Garment hanger having a removable size indicator
AssigneeSpotless Plastics Pty. Ltd.
InventorsStanley F. Gouldson, Olaf Olk
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Abstract
A garment hanger having a releasable size indicator. The garment hanger including a hook for suspending the hanger on a support and a body connected to the hook; the hanger having at least one web for removably securing a size indicator to the hanger, the web having a fixed latch and a pivoting latch; and a size indicator having at least one engagement abutment and fingers for engaging the fixed and pivoting latches such that the size indicator is secured on the web during normal use, but wherein the size indicator may be released from the web when the pivoting latch is pivoted out of engagement with the fingers of the size indicator.
Claims32
A garment hanger having a releasable size indicator, the garment hanger comprising:
- a hanging means for suspending the hanger from a support and a body connected to the hanging means;
- the hanger having at least one web for removably securing a size indicator to the hanger, the web having a fixed latch and a pivoting latch;
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- a size indicator having finger means for engaging the fixed and pivoting latches such that the size indicator is secured on the web during normal use, but wherein the size indicator may be released from the web when the pivoting latch is pivoted out of engagement with the finger means of the size indicator.
A size indicator to be removably secured to a web of a garment hanger, the size indicator comprising a face and two sides depending therefrom defining a channel, each of the sides terminating in a foremost edge, the face having a pair of spaced projections substantially configured to receive an outermost portion of the web therebetween for preventing a lateral movement of the size indicator when the size indicator is secured on the web, each of the sides having an engagement abutment disposed between the face and foremost edge and an inwardly facing ridge disposed at each of the foremost edges and projecting inwards towards the channel for engaging a fixed ridge and a pivoting ridge on the web.
A garment hanger having a releasable size indicator, the garment hanger comprising:
- a hanging means for suspending the hanger on a support and a body connected to the hanging means;
- the hanger having at least one web for removably securing a size indicator to the hanger, the web having a fixed latch and two pivoting latches;
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- a size indicator having finger means for engaging the fixed and pivoting latches such that the size indicator is secured on the web during normal use, but wherein the size indicator may be released from the web when the pivoting latch is pivoted out of engagement with the finger means of the size indicator.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.