US 9,585,507 B2Granted

Manual transportation of articles

OwnerJacquelynn R. Lueth, William D. Garnetinventors

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Abstract

A garment transportation and storage device comprises a support rod at the bottom, a hook at the top, and a ball-shaped handle between the support rod and the hook for transporting garments supported on the support rod by hangers and for engaging the hook with a support structure. An article transportation and storage device comprises an inverted U-shaped frame, a support rod slidably engageable with the frame, and a hook mounted on the frame for pivotal movement between extended and retracted positions. A garment receiving and supporting hanger is provided with an inflatable garment protection device that prevents wrinkling of garments supported by the hanger. A garment transportation and support device comprises opposed garment engaging arms that pivot outwardly to securely support a garment.

Claims1

Dependent claims

A clothes hanger having a triangular frame having downward-sloping opposed legs, a vertically extending hook adapted to support the clothes hanger on a closet rod and a clothing support rod extending horizontally between the downward-sloping opposed legs of the frame, the clothes hanger comprising:

an inflatable garment protecting device provided to retain at least one garment in an inflated configuration, a single inflated portion of the inflatable garment protecting device located only below the clothing support rod and across a length of the clothing support rod between the opposed legs,
wherein the clothes hanger includes the single inflated portion and no additional inflatable portions,
wherein a length of the single inflated portion is parallel with the length of the clothing support rod and is the longest dimension of the clothes hanger, and
wherein the inflatable garment protecting device is supported by the clothing support rod and extends downward in a vertical direction from the clothing support rod across the length of the clothing support rod, the inflatable garment protecting device comprising:
an inflation port with a stopper, the inflation port and the stopper provided below the clothing support rod and adapted to retain the inflatable garment protecting device in the inflated configuration wherein the inflatable garment protecting device expands within the garment hung from the clothes hanger when in the inflated configuration, thereby expanding the garment hanging downward in a vertical direction from the clothing support rod to prevent wrinkling of the garment.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 14/223,641Filed 24 Mar 2014 · continuation in part
Priority: 7 Mar 2005
Published: US 2014/0203052 A124 Jul 2014
Granted: 7 Mar 2017
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification10 codes

A47G 25/20
Clothing hangers, e.g. suit hangers: with devices for preserving the shape of the clothes
A47G 25/1457
Devices for holding or carrying multiple loaded hangers: comprising a hanging hook or handle
A47G 25/26
Made of wire: specially adapted to prevent slipping-off of the clothes, e.g. with non-slip surfaces
A47G 25/32
Hangers characterised by their shape: involving details of the hook

Family

Application60/659,248Us provisional application · filed 7 Mar 2005
Application11/368,873Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 6 Mar 2006
Application12/136,382Parent of this division · filed 10 Jun 2008
Application13/280,245Parent of this continuation · filed 24 Oct 2011
US 2014/0203052 A1Pre-grant publication · published 24 Jul 2014
Application11/368,873Parent of this division
Application12/136,382Parent of this continuation
US 2006/0196898 A1Published application
US 2008/0237279 A1Published application
US 2012/0037671 A1Published application
US 9,585,507 B2This patent

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