Compact garment hanger
AssigneeJessica Davidoff
InventorJessica Davidoff
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Abstract
A hanger is provided which supports long garments securely and easily in half or less length than the garment would occupy hanging on a conventional hanger. Such a garment hanger comprises: a primary support including a hook and elements arranged to suspend a top portion of a garment; an auxiliary support including a bar for suspending the bottom portion of the garment, shortening a total length of the garment thus supported; and the primary support and the auxiliary support including cooperative, non-locking elements detachably suspending the auxiliary support from the primary support with the bar close to the primary support.
Claims17
A hanger, comprising:
- a primary support including a hook and a set of arms operable to suspend a top portion of a garment;
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- a secondary support having a body portion, wherein a first end of the body portion includes a loop dependent from a top portion of the secondary support, the loop including a gap through which the hook of the primary support passes, wherein the hook passes through the gap, and wherein the loop engages around a top portion of the primary support proximate to the hook to support the secondary support from the primary support, and
- wherein a second end of the body portion includes a bar extending substantially horizontally for suspending a connected bottom portion of the garment and shortening a total length of the garment being supported by the primary support,
- the bar defining an opening formed between the bar and the body portion of the secondary support, the opening operable to pass a portion of the garment therethrough, and
- wherein the bar includes a distal end portion, the distal end portion including a transversely projecting lip integrally formed at the distal end portion of the bar and extending upwardly to define a garment-engaging surface operable to frictionally engage and retain the bottom portion of the garment on the bar.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.