US864634A - Garment-hanger. - Google Patents

Description

PATENTED- AUG. 27, 1907.

E. 0. FELLROTH. GARMENT HANGER.

APPLICATION FILED A UG. 25, 1906.

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" UNITED STATES PATENT. OFFICE.

ERICK O. FELLROTH, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO ARCHIBALD F. McD. CRAIG, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

GARMENT-HANGER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented .A 'ug. 27, 1907.

Application filed August 25,1906, Serial 110.331.972-

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Enron O. FELLROTH, a citizenof Sweden, residing in the city and county of San Francisco and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Garment Hangers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to garment holding devices, and especially to devices designed to hold coats, vests, skirts, trousers and the like.

The object of the present invention is to provide a simple, practical, collapsible holder, which will occupy very little room when not in use; which can be opened out to support a coat, and which will also have a cross-bar over which a pair of trousers may be hung; said crossbar serving to maintain the arms of the holder in distended position. I

The invention consists of the parts and the construetion and combination of parts as hereinafter more fully described and claimed, having reference to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved holder open for use. Fig. 2 is a side elevation showing the: holder in its folded position.

AA represent two rigid arms of suitable size, shape and material pivoted to' a central support 2 insuch manner as to be extended for use or folded downward into parallel collapsed position suitable for packing in a small space. The support 2 is preferably of sheet metal bent into a substantially inverted-U- shaped housing for the adjacent ends of the arms, with the topof the plate nicely fashioned so that its curves run into the curves of the arms when the latter are opened out and offer no. angles or sharp edges for the nected to a respective arm'.

, when the holder is not in use.

arms as shown at 6. The braces are-pivoted together one inside the other, so that one will have a part 7 overlapping the other enough to form a stop against the braces dropping too far when straightened. The arms fold down and the braces fold up inside the arms When the holder is opened for use, the braces drop until the pivot 8 is a trifle below a line connecting the pivots 6, whereupon a rigid triangular structure results which is not likely to be collapsed accidentally. The holder is hung up from its center support 2 by means entirely disconnected with the braces, so thatthe full length of the braces may be utilized to hang a pair of trousers or other things on. This is quite an important feature in, garment holders, and especially foldable holders. The means for hanging up the holder is here shown as comprising a hook-member 9 pivoted to one side 0 the support 2 oelow the pivots 10 of the arms A.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A garment hanger comprising a pair of channel iron arms pivotally connected at their inner ends to a central support and adapted to swing downward into closed position, said support consisting of a plate'bent to embrace the adjacent ends of the arms, said arms having their channels under-most, and channel-form brace-sections pivoted together at one end to swing upward inside the arm when the latter are folded downward, said brace-sections having their outer ends pivoted between the flanges of the respcctive armsand foldable inside the channels of the arms, said sections having their central pivot-connection below the line connecting their pivot-points at their outer ends when the device is opened for use, one of said sections slightly overlapping the other at the inner ends of the sections so that the overlapping portion of the one

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