Friction-mountable hanger

A friction-mountable plastic hanger having an extrusion profile that defines a stiff depending hook for hanging an object and a stiff cantilevered mounting arm with its opposite face surfaces equipped with resiliently deformable transversely extending fins that angularly project from said mounting arm in a direction backward toward said hook for frictionally engaging opposing face-to-face structural surfaces when said mounting arm is slidably inserted therebetween, said mounting arm having an extrusion profile thickness between about 0.02 and about 0.8 inch and said fins having an extrusion profile thickness less than the extrusion profile thickness of said mounting arm and lying between 0.01 and about 0.04 inch, said fins having a perpendicular height from said mounting arm of at least about twice the extrusion profile thickness of said fins but no greater than about 0.2 inch, said fins on each face surface of said mounting arm being substantially equal in their distance of angular projection from the face surface and being spaced apart a distance at least about two times greater than the angular distance of their projection from the face surface, said entire plastic hanger including its hook and mounting arm and deformable fins having a uniform width dimension perpendicular to said extrusion profile greater than said extrusion profile thickness of said mounting arm and lying between about 0.1 and about 1 inch, said cantilevered mounting arm having a straight extrusion profile length greater than said width dimension, said length being between about 1.0 inch and about 4.0 inch, said hook having an extrusion profile thickness about equal to the extrusion profile thickness of said arm up to about two times the extrusion profile thickness of said arm.

A friction-mountable plastic hanger having an extrusion profile that defines a stiff depending hook for hanging an object and a stiff U-shaped mounting structure having a pair of parallel cantilevered mounting arms with interior facing surfaces equipped with resiliently deformable transversely extending fins that angularly project from said interior facing surfaces and backward toward said hook, said cantilevered arms with their interior projecting fins being adapted to be frictionally mounted over opposite faces of a plate structural member, said arms of said U-shaped structure having a substantially equal extrusion profile thickness between about 0.02 and about 0.8 inch and said fins having an extrusion profile thickness less than the extrusion profile thickness of said arms and lying between 0.01 and about 0.04 inch, said fins having a perpendicular height from said interior facing surfaces of said arms of at least about twice said extrusion profile thickness of said fins but no greater than about 0.2 inch, said fins on said interior facing surfaces of said arms being substantially equal in their distance of angular projection from the face surface and being spaced apart a distance at least as great as the angular distance of their projection from the face surface, said entire plastic hanger including its hook and U-shaped structure and deformable fins having a uniform width dimension perpendicular to said extrusion profile greater than said extrusion profile thickness of said arms and lying between about 0.1 and about 1 inch, said cantilevered mounting arms of said U-shaped structure having a substantially equal extrusion profile length greater than said width dimension, said length of said mounting arms of said U-shaped structure being between about 0.5 inch and about 1.5 inch, said hook having an extrusion profile thickness about equal to the extrusion profile thickness of said arms up to about two times the extrusion profile thickness of said arms.