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US 7,243,823 B2Granted
Collapsible garment hanger with quick-release lever
AssigneeZadee Industries, LLC
InventorsZachary R. Cresap, David P. Cresap
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Abstract
The present invention is an apparel apparatus that is especially useful for hanging narrow or small necked shirts and sweaters. It is a collapsible garment hanger, or clothing hanger, that has moving parts. There are two hanger arms that rotate about pins on a hanger body, and there is a fulcrum about which a quick-release lever and release tabs pivot so that a locking mechanism can be manipulated. All of the parts used with the apparatus are inexpensive plastic parts that can be injection molded, and the apparatus can be quickly assembled by snapping parts together.
Claims14
A collapsible garment hanger comprising:
- a one piece molded hanger body having a base and a cover that are separated by a cavity and held in spaced relation to each other by an elastic fulcrum, the base and the cover being substantially flat structures that substantially lie in parallel planes that are spaced by the cavity, the base including a hook at its top, a hanger neck and a back, the cover including a quick-release lever on the top of the fulcrum and release tabs on the bottom of the fulcrum, the fulcrum being part of the cover;
- two hanger arms, each characterized on one end by a hanger shoulder that is rotationally joined to the hanger body, and each characterized on the opposite end by a distal tip;
- a locked position, which places the hanger arms in a suitable position for supporting a garment, characterized by the hanger shoulders being supported by the release tabs;
- a collapsed position, which allows the hanger arms to freely rotate, characterized by the hanger shoulders not being supported by the release tabs.
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A collapsible garment hanger comprising:
- A two piece hanger body having a base piece and a cover piece that are separated by a cavity and held in spaced relation to each other by fasteners, the base piece including a hook at its top, a hanger neck and a back, the cover including a quick-release lever and release tabs;
- two hanger arms, each characterized on one end by a hanger shoulder that is rotationally joined to the hanger body, and each characterized on the opposite end by a distal tip;
- a locked position, which places the hanger arms in a suitable position for supporting a garment, characterized by the hanger shoulders being supported by the release tabs;
- a collapsed position, which allows the hanger arms to freely rotate, characterized by the hanger shoulders not being supported by the release tabs;
- wherein a squeezing force, when applied against the hanger neck and the quick-release lever, causes the cover to pivot at or near the fasteners and move the release tabs away from the hanger shoulders such that the collapsible garment hanger changes from the locked position to the collapsed position;
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- wherein the fasteners are molded into the hanger shoulders, substantially at a center-point, and wherein the back and the cover are characterized by apertures such that the hanger shoulders and the hanger body are rotationally joined by the fasteners, but the back and the cover are in a substantially fixed relation to each other.
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A collapsible garment hanger comprising:
- A two piece hanger body having a base piece and a cover piece that are separated by a cavity and held in spaced relation to each other by fasteners, the base piece including a hook at its top, a hanger neck and a back, the cover including a quick-release lever and release tabs;
- two hanger arms, each characterized on one end by a hanger shoulder that is rotationally joined to the hanger body, and each characterized on the opposite end by a distal tip;
- a locked position, which places the hanger arms in a suitable position for supporting a garment, characterized by the hanger shoulders being supported by the release tabs;
- a collapsed position, which allows the hanger arms to freely rotate, characterized by the hanger shoulders not being supported by the release tabs;
- wherein a squeezing force, when applied against the hanger neck and the quick-release lever, causes the cover to pivot at or near the fasteners and move the release tabs away from the hanger shoulders such that the collapsible garment hanger changes from the locked position to the collapsed position;
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- wherein the fasteners are molded into the back, and wherein the hanger shoulders and cover have apertures through which the fasteners pass such that the hanger arms are intermediate the base and the cover.
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