Single hand operated collapsing hanger
OwnerKyle L. Baltzinventor
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Abstract
A garment hanger with particular ease of use advantage when removing or hanging crew neck or turtleneck type shirts or blouses. The hanger provides an easily manipulated and intuitive mechanism for collapsing the garment support portions of the hanger, thus allowing for simple passage through the narrow neck hole of a garment. The hanger further provides an easily manipulated and intuitive mechanism for returning the folded garment support portions to their extended and supportive positions, which can be done with the hanger enveloped within a garment, thus providing an improved means for hanging some shirts or blouses without the need to feed a hanger up through the bottom opening of the garment.
Claims20
A latch mechanism comprising:
- a first body movable in a first direction relative to a second body;
- a latch member movable relative to the first body and the second body between a latched position and an unlatched position, wherein the latch member is configured to selectively allow movement of a plunger of the second body relative to the first body when the latch member is in the unlatched position thereby permitting movement of the first body in a first direction relative to the second body and wherein the latch member is configured to selectively restrict movement of the plunger relative to the first body via direct contact between the latch member and the plunger when the latch member is in the latched position thereby selectively preventing movement of the first body in a first direction relative to the second body;
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- a spring in direct contact with the latch member and configured to urge the latch member into the unlatched position and into the latched position.
A latch mechanism comprising;
- a first hub;
- a second hub pivotably mounted to the first hub;
- a first body pivotably connected to the first hub at a first axis;
- and
- a second body pivotably connected to the second hub at a second axis and pivotable relative to the first body;
- wherein the first body and the second body are pivotably and slidably connected to the first hub at a third axis spaced between the first axis and the second axis such that pivoting of the first hub relative to the second hub causes pivoting of the first body and the second body relative to one another at a rate different from a rate at which the first hub is pivoted relative to the first hub.
A method for adjusting a garment hanger including:
- a) lifting a first end of a shoulder support away from a garment support surface of the garment hanger;
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- b) during step a), pivoting the shoulder support about an axis transverse to the garment support surface of the garment hanger.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.