Apparel apparatus – Garment hangers
Reexamination Certificate
2000-03-06
2001-07-24
Mohanty, Bibhu (Department: 3741)
Apparel apparatus
Garment hangers
Reexamination Certificate
active
06264076
ABSTRACT:
This finding refers to a clothes hanger for hanging garments, specially adapted to prevent them from slipping.
It is known that on the market there is a wide variety of clothes hangers for hanging clothes, which in trade jargon are called “hangers” for short; this term shall therefore be used in the description that follows.
Known hangers involve a main body, substantially symmetrical to their central part, which holds a hook to support the hanger.
The main body has two arms sloping down from the centre to the ends, with a cut suitable for supporting the shoulders, or the top part of various garments in general.
In many types of known hangers, the aforementioned ends of the arms are joined by an cross rod that allows to hang trousers, skirts and similar.
One inconvenience found in the older types of hangers, made of wood, metal or smooth plastic, was that the hanging clothes tended to slip.
To avoid said inconvenience hangers have recently been made with the tops of the arms and cross rod provided with a rough surface, impressed by various patterns.
In particular, the most widespread hangers made by means of plastic moulding obtained the roughness on said surfaces by a special process, called “flocculation” of the plastic.
This process ensures a specific friction between the hanger and the surface of the fabric put against it, reducing the complaint of clothes slipping.
Other types of hanger have provided the surfaces in contact with the clothes with strips of velvety material glued to the top of the hangers arms and rod.
Even this solution ensures a specific adherence on the hanging clothes, but only in normal conditions of use that do not cover vibrations or sharp movements.
In special conditions of use, such as transporting garments by vehicles that undergo vibrations and abrupt changes in directions, the known hangers do not ensure sufficient stability to the garments being hung.
Furthermore extensive use, and therefore wear, as well as the inevitable hardening process of the plastic, progressively reduce the adherence ensured by the flocculated surfaces, increasing the risk of the garments slipping.
The same can be said for the strips of velvety material, which also have an inconvenience in their construction, having to be applied to the hanger in a second stage after the moulding phase.
This finding intends to remedy the aforementioned inconveniences.
In particular the first scope of the finding is to produce a hanger that prevents the garments they hold from slipping, even in particularly critical conditions of use.
Another scope of the finding is to avoid additional production processes to the moulding, phases which are at times necessary to increase the adherence of the surfaces in contact with the clothes being hung.
The scopes described are achieved by creating a hanger in plastic including a main body, substantially symmetrical to its central part holding the support hook, said body having two arms sloping down from the centre to their ends, joined by a cross rod, wherein they have a mass of first flexible elements, protruding from the upper surface of said arms, and a mass of second flexible elements, protruding from the upper surface of said rod, said first and second flexible elements being incorporated in said arms and rod during the moulding of the hanger, and being provided to prevent the hanging garments from slipping.
According to a preferred form of production, the flexible elements incorporated in the arms of the hanger are composed of thin reeds set in substantially parallel lines to one another and perpendicular to the lengths of the actual arms.
According to the same preferred form of production, the flexible elements incorporated in the cross rod of the hanger are thin straight reeds running parallel to the length of the rod.
According to an execution variant the flexible elements incorporated in the arms of the hanger are a mass of pairs of reed segments, arranged in a herringbone form on the upper surface of the arms.
According to another execution variant these flexible elements on the arms are series of reed segments arranged in arches on the same surface. According to yet another execution variant said flexible elements on the arms are wavy reeds substantially parallel to one another.
According to a final example of a possible execution variant of the finding, said flexible elements on the arms are a mass of small protrusions, uniformly distributed on said surfaces.
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Mohanty Bibhu
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