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US 6,179,174 B2Granted
Adjustable hanger
OwnerLaura L. Kandlinventor
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Abstract
An adjustable hanger is provided having a V-shaped hanging member and two V-shaped connectors, the V-shaped hanging member having a hook portion attached to two shaft members. Optionally, the hook portion may be pivotally attached to the two shaft members via a swivel. The V-shaped connectors are slidably engageable with the V-shaped hanging member and each other providing the user with an easy to use hanger that can be adjusted from eighteen inches to twenty-eight inches accommodating numerous different sizes of clothes.
Claims14
An adjustable hanger, comprising:
- a V-shaped hanging member having a hook portion, and first and second shaft portions each having upper and lower ends, wherein the upper ends of the first and second shaft portions extend from a lower end of the hook portion;
- a first V-shaped connector, having first and second ends, the first end of said first V-shaped connector being slidably and frictionally engageable with the second end of the first shaft portion of said V-shaped hanging member, said first V-shaped connector being maintained in a first position relative to said second end of the first shaft portion by said friction engagement until said first V-shaped connector is moved to a second position by manually overcoming said friction engagement between said first end of said V-shaped connector and said second end of the first shaft portion of said V-shaped hanging member;
- a second V-shaped connector, having first and second ends, the first end of said second V-shaped connector being slidably and frictionally engageable with the second end of the second shaft portion of said V-shaped hanging member, said second V-shaped connector being maintained in a first position relative to said second end of the second shaft portion by said friction engagement until said second V-shaped connector is moved to a second position by manually overcoming said friction engagement between said first end of said second V-shaped connector and the second end of said second shaft portion of said V-shaped hanging member;
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- an engagement tube slidably and frictionally engaging the second ends of said first and second V-shaped connectors.
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An adjustable hanger, comprising:
- a V-shaped hanging member having a hook portion, and first and second shaft portions each having upper and lower ends, wherein the upper ends of the first and second shaft portions extend from a lower end of the hook portion;
- a first V-shaped connector, having first and second ends, the first end of said first V-shaped connector being slidably and frictionally engageable with the second end of the first shaft portion of said V-shaped hanging member, said first V-shaped connector being maintained in a first position relative to said second end of the first shaft portion by said friction engagement until said first V-shaped connector is moved to a second position by manually overcoming said friction engagement between said first end of said V-shaped connector and said second end of the first shaft portion of said V-shaped hanging member;
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- a second V-shaped connector, having first and second ends, the first end of said second V-shaped connector being slidably and frictionally engageable with the second end of the second shaft portion of said V-shaped hanging member, and the second end of said second V-shaped connector being slidably and frictionally engageable with the second end of said first V-shaped connector, said first and second V-shaped connectors being maintained in a first position relative to each other and to said first and second ends of said V-shaped hanging member, respectively, by said friction engaszement until said first and second V-shaped connectors are moved to a second position by manually overcoming said friction engagement between said first end of said first V-shaped connector and the second end of the first shaft portion of said V-shaped hanging member, and overcoming said friction engagement between said second end of said second V-shaped connector and the second end of said first V-shaped connector.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.