US 5,085,358 AGranted

Adjustable clothes hanger

OwnerPeter Ar-Fu Laminventor

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Abstract

A clothes hanger in which each hanger arm is adjustable in length by means of an extender arm mounted for pivoting and sliding movement along a support arm. The support arm and the extender arm each have locator elements which co-act to hold the extender arm in a selected position on the support arm. The extender arm can be pivoted to disengage the locator elements and free the extender arm to permit it to slide to a new selected position; and then pivoted in reverse direction to re-engage the locator elements. Therefore, the effective length of the hanger arm can be selected and varied as desired.

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A clothes hanger comprising:

a suspension member;
first and second elongated support arms extending symmetrically from near said suspension member, said support arms each having a first end proximate to said suspension member and a second end distal from said suspension member;
first and second extender arms respectively supported on said first and second support arms;
each extender arm having an inner terminal end toward the suspension member and an outer terminal end away from the suspension members;
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a locator element on each extender arm engageable to any one of a series of aligned mating locator elements on its respective support arm for fixing the position of the extender arm in aligned relationship with the support arm at a preselected position to present an effectively continuous clothing support which is adjustable in length for an item of clothing;
each extender arm and its respective support arm having cooperative means for allowing pivoting in a given direction of the extender arm out of alignment with the support arm such that upon pivoting the locator element of the extender arm will move out of engagement with the mating locator element of the support arm and upon reverse pivoting into alignment the locator element of the extender arm will move into engagement with a mating locator element of the support arm;
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the extender arm and the support arm being adapted for allowing axial sliding movement of the extender arm along the support arm when in the said pivoted position to permit locating the locator element of the extender arm is position for engagement with any selected locator element of the support arm upon reverse pivoting into the aligned relationship of the support arm and the extender arm;
each extender arm inner terminal end having first and second spaced parallel side walls, extending along opposite sides of the support arm, the second one of said side walls terminating at its inner terminal end a distance short of the point of termination of the first one of said side walls at its inner terminal end thereby defining an opening whereby upon pivoting the extender arm, the opening may be aligned with the height of the support arm permitting the extender arm to be assembled onto or disassembled from the support arm by lateral movement therebetween.

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A clothing hanger comprising

a suspension member extending upwardly from a central joining area;
a pair of support arms extending from the central joining area at an angle symmetrically downwardly away from the central joining area the support arms having a first end proximate to the central joining area and a second end distal from the central joining area defining therebetween a lengthwise axis and having a generally rectangular cross section defined by an upper surface and outwardly facing side surfaces and a lower surface and having interposed in the lower surface, walls defining an axial row of recesses which are downwardly open and extend laterally across the support arms being open at each side;
an extender arm on each support arm having an elongate body portion extending from an outer terminal end away from the central joining area to an inner terminal end toward the central joining area, the body portion formed of a top and spaced parallel first and second side walls defining a channel of rectangular cross-section for receiving therein the support arm and the top wall terminating at a first point toward the central joining area and the first side wall extending further toward the central joining area than the termination of the top wall and said first side wall having a protrusion extending across the channel from a lower area of the said first side wall from a point closer to the central joining area than the termination of the top wall thereby defining a pivoting space between the protrusion and the termination of the top wall and the protrusion extending across the channel into a selected one of the recesses;
and the second side wall extending a lesser distance toward the central joining area than the first side wall defining a side space between the terminal end of the second side wall and the protrusion, the side space having a dimension to allow the extension arm to be assembled onto the support arm by the support arm entering the side space by lateral movement.

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A clothes hanger comprising:

a suspension member;
first and second elongated support arms extending symmetrically from near said suspension member, said support arms each having a first end proximate to said suspension member and a second end distal from said suspension member;
first and second extender arms respectively supported on and generally aligned with said first and second support arms when in a clothes hanging position each extender arm having an inner terminal end toward the suspension member and an outer terminal end away from the suspension members and being pivotable by upward pivotal movement of the outer terminal end and downward pivotal movement of the inner terminal end thereby defining upward pivotal movement and being moveable along the support arm when the extender arm is in the upward pivoted position;
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a locator element on each extender arm near its inner terminal end engageable to any one of a series of aligned downwardly open spaced apart recesses whereby the locator element may enter into any selected one of the recesses from below said recess for setting the position of the extender member relative to the support arm;
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the recesses of the support arm having walls for preventing upward and longitudinal movement of the locator element received therein, when the hanger is in clothes hanging orientation and said recesses being closed by a integral wall on at least one lateral side of the support arm.

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Abstract

A clothes hanger comprising:

a suspension member;
first and second elongated support arms extending symmetrically from near said suspension member, said support arms each having a first end proximate to said suspension member and a second end distal from said suspension member;
first and second extender arms respectively supported on said first and second support arms;
each extender arm having an inner terminal end toward the suspension member and an outer terminal end away from the suspension members;
and
a locator element on each extender arm engageable to any one of a series of aligned mating locator elements on its respective support arm for fixing the position of the extender arm in aligned relationship with the support arm at a preselected position to present an effectively continuous clothing support which is adjustable in length for an item of clothing;
each extender arm and its respective support arm having cooperative means for allowing pivoting in a given direction of the extender arm out of alignment with the support arm such that upon pivoting the locator element of the extender arm will move out of engagement with the mating locator element of the support arm and upon reverse pivoting into alignment the locator element of the extender arm will move into engagement with a mating locator element of the support arm;
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the extender arm and the support arm being adapted for allowing axial sliding movement of the extender arm along the support arm when in the said pivoted position to permit locating the locator element of the extender arm is position for engagement with any selected locator element of the support arm upon reverse pivoting into the aligned relationship of the support arm and the extender arm;
each extender arm inner terminal end having first and second spaced parallel side walls, extending along opposite sides of the support arm, the second one of said side walls terminating at its inner terminal end a distance short of the point of termination of the first one of said side walls at its inner terminal end thereby defining an opening whereby upon pivoting the extender arm, the opening may be aligned with the height of the support arm permitting the extender arm to be assembled onto or disassembled from the support arm by lateral movement therebetween.

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