Classifications

• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
  • A47G—HOUSEHOLD OR TABLE EQUIPMENT
  • A47G25/00—Household implements used in connection with wearing apparel; Dress, hat or umbrella holders
  • A47G25/62—Trouser or skirt stretchers or tensioners of the hanger type
  • A47G25/621—Trouser or skirt stretchers or tensioners of the hanger type for stretching or tensioning trouser leg ends or the trouser skirt waistband comprising gripping members being urged apart
  • A47G25/622—Trouser or skirt stretchers or tensioners of the hanger type for stretching or tensioning trouser leg ends or the trouser skirt waistband comprising gripping members being urged apart at least one gripping member comprising an arm urged outwardly by a spring member

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• the present invention relates to a clothes-hanger which comprises a centrepiece, and two end pieces which, with guide portions, are telescopically accommodated and se ⁇ cured in each respective end portion of the centrepiece and insertable therein against spring force, the centre ⁇ piece having a substantially U-shaped, at least partly downwardly open cross section.
• the centrepiece has, at its ends facing away from one another, sleeves in which the end pieces are insertable.
• the end pieces have a pro ⁇ jecting pin or plug which is relatively short but which is intended to act as a spring anchorage.
• the other end of the spring supports against a transverse wall interiorly in the centrepiece, this wall also closing that sleeve in which the end piece is shiftable.
• a clothes-hanger of this type cannot be manufactured at low cost, since the tool which is intended for producing the centrepiece requires displaceable jaws which render such production considerably more expensive.
• the present invention has for its object to realize a clothes-hanger of the type mentioned by way of intro- duction, the clothes-hanger being designed in such a man ⁇ ner that it may be produced in a plastic forming tool without the employment of displaceable jaws in the tool.
• the present invention further has for its object to re ⁇ alize a clothes-hanger which permits extremely simple and rational assembly after manufacture of the different com ⁇ ponent parts included in the clothes-hanger.
• the present invention has for its object to realize a clothes-hanger in which adequate guiding is provided for the spring which strives to eject the end pieces out of the centrepiece.
• the present invention also has for its object to realize a clothes-hanger which, in gen ⁇ eral terms, displays a high degree of mechanical strength and functional dependability and which in particular per ⁇ mits reliable guiding of the end pieces in the centrepiece without any play occurring.
• the clothes-hanger disclosed by way of introduction is characterized in that the centrepiece is provided, at each end and at a lower portion, with a sup ⁇ port and guide surface for the end pieces, the support surfaces being, in the longitudinal direction of the centrepiece, located outside the outer ends of the upper defining wall of the centrepiece.
• a clothes-hanger of this type is produced in a moulding tool in which the parting line is parallel with the upper defining wall of the centrepiece.
• the centrepiece is provided, a distance from each end and at a lower portion, with inner support and guide surfaces for cooperation with the end pieces, and that the upper defining wall of the centrepiece has aper ⁇ tures in the region of each respective inner support and guide surface.
• Fig. 1 shows a vertical partial cross section of a clothes-hanger produced according to the inven- tion
• Fig. 2 is a view of the clothes-hanger of Fig. 1, seen from beneath;
• Fig. 3 shows a section through the clothes-hanger of Fig. 1 along the section marking A-A, the section in this Figure being seen in a direction from left to right;
• Fig. 4 shows a corresponding section along the section marking B-B
• Fig. 5 shows a corresponding section along the section marking C-C.
• Fig. 1 shows a left-hand portion of a clothes-hanger ac- cording to the invention, and it will be apparent from this Figure that the clothes-hanger has a centrepiece 1 , only the left-hand end portion thereof being shown, but it being assumed that the right-hand end portion of the centrepiece is designed as a mirror image of the left. It will also be presupposed that the centrepiece is provided with a suspension device (not shown) such as, for example, a suspension hook or its equivalent.
• a suspension device such as, for example, a suspension hook or its equivalent.
• an end piece 2 which is provided with a suit- ably designed suspension device 3 for fixedly retaining, for instance, a skirt.
• the end piece 2 is telescopically disposed in the centre ⁇ piece 1 and is, therefore, displaceable according to the double arrow D.
• Fig. 1 the end piece is shown in its position inserted furthest into the centrepiece.
• the centrepiece 1 may roughly be described as a U-profile which is turned with its opening to face downwards so that it has two mutually spaced apart side walls 4 which may preferably be parallel to one another or be at slightly greater spaced apart relationship at the lower edge than the upper edge.
• the U-profile is further provided with an upper defining wall 5 which interconnects the side walls 4.
• Each end piece 2 has portions which extend into the centrepiece and which there shiftably guide against the inner defining surfaces of the centrepiece. It will be ap ⁇ parent from the Drawing that these portions of the end pieces extending into the centrepiece consist of an upper guide member 6 which is in the form of an elongate rod or bar whose cross sectional configuration is substantially complementary to the shape which is defined by the adjac ⁇ ent defining surfaces of the centrepiece 1. On the under ⁇ side, the upper guide member is, via a gap 7, separated from a spring guide 8 which is in the form of an elongate rod which is substantially parallel with the upper guide member 6.
• the spring guide 8 may be of circular cross section, but this is not necessary; instead the cross section may be cruciform, polygonal or be of any other appropriate shape which, with slight friction, may be accommodated interiorly in a compression spring of the helical type.
• This compression spring is schematically il ⁇ lustrated in Fig. 1 at reference numeral 9.
• a lower support and guide surface 12 which abuts against the underside of the lower guide mem ⁇ ber 11.
• This lower support and guide surface 12 is placed, seen in the longitudinal direction of the centrepiece 1 , outside (in the Figure to the left of) the outer end of the upper defining wall 5 of the centrepiece, so that thereby the entire support and guide surface is, when the end piece 2 is dismounted, freely visible when the clothes-hanger is observed straight from above.
• This placing of the support and guide surface 12 is possible in that both side walls 4 of the centrepiece 1 are provided with obliquely downwardly and outwardly directed end edges, as illustrated by the broken line 13.
• the up ⁇ per defining wall 5 of the centrepiece is provided with an aperture 15 in register with the support and guide surface 14. That tool part which defines the inside (upwardly facing) of the support and guide surface 14 can be passed through this aperture 15.
• the centrepiece 1 is further provided with abutment surfaces 16 for co ⁇ operation with the end of the spring 9 which strives to eject the end piece 2 out of the centrepiece 1.
• abutment surfaces 16 are intimated in Fig. 1 by a broken line.
• the abutment surfaces are created in that the side walls 4 have inwardly directed bulges or thickened portions whose outwardly facing end edges form the abutment surfaces 16.
• the inner distance between the side walls 4 will be considerably smaller in between the strip-shaped projections which carry the abut ⁇ ment surfaces 16.
• These strip-shaped projections are suit ⁇ ably transversely directed in relation to the longitudinal direction of the centrepiece, but may especially be at right angles thereto.
• the lower guide mem ⁇ ber 11 has an inner narrow portion 17 whose width corres- ponds to the inner dimension between the strip-shaped pro ⁇ jections forming the abutment surfaces.
• this inner narrow portion is slidable between the strip-shaped pro ⁇ jections.
• the end piece 2 is prevented from being wholly ejected out of the centrepiece 1 under the action of the force of the spring 9.
• the end piece will have a well-defined maximum projecting pos ⁇ ition.
• the inner arrest member 11 is spiculated at the inner end by being provided with wedge surfaces 20.
• the purpose of these wedge sur ⁇ faces is to realize a deformation in the side walls of the centrepiece so that these are flexed away from one another on mounting of the end piece 2.
• This mounting operation is quite simply effected in that the end piece is pressed with some force into the centrepiece so that the locking catch formed by the wedge surfaces 20 and the arrest sur ⁇ faces 18 is forced past the strip-shaped, transversely di ⁇ rected members which have the abutment surfaces 16 and the arrest surfaces 19.
• the lower guide member 11 has an outer, somewhat thicker portion whose side edges directly abut and guide against the insides of the side walls 4.
• the transition region between the thicker and the narrower portion 17 is intimated at 21.
• the upper guide member 6 it might be mentioned that this has the same cross section throughout its entire length, since the strip-shaped members carrying the abut- ment surfaces 16 need not be present along the upper por ⁇ tion of the inner surfaces of the side walls 4. Hereby, the upper guide member 6 will also be guided towards the upper end surfaces 22 on the strip-shaped members.
• Fig. 3 shows how the outer support and guide surface 12 extends as a bridge between and interconnects the side walls 4 of the centrepiece 1. It will correspondingly be apparent from Fig. 4 that the cross section of the centre ⁇ piece 1 is substantially U-shaped, where the bottom of the U consists of the upper defining wall 5.
• the spring On assembly of the subject matter of the present inven ⁇ tion, the spring is placed on the spring guide 8 and runs no risk of falling off, since the spring can, in the ex- panded state, be of approximately the same length as, or possibly shorter length than the spring guide.
• the inner support and guide member 14 has been described above as a bridge which interconnects the lower edges of the side walls 4.
• the inner support and guide member 14 may be pro- vided with a breach so that it is formed only by bosses extending (towards one another) inwardly from the lower edges of the side walls 4. These bosses must be of such an extent inwards towards the centre plane of the centrepiece 1 that they can support the narrower portion 17 on the lower guide member 11.
• this embodiment facili ⁇ tates mounting of the end pieces, since the side walls 4 may more readily flex away from one another on insertion of the end piece.
• strip-shaped members which are provided with the abutment surfaces 16 and the arrest surfaces 19 be placed straight above the inner support and guide member.
• these strip-shaped members may be offset in the longitudinal direction of the centrepiece 1.
• the aperture 15 and the inner support and guide member 14 must unconditionally be located in register with each other.
• it may be ap ⁇ intestinalte to form the strip-shaped members with the abut ⁇ ment surfaces 16 and the arrest surfaces 19 slightly wedge-shaped, with the smallest width, seen in the longi ⁇ tudinal direction of the centrepiece, at the lower edge of the centrepiece.
• the present invention may be further modified without de ⁇ parting from the spririt and scope of the appended Claims.

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