Lock for coats and other sleeved garments
AssigneeThe Raymond Lee Organization, Inc.
InventorDaryl A. Nelson
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Abstract
A clothing hanger member of conventional shape has symmetrical right and left sides, each with its own end. Reel means is attached to the left end of the member and reels flexible cable into the reel means when the cable is not under tension. The free end of the cable is fitted with lock means that locks the cable into a loop and simultaneously locks a hanger means around a clothes bar to prevent theft. When the cable is passed through the sleeve of a sleeved garment and locked into a loop, the garment cannot be removed from the device without being cut, and the device cannot be removed from the bar, without interlocking the lock means.
Claims4
A coat lock, comprising:
- a clothing hanger member which is elongated and has opposed pair of ends;
- hanger means with two curved members that each have a free end, the hanger means being attached to the top of the hanger member intermediate its ends to enable the hanger means to be secured to a clothes bar when the free ends of the members are secured together and to enable the hanger means to be detached from the clothes bar when the free ends of the members are separated from each other;
- a flexible cable secured at one end to an end of the hanger member;
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- lock means attached to the end of the cable remote from the hanger member and detachably securing this remote end to the free ends of the curved members to form a closed loop while simultaneously securing the free ends of the members together.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.