US3165245A - Double hanger - Google Patents

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DOUBLE HANGER Filed July 12, 1963 T1 Bk 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 INVENTORS flaw/n20 3. LEV/NE FPOBE/PT l g/Amps United States Patent 3,165,245 DOUBLE HANGER Bernard B. Levine, New York, and Robert Phillips, Roslyn, N.Y., assignors to Warbern Plastics, Inc, Brooklyn, N.Y., a corporation of New York Filed July 12, 1963, Ser. No. 294,598 4 Claims. (Cl. 223-91) This invention relates to garment supporting devices and in particular relates to a garment supporting device of a type having an upper hanger, a lower hanger pivotally connected to the upper hanger, and a single suspension means on the upper hanger.

One object of this invention is to provide an improved garment supporting device of the above type, wherein the two hangers may be respectively unitarily molded of plastic material and assembled together for the aforesaid pivotal connection without the need for special tools or insertion of special hinge pins.

Another object of this invention is to provide a garment supporting device of the above-described type having improved garment clip means on the lower hanger portion.

This invention is an improvement over prior US. Patent No. 2,822,967 to Spitz and our own prior US.

I Patent No. 3,047,196.

In accordance with a preferred embodiment of the invention, there is provided a garment supporting device comprising a pair of flat upper and lower hanger members of molded thermoplastic. The upper hanger portion has a central neck portion and shoulder portions extending outwardly from each side edge of the neck portion, and has a pair of spaced integrally formed ears extending perpendicularly from a face of the neck portion. The lower hanger member has a cross bar, spaced garment clip members depending from the cross bar, a

central neck portion extending upwardly from the cross bar and terminating at its upper end in spaced-apart coplanar arms, and a pair of spaced, integrally formed ears respectively extending upwardly from the upper ends of said arms. The lower hanger ears are located adjacent the outer faces of the upper hanger ears. The upper hanger ears have aligned laterallythrough bores, and the lower hanger ears have respective aligned inwardly extending pins extended turnably through said respective bores.

The advantage of the invention is that the hinge pins are molded unitarily with the lower hanger. The provision of the spaced-apart coplanar arms referred to above and carrying the hinge pins is a particular feature of the invention. While the lower hanger member is fresh from the mold and still hot, these arms may be spaced sufficiently for the inner ends of the pins to clear the outer faces of the upper hanger ears, with the pins then brought into alignment with the bores. The still soft and hot arms may then be bent to extend the pins through the bores, and when the plastic cools the arms become rigidly set in the desired position with the pins through the bores.

Accordingly, the invention is particularly adavantageous in the elimination of metal hinge pins and in simplification and reduction in cost of the assembly operation.

As another important feature of the invention, the lower hanger member is provided with garment clip members as disclosed in our aforesaid US. Patent No. 3,047,196.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will become apparent from the following description, in conjunction with the annexed drawing, in which a preferred embodiment of the invention is disclosed.

In the drawing,

FIG. 1 is a front elevation of the improved garment supporting device in accordance with this invention, showing in broken lines a garment supported by the clips of the lower hanger member;

FIG. 2 is a top plan view of the garment supporting device in accordance with this invention:

FIG. 3 is a section on line 3-3 of FIG. 1, the hook being broken away, and shows the lower hanger member diagrammatically in dot-dash lines pivoted from its normal position relative to the vertical upper hanger member;

FIG. 4 is a fragmentary exploded perspective view of the two hanger members, showing in particular the hinge connection;

FIG. 5 is a fragmentary section on line 55 of FIG. 1, showing a detail of the lower hanger member; and

FIG. 6 is a fragmentary section on line 6-6 of FIG. 1, showing a further detail of the hinge connection.

Upon reference to the drawing in detail, it will be noted that it shows a garment supporting device 20 comprising a pair of fiat upper and lower hanger members 21 and it Each of these hanger members 21 and 10 is preferably of unitarily molded thermoplastic, with the same thermoplastic being preferably used for each hanger member. However, it is within the scope of the invention to provide a separate hook member for the upper hanger member 21. As will be explained in detail below, the lower hanger member 1% is made of resilient thermoplastic, and it is also within the scope of the invention to mold the upper hanger member 21 of rigid thermoplastic. Optionally, the thermoplastic used may be polyethylene, but the invention is not so limited.

Upper hanger member 21 includes a flat web 22 having front and rear faces and reinforced around its margin by a web 23 extending transversely of the respective faces of web 22. Said web 22 has a central neck portion 24 comprising an upper cross arm 25 and depending side legs 26. These legs 26 are connected below arm 25 and above their lower ends by a cross arm 27, for strengthening purposes. Said web 22 further comprises shoulder portions 28 extending outwardly downwardly from the lower ends of said legs 26 and hence extending outwardly from each side edge of the hanger neck portion.

Hook web 29 extends centrally upwardly from the top of arm 25, with webs 22 and 29 being coplanar. Rib so similar to rib-23 reinforces web 29, except that in the lower shank portion of hook 29, the rib portion 30a is no longer marginal, as clearly shown in FIG. 1.

A pair of spaced integrally formed ears 35 extend perpendicularly from the front face of neck cross arm 25 and accordingly are located adjacent the top of the neck portion. Preferably, the hook is centered relative to these ears 35.

Each ear 35 is relatively thick and generally rectangular in shape except that its front face or free end 36 is convex. Each ear 35 has a lengthwise bore or channel 37 extending to its outer face and terminating short of its free end 36 and also extending completely through the arm portion 25 of the web to its rear face. This shape of bore or channel 37 is clearly shown in FIG. 4.

Each ear 35 has a further lengthwise bore or channel 38 extending to the inner face of ear 35 and also to its free end 36. This shape of bore or channel 38 is clearly shown in FiG. 4. As also shown in FIG. 4, the two bores or channels 37 and 38 overlap each other lengthwise and their inner faces coincide, so as to define a through lateral bore 39 in ear 35. The rear end 38a of bore or channel 38 and the front end 37a of bore or channel 37 are concave so as together to define a bore composed of part cylindrical segments. In any event, it will be understood that the combined wall shape of bore 39 is such as to accommodate a cylindrical pin. It will further be apparent that the two bores or channels 37 and 38 may readily be formed by pins in the mold, so

planar arms.

that the resulting bore 39 is formed in the initial molding without the need for any further operations upon the hanger. It will further be apparent that the two bores 39 are laterally aligned.

The lower hanger member 10 comprises laterallyextending web or cross bar 11 reinforced along its marginal portion by rib 12. Depending from the ends'ofweb 11 to provide a two-point support are the pair of' garment clips 15 each in the form of a series of fingers integrally formed with web 11, The fingers 16, 17 and 18 of each series 15 cooperate to frictionally retain a garment, such as a ladies skirt, mens trousers, and the like at two spaced points. See FIG. 1.

The series of fingers 15 forming each clip includes an outer finger 16, inner finger 18 and intermediate finger 17. Each finger 16, 17 and 18 are slightly spaced one from the other in the lateral direction. It will be noted that the inner finger 18 and outer finger 16 of each series 15'are each forwardly offset relative to the main plane of web 11. The inner finger 17 is rearwardly offset to extend to the other side of theplane of'web 11. 7

As shown in FIGS. 1 and 5, each of the fingers 16, 17 and 18 terminate in a bullet-shaped or spon-shaped tip the bullet tips 16a, 17a, and 18 of each finger have convexly curved faces projecting to define in each instance a shoulder 16b, 17b, and 18b spaced from the offset portion joining each of the fingers to web 11. The contour or convex surfaces of the spoon-shaped or bullet tips 16a, 17a and respectively, of the fingers 16, 17, 13 face each other, with the thickened portion of the bul-.

let tips or faces extending beyond the plane of web 11. See FIG. 2. Thus, the arrangement is such that the 16a, 17a and 18a respectively. As best seen in FIG. 5,

spoon-shaped or bullet tips518a, 16a of the inner andouter fingers 18, 16'overlie the bullet tips 17a of middle finger 17 when viewed from one end of the hanger. With this construction, it will be noted that a space 19 is defined between opposed intermediate portions 15c,

17c, 180 of the cooperating fingers 16, 17, 18, respectively.

The bullet tip 17a of middle finger 17 extends downwardly and terminates below the tips 16a and 18a of the other two fingers 16, 18. The extension of the middle finger 17 and the cooperating facing contours 16d and .7

18d of the'bullet tips 16, 18a of the adjacent inner and outer fingers thereby define a guide opening or path to facilitate the insertion of the garment up past bullet tips 1d, 17a, 18a. The fingers 16, 17, 18 being resilient, will give slightly and permits the garmentto pass bet-ween -the opposed-fingers-16, 17, 18. The side of the finger in FIG. 1.

lower hanger cars 45 respectively have aligned pins 46 extending inwardly from their faces 45a, as clearly shown in FIG. 4. 7 p

In assembly, with the lower hanger member10 taken still hot from the mold, the spaced apart arms .43 are spaced so asto maintain the bosses 45 farther apart than their final position, permitting the inner ends of pins 46 to clear the outer faces of ears 35. The ears 45 are then located adjacent the outer sides of ears35, with pins 46 in alignment with bores 3%.. The still hot and soft arms '43 may then' be bent to final spacing whereby the pins 46' enter and extend through the bores 39, with the ears 45 then located relatively closely adjacent but clearingthe outer faces of ears 35, as shown The pins 4d are. turnable within'bores 39, permitting the lower hanger to be moved, as shown in its broken line position of FIG. 3.. i V

. The resultingstru'cture is extremely simple, since the hinge pins are integral with the lower hanger and since the provision of the spaced apart arms 43 carrying the hinge pins 46 permits assembly, while the lower hanger member is still hot and soft and fresh from the mold, without the need for elaborate tools or machining opertions.

It will also be understood that the somewhat resilient nature of the plastic of which the hangers is made makes omissions and additions may be made in the invention 7 :without departing from thescope and spirit thereof.

We claim: V 1. A garment supporting device comprising a pair of flat upper and lower hanger members of uni-tarily molded thermoplastic, the upper hanger member having a central neck portion and shoulder portions extending out- ,wardly from each side edge of said neck portionand having a pair of spaced integrally, formed upper hanger ears extending perpendicularly from a face of its neck portion, the lower hanger member having a cross bar,

, spaced garment clip members depending from. said cross bar, a central neck portion extending upwardly from said cross bar and terminating at its upper end in spacedapant, coplanar arms supported at their lower ends, and a pair of spaced, integrally'formed lower hanger ears respectively extending upwardly from the upper ends .of said arms with the lower hanger earspositioned adjacent outer faces of the upper hanger ears, said upper lower laterally spaced arms 41' extending upwardly and a slightly convergingly from web 11. for strengthening purposes, extends between the upper ends of arms 41. Arms 43, which serve as extensions of arms 41, extendupwardly from the outer ends of arm 42 and diverge slightly upwardly. These arms 43 serve as and are defined in the claims as spaced apart, co-

A web 12a, similar to web 12, extends up the outer side edges of each arm 41, 43.

A pair of spaced, integrally formed cars 45 extend upwardly from the upper ends of arms 43. It will be A cross arm 42,"

understood that the term ears 45, as used in the specification and claims, is intended broadly to include any thickened bosses or other members of suliicient strength to support the'hinge pins. Each said ear or boss 45 is relatively thicker than the web- 45, optionally has a convex upper end and has an inner face 45a which is per pendicular to the plane of web 11 and arms43. The

hanger ears having aligned lateral' through bores, said lower hanger ears having respective aligned inwardly extending pins extended turnably through said respective bores. p g

2. Garment supporting device accordingtoclaim 1, each of saidupper hangerears having a lengthwise channel opening uponits outer face and terminating short of its free end and extending completely through said upper hanger neck portion and a furthe'r'lengthwise channel openingupon its inner faceand extending to its free end and overlapping lengthwise said first-mentioned lengthwise channel adjacent free end'of said ear, the inner faces of said lengthwise channels coinciding to define saidlateral bore. a 1

3. A garmentsupporting device comprising a pair of flat upper and lower hanger members of unitarily molded thermoplastic,'the upper hanger memberihaving a central neck portionand shoulder portions extending outwardly from each side edge of said neck portion and havinga pair hanger member having a cross bar, spaced. garment clip members depending from said cross bar, a central neck portion extending upwardly from said cross bar, said central neck portion comprising spaced-apart, coplanar arm members connecting at their lower ends to the upper edge of said cross bar, a further cross bar connecting said arm members approximately at their midpoints to define spaced-apart, coplanar arm upper portions of said arm members above said further cross bar and supported at their lower ends by said further cross bar, and a pair of spaced, integrally formed lower hanger ears respectively extending upwardly from the upper ends of said upper arm portions, said lower hanger ears thickened relative to said arm members with the lower hanger ears positioned adjacent outer faces of the upper hanger ears, said upper hanger ears having aligned lateral through bores, said lower hanger ears having respective aligned inwardly extending pins extended turnably through said respective bores.

4. Garment supporting device according to claim 3, each of said upper hanger ears having a lengthwise channel opening upon its outer face and terminating shont of its free end and extending completely through said upper hanger neck portion and a further lengthwise channel opening upon its inner face extending and to its free end and overlapping lengthwise said first-mentionad lengthwise channel adjacent said free end of said ear, the inner faces of said lengthwise channels coinciding to define said lateral bore.

References Cited by the Examiner UNITED STATES PATENTS 568,469 9/96 Abrams 211-99 2,137,268 11/38 Clairon 22388 X 2,634,032 4/53 Barlett 223--88 2,822,967 2/58 Spitz 223-88 3,047,196 7/62 Levine et a1. 22396 JORDAN FRANKLIN, Primary Examiner.

Claims (1)

1. A GARMENT SUPPORTING DEVICE COMPRISING A PAIR OF FLAT UPPER AND LOWER HANGER MEMBERS OF UNITARILY MOLDED THERMOPLASTIC, THE UPPER HANGER MEMBR HAVING A CENTRAL NECK PORTION AND SHOULDER PORTIONS EXTENDING OUTWARDLY FROM EACH SIDE EDGE OF SAID NECK PORTIONS AND HAVING A PAIR OF SPACED INTEGRALLY FORMED UPPER HANGER EARS EXTENDING PERPENDICULARLY FROM A FACE OF ITS NECK PORTION, THE LOWER HANGER MEMBER HAVING A CROSS BAR, SPACED GARMENT CLIP MEMBERS DEPENDING FROM SAID CROSS BAR, A CENTRAL NECK PORTION EXTENDING UPWARDLY FROM SAID CROSS BAR AND TERMINATING AT ITS UPPER END IN SPACEDAPART, COPLANAR ARMS SUPPORTED AT THEIR LOWER ENDS, AND A PAIR OF SPACED, INTEGRALLY FORMED LOWER HANGER EARS RESPECTIVELY EXTENDING UPWARDLY FROM THE UPPER ENDS OF SAID ARMS WITH THE LOWER HANGER EARS POSITIONED ADJACENT OUTER FACES OF THE UPPER HANGER EARS, SAID UPPER HANGER EARS HAVING ALIGNED LATERAL THROUGH BORES, SAID LOWER HANGER EARS HAVING RESPECTIVE ALIGNED INWARDLY EXTENDING PINS EXTENDED TURNABLY THROUGH SAID RESPECTIVE BORES.

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