Intimate apparel hanger with garment clamping arms

A garment hanger having an elongated body and supporting hook means midway between the ends of said body, the opposite ends of said body being identical and each comprising:

• a first arm at the body's outer end and spaced from and overlying the top of and integral with said body at the end thereof adjacent the end of said body, said first arm forming a receiving slot between said first arm and said body;
• the outer end of said slot being enlarged downwardly to form a garment holding pocket recessed into said body adjacent the end of said first arm integral with said body;
• said pocket at its entrance having a tongue extending outwardly of said body into said pocket and spaced from the bottom of said pocket for dividing said pocket into upper and lower portions and providing a restricted entrance to the lower portion of said pocket, a plurality of upstanding projections on the upper surface of said body in said slot and directed toward said arm for partially closing said slot;
• said body having a second arm, said second arm extending toward the center of said body adjacent the lower edge of said body and forming a garment receiving slot along the body's lower edge, the outer end of said second arm being integral with said body;
• a downwardly extending third arm integral with said body at its upper end with the end of said body and forming a downwardly opening garment receiving slot, the entrances to said slots to cause clamping of garments seated in the slots.

A garment hanger having an elongated body and support means extending upwardly therefrom, the opposite ends of said body being identical and each comprising:

• a downwardly extending arm at the body's outer end, said arm being spaced from the end wall of said body, said arm forming a vertically extending pocket between the arm and the body;
• a first finger spaced from both said end wall and said arm extending upwardly within said pocket and dividing said pocket into a garment receiving channel open at its lower end and an elongated deflection chamber adjacent said end wall and closed at its lower end, the lower end of said first finger being integral with said body and the upper end of said first finger being spaced from the upper end of said pocket whereby said first finger can be deflected into said chamber by a garment inserted into said channel, means at the entrance to said channel extending partially across said entrance and restricting the width thereof for positively gripping a garment inserted in said channel, said first finger being resiliently resistant to deflection to firmly press against a garment inserted into said channel;
• a generally horizontally and inwardly extending second arm adjacent to and integral with the body's outer end, said second arm being spaced from the upper edge of said body, said second arm forming a generally horizontally extending second pocket between the second arm and the top of the body;
• a second finger spaced from both the top of said body and the bottom face of said second arm extending outwardly into said second pocket and dividing said pocket into a garment receiving channel adjacent said arm and an elongated deflection chamber below said second finger, the outer end of said second finger being spaced from the outer end of said second pocket whereby said second finger can be deflected downwardly into said chamber by a garment inserted into said channel, a plurality of first garment gripping means projecting upwardly from the upper surface of said second finger into said channel and second garment gripping means projecting downwardly from the lower surface of said second arm between at least a pair of said first gripping means for positively securing a garment inserted into said channel, said second finger being resiliently resistant to deflection to firmly press against a garment inserted into said channel.

A garment hanger having an elongated body and support means extending upwardly therefrom, the opposite ends of said body being identical and each comprising:

• a downwardly extending arm at the body's outer end, said arm being spaced from the end wall of said body, said arm forming a vertically extending end pocket between the arm and the body said pocket being blind at its upper end, said pocket opening at its lower end;
• upper and lower horizontal arms each forming a blind pocket opening toward the center of the hanger;
• all of said pockets having a finger therein the free end of which is adjacent the blind end of the pocket;
• each of said fingers being integral the hanger body at its end opposite from its free end and each finger dividing the pocket into which it is located in a garment receiving channel adjacent the arm and a deflection chamber adjacent the face of the finger opposite from the arm;
• means at the entrance to each of the channels extending partially across said entrance to restrict the width thereof for positively gripping a garment inserted in the channel;
• each of said fingers having a stop element on its free end extending into said deflection chamber for limiting deflection of said finger.