US3033430A

US3033430A - Coat hanger cover

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Publication number: US3033430A
Application number: US830330A
Authority: US
Inventors: Clarence C Zintel
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1959-07-29
Filing date: 1959-07-29
Publication date: 1962-05-08
Anticipated expiration: 1979-05-08

Description

May 8, 1962 c. c. ZlN-TEL COAT HANGER COVER Filed July 29, 1959 INVENTOR. C4 HRf/YCE C. ZHYTEL/ BY 1 M! 4% flrroe/z Eys.

United States Patent 3,033,430 COAT HANGER COVER Clarence C. Zintel, 4451 Central Ave, Indianapolis, Ind. Filed July 29, 1959, Ser. No. 839,330 3 Claims. (Cl. 223-98) This invention relates to a cover for a conventional wire type coat hanger, and more particularly to a hanger cover having an improved locking means for holding it on such hangers.

It is an object of my invention to provide an inexpensive coat hanger cover which is easily attachable to a coat hanger, which can be releasably locked in fixed position on said coat hanger, and which will afiford rounded support for garments hung on said cover.

In accordance with my invention, there is provided a triangularly shaped blank of cardboard or like stifi sheet material foldable over the downwardly diverging arms of a coat hanger along diverging score lines. The cover provides for the upper section of the hanger a covering having a rounded surface for supporting a garment without forming creases therein along the lines of support. There is further provided on said cover a slot and tongue insertable therein for locking the blank on the hanger. Adjacent said slot and tongue is a flap adapted to be folded into a position to engage the hanger at the interconnection between the diverging hanger arms and the hook supporting said arms to releasably lock the cover in a fixed position on said hanger.

The accompanying drawing illustrates my invention. In such drawing:

FIG. 1 is a front elevation of a coat hanger with a cover in accordance with my invention secured thereon;

FIG. 2 is a plan view of the blank for forming the cover shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 shows a conventional coat hanger placed on the cover blank for folding and securing the latter over said hanger;

FIG. 4 is a rear elevation of a coat hanger and the coverv secured thereon with portions of said cover being broken away to show my novel method of holding the cover on said hanger; and

FIG. 5 is an enlarged sectional view taken on the line 5-5 of FIG. 4.

As shown in the drawing, my cover is adapted to be secured to a conventional wire type coat hanger having a pair of diverging arms interconnected at their lower ends by a transversely extending strut 12. The upper ends of the arms 10 are bent to form a crotch 18 integral with the twisted shank 14 of the hanger-supporting hook 16.

As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, my cover 20 adapted to fit over such a hanger comprises a triangularly shaped blank of cardboard or like stilt foldable material consisting of

front wall panels

22 and 24, and a rear wall panel 26. The two front wall panels are distinguished from the rear wall panel by a pair of diverging score lines 28. A plurality of auxiliary score lines 30 may be disposed on either side of the score lines 28 to distribute the bending and provide a rounded surface of suspension for garments hung on such cover. It may be further desired to terminate the

score lines

28 and 30 short of the outer corners of the cover 20, as at score lines 32, whereby the score lines 32 form shoulder-supporting end flaps 33 which may be bent upwardly for supporting strap-supported garments The ends of the

front panels

22 and 24 adjacent the apex of the triangularly shaped blank are separated by an inwardly extending cut 36 terminating in an aperture 38. Conveniently, each of the

front wall panels

22 and 24 is separated from the rear wall panel 26 adjacent the aperture 38 by serrated slits 40 formed along the score lines '28. As shown in FIG. 2, the front wall panel 22 is provided with a hooked tongue 42 receivable in a slot 44 formed in the front wall panel 24. Thus, to apply the cover 20 to a conventional wire type coat hanger as shown in FIGS. 1 and 4, the hanger is placed on the blank 20 with the shank 14 of the hanger hook 16 disposed over the inwardly extending cut 36, and the

flaps

22 and 24 are folded over the diverging hanger arms 10 along the score lines 28. The two flaps circumscribing the shank 14 of the hook 16 'are' locked together by inserting the hooked tongue 42 of the panel 22 into the slot 44 on the panel 24, thereby securing the cover on the hanger, as is shown in FIG. 1. The cover 20 thus rests on the hanger along the score lines 28 and supplemental score lines 30, with said score lines distributing the bending or folding of the stiff foidable material to form an are or suspension for a coat or a similar garment hung on the cover.

Although the tongue 42 and slot 44 serve to hold the cover 29 on the hanger, the cover and hanger are still movable with respect to each other as by the shank 14 of the hanger hook sliding in the aperture 38 of the cover. In order to prevent such relative movement between the hanger and the cover and thereby hold said cover in a fixed position on the hanger, I provide a flap 46 at the upper end of the front wall panel 24. As shown in FIG. 2, the edges of the fiap 46 are defined by the inwardly extending cut 36, the aperture 38, and an inwardly extending score line 48 disposed at an acute angle to the out 36. To position the flap 46 in operative position for holding the cover 20 in a fixed position on the hanger, the cover 20 is secured on the hanger in the manner previously described with the

front wall panels

22 and 24 being locked together by the tongue and slot 42 and 44, and with a hanger book 16 extending upwardly through the aperture 38. With the cover components thus posi.

tioned, the iflap 46 lies against the inner face of the front panel 22. In order to move the flap 46 into operative position, it is bent inwardly along the score line 48 until it lies substantially normal to the front Wall panel 24 with the edge of the flap 46 defined by the aperture 38 being disposed against the hanger crotch 18 at the base of the hook shank 14. In this position, the cover 20 is prevented from raising upwardly from the hanger by the upper edge of the flap 46 engaging the base of the hook shank 14. When the cover'2t) is thus mounted on the hanger, the serrated slits 40 will be disposed in engagement with the crotch 18 to act in combination with the flap '46 to further assist in preventing any relative movement between the cover 20 and the hanger. In most hanger constructions, the crotch 18 constitutes a pair of lengths of wire diverging at an acute angle, and with the flap 46 being disposed between these two lengths of wire, the cover 20 is also prevented from twisting around the hook 16.

I claim as my invention:

1. A cover for a coat hanger having a pair of downward sloping arms Whose upper ends from a crotch at the base of a hook supporting said arms, comprising a generally triangular sheet'of stifi foldable material provided with a central aperture for engagement about said hook base, said sheet being foldable along downwardly divergent score lines separating said sheet into a rear wall and two panels adapted to form a front wall, said two panels being separated at the apex of the sheet by a cut running from said aperture to the edge of the sheet, one of said panels having a slot and the other panel having a tongue receivable in said slot for locking the panels together to form the front wall, said out between the panels being offset from the center line of the sheet to leave at the central edge of one panel a flap extending across said center line, a fold line separating said flap from the panel to which it is attached and offset from said center line in the opposite direction from said cut, said flap 3 being adapted to be folded inward from the front wall to extend substantially toward said rear wall and being formed so that in said inward-folded position it has an upper edge to engage under the crotch of a coat hanger for holding the cover in position on the hanger.

2. A coat hanger cover as defined in claim 1 in which the intersection of said panel-separating cut and the edge of said aperture forms a hook-shaped corner on said flap to engage under the crotch of the hanger.

3. A coat hanger cover as defined in claim 1 in which said sheet adjacent said aperture is provided with slits extending from said aperture outward along the down- Wardly divergent score lines and together with said aperture forming an opening along the intersection of the front and rear Walls in opposite directions from said flap and longer than the width of the hanger hook.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 2,147,590 Adkins Feb. 14, 1939 2,218,150 Jentz Oct. 15, 1940 2,241,697 Berke May 13, 1941 2,578,383 Tornarin Dec. 11, 1951 2,873,054 Zintel Feb. 10, 1959 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE CERTIFICATE OF CORRECTION Patent No. 3,033,430 May 8, 1962 Clarence C. Zintel It is hereby certified that error appears in the above numbered patent req'liring correction and that the said Letters Patent should read as corrected below.

Column 2, line 56, for "from" read for-m Signed and sealed this 11th day of September 1962.

(SEAL) Attest:

ERNEST w. SWlDER DAVID LAD!) Attesting Officer Commissioner of Patents