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US 4,615,447 AGranted
Security garment display stand
AssigneeProtoned B.V.
InventorHerbert Walter
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AssigneeProtoned B.V.
InventorHerbert Walter
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Holding rods (4) are mounted to swing on a supporting device (1 to 3), the upper end portion (4.1) of which rods is inclined upwards at an angle .alpha. between 10.degree. and 30.degree. to the horizontal. On each of these upper end portions (4.1) there can be put a coat hanger (5), which is intended to receive a garment to be displayed. For this purpose the coat hanger (5) is provided with a reception opening (9), which is formed along one of the two carrier arms (5.1), in its interior. The end portion (4.1) is provided with a circumferential latching groove (42), in which the bolt (46) of a locking device (10) is intended to engage, when the coat hanger (5) has been fully pushed onto the holding rod (4) up to an end abutment (49). The coat hanger (5), together with the garment on it, can only be removed from the holding rod (4) after unbolting of the locking device (10) has been effected. For display of garment combinations with garments for the legs, the coat hanger (5) can be provided with a trousers bar (13), the security of the garment for the legs then being effected by means of a trousers security device (14), the latching action of which with respect to the trousers bar (13) can be removed in combination with the release of the coat hanger locking device (10).
Security garment display stand with a supporting device (1 to 3) and a number of holding rods (4) in swinging connection to the supporting device, each for lockable reception of a coat hanger (5) with two carrier arms (5.1, 5.2) projecting sideways and a central middle portion (5.3), characterised in that the holding rods (4) have an end portion (4.1) which can engage in one (5.1) of the two carrier arms, and is inclined upwards at an angle (.alpha.) of 10.degree. to 30.degree. to the horizontal, that one carrier arm (5.1) of the coat hanger (5) has an opening (9) penetrating this arm in its longitudinal direction, for reception of the end portion (4.1) of the holding rod, that this end portion has a latching groove (42) for engagement of a bolt (46) releasable by a locking device (10), that the receiving opening (9) is provided with an abutment part (49) for determining the depth of penetration of the end portion of the holding rod into the carrier arm (5.1) of the coat hanger (5), and that, in relation to the end portion (4.1) of the holding rod, the coat hanger (5) is arranged to swing on it.
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