Buckles – buttons – clasps – etc. – Clasp – clip – support-clamp – or required component thereof – Including pivoted gripping member
Patent
1987-07-08
1989-05-30
Sakran, Victor N.
Buckles, buttons, clasps, etc.
Clasp, clip, support-clamp, or required component thereof
Including pivoted gripping member
24505, 24509, 24536, 223 85, A41D 2722, A44B 1302
Patent
active
048337595
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
This application contains subject matter presented in U.S. Application No. 028,850, filing date Apr. 10, 1979; in U.S. Application No. 246,067, filing date Mar. 20, 1981; in U.S. Application No. 373,121, filing date Apr. 29, 1982; and in International Application No. PCT/US85/02224, international filing date Nov. 08, 1985.
U.S. Application No. 028,850 issued as U.S. Pat. No. 4,575,906 on Mar. 18, 1986 and Application No. 246,067 issued as U.S. Pat. No. 4,553,294 on Nov. 19, 1985.
TECHNICAL FIELD
This invention relates to clasping devices, having a bifurcated fastening member, adapted for fastening the hook of a garment hanger or other hook including device to a linear member such as a clothesline, cable, rod or the like to which the hook is hooked in the normal manner. Such clasping devices are generally also adapted for fastening two crossing linear members together. The invention further relates to devices, comprised of a hook and a clasping device, for connecting an object to a linear member. It also relates to methods for fastening a hook to a linear member, for fastening two crossing linear members together, for connecting an object to a linear member, and for making devices to accomplish these purposes.
BACKGROUND ART
French Pat. No. 1.500.741 presents a resiliently bendable loop fastening device which functions to fasten the hook of a garment hanger directly to a clothesline and which operates in an entirely different manner from that of the devices set forth herein. Danish Patent No. 73678 presents a spring clip device which is installed on the inside area of a garment hanger hook to fasten the hook to a linear member. Norwegian Patent No. 118789 shows devices resembling peg-type clothespins which are used to frictionally restrain a garment hanger hook in its position on a clothesline or, alternatively, to suspend the hook below the clothesline. U.S. Pat. No. 1,273,809 shows a wire clamp having some similarities to certain embodiments of the clasping devices set forth herein. U.S. Pat. No. 2,474,429 combines a generally L-shaped bracket with a closely matched garment hanger hook to provide means for closing the opening of the hook, but which is not realistically capable of forcefully clamping the hook to a supporting linear member. U.S. Pat. No. 3,202,329 shows a highly modified garment hanger hook having an elongated slot at its upper section to receive a clothesline and a specially modified clothespin to clamp across and to close the opening of the slot in order to retain the clothesline in the slot. U.S. Pat. Nos. 1,690,614 and 3,048,311 present highly modified garment hanger hooks which include means for locking the hook to a supporting clothesline. U.S. Pat. No. 3,240,462 presents a clamping device which replaces the hook of a garment hanger and which provides means for positively clamping the garment hanger to a clothesline. U.S. Pat. Nos. 2,915,274 and 3,184,204 show devices which can be suspended from a clothesline and which, in turn, have means for suspending a garment hanger hook from the device itself. U.S. Pat. Nos. 135,882; 485,758; 733,921; and 2,542,224 show devices which bear some resemblance to certain embodiments of the clasp presented herein.
DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION
There has long been a need for a practicable fastening device which could fasten a garment hanger or other hook including device to a clothesline or other linear member. In the case of garment hangers, they are commonly used for holding various articles of clothing while they dry after being laundered. When suspended from a clothesline, garment hangers are often blown by the wind along the clothesline, particularly when the clothesline has appreciable sag, with the result that several suspended garment hangers may bunch together and thereby retard the drying. In gusty winds, suspended garment hangers are often blown off the clothesline.
Some of the previous attempts to solve these problems have involved modifications to, or replacement of, the hook of the garment h
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