US3001676A

US3001676A - Adjustable pants and coat hanger

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Publication number: US3001676A
Application number: US816840A
Authority: US
Inventors: Glotzer Jack
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1959-05-29
Filing date: 1959-05-29
Publication date: 1961-09-26
Anticipated expiration: 1978-09-26

Description

Sept. 26, 1961 J. GLOTZER ADJUSTABLE PANTS AND COAT HANGER 2 Sheets$heet 1 Filed May 29, 1959 INVENTOR. i J ACK OLOT Z E R 60 BY E E ATTUKZ EY Sept. 26, 1961 J. GLOTZER 3,001,676

ADJUSTABLE PANTS AND COAT HANGER Filed May 29, 1959 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 INVENTOR. JAG K GLOT Z ER Byg grog wry United States Patent Ofifice Patented Sept. 26, 1961 3,001,676 ADJUSTABLE PANTS AND COAT HANGER Jack Glotzer, 306 W. 24th St., New York, NZY. Filed May 29, 1959, Ser. No. 816,840 1 Claim. (Cl. 223-90) This invention relates to new and useful improvements in clothes hangers, and this application is a continuation-in-part of my copending application Serial Number 729,837, filed April 21, 1958.

A principal object of the present invention is to provide an improved clothes hanger which can be used to hold garments for both men and women tautly, in proper crease-retaining position, regardless of whether the hanger is hung in a closet, suitcase or any other place.

Another object of the invention is to provide a clothes hanger of this kind which is adjustable lengthwise to accommodate the hanger to different sized containers and to accommodate different sized garments.

A further object is to provide a clothes hanger of this kind with improved means for easily and conveniently placing and removing the garments thereon and therefrom and with means for securely and orderly holding the garments thereon.

For further comprehension of the invention, and of the objects and advantages thereof, reference will be had to the following description and accompanying drawings, and to the appended claim inwhich the various novel features of the invention are more particularly set forth.

In the accompanying drawings forming a material part of this disclosure:

FIG. 1 is a top plan view of a garment hanger embodying the invention shown in a clothes container, the container being shown in dot-dash lines.

FIG. 2 is an enlarged vertical sectional view taken on the plane of the line 22 of FIG. 1.

FIG. 3 is an enlarged vertical sectional view taken on the plane of the line 33 of FIG. 1.

FIG. 4 is an enlarged vertical sectional view taken on the plane of the line 44 of FIG. 1.

FIG. 5 is a front elevational view of the garment hanger of FIG. 1 suspended from a supporting rail.

FIG. 6 is a horizontal sectional view taken on the plane of the line 66 of FIG. '1, on an enlarged scale.

FIG. 7 is a perspective View of a coat hanger supporting clip used with the garment hanger.

FIG. 8 is a top plan view of the garment hanger with a trousers supported thereon.

FIG. 9 is a top plan view of the garment hanger with a trousers and jacket supported thereon.

Referring to the drawings in detail, a garment hanger embodying the invention is illustrated in FIG. 1 and is designated generally by the reference numeral 10. The garment hanger comprises a rectangular-shaped foursided sectional frame 12 formed of two U-shaped sections 14 and 16 slidable upon one another. The frame is formed of heavy stock round wire but may be made of plastic or any other suitable hanger material.

Each of the sections 14 and 16 consists of a crosspiece or bight portion 18, and section 14 has

side leg portions

20 and 22, leg portion 20 being longer than leg portion 22. Side section 16 has

side leg portions

24 and 26, leg portion 24 being longer than leg portion 26. The sections are telescopically and slidably arranged, with the leg portions of section 14 overlapping and slidable along the leg portions of section 16, the long leg portions sliding over the short leg portions.

A metal clamping sleeve 28 is secured by welding or otherwise to the lower free end of each leg portion of section 14 for freely receiving the leg portions of the section 16. Similarly the free ends of the leg portions of section 16 are also provided with clamping sleeves 30 which are welded thereto and freely receive the leg portions of section 14. Similar clamping sleeves 31 are welded to the leg portions of section 16 spaced inwardly from sleeves 30.

This arrangement of leg portions and sleeves permits the frame sections 14 and 16 to slide freely along each other in order to adjust the overall length of the frame to accommodate different sized garments and to accommodate the hanger to difierent sized containers. The frame sections 14 and 16 are held in moved adjusted positions for length by means of latching members 32 pivotally and slidably mounted in the leg portions of the inner frame section 16. Each member comprises a short narrow metal plate bent at one end 34 and formed with an elongated slot 36 at the juncture of the body of the plate and its bent end 34, the slot being sufliciently long The latching plates 32 are loosely mounted on the legportions of the section 16 with their bent end portions 34 disposed in the recmses 42 of the bulged out portions 40 of section 16. Each recess is dimensioned so as to receive the bent end portion 34 of the latching plate 32 freely when the plate is in normal downwardly inclined position. When the plates are in this normal inclined position, the bent end portions 34thereof are disposed parallel to the leg portions of the sections. However, when the latching plates are manually tilted on the leg portions of the section 16, the bent end portions 34 thereof are swung in an arc to a position perpendicular to the leg portions in sliding engagement with the inner surface of the bulged out portions 40 of the leg portions of section 16 thereby pressing the leg portions of the section 16 away from the leg portions of the section 14 and forcing the

sleeves

28, 30 and 31 on the leg portions of sections 14 and 16, respectively, into clamping engagement with the leg portions of the sections, thereby pressing the frame sections together and holding the sections in moved adjusted position as shown in FIG. 5.

Intermediate the ends of the long leg portion 24 of section 16, the material of the leg portion is bent or bulged out into a U-shaped bearing portion 46, spaced inwardly of the bulged out portion 40 thereof, the material bulging inwardly of the frame so as not interfere with the sliding movement of the

adjacent leg portions

22 and 24. This bearing portion 46 serves as a support or hearing for detachably supporting a separate coat hanger device 50. The coat hanger device 50 comprises an elongated endless looped wire body 52, bent intermediate its ends along one reach of the wire to form a U-shaped bearing member 54, the opening in the U-shaped member opening inwardly of the looped body. A hooked wire clip 56 is hingedly connected to the bight portion of the U-shaped bearing member 54 by means of a ring 58 sleeved around the bight portion of the bearing member and around one end of the clip. A wire hook 60 is pivotally supported on the bight portion of the bearing member 54 by means of a loop 62 on the end of the hook sleeved loosely around the bight portion. The coat hanger device 50 is adapted to be hingedly supported on the frame 12 by hooking clip 56 over the bight portion of the bearing member 46 as seen in FIG. 1.

A plurality of clip-type clothespins 64, six being shown,

against further movement.

is accomplished by attaching the waistband portion 68 of the trousers to the bight portion 18 of the section 16 by means of a pair of the clothes spins 64, looping thelegs 70 of the trousers around and over the bight portion 18 of section 14 and attaching the cuffs 72 to the bight portion 18 of the section 16 by a pair of clothespins. When the trousers are thus fixed on the frame, the frame sections 14 and 16 are moved away from each other until the trousers are under the desired tension at which time the clamping plates 32 are swung to lock the sections When the clothes hanger is thus used, the coat hanger 50 is connected to the bight portion 46 of the leg portion 24 of section 16 by means of the clip 56, and thus positioned out of the Way of the trousers.

In FIG. 9, the trousers 66 are shown supported in stretched condition the same as in FIG. 8, but a coat or jacket 74 is shown supported on the coat hanger 50, the coat or jacket being disposed perpendicularly to the trousers, a portion of the coat or jacket being shown protruding outwardly of the frame 12. It will be understood, of course, that the protruding portion of the coat or jacket is to be folded around the adjacent overlapped leg-portions of the frames sections 14 and 16 and lapped'over the top surface of the trousers as Viewed in FIG. 9 so that the coat or jacket will be confined within the limits of the frame 12. The hanger 10 with trousers, as shown in FIG. 8, and the hanger with trousers and coat or jacket, as shown in FIG; 9, may readily be placedwithin the confines of a container, such as the container shown in FIG. 1.

In FIG. 5, the clothes hanger 10 is shown suspended from a horizontally disposed rail in a closest or the like,

such as the rail 76 shown in FIG. 5. When so used, the I frame is suspendedtfrom the coat hanger 50 by hooking the clip 56 around the bight portion 18 of the section 14 as shown in FIG. 5. When the frame is so suspended the hook 60 of the coat hanger is looped around the supporting rail 76. A trousers 66 and/or coat or jacket 74 shown in FIGS. 8 and 9 may readily be supported in-a smooth, wrinkle-proof condition on the frame 12 and coat hanger 50 as will be understood.

It will be understood that ladies dresses, blouses, skirts and the like may also readily be folded around the frame of the clothes hanger and secured in position by the clothespins 64.

The clothes hanger with its load can be laid flat in a drawer, compartment or luggage container without In FIG. 8, -a trousers '66 is shown a in stretched supported condition on the frame 12. This danger of creasing the garments. If packed in a vertical position, the same advantages exist as the garments are practically hung or stretched between the sections of the frame. It is understood that the bulk of the garments is confined within the greater dimensions of the frame of the clothes hanger so as to protect the garments from I being too closely packed by other articles.

While I have illustrated and described the preferred embodiment of my invention, it is to be understood that I do not limit myself to the precise construction herein disclosed and that various changes and modifications may be made within the scope of the invention as defined in the appended claim; I v

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by United States Letters Patent'is: v

A garment hanger assembly, comprising a rectangular flat sectional frame including opposed generally rectangular U-shaped telescoping sections, each section having a crosspiece and inwardly extending parallel leg portions, a first closely spaced pair of releasable spring clips on the crosspiece of one section for engaging the leg end of a pair of trousers, a second more widely spaced pair of releasable spring clips on the crosspiece of the one section for engaging the waist end of the pair of trousers while the trousers legs are folded and tensioned around the crosspiece of the other section, extensible and retractable means connecting the juxtaposed leg portions of the frame sections, said means including sleeves on the ends of the respective leg portions, the sleeves on the leg portions of the one section slidably receiving the leg portions of the other section and vice versa, one leg portion having a loop formed therein extending inwardly of the frame and coplanar therewith; an endless wirebodydefining a hanger for a coat, said wire body having an outwardly extending bent portion, a first hook rotatably secured on said bent portion of the wire body and engaged rotatably around said loop of the one legportion, whereby said frame is supported by said hook, and a second hook secured rotatably on said bent portion of the wire body and engageable on a rail, whereby boththe trousers and coat hangers are supportable by the second book.

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