anchoring the garment rigidly to the hanger bar.

Coat or garment hangers are very old. They usually consist of an arcuate horizontal bar and a centrally 1ocated 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 diflicult 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.

Therefore, the principal object of our invention to provide a coat hanger that is capable of detachably rigidly securing a garment to its arcuate bar.

A further object of this 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 etlicient 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. l is a front view of our garment hanger in use,

Fig. 2 is an enlarged longitudinal sectional view of the fastening means taken on line 2--2 of Fig. l, and

Fig. 3 is an enlarged cross sectional view of the fastening means taken on line 3--3 of Fig. l and more fully illustrates its construction.

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.

United States Patent Patented Feb. 9, 1960 ICC 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 outrwardly in both directions from its hook 11, as shown in Fig. l. In this bar and at one side of the hook 11 we form an elongated slot 12. We also recommend that on each side of the bar 10, and adjacent the slit 12, vertical grooves 13 be formed, as shown in Fig. 2. The numeral 14 generally designates a U-member or inverted hook portion. On the inner end of this inverted U-hook we have provided two horizontal arm portions 15 and 16. Extending through these two arm portions 15 and 16, and also through the slot 12, is a bolt, rivet, or like, 17, as shown in Fig. 3. By this arrangement an inverted U-hood 14 may be swung upwardly away from the bar 10 or moved downwardly to embrace the top and sides of the bar, as shown in Fig. l. Also, when the inverted U-hood is in elevated position, as shown by broken lines in Fig. l, it may be slid toward or away from the hook portion 11 in order to accommodate different types and sizes of garments. The inverted U-hood consists of two sides, 18 and 19 respectively, and a top portion 20. The top portion 20 has a width greater than the width between the two side portions 18 and 19 in order to provide the top gripping flanges 21. These ridges or flanged portions 21 extend in opposite hori zontal directions and provide successful gripping means for holding onto and actuating the inverted U-hood for releasing or securing a garment 2.2. When the inverted U-member is in a lower effective position, its top 20 will engage the top surface of the hanger bar and its two sides 18 and 19 will engage the two sides of the bar 10 respectively. Complementary with the grooves 13 of the bar 10 we recommend that similar conforming grooves 23 be formed in the sides 18 and 19 of the inverted U-hood, as shown in Fig. 2.

The practical operation of the device is as follows:

Before the garment is placed on the hanger bar, the inverted U-hood is elevated, as shown by broken lines in Fig. l. The garment is then placed in the usual man- Y ner on the hanger bar 10, and the inverted U-hood is slid forth or back to bring its position over one of the shoulder portions of the garment, after which it is lowered onto that part of the shoulder portion of the garment that is embracing the hanger bar. This action wedges the shoulder portion of the garment between the inverted U-hood and the hanger bar 10, thus successfully securing the garment to the hanger bar without danger of accidental detachment therefrom. The grooves 13 and 23 cooperating in more effectively holding the garment onto the garment hanger. With the garment so secured to the hanger bar, the garment hanger may be lifted onto or off of a rod support or like without the possibility of the garment slipping from the hanger. To remove the garment so held, it is merely necessary to manually grasp the ange or lug portions 21 and swing the inverted U-hood upwardly and out of contact with the shoulder portion of the garment.

Some changes may be made in the construction and arrangement of our garment hanger without departing from the real spirit and purpose of our invention, and it is our intention to cover by our claims, any modified forms of structure or use of mechanical equivalents which may be reasonably included within their scope.

We claim:

l. In a garment hanger, a bar having a longitudinally extending horizontal slot, a hook on said bar, an inverted U-hood having two side arm portions, and a shaft member extending through said arm portions of said hood and said slot whereby said hood is hingedly and slidably secured to said bar; said hood having an open top area adjacent to and above said shaft for permitting its hinged action relative to said bar and said hood being open at both ends with said open ends embracing said bar when said hood is in a lowered position on said bar.

2. In a garment hanger, a bar having a longitudinally extending horizontal slot, a hook on said bar, an inverted U-hood having two side arm portions, a shaft member extending through said arm portions of said hood and said slot whereby said hood is hingedly and slidably secured to said bar; said hood having an open top area adjacent to and above said shaft for permitting its hinged action relative to said bar and said hood being open at both ends with said open ends embracing said bar when said hood is in a lowered position on said bar, and a manual grip portion on said hood.

3. In a garment hanger, a bar having a longitudinally extending horizontal slot, a hook on said bar, an inverted U-hood having two side arm portions, a shaft member extending through said arm portions of said hood and said slot whereby said hood is hingedly and slidably secured to said bar; said hood having an open top area adjacent to and above said shaft for permitting its hinged action relative to said bar and said hood being open at both ends with said open ends embracing said bar when said hood is in a lowered position on said bar, and a manual grip portion on said hood, said hood having a top portion and two downwardly extending sides with its top of a width greater than the width between its two sides for producing at least one manual gripping 10 ridge.

References Cited in the le of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 15 1,316,618 Johnson Sept. 23, 1919 1,546,609 Scheinman July 21, 1925 1,768,005 Schwartzman June 24, 1930 2,096,303 Kroll Oct. 19, 1937 2,555,672 Baugh June S, 1951

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