Relating to clothes hangers
OwnerNorman Fraser Mackenzieinventor
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Abstract
Constituent elements of a clothes hanger comprising one or more planar segments (1, 3) that can be assembled to form a clothes hanger for suspending a garment, the assembly typically involving folding the one or more planar segments and fixing them together, the fixing means (1A, 1B; 2A, 2B; 3A, 3B; 4A, 4B; 5A, 5B, 6A, 6B; 7A, 7B; 8A, 8B) including glue or tabs, wings etc. The clothes hanger may employ planar or tubular grippers hanger tubes for forming or bulking out arms of the hanger, etc. Manufacturing methods are also provided for manufacturing a clothes hanger.
Claims17
A clothes hanger comprising planar segments that are paper based or fiber-board based and that are assembled to define a hanger shape for suspending a garment, comprising:
- a hanger frame formed from a first planar segment having outwardly extending arms;
- a top strip formed from a second planar segment;
- wherein:
- the top strip is horizontally secured onto each of the arms of the hanger frame with the hanger frame disposed vertically, and
- the hanger frame has a plurality of in-plane tabs projecting outwards from an upper surface of each arm of the hanger frame and the top strip has a plurality of apertures corresponding to the plurality of tabs of the hanger frame such that the tabs of the hanger frame have slotted into the apertures of the top strip.
A cylindrical clothes gripper that is paper based or fiber-board based for gripping a garment to be suspended by the gripper, comprising:
- opposing channel walls defining a channel therebetween within which a portion of the garment may be inserted from a tip of the channel towards a base of the channel;
- a plurality of teeth protruding into the channel from the opposing channel walls for engaging a portion of a garment.
A box gripper element comprising:
- first and second planar clothes grippers that is paper based or fiber-board based, comprising:
- opposing channel walls defining a channel therebetween within which a portion of the garment may be inserted from a tip of the channel towards a base of the channel;
- a plurality of teeth protruding into the channel from the opposing channel walls for engaging a portion of a garment
- the box gripper element comprising a box having four interconnected walls defining a tube and the first planar clothes gripper is formed in one wall of the box such that the channel of the planar clothes hanger gripper extends parallel to the axis of the tube, and the box further comprising:
- the second planar clothes gripper, wherein:
- the first and second planar clothes grippers are disposed on opposing walls of the box.
A clothes hanger for suspending a garment, comprising:
- a hanger centre piece formed from a planar segment that is paper based or fiber-board based and;
- hanger tubes that are paper based or fiber-board based and have a first end and a second end, wherein:
- the hanger tubes are arranged to fit onto the hanger centre piece,
- wherein the hanger tubes serve as hanger arms extending outwardly from the centre piece from which a garment may be suspended
- wherein a plurality of loop configurations sharing a common spine, or a slitted or slotted arrangement extending partly through a circumference of the respective tube, is formed at a first end region encompassing the first end of each hanger tube to allow for bending of the respective hanger tube.
A clothes hanger, comprising:
- a hanger frame formed from a first planar segment that is paper based or fiber-board based, the first planar segment having outwardly extending arms from which a garment can be suspended and a slot;
- a hanger hook that is wire-based;
- a bracket defining upper and lower legs each of which having holes accommodating the hanger hook, the holes of the bracket facilitating the sliding of the bracket along the hanger hook from a tip of the hanger hook so as to rest on a widened end of the hanger hook, the bracket being inserted into the slot of the hanger frame, portions of each leg extend through the slot and are folded thereby to secure the bracket and the hanger hook to the hanger frame.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.