US756588A - Garment-hanger. - Google Patents

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No. 756,588. PATENTED APR. 5, 1904. J. D. GONE Y & W. H. OLMSTEAD. GARMENT HANGER.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 10. 1903.

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UNITE STATES Patented April 5, 1904.

PATENT EEIcE.

JAMES D. (JONEY AND WILLIAM H. OLMSTEAD, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN;

GARMENT-HANGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 756,588 dated April 5, 1904.

Application filed February 10, 1903. Serial No. 142,755. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, J lines D. CoNEY and WVILLIAM H. OLMSTEAD, citizens of the United States, residing at Detroit, in the county of Wayne and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garment-Hangers, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

The invention has particular reference to a hanger or support for trousers adapted to be applied to the bottoms of the legs of the garment, so that the latter may be suspended from the hanger, permitting its weight to remove the wrinkles.

The invention consists in the novel construction of a folding hanger and in the peculiar arrangement and combination of its various parts, as will be more fully hereinafter set forth, and shown in the drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of our improved garment-hanger. Fig. 2 is a vertical central section through the hinge upon which the hanger-sections turn, and Fig. 3 is an end elevation.

In the drawings thus briefly described, A and B represent the clamping members adapted to clasp the bottom edges of the garment and to be locked in their clamped position by means of locking devices presently to be described. Supporting-arms C of equal length are secured to the clamping members, one pair being connected to each plate, as illustrated. The lower ends of the arms are fastened in any suitable manner to the clamps near their extremities, while the opposite or upper arm ends converge and meet atacentral point relative to the arms to form the hinge. The upper ends of the arms, as shown, terminate in eyes or loops D, arranged in axial alinement in parallelism with the clamps, and through the series of loops extends a pivot E, upon which the two sections of the'hanger turn.

F design ates a supporting-hook for the gar merit-support, having formed thereon a loop the full lines in Fig. 1, when the hanger is not in use. The application of the garment-support is obvious. When applied to the garment, the members A andB are clamped thereto by locking-rings H, which engage adjoining pairs of supporting-arms.

It will be seen from the construction of the device as set forth that it may be very cheaply manufactured, is of simple and durable con- ,struction, and may be folded into compact form for transportation or storage. Attention is also directed to the fact that while a preferable form of supporting-arm is shown having a particular style of loop or eye formed thereon we do not wish to be limited to this construction, as our invention consists, essentially, of clamping members having supports of any type, which in turn are provided with loops or eyes joined by a connecting member which engages the eyes.

What we claim as our invention is In a garment-hanger, the combination with complementary clamping members, of supporting-arms for and connected thereto, loops at the upper ends of the arms arranged in axial alinement, a supporting-hook provided with a loop forming one of the series of armloops, and a pivot engaging said series of loops.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

JAMES D. CONEY. IVILLIAM H. OLMSTEAD.

Witnesses: Y

J. BARRY,- M. B. ODoeHERTY.

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