Crease keeper
OwnerRobert B. Cheek,III, Albert E. Cheekinventors
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Abstract
A crease keeper for maintaining trouser creases and mitigate wrinkling including a pair of spring loaded trouser leg expanders hung from a support system having a hook for hanging the entire assembly with trousers attached in a closet or other location. One embodiment employs a wirelike frame having coil spring cartridges affixed thereto providing crease maintenance forces tending to stretching trouser legs. An alternate embodiment employs a wirelike frame having a first and second portion thereof formed into springs providing crease maintenance forces.
Claims5
A crease keeper for maintaining a crease in trouserlike garments comprising:
- two spring loaded wirelike frame members affixed to a spreader bar by a frame member attachment means, wherein each of the spring loaded wirelike frame members comprise a U-shaped frame pair of stiff wirelike composition,
- a spring loading means affixed to and providing expansive force to said wirelike frame members, said spring loading means comprising;
- a cartridge housing having an elongated cylindrical member with a first rodlike interface member affixed to a substantially closed bottom portion thereof and a caplike member slidably disposed upon a free end of said first elongated cylindrical member and affixed thereon using a threaded fastener,
- a compression spring member disposed within said cartridgelike housing wherein a first free end of said compression spring member engages said elongated cylindrical member and a second free end of said compression spring member engages a cup like member affixed to a second rodlike interface member wherein said second rodlike interface member slidably engages a flanged centrally disposed hole of said caplike member, and
- a first interface attachment means for joining said first rodlike interface member and a portion of said wirelike frame member and a second interface attachment means for joining said second interface member and a portion of said wirelike frame member;
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- a hooklike hanger pivotably affixed to the spreader bar by a swivel loop attachment, said swivel loop attachment having a ringlike portion and a straightened portion with a free end being peened to form an enlarged head which permanently affixes said swivel loop attachment to said hooklike hanger, said hook like member capable of engaging a rodlike member disposed in a closet with said wirelike frame member being disposed within a leg of a trouserlike garment and suspended therefrom.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.