US609743A - Garment-hanger - Google Patents

Description

No. 609,743. Patented Aug. 23,1893.

- .1. s. HEATON.

GARMENT HANGER.

(Application filad mm. 26, 1898.)

. PATENT; OFFICE.

JOHN S. HEATON, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

GARM ENT-HANG ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 609,743, dated August 23, 1898. Application filed February 26, 1898. Serial No. 671,819. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN S. HEATON, a citizen of the United States, residing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Garment-Hangers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates especially to that class of garment-hangers used for supporting womens dresses.

The object of my invention is to so construct the hanger that it will hold the skirt of a dress by the waistband without creasing and also support the back of the skirt. ject I attain in the following manner, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a perspective view of my improved garment hanger adapted to hold a skirt and waist. Fig. 2 is aview of the hanger adapted to hold only a skirt. Fig. 3 is a modified form. Figs. 4 and 5 are views showing the method of holding skirts of difierent-sized bands, and Fig. 6 is a view of a modification.

The ordinary method of holding dress-skirts has been either by loops or bya device similar to a coat or waist holder,which bulges the dress out of shape directly below the waistband and does not support the back of the skirt properly. The back of a skirt is usually much heavier than the front or sides and will sag if not properly supported. By my invention 1 am enabled to support a skirt without wrinkling and without sagging.

Referring to Fig. 1, A is my improved garment-hanger, made, in the present instance, of wire, preferably in one piece. a is the hook by which it is supported. The wire is bent to form two arms a a at each side of the central hook for supporting a waist or coat, and

the wire is continued below the arms and shaped to form a segmental support B for a skirt, the sides I) I) being curved, as shown, to support the skirt. The curved sides will support from the smallest to the largest stockskirt. If the waist is narrow, it will rest on the support near the top, as shown in Fig. 5, audit the waist is wide it will rest on the support near the bottom, as shown in Fig. 4-.

The segment may be made either, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, with a flat top and. sharplycurved sides or, as shown in Fig. 8, in the form of a semicircle. The sides I) b are con- This obnected at the bottom by a brace Z), and extending from the brace 11 to the joint with the hook is abar d, having a series of hooks (1, made, in the present instance, by bending the bar. These hooks engage the back of the skirt where the waistband is fastened and hold the back portion of the skirt up on a level with the sides, so that the entire skirt will hang properly.

In a store skirts displayed on these hangers will be shown to the best advantage and will not crease or sag. They can be arranged in rows, taking up very little space, and the skirts can be placed upon the hangers without trouble and quickly removed therefrom.

It is important that the back of the waistband of the skirt should be on a line with the side of the waistband. Consequently I use a series of hooks arranged one above another, so as to accommodate skirts with different sized waistbands.

While I prefer to make the frame of wire, it may be made of a light casting or of wood, either bent to form the segmental portion or made from a solid piece B, as shown in Fig. 6, and the hooks (1 may be nails or screws driven into the segmental piece B, as shown 1 i in Fig. 6; but I prefer to make them by bending the wire into shape.

The hooks are preferably arranged at an angle, so as to readily engage the waistband and hold it.

I claim as my invention- 1. A skirt hanger having curved sides adapted to be inserted within the skirt and to project through the waistband end thereof so as to support the skirt-body by its waistband resting on the curved sides, and ahook centrally arranged between the said sides and on a line with the points of support of the waistband on said sides and adapted to en gage the rear portion of the waistband, substantially as described.

2. A skirt-hanger having a segmental portion upon which the waistband of a skirt can rest, and a series of vertically-arranged hooks within the segment, said hooks being so ar ranged that one will engage the back portion of the waistband of a skirt mounted on the segmental portion, substantially as described.

3. A skirt-hanger made of bent wire and having a segmental portion with curved sides IOO upon which the waistband of a skirt can rest,

said portion being wider at the base than at;

the top, a cross-piece at the bottom; and a Vertically-arranged Wire extending from the upper portion of the segment to the cross-bar and bent to form a series of hooks adapted to engage the back of the Waistband of a skirt, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of IO two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN S. I-IEATON.

Witnesses:

WILL. A. BARR, J 0s. 11. KLEIN.

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