US351058A - Trouser-hanger - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

J. G. MACDONALD.

TROUSERS HANGER.

3 Patented Oct. 19, 1886.

lobldiiimk UNITED STATES PATEN OFFICE.

J OHN OAULD MACDONALD, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

TROUSER-HANGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 351,058, dated October 19, 1886.

Application filed September 19, 1885. Serial No. 177,568.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN CAULD MacDon- ALD, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk, of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Trouser -Hangers; and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure 1 is a perspective View, Fig. 2 a top View, Fig. 3 a side elevation, and Figs. at and 5 opposite end Views, of a trouser-hanger of my invention, the nature of which is duly defined in the claim hereinafter presented. Fig. 6 is a View of the hanger as applied to trousers.

The article is for the purpose of suspending and supporting trousers, in order either for keeping such in proper order or for exhibiting the garment in a tailors shop or a window thereof, as occasion may require.

As represented, the hanger is made of a single piece of wire bent in manner and hooked at its ends about itself near its middle or spring portion or elastic eye, as represented in the drawingsthat is to say, at its middle the wire is bent around in a circular spiral, as shown at a, to form in the article an elastic eye, A. The two half portions of wire, at a short dis tance from the eye, are parallel, or about so, as shown at b b, after which they are bent at right angles, so as to extend in opposite directions as branches from the eye. Next each at a proper distance from the said angular bend is bent downward at a right angle, as shown at 0. Next they are bent in the arched or bow forms, as shown in Figs. 2, 3, and r at e and f. Finally they are bent at a right angle toward the eye, and are hooked, as shown at g g, or bent about the next adjacent part I) b of the wire.

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In using the hanger, the trousers being buttoned on the front, it is to be inserted over the mouth of the garment, and the two front suspendenbuttons are to be buttoned into the parts i i of the front arch, c. The back of the garment is next to be folded at the middle thereof, and the two back suspender-buttons are to be buttoned into parts 7; k of the arch f. The elastic eye answers to support the hanger upon a nail or hook. The elastic eye also enables the article to be bent or sprung at its middle to fit it to trousers differing in size, as occasion may require.

1 do not claim a trouser-hanger consisting ofau upper curved rod provided with loops at its ends, an oppositclycurved rod arranged. between and secured at its ends to the said upper curved rod, and a transverse brace-rod serving to keep the two apart, such upper rod having sliding hooks applied to it, all being as shown in the United States Patent No. 230,513, for my article is constructed of a sinseveral pieces, as set forth in such patent.

I claim The improved trouser-hanger, substantially as described, composed of a piece of wire bent at its middle to form an eye and extended in opposite directions therefrom to form branches, and having each oi'such branches bent or arched to enable one of them to button or catch upon the front suspender-lmttons, and the other to button or catch upon the rear suspender-buttons of the garment o1- trousers, all being essentially as represented.

J OHY OAULD MACDONALD.

Witnesses:

It. H. EDDY, ERNns'r B. PRATT.

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