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US 5,806,727 AGranted
Garment hangers
OwnerMarshall Josephinventor
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Abstract
An improved unitary garment hangers is provided wherein an angular leg extension of a central hanger support structure, such as a hook, cooperates with, and connects to, the apex connection between upper ends of hanger shoulder supports. The perimeter distance along one shoulder support from the outer end thereof to the angular leg extension is substantially greater than the corresponding distance for the other shoulder support. This shoulder length differential is achieved either by the support angular leg extension or by a combination of this extension with a terminally adjacent upper portion of one shoulder support. Such a garment hanger permits both rapid and easy inserting or removing of the hanger through a garment neck region without stretching or tearing of the garment, and inserting or removing the hanger from underneath the garment.
Claims24
An improved garment hanger comprising:
- two elongated arm means, each one for supporting a different opposed shoulder of a garment, each one having an outer end and an inner end, each one generally oppositely and downwardly extending relative to one another and to a mid-region therebetween, each said inner end meeting the other at an apex location which is offset from said mid-region when viewed in side elevation;
- suspending means for hanging said arm means from a common superior location so that said arm means are in a generally symmetrical, balanced relationship relative to one another and to said mid-region, said suspending means having an associated depending elongated connecting leg whose lower end terminates at said apex location;
- connecting means for joining together both said inner ends and said lower end at said apex location;
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- said elongated connecting leg having a medial angled knee and a lower leg portion that extends between said knee and said lower end, said knee being spaced from said apex location, said lower leg portion having an inclined orientation such that said lower leg portion defines an extension of one of said arm means commencing at, and extending from, said apex location to a location that is substantially at said knee
- said one arm means having defined therein in the region thereof adjacent to said apex location a generally J-configured length which is generally coplanar therewith and with said lower leg portion, thereby providing in cooperation with said lower leg portion and said apex location a laterally extending open intrusion that extends below said angled knee generally coplanarly;
- the relationship between, and the respective configurations of, said one arm means, said lower leg portion, said apex region, and said intrusion being such that, when said one arm means is inserted into the neck region of a necked garment, said one arm means and said intrusion are slidably advanceable into said neck region until said neck region is located substantially beyond said mid-region with said neck region being in adjacent relationship to a region of said lower leg portion and also to said knee.
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An improved garment hanger comprising:
- two elongated arm means, each one for supporting a different opposed shoulder of a garment, each one having an outer end and an inner end, each one generally oppositely and downwardly extending relative to one another and to a mid-region therebetween, each said inner end meeting the other at an apex location which is offset from said mid-region;
- suspending means for hanging said arm means from a common superior location so that said arm means are in a generally symmetrical, balanced relationship relative to one another and to said mid-region, said suspending means having an associated depending elongated connecting leg whose lower end terminates at said apex location;
- connecting means for joining together both said inner ends and said lower end;
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- said elongated connecting leg having a medial angled knee and a lower leg portion that extends between said knee and said lower end, said lower leg portion having an inclined orientation such that said lower leg portion defines an extension of one of said arm means commencing at said apex location, the other of said arm means having defined therein across said mid-region and adjacent to said apex location a generally J-configured inset which is generally below said lower leg portion, thereby providing in cooperation with said lower leg portion and said apex location a laterally extending intrusion in said hanger that extends below said angled knee whereby said intrusion provides a receiving channel so that the unobstructed perimeter distance along said other arm means from said outer end thereof extends substantially past said mid-region;
- whereby, when said other arm means is inserted into the neck region of a necked garment, said other arm means is advanceable through said neck region past said mid-region until said neck region is in adjacent relationship to said lower leg portion.
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A method for mounting a garment having a neck region and opposed shoulder portions, said method comprising the successive steps of:
- (a) providing the garment hanger of claim 26 with said hanger being oriented generally horizontally relative to the longitudinal axis of said garment when suspended from said neck region, inserting said other arm means through said neck and into said garment until said lower leg portion is approximately adjacent to said neck region;
- (b) tilting said hanger laterally relative to said garment while slipping said other arm means through said neck region whereby both of said arm means are in said garment while said suspending means remains outside but adjacent to said neck;
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- (c) orienting said hanger so that each one of said arm means is interiorly adjacent to a different respective one of said shoulder portions;
- whereby said garment hangs from said hanger when said hanger is suspended by said suspending means.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.