Article gripping means and method of making same
AssigneeBatts, Inc.
InventorJudd Garrison
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Abstract
A molded plastic garment hanger having a pair of hingedly connected jaws is provided with a thin pad of resilient thermoplastic rubber molded to the inner surface of one or both of the garment gripping jaws which pad is formed by injection molding during the molding cycle which forms the hanger body itself with a short dwell period between the injection of the resin forming the hanger body and that forming the pad so that the pad and body become fused together at the boundary between them.
Claims9
A molded plastic garment hanger having a body of injection molded plastic which body has jaws for resiliently engaging and supporting a garment placed between them, at least one of said jaws having a garment engaging pad of a resilient thermoplastic rubber having a Shore A hardness in the range of 28 to 45 and a substantially flat surface having a high frictional resistance to movement parallel thereto and being of a thickness such that the pad is capable of resisting distortion due to the weight of the garment it is used to support, said body and said pad being fused together at a boundary zone between the hanger body and the pad.
A polymer molded plastic garment clamping hanger having an improved garment gripping means, said hanger having a pair of jaws pivotally joined whereby they can be moved toward and away from each other for receiving and clamping a garment seated between them, the inwardly directed face of each of said jaws being flat and having a garment engaging pad, the improvement in said pad comprising:
- said pad being permanently bonded to the hanger body by a non-rupturable permanent bond without adhesives at the boundary between the polymers of the pad and those of the hanger boy, which bond will not permit separation of the pad from the hanger body during repeated subsequent use even with heavy clothing, said pads each being a thin layer of substantially uniform thickness on a flat surface of the jaw and having a flat garment engaging surface having a high coefficient of friction and capable of garment engagement throughout its entire area facing toward the garment.
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