Wraparound skirt and slack hanger with tension anchor
AssigneeBatts, Inc.
InventorsRussell O. Blanchard, John H. Batts
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Abstract
A hanger for garments of the type having a waistband has a rigid body resistant to compression loads applied lengthwise thereof. The ends of the hanger are so designed that the waistband of a garment can be wrapped around them and then resiliently pulled with sufficient force that the garment seats firmly against the end faces of the hanger body. The hanger has one or more hooks to engage the waistband and a resilient stretchable member to apply tension to the waistband by means of the hook. The end faces of the hanger are so designed that the garment, once tensioned along its waistband, will have no tendency to slide either upwardly or downwardly with respect to the hanger body.
Claims18
A garment hanger having a rigid body formed as a single straight elongated beam of fixed length, hook means for supporting said body, said body having a depending member at each end, said members each having an outwardly facing garment engaging end surface shaped to extend downwardly and outwardly to resist sliding movement relative thereto of a garment pulled firmly around both of said members to press the garment against said end surfaces;
- a pair of hooks each one adapted to engage an opposite end of a garment, the top of which garment extends along one face of the body and the ends thereof are wrapped around said members to seat against the opposite face of said body, tension means connecting said hooks and resiliently urging said hooks toward each other and the center of the body for applying equal tension to both ends of the garment and hold it against said end surfaces with said garment being substantially centered about the midpoint of the body between said end surfaces.
A garment hanger having a body, said body having vertically spaced upper and lower rigid compression resistant beam elements joined at each end by generally vertically extending end elements;
- hook means for supporting said body, the end faces of said end elements being shaped to resist sliding movement of a garment lengthwise of said end elements;
- support means forming part of said body and centered between said end elements and integral with said upper and lower beam elements, a pair of hooks;
- a resilient stretchable element joining said hooks to each other, anchor means for securing said stretchable element to said body substantially midway between said end elements, said stretchable element normally holding said hooks in retracted position adjacent said anchor means, each of said hooks adapted to engage an adjacent end of a garment, the top of which garment extends along one face of the body and the ends thereof are wrapped around said end elements to seat against the opposite face of said body, whereby said stretchable element is stretched for applying tension to the garment to pull the ends thereof toward each other and the center of the hanger and hold it against the outwardly directed faces of said end elements.
A garment hanger having upper and lower beam elements forming an elongated body of fixed length, hook means for supporting said body, said body having a depending end member at each end, said end members each having an outwardly facing garment engaging end surface shaped to resist sliding movement relative thereto of a garment pulled firmly around said end members to press the garment against said end surfaces;
- a pair of hooks each one adapted to engage an opposite end of a garment the top of which extends along one face of the body and the ends thereof are wrapped around said end members to seat against the opposite face of said body, an elongated resilient tension member resiliently urging said hooks toward each other and away from said end members for applying tension to the garment necessary to hold it against said surfaces of said end members;
- a pair of longitudinally spaced web elements joining said upper and lower beam elements, a vertically extending finger intermediate said web elements;
- the upper end of said finger being spaced from said upper beam element to create a passage through which said tension member can be passed whereby said tension member can be seated over said finger and between said finger and said web elements to prevent unintentional disassociation of said hooks from said body.
A garment hanger having an elongated body having upper and lower elements, hook means for supporting said body, said body having a depending member at each end, said members each having an outwardly facing garment engaging end surface shaped to resist sliding movement relative thereto of a garment pulled firmly around said members to press the garment against said end surfaces;
- a pair of hooks each one adapted to engage an opposite end of a garment, the top of which extends along one face of the body and the ends thereof are wrapped around said members to seat against the opposite face of said body, an elongated tension member resiliently urging said hooks toward each other for applying tension to the garment and hold it against said end surfaces;
- said upper and lower elements being joined by a pair of longitudinally spaced web elements, a vertically extending finger intermediate said web elements;
- the upper end of said finger being spaced from said upper element to create a passage through which said tension means can be passed whereby said tension means can be seated over said finger to prevent unintentional disassociation of said hooks from said body.
A garment hanger having a straight elongated rigid beam-like body of fixed length capable of withstanding longitudinal compressive pressure, said body having generally flat front and rear faces and a depending end member at each end, said members each having an outwardly facing garment engaging end surface shaped to resist downward sliding movement of a garment pulled firmly against said hanger's rear face and around said end members to press the garment against said end surfaces;
- said body and end members all being arranged in a single plane;
- a pair of hooks moveable along the rear of said body toward and away from each other and resilient stretchable means securing said hooks to each other and to said body substantially at the midpoint between said end members and urging them toward each other and the center of said body;
- each of said hooks being adapted to engage a different end of the waistband of a garment, the front and back portions of which waistband are seated against the front face of said body and wrapped around both of said end members and said stretchable means in stretched condition urging said hooks toward each other and causing the garment to seat firmly against both said front and rear faces and pull firmly against both of said end surfaces of said end members with the resilient means equalizing the degree of tension applied to the opposite ends of the garment.
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