Apparel apparatus – Garment hangers – Combined type
Patent
1996-12-05
1998-09-15
Mohanty, Bibhu
Apparel apparatus
Garment hangers
Combined type
223 96, 223 93, 223 85, A47G 2548, A47G 2514
Patent
active
058067280
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
This invention relates to a clothes hanger as set forth.
There already exist clothes hangers of this type, which are intended either for domestic use, in which case the time it takes to open and close the fixing means is not of any decisive importance (see, for instance, U.S. Pat. No. 3,237,820) or for public use, in which case they are meant to prevent stealing of the suspended garment (see, for instance, EP-A-17,542) and a key is needed to open a lock holding the hanger body and the fixing means together. Furthermore, U.S. Pat. No. 2,899,117 teaches an additional device for holding a garment for the upper part of the body. This device, which is provided with short arms, can be applied to a wooden clothes hanger by hooking a projection from the device below the triangular apex of the clothes hanger, the hook shank of the hanger extending through the device. Also, SE-C-157,214 discloses a complex clothes hanger for holding a garment for the upper part of the body, which is unsuited for use in laundries owing to its many small component parts, resulting in too-rapid wear.
Laundries are large-scale consumers of clothes hangers which, disposed on conveyors, carry dirty laundry or clean laundry between various sites where the garments are treated and delivered. The garment-retaining capacity of the clothes hangers poses a problem for the laundries, especially at conveyor junctions, in that the garments may easily slip off or be thrown off. Prior-art clothes-hanger constructions have not managed to solve this problem, requiring as they do an unacceptable length of time for slipping the garments on and off the hangers or being too complex to meet the requirements for repeated re-utilisation.
The object of the invention is to provide a clothes hanger obviating the drawbacks mentioned above.
According to the invention, this object is achieved by a clothes hanger exhibiting the distinctive features recited in the characterising clause of appended claim 1.
One embodiment of the invention will now be described in more detail with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which
FIG. 1 is a front view of a clothes hanger whose fixing means is in the closed position,
FIG. 1A shows the fixing means when in the open position,
FIG. 2 is a side view, and
FIG. 3 shows a device for opening the fixing means.
The clothes hanger H comprises a basically conventional hanger member of body 1 and a garment-fixing means 2, which both are made of plastic. The conventional body 1 comprises a shoulder portion 3 for carrying a garment for the upper part of the body, a crossbar 4 for carrying e.g., trousers, hooks 5 for e.g. the braces or straps of trousers, as well as a suspension hook 6 fixedly connected to the body 1. On the one side of the top 3' of the shoulder portion 3, there is provided a pocket 7, which is open at the top and at the bottom and which is adapted to guide the fixing means 2 when moving in the vertical direction between two stable positions, namely one open and one closed position. The closed position is illustrated in FIGS. 1 and 2, and the open position is illustrated in FIG. 1A.
The fixing means 2 comprises two clamping arms 8, which are fairly short in relation to the body 1 and are adapted to clamp a garment between themselves and the upper side of the two branches of the shoulder portion 3 when the fixing means 2 occupies the closed position, as well as a shank 9, which has the guiding function indicated above and, at its lateral edges, is arranged with a narrow sliding fit in the pocket 7. The arms 8 and the shank 9 have such a thickness as to possess a certain degree of resilience. Being so short, the arms 8 do not run the risk of getting caught in automatic conveyor installations used for conveying the laundry.
The shank 9 is formed with recesses 10 enabling it to be resiliently compressed at the lateral edges. These edges are provided with cam-equipped lugs 11 which, when abutting on the lower edge of the side walls of the pocket 7, only enable opening of the fixing means 2 when a predetermined, sufficient
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Bergentoft Bjorn
Forsstrom Leif
Mohanty Bibhu
S. Berendsen AB
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